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First, @Raithe I'm also very sorry to read this, and all the best to your father. That was pretty much my experience as well, however, I've never been at the point where I had to inject insulin. I'm still taking my medication, but I am fairly certain that I don't need it. I get the same blood sugar levels if I leave it out, however, as it's not designed to lower blood sugar but simply stabilize it by retarding my body's ability to store carbs for later use I still take it regularily. It works as potential buffer for the days where I don't really feel like sticking to my dietary regimen*. Which brings me to the next point. It does work really well, and it kicks off with this nice sense of euphoria that you're currently experiencing. I'm not trying to rain on your parade there, but that feeling levels out eventually. The need to just stuff everything in your face you run across just might come back. It did for me. However, chances are that it won't nearly be as problematic as before, but it's something you might want to take into consideration regardless (I deal with it mostly by physically seperating myself from food sources, which was a lot harder to do during the lockdonws). *By that I mostly mean watching calories for dinner, which is my second meal. I can't for the life of me eat anything after getting up, so it's lunch and dinner, with the occassional smallish snack in the form of berries, an apple or something like that in between. Although I try to avoid high sugar fruit when possible, so it's not a lot of apples or bananas. On a day I don't feel like it, I'm still sticking to the intermittant 8:16 fasting regimen, I'll just either exceed my set limit of not eating any more than 400 kcal for dinner mostly (or exclusively, at times) in the form of proteins or just drop the healthy snack thing in lieu of stuffing my face with ice cream or my usual go-to sugar source of gummibears. You cut out the source of your chronic inflammation of your small intestine which prevented the normal absorption of nutrients. Getting to a healthy weight and stabilizing blood sugar kind of comes with that, so nah, that's not a seemingly weird result of eating more healthy, but a perfectly normal and logical one. Eating healthy just means something entirely different for you than for most people, and that sucks. Rhetoric caveat: 's mostly hokum, as your stomach acid readily kills the bacteria present in any "probiotic" food, and you're left with what's mostly too expensive yoghurt and not enough bacteria that survive to make any real difference. There's one thing consuming yoghurt (or any other supplements containing the usual lactobacillus bacteria) can help you with, and that's preventing or easing side effects of having to take antibiotics - and for that eating your good old regular yoghurt usually does the trick too (and is cheaper). Seems sort of logical too, what little of the bacteria survive being broken apart in aggressive acid can make more of a difference if you kill large swathes of your gut flora along with whatever disease you have in your body. If you want to improve your gut flora, there's only one efficent way to do that, and that's getting a fecal microbiota transplant, and yes, that's exactly what it sounds like.

It is a lawsuit not filed by an employee though but an agency. So it can;t be shrugged off as a vendetta by a disgruntled former employee.

Soup?

ok, that's great, but after the first thirty seconds, our only thought were, "this dude does not have any fear of cross contamination." we did like his cilantro technique and am gonna be using such an approach in the future. HA! Good Fun!

I guess those that speak up about someone misbehaving were getting poor reviews/denied promotions or assigned to do tasks below their position.

“I must not hype. Hype is the mind-killer. Hype is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the hype. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the hype has gone there will be nothing. Only the film will remain.” - The Litany

"appeared to be exploratory" says it all to me.

Sorry to hear that Raithe. All the best wishes to you and your family 😟 Regarding blood sugar levels, I sometimes have a bad conscience and feel like I'm squandering some precious gifts when it comes to health. Spent most of my 30's and early 40's being at times outright obese, living off junk food and cappuccino's. Only then did I get tired of always feeling tired and got my act together (now looking presentable in the bathroom mirror again). Despite decades of abusing my body, the latest blood tests showed the numbers of a healthy 30 year old. Whatever kills me some day is unlikely to be diabetes or cholesterol. Never mind lots of other things tried, hard at times, and failed. This cat is currently on its 10th+ life 😼 It will probably be something silly like a lightning strike or a tile falling off a roof in the city 😝 Which reminds me, I really should get officially registered as an organ donor and get a will done one of these days. Things you sometimes forget when you feel immortal... which usually last until you get very surprised.

Making octopuses high on Ecstasy makes otherwise very solitary creatures more sociable... 🐙💕 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-21/octopus-ecstasy-mdma-social-behaviour/10280706 "An object such as a flower pot was placed in the left chamber and another octopus trapped in the right. Without ecstasy, test octopuses spent significantly more time in the chamber with the object. But with ecstasy, they became more social, preferring the chamber with the other octopus in it. And the nature of the interactions between octopuses changed too. Before a dose of ecstasy, social interactions were "limited, usually to one extended arm", the scientists wrote in the paper. "After MDMA treatment, social interactions were characterised by extensive ventral surface contact, which appeared to be exploratory rather than aggressive in nature," they said." Edit: The article didn't say if it resulted in some kinky tentacle sex 🤔

Looks a little dingy.

Snails could be added to the game for stronger armor grasshoppers squirrels for new nuts in the backyard A new type of ant called black ants Bark from the backyard tree for stronger walls A new glider made out of flower pedals A new type of tool to get the bark off the tree Infected ants for the Haze enviroment A boat to go place to place for the pond

Physics

I feel like I'm missing something, did the guy boil raw chicken at some point? It looks like he adds it to his curry or whatever he's making but my sound is off so maybe he talks about it or something. Personally, I don't think I've ever boiled meat that wasn't part of some broth or something but maybe I'm being too strict in my usage of the word. Cooked many a chicken in a broth or sauce or whatnot.

Yeah, I hard pass on the cannibal stuff too.

Jay has a few different types of recommendations that I know of - specifically, I try to watch the "boring" ones (e.g. this) and the "offbeat/weird" ones (e.g. Censor recently). He has other types of films he recommends, but I'm not as much into the "horrific perverted nightmare" ones as much, .

https://www.gamebanshee.com/interviews/125286-neverwinter-nights-the-blades-of-netheril-luke-scull-interview.html Nice, another expansion for NWN

Not weird at all, at least not to me. I'm exactly the same way, and hate min-maxing. I go so far as to categorically avoid lowering any stat to where it gives me a negative or a penalty. And yet, I did find some builds out there that also avoided min-maxing and just generally provided useful guidance.

That one is on my "films I might like and come recommended by Jay" list. I'll probably watch it in two years or so, given how long that list is and how much else I have to finish first...

The Assistant (2019). A simple little film that is just a look at one day in the life of an assistant at some big company working for a crappy boss (though interestingly, said boss is literally never shown, and I greatly appreciated that because it allowed the film to not be obnoxious and instead focus more on the main character). Lot of stylistic and even some thematic similarities to Jeanne Dielmann (I didn't expect to bring this one up again so soon, but here we are): if you like super boring films where basically nothing happens and instead you're just given a look at someone's life and the issues surrounding it in a flat, realistic manner with no expectation of any kind of grand resolution, then this is great. I actually liked this one a lot more than Jeanne Dielmann - lot more personable main character, a bit more direct plot that shows more of what's going on, and visually a little more cinematic. Dielmann was a bit too realistic for me, so this was more up my alley. (e): Oh, also, it's only an hour and a half-long, as opposed to Jeanne Dielmann's THREE AND A HALF HOURS, so there's that as well, .

Access to Multiplayer Game without Online Game Host Available It would be nice to access my friend's (host) multiplayer world when he isn't available to play. There are so many things I would like to craft and prepare for while I'm available and he is not. Be able to type in the seed and the password for the world, kind of like Minecraft.

First part is true. Second part was indeed a problem at release and during the first year after release. But: Deadfire broke even during the second year after its release and since then has continued to make profit. It's just a trickle now I guess - but nevertheless: it's profit. So, while it's still not a big financial success - and more importantly an unexpected disappointment for the once enthusiastic PoE/Deadfire devs - I think we can't say that it did poorly anymore. But of course the whole story still might not be a huge motivation to tackle a third installment of PoE. If Obsidian/MS does this it's mostly for the fans of the Pillars series, not for shareholders. On the other hand... knowing Microsoft's wish to be able to offer a broad portfolio of (non-AAA-) games for Gamepass... who knows? I haven't lost hope. But of course there will be no crowdfunding.

A clifff used for senicide! Dang, you Nords DO NOT mess around.

You and me both. My earlier years saw me treat my body like a carnival. Coincidentally, for the first time ever in my life, I signed up as an organ donor this last time I renewed my drivers license. I joke with my wife that probably none of them are in good enough shape to donate though. When I say "gut" I dont mean just the stomach, I also mean the intestinal system. I mostly consume fiber in the form of nuts (cashews are my favorite but I like them all), granola, and dried fruits.

@RaitheI'm sorry to hear about your father. I tried doing the exercises I got from my physical therapist yesterday and they're a massive pain in the arse. I'm supposed to lift my arms straight out to the side to about the height of my shoulder with some rubber band and it's impossible to do, it's just way to much pain. The only thing I can actually do without much problem is rowing and walking, rowing aint so bad, but I can't for the life of me stand walking, way to much **** that starts to pop into my head that I don't want there when I'm trying to keep walking.

G.O.P. Blocks Infrastructure Debate in Senate, Raising Doubts About a Deal - The New York Times (nytimes.com) ^Why China will win. This has nothing to do with "Freedom vs. unFreedom" or "Democracies vs. Dictatorships", this is all about results and development. China has an extremely robust and flexible economy at this point and the central government can literally allocate resources on the fly to strategic sectors that can promote modern industrial development, with minimal effort, promoting rapid progress. The U.S. government can't even get basic 20 years behind the times projects initiated because the opposition will just block it. You can grab a harmonica and sit out on your porch at sunset and play Stevie Wonder songs all you like, the U.S. will fall behind if it doesn't get its act together. Raw corporate innovation and consumption isn't enough to stay ahead of the game.

When I tried fasting I was just way too hungry and would eat more at lunch than when I didn't. Gained some pounds doing that and was less happy. These days I like to have some protein for breakfast either an hour after waking up or after some exercise. It works well enough I guess. I'm also going job hunting soon. I'm getting paid well enough but the hours and the work itself are exhausting and after over a year of trying to take covid precautions only to have maskless dip****s breathe less than a foot away from me because "covid's not real/a big deal" I'm just done.

@RaitheI'm sorry to hear about your dad. Stay strong.

I tried for the first time not taking insulin this morning at all (I've still been skipping the evening shot, btw). Ate a large-ish round of food. 45 minutes later, blood sugar reading was no different than what it has been after a meal *with* insulin, for ages now (goes up 50-80pts). So ... hmm. There might be something to this keto/two meals/don't eat for 16 hours in a row stuff after all. At least for me. A lot of brain fog has lifted already, I feel less draggy. Was already on pretty low-carb so it's not simply that I think. Not hungry at all, mental/physical munchie urges have largely gone away. This is interesting.

Today's update seems to have fixed it, noice.

Of course we are, and it's not our fault if developers cannot think like humans. No sympathy from me either. 🧐

‘The Wheel of Time’ Season 2 Has Begun Filming, Still No Sight of Season One Trailer. Actually, the trailer will come "before Summer's end".

the wooden bomb thing in the military thread reminded us o' this bit from a few years past 'bout difference 'tween US and english humor. HA! Good Fun!

I get to fix the mistakes, so I have no sympathy for the developers not thinking of things ahead of time!

Fixed. A big sigh of relief and a big THANKYOU to the devs.

More on Checkmate. https://www.aviacionline.com/2021/07/sukhoi-checkmate-an-advanced-yet-affordable-match-for-the-f-35-lightning-ii/

Yeah, I thought the same -- so much text and in the end nobody knows anything more. The only thing we've learned from this is that MCA indeed only has been hired as honeypot for kickstarter. Same for Brian. Though the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. For example we know that lots of dialog written by MCA in the past was cut not because it was bad or something, but because it was just way too much. I mean, just look at FNV Lonesome Road, or Rose ... the dialogues are endlessly long-winded and don't fit in style with anything else in the game. Or look at Durance in Pillars. They almost feel like their own game inside a game. It's as if Obsidian just said "f- it, just let him toy around with these few characters so we won't be bothered anywhere else."

They didn't help me in kingmaker. I think I'm just very bad at RTWP... I enjoy them though... I also have a weird role playing thing where I hate min maxing... having super low charisma intelligence or wisdom just bothers me role playing wise and pretty much every build has low 1 of those things. That being said I'll still play and won't blame the devs for my incompetence. It's probably what made pillars of Eternity my favorite... you could get 13s across the board and still beat the game.(on normal at least)

The pandemic has been beneficial for me due to my mostly working from home. And what with a terrifying new COVID variant around every corner, Im hoping to never go back to the office full time. I wonder what will happen when we run out of letters of the alphabet? Maybe just switch to numbering the variants and that way we can keep going to infinity.

I love these ideas! I feel like they would all add cool elements to the game.

Yes, from a systemic point of view all is clear. I meant I see no ingame "justification" for RES influencing Deflection and you have to be a bit creative to find an ingame explanation that somehow explains why a character with high resolve can block blows better. But it's accepted and therefore my point was that letting CON influence Deflection could also be explained somehow.

Which items are the ones you want? Some special in-game items (for example those of the pre-release Scavenger Hunt) can get unlocked with the help of the in-game console (without marking your game as cheated). I backed the game on fig.co and used the provided steam key to receive my game via steam. I got several backer stuff but nothing game changing. Fig itself didn't provide any game version. It was only the crowdfunding platform. Besides that: do I understand that correctly? You didn't crowdfund the game on fig.co - and are now upset that you won't get the rewards that backers (who helped to fund the game) got?