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Got the "That's How It's Played" cheevo in Theseus Protocol.

... for reference, TP is a slay the spire style deck builder. You get the cheevo when you win a run without playing any cards :V

Like. What I'd do if I was god (besides, y'know, the baseline shit involving making the universe not suck!)? I'd make the moon wink back at people that winked at it.

But.

It'd be instanced. Only the person that winks at the moon sees it wink back. You can make videos of this! When you do? The person that winked, they will see the moon wink back on watching the video. Anyone else watching the video? No wink. If you hold a mirror up to your face, you can see the moon winking back in the reflection. If someone looks in your eyes? Reflection doesn't wink unless they do. The effect is inviolable and personalized.

That's the kind of thing I'd do. Basically utopia (or at least, like, fuck off with cancer and lethal congenital complications and crap, y'know, enough to make it so the proposition of intelligent design isn't one of the greatest acts of character assassination in history ahaha) plus kind of low key fucking with people.

... would that count as low key, actually? I'unno. Don't wink at the moon when you're standing on it. Don't do that.

Nah, I've done the same or similar procedures at the same place for... basically that cost (again, it's still cheaper than the only other option that's not an hour+ drive away, and not by an insignificant amount). They charged me around the usual self-pay rate for bloodwork around here, far as I've noticed, with roughly the usual discount for self-pay plus pay on service included. There's a lot variance based on exactly what you're getting done, but a 150-200 USD pricetag if you pay in full same day is... fairly normal. That it was actually just ~60-ish was the odd thing on that front, heh.

S'just for whatever reason (likely something in their policy changed vis a vis self-pay and there's a price change involved somewhere, which happens like every few months in either direction because consistency in pricing is apparently a bloody sin in US healthcare), this time, refund!

Anyway, far as I could tell from the person I talked to, the copay thing was mostly just their standard accounting whatever. Less to do with copay per se, and more to do with most of their customers aren't self-pay so they don't bother with a special message for when they're dealing with folks that are.

Which is, like. I can understand that kind of laziness/cost saving measure, really. If you ain't got to have extra bits you ain't got to have extra bits *shrugs*

'Course it didn't, heh.

Flip side to that, though, I'd rather lose out on a small amount of interest than I would at the only other reasonable option in my area, which just charges the ~200, no return on the impromptu loan.

Still probably a ripoff, but hey, that's capitalist healthcare for yeh :V

E: Though even with some idle thinking, administrative incompetence of some sort really does sound more likely? The period and amount is fairly likely to be insufficient to offset the administrative costs of doing something like that. Maybe it's scalping higher value patients, though, I'unno.

Check in the mail from the hospital I use for lab work. Says refund for overpayment of copay, and I'm, just, like.

That's a neat hat trick. I'd love to know how I did it when I haven't had health insurance since like 2011 :V

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I'm guessing it's just the generic term they've got for someone noticing whatever overcharge was thrown at me when I was there, but... still. Gonna' call tomorrow to make sure depositing that wouldn't be sticking an appendage into someone else's auditing problem.

E: New wtf, first time this dog's ever done it, critter just straight up ate their flea/heartworm/etc med pill thing. Didn't have to coat it in peanut butter, stick it in their mouth, nothin', just hand it over and they broke it up and ate the pieces. Dog's normally been pretty hostile towards the things, but this time... just nommed it. Weird change in behavior, not complainin' but it's still odd.

... managed to sneak the cat's on 'em while they were napping, too. Least trouble these things have given about the fleastuff since the cat was too small to fight back, ha. I'm not even bleeding, whoo!

Also yeah, the lab charged me a bit under 200 usd for a ~50 buck procedure at time of service. Apparently it's easier to send a refund check months later than actually charge the price of the service the day of

which is just ~us healthcare~ but seriously how fucked does your administration have to be where that happens like seriously

"fun" part is they're the better lab service within an hour's drive of me about stuff like that *laughs in stateside despair*

Ahaha, Darth Jar Jar is going to be canon_ish

Surely there’s a literary thread around somewhere?

I... don't think there is? Or at least I can't remember it. There's some stuff adjacent to it (anime thread, reading challenge, etc.), but the nearest I can recall to a dedicated literary thread is the what are you reading thread that hasn't seen a post since '22.

... any case, while I'm pretty sure (as in, if my memory isn't completely borked I've read fanfiction et al written and read primarily by the age group in question, heh) the youngins can be sold on admin-style fiction (phoenix wright's right there for legal), I'd also buy pretty easily that Heinlein (and whoever was handling publishing) wouldn't have thought so back when ST first printed. Relevant organizations largely don't seem to think that now despite the works self-publishing and there being fairly popular franchises related to it in other mediums in currentyear.

There's reasons beyond it being financially painful to maintain my reading addiction with it that I don't read much officially published material these days, ha.