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Yeah... I mean, according to the article, the largest single cost was the antivenom at 83k, which... if the rest of the article is correct, probably cost the hospital itself 82,800 (36 vials, ~2.3k per, which... I would probably not say is too terribly out of line? The stuff's not exactly trivial to collect, iirc, and doesn't have the largest demand in the world.), which, uh. Would have been less than a percent of markup on the part of the hospital, for the antivenom costs. Now, how much the anitvenom producers are marking things up is a different question, but that part doesn't really strike me as that out of line on the part of the hospital(s).

The rest of the bill was probably excessive, though. I'm not quite sure how five days in-patient totals up to ~70k. I know it does, pretty regularly, but m'not sure how.

I already made homes for everybody. I can't stand to have wooden blocks for my npc houses on my main world.

If you actually build wood blocks for your NPC houses, you're doing better than I do. I may use wood somewhere in there, but it won't be intentional. Low effort NPC homes just use whatever material there's an excess of at the time :V

Sometimes don't even bother to make the tiles match. Several of the homes in my expert word have floors that are part snow, part ice

Generally can't even be arsed to make the rooms the same size or whatev'. Just kinda' go in and swing the pick around until there's enough room, backwall it with whatever, and call it a job done. Mighty Multipurpose Monument to Meticulous Meh.

Quote from: Arcvasti on July 19, 2015, 01:15:24 pm

Sourceforge is down for maintenance. And I wanted to play IVAN and catch leprosy.

RIP IVAN it's still down.

... if folks want to play it, I've got the 050 windows version gathering dust in my roguelike folders, which I think was the most recent of the main developer's, before they stopped working on it. Not quite the newer stuff fans worked on, but it's there. Can prooobably manage a download link if someone's desperate. Just PM me or somethin'.

*mumbles quietly about opera*

Though every time I've tried using chrome it was kinda' miserable. Either stuff buggered up, the aesthetics annoyed me, or it did something irritating. I'd honestly rather use IE than chrome :V

Actually use opera and firefox -- the former for general browsing, the latter for flash stuff and occasionally websites I need to use that needs plug-ins to work. Opera's flash et al functionality works just fine, but I don't like turning on plug-ins on my general use browser.

Well, it's kinda' unused, so it's not really either. The root's latin/french, though, so unless the furry fanfiction sonli's referring to has traveled back in time, it didn't come from that. That said, you do see a similar word get used occasionally, and indeed in smut -- tumescent, which as one might imagine looking at it shares an origin, and actually carries a connotation of swelling due to arousal. Borrowed with a degree of regularity by amateur writers who have decided to fellate a thesaurus instead of learn to write, and occasionally other people.

If you're a non-native speaker and using tumefy in pretty much any context, though, including veterinary science or whatev', you've almost certainly screwed up and need to rethink your word choice. Just use the word swollen -- it basically means the exact same thing, and is actually used in conversation.

I hate mobile browsers.

Have you tried Opera, yet? At least on the kindle, I've been finding it surprisingly painless. Most irritating bit so far is that flash videos auto-fullscreen and don't respect the rotation lock. I haven't really been paying attention to performance and whatnot, though.

The likelihood and nature of player 3+ joining the battle?

... not that that really makes that much of a difference, generally, but it's an answer.