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Have fun with that headache form figuring out what infinite nothing would look like.

It'd look like yo' momma's fidelity, heyooo~

... y'know, it's been a while since I've seen a yo' momma' joke in the wild. Y'know, in person. A long, long time.

Maybe it's for the better?

If my reading of the article was right, it's a very, very low-power thruster mostly only good for satellites. Possibly space probes as well. No starships yet, sadly :/

Then again... if it just runs off the zappy, chunk a buggerhump load of solar panels on a thingy and many dozen of the things instead of, y'know, fuel or whatever. If quality fails, turn to quantity! Or maybe just a really big one. Low power thruster up in space still gets things moving given some time.

What's the deal with neti pots, anyway? Why not just use saline spray?

Because some people are bughumping insane and want to jam a spigot up their nostril. Insofar as I can tell, anyway.

Slightly biased in my appraisal of the product, though. The person who approaches me with a neti pot has a >50% chance of acquiring grounds for an assault case. Is one of those things that draw an entirely visceral NOPE reaction followed by application of tire iron until pot or pot carrier has ceased recognizable shape. Sweet monkey jesus keep those things away from me, gah.

Ah, beef jerky; a meat so unremarkable, yet I find myself still drawn to it. What are your secrets, oh beef jerky?

It is a secret shared by many types of jerky, actually. Not just beef. Turkey, bacon, chicken, so on, so forth. Jerked meat is amazing. If it weren't so damned expensive I would eat it all the time

Yeah, I wasn't making (or intending to make, anyway) a statement on whether it was unhealthy or not -- just that it's not something that's necessarily going to cause hallucinations, which is what the article was about

Though yeah, I've had summers in the past whether I probably spent more days playing through the night than not -- definitely would call it a habit at that point, and still no hearing/seeing things beyond the usual. And so far as I'm aware, people indulge in notably unhealthy periods of varying activities (TV is perhaps the most regular one, with work either before or after that in terms of likelihood) quite often without most of them, y'know, beginning to hallucinate. S'like the article seemed to actually be saying -- the phenomena in question is something that only happens to a portion of the population, not everyone.

... so you could say FJ jobs on 'is foot, then. Occasionally.

Is that a role reversal, or...?

Unhealthy habits are unhealthy. Playing games consequently for long amounts of time is bad for us, both physically and mentally. This isn't something we can deny just because a bunch of overly excited censorship advocates are out there screaming "GAMES MAKE YOU CRAZY".

Can deny it's a necessary consequence of such practices, though.* Least I would, having been there, done that (more than once in the case of the two-days-straight and several dozen times in the case of playing through the night), and experienced no hallucinations (of the nature described, anyway**). So it's not so much "unhealthy habits are unhealthy" as "certain portions of the population have particular reactions to specific habits", evidentially unhealthy or not (since there were apparently those that experienced the phenomena with considerably less contributing factors than overnight or 48 hour gaming binges).

I do have to say, though, I'd love to see the study expanded if similar ones haven't already been done. Seems obvious to me you should see similar reactions from reading, watching TV, and music (the catchy tune phenomena is an obvious parallel) at the very least -- I'd guess other stuff as well, such as writing, working, and so on. Anything a person might do for an extended period.

E2: What would be really interesting would be if they could get the same study groups (along with other, different, ones of course) in on said other experiments, to see if it's medium specific or influenced, or not.

*E: Which I don't remember the article stating, but your wording suggests it a bit, so making the statement above to kinda' preemptively nip the concept in the bud.
**Visual snow yadda yadda 24/7 visual hallucinations etc.