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So that's what happens when you run sphere_twerk.exe, huh.

Yeah, most folks report it kicks in next day, heh. If you're fine in 48 hours, you've either dodged the side effects or dodged an effective vaccine :V

Welp. Coworker's caught the plague. Not particularly worried on a personal level, yet (vaccinated, no symptoms, been around the person some but not a lot, etc.), but... yeah. Sounds right now like we'll probably be closing down for a couple weeks.

e: yup, quarantine order came in earlier today. Don't leave home until next week+ tested or 2 weeks+no symptoms, whichever. Time to shelter in place for a while~

What is it with this new worldview that being pregnant is a horrifying, dangerous, awful thing?

It's called (slowly, too goddamn slowly) treating the medical issues of women with more of the concern they deserve, as opposed to the shit to be ignored they've generally been treated as. Pregnancy is thoroughly fucking unpleasant for many, literally life threatening (significantly moreso than eating, if you really want to use that jackass comparison), fairly likely to cause permanent or long term physical damage, and is overall just a really shitty thing to live through, most of the time. Birth itself is literally one of the absolutely most painful things a person can live through, even with women generally being more pain tolerant than men.

The kid's usually nice when miscarriage or stillbirth doesn't happen and human bodies jack themselves up on hormones to attach to them, but everything else about it is generally pretty fucking miserable. Human biology does not lend itself to easy birth. You can respect someone for going through that shit, but part of giving that respect is not fucking downplaying the difficulties they go through in the process.

This wasn't different in the past -- it was actually more dangerous and more miserable, with a lot more dead children and dead mothers as a results. Most societies just treated women like shit and didn't give a damn it was dangerous and miserable.

E: I mean, the eating comparison is particularly fucked up, really. Imagine for a moment somewhere between one in five and one in ten of the times you ate, you just threw it right back up. That would be eating on the probably undercounting miscarriage rates (nevermind everything else that can go wrong), with likely less unpleasant results, and I don't think bloody anyone would consider it that pleasant of a thing or what you'd call a "privilege".

Birds having the gall to start tweeting half an hour past midnight. Sure, the sun does begin to rise here at 01:30 or something, but could they at least wait until then? No dignity at all, I swear, especially since the lack of darkness makes it hard to sleep to begin with.

Twee twee tweet.

Gun range hearing protection and a blindfold. I've had that problem, too, if slightly later in the day. The trick is to tell sound and light to sod off, yup.

I guess that's what they call the hippothrome.

What’s with the stories in sports games now? I bought it to play a career mode, not sit through cutscenes I have zero interest in seeing.

They're seeing the popularity of sports manga/anime, I guess? Non-game entertainment in general. Sports fiction is a thing, so maybe they're trying to tap into it.

Now it just needs integer overflow and you'd be set.

"[...] is world breakingly terrible. *glitchcode, followed by bleeding letters* Magnificent."

Room value promptly maxes out.

e: also I'm now imagining engravings bad enough they leak syndrome material or otherwise infect things nearby

if that's not a thing yet, it needs to be