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[wierd]

It carries ions into and out of ion channels in the constituent neurons, as well as various other bio-chemical and biomechanical processes involved in the firing of neurons.

Those processes come at an energy cost to the neuron, and have metabolic biproducts. (things like glutamate and tau protein) Sleep has been implicated in processes to help "wash" these metabolites out of the brain, amongst other things.

When under heavy activity, these products will build up, which will then impact brain function. Not a neurologist by any stretch of the imagination, but it seems reasonable for there to be a feedback system in the nervous system to inform the organism that hey, it is time to turn that noise off, M'kay? (Similar to sensory overload, which would also increase neural outside of normal expected levels-- sensory overload being well documented.)

[Dorsidwarf]

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[Neonivek]

Silly Murder mysteries

In this one someone tried to make it seem like ghosts were possessing someone's dead body... by using fishing line.

If there is one thing that REALLY hurts a mystery is when they break reality. This isn't the worst mystery break but to make this post more interesting here are three!

-1) Fishing line being used to hold a person up. Certainly it COULD work if one made a cord out of the string, but that wasn't the case. A SINGLE string was able to lift over 100 pounds of person.
-2) Cyanide Tipped Sewing Needle: There is no possible way to douse a sewing needle in enough Cyanide to kill someone, at least not ensure their death.
-3) Old man runs fat man through with a longsword while wearing replica plate... Then manages to lift him with said sword then peg him to the wall: DEAR GOODNESS! Forget murder, enter the dang Olympics! I mean are you a highlander?

Seriously for the third I would LOVE to calculate the sheer amount of strength required for that feat. It honestly might have been a super human feat.

[wierd]

Penetration of the steel plate and fat might be possible with enough kinetic energy behind the thrust. (how heavy is this longswordsman?)

Lifting the fat man, and impaling him to a wall?  Requires leverage. HOW long is this sword, and where is the fulcrum again? If the swordsman's arm is the fulcrum, you have a problem.

[Neonivek]

Penetration of the steel plate and fat might be possible with enough kinetic energy behind the thrust. (how heavy is this longswordsman?)

Lifting the fat man, and impaling him to a wall?  Requires leverage. HOW long is this sword, and where is the fulcrum again? If the swordsman's arm is the fulcrum, you have a problem.

Sorry the Old man was in full plate.

The issue is that lifting someone using a sword is a stunning feat of strength and there are only a few ways to achieve that. Especially with the implied method of simply lifting it by the handle, straight.

This old man is very skinny, honestly it would have been a feat for this man to lift the Fat man normally.

[kilakan]

-1) Fishing line being used to hold a person up. Certainly it COULD work if one made a cord out of the string, but that wasn't the case. A SINGLE string was able to lift over 100 pounds of person.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Behold, a picture of 100lb strength tested fishing line.  Purchasable from amazon for 10$.  You can get ridiculously higher tensile strength specialty lines, for example where I work we sell 1000lb twine (it's not fishing line, but it's about the same thickness and black so it'd hide in the dark easily.)

[wierd]

I am fairly confident they meant "invisible monofillament", not braided line.

The stronger polymers tend to be opaque. More's the pity.

[Neonivek]

They did mean that. They did mention how it was transparent.

[Egan_BW]

Obviously the old man was just high-level. Following dark souls logic where it doesn't matter how old and skinny you are, if you invest enough souls you can become superhumanly strong.

[Neonivek]

Obviously the old man was just high-level. Following dark souls logic where it doesn't matter how old and skinny you are, if you invest enough souls you can become superhumanly strong.

And of course no matter how super humanly strong you are in Dark Souls you will never be super humanly strong either. It is the paradox! The stronger you are the actual weaker you really were.

[Egan_BW]

hahaha

* Egan_BW crushes Neon beneath a very large hammer.

blatantly false

[Neonivek]

*Sidesteps that hammer really really slowly*

[Dorsidwarf]

I mean if you want to lift something really heavy you might need specialist twine but 140lb fishing line will lift an average person, and while its not quite "invisible" there's 200lb clear fishing line easily available too. Fishing line is crazy strong.

[Neonivek]

Interesting fact!

English is the most hypnotic language in the world!

It might surprise you given that there are countries with very sweet sounding and smooth language. Yet when it comes to the language hypnosis requires to function English is by far the most developed and has words that many languages struggle to find proper replacements for.

For example in German they have a good word for "Drop", but their word for "Deeper" carries the connotation of falling (which is not so good).

As well just because you have a word that carries the same connotation it doesn't mean it is a sufficient replacement. A good aspect of deeper in English is how you can elongate that word "deeepeeeer" and how calm and soothing you can make it.

I am sure that if hypnosis caught on in other countries as much as it caught on in English speaking ones that they would have a developed language as well. Yet for now English is ontop.

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I am a Recreational Hypnotist (I hypnotize subjects for their relaxation or enjoyment. Not to an audience or for Therapeutic reasons) it is actually interesting seeing the stereotypes of hypnosis.

One for example is "Sleep!" being used. Typically you wouldn't attempt it because a subject might very well go to sleep.

There are certainly ways around it, for example explaining that sleep doesn't mean to go to sleep, and there are definitely hypnotists who do use that sort of imagery and language. It just isn't as typical.

[Neonivek]

So I was reading the description of Lizardmen for 5e and I actually had a sense of maturity while reading it.

It featured a race that while they, in a manner of speaking, have emotions... They don't show or feel it. One could say they are a race of true stoics, and it is perfectly suited for their environment (Crazy fantasy death zone swamp).

(I say "sort of" but specifically it is that they have emotions, but they are almost intellectual. Something they are afraid of they will run away from, yet they do not have any symptoms of fear nor would they express great fear but rather that it is something to be feared or something fearful. It is like being disconnected from your emotions)

Yet what impressed me is how they actually avoided making them a Mary Sue Race (not that "perfect" races are necessarily bad, so long as you are self-aware). It recognizes that while being stoic offers them many advantages... It also doesn't allow them to flourish as a race or to be great heroes in their own right as they are almost entirely geared towards the here and now.