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[Yoink]

CAN'T FIND MY PHONE ARGGGH
I need it to wake me up this morning. D:

[Akura]

My stepdad asked me to hand him all of my money so he could put it into a checking account that would be, and he was very specific on this point, in his name. Oh, but I would get the ATM card that he would "never use".

Yeaaahhfuckthatno. And I think now is a good time to also move where I keep my savings as well.

Spoiler: I also want to rant about the way Pokemon Gen III handles legendaries(spoilers ahead), although that is little compared to the stuff above. (click to show/hide)

 In Gen I you had three legendaries, Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, and Articuno was the only to easily miss if I recall. There was also a final boss legendary, Mewtwo, and one event-only(unless you glitch or hack) Pokemon, Mew. Gen II had two legendaries that the game pretty much tells you when they are available, and even tells you where Ho-oh is(Lugia is a bit harder to find), plus three other legendaries you have to randomly encounter, plus one event-only, Celebi.

Gen III has no less than eight legendaries(not counting event-only Pokemon), 5 of whom are version specific - Groudon for Ruby, Kyogre for Sapphire, all three for Emerald, and whichever Lati_s was red for Ruby, the blue one for Sapphire, and Emerald gives you the option of which one you want to encounter(the other becomes event-only after you grab the first one). Lati_s also teleports around every single battle or area change. The other three require doing this ridiculous puzzle that I haven't figured out yet even with a guide that involves being able to read Braille and first getting two fairly hard to get Pokemon(Relacanth and Wailord), any other 'mon with Dig(there is exactly one TM in the game, as far as I know), and doing some other stuff. There is also at least two event-only Pokemon, Jirachi and Deoxys, not counting legendaries from the previous game.

Gen III also has a non-legendary that deserves mention, Feebas and its evolution, Milontic. Feebas can only be fished up on Route 119(by the Weather Institute). It can only be found in one of six(and only one of those six) water tiles, the positions of these six tiles determined by from what I can tell are a combination of the Dewford trendy saying and your Trainer number, and there's no guarantee that you'll even get Feebas on the first try. Evolving it is even more ridiculous, as the first thing is that Feebas you worked so hard to get also must have one of only four of all the possible natures, the four that focus on the Beauty trait. Then you must feed the butt-ugly fish enough candy to make it so beautiful that the Fanclub Chairman gives you the Blue Scarf if you didn't already get it. I don't even know what the next step is, the guide didn't say, but I think it's either trade or level-up.


_{For clarity, event-only means that you have to bring your GBA to a Nintendo game event, which are all long over, so you need to hack the game to get them now.}

[ChairmanPoo]

"Alternative" medicine is not considered bullshit because of racism. It's considered bullshit because it more often than not concerns a lot of unscientific mumbo jumbo that, sure enough, does nothing. Yes, sometimes folk cures have ended up having some basis. Not altogether too frequently, though. And I'd say that "ethnologist stumbles upon wonder cure among the friendly natives of wherever" is not something that really happens in modern medicine. Our newest, most powerful drugs against cancer are made in labs, are often products of drug design, and, as time marches on, more often than not biopharmaceutical products. Any patient is free to renounce this and use whichever "alternative medicine" they fancy, or none at all, but I feel compelled to inform them on the state of affairs.

I'd probably try a judicial intervention (as a last resource, of course) if a parent was denying a minor a lifesaving procedure because of whichever religious or mystical ideas they happened to hold.

[Descan]

Aye. And even then, I wouldn't want to take the children away. Canada has had too many dark events in the past with taking the children of natives to "civilize" them in residence schools, even if we wouldn't do that again (and with the current government, who knows anymore?) it'd be too much like the past to allow.

All I would do would be to take away the medical decisions from the parents. Everything else is left to them as with any other parents, only the decisions of what is to be done by the doctor is given to a medical guardian, either a family friend not too indoctrinated into the whole "woo-hoo" stuff or a practicing child psychologist of some sort. Only if the parents disregard the medical orders or actively work against them should anything further be done, and even then, taking the child away should be a last resort.

[Trapezohedron]

My stepdad asked me to hand him all of my money so he could put it into a checking account that would be, and he was very specific on this point, in his name. Oh, but I would get the ATM card that he would "never use".

Yeaaahhfuckthatno. And I think now is a good time to also move where I keep my savings as well.

Spoiler: I also want to rant about the way Pokemon Gen III handles legendaries(spoilers ahead), although that is little compared to the stuff above. (click to show/hide)

 In Gen I you had three legendaries, Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, and Articuno was the only to easily miss if I recall. There was also a final boss legendary, Mewtwo, and one event-only(unless you glitch or hack) Pokemon, Mew. Gen II had two legendaries that the game pretty much tells you when they are available, and even tells you where Ho-oh is(Lugia is a bit harder to find), plus three other legendaries you have to randomly encounter, plus one event-only, Celebi.

Gen III has no less than eight legendaries(not counting event-only Pokemon), 5 of whom are version specific - Groudon for Ruby, Kyogre for Sapphire, all three for Emerald, and whichever Lati_s was red for Ruby, the blue one for Sapphire, and Emerald gives you the option of which one you want to encounter(the other becomes event-only after you grab the first one). Lati_s also teleports around every single battle or area change. The other three require doing this ridiculous puzzle that I haven't figured out yet even with a guide that involves being able to read Braille and first getting two fairly hard to get Pokemon(Relacanth and Wailord), any other 'mon with Dig(there is exactly one TM in the game, as far as I know), and doing some other stuff. There is also at least two event-only Pokemon, Jirachi and Deoxys, not counting legendaries from the previous game.

Gen III also has a non-legendary that deserves mention, Feebas and its evolution, Milontic. Feebas can only be fished up on Route 119(by the Weather Institute). It can only be found in one of six(and only one of those six) water tiles, the positions of these six tiles determined by from what I can tell are a combination of the Dewford trendy saying and your Trainer number, and there's no guarantee that you'll even get Feebas on the first try. Evolving it is even more ridiculous, as the first thing is that Feebas you worked so hard to get also must have one of only four of all the possible natures, the four that focus on the Beauty trait. Then you must feed the butt-ugly fish enough candy to make it so beautiful that the Fanclub Chairman gives you the Blue Scarf if you didn't already get it. I don't even know what the next step is, the guide didn't say, but I think it's either trade or level-up.


_{For clarity, event-only means that you have to bring your GBA to a Nintendo game event, which are all long over, so you need to hack the game to get them now.}

That sounds so fucking suspicious. I'm pretty sure you're taking steps to avoid/prevent it though. Stay frosty, mate.

Spoiler: @Pokerant (click to show/hide)

Good luck getting all the legendaries. About the Regis though, R/S has different puzzles to perform in order to unlock them than in Emerald. The one true pain in the ass (not counting events only pokemon) is really Feebas though. Six tiles in the whole flooded Seaville called Hoenn contain them? Good f**king luck with that.

[nenjin]

Akura's stepdad has perfected being shady into an art form.

[Mesa]

Anyone here with some medical knowledge?
I started to have stinging pains in my chest, at the height of the liver (but on the left side, as opposed to the right side where the liver is) when taking deep breaths.
Luckily they seem to have stopped, but still, any idea what could that be?

Also, those big, nasty flies that refuse to land on a place where I can swat them are driving me complete nuts.

[scrdest]

Anyone here with some medical knowledge?
I started to have stinging pains in my chest, at the height of the liver (but on the left side, as opposed to the right side where the liver is) when taking deep breaths.
Luckily they seem to have stopped, but still, any idea what could that be?

Also, those big, nasty flies that refuse to land on a place where I can swat them are driving me complete nuts.

It might be one of these things that happens to me every now and then which, I think, is the muscles surrounding the lungs getting pinched by the rib.

Also, the liver is not on the right - it's in the middle, but its right side is slightly larger than left.

[Tawa]

My Spanish teacher assigned us new seats today. Nothing was wrong with our old ones, it's just that like half my class is obsessed with changing seats whenever possible.

I'm no longer in my happy fun warm comfortable seat next to a friend in the back of class; now I'm in the middle of the room with someone I barely know.

[MaximumZero]

Weather. It is 8000f outside with 300% humidity, in May, in Michigan. Go home, weather, you're drunk.

[GiglameshDespair]

I think 300% humidity is called 'being underwater'.

[Darvi]

I'm going to sulk for the next 24 or so hours.

[Putnam]

For a given value of 3D, I suppose that's true. But you probably know what I meant by 3D, even if it's not semantically perfect.

Red Faction, Spore, Sims, SimCity, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 off the top of my head.

[Descan]

As far as I know, those are all constrained in some way fairly major ways. Minecraft, while also constrained (it doesn't try to emulate physics so it has to be) is a lot more granular.

[MorleyDev]

Teams have managed to rewrite Minecraft from scratch to get decent performance on phones (C++) and on Raspberry Pi (I think that one is C++ too, but with actual scripting support...on a Raspberry Pi. Need to emphasise that point).

That original code base must have something going on that's sucking away the performance. Has anybody actually heavily profiled the client? Like, looked at the cache performance and stuff? :S