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There Bias Two posted:What? Bioware closed their Social Forum back in August. I'm not saying it was all the fault of Tali Sweat Enthusiasts, but given the closure of GBS, I'm not taking chances.
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# ? Sep 23, 2016 20:49 |
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There Bias Two posted:What?
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# ? Sep 23, 2016 23:09 |
Outrail posted:What's the plan when we find out the planet is inhabited by an early stage intelligent lifeform? Enslavement or straight up genocide? Selective breeding for non-intelligence, compliance and flavor.
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# ? Sep 23, 2016 23:11 |
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Just when I thought the internet could not longer stun me, here we are
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 01:43 |
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FoxTerrier posted:Just when I thought the internet could not longer stun me, here we are On our very own forums we have the elf dildo thread. It has equal or more effort.
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 02:14 |
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Loel posted:On our very own forums we have the elf dildo thread. It has equal or more effort. How can you type those words but not link them
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 14:18 |
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My face involuntarily puckered as if I were eating a lemon, and it seems to be frozen in that state for the moment.
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 14:38 |
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Lanky Coconut Tree posted:How can you type those words but not link them Behold. Look in fear and wonder at what goons have wrought.
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 15:26 |
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elise the great posted:First things first: we actually do know what elves called their dicks, because even the glorious JRRT couldn't keep his hands out of his pants. The poetic term (yes, elves seem to have engaged in erotic poetry) would be gwî, but for everyday usage gwib was the preferred term. Puntl is provided as the coarse, moderately transgressive term, and likely what you would be invited to suck if you went down on a male elf. Alas, due to the ban on the Noldorin language, we have no surviving slang for Fëanor's johnson.
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 17:55 |
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Poor Olo is going to come back from his wedding to find his thread full of alien sweat and elf dicks.
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 20:35 |
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 20:45 |
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Loel posted:
Turns out the entrance to the Mines of Moria was the site of Legolas' sexual awakening.
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 20:50 |
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They should have sent a poet.
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# ? Sep 24, 2016 22:51 |
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And, then get this, IT GETS MADE. 40 bucks American, buy it from Dildomancer. Pics are in that thread SFW teaser: Carth Dookie posted:That's kind of what I was thinking the "cap" of the acorn could be, the scrote wrinkles: Loel fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Sep 25, 2016 |
# ? Sep 25, 2016 02:12 |
There Bias Two posted:Poor Olo is going to come back from his wedding to find his thread full of alien sweat and elf dicks.
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# ? Sep 25, 2016 23:36 |
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WHEN THE OP'S AWAY THE GOONS WILL PLAY
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# ? Sep 25, 2016 23:50 |
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Why is this happening? Goddamnit, why? Elven cock rings?
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# ? Sep 26, 2016 21:32 |
Yeah. So. I'm married!!! Everything went great, the weather did us a huge favor, and everyone had really awesome things to say about the ceremony, venue, food, etc. Way less stressed now. I'm planning to toss up another update in the next few days as Tabitha does some research into the effects of cryo sleep, with the help of Bedia, and then probably heads back to sleep. Olothreutes fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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# ? Sep 26, 2016 21:36 |
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Olothreutes posted:Yeah. So. Congrats dude. I guess now we can get a update-a-day until the honeymoon, eh?
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# ? Sep 26, 2016 21:42 |
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Congrats! Take your time (unless you're avoiding the inlaws).
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# ? Sep 26, 2016 21:45 |
Outrail posted:Congrats! Take your time (unless you're avoiding the inlaws). I'm blessed in that my inlaws are pretty awesome and they all love me. The same goes for my bride and my family, they adore her. So no awkward inlaw avoiding issues.
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# ? Sep 26, 2016 21:59 |
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Yay!!! Congrats and enjoy the heck out of your honeymoon!!
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# ? Sep 27, 2016 01:03 |
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Today, Elon Musk suggested the same fuckin' thing, minus the cryosleep. My body is ready. Send me to the red planet.
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# ? Sep 27, 2016 20:41 |
It's always a bit weird when I read things that make the science fiction I read/am writing into nearly real things.
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# ? Sep 27, 2016 21:25 |
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Olothreutes posted:It's always a bit weird when I read things that make the science fiction I read/am writing into nearly real things. On the plus side it makes what your writing/what we're reading feel less like a story and more like a possible reality.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 18:24 |
The two of you sit and make small talk while you eat. You are clearly very hungry, much more so than the last few times you were awake. Perhaps you had just not been up long enough for the effects of cryosleep to wear off fully. As you take a long drink from a mug of coffee you silently thank the scientists who found a way to recreate this amazing beverage without needing the specific conditions on Earth that you no longer have access to. Eventually talk turns to the conditions on the ship. You try to tread lightly regarding the situation on the bridge with Bedia and Cedric, but with the welfare of the ship as your primary concern it seems prudent to at least casually inquire to see if further intervention is required. ”Things seem ok, really,” Ann sighs a bit and rests her chin on both of her hands, elbows propped on the table, ”They dated for a few years, I would say pretty casually. I never saw any indication it was particularly serious. I think Cedric was more into the idea of a relationship than Bedia was, and ultimately they had a solid argument and decided it was best for them, and the crew, if they called things off. They moved work spaces mostly out of a desire to keep things going as smoothly as possible. Honestly I think they both handled it very professionally.” Ann seems to think that there shouldn’t be any issues regarding their relationship. You ask about their routines; how do they manage to not go crazy out here in all this nothing by themselves? ”I think it varies for all of us, really. Bedia likes to walk around the ship, she does regular trips through the cryobays to make sure everything is going well in there, and I’m pretty sure she checks on the controller units as well while she’s down there, just to make sure we don’t have any repeats of that issue during your first wakeup. Cedric and Otto used to play cards, but I think they’ve finally gotten bored of that. They seem to have invented some sort of game that they play in the halls, the low gravity allows for some very interesting personal kinematics and they enjoy the challenge. I personally think it’s better for them to get up and move around so the “sport,” whatever they’re calling it, is probably good. I watched it a bit and it seemed like a combination of some old sports on Earth, I saw a vid one time of something called racquetball and this seems like it has some similarities. I suspect they’ve been watching the same vids to improve their game.” The ship has extensive cultural records from the antebellum periods as well as detailed records of the events of the war. They will be well studied and remembered, lest humanity repeat its mistakes and bring itself to the brink of ruin once again. At least that is the hope. Many times throughout history mankind has proven to be remarkably blind to the consequences of their actions, making political issues out of scientific fact and bringing themselves to the brink of destruction only to manage to find a way out through the brilliance of a few and the perseverance of many. Your food must have been good, or at least it was not bad, because it is gone before you realize it. Staring at an empty plate with little memory of having devoured what was on it is actually sort of nice, food during the war was almost universally bad and being able to forget that taste was a frequent idle musing. You top up your cup of coffee and head back towards the bridge area. You aren’t super interested in making yourself a real bother to the wardens so you are avoiding inserting yourself into their routine as best you can. You grab a datapad, although you could call everything up on your internal computer there’s something comforting about the physical pad in your hand. It reminds you of your pre-war research days. Speaking of research, you have a bit of a mystery on your hands that you would like to solve. You don’t have a tremendous amount of data, certainly not enough to satisfy any sort of peer review, but it’s more data than you had when you started your journey. You attend one session of what Otto and Cedric are apparently calling “Grav-ball” in one of the main hallways. Otto apparently has some robotics engineering experience, or is simply just good with machines, and he has created a pair of goals for them to use while playing. Each goal is magnetic and can cause itself to float at random through a small section of the hallway. The target area is about a meter across and circular. The pair of them set their goals up at opposing ends of a long hallway and then begin rocketing a ball down the hallway at the goal using what look like small racquetball racquets. The rules are a bit more complex than you’re immediately aware of, neither of them seem to be guarding the goal very closely and every shot seems to bounce off as many difference surfaces as possible. After watching for at least twenty minutes you are pretty sure that they have decided that a shot doesn’t count if it doesn’t touch at least three different planes. Combined with the random movement of the goals and the low gravity this game is both very fast and painfully slow. You can certainly see how this would keep you in shape, however, running down and diving to intercept the ball as it caroms down the hall. You spend the next several days having quick discussions with the wardens, mostly just minor status updates, you don’t want to get in their way. You have several longer discussions, 20 minutes or more, with Bedia regarding the data you compiled from the various crew members that were awake, as well as the bloodwork that was done on those who were awake this most recent cycle. Bedia has been poring over a multitude of scientific papers that were published regarding cryo science and related fields. She has found a lot of data from very early experiments where the process was still primitive at best, and often fatal. At one point they would actually kill the subject by inducing cardiac arrest in order to begin preparation for cryo because of some byzantine legal issues. As the two of you discuss these early findings and papers you are very glad that this is no longer the case. You continue to run your bloodwork on a regular interval to see what changes might be taking place. Your stress hormone levels have been steadily decreasing over time. The majority of you bloodwork seems to be fine. The elevated levels of B-9 complex vitamins, folates, is something that both of you think is quite interesting and deserves some additional investigation. It takes several days before either of you comes up with anything, you are researching the effects of folates on cell regeneration after brain injury when Bedia comes to see you. ”Captain! I think I might know what is happening!” She looks pretty excited, and clearly has been enjoying the challenge of solving this mystery. ”So you’ve been having headaches when you come out of cryo,” This is a statement of fact, she isn’t looking for you to confirm it but you nod anyway, ”and your bloodwork shows elevated levels of folates and a few other vitamins, mostly B complex vitamins. I think I might know what is going on here.” You ask her to continue. Over the next hour and a half the two of you review a number of articles, check your blood work and that of the other crew members and even run some additional diagnostics on yourself. Based on the data you have at this time it would seem that repeated exposure to the freeze/thaw mechanism of cryo sleep is causing damage to the non-neuronal cells in your nervous system, probably astrocytes. Astrocytes have a number of functions in the brain but aren’t terribly well understood. One of the roles they play is to help protect the brain after it has been damaged by forming a sort of scar tissue around damaged areas. This might be happening as high energy particles pass through your brain, although your brain imaging seems to indicated you are largely free from this sort of scarring. Astrocytes also help clear various neurotransmitters from the brain to maintain brain chemistry. One of these neurotransmitters is glutamate. The folate concentrations in your bloodwork are actually complex chains of amino acids that are largely glutamate and its precursors. When the astrocytes are damaged by the cryo process it seems that your nervous system becomes less able to properly manage the reuptake of glutamate in your system and this is leading to a condition known as excitotoxicity, headaches being one of the primary symptoms of this disorder. Other symptoms include mania and aggression which thankfully you are not experiencing at this time. It would seem that your symptoms are of a minor case of excitotoxicity instead of a full blown one. All this is fascinating, and a bit worrying, because you are suffering from (minor) brain damage! Some quick research into the function of glutamate reuptake and you find that blood sugar levels and hydration levels are both very important actors in this process. It should help you, and everyone else who wakes up from cryo, to be both hydrated and to have adequate blood sugar levels when they first awake. Under no circumstances should you let anyone fall into hypoglycemia after they awaken. As you consider the things you did last time you were awake you note that you didn’t eat before returning to cryo. That might have been enough to depress your blood sugar levels and exacerbate the problem. Thankfully your testing doesn’t show any major damage to your nervous system, and the literature you can find on astrocytes indicates that they should replenish themselves over time. You aren’t certain how long that could take, a few days at least, but the length of time is dependent on the scale of the damage. You let Bedia know that this is some excellent work she’s done, pushing forward the leading edge of human knowledge. She has a smile that looks as wide as the galaxy. ”Oh, goodness. Thank you Captain. I’m just glad that we were able to get this mystery solved for you. And for everyone else, I think this could really do a lot of good for everyone who wakes up now, we’re better prepared to help them cope with the effects of cryo. This was really exciting. I think I’d like to continue doing science like this when we arrive. I mean, if that’s ok with you and Dr. Pagnotto.” It seems that Bedia may have found her calling beyond just maintaining cryo controllers. You have been awake for eleven days at this point. You have eaten well and over time your bloodwork has returned to normal. Now that you are aware of what issues you are dealing with you can take steps to address them specifically, and you have. You are fairly confident that at this time you are back to what you would consider to be a baseline state, and that any damage that had been done to your nervous system is repaired. Who would you like to take the next shift? A: Myself, I know the issues now and can prepare for them. B: Thomas. C: Vladimir. D: Someone else. Is there anything else you want to do before you return to cryo? E: Nope, off to bed. F: Yes, please specify.
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A. F. Drink as much sugary fluids as is safely allowed before going into cryo. And see about getting an IV set up shortly after you leave cryo. A bag full fluids and electrolytes and nausea meds and pain meds and other medical stuff so when you get up you can get that into your system immediately. Edit: And see if we can have some at the ready for when our officers wake up in case a few of them don't take well to being woken up. Use the percentage of important people who have a lot of trouble with the wakeup as a baseline for how many colonists will have problems too. Edit 2: Thinking on it some more, we could give a computer the stats of the people waking up and have a IV cocktail at the ready to meet a baseline level of pain and nausea relief along with all that other good stuff. X can shut off pain receptors so he won't need morphine. Y is sensitive to morphine so give them less. And if the person winds up needing higher levels of meds the computer can sign off on how much more would be safe to give RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Oct 2, 2016 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 09:15 |
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RandomPauI posted:A. This seems like a solid plan.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 12:27 |
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Plan RandomPauI
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 13:12 |
The second part might not be viable, depending on how many resources we have. It could easily use up a decent chunk of meds and IV bags. But the first two parts should still be viable.
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Battle Royale Baby posted:Plan RandomPauI This seems solid. The 'brain damaged people with increased aggression in space' issue seems like this might go to the space horror genre.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 17:07 |
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Outrail posted:This seems solid. Plot twist: The damage increase is exponential in those who don't come out of cryo every few years.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 18:52 |
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Plan Paul
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 19:31 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 19:41 |
AE
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PlanRandomPaul
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 20:59 |
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A, and F with a modified RandomPauI - have the IVs / sugars ready post-thaw, but I don't think bumping our sugars above baseline pre-thaw is necessary or really desirable; we could be causing damage going the other way. Better to keep as close to a 'normal' state as possible - besides, we're only going to need to do this two more times unless something goes horribly wrong. Better to stick with something we know is safe.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 22:03 |
Plan RandomPaul and we might want to start rotating people out of cryo to replenish their sugars and electrolytes so people don't wake up with cryopsychosis
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# ? May 9, 2024 04:21 |
I'm fine with whatever modifications are necessary to be medically safe. IANAD and the OP is going to become a doctor so what he says goes. A doctor in nuclear engineering if I remember right. So he can only prescribe stuff like OTC iodine tablets, and OTC decontamination showers RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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