Okay, between this and them deactivating their desktop client, I'm done with them.

Cards, minions, and orchestrion rolls still drop and they're automatically yours.

I did all the fixes I wanted to with the benchmark, so I'm not sure why I haven't used it yet...

Hmm. Can't really get a picture of it, but I have a male Raen Au Ra, and whenever his expression changes, the skin around his eyes/nose bridge streaks and goes pixelated. :(

EDIT: Found the problem. It's not his face, the facepaint didn't get upscaled, so it's stretching badly whenever his eyelids move or he scrunches his eyebrows/nose.

Redo all the action bars because I have no idea what I'm going to play as (I can't figure that from change notes, it's vibes all the way down)

Kingdom Hearts 1 is going very slowly because 1)...Wat. 2) my controller's a piece of crap and half my button presses don't register (in a platforming game yay), 3) oh neat the camera makes me nauseous. XP

On vacation and leaving all the Ascians/Scions/Garleans/Hydaelyn/WukLamat's stupid shit on read :

Mango (though the game uses a different name for them in Thavnair).

I have a bunch of crafting mats I need to turn into collectibles, so I can get my DoH 620 offhands. But I don't want to because I'm burnt out on monotonous work like that.

I thought you also got the cauldron hat for doing all three?

*swigs half a bottle of hard liquor and hits 'Retrieve Materia' at the beginning of each expansion*

Alphinaud's excuse is that he's still a teenager (as with Alisae but at least she's funny).

A lot of people don't like Lyse for various reasons, that being one of them. I think it has something to do with her still learning how to be 'herself'.

And that's because you are. Ilberd wasn't wrong way back in Heavensward.

*sets down bed in Death Mountain; no bombs needed*

It's probably a better idea to ask tumblr, reddit thinks anything that's not scantily clad Y'shtola or professional fanart is cringe.

Coins, soul gems, alchemical ingredients like mushrooms, mini weapons, potion bottles (vanilla and modded), thu'um tablets (to practice engraving)...

Endless growth brainrot.

Some people are incredibly sensitive to recognizing the uncanny valley. The more 'realistic' a doll is, the more the brain starts screaming that there shouldn't be a human adult shaped thing that small.

I do not. And every time this comes up, I ask for scientific journals backing it and none ever come.

Health Polycystic ovary syndrome could be treated with a malaria drug  

The malaria treatment artemisinin improved hormone levels and regulated menstrual cycles in women with polycystic ovary syndrome

 By Clare Wilson 

 13 June 2024  

The malaria drug artemisinin is derived from the plant sweet wormwood  

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images  

A medicine already used to treat malaria could also work as a treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).  In a small trial of 19 women with PCOS, the widely used drug artemisinin improved the regularity of their menstrual cycles and lowered their testosterone, which is often too high in people with the condition.  While the root cause of PCOS is unclear, it involves imbalances in several hormones, including too much testosterone being made by the ovaries. This can lead to irregular menstrual cycles and infertility, as well as acne and excess body hair, among other symptoms. Those affected also tend to be less sensitive to the sugar-regulating hormone insulin, which leads to weight gain, worsening the hormone imbalances.  At the moment, people with PCOS have their symptoms treated individually. For instance, they might have laser treatments to remove body hair or take the contraceptive pill to regularise menstruation. While investigating the effects of different drugs on fat cells in mice, Qi-Qun Tang at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, noticed that artemisinin reduced symptoms in mice with a condition similar to PCOS.  His team later gave artemisinin to 19 women with PCOS for three months. It lowered levels of testosterone in all of them, and most also saw a decrease in another substance called anti-Müllerian hormone, which has been linked to PCOS. For 12 of the participants, the drug also led to regular menstrual cycles.  In other work in mice and in human cells, the team found that artemisinin seems to reduce testosterone production in the ovaries.  Stephen Franks at Imperial College London says artemisinin could act through a different mechanism by improving insulin sensitivity, as losing weight tends to reduce PCOS symptoms, although the 19 women had a healthy body mass index on average. “If the results are as good in a randomised trial as in this preliminary study, it’s exciting,” he says.  Elisabet Stener-Victorin at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, says the fact that artemisinin is already generally safe when used for malaria means it could be quickly turned into a new treatment for PCOS.  Journal reference:  Science

I think my ad blocker bypassed the pay wall so I'll paste it in a few.

Oh hey, testing that doesn't focus solely on giving functional fertility back. Like fuck my fertility, I couldn't care less about that, I want my body to stop doing weird shit like rupturing ovarian cysts and wasting all my insulin.

It could be a mob index you keep in your pocket! We'll call it... the mobdex!

Writing a story, and 2 questions. Are dragons (aside from Midgardsomr) able to see/sense aether? And 2) could the Echo be activated in children, or is it only something that is shown to adults?

Edit: Thanks, those answers are perfect tiny details.

FASTING FOR 16 HOURS AND COUNTING BECAUSE I HAVE BLOODWORK IN HALF AN HOUR. GETTING DIZZY. AND HANGRY.

MY ALT IS ON MADUIN AND I'VE BEEN DOING TANK/HEALER QUEUING FOR THE PAST COUPLE DAYS TO GET MOGTOMES. HURRY UP AND WAIT.

THAT ALT I'M CONSIDERING DOING A BIG CHANGE WHEN WE GET THE FREE FANTASIA, BUT TO WHAT I HAVE NO IDEA.

I'm still holding on to a bunch of the craft daily boxes from that grindy 10th anniversary event. Now I can finally open them.