Posts made by Cobalt

@Ganymede The problem is that homeopathy and alternative medicine also give a haven for a lot of quacks and woo peddlers. Myles Power on youtube has a lot of great videos on different woo peddlers and the dangers of it -- Jeff Holiday as well is a good source. (Though the latter's political views at least older ones make me a little hesitant to really suggest him, he's not terrible if you stick to the quackery / exposing "alternative medicine" videos). People who claim to be homeopathic/natural medicine doctors or chiropractor doctors will often be people who have bought degrees off of shady colleges and have not had actual long term medical training like someone who went through full medical school to be a doctor of medicine.

We're talking about people who go to Uganda and get Ugandans to drink bleach claiming it will cure their malaria. We're talking people who will tell people that bleach can cure autism, and advocate giving autistic children bleach enemas.

Or you know people who advocate urine therapy, or black root, or turpentine therapy etc. Things that can kill or harm people badly, but sick and desperate people will turn to because "traditional medicine failed them".

I turn a hard side-eye to anyone who tells me to treat stuff with essential oils or "natural" medicines. Not everything in nature is healthy for you, and woo peddlers prey on the desperate to squeeze money out of them and exploit their sickness for the cults.

@silverfox said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

Boob sweat.

The next time I play a modern day game where I have a fighter chick... I'm going to on the 'after scene' where the chick gets back from some real hard battle. Pose unhooking her bra and letting out the most highly sexual sound of relief that a human being can hear and that her partner has most assuredly never made her make.

fr taking off your bra after a 10hr work day is 100% better than getting laid.

@Wretched said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@Cobaltasaurus AUGH About 1 in 5 of my underwear does this, there are just a few pairs that will ROLL THEMSELVES DOWN MY BODY FOR NO REASON. So I'll be walking in the grocery store and my underwear is just peeling itself down the inside of my pants and I'm trying to surreptitiously fix it by shoving my arm down my pants in the middle of an aisle hoping no one rounds the corner on this space fo 10 seconds....

99% of my underwear. ....until I started wearing thongs recently. Which are apparently magic. insert shrug emoji All my normal underwear? 99% of it will have rolled itself down my ass like they're living entities that hate my butt.

@Bad-at-Lurking Or I mean the little butt wiggle, the wild groping at your butt, and the final despair when you decide you'll just look like a pervert b/c your panties have rolled all the way down your butt and now are pooled at the crotch of your pants and must be fixed and there is literally no bathroom for a mile away so into your pants go your hands as you try to pull your underwear back up as fast as you can?

I don't think @Quinn was being literal about the ball scratch thing, my dudes. I think it was an easy example of why it's difficult for her to play male characters and why she doesn't. Saying "well just don't pose ball scratching" and then "well just play a character who happens to be male/female/nonbinary/a lamp and not a character who is male/female/nonbinary/a lamp" is a little bit dismissive of her perspective...

But it could also be damaging to the portrayal of those types of characters. Especially if you take away the gender part and instead insert race/ethnicity or sexuality. If you are a white person playing a POC on a game and you don't give any thought to who that person's background has effected them you might find yourself walking straight into stereotypes.

@Ganymede My love, there's a difference between cognitive behavioral treatments and quackery. Behavioral Cognitive Treatments ask you to change your lifestyle habits that may be unhealthy: such as if you have heart issues they may ask you to try and lose some weight. If you have IBS they may ask you to change your eating habits and not eat stuff that gives you the fucking runs.

Quackery will have you drinking cabbage fermented in sea water while saying it'll cure you of cancer, aids, chronic illness, and disease, and will regrow your limbs.

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Atomic said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Wretched said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@JinShei You should also try cheering up. Maybe smile more? Cant you just get over it? It's all in your head after all. Just eat less.

You forgot somethingsomething gluten and weed is the new Jesus.

The worst I ever encountered was someone I only distantly knew messaging me to be like 'My husband's cousin had some medical condition and she went gluten free and it cured her so I totally think that it would cure you of your fibromyalgia!'

open mouth, unhinge jaw, devour person in a single gulp

spit out bones

No.

Being less weird but mildly still on the fibro/chronic illness topic. My apartment complex has an onsite gym (as well as pool), and while I haven't been going to pool all that often (I've gotten tired of washing chlorine out of my hair), I have started going to the gym every night (though I made last night my rest night b/c I was exhausted and could barely think by the time I went to bed).

I ache less and feel less bad in general for it. Afterward I feel so good. I wish I had the kind of habits where I could get up two hours before work and go to the gym before work to have those endorphins carry me through the day, but tbh I'm a lazy piece of garbage and also between the insomnia and fibromyalgia the older I get the harder it is for me to even get out of bed on time for work let alone early.

Can't help with Ares but I coded a FAE Game a while back so I can answer some questions about FAE ??? @Thenomain is your best choice for questions about Fate.

@Rinel said in New Handheld-only Switch:

This is one of these things that, like the 2DS, I would have instantly bought instead of the original had it come out at release. I've had my Switch since July of 2017, and the only times I've used it on a TV is for Just Dance.

Admittedly, Just Dance is a lot of fun.

See I'm the opposite, I prefer to use my switch on my TV. I'm okay with playing Let's Go: Eevee! In handheld mode, but playing BOTW in handheld mode makes me sad. There's too much going on on the screen, and I'd prefer my TV.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

@bear_necessities said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

@Three-Eyed-Crow we are definitely not banning trans people or anything like that.

I didn't seriously think so and was mostly being tongue and cheek and also wanted to say WE ALL KNOW THIS GAME THIS THREAD IS ABOUT ISN'T BANNING TRANS PEOPLE, RIGHT?

No I appreciate that interjection, as someone looking to someday make a character on GH and who usually plays some flavor of non-hetero characters.

@Kay said in Travel Connections:

@Cobaltasaurus what price point are you looking for? I don't have connections but I seem to have really good online search fu as far as plane tickets go.

Hnnngg... Like less than 300 each way? Like... Less than 200 each way?

So this is somewhat if a long shot but I thought I might ask:

Some of you know I live in Alabama, but I'm from Washington. I'll likely be in AL for the foreseeable future, but I miss my family badly. I've been gone from them for the majority if my adult life. My parents are gone-- both dying while I was in othet states. I have one uncle left and he isnt getting any younger, my nieces and nephews are all growing up without me.

I want to start going home a couple of times a year to go see them before I don't recognize my family anymore.

Does anyone have connections for cheap flights? Or advice on how to start getting cheaper flight tickets. Im not rolling in the money but I also don't want to rely on other people to pay for my tickets since I'm home sick, not dying.

Hey boo. If I make enough tonight in tips to stay on track for my bills, I'll send you whatever extra I make.

My cat and my roommate's cat got new collars....

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My girl is so precious with her little rose. And the boy is super dapper with his bowtie.

@Carex Were you the guest who was saying really weird and awkward things about my pseudonym ('Cobalt')?

Well! Looks like I'll be checking out Grey Harbor tonight!

I want to make a new character somewhere. Anyone got any suggestions on a good at least semi active place to play?

• General Fantasy Fashion/Inspiration from Sacred Seed project
• "Dancers"

Don't leave dirty panties on the fucking bathroom counter. Wtf is wrong with you.

I have a desire to tell stories (this would mostly be not super interactive-- such as +req responses, lore writing, etc. with the occasional live ST'Dd scene as my crazy schedule allows). Its more work than I have the time and patience for to build my own game (unless @Thenomain is gonna code it for me and @Tributary is gonna help me admin it).

So... Does anyone want a part time ST?