Berttheduck
@Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 1 day ago:
I get mine done about every 1-2 months. Usually when it starts poking me in the ears and getting annoying.
My mate at work who’s very fashion conscious gets his done every 3 weeks or so.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You know you can block users right? If you don’t like someone’s content just block them and move on rather than complain on their post.
Or make another post to ask the community and involve the mods.
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 1 week ago:
I’m really bad at twister but I’d still like to play.
- Comment on How to Decide what an Appropriate Medical Response is for Loved Ones 1 week ago:
Sign up for a first aid for children course. The best way to manage these feelings and fears is to be prepared to manage them directly. If you learn some first aid then you’ll be able to manage a lot of problems yourself and know when you can’t and need help.
- Comment on Finished Inscryption two days ago and I am absolutely amazed (minor spoilers) 1 week ago:
Yeah if the other acts were as interesting as the first it would be one of my favourite games ever. As it stands it is just really good.
- Comment on Finished Inscryption two days ago and I am absolutely amazed (minor spoilers) 2 weeks ago:
I loved act 1. I really enjoyed the horror elements. Using the pliers and the knife for the first time was brutal. The meta puzzles were just right for me and I enjoyed finding out about more of the layers and the characters.
Act two was interesting, I enjoyed meeting the other characters there was just enough puzzles and challenge and change up to be interesting.
Act 3 I found frustrating, the robot world game and the away from the table elements I found dull it didn’t do anything different particularly with the game mechanics. And whilst I enjoyed the real world aspects it irritated me that I had to watch 40 minutes of YouTube to find out the “true” ending which was really quite underwhelming. I kinda wish I hadn’t bothered and just left it with the goodbye boss fights.
I really don’t know how I feel about the game as a whole. I enjoyed parts, the first act was one of the best games I’ve ever played. The rest dragged on a bit.
- Comment on Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse? 2 weeks ago:
No but that’s what anxiety makes you think.
- Comment on Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse? 2 weeks ago:
That one is social anxiety and is because in the past if you got excluded from your group of humans you’d starve or freeze to death. We aren’t evolved to deal with the hundreds and hundreds of people that the modern world requires. More used to like extended family groups and small communities.
- Comment on Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse? 2 weeks ago:
It depends what your anxiety is driven by. Social anxiety is mostly the fear of being driven out of the group, which would evolutionarily lead to death. You’d be better with social interaction games or multiplayer ones to connect with more people in a safe environment.
Generalised anxiety where you’re hyper aware of every risk and on edge all the time expecting something bad to happen, horror games might work with desensitisation though often in horror the bad things do happen and you just happen to survive by running away or fighting back which is probably not the most helpful thing for anxiety.
Specific fears around ghosts - play FEAR and shoot ghosts. Specific fears around zombies play resident evil, probably the remake of 4, and shoot zombies. Existential dread about what makes you human and the existence of consciousness and souls, play SOMA (has a mode where the enemies don’t insta death you now so you can experience the story and the incredible locations), probably won’t make it less scary but is a great game.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 3 weeks ago:
Eugenics?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 weeks ago:
The problem with this point relating to dementia is that dementia specifically makes forming new memories harder. So they are unlikely to remember any specifics including their diagnosis. Also for the patient saying dementia or memory problems will be more than enough to tell everyone who’s not a doctor.
The frontotemporal bit won’t mean anything to the general public unless they remember more human anatomy than most, but everyone has heard of dementia that one is in common parlance anyway I think.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 weeks ago:
This is a big problem with medicine in general. Medicine is unfortunately very much an old white man’s club, it’s getting better slowly, but all the knowledge and the way it is taught comes from that old white guy standard.
Medical terminology is complex because medicine is complex. There is definitely an element of being part of an exclusive club but there is also communicating lots of information quickly and efficiently.
Frontotemporal dementia describes a specific set of symptoms and if you are medically trained tells you most everything you need to know about what is happening. As opposed to the patient is a bit confused or sees things sometimes which could be many different things.
The language and how diagnoses are communicated are really important, a good medic should tell the patient their diagnosis with the medical words but should explain what those mean in as much detail as the patient wants.
Most patients are able to understand dementia even if the frontotemporal bit doesn’t make sense to them.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 5 weeks ago:
I seem to remember it had something to do with twink Ryden and the child solder training he got rather than the cold war of MGS3.
- Comment on The Viking combat roguelite Bad North (2018) is truly incredible in bite-sized real-time tactics 5 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed my time with it. Played it all on my phone. The touch controls work surprisingly well.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 5 weeks ago:
I guess the assassin’s creed games mostly fit your criteria. The plot largely takes place in the past so has already happened and is effectively fixed. The current day plot moves at a glacial pace for most of the first 3 games but does have some development gradually to something bigger.
Can’t really speak for the meta/ modern day plot of the later games as I stopped playing them.
There is at least 1 metal gear game where the premise is it’s a training simulation. I don’t remember the title, I think it’s a spin off of MGS2.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 5 weeks ago:
You could look at fire safe boxes for document storage. Those are usually pretty solid. You would want to bag up the drive inside an anti static bag and probably put a couple of those little water absorbing silicone packets in there as well. If access isn’t an issue then maybe some sealant around the seams to keep it more water tight.
Magnetic tape would be better for long term storage as well I think. Those have longer storage stability. I don’t know how long an unplugged hard drive will reliably store information.
Animals could dig it up but probably wouldn’t as it wouldn’t smell like food. Depth wise I’d go for at least a couple feet deep, the traditional 6 is a surprisingly deep hole and temperature gets more consistent the deeper you go (at least with readily available tools, it eventually starts to get hot again).
Please note totally random opinion with very little experience with long term data storage. Thanks for the fun thought experiment, I hope things get better and you don’t need your backup data.
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 1 month ago:
Universities are a stepping stone to teach students how to be independent adults so getting them used to normal working hours gently is a good thing. Most courses aren’t a solid 9-5 so there’s plenty of opportunity for a lay in at least some days (depending on the course)
Universities are also research institutions and that all runs on normal working hours, the lecturers are often researchers first and teaching staff second so fitting classes around the research makes sense.
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 1 month ago:
I suspect the main reason is the inertia of the 9-5 that most of the world revolves around. You’d struggle to recruit staff to teach, techs to maintain buildings and stock required if they had to work permanently on late shifts.
- Comment on Badgers: 1 Star 1 month ago:
I don’t remember where I saw these but the rest of these animal reviews are also great.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 1 month ago:
Maybe, you’d want to talk to someone like an intensive care doctor really but yeah a lot of your organs can be replaced mechanically these days at least for a while.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 1 month ago:
It really depends what you mean by survive.
You could do ECMO and dialysis and get rid of the heart, lungs and kidneys, parenteral nutrition to feed via an IV so no need for a gut.
The patient would be bed bound and at immediate risk of dying from a complication but in theory that’s basically an empty abdominal cavity connected to a brain and a bunch of machines.
You would need enough decent sized blood vessels left to connect it all up but otherwise not much physically.
- Comment on What makes a fart dry vs wet? 1 month ago:
A wet fart is a slightly more polite way to say shit yourself.
Basically if there is poo in your undies after a fart it was a wet day.
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 months ago:
It’s a lot better than other electric toothbrushes whilst retaining waterproofing.
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 months ago:
Yup, you need to send it back to them but for a few quid (or included if you have their replacement head subscription) they will change the battery for you.
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 months ago:
We have recently gotten ourselves some SURI toothbrushes and they are eco friendly, repairable, the heads are recyclable/ biodegradable. They also give a better clean than my old oral b electric. Quieter too. Highly recommend.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 2 months ago:
In summary of the nature article:
Listen and be interested in why they hold those opinions, use motivational interviewing techniques (I explain this as Inception, trying to get the patient to have the ideas) and provide solid evidence, be realistic about data and certainty, ie the MMR vaccine is safe (and doesn’t cause autism) the COVID vaccine has less data as it’s newer, but it is still safer for the vast majority of people than COVID.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This isn’t a question random people on the internet can answer easily, but I can offer you some things to think about which might help.
I’m in a medical field in the UK and do some interviewing so I’d be asking you why you want to pick a job with long hours, bad pay (comparatively for the responsibility), poor working conditions? Medicine is not a job for people who want to breeze through or are just a little bit interested in biology and people.
I’d recommend you get some work experience, health care assistant jobs are commonplace in the UK and a great way to see if medicine is right for you, universities here look on it very favourably as well. If you can do a 12 hour shift where you are exposed to blood, poo, urine and vomit and still want to go back for more then I’d say medicine is probably an ok field for you.
What are your goals? Helping people is a common response in medical interviews but you can help in lots of ways, law like you’ve already been considering, engineering, accounting etc. What do you get out of medicine that you can’t get elsewhere?
Do you want to make lots of money and have an easier life, don’t pick medicine, pick something else.
- Comment on DM Workshop - A community for discussing your TTRPG worlds and campaigns 3 months ago:
Yes please. I love seeing how other GMs prep.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yeah they are common beach wear but a visiting a site for looking at women wearing them is not something most people would do at work so they are probably right.
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 5 months ago:
I think a lot of this is due to colonialism. Back when the Brits were sailing around pointing cannons at people and being delightful they didn’t respect local culture and dialects enough to bother with a “tricky” word so replaced it with an easier version. Unfortunately due to that expansion and the proliferation of English as the most common trade language the English versions tend to stick.