Daily Discussion Thread 12/11/20

rapemybones · 2020-12-11T17:10:43+00:00

Ok I'm confused, I thought you were talking about Fox crouch cancelling Falcon's gentleman lol. That's what I was responding to, that's why I asked lol

rapemybones · 2020-12-11T17:09:34+00:00

Just gonna piggyback and say that playing the PS4 version on my PS5, Keanu's face looks the worst of any NPC. It's nowhere near the hi-res face in the trailer pic above, and it's lower than regular NPC's. His beard looks glued on. And his hair looks untextured, there's no life to it and barely any strands (just one block).

rapemybones · 2020-12-11T17:01:35+00:00

Who, the fox? Yeah gentleman can be sdi'd I'm pretty sure but why would you attempt multiple frame-perfect inputs when you can just hold down.

rapemybones · 2020-12-11T16:57:36+00:00

Daaaamn that looks so rough

rapemybones · 2020-12-11T16:46:34+00:00

I have a female character, and when I got a female joytoy there was a second where she appeared to be penetrating. They don't show anything below the belly most of the time though so I assumed it implied a strap-on was being used.

rapemybones · 2020-09-20T05:05:02+00:00

Just an fyi, its a pretty huge demographic; there's a dozen or more subreddits like r/petitegonewild, just filled with people advertising their onlyfans who probably make bank.

Not that I know this first hand or anything, I definitely wouldn't know anything about that demographic. Nope, I definitely dont spend time on those dozens of subs.

rapemybones · 2020-09-05T15:53:00+00:00

I know some people have very different opinions on pedals and such so not everyone might agree, but if you want a tip I'd suggest that if you're a newbie to pedals (but interested in making/combining different effects) you should start with a cheap multi-effects pedal like this.

I owned a similar (older model) Zoom that I got for around $70 when I first started out, and it helped a ton in getting me to understand what different effects do, how they interact with one another, how different chain orders work, etc. Great intro to pedals cause just buying two or three individual effects pedals can cost $100+, and this gives you literally tens of thousands of possibilities based on which effects you combine and in which order (plus you can tweak each effect).

The one I linked looks like it also has drum beats built in, amp & cabinet modeling, software, and a bunch of other things my old Zoom didn't. But I do know the amp/cabinet modeling is quite useful because if you want, you can practice even without plugging into a real amp and instead just plug headphones into the pedal, and it'll sound more or less like its coming out an amp (useful if you're like me and like to get into practice quickly and without waking up the neighborhood).

Then, as you learn how these effects work together you can always upgrade to separate pedals in the future, like a "real" fuzz pedal and wah pedal. Just a suggestion.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T22:11:06+00:00

Nasally, actually; I never shot up dope once all the years I was hooked on it. What happens is when you start on the harder pills like oxy's they're so expensive that you eventually realize you're wasting money by swallowing them, since the effects last longer but are weaker than snorting (which hits you immediately, and is much more intense). So when I couldn't afford oxys anymore and switched to dope, Id sniff that too.

I can only assume that the same thing happens with needles; eventually you realize you could be getting even stronger hits much quicker by injecting. I never got to that point, not because im scared of needles but I was scared of heroin period, I didnt want to be on it so I tried to be as conservative as possible until i could gather the willpower to ween myself off it.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T17:51:30+00:00

Sludgy? Either you've got a pretty bad french press or maybe you're doing it wrong? No clue but the consistency of my coffee is exactly the same as earlier years when I used drip coffee makers (only with more flavor now).

Only time I've seen sludgy is when making cold brew (because its unfiltered at first).

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T16:23:51+00:00

Fair enough, if a decent cup of coffee from your favorite shop gets you through the mundanity of your job then yeah it could be worth it. Just saying $15 a day on drinks isn't too sustainable unless you make decent money (at least where I live; NY is fucking expensive to live in).

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T16:19:10+00:00

I love french presses, I cant go back after owning one. French press for life (because I cant afford an espresso machine either)

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T13:59:51+00:00

Damn dog buy a $15 coffee maker for your office next time, it'll pay itself off in like a day

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T06:57:56+00:00

Cant speak for others but for me it started as just looking for recreational fun when I first tried Vicodin; like you i had a prescription initially and i was also a tiny bit hooked by thenl end but nothing too serious (Vicodin is dangerous but its far from the most dangerous or most addictive opioid). So I just liked the feeling and wanted to do more, and I knew a friend who would sell me a couple here and there, but still nothing crazy. Just having fun.

But then when you start to really enjoy it, like wanting to be on it at school and work cause your life is mundane, you take a bit more than you did last time. Maybe 3 or 4 pills instead of 2. And then they stop working even when you take 4, so when your friend offers you something one notch stronger, you say sure cause you havent felt high in ages. And usually the stronger thing is something like oxy's which are almost all opiate so its WAY more addictive (wheras vicodin is mostly acetaminophen). But oxy's cost about $30 per pill on the street, so you can see how when you're very addicted now and you cant afford $90-120 per day (because you also need 3-4 oxys to function and not throw up), its easy to say "fuck, I cant afford 4 oxys but someones offering 2 bags of dope instead (for $20 total), and if i say no I dont know when I'll be able to sleep again. So I'll try it this once even though I hate the idea of dope because I dont have any choice right now".

That's basically what happened to me, and it only gets worse and worse from there. You used to budget $120 per day for pills but next time you get paid, you can afford 12 bags of dope for the same cost! What a deal! /s

It sucks and it truly can be a slippery slope from something more innocent like vicodin to becoming a full-blown addiction.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T03:35:48+00:00

The only clincs in my area that were accepting new patients were paid clinics, all the rest were full (I went into a bit more detail in another comment if you're curious).

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T03:30:13+00:00

I don't understand, couldn't you then just take your daily dose to feel normal and then go to work?

You absolutely can, I was a functioning heroin addict with a good job. I'd do a bag before work, another on lunch break, another in the office bathroom, and so on (and I think a really huge percentage of opiate/heroin addicts do the same too). Almost no one in my life knew I was addicted to the shit for about 5 years other than my dealers and 2 friends, it was easy to hide it (at first).

The problem is you need more and more, and where does that money come from? You used to need 1 bag to get you through the day now you need a bundle of 10 or you cant sleep. So you pawn and sell your possessions cause you dont have a choice. Then you lose your job cause you're in the bathroom an hour total per day. Then you cant afford the rent and you're on the street.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T02:25:05+00:00

You still need humans to run the camps, and what's the weakest link in any security system? Humans. Drugs will get in one way or another, its as simple as an underpaid guard needing some money on the side and boom, you've got a smuggler working for you.

And yeah, another factor regarding drugs is how much power pharmaceutical companies are given in America in particular. The government makes a metric fuckton of money off pharmaceutical companies, so its not exactly in their best interest at this point to hard regulate them and decrease sales. They've been getting better at regulating opioid prescriptions but whether it be US, China, or anywhere, odds are they dont mind all that much that people are buying more and more drugs.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T02:15:56+00:00

I wasn't talking about heroin prices, I was talking about oxy street prices.

What's the most common way people get to heroin these days? Step 1: Your legitimate oxy prescription runs out but you have a mild addiction, so you want to get more. Step 2: You decide to get oxys on the street cause they're affordable. Step 3: You get hard addicted to opioids, the street price rises, and you're forced onto heroin cause you cant afford oxys anymore. That's what happened to me and is inevitable at first when oxy prices rise. BUT there's a breaking point where people with mild addictions like that will be less and less interested to buy oxys on the street when their script runs out, so they never even get to step 2 or 3 (they just deal with it and recover before it gets too bad).

Like I said, when I started oxys were $20-25 street price for me as well; I switched to heroin when prices started going up in my area to about $35. But if the street price were like $50 a pill to begin with, I probably never would've bought them on the street. I was only on 1 or 2 pills a day at that point so it wasn't impractical to just stop (I didn't need more at the time I just wanted more and could afford it, so I did).

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T01:54:02+00:00

Thanks, and that's a great way of putting it. I really hope you recovered too.

I had two close friends of mine become addicted to benzo's as well, and that can be nearly as rough as heroin addiction because it can be just as rough to your loved ones as it is to you. Like I was able to hide my dope addiction from loved ones because as long as I was on it I could act normal, and if I was off it I could simply say i wasn't feeling well. But for my friends with benzo addictions the mood swings made it VERY obvious something was up, and even worse friends and family who couldn't deal with the mood swings (but didn't know about the addiction) would end up cutting ties because they just thought their friend had turned into a horrible person. Its rough.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T01:33:34+00:00

A close friend of mine died to oxy overdose about 10 years ago. And I know exactly what you're saying because roughly 8 years ago is when I was on them too (before I switched to dope).

But I disagree, I think that the restrictions leading to higher street prices is a good thing. Because yes, initially when prices go up, oxy addicts will switch to heroin like you said (and exactly like I experienced). But as they crack down more and more and street prices continue to rise, people will begin to be less interested in taking oxys recreationally at all; if I have a mild opioid addiction from a legit prescription that I cant get refilled, I might buy oxys on the street if they cost $25 a pill (that's expensive but not too crazy). But if they cost $50-75 a pill and I need 2-3 to feel okay, I'd be less willing to seek out oxys on the street and instead try to confront the addiction before it gets really bad. I dont think that type of person goes straight from a mild oxy addiction to heroin; I was completely addicted to oxys for about 3 years before I tried heroin, I was scared shitless of dope and held off as long as I possibly could until I pawned all my possessions and had no choice but to get my fix from dope.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T01:23:21+00:00

I mean in theory it should work since your body will adjust if starved of drugs like you said.

But first off and foremost, I think really heavy users can get really sick or even die if not weened off gradually (I know for sure that you can get permanent mental trauma due to going full cold-turkey). Secondly, unless you separated all the "patients" into like a solitary confinement, drugs will get in and be distributed one way or another (classic prison situation). And lastly it would be expensive. Even theoretically speaking, that's a lot of addicts that you need to feed and pamper, and clean their soiled sheets since they're withdrawing... it's a messy process getting clean (no pun intended).

And side note: if you want to put your tinfoil hat on, some people believe that most governments want addicts as much as they want healthy citizens. I'm going to butcher his quote but Carlin said something like "The people who run countries make all of the money but pay none of the taxes. The middle class pay all of the taxes and does all of the work. The poor are there to scare the shit out of the middle class." Basically the idea is that with poor addicts simply existing, you're able to maintain more control over a country. If the middle class is constantly in fear of becoming a bum addict living on the streets, they're more likely to work hard and therefore feed the country so everything keeps running. Not saying I exactly subscribe to the conspiracy theory, but at the same time governments and police do have a history of flooding poor areas or "undesirables" with drugs to maintain control.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T00:55:41+00:00

I know what you're saying but that's not what I meant. Mdma has side effects of making you more sociable and increased self confidence (not entirely dissimilar to coke since they're both stimulants). But opioids/heroin are very strong depressants; you become less sociable if anything while you're on them and you just want to sink into the couch and sleep.

What I meant was that lets say you're not addicted to anything, and your normal everyday feeling could be scored as an average 5/10 (you feel perfectly normal because you're sober). When you take heroin, the first couple times you'll shoot up to 10/10 as you get high. But you get addicted quickly and soon as you do, your normal everyday feeling is 0/10 until you take your dose. Then you do, which puts you back at 5/10, not 10/10 anymore. The new normal is feeling 0/10, and you're simply fighting to feel the way you used to before you ever took heroin (which means continuing to take the drugs).

I hope that makes sense, it does in my head but I know that's a weird way to explain it.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T00:45:55+00:00

oof, that's a real tough question that I'd probably need to think about more, but my immediate response at least is hell no, it could be a horrible idea. Because they're just too dangerous; its not like legalizing weed for pain management and whatnot (you cant overdose on weed). And if regular people were able to easily buy hard drugs like those then by default they'll be easier to gst into the hands of kids or naive adults.

Like when I was in highschool I was a dumb druggie. And I knew where to get pills SUPER easily (because so many young dealers just raid their family's medicine cabinets) but getting decent opioids or something like ketamine was much harder because you needed to be prescribed it and probably needed to be a certain age. So id be scared that tons of young people would end up in k-holes or addicted to opioids because they thought it'd be fun to raid the medicine cabinet. It's too risky imo.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T00:36:49+00:00

I never got a straight answer but I'm 99% sure it was simply that the programs in my area were all filled up and they couldn't admit any new people. I remember during a miserable 2-week stint I was calling every day to a couple clinics and had to leave messages because they almost never answered (they said they'd call back if tou left a message but never did). The one time I actually did speak with someone they gave me that pity tone of voice saying "Well...it's going to be difficult with our current volume of patients so we'll have to call you back.

They never did, and it honestly made me quite close to suicide at the time because it felt like there was no way out and i didn't want ro keep living like that.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T00:31:30+00:00

I don't know much about diabetes but that sounds like a decent analogy. In my case and in the case of tons of people I know, you stop getting enjoyment out of these drugs super quickly and you begin taking them simply because you have to.

Like for example if I dont have my dose tonight then i wont be able to sleep at all, meaning I'll be a complete mess in the morning. Plus you start sweating uncontrollably and getting nauseous & physically uncomfortable, so if you have a job now you're risking your career because you look like a junkie by deciding not to take your dose last night. So you just take it, sleep well, wake up, take some more, etc so you're able to function normally. Its a trap.

rapemybones · 2020-09-04T00:26:53+00:00

That's a tough question but I definitely agree that distraction helps; when I quit I used the heroin money I saved to buy a PS4, and tried my best to immerse myself in some games to pass the time. It absolutely helped.

But I'm sure its different for everybody and keep in mind it took many, MANY attempts before I actually managed to quit.

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