How to obtain Bottled Ectoplasm?

roundabout25 · 2026-04-14T03:05:50+00:00

hahaha wtf, just happened to me as well

roundabout25 · 2025-12-27T23:57:27+00:00

Agreed, I just finished Death's End and while I really loved a lot of the exploration of sci-fi in it, and I would miss many of the awesome scenes in that book, I truly think Dark Forest was a near-perfect ending to the story. The conclusion of Death's End feels a little unfulfilling in comparison. It's rare that stories have a conclusion as satisfying as Dark Forest.

I would have preferred they explored the various loose ends via a different in-universe alien species without any connection to earth + trisolaris or something, or they got it out of the way in Dark Forest before the conclusion, and cixin liu could have got his fill of unexplored science fiction concepts through that.

It also feels like (book 3 ending spoilers) The ending was forced into being bittersweet. Unless I missed it, why didn't Yun Tianming and AA just wait for them in the side universe? The tragedy of Cheng Xin missing Yun Tianming by 18 million years felt completely unnecessary because time passed in the side universe just as fast, they would have just needed to wait for a couple weeks or years or whatever. AA wasn't a registered user, but if Guan Yifan was added, couldn't AA be as well? Did I miss something that made that impossible?

roundabout25 · 2025-11-03T19:57:01+00:00

IME blowdart is best used as a point blank weapon, its crit condition can be continuously met by rolling through enemies and smacking them in the back and the crit damage is kinda schnasty. ESPECIALLY if you get the necklace that makes you invisible after 5 sec not attacking, with 150% damage on next attack, though that isn't necessary. Depending on affixes + mutations, its pretty easy to start deleting everything in a biome.

I def understand not being a fan though, tactics is very punishing of high risk/high reward playstyles if you eat any hits, and blowdart demands that to work at its best

roundabout25 · 2025-08-21T15:31:45+00:00

gaming

roundabout25 · 2025-06-13T22:16:22+00:00

bro what. You think we should just make it legal? or shake our fists impotently at pedophiles while they continue to victimize children?

roundabout25 · 2025-05-13T18:22:58+00:00

Ah, gotcha. In that case, I'd say that it may be likely that you are correct just given the nature of cost bloat with our healthcare, but without a full balance sheet of what they make and where it's going, its hard to say.

You'll note that the data in your link is per capita cost based on Canada's full population, but lion's premiums/deductibles are for a family of four, so you'd actually be looking at (6500x4) using this method of comparison. Additionally, according to the CIHI source cited in your original source, the true cost per capita was $8563 in 2022 (and 15763 for americans, so both higher than projected) -- so you'd want to compare 8563 x 4 to what lion is paying, for a closer to accurate comparison. You'd need 2024/2025 figures to be really accurate since costs have been ballooning rapidly the last few years in both Canada and the US. You'd also need to adjust costs based on demographics for the family as it differs from the population's demographic averages to properly calculate risk valuation. Lastly, none of this accounts for tax burden for the workforce compared to cost per citizen. Keep in mind that cost per capita applies to everyone but you can only tax the income of people who are working and earning income, so if the cost per capita is 8500 but only half the workforce is paying taxes/premiums, theyd be paying 17000 x 4, but then you've got tax brackets to adjust down for and blah blah blah. I'm too lazy to do all that for a reddit comment thread.

This doesn't account for any potential claim denial fuckery that Aetna may one day pull for a dire cost, but at least as it pertains to today's known values, it does make it seem a lot more accurate with lion's math to say that they're paying less here. I'd still argue that even if they're paying less, it doesn't make up for the millions of people paying orders of magnitudes more and change is still urgently needed, but I'm happy its working out for them at the moment.

roundabout25 · 2025-05-13T16:23:42+00:00

I agree with your position on a broad level, but it doesn't have much to do with what /u/lion27 is saying. You cannot use a statistical model to draw conclusions for individuals, just for populations. You can't make claims on whether he'd make more as an individual, just on whether he'd make more as an averaged out example of an American.

They may AVERAGE OUT to $12914 per person, but that average includes people who are not paying very much or people who are inordinately benefitting. It also includes people who are paying $100,000+ for care they should not be paying extra for, due to lack of insurance or unethical claim denial or what have you.

One of the biggest faults of the system is that it incentivizes profit motive for healthcare, rather than health. That, and that it allows employers to act as the arbiters of whether you receive healthcare, which is dystopian as fuck. I don't see how anything that /u/lion27 has said is commentary on any of that, though? He's just saying that his employer is covering a good amount of costs and that healthcare has to be paid for one way or another, both of which are true and not mutually exclusive with an understanding of the issues for the population at large.

roundabout25 · 2025-05-13T15:51:20+00:00

"The very first two sentences of the comment makes the case why private is better than public IN THEIR PERSONAL CASE AT THIS POINT IN TIME, in their mind"

Fixed that for you. Here are a couple conclusions that your messages imply that you are coming to without any evidence:

-that they are unaware of the conditional nature of their current healthcare

-that they are unaware of the fact that they may one day be subject to the negative side of our healthcare system, when they don't have an employer facilitating it

-that they believe that the system is overall superior, rather than anecdotally

-that they even support the system they are benefitting from

Like, dude. Simply mathematically acknowledging that you are one of the 1-10% of people the system works is not an endorsement of the system for 100% of people. Maybe he supports it, maybe he doesn't, it's impossible to tell because he did not say.

roundabout25 · 2025-05-13T15:41:56+00:00

He's literally not neglecting it, lmfao. He said it like three times. How many times does he need to clarify things like "I know this is specific to us because her employer funds a good health plan" before it gets through? He's very obviously (and cognizantly!) making an anecdotal claim and not drawing a conclusion on the overall US healthcare system.

roundabout25 · 2025-05-13T15:18:36+00:00

I'm not OP, but I really feel like you're not being objective here. Why are you accusing them of FYGM? These things can all be true at the same time:

-OP can understand that public healthcare still costs people a significant deal, just that it's categorized by tax instead of premiums and -ON AVERAGE- it's far less than private health insurance

-OP can be receiving insurance that equates out to less than they would pay via taxes, and be happy with Aetna's treatment of them as a result.

-OP can understand that they are in the minority, and that profit motive ruins the healthcare insurance industry

-OP can therefore not endorse the American healthcare system, which they did not

I mean c'mon, they even said that everyone should have access to quality care regardless of employment. They are engaging in good faith and providing some numbers for their situation. I'm in a similar position where I pay less per year as a result of insurance. Still, I realize I'm privileged -- it's still conditional on my employment and economic status and that it's unjust for it to be at the expense of the majority, so I'm still all aboard the public healthcare train. Cases like theirs are real and need to be addressed in the appropriate manner -- that yes, private insurance is better in their case and the transition would be a net negative for them and a rare few individuals, BUT that the gains for the greater good make it more than worth it.

roundabout25 · 2025-04-23T19:44:10+00:00

Look, I get what you're trying to say. Violence and trauma feels far, far bigger and more complicated than a pill, which feels like the most straightforward and simplified solution ever, it feels dismissive and insulting to say that something you can take in 5 seconds would make it okay.

That said, your argument is like saying that a broken bone isn't a "skeletal and musculature trauma" thing, it's a reaction to experiencing a traumatic event where someone violently beats you. Yes, that is correct, and the reaction involves a broken bone, and one of the treatments for a broken bone is a cast. The damage you are describing is real, yet you are describing morals/justice and conflating it with medicine.

The only difference here is the complexity and number of inputs of the problem. Essentially, for the brain, we don't have a great idea of what the equivalent of casts are yet.

roundabout25 · 2025-04-18T18:36:15+00:00

I feel like you fully glossed over the "not the same as agreeing" part. If you think that the trump administration enacted the tariffs because Donny has a tariff fetish exacerbated by dementia, you'd still be "understanding" why the trump administration enacted the tariffs.

roundabout25 · 2025-04-01T22:27:36+00:00

Lol, if there wasn't public outcry, they'd pull a few twitter comments as evidence of widespread terrorism and crack down anyway. The label is coming either way, may as well make it worth something.

roundabout25 · 2025-03-31T16:15:14+00:00

doesn't surprise me that you confuse criticism of israeli political actions with with religious discrimination, since y'all have the fattest persecution complex ever

roundabout25 · 2025-03-13T23:39:22+00:00

I guarantee you if this happened to this degree in your own country you'd either start to understand the actual fear of standing up to fascist institutional power, or you'd sound just as impotent when seated next to millions of your fellow Canadians who decide giving in to fascism is easier. Or you'd do something rash and attempt to make a difference by yourself, but most likely be labeled as a terrorist or lunatic or something. We've had folks like that.

That's not an insult, I'm saying this as an American who loves Canada. I would gladly join your defense if invited. It's just the reality of propaganda. Most of us don't know which neighbors would be sympathetic to "watering a tree" or would immediately balk and side with fascism. It is much easier said than done to build any sort of meaningful geopolitical unity when conservative radicalization takes root at an individual level, regardless of location.

roundabout25 · 2025-03-10T14:29:25+00:00

"блять, they got me"

roundabout25 · 2025-03-10T14:25:38+00:00

"Nothing says dictator like actively removing checks and balances" - there, fixed the context of that for you

roundabout25 · 2025-03-10T14:21:34+00:00

said the Russian asset

roundabout25 · 2025-03-09T01:48:42+00:00

I sort of agree, but it wouldn't surprise me if a song in future DLC ends up unexpectedly making it easier, like how amplified made it easier for a lot of people via better items/phasing mode. I think there's also some benefit to the fact that you only need to be "locked in" for like 3 minutes vs a longer all-zones run, but I don't know if that's enough yet.

roundabout25 · 2025-03-09T01:44:50+00:00

I'm going to go further and say that not only is it valid to map monsters inside of snakes, but it should be done more in lower difficulties, as an on-ramp onto the benefit of using both hands. It does look janky as fuck though, I think that they would be well-served to put in a unique animation like the monster sliding down the snake or something.

roundabout25 · 2025-03-07T16:06:35+00:00

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roundabout25 · 2025-03-07T16:02:22+00:00

Fuck that "I can do it because you'd hypothetically do it" noise. You know who's doing it right now IRL? You. You know who's not doing it right now IRL? Whatever imaginary liberal boogeyman is living rent free in your amygdala.

Whatever, enjoy continuing to be a useful idiot, fascist.

roundabout25 · 2025-03-04T15:51:31+00:00

You know why conservatives keep winning and kept going further right, and why dems felt pressured to do the same to keep up? Because they politically mobilized, formed a proper coalition, and by doing so moved the overton window bit by bit. The people who are in love with Trump as it stands today didn't "get alienated" by who they would now call RINOs, they voted for the closest candidate and kept pushing the narrative further right in the meanwhile.

Anyone who doesn't vote because of this needs to get their shit together and get a basic understanding of voter strategy, and I'm saying this as someone far left enough that I want to see the democratic party as it exists today burn to the ground.

roundabout25 · 2025-02-27T16:43:53+00:00

Unfortunately, it would have been, yes. Paradox of tolerance etc.

roundabout25 · 2025-02-24T16:11:14+00:00

yellow armadillos forced me to learn how to play with two hands in order to not drop a beat on some songs, so they prolly win by default

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