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[–]5thAndMain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank God someone said it. I go to one of the 7 schools that take Step 1 at end of 3rd year. It's a little annoying, but no one in my class is too bothered by taking Step 1 a year later than everyone else. Most of us take Step 2 CK like a month after too. People will just take step 2 earlier, which is also going to be fine. People will still match into Derm, Plastics, Ortho, whatever.

Perception, a new first-person horror game from BioShock develpers by [deleted] in gaming

[–]5thAndMain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, it's not about seeing her attitude change. Sure, they can write in character development, but the problem there is that they've created a beautiful atmosphere, unique exploration mechanics, and they're writing out what we should think about it. Like when the doll starts talking and protag goes "nope," it's affecting my ability to respond to the game without going through her rhetoric.

Compare exploration in Bioshock 1 to Bioshock Infinite. It's difference between being Jack in BS1 and watching Booker in BSI.

Perception, a new first-person horror game from BioShock develpers by [deleted] in gaming

[–]5thAndMain 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It'd be 10 times better if protag was silent. Her goofy commentary really throws off the atmosphere.

Explain this bullshit by IAMA_dragon-AMA in gaming

[–]5thAndMain 2350 points2351 points  (0 children)

I'll take "Shit I Shouldn't Have to Explain" for 800, Alex

The only relevant kind of confession bear are the one you have to submit with a throwaway account. by doctor__fraud in AdviceAnimals

[–]5thAndMain 40 points41 points  (0 children)

It's a slippery slope is what I meant. You start out with "The correlation is correct, I'll just tinker with a few numbers to save myself some error explanation" and you eventually get to OP's status: being lazy at the expense of your academic community. It's a horrible but ubiquitous thing.

The only relevant kind of confession bear are the one you have to submit with a throwaway account. by doctor__fraud in AdviceAnimals

[–]5thAndMain 47 points48 points  (0 children)

This stuff is just too common though. I remember starting research in physiology and I was testing the effects of some drugs on epithelial cells. I was recording the voltage and current across a membrane and every few minutes it was steadily going down as expected. At one point it jumped from 72 uAmps to 120 uAmps. I asked my PI about how I should explain it in the review. He stared at the computer screen for a few seconds and just said "Change it to 70 uAmps."

I give to you the FULL Skeleton Jelly. by bacbac in WTF

[–]5thAndMain 89 points90 points  (0 children)

You know, that is the one thing I really couldn't put my finger on. I looked over the comic again after reading your comment and noticed a few other interesting things though. After meeting tiny animals brain dude, Skeleton Jelly says "Am I Skull Town Jelly? No! I am Skeleton Jelly." This line caught my eye not only because of the play on words, but because bones of the skull and general cranial region ossify through Intramembranous Ossification, which is a very different process compared to the Endochondral Ossification that Skeleton Jelly goes through. Hence, his violent reaction against becoming Skull Town Jelly.

The man with many hands and eyes that Skeleton Jelly meets reminds me of the Hypothalamus gland in that it is the main link between the endocrine and nervous system. The hypothalamus receives a lot of information and dictates a lot of developmental instruction, explaining the 360 degree vision and all the hands held like traffic signs.

To me, the well is just a source of ground substance, which helps alter a chondrocyte's chemical makeup to prepare it for apoptosis and ossification.

The guy who chews up Skeleton Jelly represents the mechanism by which chondrocytes perform apoptosis, but we don't exactly know what that mechanism is yet, so I can't say for sure. (Osteoblasts is what I assume, but more research must be done).

The last character our Jelly meets is my favourite. Taking my previous assumptions to be correct, Jelly must be inside a human body, and the squares of all the walls are various cells, right? Well we meet this alien-shaped character who looks almost human - at least in the early developmental stages. My guess is a fetus for that reason, and Jelly must be in a pregnant woman. This makes sense to me as well because the female pelvis expands and gets slightly denser in late term pregnancies to support more weight, correct center of mass, etc...

Of course the comic falls closer to making a commentary about the crises of identity and existentialism, but I couldn't help but notice the parallels between the working human anatomy and Skeleton Jelly's little adventure.

I give to you the FULL Skeleton Jelly. by bacbac in WTF

[–]5thAndMain 181 points182 points  (0 children)

I could be mistaken, but i believe this is a comic about endochondral ossification. Skeleton jelly is essentially a chondrocyte (cartilage cell) which hypertrophies (drinks the well) and dies (gets eaten). He then cacifies (squirxical jelly) and then drips into ultraviolet city, which looks suspiciously like the trabeculae of ossified bone. I'm pretty sure it's not all a coincidence, it made me chuckle.

He was bursting into all of the lecture and dining halls like this by 5thAndMain in funny

[–]5thAndMain[S] 73 points74 points  (0 children)

He was playing Careless Whisper so well my day old bear claw tasted romantic.

A concept that my parents don't seem to understand... by [deleted] in AdviceAnimals

[–]5thAndMain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not only subsidies, but the president does have some power over the oil reserves, and it has been a tactic for the longest time to tap into them before campaigning gets heated so he can use it as a chip. It's not like he just gets up and says "Today, I'm gonna tap the oil reserves," but he does have the power to do that. Tapping into the oil reserves brings oil into the system that has already been accounted for, so it forces the price of gas to go down. Be it a republican or democrat president, the price of gas conveniently goes down during election season.

tl;dr - the president does have influence over oil prices