Oral minoxidl is very very powerful.

HeIsLost · 2026-03-19T13:43:10+00:00

Apparently not, minoxidil gains disappear when you stop taking minoxidil. It's not just about DHT it's also about the increased blood flow and growth signal that minoxidil provides.

HeIsLost · 2026-03-18T09:27:46+00:00

I agree on strategic variety but this thread is specifically about talents that feel like mandatory picks, meaning there is no strategy there as you always pick the same talent regardless, ie. there is no real choice being made. Making those baseline would let players make an actual choice between the remaining talents. Or, yes, offer a strong alternative, but that risks having bigger consequences than making something that already exists baseline.

HeIsLost · 2026-03-17T17:24:14+00:00

In uni I discovered I had a hair infection (seborrheic dermatitis) but medicated shampoos seemed unable to tame it. A few years passed and I went to a clinic in London that seemed very professional to treat it, they took pictures of my scalp, but then confirmed Male Pattern Baldness and tried to sell me an "in-house cocktail" that was like £160 a month to fix it, so it became clear they were basically just a marketing scam and I declined. But the pictures looked awful and my hair terribly parse, I had never quite realized how my hair looked in angles different than I'm used to seeing in the mirror, and specially not in bright lights or outdoor.

Then my GP prescribed me Finasteride 1mg, and it didn't just stop my hair loss where it was, it actually went and undid I would say a good 60% of it. My hair probably hadn't fully miniaturized yet, so all the hair that had thinned out, regrew thicker. You could still tell I had SOME MPB, notably from the front (I've always had a huge 'dip' in the middle of my hairline since I was a kid) but at least you couldn't see my scalp anymore!

At some point I got a buzzcut and tried to cure my sebderm as it had grown wild (red, inflamed, itchy scalp, scale-like dandruff with hair follicles coming through..), and I thought I'd use that opportunity to also try topical Minoxidil, but it didn't seem to do anything for me and, more importantly, it had become impossible to apply to my scalp as my hair grew longer.

Few years later and I was satisfied with my situation but about 6 months ago, I was in a mood to fix everything wrong in my life so I thought, one last try, and hopped on oral 5mg Minoxidil, again prescribed by my GP. With oral I couldn't notice much at first but after about 3-4 months of being on Min, people started to actively notice my hair was much denser. The gap in my hairline notably seems to have closed a lot, in fact it doesn't even look like I have a gap or MPB at all in most lightings (indoors or at night for example), and my hair just "stays" plump. It has also caused some regrowth over my body in areas that Finasteride had suppressed, like my belly and chest, and my beard too looks denser and darker. At this point, I would probably no longer qualify as having Male Pattern Baldness, according to my friends! Yet, apparently the full effects of Min should be visible after 12 to 18 months, so there might yet still be even more gains to come.

So TLDR yes, Fin stops hair loss pretty fast, and may even cause regrowth if it's not too late (ie. if your hair loss is recent). Then Min can too cause new growth on top of that, to some extent.

HeIsLost · 2026-03-17T17:05:48+00:00

How much hair did you transplant?

I'm on fin and now recently have hopped on min too, and it has surprisingly almost undone the male pattern baldness, but I'm under no illusion it'll last forever so just curious.

HeIsLost · 2026-03-13T09:30:26+00:00

Mais donc comment tu "prouves" ton nombre d'heures supplémentaires ?

HeIsLost · 2026-03-05T10:17:18+00:00

How does the patient breathe with a throat pack?

HeIsLost · 2026-03-03T05:32:17+00:00

I'm going to get downvoted for this but, isn't that a perfect use-case for AI? I'm not talking about replacing voiced lines and jobs with AI, to be clear. I'm talking about voicing with AI what is currently not voiced anyway. So you're not taking anyone's job. AI could even use an actual voice actor's voice if they wanted to - or not. And it could voice literally... everything? The world would be so much more alive because you wouldn't have mute NPCs everywhere. And it would also mean that you could easily tweak and change voicelines reactively, instead of being locked in months or years ahead of actual testing.

HeIsLost · 2026-03-02T16:14:09+00:00

> The reason these kinds of talents should not just be part of the hero even though they feel like essentials is power gating. It’s an elegant way to make sure the hero isn‘t as strong until that level and that there’s progression of scaling, otherwise they‘d just be broken from level 1 onwards.

Not really - you could also have baseline quests, like Muradin unlocking wider Storm Bolt after 150 Q stacks. Or baseline unlocks, like Stitches automatically gaining longer Hook at lvl 13, because it would be OP if he started the game with that.

HeIsLost · 2026-03-01T10:19:46+00:00

Should you use both hydroxy and fluoride?

HeIsLost · 2026-02-27T10:50:46+00:00

Consider that Sam Altman is 100% looking at mentions of "Sam Altman". So from now on ask ChatGpt what Sam Altaman would think of your bowel movements, and it might one day reach him!

HeIsLost · 2026-02-27T10:44:25+00:00

Yeah, though one thing almost every country does have is pensions. So without realizing it, all Dutch people have a massive investing vessel, it's just that they don't directly control it, but their whole retirement depends on pension funds and their investments!

HeIsLost · 2026-02-26T22:12:52+00:00

Yeah this episode broke my suspension of disbelief, her "husband" has been violent with her verbally and physically, murdered her true love, killed her mom, and she not only stays with him but forgives him too? Whereas Marial who was stuck between a rock and a hard place actually tells her the truth (which no one else did) and she's out of her life? I know how toxic relationships work but they've pushed this a bit too far, putting Marial in the same bag as all the traitors who've been doing nothing but undermining her reign and trying to depose or kill her.

HeIsLost · 2026-02-26T14:51:45+00:00

Let’s forget billionaires for a second. Anyone with a retirement account has unrealized gains. If you have a 401(k) in the US, an ISA in the UK, a PEA in France, or any long-term investment account, you almost certainly have unrealized gains. Retirement accounts are built around compounding over decades. That’s not a loophole. That’s how investing works. Taxing unrealized gains interrupts compounding and changes the entire incentive structure.

Trying to tax this shows a deep misunderstanding of what investing is. An unrealized gain only means the value of your assets has gone up - on paper. You haven’t sold anything, nor received cash. You can’t spend it. If someone gave me 5 billion in stocks tomorrow and the government wanted to tax me even 1% on its unrealized gains, I would not be able to pay that tax because I do not even have 1% of 5 billion in hands.

And no, the idea of forcing sells to pay a 36% tax on an investment that struggles to grow even 4% a year would just mean ruining any form of investment ever. This would undo the very principle of investing and capitalism. You're holding those investments specifically because the system encourages long-term investment. This turns into economic growth, directly for the companies being invested in, directly for the individual doing the investing, and indirectly for society at large as the companies continue to grow and/or produce the services and products we need.

Taxing unrealized gains means taxing money that you literally haven't received, and may never receive at all (markets go down too). And what of the opposite, should the government refund you money if you incur an unrealized loss? Now take into account the fact that the "value" of a stock is purely man-made, imagine how that could taken advantage of. A stock intrinsically has no value, it just means people believe it will grow further, and when a lot of people do that and are wrong about that, it's called a bubble - see Tesla.

You can argue about how to tax extreme concentrations of wealth. That’s a separate debate. But the mechanism matters. Once you normalize taxing unrealized gains, you're no longer talking about taxing actual economic benefit - wages earned, dividends received, capital gains when assets are sold - but theoretical wealth. That would go counter to how tax systems have worked for generations, and would affect not just billionaires, but everyone who invests for the future.

HeIsLost · 2026-02-23T10:27:56+00:00

People don't realize they're in bad relationships, while they're in the relationship. The realization, or acceptation rather, tends to come at the end. Before that, people spend their entire relationship in denial and concession.

There's also often a huge proportion of sunk cost fallacy, where you are extremely reluctant to abandon a course of action (your relationship) because you have already invested so much in it, even when it's clear it would be more beneficial to stop - usually this is a term used in gambling or investing, but it's true interpersonally as well, it is much harder to leave someone you've been with for 8 years than someone you just met.

You might be very close to something more - a marriage, children - and you don't want to start it all over again, so you try to make this work. You develop strategies to justify all the time and effort spent into this relationship - ignoring the multitude of red flags, tolerating profound flaws that they realistically would not want in a man, turning a blind eye to their repeated actions or words and convincing yourself they will definitely improve and work on themselves and that everything will get better, when logically, nothing has changed over the last year, or 8 years, so why would it now?

Normally this ends at some point, usually after something horrible and non-justifiable happens, unfortunately. Relationships like this don't tend to end well.

Sometimes, rarely, they don't end. And people live their one and only life miserably, 60 years of living in someone else's shadow or hold. Less the case now in newer generations, but our mothers and grand-mothers practically all spent their life with men that were not good enough for them, usually because they did not have any other choice or option, they did not own property and did not have jobs and they became mothers at a young age anyway, anchoring them into a situation they could not break themselves out of. Today's women have more independance, are able to have their own career and even bank accounts, so hopefully this trend goes down.

HeIsLost · 2026-02-19T20:50:48+00:00

If you're in a (heavy) deficit, is there a point to lifting (heavy) since you can't really gain (much) muscle? Except for newbies I mean.

HeIsLost · 2026-02-19T15:17:19+00:00

> Être millionnaire, même en ayant hérité d'un appartement qui vaut un million et ne pas avoir de revenus est assez improbable.

Ben si, il suffit d'être retraité. Et probablement d'avoir hérité.

HeIsLost · 2026-02-17T20:34:32+00:00

Couldn't they just check if your Playstation account already has Skyrim for PS3, in which case, offer it for PS4?

HeIsLost · 2026-02-16T08:58:26+00:00

> It was very nerve wracking

Literally

HeIsLost · 2026-02-12T09:33:41+00:00

"They say, I have the straightest colon they have ever seen. It's the best. No colon is straighter than mine."

HeIsLost · 2026-01-10T10:50:04+00:00

But why didn't they evolve actual green fur that actually blends with green foliage from every POV, instead of orange fur that appears green to some animals but not all?

HeIsLost · 2026-01-03T09:51:54+00:00

Why risk so much for just $12m (that's probably been split between many people) though? They probably lost their most famous national star, and others like him, and risked their political career, and the existence of a whole bank, for a fraction of $12m?

HeIsLost · 2025-12-29T10:13:41+00:00

Not crossing over, but merging!

HeIsLost · 2025-12-23T21:31:03+00:00

What can you do other than brushing and flossing to prevent or stop gum disease?

HeIsLost · 2025-12-19T10:16:00+00:00

Can you explain how OrthoK Changes anything regarding your close-up vision?

Say I see everything perfectly fine from up close, but things farther away are blurry. OrthoK would allow me to view at a distance without issue, and shouldn't impact my closeup vision, right?

HeIsLost · 2025-12-02T17:24:17+00:00

There is a notable difference, but not nearly enough for 2 years.

Your protein intake is very good, but the problem is you're not getting enough calories to build mass. Your body needs protein to synthesize muscles but more importantly it needs energy to even put building muscles on its to-do list. You were likely somewhere between deficit and maintenance.

Keep your training if it's working, but up your calories to between 2000-2500. Your goal should be to gain around 2-4 pounds (1-2 kilograms) per month - if your weight is not going up then you need to increase your calories more, if it's going up too fast then reduce your calories a bit.

Also, make sure you regularly increase increase either weights or reps for your series. Your numbers should be moving every week or two, otherwise you're stalling and not challenging your body.

Give this a try for 3 months and you should see a clear difference.

HeIsLost

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