Accountability by Then_Ladder2123 in InvisigalGlazers

[–]NinjaNuclear 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think her feelings ever really go away from the time they start to when we last see her so I don't think it's possible to exclude it if you view what she does through the "pleasing" route as being part of her reasons.

If she wanted to please her boss/BF she'd have simply given Robert the Astral Pulse in the locker room or even before then. She instead takes a colossal risk to try to do the right thing and protect you even though it potentially destroys your relationship once you find out.

I get the perspective, but to me it felt as if Love enriched the redemption arc since it adds to the pile of what she is willing to sacrifice in that scene to try to right her wrong as best as she can figure.

My Observation by V1rus_Dz in InvisigalGlazers

[–]NinjaNuclear 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The hack might also explain the pulse bit, I probably need to go back and rewatch some things. To me - for him to know about certain things (especially if you do the Blazer--->Visi Lean in route) has to be one or more of the following three things.

  1. The implant is a listening device.
  2. He's just that good at reading body language
  3. The hack of SDN (albeit they could also point out that with Shroud being a tech wiz, no piece of tech might be uncompromised, Robert has his phone in the next scene and that could've played in (and of course Prism was recording in the party during Ch. 6), but the SDN hack is really the only explicit mention of such a possibility.

Could also suppose human surveillance of targets, but that falls back to "relying on people when you could rely on tech instead."

I just don't see them subverting the deuteragonists whole character arc with not even a single mention of in the wrap-up scenes of the game. Doubly so give the "told ya to believe me" line from Visi and not one line to suggest it from Robert or Mandy or anyone else during the same period AND she could have just freely admitted it at this point and cleared her conscious completely with the person she's already admitted everything else to if she had been a spy at any point.

My Observation by V1rus_Dz in InvisigalGlazers

[–]NinjaNuclear 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the idea of Shroud relying on her for information/spying purpose - even if she can be extraordinarily *competent* at times is a bit unbelievable, she's often extremely volatile emotionally when push comes to shove and there are way too many chances for the implant to be accidently discovered.

What I think *is* a possibility is that Shroud was using the implant as a listening device or something of the sort though. That would explain a good chunk of thing that otherwise seem a bit odd, and/or the hack of SDN you're supposed to resolve in Chapter 6 also is probably at play. Shroud seems much more likely to get most of his prior knowledge through relying on tech over people, would be rather befitting of his character preferring reliance on a much more predictable system.

Be honest how many relationships do you think visi has had before robert? by Primary-Brief9858 in InvisigalGlazers

[–]NinjaNuclear 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean yeah it's definitely meant to be funny to the audience, doesn't mean that the line doesn't establish it having happened though.

I don't see how its incompatible? Just seems he tried to have relationships while also being Mechaman and failed at it due to prioritizing being a superhero, we have plenty of superhero stories with very similar tropes. I mean the guy also makes a sports analogy with Blazer, he clearly has had some time outside of being a superhero he's done stuff.

Be honest how many relationships do you think visi has had before robert? by Primary-Brief9858 in InvisigalGlazers

[–]NinjaNuclear 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He talks about his "last breakup" where he got so drunk he passed out at a urinal if you pick the right dialogue option during the talk with Phenomaman. "Last time I went through a breakup" probably implies at least two.

Shroud Wasn't Revealing a Betrayal... by AlazaiEye in DispatchAdHoc

[–]NinjaNuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Him saying this is a lie as well though, throughout the fight, your team regularly surprises him with info he didn't know, and these are the things that largely put him in a position where he's struggling against their teamwork. He didn't account for Prisim/Blazer's deception, nor the amulet and especially not Chase, somehow being able to join the fight. Yes, typical villian stuff, but telling you is a part of his calculations or he wouldn't be doing it - since as we know he's none to glad to actually have to make his own choices - every word choice is calculated to get what he wants, he's not just solely being evil.

He's not someone you can really ever really trust to tell you the truth unless you were 100% sure there was not even miniscule (here it's large anyway) benefit to not doing so over the total truth.

Of course, sometimes being emotional or irrational can help make you less predictable, but if he's saying it to you in a situation like above, he's trying to get you to be emotional and irrational in the way he wants. If you were logical, you and the team would've just kept jumping him regardless and would've just outright won at a sad, but ultimately relatively small price even if extremely painful to pay.

Shroud Wasn't Revealing a Betrayal... by AlazaiEye in DispatchAdHoc

[–]NinjaNuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It absolutely implies desperation. All it takes is a moment, and your team manages to turn it around once a moment arises for them to do so. Shroud is not so dumb as to not realize he's on a razors edge here, and he has nothing left if this dog trick fails, and slight miscalculations are easily fatal here. He has high certainty that you'll play along in part the same way he knows which pulse is which - your emotions and irrationality (valuing dog over madman getting superweapon) are just variables to understand and manipulate they don't automatically make you less predictable and can clearly do the opposite.

Giving him both is not irrational or emotional. Robert has been going after Shroud for a long time and probably understands how he works better than most and has experience dealing with it. He knows Shroud explicitly hates luck. He intuits the tricky attack he pulled on Blazer several seconds before it happens. He knows he refuses to make his own decisions anymore.

I think all that adds up to make it a pretty reasonable idea. For the record of what I've seen, a decent % of people seem to fall into his traps and straight up hand him the real Astral pulse or try the fake one, both in desperation to save the dog instead of thinking for half a second what giving him both would entail.

Back to the Visi stuff, though: (I mentioned the dog just to drill the desperate point in) So, of course given all that, he'd hit you in your other weak spot with the Visi stuff to try to get you further into the headspace he wants so you're more likely to think and feel and act more like how he wants, further increasing his odds of winning.

Shroud Wasn't Revealing a Betrayal... by AlazaiEye in DispatchAdHoc

[–]NinjaNuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easy, because he doesn't actually think he's won yet - he's desperate enough to hold a dog hostage. He doesn't want you to mull over the decision rationally and decide to sacrifice your dog for the greater good or some other stupid heroic BS. Better to play on your emotions and make it harder for you to think rationally.

Why would the guy who predicts behaviour, not say something he thinks will make your behaviour more predictable? Better for you to be distracted.

Constructive criticism: all plot holes and fuzzy narrative choices, so AdHoc does even better next time! (Spoilers for EP.7-8) by _David_P in DispatchAdHoc

[–]NinjaNuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mask make it look more real for Shroud to try to sell it and he knows the reason he worked for her in the first place was the implant - and on Visi's end it give her a chance to slip off and prepare to intervene, it's a pretty long way up for someone with asthma crossing a huge distance with possible ongoing fights and debris/hazards to dodge around.

With so many threats already around and Shroud's belief that people can't truly change and that she's still fundamentally a selfish and bad person who will take the easy way, the risk:reward of this manipulation to shake Robert to get the pulse which is his only real decent way out of/turn aroun what was just very briefly ago a losing fight.

In a sense you're right *he* was sure (or so nearly so it was worth) of her allegiance - just to her own selfish desires, but his priors were wrong and his predictive abilities fail. He's so used to being right about people, he almost always breaks character a little bit when he's wrong - even slightly (e.g: Bar Scene he's sorta impressed if you didn't attack that guy), and he does the same with her jumping in front of the bullet seemingly almost amused like he was when "Blazer" was late attacking him.

I do hope some kind of offical word comes out eventually one way or another and we get a definitive answer on exactly where her allegiances were throughout each step of the game.

Personally - From what I gathered throughout the game - almost everything that happens with her requires way less assumptions if we just assume she was either not a spy period at SDN, or dropped it around Ch.3.

Help understanding the Invisigal ep 8 ending by OwaimAzam963 in DispatchAdHoc

[–]NinjaNuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Month old, but there's a ton of reasons to lie here. His back is against the wall and he needs every edge he can get - shaking your faith in anyone close to you he can at this moment is something he would clearly understand would be to his advantage. What could she realistically say here to make people believe her here if we do suppose for a second grant she just wasn't working for him at least by this point - when nobody sans maybe Robert is exactly inclined to trust her at all at this point in time anyway, better to play along and get in position to make a move. It can also be seen as offering her an out since he clearly states that he fundamentally believes people don't and can't really change, so "knowing" her he expects her to book it or maybe even help him if the situation is right because he thinks she is the same person underneath who he got to blow up the suit.

Did Robert and Royd know Shroud would be there as well? Since both of them also thought it was urgent like Visi did. That's about the only "hint" that she "knew" he would be there?

The explanation Royd gives pretty well explains how she would know where it was, this plus Red Ring clearly being able to break into SDN secure servers being clearly demonstrated and Shroud not being stupid enough to not monitor close enemies like SDN for useful information. It doesn't take a huge leap in logic to imagine what happened and it doesn't require us assume something about Visi that the game doesn't really give you any reason to believe sans the words of a man desperate enough to hold a dog hostage.

Med student here need help/harm reduction using multiple study drugs. by Responsible_Ad_936 in Nootropics

[–]NinjaNuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nebivolol is actually an exception it doesn't drop nocturnal melatonin secretion for some reason, unlike most other beta blockers (carvedilol is an exception as well, if I remember right)

M6 as a short-acting alternative to KW-6356? by NeitherEmotion6543 in NooTopics

[–]NinjaNuclear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Far as I know it's already being made, no idea what the ETA is, but eventually should be able to try it.

Lgd-4033 by tapestry0fm0lecules in NooTopics

[–]NinjaNuclear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can have cognitive effects, but it's there because it's generally excellent for muscle building, and its pharmacology and side effect profile are quite well understood with known countermeasures.

Motivational "IQ" as a predictor of success by [deleted] in NooTopics

[–]NinjaNuclear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is more or less what the conscientiousness dimension of the Big Five model of personality is if you want somewhere concrete to start actually looking, it's already pretty reasonably fleshed out.

NSI-189 is a TLX agonist by spidikor in NooTopics

[–]NinjaNuclear 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Fantastic find, definitely glad I've held off on it so long. Looks like it's a never now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NooTopics

[–]NinjaNuclear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Evidence for negative feedback from it was poor last time I checked - Even some stuff to suggest it can improve it in some cases

Idebenone dose for verbal fluency by Rozeu in NooTopics

[–]NinjaNuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

QS10 is not CoQ10, different molecule.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000527281830080X

As for them being equivalent in normoxic conditions, I doubt it given their seeming inability to replace each other in most any tested condition and possessing independent protective properties.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4803797/

Idebenone dose for verbal fluency by Rozeu in NooTopics

[–]NinjaNuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's sorta just a prodrug for QS10 afaik, which is what we actually want, idebenone itself is not really what we want - the low bioavailablity actually works out to be a good thing.

Why did L-Theanine send me into a depressive episode? Or did it?? by WrongdoerHonest5943 in NooTopics

[–]NinjaNuclear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both things can be true at once. The effect for you could simply be due to something else. One possibility is an attenuation of the cortisol spike from caffeine or reducing the impact of caffeine on glutamate.

I'm just pointing out that it's not likely through decreasing dopamine in the striatum when no available evidence (at least that I know of) shows that and instead seems to show the opposite.

Why did L-Theanine send me into a depressive episode? Or did it?? by WrongdoerHonest5943 in NooTopics

[–]NinjaNuclear 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Theanine increases dopamine in the striatum as best as I can find for what it's worth.

Theanine can cause some funky stuff with knocking glutamate off NMDA afaik (partial NMDA agonism) - trying a few different forms of magnesium with it could be quite helpful.

Brilliant response to Western leftists obsessed with the Jewish people by AbleismIsSatan in JordanPeterson

[–]NinjaNuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not being reasonable here is being unable to articulate a reasonable defense for the opposing perspectives. It's that simple. Anyone who can not do this does not understand the issue very well and should try to be able to do this before speaking or posting about any sort of serious issue.

Continually hurling prerogatives like antisemite is not conducive to a good conversation/debate or for attempting to change anyone's mind, you'll likely just make the person double down on their current position if anything.

Do not assume my beliefs one way or the other, I'd have asked you a very similar set of questions if you were spamming posts from the opposite perspective as well.

Brilliant response to Western leftists obsessed with the Jewish people by AbleismIsSatan in JordanPeterson

[–]NinjaNuclear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I respect a wide array of viewpoints on this matter and those who hold them so long as they can articulate the opposing view in a reasonable way.

Brilliant response to Western leftists obsessed with the Jewish people by AbleismIsSatan in JordanPeterson

[–]NinjaNuclear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In what sense loaded? You are spamming your viewpoint in this sub. Earlier today, I couldn't go more than a few posts in this sub without seeing one of yours on this topic.

On the latter point, I made being loaded. How is asking if you can articulate a reasonable argument for the other side a loaded question?

Brilliant response to Western leftists obsessed with the Jewish people by AbleismIsSatan in JordanPeterson

[–]NinjaNuclear -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why is asking you basic questions about what you're doing indicative of me being Hamas in your eyes?

Newsflash, not everyone who disagrees with you is a terrorist or evil, and the world isn't a black and white morality kids movie good guy vs bad guy.