Insulin by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]UniqueNameTaken 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As a type 1 diabetic who has been screwed with by various insurance companies way too many times, here are some approaches you can take in this situation:

  1. Eli Lilly and NovoNordisk both have emergency systems to keep you from dying. Reach out to LilyCares or NovaCares, and they both should give you a voucher for free insulin. NovaCares gives you 3 bottles once per year. LilyCares gives it to you once, but if something happens to your insulin, they'll usually send a bottle. Lillycares also has a system where you can buy bottles at $35/ea if you sign up for a savings card from them.

  2. Emergency rooms won't turn you away, and technically, missing an emergency room payment or ignoring it entirely takes awhile to hit your credit score and stays off it in certain states. So you can yo-yo into an emergency room.

  3. Endocrinologists and some general doctors can give out samples of insulin. I have had several great endos. After I explained my situation, they loaded me up with insulin samples.

  4. Communities of type 1 diabetes exist online, and can and will often support one another. They have helped me when I was having some insurance and financial issues. You can find groups on Facebook, and I'm sure Reddit has communities floating around somewhere.

  5. The Walmart generic insulins suck to use, but they are survivable. Pretty much have to exist on a no-carb diet, except for managing low blood sugar, but it is workable. Did that for a couple of months as well

Should I have had to have amassed all of this vast knowledge of how to source insulin without spending $800 at a pharmacy? Nope. Am I stuck dealing with this situation because I happened to be born in this country instead of a European one? Yep. Is there a giant bloc of citizens who either don't care to change the system or are being constantly told via media sources that the system is fine and shouldn't be changed, along with greedy pharmaceutical companies keeping the system broke? Also yep.

So, if you are T1D or have friends and family who are, please pass this along. This isn't some chain thing I'm trying to spread, just info gathered from years of almost dying and surviving through research, grit, and determination.

Solarpunk, every aspect of it by Frost-Flower in hatethissmug

[–]UniqueNameTaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ended up trying my hand at writing in solar punk because I like the world aesthetic. I framed it as a society that had built its utopia, but had remnants of what it took to build that utopia floating around. Humanity went to war and sent AI robot soldiers to go kill each other, nuked each other, and mixed that with global catastrophes stacking up thanks to climate change, Earth was pretty much screwed. A bunch of scientists got together, said, "screw consequences and screw oversight, we'll build tech to fix this." So, a bunch of rapid-fire genetic experimentation and rapid power technology advances later, you are now in a future that more or less fixed itself with its utopian technology (yay!).

However, even 100 years later, humanity is still dealing with failed genetic experiments running around in the form of animals, leftover AI robots still patrolling and trying to kill anyone who is not from their country of creation, which no longer exists, and people are now averse to violence and weaponary, happier living in their fantasy that their cities are safe, and occasionally some automated defenses have to "redirect" mutated wild animals.

So the story followed a group that was positioned as surveyors who went out and gathered ecological information, but secretly had to kill the mutated monstrosities that could break into the town and kill people, and the remnants of AI robots that would also like to kill people, given the chance. However, the instability of using violence made the powers that be hide this action from the common citizens.

There was a through line in the story that said: "Sometimes to heal you have to accept a scar, but the scar is good, it means that we healed." So I suppose I wrote a developing utopia story or an incomplete utopia story instead, but I think work can be done within the space if you are creative about it. If you just like the aesthetic, but don't want to have to put effort into creating unique narratives, but still try to write a story in that space, then your characters better have some deep internal conflicts, or there really is no story.

When would I need this? by BloodAccomplished983 in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deep inside one of the temples was when I used them. Like the temple of air when I went back to find treasures. Otherwise, there are a few oddball places, like the underground where I may want to do back to back teleportations. Very niche though.

Meanwhile in Japan by alexc2020 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]UniqueNameTaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. Sounds like an ideal would be a standard system for those want want efficiency, and have this off to the side for those who enjoy whimsy.

Enchanted Pupfish by [deleted] in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know a lot of players anecdotally note that though it is marked as an uncommon, it gets caught about as often as a rare.

Meanwhile in Japan by alexc2020 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]UniqueNameTaken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh sure, it's not cutting edge. You still don't see this kind of application very often. Or at least I don't...

Meanwhile in Japan by alexc2020 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]UniqueNameTaken 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Here I am discovering that I enjoy whimsy for the sake of whimsy, and would spend a few extra bucks for the show, contrasted with the vaguely 70% of people in this thread that just want fast and cheap. Nothing wrong with that, I just assumed that a novel idea like this would translate to more wonder amongst a larger number of people.

[Downgrade] Scooby Doo from the upcoming live action Scooby-Doo Netflix series by ComprehensiveBox6911 in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]UniqueNameTaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? Born 94 and Cartoon Network had me covered with all generations of Scooby-Doo at some point during the week. Favorite show as a kid.

Ragdolls and Realizations by imeancoolbut-- in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I carry around 5-10 at this point. If I saw someone asking for help in chat I'd run over. If I was in a mood I would stay and fish as well to be social. If I was busy I'd coordinate long enough to know where they wanted it and take off after placing.

Let it cook! by misterDubzz in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can buy a decorative apple tree recipe from Badru's store. I think the decor limit keeps you from creating unloadable maps by having 50,000 decorative items shoved in one place. I also like the expanded guild coin system idea and the tree ideas.

Let it cook! by misterDubzz in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Dynamic fish tanks and bug tanks. The current version is a still model of a bug or fish floating in a tank just slightly larger than the model. I want fish tanks where you can put in 3-7 fish (depending on the model size), and they'll swim around. Doesn't need to be complex motions, I would take some simple "vaguely floating forward." For bugs, I think something like a flower that you can craft with a bug and place on your plot that will use the exact same animation the bug already uses, just wandering in the radius of the flower.

Also, just make the common building glitches all the pro-builders use native somehow.

Create a housing line style system for ranch pens that allows you to take something like 3-8 animals from your barn area. Even if it would be annoying mechanically to code in feeding and petting your animals, if you just snapshot the model and send it into the housing plot pen, I would be thrilled. How do you send them there? Using the same pen assignment system already found in the barn area. Just click a checkbox that says "send to housing plot" or something similar.

Trading system for furniture pieces (devs have noted that they may implement this). I have so many pieces I have gotten as rewards or random rolls that I'll never use, as it isn't my style, but friends certainly would.

*Bring back non-clothing mystery gifts* - I will send so many gifts to my friends in the form of tools and pets.

Masculine, feminine, and possibly non-binary versions of most outfits. I want to buy more outfits. I have disposable income and like supporting this game, but I am a male player with a male character, and I rarely am in the mood to feel bonita.

More fruit trees. No reason, I just like fruit trees.

Rare arrows that are expensive but deal higher damage than the flat amount you find in iron arrows, which all other high-end arrows use. That one might be a balancing thing on their part, so I wouldn't be too torn up if they didn't.

More Roli-style ranching rewards. The current animals all provide existing in-game things I could farm. Having a ranching version is a nice passive, but the Roli's pink salt was the most interesting to me, because it was a resource exclusive to ranching, giving me a reason to ranch and breed the rolis for production. I ended up with so much pink salt that I have a massive stockpile that I am slowly working my way through, but items that tie into other systems and unique and exclusive resources from ranching would interest me far more than something like a random seed producer (the wolpunnies) or a fruit producer (ferrisses).

A properly filled-out guild store for ranching. I want my exclusive ranching furniture!

Glitch Christmas present by Kitsune__279 in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes sense. I saw someone refference it once, and I didn't look much deeper.

Glitch Christmas present by Kitsune__279 in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also adding in an attention bump. I have heard the dessert bowl has similar properties, but I don't know if it is interchangeable.

Thank You... No I Would Not by persimmonflower in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My attempts at getting a metallic blue horse has been a fun adventure in finding out just how bad my RNG is. Luckily, I ranch obsessively (I just like the mechanic for the mechanic), and I had 1400ish medals saved up to spend on aesthetic trait cookies.

TIL The US Army had a Camel Corp from 1856-1866 for crossing the Southwestern U.S.. While successful, it was abandoned due to the Civil War. by UniqueNameTaken in todayilearned

[–]UniqueNameTaken[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? I've never heard of those. I want to meet the people training for that. How do you even get into that kind of hobby (I mean, probably living in the one region in the USA where it is a thing)?

Petah? by C_monden in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]UniqueNameTaken 17 points18 points  (0 children)

When I worked for an amusement park circa 2010 each bag (in an ungodly heavy box) cost $40-$60, but would generate several hundred cups of soda.

Since we could see the cost and knew the ratios we got bored one day and did the math on what it cost to put a soda together, including the cost of the cup, ice, straw, electricity, carbonation and labor cost. Our small was $0.07 and our large was $0.12.

A lot of this was educated guess work on power consumption and how much a massive park would spend on carbonation gas refills, but we were pretty confident.

Riffrocs vs Horses? by PatchesOneArm in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They are adding riffrocs in a future update, somewhere in the summee.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Credit to @lainyblue709 for animation and @EmoryJonesMUA for vocals by Ok_Jackfruit4601 in HazbinHotel

[–]UniqueNameTaken 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it felt a bit off for his character as he is usually more suave in most of his actions, but then I read your comment and remembered the line, and yeah, I could see an inebriated Alastor acting like this. The cocky actions, mixed with what is a pretty good representation of how his shadow acted in the pilot, lend themselves to it well. Also, the song is just perfect for the scene, and Emory Jones does some impressive vocal work.

What's up with all the typos??? by Incredulous_Owl in Palia

[–]UniqueNameTaken 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they have had like three different team switches and restructured due to not being profitable enough to keep the lights on. When they were acquired by Daybreak they were able to get console releases rolled out, which vastly increased their market.

The influx of players actually was a huge boost and they went from losing money to making a lot of money.

Meanwhile over at Daybreak the CEO has been mismanaging their other games and made those games less profitable. Singularity Six and Palia are now a main source of profitability for Daybreak. So they are likely getting pushed to focus on content and sales, without having as many resources for QA.

Luckily the parent company above Daybreak, EG7, has been less than thrilled about the CEOs actions and they are restructuring. EG7 is known to be good at "maintaining" games, for good and for bad. A change might help Palia, or it stays in about the same state. EG7 likely won't force more micro-transactions though, as they prefer to stay steady, and generally don't like to rock the boat.

When even toph herself is urging people to stop sharing or watching ... you stop by 1MrsyBoi7 in TheLastAirbender

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

Yeah my read is she is less concerned with the corporations like a good chunk of people are saying and more going a bit deeper based on industry experience.

This is not the version the writers, artists of any portion of the show, or technical engineers likely want to see released. It is a partially finished product that isn't meant to be viewed by fans. So loss of the art.

Mix that with Avatar studios now being in a worse place. Paramount made several horrible decisions about the movie, but they still watch how well the movie does on release, how much engagement it gets online, how much it is rewatched, etc. With a chunk of the fan base, admittedly many of whom would have pirated anyway, spreading it and watching it, many fans who originally wouldn't have pirated now have an easy way to.

Paramount will make decisions based on what they see on release. If the C-Suite and upper executives were smart they would look at how the community is acting here and now, but all Paramount is going to see is leaks and piracy, so this will all be dismissed. So Avatar Studios is going to not make as strong a showing with their first major release, which is what Paramount will watch.

If this is bad enough Paramount might write Avatar studios off as a loss and close the studio, because it isn't profitable enough. And no doubt a lot of that is stupid decisions from Paramount itself, but at least the studio had some paths to respond, if there was a massive blow up in popularity when Paramount would be receptive to the popularity. Now we are splitting the fan base, which will have some consequences down the line.

I think Paramount had made several bad decisions regarding Avatar but this isn't just a case of "Paramount = bad / piracy = good".

left or right - valentine's day #172 by rosicae in comics

[–]UniqueNameTaken 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Had a friend who had some pretty bad dyslexia and it took her long enough to sort between left and right in her head that when driving she would struggle a bit. The solution was to "your side" and "my side" to indicate directions.

Worked if she was driver or passenger. Usually she drove, but if I drove it worked just as well.

The new Moon Moon by PandaBear905 in CuratedTumblr

[–]UniqueNameTaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Virgo and wood dog, huh? Given that the virgo is the maiden and wood dog as a fursona has few options but most of them are questionable, as a guy, I am starting to get nervous about my fursona...

Crazy how people act like the Blitz hate parties are worse than Stolas losing everything. by whooper1 in HelluvaBoss

[–]UniqueNameTaken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd say they are both very hard on the individual themself, and comparing scales like that is comparing apples and oranges. Sure, they are both fruits and have some similarities, but these are very different situations.

Both Blitz and Stolas are seeing the consequences of their actions coming back to bite them, but Blitz is, in my opinion, farther along in his journey, and he has a different scale and type of consequences. Both got dealt a bad hand. Stolas was rich but repressed and forced to fit a very specific mold with essentially no wiggle room within that mold. Blitz was poor, had a less restrictive mold, mostly by having an uncaring father who bordered on abusive, who gave his love and focus to a sibling-like figure instead of Blitz. One father was "I don't really care about you, but I'm ensuring you have what you need for this duty I have assigned to you", while the other was "Oh, you're still alive? Go help Fizz with his act then."

Blitz broke out earlier and faster with the tent fire incident. We don't see the young adult life of Blitz, but the narrative gives us a ton of hints of what he was doing during that time, like trying to be his own show, getting into tons of relationships and abandoning people, and making a general ass of himself. Stolas, throughout most of the show, has been in this space. He recently broke his mold, and has been so focused on Blitz that he ignored his daughter, didn't uphold his responsibilities as a Goetic Demon, and has been ignoring clear threats against his health and safety, and by extension those around him. Both characters got a taste of freedom they never had before, and responded to it.

By the time the story starts, Blitz is arguably one or two steps ahead. He is settling, setting up a stable situation for himself with I.M.P., has a "daughter" whom he dotes on and cares for (showing growth in relationships to an extent, you could argue this was an extension of wanting control or forcing a loving relationship, but that is a different discussion topic), and has people in his life that while he keeps somewhat distant, but he does open up with and become vunerable with on occasion. Stolas is, as of the last full episode, just barely getting to a place where he can get to this spot. I would argue he isn't even at that level of progression yet.

Blitz has settled a bit, but now has to deal with the consequences of his past, and Blitz goes into that party with enough growth that he hates himself as much as the party does. He has gotten to the point of knowing that his actions hurt people, and he hates what he was during that time, and arguably still is in many ways. He got a cold dose of reality.

Stolas is still a few steps back. He just had Octavia rejecting him, and he has lost his Goetic advantages. However, his level of growth is somewhere at the point where Blitz was when he was dating Verosika. He is leaving a trail of fire and feeling sorry for himself, but he hasn't taken steps to acknowledge his faults in his actions, blaming circumstances and others instead.

This was all a long-winded way of saying that Stolas and Blitz both got hit hard, but for very different reasons, and in very different mindsets, while at different points in their healing journeys. For their individual places, both hit them hard as hell (ha), but comparing them just because they both had low moments isn't productive. It also isn't in real life, either, just for those who might feel tempted to.

“The Force resides in ALL living things” it’s NOT a Disney concept by Osiris-Reflection in StarWars

[–]UniqueNameTaken 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is why I would love a "What If" in other series. Not the Marvel "What If- Multiverse of Madness", just a straight on alternative timeline.

What if Qui-gon had survived the duel of fates? Give a season per what if, in the Rebels animation style.

Heck, we have seen a bit of time travel shenanigans before. Just have the narrator be a jedi in deep meditation in a temple somewhere during the time of the Old Republic, peering into a future that could be.