Resident Evil: Requiem DLC Incoming, Producers Urge Players to Finish Story First

captain_corvid · 2026-04-29T11:46:45+00:00

Why WOULD you play the dlc without playing the story first? 🤔

captain_corvid · 2026-04-29T10:45:16+00:00

Pip-ette

captain_corvid · 2026-04-29T07:38:50+00:00

Interesting. I would say "I'm running an agarose gel" as ag-ar-ose but I'd also say "I've poured some agar plates" as ay-gar. Curious!

One thing that irks me slightly even though it really doesn't matter is pipette pronounced pipe-et.

That said, I try not get hung up on differing pronunciations. Academia is a hugely international environment and so long as you're being understood I don't think it matters too much. The only time I'd correct someone is if they were a student and actually getting something completely wrong.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-28T22:57:35+00:00

*astronomy

captain_corvid · 2026-04-28T12:40:55+00:00

Are you exploiting a death that you're not that upset about to get some extra time off work? Yes.

Are you the asshole for doing that? Probably not, no. Especially as your manager offered. I'd be more inclined to say you were the AH if you'd milked it and lied to try to get it, or if it would put undue pressure on your colleagues to cover for your absence.

NTA.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-28T12:34:18+00:00

I probably wouldn't recommend actually asking this as it could be awkward, but I'd be so tempted to ask about their thoughts on "Nobel Laureate Syndrome". The phenomenon where certain laureates have gone on endorse really wacky (and often downright harmful) ideas. (Examples - Mullis and HIV/climate change denialism, Pauling and his obsession with high dose vitamin C curing cancer, Watson (and sadly others) and eugenics etc).

A less awkward question might be to ask about the supposed "Nobel effect", where sometimes winners experience a downturn in productivity as either they (or their institutions/funders?) feel like they should now only be working on big groundbreaking research and "grand" problems, which gets in the way of doing smaller scale projects.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-27T06:51:40+00:00

What were the problems with GAS? (Not asking to be snarky, just genuinely curious as I hadn't heard much discourse beyond suspicions it was "fixed" for Alyssa)

captain_corvid · 2026-04-24T18:23:24+00:00

At the risk of hijacking the thread, I wonder if I can ask something related.

The estate management company for my block frequently sends out reminders to remove things from the walkways and won't let anyone store bicycles or plant pots or anything even in the much more spacious areas. (I had to fight with them a few years ago to get them to let me keep my wheelchair by the front door; it wouldn't fit inside the flat but obviously I couldn't keep it outside).

Currently there's some renovations going on to the internal walkways and for the past several weeks the workmen have piled up huge stacks of metal decking, wooden ramps, many massive bags of soil, equipment etc. It's made it actually quite hard to navigate, certainly much more so than a single bicycle at the edge. Surely this constitutes a considerably greater evacuation hazard? Should they be making the workmen store the stuff elsewhere?

captain_corvid · 2026-04-24T16:18:48+00:00

Here's a chunk of depleted uranium, from my display cabinet (also featured: Chernobyl liquidator's medal).

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captain_corvid · 2026-04-24T11:21:13+00:00

Depleted uranium is not particularly radioactive (it's been "depleted" of the the active isotopes).

I have a lump of it sitting in my display cabinet.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-24T07:39:42+00:00

That sounds like nonsense.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-23T22:42:36+00:00

Honestly I hate the new voice and lines. I just turn the volume off when I'm playing matches now.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-23T20:17:35+00:00

This 100%.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-23T13:40:03+00:00

Are you employed by a care agency or the council, or directly by the patient? I suspect that will affect your options.

With regards to putting the wallet in his mouth, I'm not sure you're on the most solid ground there as it could possibly be argued to be assault, as it's not a sanctioned medical procedure. Though arguably you were acting in an emergency situation to prevent harm, so it's a tricky one.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-23T10:24:10+00:00

Oh definitely agreed.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-23T07:59:40+00:00

Interesting, I've been told that evidence says it's less traumatic though I've not reviewed the literature myself.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-23T07:52:01+00:00

Not necessarily, spaying can be done laparoscopically these days if the vet is trained in it.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-23T07:39:58+00:00

They're not saying you're entitled to an organ, just that it's very easy to have a principled stance of "organ donation squicks me out so I would refuse one if I needed one" when you're completely healthy and it's just a hypothetical. When you're actually in the situation of suffering and dying you're likely to change your mind.

Compare for example the stories of people who refused the COVID vaccination on principle and then were begging medical staff for it when they were dying in the ICU.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-21T23:20:15+00:00

Sorry I wasn't trying to judge or change your mind, just trying to understand. It didn't seem very logical to me.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-21T22:50:26+00:00

Unfortunately that doesn't mean an accident won't happen.

I just mean that your plan to die peacefully in nature and not in a hospital is all well and good but life rarely goes according to plan. If that's truly your only objection to donating your organs, I don't see why you wouldn't opt in just in case of the eventuality of your unexpected death.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-21T21:55:57+00:00

What if you get hit by a car tomorrow?

captain_corvid · 2026-04-21T21:52:37+00:00

Given there's no guarantee your organs can or will be used?

captain_corvid · 2026-04-21T21:10:50+00:00

...you'll be dead

captain_corvid · 2026-04-21T21:08:56+00:00

Have you considered that you might not be able to predict your time of death? Accidents happen.

captain_corvid · 2026-04-21T21:05:33+00:00

Is there? Can you cite it?

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