Asking the real questions.

I don’t even remember what I said, so uh. Yes.

𐑢𐑧𐑤 𐑦𐑓 𐑢𐑰 're 𐑜𐑴𐑦𐑯 𐑑 𐑛𐑵 𐑕𐑩𐑥 𐑦𐑙𐑜𐑤𐑦𐑖 𐑕𐑐𐑧𐑤𐑰𐑙 𐑮𐑦𐑓𐑸𐑥, 𐑤𐑧𐑑’𐑕 𐑜𐑴 𐑭𐑤 𐑦𐑯. 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑐𐑮𐑭𐑚𐑩𐑚𐑤𐑰 𐑛𐑩𐑟 n’t 𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑓𐑿𐑟 𐑭𐑰 𐑲𐑞𐑼, 𐑚𐑩𐑑 𐑣𐑵 𐑯𐑴𐑟?

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While some foods are associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, no single ingredients in and of themselves cause diabetes - obesity does. That’s why every fad diet can make a semi-credible claim to have “cured” people’s diabetes. If you lose enough weight, it might go into remission.

And to be clear, none of what I just said is meant to imply a moral, individual failure on the part of anyone who is living/struggling with obesity and diabetes. It’s a complex thing, and like all complex things we can go ahead and blame corporations for it. 👍

I’ve played with and without the analog inputs, and using a real DualShock 2. By default it’s not L3, it’s circle for cqc, and square for pressure sensitive controls for the gun.

The controls were even worse on ps2 because even though they are technically analog buttons, they have a very short travel distance which makes it too easy to accidentally do the wrong thing. I found the modern controls slightly more intuitive.

There was also a time I tried to play the ps2 version on pcsx2, but could only use a DualShock 4 then. Since that controller doesn’t have analog face buttons, I remapped cqc to L2 and gunfire to R2 and found that control scheme worked surprizingly well.

But the basic controls are the least of those game’s problems.

As far as getting them in the wild, you just have to be sure to forage where the air and soil is free from pollutants (as far as that is feasible anyway), then clean and dehydrate them.

As far as safety goes, the conventional wisdom is that you want to decarboxylate them. If I recall, there are two main active ingredients in amanitas: muscimol, and ibotenic acid. It’s believed that one of these is safe, and the other not so much. But the whole thing really isn’t very clear, and we certainly don’t have any reliable long term data on habitual use. Anyway, the process just involves simmering them in a solution of water and citric acid, which converts the unsafe substance into the safe one.

And of course dose is a large part of safety.

Amanitas are not “magic mushrooms” in that they do not contain psilocybin, and are fully legal, just heavily stigmatized. I’ve tried them and found them to be the single greatest substance I’ve taken for anxiety, but I’ve stopped taking them because I have doubts about their safety. Chubby Emu on youtube has an episode about a guy who died after taking them, for example.

So if you are inclined to try them, do your research first. Extensively. And keep in mind that even the science on these fungi is still far from complete.

Despite my best efforts, I never got to a point where I felt like I wasn’t fighting against the controls and mechanics. As somebody who has played a fair share of other stealth games, they just are really bad.

I’ll talk about the boss fight that was the final straw for me.

The whole thing was an exercise in annoyance and frustration. After getting past it, it made me realize how hard I had been trying to ignore the way these things had been annoying me throughout the entire game. I couldn’t ignore it anymore. Just hate it, the games are not for me.

These days when I play Bethesda games I always end up using console commands to expand inventory space. I’m so done with hyper-limited inventory systems and having to waste stat points to increase them.

I really want to like Metal Gear Solid games, but after playing a fair way into MGS3… I kind of hate it. The controls and mechanics are so bad.

It has been for me. As a fellow tea enjoyer, lung function, gut health, a melting away of aching joints and physical malaise, seasonal allergy alleviation, and a shockingly boosted immune system are all benefits that I’ve personally enjoyed since going fully plant-based. Most likely heart benefits as well, but I won’t know for sure until I get my cholesterol levels tested.

But of course personal anecdotes are not valid evidence. Which is fine, because the science largely favors diets that are at least mostly plant-centric anyway.

In my experience sacrifice is a relative matter, and soon dissipates. Every abstained choice gets replaced with an alternative, and the more alternatives that are explored the more it becomes apparent that there is an entire culinary world that has been ignored. It becomes apparent that what felt like sacrifice is in fact opportunity, and those opportunities are well worth investigating in full.

If you keep exploring plant-based options you will be a lot more likely to find what works for you, than if you just give up.

It should also be noted, dairy impairs the bioavailability of beneficial plant-based compounds. Here are a few studies. Milk and coffee. Milk and blueberries. And Milk and tea.

Oh no, you’re owning the vegans! 😵

But, uh, what’s going on here? Do you think animal abuse is funny?

Whoa, what are all those things you have?

Alcohol advertising should also be banned in the same way tobacco ads are.

I wish we could just get one good open, unified filesystem that all OS’s support. It sucks that if I want a usb drive to function on both Android and Linux, I have to format it to FAT. That pos fs can’t even store files over 4 gigs.

I normally prefer copyleft licenses, but this is one case something more permissive seems appropriate.