Pokemon is good because everybody who plays is given the exact same storyline and choices, but every person has a completely unique experience.
There are currently over 750 trillion different team combinations, even each individual pokemon has only a 1 in 50 billion chance of being identical to another of the same species. And that’s not even including pokemon having different moves… That means that every Pokemon is a valuable once in a lifetime companion, and your adventure with your pokemon is and will always be completely unique to you, and that’s really special.
Pokemon is good because everybody who plays is given the exact same storyline and choices, but every person has a completely unique experience.
There are currently over 750 trillion different team combinations, even each individual pokemon has only a 1 in 50 billion chance of being identical to another of the same species. And that’s not even including pokemon having different moves… That means that every Pokemon is a valuable once in a lifetime companion, and your adventure with your pokemon is and will always be completely unique to you, and that’s really special.
i think. ok. like. john mulaney and the mcelroys aren’t actually that funny in terms of their improv/the quality of their jokes. there are people with much better written comedy sets and funnier improv, but the way that they deliver what they say it what makes it good. they could read the back of a shampoo bottle and you’d feel like you just heard a joke
this is part of the reason john mulaney gifs aren’t nearly as funny as videos of him. you cant explain why his horse in a hospital bit is funny unless you’ve actually heard him say “IT’S A ĤĤORSE. IN A H́OSPITAL”
Remember kids, always check drug interactions before taking anything! Guess who has two thumbs and is in the hospital for taking NyQuil with Zoloft?
Holy shit that’s one interaction I would have never thought of
I wanted to reblog again with more information because even as a medical professional I had no idea about cold medicine doing this. Dextromethorphan, a common cough suppressant in many cold medicines, when combined with SSRIs, MAOIs, or any medication or drug that raises serotonin levels, can raise serotonin levels too high and cause what’s called Serotonin Syndrome. I’m on mobile so I don’t think I can hyperlink, but it’s a serious medical emergency and if you take these medicines you should know the symptoms.
From Wikipedia: Symptoms include high body temperature, agitation, increased reflexes, tremor, sweating, dilated pupils, and diarrhea. Body temperature can increase to greater than 41.1 °C (106.0 °F). Complications may include seizures and extensive muscle breakdown.
Yep. I remembered reading about it like 30 minutes after taking NyQuil and then shrugged and went to bed.
Woke up an hour later with my heart racing, whole body shaking, muscles incredibly tense, dizziness, coughing, and panic.
It got worse on the way to the ER and while there I could barely walk and I was crying all over everything and my blood pressure was dangerously high.
Even with all this, they said I wasn’t having a full SS reaction and they gave me some meds that helped and sent me on my way. If this shit happens to you, go to the emergency room.
Keppra and decongestants like sudafed = BAD TIME, BAD, BAD TIME
Um WHAT. I took NyQuil with Zoloft once holy shit
More on seratonin syndrome from the U.S. National Library of Medicine here.
…….OH
THAT EXPLAINS SO MANY THINGS
Probably a good thing that the first time this happened I went “welp never taking NyQuil again” and moved on with my life, holy SHIT
Omg this is super important for literally everything. Also! A lot of 24 hour pharmacies will tell you if you can take them together. There have been many a times I’ve called at 2am crying asking if I can take this-and-this together and if I can’t what do i do. If one pharmacy isn’t helpful, try another. You don’t even have to be a customer at their pharmacy to have them help you. Hell I don’t even think you need to be in the same state as the pharmacy.
When you have a question about drugs, CALL A PHARMACIST! Do not call your doctor and wait to hear back. Every Pharmacy has a Pharmacist, and I have YET to call a pharmacy and be denied a chance to speak with the pharmacist. (I have had to wait though.) A big part of why the pharmacist is there is for THIS VERY REASON.
I guarantee you the pharmacist knows more about your drugs than your GP does. Even your specialist. Because they are your drug specialist. That’s what they do.
Pharmacists literally saved my Aunt’s life AND her sanity. She went from “okay” to “why the fuck does Aunt Alice have like mid-late stage Alzheimers all of a sudden?” in like.. 9 months. So my Mom sits down with her to Sort Her Shit. (The first assumption in my family is to Look At The Drugs ever since my Dad had a drug interaction that stopped his kidneys! yay drug interactions.) So turns out that because she has three different insurances and three different sets of doctors, she’s been using three different pharmacies! So my Mom puts together a full list of her meds and takes it with her to the pharmacist she trusts most (in this case it just happened to be the VA pharmacist.) Dude didn’t even have to check the system. He took one look at the list and was like “Holy FUCK you CANNOT take all these together. No wonder you’re fucking nuts.” Turns out those combinations also cause like serious organ issues on top of that so yeah.
Talk with your pharmacist. And be proactive. You aren’t bothering them. Whenever I start a new med I actively ask the pharmacist to check it against all my current meds (if any) and my regular OTC meds I use (namely, ibuprofen and ta da, NYQUIL.)
doc scratch is different from every other villain in homestuck. i read the condesce’s dialogue and, yes, she’s a villain! no doubt. but she’s fun to read, she cracks jokes, she’s entertaining as a concept, and she’s intimidating without being personally frightening. she’s a threat to the characters, not to you. lord english is just fucking funny as a concept even if he is powerful, and he’s not even there for most of the comic, so you’re not afraid of him as a character so much as you’re afraid of the concept of him. the narrative treats him like a force of nature. but doc scratch is deeply, chillingly scary not because he poses a physical threat to the characters, or their journey, not because he’s dangerous in a tangible way to them, but because he’s meant to trigger the audience’s danger sense. odds are, you’ve had a conversation with someone like doc scratch before. you might not have realized it at the time, and you still might not realize it, but for those who do, the way he (an adult) speaks to rose, vriska, and terezi (children, and in particular teenage girls) sets off alarm bells fucking immediately. it’s scary because it’s familiar, and because it’s real. he doesn’t deal in fantastical life-or-death fate-of-the-universe stakes. child predators exist. they’re real. and that’s why doc scratch is so scary.
How come Eridan doesn’t also come off as threatening even though neonazis are also real?
a) eridan is distinct from doc scratch in that reading him as a 1-to-1 allegory for a neonazi is more interpretive than reading doc scratch as a predator. eridan’s ideology is based around fictional bigotry. that makes him less threatening per se because the threat he poses is limited by the fiction of his universe; if eridan were a person, he’d probably be a racist/neonazi/what have you, but he’s not. he’s an alien. so we don’t necessarily think about his bigotry as something pertaining to us. doc scratch, on the other hand, is a child predator. that is a literal description for what he does. he preys on children.
b) eridan is a child. that doesn’t make what he does okay, or make his beliefs any less fucked up, or make the reading of him as a neonazi any less accurate. but it does change the power dynamic between him and the people around him. he has neither the agency nor authority that an adult does, and he spends most of the plot being outnumbered by more competent, more powerful, and less bigoted people. overall, he’s just not presented as a threat to the people around him, until, that is, the very end – by which point it doesn’t matter, since he’s killed immediately afterward.
It baffles and infuriates me that Hogwarts students don’t take Latin or Greek. Accio? Literally “I summon.” Lumos? Fucking “light.” Expelliarmus? Expel weapon!! Ooooh I wonder what Levicorpus does– you Dumb Ass Bastard. You ILLITERATE. It’s called Levicorpus, it lifts someone’s body, it LEVIES your goddamn CORPUS-
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