I looked it up and the reasoning seems to have been that strychnine poisoning causes lethal, uncontrollable muscle spasms, so a very small dose might increase the strength or speed of muscle contractions in a way that improves athletic performance. They got the idea because it was sometimes used medically for the same reason, to try to treat heart conditions prior to the development of more effective treatments.

Obviously it didn’t really work.

the strychnine was intended as a performance enchancer

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It seemed like it made there be literally less guards but maybe she just got lucky on the winning run.

Did you try the “less scares” setting? I think it makes this part easier, because I was watching someone struggle with this and as soon as they turned it on they passed it on the next try.

There’s an indie platformer called Fallen Leaf that has really good reviews. In the opening cutscene you are told a story about how in the past the world was saved by sealing away a great evil underground. The first level of the game sees you exploring a cave that your main character didn’t even want to be in, at the behest of his sister (IIRC).

Some ways into the cave your path is blocked by a talking bear who politely but firmly explains that it is dangerous ahead and no one may pass. If you attempt to get past them, they gently boop you back.

What the game clearly wants you to do is shoot a stalactite so that it falls on the bear. No, game, I don’t think I’m going to murder this innocent bear just so that I can be the one who releases the ancient evil I will spend the rest of the game fighting against. I will just quit here while the world is still safe and the polite bear is unharmed, thanks.

Do they look like the photo? I like the bulky frames look, myself. My (non-smart) glasses are rounder but similarly large.

I used to do an egg and a couple pieces of lunch meat.

Now I don’t eat eggs or meat anymore, so I tear up a sheet of nori (dried seaweed), add about six ounces of cubed tofu, one spoonful of sambal oelek (chili paste), and a little bit of sesame oil (add the sesame oil last, after taking it off the heat).

Per serving, the tofu is the most expensive, then the nori, so if the budget is tight you could cut there (but the tofu is also the only protein). One container of chili paste or sesame oil is enough for many servings, I couldn’t say how much it costs per serving but it it’s probably less than the noodle packet.

I changed majors to anthropology because I hoped that it would help me understand humans and therefore myself. Now I know a lot more about how much I don’t know, and every job in the field has hyper specific requirements that make it seem like they were written to guarantee the PI’s grad student gets the position.

It’s an improvement, but I miss the days of battery covers that just slide off so that you can swap in a spare.

I don’t like to say “good person” and “bad person” because I feel like it implies that there is some objective scale of goodness that people can be compared to, and I think that is simply not the case. So I would rather think of this question as “Do you have a positive opinion of yourself?”

No, no I don’t. My opinion of myself is extremely negative.

It’s not new anymore, but I really like Micro Mages, a vertical scrolling platformer that fits fully into an original 40KB NES cart and supports 4 player simultaneous co-op.

I think I have zero users blocked, but if I were blocking people it wouldn’t be for this. Cross-posting is good for the lemmy ecosystem, it spreads engagement to more communities and instances.

I first heard the attack helicopter joke from a trans friend who was super into military hardware and she thought it was the funniest shit ever. I didn’t realize it was supposed to be transphobic for years. The way she made it sound was more like “hell yes my gender can be anything and no one can stop me!”

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$1.3 million

Some of us have been playing it since before it was popular with children!

The beer can and the image on the mug look especially “melty.” And his arm looks super smooth. And he has a wedding ring on both hands. And his leg starts out looking more or less like a leg but on the left end it looks more like a pillow.

I’m fairly confident it’s AI.

I’m not really part of the target audience. I already have a laptop that’s slightly more powerful and I could hook it up to my TV if that was a thing I wanted to do. I don’t need a separate gaming PC for my living room.

Mine takes less than a minute.

The main point seems to be that individual reviewers don’t have recognizable voices anymore, but honestly I don’t really buy the idea that reviews ever “worked” in the way that this writer seems to want them to. Any individual number was always meaningless except for knowing whether a specific person liked the thing at a specific moment in time. Maybe some people were lucky enough to know a reviewer who reliably predicted how they’d feel about the product, such that they could just look at the number and be good to go, but IMO the “feature list” has always been the most interesting part of the review, and it hasn’t gone anywhere.