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I've seen some stories where vampires suck blood through their teeth, back when I read more vampire fiction, but I don't know how common those are. I think it seems a bit comedic, so it probably depended on how funny the story was supposed to be.

My parents still have an 80 year old christmas cactus. I should see how it's doing next time I visit.

Do you have a metric of what would count as an obscure indie game? Like, number of reviews or something? Or is the rule just to avoid the big ones like Stardew Valley?

I've played Tchia, Coral Island, and My Time at Sandrock recently, and they feel like middle of the road as far as indies go. MTaS and Coral Island both had successful kickstarters. Would they count?

Sorry, this kind of thing is difficult for me to judge.

I read a blog post years ago by a trans dude about how seeing how little the winner of a smallest penis contest gave a shit helped him not give a shit about his own dick situation.

so, i guess it's nice for insecure people to see stuff like this?

Reading around, it seems like if you keep it within recommended dosages and have no existing kidney problems, it's all good. The main thing is to make sure whatever supplement you're actually taking is reporting the amount of creatine correctly.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/creatine-long-term-use-safety-11867165

Supplements aren't regulated well.

I do think it'd be interesting to do a real study on it. Keto can reduce seizures, and after study it might turn out the same mechanism of action that helps there helps with schizophrenia symptoms. I hope there's a more extensive study being planned out there.

It's a treatment for people who don't respond to medicine.

https://www.epilepsy.com/treatment/dietary-therapies/ketogenic-diet

It's pretty interesting! I listened to a medical history podcast about keto years ago.

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/sawbones/transcript-sawbones-ketogenic-diet Apparently the diet started as a treatment for epilepsy. Way back in history people noticed that if you were inclined to have seizures and were starving, you had fewer seizures. In the early 1900s there were experiments to figure out how to reduce seizures without, you know, starving them to death. keto!

I wouldn't be shocked if keto had some kind of effect on the brain that helps with schizophrenia, but there's no real info yet.

The evidence that ketogenic diet might help with schizophrenia symptom remission comes from two case reports that Palmer published in Schizophrenia Research in 2019. When discussing them, Palmer was quick to emphasise that “yes, it’s only two”, and that “case reports don’t prove anything. They’re not controlled. They come with tremendous amounts of bias.” But, Palmer noted, that can be important for generating hypotheses about what treatments might work. Palmer thought it was valuable to publish these case reports because remission of schizophrenia symptoms is incredibly rare.

Two case studies! The scientist quoted knows that it means nothing! Don't read one article that might show something that confirms your bias and go "this is real."

It's "キュント" so it's pronounced so different than it reads in English. The letters are cute and fancy and round, though!

It's a budgeting app, it looks like. So this community is for people to find alternatives.

I'd assume drugs if I saw a guy staring at a vending machine for ages. That's "took too much of something that doesn't leave the system fast" behavior. Possibly he wanted to get something from the vending machine, but couldn't hold on to the thought for long enough to go through the process. Perception of time gets fucked on those sorts of drugs, so he has no idea he's been there for however long. The behavior sounds specifically like that of people I've known who accidently took a higher dose of edibles than intended.

The world is real but we perceive it with a brain that can read signals of it imperfectly if something goes wrong in there. That leads to strange behaviors like you described.

Well, abusers also groom witnesses (like: "see? you were around me and i didn't abuse you or your kids. those accusers must be lying, right? you're such a good judge of character!") but I really really doubt that's the case with this specific dude.