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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:08:03 -0700

Report: Microsoft Is Removing Xbox One DRM

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:11:58 -0700

Report: Microsoft Is Removing Xbox One DRM:

This could be the biggest backtrack in gaming history: Microsoft will reverse course on their DRM policies for Xbox One, dropping their Internet requirements and all restrictions on used games, according to the websites WhatHiFi and GiantBomb.

If true, fastest backtrack in corporate history? Probably.

If true, am I staying with MS next gen? Probably not.

I believe it. Microsoft has no interest in destroying their game industry market share. I’m glad they seem to be walking it back. (But I’m still not buying one.)

barbeauxbot: alexandraerin: This episode was directed by Avery...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:01:32 -0700

barbeauxbot:

alexandraerin:

This episode was directed by Avery Brooks, who played Benjamin Sisko/Benny Russell. The producers said this:

“We don’t like that combination [of having a heavily featured actor also directing], because it’s very hard to direct yourself. However, this was a story about racism and prejudice and we felt very strongly that it would be wrong if it came from a bunch of people who didn’t necessarily know about that experience. We knew that it was imperative to the story and imperative to the integrity of television for it to be done right.”

Avery Brooks himself cautions people against taking this episode as a story of how awful thing were so long ago and how things have changed for the better, saying “If we had changed the people’s clothes, this story could be about right now.”

JJ Abrams should have watched more DS9

fuckyeahthelastofus: littlebomba: Gamereactor Sweden Removes...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:48:57 -0700

fuckyeahthelastofus:

littlebomba:

Gamereactor Sweden Removes Ellie From Cover

Ellie is the most amazing character in this game, I just don’t even understand; I love this picture and bless you, Neil.

31 Day Hawke Challenge - Day 19

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:32:37 -0700

Day 19: Viscount - Answering to Templars.

What did your Hawke think of the Viscount?: I talked a little about this in the answer to the last question, but overall Marian thought that Marlowe Dumar did a decent job of running Kirkwall, if not a fantastic one. She thought the city could have used stronger leadership, and someone who was able to stand up to the Arishok as well as Meredith.

Who did your Hawke want to replace the Viscount?: Marian didn’t have any particular candidates in mind. She didn’t like that Meredith took over, feeling that being Viscount and Knight-Commander concentrated too much power in one person, but she didn’t know the Kirkwall nobility well enough to propose and back another candidate — and had less than zero interest in taking the job herself.

When intervening between Meredith and Orsino in Hightown, did they publicly choose a side? Or did they stay undecided?: Marian did not choose a side. I’ll get into this more in tomorrow’s Mages vs. Templars question, but Marian believes that Orsino and Meredith both have good points while neither is deserving of her full support — especially as long as both Meredith and Orsino have some influence over Bethany’s well-being.

archiemcphee: The door to the Department of Unexpected Species...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:26:57 -0700

archiemcphee:

The door to the Department of Unexpected Species Friendship is always open. A glance inside today reveals a trio of abandoned tiger cubs who’ve been adopted by an awesome pair of female pugs. The cubs were born at the Oktyabrsky Health Resort in Sochi, on western Russia’s Black Sea coast. After their mother rejected them the zoo keepers found two willing wet nurses in the form of these plucky little pugs. Because dogs and cats produce milk of differing composition, zoo keepers have to provide supplemental feedings to ensure the cubs receive adequate nutrition.

At the rate they’re growing, the tiger cubs will soon be larger than their adoptive canine mums. But for the time being the pugs seem quite pleased with their new roles.

[via Dailymail.co.uk]

alltheblacksheep: ave-atque-vale: jadelyn: cakeandrevolution: sunshineuncertaintyprinciple: cake...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:22:45 -0700

alltheblacksheep:

ave-atque-vale:

jadelyn:

cakeandrevolution:

sunshineuncertaintyprinciple:

cakeandrevolution:

bootyregrit:

captain-ray-assbutt:

Dear people who claim that vaccines cause autism, therefore people shouldn’t vaccinate their kids,

vaccines exist to prevent deadly illnesses. You are literally saying that endangering your child’s life is preferable to them being autistic. Never mind whether they actually do cause it or not, you’re saying that death is preferable to autism.

Congrats, you’re a piece of shit and the autistic person/people in your life deserve better.

actually vaccines exist for the profit of the pharmaceutical corporations.

vaccination and immunisation are two different things. bet ya didn’t know that because you don’t know your ass from a hole in the fucking ground.

every disease ‘cured’ by vaccination was, in reality, controlled by better living conditions, better nutrition and better hygiene. Tell me how you think we got rid of scurvy, scarlet fever and reduced the incidences of typhus in the first world without vaccines? But how is whitey gonna spin a massive profit from that mundane shit?

well done on being a talking monkey with zero research skills, fucknuts.

It’s really rich for you to talk about not knowing your ass from a hole in the ground when you’re comparing Scurvy (a vitamin deficiency), Scarlet Fever (a bacterial infection that actually does still exist, one of my friends niece and nephew got it this year, it’s just an advanced form of Strep), and Typhus (another bacterial infection), with the VIRUSES that vaccinations are intended to prevent.

Before I start, your comparison is kinda like saying “we can treat cuts with bandaids so I don’t know why you insist on setting that broken bone”.

Let’s get a little more detailed, so you can see just how fucking wrong you are and how ignorant your little screed was.

A condition like scurvy is simply the symptoms that manifest when the human body has a deficiency in one of more nutrients, in the case of scurvy it’s vitamin C, but Vitamin A deficiency can lead to blindness and there are various other vitamins that either too much of or too little of can have deleterious effects. The treatments for these are simple, either change diet to address the imbalance or in sever cases take a supplement to treat. Also, how fucking classist of you to think that we’ve gotten rid of it when Scurvy still effects the very poor and Vitamin A deficiency still claims the lives of 670k children under 5 annually.

Bacteria are single celled organisms capable of reproducing on their own. The human immune system can deal with bacteria through white blood cells consuming and destroying the bacteria or through the immune system generating anti-bodies that bind with the receptor sites that the bacteria uses to bond with cells. We also have nifty antibiotics which can directly kill off bacteria once in the human body.

Some bacterial infections, like pertussis and tuberculosis are VERY difficult to treat through standard antibacterial therapies and without detection within days of infection can still be lethal or life altering in the damage they cause. As it takes the body about 2 weeks to generate an antibody for an infection that it hasn’t encountered before we have largely relied on vaccination (and quite successfully at that) to prevent serious cases of these bacterial infections from being able to take hold as the secondary anamnestic response time (read, production of anti-bodies that the immune system remembers from previous encounters) peaks in 1-3 days. The difference between a pertussis infection with a primary antibody generation response and that with a secondary anamnestic response can quite literally be the difference between life or death.

Once a virus is in the body though the only way to treat them is to manage the symptoms and try and boos the immune systems response. There are a handful of anti-viral cocktails but they have limited efficacy and only work on a handful of viruses. Unlike bacteria viruses depend on taking over host cells and using them to reproduce, once the virus has stripped all it can from the host cell it bursts open spreading more viruses to infect other cells repeating the process. Many viruses also directly target the immune system rendering an effective immune response impossible which is why many of the viruses which we are vaccinated against are still lethal if contracted even in medically advanced countries (Other than vaccination, treatment of smallpox is primarily supportive, such as wound care and infection control, fluid therapy, and possible ventilator assistance.). Therefore we have to rely on vaccination to give our immune systems that antibody memory that I discussed above.

Viruses reproduce at a logarithmic rate, compared to the doubling rate of bacteria, With each new generation of a bacteria the number of new bacteria is at most double the number of the previous generation, however take a virus that can produce 50 copies for each infected cell. Say you initially get infected with 5 active copies of the virus (and these numbers are small for ease of comprehension, typical infection numbers are much higher). Those 5 viruses infect 5 cells and produce 250 new viruses, those 250 viruses turn into 12,500, which turns into 625,000, so you went from 5 to over a half million in 3 generations, (5 bacteria would yield 40 bacteria in 3 generations for comparison). This is why we can’t rely on primary immune responses for viral infections, they simply aren’t fast enough. In the two weeks it takes for antibodies to form for the kind of lethal viruses that we vaccinate against the human immune system has likely already been overwhelmed. However, if we provide the immune system with the memory of the anti-bodies needed it can provide an immune response much more efficiently and deal with the virus before it becomes a major threat. By keeping people vaccinated for these viruses it also prevents them from establishing a foothold in communities and spreading, it also protects those who can’t be vaccinated (due to compromised immune systems among other reasons) from infection through herd immunity, reducing the chances that those they come into contact with could be infected reduces the chances that the immuno-compromised will come into contact with those viruses.

tl,dr: You don’t know fuck all about viruses, bacteria, nutritional deficiencies, immunology, or vaccines, and your comment showed nothing but a massive amount of haughty ignorance. How about you actually learn something about biology before you try and act like I’m the one who needs to do research.

Reblogging for that awesome NDT picture.

oh my god, perfect commentary.

look, approximately 80% of my family members - myself included - work in healthcare-related fields. I am the first to admit that there’s a lot to critique there, and god knows Big Pharma has plenty of serious issues!

But I do have a problem with uncritically writing off vaccinations as some sort of terrible ploy on the part of pharmaceutical companies. I do have a problem with haphazardly spouting a few big words here & there with absolutely zero underlying comprehension of microbiology or epidemiology.

The anti-vaccination crowd have a tendency to throw around buzzwords, rely on badly done or outright fake science, whilst fearmongering and manipulating people’s emotions and lack of scientific background. This bullshit endangers all of us, and it’s incredibly fucking unethical.

amen to this entire fucking post.

how ironic, i have a test on immunology tomorrow.

reneausten: Thor: The Mighty Avenger #1 “I have lain my...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:18:07 -0700

reneausten:

Thor: The Mighty Avenger #1

“I have lain my Hammer down! ……Or is it ‘laid’??

…..Curse you, irregular verbs!”

How about... Reno from FF7, if you remember him? Or Yuffie Kisaragi from FF7? If not, we can go with Lightning from FF13. is difficult, lol

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:05:09 -0700

I remember Reno but have no strong ship feelings about him, or most any other FF7 characters, really. However, I can talk quite happily about Lightning. :)

OTP: Lightning/Fang. I also kind of like Lightning/Snow, in a twisted kind of way.
BrOTP: Sazh! I totally see them bonding in a buddy cop “I’m too old for this shit” kind of way.
OT3: Lightning/Fang/Vanille. This game is all about the lady shipping.
NOTP: Serah — I am really not an incest shipper. Similarly, Hope/Lightning because they really have a sibling vibe to me.

I look up to you and respect you an awful lot for how rational, thoughtful, and intellectual you are. Sometimes I feel like we're much better acquainted than we actually are because we have so many of the same random interests.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:36:00 -0700

I am constantly reminded of what a fantastic person you are- whether it's through your writing, through your interactions with other people, whether it's getting excited about the same books... I think you are an amazing friend and I'm so glad to have met you through tumblr <3

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:24:40 -0700

You're brilliant, and you make my dash a better place.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:12:00 -0700

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:58:05 -0700

ANONYMOUSLY TELL ME YOUR HONEST OPINION ABOUT ME. I CAN’T REPLY, JUST PUBLISH.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:48:59 -0700

ilikelookingatnakedmen: TALK TO ME I’M FUCKING LONELYI’ve put in an order to have...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:45:38 -0700

ilikelookingatnakedmen:

TALK TO ME I’M FUCKING LONELY
I’ve put in an order to have internet at home, but it won’t be hooked up for another week or so. Hence the crapfulness and lack of posting.

Also I am hungry send pics of roast beef.

I know it’s not roast beef, but it’s the only food photo on my iPad. Maybe you can save it for dessert?

albinwonderland: ajacquelineofalltrades: Amy Adams talks Lois...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:39:31 -0700

albinwonderland:

ajacquelineofalltrades:

_{Amy Adams talks Lois Lane with EMPIRE}

THAT SIDE EYE

SO MUCH SIDE EYE

Amy Adams, if there was an action figure of you, I would buy it. I would buy a dozen.

On Dragons and Old Gods

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:04:24 -0700

aithne:

Just to preface this, this is almost entirely headcanon sparked by thinking about Dragon Age for entirely too long. It’s based in canon, but plays fast and loose with some details. More under the cut. Lots more.

One: The Rulers of Thedas

Once, the whole of Thedas from Par Vollen to Ostagar was ruled by dragons.

Dragons could be considered “highly intelligent apex predators” in the same way that humans and elves and qunari are, and like the humanoids they developed both communication and a complex society. There are significant differences between dragon society and humanoid society, many of them driven by dragon biology. Female dragons are more or less immortal, while drakes do occasionally die of old age, and because dragons are winged, their ranges can extend for hundreds of miles.

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psync replied to your post: For the shipping meme: Cauthrien, Varel, Velanna. :3 I was trying...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:59:33 -0700

psync replied to your post: For the shipping meme: Cauthrien, Varel, Velanna.

:3 I was trying not to give you ones that everyone would give you, sry bb. <3

No worries! :) You never know which lesser-discussed character someone is going to have intense feelings about, after all.

Veronica Mars. :D

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:56:15 -0700

Ahh, good one! And appropriate, since they started filming this week!

OTP: Veronica/Logan, I guess. I only say “I guess” because I also really like Veronica/Duncan (along with like three other people on the planet). But in the end, yeah. Logan.
BrOTP: Wallace! Mac! Weevil! Everyone!
OT3: Is Duncan/Logan/Veronica entirely too twisted? Well, I guess I don’t really care.
NOTP: Piz. Sorry dude, I don’t dislike you, but there is just no way you can compare to Logan.

LuluOTP: Much as I love Lulu, I don’t really have an OTP...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:43:55 -0700

Lulu
OTP: Much as I love Lulu, I don’t really have an OTP for her. But I enjoy Lulu/Auron, Lulu/Luzzu, and Lulu/Rikku.
BrOTP: Yuna
OT3: Hmmm. You know, I’ve never really thought about this. And now that I do, nothing really comes to mind.
NOTP: Lulu/Wakka. Yes, I know it’s canon. No, that doesn’t mean I have to like it.

Baralai
OTP: Baralai/Yuna! Oh how I love this ship.
BrOTP: The CS4. (Gippal, Nooj, and Paine.) I do also ship Baralai/Gippal romantically, and sometimes Baralai/Paine under very specific circumstances, but overall the friendship among these four is what keeps me coming back.
OT3: Maybe Gippal/Baralai/Yuna. (Although we don’t see Gippal/Yuna much, it’s an idea I find interesting)
NOTP: Nooj. Mostly because I headcanon Nooj as straight (unlike the other three). Why? I don’t know. Just the vibe I get from him.