#haphazard-ly

[copperbadge]

nonsenseandstuff replied to your post “Hey guess who has two kidneys and a stone in one of them? THIS GUY! ...”

You need to go on a rollercoaster, ASAP. If I remember the study right, the front is best for dissolving kidney stones, but I am not 100% on that.

catlinyemaker replied to your post “Hey guess who has two kidneys and a stone in one of them? THIS GUY! ...”

So... do you like rollercoasters? Specifically the mid-level ones that are more twisty-turny than straight drops: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/science/roller-coaster-kidney-stones.html

rsfcommonplace replied to your post “Hey guess who has two kidneys and a stone in one of them? THIS GUY! ...”

Roller coaster time! (Well, theoretically...)

I LOVE rollercoasters and I LOVE sitting in the front but unfortunately there aren’t any easily accessible ones either where I live or where I’m visiting, at least as far as I’m aware. 

Sadly I do not think my insurance will pay for a trip to Disney to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, though honestly it’s probably cheaper to pay my own way than pay the deductible on a surgery for it. 

imgoingtogobacktheresomeday replied to your post “Hey guess who has two kidneys and a stone in one of them? THIS GUY! ...”

I’ve heard people say drinking lemon juice helps dissolve them, because it has citrate or something

Unfortunately while I ALSO love lemon juice and lemon flavoring in soda water, it causes an inflammatory reaction in me that gives me sinus headaches :(

seekanewerworld replied to your photo “The babies are in the Sulk Pumpkin and comforting each other, and I’m...”

Polk has a very Adult Cat face this close up!

haphazard-ly replied to your photo “The babies are in the Sulk Pumpkin and comforting each other, and I’m...”

I think it's probably the lighting flattening her face a little, but Polk looks like she's aged a year since the last photo you posted.

Her face is so changeable, it’s really amazing. Dearborn is more floofy so it doesn’t seem like she changes as much, but the light and her posture really changes everything about how she looks. 

brilliant-starlight replied to your photo “I think she knows I’m leaving, poor sad baby.”

Polk: I will lay here in my perfectly-color-coordinated corner and MAKE YOU FEEL GUILTY, YOU MONSTER.

She never sleeps on that chair! That chair is for climbing on and hiding under! She’s trying to guilt me, I just know it. 

[prokopetz]

Do you have any recommendations for multiplayer computer games? My long distance partner and I want to try playing something together, but the multiplayer things either of us own and games others have recommended are same machine situations. Genre isn't too important, but something cooperative and with limited violence (especially violence against people) would be preferable.

This one’s probably obvious, but have you tried Portal 2? The online coop mode is excellent if you’re into physics puzzles, and while the player characters can suffer violence (non-graphically, on account of the co-op mode protagonists being non-humanoid robots), there’s little in the way of inflicting it apart from occasionally dropping a weighted cube on an automated turret.

If first person isn’t your thing, you might also have a look at Trine. It’s also a physics-based puzzle platformer, this time in 2.5D side-scrolling format. I didn’t get very far into it myself because the physics annoyed me (it does that thing where large objects handle like they’re made of Styrofoam), but that’s a personal gripe, not a fatal flaw. This one is more violence-oriented than Portal 2, albeit principally in the form of violence against skeletons.

On the flip side, if you’re okay with high concept indie games, might I suggest Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes? It’s a coop-only puzzle game about disarming bombs, with the twist that one player can interact with the bomb but can’t see the reference manual, while the other player can see the manual but can’t see or interact with the bomb. They have to coordinate verbally in order to solve each puzzle: the former player describing what they see, and the latter player using their descriptions to look up the correct procedures and relay them back. Interestingly, the game is set up so that only the disarming player actually needs a computer; the reference manual is available in print, so in principle the game can be played with the player who has the manual communicating over the phone.