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[smeeprocket]

My parents went to canada and suddenly my dad was obsessed with canadian stuff. Not even reasonable fixations, like cheap cheese and cold medicine.

Is cheap cheese and cold medicine reasonable, or...

that was written wrong grammatically. It was cheap cheese and cold medicine that he became fixated with.

It was like regular cold medicine but with a french label, he made us take it to the pharmacy to try to get a match.

My dad has issues.

[Remuthra]

Helgo's got it right, I think the adjectives were mixed up. On purpose or accident, I can't say. XD

I don't know, both ways make sense.

Cheap (low-quality) cheese, and medicine (for colds)

Cold (because Canada) cheese, and cheap (because Canadian healthcare) medicine

[smeeprocket]

Every canadian I know says they have excellent health care. Yet I keep getting told it is terrible. I also heard of a guy that got frostbite in his fingers (he reached into icy water to retrieve a glove) sawing off his own fingers rather than wait a few months for surgery. Apparently he did a bang up job of it too.

[UXLZ]

Err, does bang up mean good or bad?

I'd swear it's Australian slang and yet I'm not sure... I'm pretty sure it means 'good' over here. xD

[Remuthra]

Err, does bang up mean good or bad?

I'd swear it's Australian slang and yet I'm not sure... I'm pretty sure it means 'good' over here. xD

"Thorough" is what it translates to, I think.

[smeeprocket]

he did a decent job is what I am saying. Didn't hit any nerves and sawed off the black parts (i.e. his entire fingers.)

[Bauglir]

Huh, brilliant game design brainwave. Swapping the equivalents of feats and spells keeps a high level character's repertoire of Weird Shit they can do comprehensible without the aid of a fucking spreadsheet, while still giving enough tweaking options to keep players feeling unique. Since the system is point-based, it also lets me condense the advancement mechanics into using a single resource pool instead of two, which was necessary when I realized it would be impossible to balance the cost of entirely new abilities and options against stat boosts and other numbers-adjustments.

Once again, I need to rush through and edit all the documents written thus far to ensure harmony with what I'm about to do.

[Arcvasti]

Every canadian I know says they have excellent health care. Yet I keep getting told it is terrible. I also heard of a guy that got frostbite in his fingers (he reached into icy water to retrieve a glove) sawing off his own fingers rather than wait a few months for surgery. Apparently he did a bang up job of it too.

Basically, we have pretty accessible healthcare, which is awesome. That's also the problem, because we have to deal with everyone's health problems, instead of just the people who can afford it, while making no profit off it. And medical professionals and equipment are really expensive, which, plus the fact that the mainly conservative government refuses to raise taxes to get more money means that the healthcare budget is far lower then is needed. Its especially annoying here in Alberta, the province that's actually doing WELL economically due to its oil reserves, because if we raised taxes JUST A TINY BIT we could totally solve/lessen all the above problems.

We totally have a [sleeping]Canadian Politics thread for this kind of stuff, if anyone cares.

[ChairmanPoo]

I also heard of a guy that got frostbite in his fingers (he reached into icy water to retrieve a glove) sawing off his own fingers rather than wait a few months for surgery. Apparently he did a bang up job of it too.

I regard this kind of anecdotal evidence as dubious. If they left him to wait a few months, it was probably because it wasn't that urgent (and gangrene IS a surgical emergency

t the mainly conservative government refuses to raise taxes to get more money means that the healthcare budget is far lower then is needed

... without knowing the exact situation of Canada: I think that it's far more likely that they refuse to increase the healthcare budget (or even decrease it) so that they can invest that money elsewhere. For instance, "rescuing" their buddies' banks when they default. At least that's what's happening here. And I suspect that deep down the political caste is pretty much the same everywhere.

[smeeprocket]

I also heard of a guy that got frostbite in his fingers (he reached into icy water to retrieve a glove) sawing off his own fingers rather than wait a few months for surgery. Apparently he did a bang up job of it too.

I regard this kind of anecdotal evidence as dubious. If they left him to wait a few months, it was probably because it wasn't that urgent (and gangrene IS a surgical emergency

t the mainly conservative government refuses to raise taxes to get more money means that the healthcare budget is far lower then is needed

... without knowing the exact situation of Canada: I think that it's far more likely that they refuse to increase the healthcare budget (or even decrease it) so that they can invest that money elsewhere. For instance, "rescuing" their buddies' banks when they default. At least that's what's happening here. And I suspect that deep down the political caste is pretty much the same everywhere.

it wasn't gangrene, it was frostbite. it wasn't spreading, his fingers were just black and dead. Not really a priority surgery.

[Bauglir]

his fingers were just black and dead. Not really a priority surgery.

Th... that's literally gangrene (graphic images, because wikipedia). That's a pretty high priority.

[Remuthra]

Yeah, gangrene is just another word for necrosis.

[WillowLuman]

Saw The Immitation Game today with my folks. Nice to get one more movie in before the break ends.

First half was a fairly run-of-the-mill historical story: person with fresh new idea to solve a problem isn't believed in, but in the end their idea works. However, once that whole thing was over it got pretty interesting.

[ChairmanPoo]

If it wasn't a surgical emergency why the hurry?

BTW, I just made a quick check and apparently it's pretty standard to delay surgical debridement of frostbite precisely because it's not easy to tell viable tissue from nonviable until after some has passed, and in fact doing it early results in a worse prognosis.

[Frumple]

Choose your own adventure games being roll to dodge or are there actual games like that?

This was from, like... hours and hours ago, but whatever. If you want to get a glimpse (and by glimpse, I mean most all of it, online, with the original author's blessings) at one of the better CYOA series, check this thread.

It's worth noting that CYOA games, originally done in print format, are older than you are, Cryx. They're also older than me, and most people on the forum. We're talking 40s, 50s, with notable popularization starting in the 60s or thereabouts, iirc. They've been around for a while.

There's also freakish bucketloads of them online (often ran as some variation of text adventure), and we've got at least one LP that started recently.