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[ChairmanPoo]

IIRC testicular cancer is very sensitive to radiotherapy. Even when it spreads the survival rates are fairly good.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

thanks. i really know nothing about testicular cancer, but the fact that i don't slightly reassured me, i mean, it shouldn't be as bad as the ones everybody talks about right?

[ChairmanPoo]

It's the one with the best survival rates, AFAIK

[Karnewarrior]

IIRC testicular cancer is very sensitive to radiotherapy. Even when it spreads the survival rates are fairly good.

Although telling a guy you're going to shoot radiation into his ballsack isn't very encouraging.

Probably better than cancer though. Just a little.

[Angel Of Death]

Dosen't radiation burn?

I do not want to imagine the pain of concentrated radiation shot into my balls.

[JoshuaFH]

Dosen't radiation burn?

I do not want to imagine the pain of concentrated radiation shot into my balls.

Continuous high doses of radiation shot into a concentrated spot will burn, if 1000 ways to die is to be believed, but the doses that doctors give don't hurt at all AFAIK.

[ChairmanPoo]

RT is painless, and nowadays the dose is fractioned, and used very precisedly, to minimize the damage to surrounding tissues

[Vector]

Things that made me sad today: slept 4 hours and then my body said "fuck you, noobro, you don't get to sleep."

I would totally support this.  I honestly believe that video games are the next step in the evolution of storytelling, and that storytelling, culture, and society are all tightly interwoven.  One of my highest goals in life is to prove the validity and potential of games as a storytelling medium equal to film and literature, and to cultivate that potential as a positive force.  Remember that rant we shared about Disney's social engineering and the effects on our culture?  I want to do the opposite of that.

Well honestly, at this rate I'll probably end up publishing quite a few papers on video games and cartooning, since those are two areas that I know... rather a lot about >_> <_<  I don't think that video games are the next step in evolution, at least as far as we usually use that term (superiority).  They're certainly a form of storytelling, however, which must be explored--and as interactive, imaginative storytelling there are all kinds of things to be explored.

And yeah, I'm definitely going to be exploring positive vs. negative storytelling.  I don't think all violent and sexual video games are bad, but I do think there is something to be examined in the way that such games are narrated and formulated.

Anyway, time to ask my professor for papers/books on a. homosocial desire and b. sex and violence written as inseparable constructs.  I suspect that the latter is going to be a very, very fruitful zone of research.

(Of course, I also promised myself that I would do a thorough two or three readthroughs of the Hunchback of Notre Dame this summer, as well as a thorough study of the history of art and the basic principles of architecture, so who knows how much time I will have =/)

[Duke 2.0]

 Videogames are the next evolution of storytelling in the sense that movies were the next step after books. It's another medium with which to use. It's not necessarily better due to years of experience with what works with the previous medium and there are some things books can convey that movies cannot. Gaming is also still in its early adaptation days, and while there have been a lot of gems out there a lot of room is still left for exploration and experimentation. I wouldn't worry too much about violent mainstream games and their effect on progress. Trashy romance novels are still around, but they are not a problem to 'serious' works available.

[Vector]

Ah, no, I don't mean that at all.  I meant more in terms of how violence seems to be explored more as a mainstream phenomenon through video phenomena, which is interesting to me.  No worries about progress, just... curiosity

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I think it's just a phase of interest, much like the era of slasher movies for film.

[Vector]

I think it's just a phase of interest, much like the era of slasher movies for film.

This is a good point.  I'll keep it in mind.

[Bohandas]

He's pulling your leg. "Hydroxil acid" is a spin on the dihydrogen monoxide joke

My preferred version is "Hydrogen Hydroxide", which i think is actually closer to correct nomenclature anyway.

[SalmonGod]

Interactivity implies direct cognitive involvement, which increases potential emotional and intellectual impact.

I think literature has the same thing.  It requires more active involvement by the reader than watching a film, because it takes willing participation to interpret words into mental images and comprehension, where in a popcorn flick a person can just sit back and vegetate passively while bombarded with sounds and images.

But video games combine the two and more.  Modern video games, especially, almost always make use of every major art form (music, literature, sculpture, painting, film, architecture, etc), which makes for the potential to combine the strengths of every one without sacrificing the weaknesses each has individually.

But that's just my opinion.

[ChairmanPoo]

I don't think that's true. A movie can also demand involvement, and a book -or text- can be read casually without getting involved as well.