Bleeping Lobster @ Transcendant @lemmy.world

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I'd say that's significant. Your liver is probably kinda creaking under the combined strain.

Have a serious think about your drinking, as if you are actually alcoholic / addicted then it could be harmful to go cold turkey instead of reducing gradually. I know from experience it's really hard to say no especially if your social life revolves around pubs / bars & clubs. But it's certainly not impossible, you've got this.

Interesting, thanks. My mum has it (FLD), but she rarely drinks, just quite overweight unfortunately (cue the mum jokes lol). My dad has a condition I call 'microliver', he went through years and years of blood tests then liver biopses before a surgeon opened him up for something more than a core sample... and in his words "laughed at how small the liver was". He gets drunk exceptionally quickly!

So genetically I'm double-fucked. Starting to get the same 'weird' gamma GT levels in my blood tests and being told I'm an alcoholic (as my dad did for 2 decades in the air force before they discovered what's up), I do drink but prob about once a fortnight. I'm much taller than him though so maybe I just have a miniliver instead of a microliver :)

It's fairly normal to suddenly find hangovers are a big problem as we get older... it feels like one day you're able to go out, knock back a hideous amount of booze, then bounce back the next day ready to do it all over again... and all of a sudden those two pints of beer create the hangover from hell.

Not sure about tolerance though. What country are you in... is it easy / cost effective to get a liver test done? It might be down to lots of perfectly natural factors... if you lost weight; if you have a different diet (some foods 'soak up' alcohol better than others and cause it to be absorbed more gradually, if you're drinking on a salad instead of say, pasta you'll see a difference); you could be drinnking different beers.

Also, if you've had significant weight gain, this causes your liver to get fatty, which puts a strain on it; I'm not a medical professional but would think that could have an effect too.

No idea what the heck is going on, just happy to part of the hooman game!

I just make a record-scratch sound instead of say the word if it's in a song I'm singing. If people think that's lame then I'll live with that. I do NOT want to get comfortable saying that word; I'm the same shade as printer paper.

I had a friend get very comfortable with the phrase "yeaaahhh, ma nizzle" (substitute nizzle for the word it's code for, because I can confirm after using a perfectly acceptable word similar to snickering it will be removed and also I don't wanna type it).

One day, we're at a very rough pub in Digbeth. Lots of drinks had. We're all sat at a table outside, behind my friend are two very large, very black bouncers. One legit looked like the Hulk and capable of casually ripping my friend's head off. The other wasn't as muscled but still well-built and very tall. Then... my friend.... says the words. Everyone at the table kinda freezes and goes quiet. The very tall guy goes "What did he say?!" and the Hulk just shakes his head sadly and says "something stupid". Thank you Hulk for not ripping my friend's head off.

And that, boys and girls, is why you don't get comfortable saying words that aren't for you.

I wish I could exterminate the amount of times I typed 'imo' in my comment haha.

Do you notice the difference between our systems? Yours is AMD cpu / AMD gpu, mine is intel cpu / nvidia gpu. We know AMD worked with BGS to some extent to make sure Starfield was well-optimised for their gear. I had a bit of a paranoid moment during my struggles to get it running that BGS had deliberately not optimised the game for non-AMD components and this info does not assuage my paranoia haha.

The nature of PCs I guess. I ran it on an i9 12900k, 2070s GPU, 48gb ram, m2 SSD, xbox gamepass and had no end of troubles. Even once I got it running, a majority of quests (inc main quests) were bugged to the point I had to use console commands to get past the bugs.

I'm by far not the only one. People were crashing on console! That's insane. We now pay to be bugtesters.

Everlasting gobstopper

Thank god for Xbox game pass,

Same. I'd have been very disappointed if I paid full price, at £7.99 I don't feel hard done by. It's a decent game but Bethesda should be capable of so much better considering the time & money spent on the game.

It took me a whole week of mucking about and bugtesting just to get the game to run without crashing every couple of minutes. It's bizarre to me how attached some people seem to be to the idea that the game is up to the standard we expected (not saying you are, but just look at some of the comments that have been downvoted)

The development started right after Fallout 4, so I feel like 8 years of development is a pretty long time and if it had to be rushed out, there had to be some management problems.

That's a really good point tbf. 8 years, and this is what they released!

I've completed the game and agree, while it is an engaging game in some aspects, many systems felt 'mile wide / inch deep'. Especially the AI. And I fucking hated the stealth, it just didn't seem to work (though apparently a big reason for that is, many of us had armour 'set to invisible in settlement' which meant we're tramping around with all our armour on, which makes us very visible / audible even though we can't see the armour ourselves).

I got a strong sense of laziness from so many aspects of the game, but now I've had more time to think about it... it's more likely yet another case of upper management forcing the game out earlier than the devs wanted. Same thing happened with CP2077.

Upper management often doesn't give a shit about the game at all, all they're interested in is how much money it's going to make; so the longer it's in dev, the more times it gets pushed back, the harder they're chomping at the bit to just release it already.

I think we’re talking past each other.

Sorry if it's devolved to that! It's not me downvoting your replies btw. As far as I'm concerned this is an interesting conversation not an argument, we both clearly feel strongly / passionately about our viewpoint and imo are being fairly cogent / non-combative with each other.

Re Al Jazeera, I've found their reporting difficult to trust for a while, and their current reporting imo is very strongly biased against Israel. EG the hospital blast, which many indie sources are now saying is almost certainly not due to an IDF strike (which they still haven't retracted), or the 'church destroyed' which turned out to be a compound that Hamas had setup in next door, with one church wall being destroyed (and obv the compound next door). Though it begs the question, where can we turn right now for genuinely independant reporting on this? Israeli sources are going to slant heavily towards Israel / IDF, Palestinian sources are going to slant heavily towards Palestine / Hamas. Which goes back to my earlier point about taking a breath and trying, somehow, to remain objective in the face of rage-inducing content.

Not voting for either party is as powerful a message as a vote since each vote is counted and voter turnout is a very telling sign

Not sure exactly how it works in USA compared to UK, but I encourage everyone who genuinely doesn't want to vote (I say genuinely because many simply can't be bothered to engage, which I also understand when people are fatigued after a hard day's work) to spoil their ballot rather than not voting. That way your non-engagement is directly observed and counted. Though ensure you do it properly, one guy here last election drew a dick on the ballot paper, but because the helmet strayed into a box, that was taken as his vote.

Democrats snubbed Bernie in 2016 in favor of Hillary and fucked its voter base which cost them and us their supporters the elections and unleashed 4 years of hell on this country

Agreed. But, after that happened, you had an unpalatable choice between 'holding your nose' to vote for a candidate who wasn't fucking insane, or staying home. That might not be the choice you wanted but it's still a choice that enabled the election of Trump.

You're right, I cannot find any recent articles of Biden personally calling for ceasefire (though I can find historical articles of him calling for ceasefires last time this conflict flared up). I can however find lots and lots of articles re progressive dems calling for ceasefire and putting pressure on him to do likewise. This is what I meant by 'stronger voice from inside'. You have no voice on the outside.

Anything that stands between me and tasty sauce can get in the sea. If I want water I'll pour a glass haha.

Again, I get where you're coming from, but this is how America ended up with Trump. Many people were convinced to stay home and 'not vote' for Clinton. Biden, Starmer, whichever politician you want to smear as being 'complicit in genocide' is being quite vocal in calls for aid and a ceasefire. The reality doesn't match with how you're allowing people to paint it for you.

Now more than ever, we all need to make a concerted effort not to be lead by our feels. Burned babies and tortured civvies are enraging. Cutting off water / supplies / energy is enraging. Tieing a group of children together and setting them on fire is enraging. Bombing Gaza is enraging. The hard-right Israeli government AND the Islamic fundies want us to be enraged because that's when we make rash judgements and allow the situation to become further enflamed.

Your voice is stronger from the inside than sitting with tape over your mouth in your house. Imo.

You're welcome clacks claws approvingly

Oh that's good and bad! Hopefully they saw the funny(bone) side.

He looks like he's seeing some serious shit!