Kubo and the Two Strings. Some of the story elements are a bit too obvious, but the overall story is charming and the art style (stop motion with puppet-like characters) is just plain cool.
Kirikou and the Sorceress. Wonderfully weird with an interesting story
Triplets of Belleville. The entire movie is “told” without words, except for a single sentence right at the start and one right at the end.
Games:
Terranigma (SNES). Main characters revives / creates an entire world that was doomed ages ago. It’s kind of bittersweet when you’re done reviving the continents, plants and animals and then the humans start f*cking stuff up. Great music and visuals too, despite being 16-Bit style
Ōkami. One of my all-time favorites but due to minimal marketing, not many people are aware that this game even exists. Charming art style and interesting gameplay concept.
I just recently played through Terranigma! It’s the third of a unofficial trilogy of similar Enix titles that I played as a child: SoulBlazer and Illusion of Gaia. Terranigma didn’t make it to the USA for some reason.
Maybe it’s a regional thing then…? I’m in Germany and noone I know of has heard about either one. I wouldn’t be surprised tho if those two got the attention they deserve in other parts of the world.
What you are missing is that Okami bombed and capcom made no money with it, it’s THE example of a great game that consumers ignored. It’s more popular now than back then.
Okami was really fun. I will say that going back to play it now the NPC talking sound the murmuring gets really old fast. I still enjoyed everything else.
I think many of these classifications are caused simply by doctors refusing to say “I just don’t know” and patients refusing to accept that they really don’t and probably never will…
Take IBS. We are supposed to believe that there is a disease with no known cause, so many possible triggers and influencers that anyone can find some that fit and wildly varying symptoms… something similar could probably be said for many other “syndromes”. Of course all of those people have something else or a combination of something else but nobody wants to admit they just don’t know and everyone wants a diagnosis.
IBS is also a more generic condition with Crohns and Colitis being related conditions with identifiable physiology and treatments. The “cause” isn’t known but it’s similar with genetically susceptible individuals having environmental, bacterial, immune factors. Immunomodulators being frontline treatments.
Your take on this is interesting, I have Crohn’s disease so I’m always trying to learn as much about it and other autoimmune diseases as I can (I have zero background in medical science, everything I know is based off my pursuit of learning more). If I understand what you’re saying correctly, rather than say Lupus from your example just being “Lupus”, it should be more like diabetes where there is “Type 1” diabetes, “Type 2”, etc?
For myself, I know that my condition has a very strong physical component to it, but part of that is also influenced by psychological factors as well - when I’m more stressed, then my condition flares up even worse than it normally would for example (and is one reason I’ve been pushing heavily on trying to get things treated on the psychiatry side of things).
I don’t suppose there’s anywhere to read more up on what you’re referring to?
Crohns as well and infliximab the immunomodulator has basically had me in clinical remission after surgeries. For me it doesn’t seem to be psychologically related or even diet, given that I don’t just eat hot spicy foods constantly, but I eat all the “bad” foods and tolerate fiber etc. The microbiome thing seems to make sense in my case, I’ve had one significant flare in the last decade and it definitely had that feeling of a runaway feedback loop of inflammation. Infliximab basically binds to those inflammatory proteins and cuts that loop.
That was actually the first immunomodulator I tried and it went very well for me (I was about 14 years old when I first started it)! It led me to the closest form of remission that I have ever been in. Unfortunately, due to some bad circumstances I wasn’t able to take it for over a year (might’ve been two now that I think about it) and I’m sure you’re aware but for those who don’t know, generally after being off any immunomodulator for a certain amount of time, you’re not allowed to take it anymore due to the chances of building up antibodies that make it ineffective (and can lead to severe allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis).
Since then I’ve been on pretty much most of the other ones, I’m on Stelara now and while I’ve been told it’s preventing more damage from occurring, it can’t reverse the damage that has already been done (from things like scar tissue) - even after numerous resections it’s still pretty bad for me.
However, I have noticed that when my depression isn’t so active, then my symptoms aren’t as bad - it’s not a miracle cure by any means and still doesn’t bring me to that previous point of remission, it’s still enough for me to find it worth pursuing.
Of course, multiple doctors have concluded that my on-and-off depression is due to having a chronic illness, and my current psychiatrist is attempting to treat it as if I had BPD (something about the way it works chemically in my brain is probably similar to that of someone with BPD). Hopefully that gets me out of the vicious cycle of my Crohn’s triggering my depression, which triggers my Crohn’s in a catch-22 style loop.
I do find that I certainly have some bad foods (I really miss popcorn) but there are things that affect others supposedly that don’t affect me, such as soda and other carbonated drinks (oddly enough I’ve heard for some Crohn’s patients carbonated drinks can actually help them, so maybe I’m one of those?) - until I reach remission I just continue to try to push on trying as much as I can, since numerous GIs over the years just have zero clue on how to further help me sadly.
(They did make things significantly worse for me by having me on Prednisone for multiple years at a time, but that’s another long story)
Have a prednisone horror story as well, couldn’t taper off without severe withdrawal and it led to me needing emergency surgery after an ulcer rupture, which led to my resections and eventual clinical remission. Did they actually test you for antibodies against infliximab or is that just a general safety precaution they’re following? I was off it for a couple months because of coverage issues but they had no problem starting me on it again and following normal infusion protocols. I think I’ve been on it for 15 years now. My GI specialist was one of the first in the area to start with the “top-down” approach for treatment around when I had my surgeries. Etrolizumab looked promising but the Phase III failed to deliver unfortunately, was hoping for that one if I had issues with infliximab.
They did test me for antibodies and I was positive for them sadly. That’s quite a horrifying story for prednisone though, ironically I’ve always had a difficult time with the withdrawal symptoms from it during a taper-down of it, whereas with something like most opioids I pretty much have zero problem stopping them even abruptly, aside from a headache for a few days. For me I was never told about the long-term side effects from prolonged usage of prednisone, which I’m now being forced to deal with - an example of such is that it decayed most of the calcium/enamel in my teeth so this whole year I’ve had numerous root canals, fillings, and tooth extractions done and its not even over with. Honestly, I’m afraid of needing dentures before I even hit 40 (and I’m in my mid twenties)… Then there’s the high chance of bone density issues, which I’m sure I’ll end up with (if I don’t already have such issues)… and I still have yet to shed all of the extra weight that I gained from it.
Works wonders for some people on a short term basis, but I’ll never choose to be on prednisone ever again, short of some very exigent circumstances… and even then, I don’t want to fall into the problem of starting it and not being able to be pulled off of it without declining again really rapidly (which is what led to me staying on it for so long).
Even Crohn’s has different subtypes that are suspected to explain why different Crohn’s patients respond differently to the same treatments. Much like the comment about lupus. Crohn’s also is much more complicated than the general public is aware.
For example, it is well established that there is a subset of people with Crohn’s disease who go into remission while taking an antidepressant called bupropion and we have no idea why. No one believes this is because these people’s Crohn’s was caused by a psychological problem, but rather that the bupropion appears to have effects on the immune system that aren’t well understood. And this appears to only work in certain people. Do those people have a different “kind” of Crohn’s? Different underlying genetic response to bupropion? Those questions aren’t as easy to answer as you might think.
But isn’t it outcome based? No matter how you process information, if your conclusions lead you to a sub-optimal solution to problems, whatever they are in whatever context, isn’t that “dumber” than someone that can come up with the best or better solution?
If I decide “god will provide” instead of “if I research, think and work hard enough I can fix this problem”, which one is exhibiting intelligence?
That’s just capitalism rewarding some lucky shmuck at the right place at the right time, not someone able to solve a problem faster or more intelligently.
Right so how do IQ tests work exactly? We are told they correlate with stuff but every time we dig into it we find the correlation is poor. I can’t think of a single thing humans can measure that corresponds with real world data so badly that is still taken seriously except praying for the sick.
I think it’s more accurate to say it’s a combination of both. Some brains are equally powerful overall but differently specialized. There’s also different levels of specialization via education and experience. Two people can have similar skillsets with one being more specialized than the other.
But there’s also things like brain injuries, malfunctions, and breakdowns that can reduce overall capability. With these, it’s possible to be worse at everything without anything you’re better at.
Lol, old memory popped in my head of a classmate back in highschool. She asked “won’t the US sink if it gets over populated?” She was processing information way differently.
Obesity modeled as a disease that should be treated with drugs like Ozempic. I’ll buy that it’s like that for some very small set of people, but I can’t shake the assumption that drug companies are exaggerating so they can sell more, and most of their customers are just too lazy to try proper diet and exercise.
While we’re on the topic, Gastric Bypass seems incredibly destructive and surprisingly ineffective for weight loss. One thing I could totally get into, though, is if people had access to that beta-metabolite they discovered that reduces feelings of hunger.
When you make this argument, do you argue the point yourself or do you quote and attribute Peterson? If so, with what purpose? If the argument holds by itself, there is no need to attribute everything in a casual conversation - unless that provides context, or authority. Context, in the sense of the greater opinion or works of the person; or authority, in the sense of "this topic is complex, this expert provides this view".
If you say "I find that way of thinking self-limiting", people might be willing to engage in conversation and why the disagree - or not; if you say "Jordan Peterson finds that way of thinking self-limiting", the conversation is with an external party, who happens to have said a bunch of other shit, and who happens to be introduced to people exactly like that, in shallow self-help bite-size edgy but not too-out-there videos.
As an aside, if you send people this link and you get a strong negative reaction, it might be because it is just not very good. It takes a naive and silly understanding of "you are okay the way you are" and proceeds to strawman it for a while, getting all sappy towards the end. When discussing sincerely held ideas, misconstruing the other party's position is a pretty fast way to get a hostile response.
If your release contains a single change and something goes wrong, you’ve got a pretty good idea of where the problem is before you even start to look.
If the friction of creating a release is low (with automated tooling) and updating is (typically) automatic there’s not really a good reason to not release as often as possible in most cases.
Given the amount of videos on these games you’d think they were super popular and well known, but when they were brand new nobody knew about 'em. To this day, I rarely find anyone who actually played them when they were first launched on an actual DOS computer and not through GOG and DOSBox.
Even today, it’s rare that I run into people who know how awesome they are. They had it all; bitchin’ graphics, insane action, amazing FMV with actual acting and costumes… Other than the controls, they still hold up today.
sometimes I feel like Nintendo’s Custom Robo series counts as only 2 games ever existed outside of Japan: Custom Robo [Battle Revolution] for Gamecube, and Custom Robo Arena for DS. Luckily there’s been 3 spiritual successors since then: Cyberspace Colosseum,WizardPunk, and Battlecore Robots.
There’s also this B-movie from the 60s called The Creation of the Humanoids. It’s not that spectacular per se, but it is the source of the “You are a robot” sample used in Powerman 5000’s When Worlds Collide and the Metal Arms: Glitch in the System theme music.
My dad brought home “Xexyz” for NES one year. I have never heard anyone ever reference this game in any nostalgia reviews and had to actually go look up the name myself after vaguely remembering it as that side-scroling NES game that started with an x.
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