Past week was filled with dreams driven by anxiety towards the new school year. My subconscious is asking questions I don't think about while I'm awake and this is taking a hilarious toll on my sleep quality and general mood. At least it's bound to stop in approx 2 days.
Posts made by noob
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RE: Dreams Discussion Thread
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RE: Brook vs. Zeff (this time for real)
Or it's just the "VOTING FRO STRAWHATS ISN'T COOL" crowd. Regardless, Zeff is my second favorite grandpa.
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RE: Brook vs. Zeff
pls punish everyone who voted for 2 characters instead of 1
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RE: 2014 APCT Fourth Round: The Eighth Finals Discussion Thread
Laaame. Nobody likes kicking people when they're down.
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RE: 2014 APCT Fourth Round: The Eighth Finals Discussion Thread
Are you people arleady waving the white flag?
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RE: Chapter 758: Ignore it and move on
You know, when I was told that the same gag knocks out Sugar AGAIN, I thought it was a joke.
WTF???
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RE: 2014 APCT Fourth Round: The Eighth Finals Discussion Thread
Match 1: Brook vs Zeff
Match 2: Franky vs Satori
Match 3: Doflamingo vs Bartolomeo! 'Cos i'm a woman eating monster
With a suitcase full of fire
And pink flamingos decorate my yard
Match 4: Sabo vs Robin
Match 5: Enel vs Moriah & Aphelandra
Match 6: Law vs Sanji (I'd like to see them both go on; might end up voting for the one behind and regretting it later)
Match 7: Crocodile vs Koala (The REVENGE OF GEDACE)
Match 8: Luffy vs Jinbe -
RE: Law vs. Tom
Think how much our friendship wouldn't change if you voted for Law! Because I judge you by the content of your character and not whom you vote for. :ninja:
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RE: Law vs. Tom
Law is sending a wink your way, wheTHER YOU WANT TO BE WINKED AT OR NOT!!1
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RE: Satori vs. Cavendish
The cabbage merchant never wins.
AaaHhHAaH THE SUSPENSE -
RE: Satori vs. Cavendish
16 chars of HxH reference?
Yes, just mine managed to be even scribblier.
Cavendish would murder himself if he was forced to suffer Togashi's laziness in drawing his beauty…
I wholeheartedly agree!
Another hard match..thanks AP forums.
For the last time, I need a Cirno/Mawile campaign.
Yeah..You know the thrill.
:ninja:
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RE: Jabra vs, Franky
I hope you're going to add "best drawn poster" to the AP awards because I've just found my personal winner.
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RE: Nami vs. Bartolomeo
I think we can think the Barto song
Sorry Nami-senpai
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RE: Drawings by noob
@indigo~ink:
I love the family picture, saw it in the chapter thread and it made me laugh.
I felt it deserved an update!
Makes me wanna draw a "what if Rebecca had taken after her dad not her mum" scenario.
I know, right?! It's not like I ever had high expectations for Rebecca but having daddy on scream dial was just so uncalled for. I'm still harboring a hope that she does SOMETHING instead of sitting there and cheering Kyros on; after all, they are fighting on a cliff, not like she's been using her surroundings as an advantage her whole gladiator career, ye? :'(
Rebecca did do one thing right: she made me appreciate Vivi a hell lot more.
Is there any meaning to Kyros "ask me about my other kingdom"? Or Rebecca "don't cry for me Argentina"? Isn't Scarlet the third mum to be shot?
The potrait is absolutely hilarious. XD- Yes! Kyros reminds me of King Cobra a lot, so that's more of an allusion to Alabasta.
- I had to have something with cry on Rebecca's shirt, but cry baby would've been too cruel.
- You know, you're right. In the sketching stage I did write #3, but then I remembered Olvia and thought that she was shot as well (albeit non-fatally). Turns out, no. But who knows how many mothers got shot off screen?!
Glad it amused you!
That Marco is incredible!!
Love it love it love it.
@krule274:
That family portrait is hilarious.
Thank you thank you thank you!!
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RE: Drawings by noob
I hope it wasn't a permanent explosion.
Anyway, thanks to Rebecca breaking my heart one chapter at a time, I dedicate this to her and her closest family.
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RE: Kuzan vs. Robin
I don't really care for either, but wow, the smiling Robin (Jabra always nails the creepiest smile possible) poster and the "frozen" Kuzan one…I'll see who needs help later on, I guess.
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RE: Sabo vs. Zoro
Found another Marimo on deviantart.
Your Zoro drawing is the best thing i've seen all day, thank you for the good laugh.
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RE: Sanji vs. Bellemere
No, it's actually Makino!
-Biological mother
-Didn't get shot yet
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RE: Drawings by noob
You… Are amazing... DO BENN BECKMAN! DRINKING COFFEE AND I'LL LOVE YOU FOREVER (coffee must be a must on the Red Force considering all the parties they have xD They must all wake up with hangovers lol)
At this point I can only repost my Parrot + Benn drawing. Perhaps someday! Course I can add a bootleg arm with a cup of java…but that'd just be cruel.
Both .access timeco. and killax, thank you so much!
And another request from aaaaaages ago. Don't ask me why she has a golf club.
I hope you can tell who that is, because I removed all the animal parts.
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! It looks better if you don't zoom in )))
! >! those goddamn socks took an ungodly amount of time, I was thiiiiiss close to setting them on fire. Figurativelly, of course.Special thanks to lef for helping me with the shoes.
My final regret is that she doesn't have blue hair :'(
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RE: Sanji vs. Bellemere
Bellemere looks so happy, I'm almost sorry for giving my vote to mr. spooky eyebrow.
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RE: Luffy vs Bon
Oh, I break into tears at the end of Alabasta alright. Tears of joy. "Oh god it's finally over"
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RE: 2014 APCT Third Round: Return of the King Discussion Thread
The most disturbing thing in this picture is the purple snot.
Zeff beating Usopp just goes to show that you can't mess with geezers unless you're a cute animal.
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RE: Urouge vs. Jinbe
Thank you noob! :D
A quick reminder that you can submit your own drawings for a lot of the upcoming matches! -
RE: Urouge vs. Jinbe
Well, because the Urouge poster is bound to give me nightmares…
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RE: Gedatsu vs. Clock Dell
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And this is how Gedatsu's careless tourney journey ends. Him making it to round 3 was not something I expected at all and I want to thank everyone who voted. Again. May the spirit of carelesness not cause you much harm!
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RE: Donquixote Doflamingo Vs. Montblanc Noland
Can't put my finger on it. I'm obviously talking about the wanted poster, the real Noland reminds me of christmas.
Well, yeah, canon Noland is (by some shmuck in the ocean):
Just like Christmas, I guess. VOTE NOLAND!
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RE: Donquixote Doflamingo Vs. Montblanc Noland
Noland reminds me of a boy I went to school with, 3. grade. He ate his boogers every once in a while, pretty disgusting tbh.
Is it the dopey expression?
Vote Nola(nd) the explorer!
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RE: Donquixote Doflamingo Vs. Montblanc Noland
These new wanted posters are amazing.
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RE: Chapter 756: The 4th level
BUT NUT CRACKERS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO CRACK ANYTHING! THEIR SOLE PURPOSE IN LIFE IS TO BREAK INSTANTLY WHENEVER A NUT (or a horse skull) IS INSERTED INTO THEIR MOUTH!
Aside from that, very enjoyable chapter.
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RE: Filler Match! Best One Piece LEGS
@Light:
Why am I slightly creeped out by 18th option? :ninja:
Because you don't want to be another boy toy.
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RE: 2014 APCT Third Round: Return of the King Discussion Thread
Cabbage got the toughest opponent I see.
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RE: Kuzan vs Kaku vs Apoo vs Tom
I'm not buying Kitsune Inferno's act, he still didn't tell those darn kids to get off his lawn.
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RE: Kuzan vs Kaku vs Apoo vs Tom
@.access:
There is this old maasai tale about a giraffe, a pufferfish and a musician.
They were on a race, and the pufferfish and the musician took the lead. They never cared about the giraffe because she wasn't as fast as them and she fell behind. During almost the entire race they were head to head, but when they were about to cross the finish line, the giraffe, who was far behind, propelled her stretchable neck and her head crossed the line. And this is how the Mount Kilimanjaro came to be.
I think it's obvious Oda based those characters and this match in that tale so we should honor his will. :ninja:
Ya know, the neck propelling I can buy, but really, a puffer fish being a threat in a race?
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RE: Random News Article Discussion II
@Purple:
For some conditions I suppose you could say it's the placebo effect, and even with modern medicine a lot of conditions being healed can be attributed to the body's own resilience to it, but that doesn't mean it works for 99.9% of patients, especially when they have cancer.
Not to mention the shit we chuck down daily; there are people from developed countries who are malnourished thanks to a poor diet; when you combine antibiotics/antibacterials/antivirals from food with the same substances, just in more concentrated doses for medical reasons, body resilience drops, in some cases we can't even fight the simplest infections back.
With Vitamin C, adverse effects begin happening over >2000 mg because your kidney can't filter it out quick enough and it helps promote kidney stones, but before then your body just pisses out anything more than your maximum capacity.
That's because Vitamin C is water soluble, though. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat soluble though and require storage somewhere in your body (often your liver), and those vitamins in particular as a result can be toxic at higher levels much more easily.
As for inhibition of function, I wouldn't necessarily say that for Vitamin C, nor is there a feedback loop to stop the whole process in terms of how it works. Going along with the lines of just pissing out the excess, the body just doesn't deal with anything above its capacity. Vitamin D production and its regulation? Sure, because Vitamin D can't really be called a "Vitamin" because your body makes it yourself, but Vitamin C, I'm not aware of what you'd mean by something being complementary in terms of that aspect.
I purely meant that as from a general standpoint regarding all vitamins/minerals (normal doses) - your body cannot absorb a vitamin/mineral properly if there's not enough correlating vitamin/mineral in your "storage" already; and vice versa, some minerals/vitamins hinder the absorbtion; general deficiency can initiate macro/microelement depletion (for instance, if you lack calcium, your magnesium storage starts to deplete as well).
As for the vitamin C being complementary (or having complementary antioxidants), I was thinking about the antioxidant work mechanism. I'd elaborate, but I can't find the info I need to check if I'm not actually hallucinating this.In theory it's not, although a problem is that they don't just fade out after not yielding results, but the big problem for Pauling's in particular is having the "Father of Molecular Biology" endorse it (prior to his death… guess that Vitamin C treatment didn't help out too much there with his Prostate Cancer) and have his name on the institute gives a false sense of legitimacy to the movement.
I guess the nobel prize helps push it as well. ))
And you'd be totally right for that one!
There's also this huge barrier regarding medical texts in general; you need a prior education (even connect the dots skills) to actually understand what they're saying (from a technical standpoint of course. You don't need much skill to deduce that "fatal" means "you die".) Synthesis chains with all those fancy enzyme acronyms are particularly spooky.
In reality, hemorrhagic fevers have a relatively high ratio of deaths to survivors, but survivors are possible dependent on their immune system.
This Ebola outbreak sounds really bad (let's be honest, it is, but relatively speaking to the western world, not so much), and from articles I've read, a lot of them only throw the snippet about how experts are saying "don't panic we're watching every step of this" around the end of the article.
It makes sense why these particular fevers usually hit and spread in underdeveloped countries, but then again, in the first world we have faith healers (how is that NOT bad juju); various local charlatans with the mindset that the room is cold because you're dying and not because there's a breeze entering through the window; paranoid people in general; and of course, the internet.
Again, that's where our lifestyle is faulty. In many cases people tend to not combat their illness, instead all they is seek symptomatic relief (understandable, really), when in reality, most well known symptoms are the body's own immune system fighting back. A physician ready to give you pills instead of getting to the root of the problem (as long as you don't protest!) isn't that uncommon either.
Okay, that last part may be biased, because in my country healthcare is free; job quality drops thanks to the really shitty conditions doctors have to work in and corruption is rampant.And thank you as well for the thoughtful discussion!
It's a pleasure. )
Alright, I'm gonna throw some pure speculation at you regarding ebola (medicine is not my field, I am sorry in advance for a lot of possible ignorance.)
Stumbled upon a bit of information regarding the Zaire strain; a theory was brought up, that ebola virus first attacks the cells with the highest selenium concentration; once the virus depletes the cells of selenium, it continues onwards through the body in search for more. Naturally, enough research isn't conducted. This was brought up because the soil in Zaire (currently Democratic Republic of the Congo) lacked selenium; in turn, so did the citizens. Selenium is required for proper antioxidant enzyme activity.
1)There is some correlation between HIV and the ebola virus; they both use the same protein to bud from infected cells. In some cases, alongside normal HIV treatment, big doses of vitamin C are administered as well. "One study has found evidence that people taking vitamin C and vitamin E showed a trend towards reduced viral load after three months of treatment, although the result did not reach statistical significance." Again, not enough research, not enough positive results to be used statistically are available.
2)Antioxidants and free radicals: they either react together, neutralizing each other in the process; sometimes upon reaction an antioxidant might become a less active and dangerous free radical; also antioxidants act as electron donors to damaged cells. So, keeping this in mind:
If you have a lot of free radicals rampaging freely through your body and you take a lot of antioxidant - in this case, megadosing vit. C (with bowel tolerance), would the adverse effects, such as kidney damage still be as prevalent?Yes, you've mentioned this already
Absolutely. In fact that's part of the reason why inflammation in general can be detrimental because even outside the setting of Ebola, neutrophils work by eating up stuff and releasing a bunch of free radicals to destroy the stuff. Usually it's contained, but some stuff leaks out and destroys some cells which is what the presence of antioxidants such as Vitamin C, Vitamin E, among others, is necessary, but just chucking in a bunch of Vitamin C alone ain't gonna help it much in terms of dampening the overall systemic effects.
In theory, if you combined current ebola treatment with a steady supply of vit. C., is it possible to achieve a decreased mortality rate? I want your personal opinion on this.
In conclusion, lack of research, no proof of strong correlation and positive results regarding the stuff i've written above makes this discussion somewhat pointless, but I'm just overly curious.
Wow, my post sounds grim. Gonna add some good news then
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 -
RE: Kuzan vs Kaku vs Apoo vs Tom
Cause that particular poo cut an admiral in half with music and has a trumpet arm.
Enough said.
Tough shit, the mental image is hilarious. Okay then.
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RE: 2014 APCT Second Round: Crazy Train Discussion Thread
@Zar:
Unless he goes up against Gedatsu. I don't know if I could handle that matchup.
This is the scariest thing i've read all evening.
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RE: 2014 APCT Second Round: Crazy Train Discussion Thread
At least bad puns are still prevalent
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RE: 2014 APCT Second Round: Crazy Train Discussion Thread
This tourney is too weird.
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RE: Moriah & Aphelandra vs Kinemon vs Jabra vs Garp
@Lef:
http://djwanker.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/10-awkward-cake.jpg
Just like Gedatsu likes it.
Sorry there are no instructions as to how to eat this cake properly"thak you" for the cake! Even if it's a lie. :cwy:
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RE: Random News Article Discussion II
@Purple:
Oh, I can definitely understand why these claims are made and why people would be absolutely easily take them in, among factors such as
- cost
- lack of perceived knowledge, so the guy who claims to have the MD or really any method on the internet that is the "magic bullet" is something worth trying because no other option works
- The mix of truth and lies in the explanation sounds particularly convincing.
Can't really blame #1), hazmat suits are pretty expensive. In general, precaution isn't that well practiced.
#2) In desperate situations hope is the best bait.
#3) I won't deny, these articles always sound super confident, even if it's utter bullshit. (THE MOON IS FAKE, GUYS!)Homeopathy's "truth" is that "the dose makes the poison"
"Vodka is a cure for many illnesses, except alcoholism"
Vitamin C really is an antioxidant and plays some role (but not nearly a strong enough role to be a panacea) in the immune system, and I remember reading a thing about treating cancer with a naturopathic diet that they claimed was published by "John Hopkin" (read: not Hopkins) University
The placebo effect, I assume? What works for patient A will kill patient B.
Well shit, at least they're not suggesting hourly distilled water injections.If that's the consequence, then the first thing you should notice for the 30% surviving the disease is something of a scurvy effect due to the lack of collagen."Zero" Vitamin C has actual observable effects other than possible death due to the immune system breakdown.
Isn't vitamin C important for collagen synthesis?
Absolutely. In fact that's part of the reason why inflammation in general can be detrimental because even outside the setting of Ebola, neutrophils work by eating up stuff and releasing a bunch of free radicals to destroy the stuff.
Usually it's contained, but some stuff leaks out and destroys some cells which is what the presence of antioxidants such as Vitamin C, Vitamin E, among others, is necessary, but just chucking in a bunch of Vitamin C alone ain't gonna help it much in terms of dampening the overall systemic effects.True, because vitamin/mineral absorbtion is dependant on related vitamin/mineral concentration/lack. If you have one but don't have the other your body won't get any benefit and can further ihibit the function of, let's say, vitamin C. Also, aren't antioxidants complementary (I hope i'm using this word properly) as well? If their chain gets broken in one part, it negates their whole effect?
It helps a lot when Linus Pauling opened his own institute of orthomolecular medicine or whatever it's called, purely devoted to Vitamin C research basically, especially with a few other quacks opening similar joints.
If it weren't for bias, I wouldn't call it a fundamentally bad thing.
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Still makes it a pain though because of what I think your point is though, which is that people can find all these random articles pretty easily and take them as gospel.
I don't think many go that far to actually check up on what they read on the internet?
One of the appealing things I guess from a "I need to get this from a less official source to get the true story" deals, but frankly I'm appalled and offended at the quality of the sites generated if they really want to sell the idea. That might be just me, though.
Yeah, sorry for the shitty sources, it was a pain digging anything remotely worth interest up. A few links kept mentioning Lily "Pennie" Pineo (sp?) as the first white survivor of the Lassa fever (hemorrhagic). Apparently, she was a nurse that treated her disease with taking vitamin supplements. I tried searching for more, but articles kept mentioning the sole fact that she was a survivor, never elaborating on the "how".No doubt, and that's why during these times there is a stronger public health effort to try to educate people so that they don't make the wrong choice when it comes to their options for how to treat the disease.
I honestly didn't notice that, at least not where I come from. Back when swine/bird flu was all the rage, it was mostly scare tactics, GET VACCINATED, and a small "don't eat chicken/bacon, stay home, wear a mask" at the end of said article.
Problem being lack of media coverage + if a professional does speak up, there's a lot of public distrust towards the statement.Alternative medicine rustles my jimmies not only because of the lack of evidence behind it but because the true detrimental effect comes from delaying treatment by actual, proven methods, especially for ebola which spreads to medical personnel without sufficient protection or family members who take care of the sick. You can believe and practice whatever you personally believe and that's fine, but spreading such venom and selling it as such to people who would readily believe it is among the worst things you can do, at least from my standpoint.
Again, I believe this is a direct consequence of public distrust towards physicians/modern medicine in general; to err is human, but not when you have someone's life in your hands.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.