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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I love my PS5.

    But I also just got a Ryzen 9 5900x for $300 off, I have a RTX 2070 Super. My PS5 can play games with HDR at 4k at 30fps. Big ol 65" screen. With the Ryzen 7 3700x I could get like 70 FPS on cyberpunk 2077 on my 2k monitor 27" screen, no HDR with DLSS3 enabled.

    The processor upgrade alone was an huge boost to game quality for $250. Since I now don’t have to replace all my internals to utilize an RTX 4080 Super, I’m getting one of those.

    The RTX 4080 Super has an HDMI 2.1 port, so I can use VRR on my TV and enjoy the 120hz smooth frame rate.

    The PS5 pro is essentially the same as the PS4 Pro was the last generation. It you have a PS5, you won’t notice a huge difference.


  • Yikes. So this isn’t about me, it’s about 4 people who had lumbar or sacrum disc bulges/ruptures. Also over different points in time where medicine advanced.

    First was a music conductor about 22 years ago, 35-40 y/o. He opted for the surgery at the time. Full quick recovery. At the time it was about 50/50 for full recovery, or worsening of the issues.

    Second was a family member about 21 years ago, ~40 y/o he opted out of the surgery for deep steroid injections and physical therapy. It took about a year and a half, but it resolved, and no problems since.

    Third was about 12 years ago. Again early 40s, opted for surgery. Surgery was a success, but didn’t resolve it nearly as quickly or as well as the first person.

    Fourth was ~6 years ago, late 20s. Long history of back problems do to sports related compressions when she was younger (she was a ‘flyer’ in cheerleading). She was told she’d be an excellent candidate for the newest minimally invasive technique, but opted out of surgery and got the injections like the second person. However it did not, and has not resolved. She still refuses the surgery. It limits her ability to bend over, and get to the ground, still has pain and sciatica. She regularly sees a chiropractor (against the recommendations of everyone).

    I think, nowadays, a good orthopedic doctor will be able to give you the best care. It’s not fun, but it doesn’t need to be as scary as it used to be. Plus the symptoms can always get worse. You’re doing the right thing and listening to your body.






  • Testicular torsion, left untreated for a minimum of 12 hours when I started puking from the pain, that’s when I got to the ER. Some anti-nausea and morphine through an IV got me into a ultrasound when the motherfucking resident found the twist and made sure I was on an active dose of morphine and tried to untwist it without anesthesia. Jesus fucking lord Christ in hell, nothing can’t undo that pain. (Cue 17 years later I discovered it helped me develop PTSD ).

    Right up there was a pneumothorax where the ketamine didn’t work and the pain meds were pretty shit when they put in the emergency chest tube. You know, scalpel through skin, muscle whatever is between ribs and plueral cavity. I was tripping balls so I felt the stabbing while I left my body and observed getting cut into (probably from the mirror light above me). Also contributed to PTSD I learned.

    Not so bad as those but still almost made me puke from pain was an EMG on my hand to diagnose how bad my carpal tunnel was. The neurologist went straight for a nerve I guess and is was a lightning bolt of pain that didn’t stop until he took the needle out.

    You’re probably thinking now “Jesus you’ve probably got a high pain tolerance” and no, quite the opposite actually. Prior to some intense therapy, pain in any amount always led to panic attacks, as my brain had made a leap from pain = bad to pain = literally dying.



  • This is grade AA, top tier shitpost which means over analyzing is my specialty.

    First I read it as “Ghost of Chris Pratt” and the answer is yes, it would be a normal ghost.

    Then I read it correctly as Ghost of Christmas Past, and my answer is - maybe, but the ghost is able to bring the victim into events of their past lives, I think he could take Pac-Man back to a time where he ate a ghost that he didn’t realize what he had done, make him regret eating ghosts and prevent the ghost of Christmas past from being eaten at all.

    1. Slimer - yes, regular ghost, just messy and he’ll need a napkin.
    2. Do you mean Samara? Or is this a different The Ring. If Samara - yes, seems to follow the same rules as the ghosts in Pac-Man.
    3. Yes, he could, but that would imply Pac-man sleeps and dreams. If he doesn’t do those things how will he interact with Freddy pointy hands?
    4. No. The clown from “It” is an established demon, not a deceased person bound to this world.
    5. No. The ring wraiths are a weird kind of undead in that they are multiplaner and still both men yet their bodies no longer exist in our plane, yet have some sort of magic clothing that gives them form in our world. Essentially they didn’t die, so they aren’t ghosts.

    Over analyzing shitposts is my specialty