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>>9131484
>In fact just like all little boys we all
I'm a little girl.

>>9131485
Post kneecaps and be my scifu

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Homosexuals are just men who like to abuse cock as much as they like to abuse drugs.

Theres no real proof that anyone is a non-aphantesiac. ' minds eye ' and 'visualising imagery' are just handwavy ambiguous bullshit

omg thats me only that its when i read stuff i cant visualize it its all just words with no meaning

>>9131278
this, what exactly does "visualise" mean? It certainly isn't the same as looking at something.

>>9131312
Seems like it's just a disconnect between language and how your brain processes it's triggered meaning.

Yes.
For example the 4-color-theorem has been proved by a computer.

>>9130771
But not this way.

>>9130762
Read Godel Escher Bach. Douglas has some interesting ideas on this topic.

You get AIDS.

>>9130746
We don't know for sure yet, but CERN is working on resolving that age old mystery.

Spaghettification

>>9129900
>only very rich countries would be able to afford solar and wind power
The fuck are you smoking? The cost of solar and wind installations is not larger than coal plants.

>implying we'll ever run out of oil

>>9129900
Nuclear. I. Want. Nuclear.

However, it’s now harder to stop because a lot of these videogames rely on gambling mechanics like lootboxes. It is an addiction to these dopamine rushes, and since they seem to trigger the most when we anticipate a reward, not when we achieve something.
This means a game doesn’t have to be GOOD to be addictive, it just has to be addictive. This also plays into the “Sunk cost fallacy”, which means the more you have invested time or money into something, the harder it is to let go of it.

I think this does not mean ALL videogames are bad for you, I don't play Dark Souls but I think someone who does play it might be able to handle things better.
You know there's a goal, and your progress, even though it's slow, you can see that you're moving forward. Dodging and fighting a boss feels great. Failing feels like learning.
This would stimulate long-term rewards.
However, I think current videogames are mentally damaging people, and we already saw this with the previous generation addicted to games like World of Warcraft.

>>9129873
I actually agree. I have been addicted to league of legends for 7 years now. I estimate ive spent 5000-6000 Hours on the game. What do I have to show for it nothing. The games reset after about 45 minutes. I long ago stopped enjoying the game and played to feel that dopamine rush which becomes more and more rare but I play it more and more just to "kill time" and actively feel bad when I dont play it.

This addiction has placed huge stress on my social life, my relationship with my girlfriend. I perform worse at my job and often leave early or go in late or not at all because I want to play just "one game" that turns into 10 hours of gaming.

I have attempted to quit multiple times but never managed. I have written about this addiction many times but my brain tells me ohh you didnt play for a while. Now you can just enjoy the game again play one or two games with friends. Of course thats the lie every addict tells himself.

We need to actively protect our kids from this addiction. Now I am not saying everyone gets addicted no its obviously a complex interaction just as with alcohol where only 10% of users become problem drinkers (funnily enough I was also an alcoholic).

Anyway, I think the main problem is that these games are actively made to be addictive. League of Legends employs a horde of psychologists that shape how the game is designed to make it more "enjoyable". These games need clear warning labels as is seen on cigarettes. Furthermore, they need to acknowledge that a subset of users become problem users and need to facilitate treatment.

Anyway, I hope that at some point I can stop playing :). The difficulty is this game is also a major social interaction for me. Leaving it would mean leaving behind so many friends. It is the same problem faced by heroin addicts who have to cut off their old social circle of users if they want to get clean.

Anyway, yeah I think your right.

>>9129889
Thanks, it's nice to see someone agrees. Basically what caused me to wonder this is because I started playing Overwatch six months ago.
I'm an illustrator who makes art for a living, which means having to sit for hours and hours dealing with problem-solving paint and lines.
But since I started playing Overwatch I suddenly found it insanely hard to focus on painting and drawing.

As if every time I started to work I felt like, this just wasn't enough.
Usually what kept me drawing and painting was the idea of having a finished painting, but that is such a loose concept compared to "capture this point, kill the enemy, move the payload". It wasn't rewarding or stimulating compared to playing the game.

I also tried to quit over and over and kept coming back, because it would be a waste not to get the "daily xp bonus", and of course one game turned into 3-5 hours.

I'm curious if this not only causes addiction, but affects general mental health.
I became very immobile, unmotivated and felt tired all the time during that period and it took me some time to accept that I was actually suffering from depression.

I have heard that depression can be caused by how rewards and stimulation has been affected in your brain, and maybe this is me projecting things, but I've felt so much happier since trying to force myself to enjoy "long term reward" activities again like painting and reading.

I'm totally open to hearing opposing views though.

quarks and stuff

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>>9129744
And what are quarks made of?

>>9128806
That's... actually not the worst idea. I'll make the logo

That could be pretty interesting, actually

>>9128806
Yeah it's called a research institution, look it up

>>9128417
Ear salmon and sardines
Beef, eggs, dairy etc are fine but not necessary

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>>9128457
Teh fuck is an ear salmon?

>>9128417
Yes! It is totally possible.

Creatine and Carnitine are synthesized by the body and B12 comes from soil bacteria. I eat whole foods plant based and supplement with B12, D3, Iron, and Algae Omega 3's, DHA, and EPA.

It's very easy to stop eating meat altogether.

Diabetes?

>>9128154
The picture is my blood test results.

Help plz

>>9126456
The outside observer would never see it. The blackhole is still a rotating spherical mass with a surface that attracts matter like any other gravity well.

>>9126456

Time is relative. You could easily say that making an object fall towards the black hole makes everything else speed up. The object will still enter the event horizon, but >>9126557
is right to say that outside observers will never see it.

>>9126456
It all depends on the way that you observe it.

>>9134884
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>>9134884
You have to be in 8th grade to do so.
Are you in 8th grade?

>valid victorian
The first step is to look up big words to see if you're spelling them correctly.

Next, always put school first and try to build good relationships with your teachers. This means getting all your work done on time, finding the study method that works best for you, and showing your teachers that you're making a genuine effort to do well in their classes.

Start studying things you're interested in outside of school. Whether that means watching lectures online, or just browsing some wikipedia articles from time to time, get in the habit of reading about academic subjects on your own time.

This is an 18+ site by the way.

I'm just gonna start day drinking

>>9134462
I'm sitting in my car because I don't have anything to do for an hour and a half but I don't want to lose my parking spot. This is greeeeaaaaat.

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>>9134462

Think that you are now on the way to be above of 80% of the world population.

But why is it depressing ? Is it too hard ?

>>9133657
Nope.

>>9133716
c'est un peu court jeune homme

>>9133657
Catholics begone, /sci/ is a Calvinist board.

>>9133396
I doing think it'll blow up but it will melt down without humans to renew the cooling process

>>9133396
Reactors blow up when the coolant becomes too hot and boils into steam, too much pressure ruptures the containment vessel and produces an explosion of steam. In the case of Fukushima it was caused by normal seawater being poured into the reactor and boiling off into a flammable gas which if I recall correctly was ignited when the fuel rods became exposed and came into contact with the gas.

Modern reactors wouldn't blow up, they have multiple backup safety systems such as liquid poisons (a liquid is injected into the reactor which damps down the reaction and stops it immediately) to kill the reaction if the reactor begins to melt down. Those safety systems are activated independently of human control or computer control. If they don't overheat and they just keep running, eventually the fuel rods will degrade and cool off, eventually rendering them dead and the reactor will stop producing power.

>>9133421
*I don't