Okay but if I’m gonna reblog this I need to tell you guys the story of this legendary pachirisu
So in the competitive Pokemon scene, there’s what’s called a ‘metagame’, which is what’s generally used and what is/isn’t allowed in competitive battling. Certain pokemon are banned from the ‘meta’ because of being too powerful. Others aren’t generally used because there are better alternatives, or they’re simply too weak. People base their entire strategies around the expectation that they’ll be facing certain pokemon, and attempt to counter them with certain pokemon.
But the problem with this meta is, during the 2014 World Championships, there were a small number of pokemon choices that everybody had. Gardevoir, Kangeskhan, Salamence, Tyranitar, Talonflame, Garchomp… the same pokemon coming up again and again. Things weren’t really all that interesting.
And then came the Double Battle World Championship. And this guy.
Park Se Jun. One of the best players in the world. He used a Pachirisu with Nuzzle (a move with 100% paralysis chance), Super Fang (cuts target’s HP in half) and Follow Me (a move that redirects attacks AWAY from allied pokemon), and equipped with a recently-buffed Sitrus Berry. And he turned the metagame on its head, because nobody in the championships had prepared for anything outside their incredibly restrictive expectations.
Their strategies and planning were completely tripped up by an electric squirrel. Battling his Pachirisu in incredibly tight synergy with the rest of his team, Park Se Jun swept the finals and became World Champion of 2014 Doubles.
And that is the story of the #BASED GOD PACHIRISU.
there’s more to it than this; it’s not just that people weren’t prepared for things they weren’t expecting, it’s that pachirisu’s stats were perfectly suited for countering major players in the meta. it’s special defense in particular, because in combination with sitrus berry its SpD (in combination with the SpA reduction on draco meteor) allowed it to survive two choice specs draco meteors from salamence in a row, something few pokemon could do. so what really happened was Park Se Jun was analyzing the meta on a level far above the rest of the field, considering pokemon others weren’t even looking at to find counters for the most common and powerful pokemon
I love the fact that this could easily be the plot of a Pokemon movie
4d printing is not a thing we cannot access dimensions higher than the third
The 4th dimension is time. Here, an object is printed in 3 dimensions but is constructed so that the stresses and strains in the material that occur when interacting with some environment it is in (such as water), will cause it to move in a predicted way. So it is 4D printed. This isn’t the only research group studying this. It is what it has been called for a few years now.
Sex is used fairly frequently. When we see a patient, we form a list of possible diagnoses in our heads as the patient talks. That list is influenced by what organs they have or don’t have and by what their other risk factors for certain problems are. For example, I don’t have to worry about ovarian torsion when a person with no ovaries comes in with RLQ abdominal pain. But if they have ovaries, it opens up the possibility of several more diagnoses that must be considered.
I haven’t taken care of a transgender person that I know of before, but in their case, if I was presenting their illness to another doctor, I would say something like this:
28 year old Caucasian transgender male, status post total hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, currently on testosterone therapy, presents with RLQ abdominal pain.
Similarly, in a cis female, I might present her as “28 year old female status post tubal ligation presents with pelvic pain.” Now if we are talking about a head cold, sex doesn’t matter much and I wouldn’t go into all that detail.
Another way to do it would be to present the patient more simply as a 28 year old male and then mention past surgical history of TAH/BSO and list testosterone on their medication list. It depends on how much you think it matters in developing that patient’s specific diagnostic workup and whether you want your listener to be considering sex specific diagnoses early in the presentation.
I’m not sure if there’s a consensus agreement on how to phrase these things, but in my mind if the genitalia or assigned sex at birth could come into play in a diagnosis, then the patient’s status with these organs/hormones should be mentioned early in the presentation.
On an individual scale, I would just need to keep the patient’s surgical or medical history in mind when I’m treating them, the same way I would any other medical history.
Interestingly, a similar discussion came up in my office recently because our EMR doesn’t give us a good option to put someone’s preferred name or gender in a prominent place on the chart. Apparently it’s tied to their insurance card and our chart has to match whatever their card says when it comes to name or sex. Our updated version that we will get soon apparently will give us better options for this.
i know it’s not an ideal world and some doctors will take the opportunity to misgender you if they know you’re trans, but that’s better than dying of something that could’ve been treated if they knew you had those organs. give medical staff the information they need, folks. it’s your life.
I’m so sorry, but this just looks like a rip from a rap video.
I’m fucking sobbing. Aragorn looks like he’s fighting off a bee before he swoops in to tackle someone. Legolas punching the air like he’s celebrating too early. The dude who’s creeping after Gimli like he’s gonna be an easy target and Gimli charging like a battering ram to crush his kneecaps. Gandalf serenely ignoring all this.
Apparently John Rhys-Davies aka Gimli did not fuck around with that poncy “not hitting the stunt men” shite..so that poor bastard probably did get speared by an armoured dwarf…
tweedsmuirparklodge Getting eye-level with grizzly bears! How’s this for an amazing experience? TV show host @brandyyanchykwas visiting us (@tweedsmuirparklodge) in the Great Bear Rainforest, in order to film an episode of her TV show @SeeingCanada. Brandy chose us due to the high concentration of bears that come to feed on salmon right near our lodge. It was obviously a good choice!
A note about safety – All our guides follow the guidelines setup by the Commercial Bear Viewing Association @bearviewingbc, which includes staying about 100m from the bears. In this video you see the bear is much closer than that. Our guide anchored the boat at quite a distance from the bear to give it space. Obviously the bear was comfortable with our presence so it approached us, not the other way around. Our guide could see the bear was just inquisitive and not threatening in any way. It’s also worth pointing out that our guides carry bear spray and in all the years of running bear viewing tours, we have NEVER EVER had to use it! This goes to show that with education and understanding, bears and humans can co-exist.
Video footage taken by guest Jaroslav Gerberi.
this video highlights something i’ve noticed over the past couple decades: bears become comfortable with humans and stop being threatened by them over time, so at the sites where humans and bears interact most, they’ll generally not have a lot of bear attacks, if any. as long as the humans aren’t being idiots or jerks, the two species get along ok.
not that you should walk up and hug a wild bear. but that video going around where the canadian calmly asks a mama bear and cubs to move along, and they just mosey off no problem, isn’t such a surprising outcome.
Two little kids watched me prepare coffee this morning, then immediately tugged on their mom’s sleeve. “HE JUST ADDED TWO GALLONS OF SUGAR TO HIS POTION!” exclaimed the boy.
a lot of people are tagging this with “film” and “movies” or talking about the magic of moviemaking but i really want to point out that Kidding is a TV show.
i feel it’s important to make this distinction because there’s a common (sometimes subconscious) thought that TV is a lesser form of digital art compared to film, but television, especially recently, has been phenomenal and it deserves proper credit as a storytelling medium, as well as a craft just as capable of amazing work like this
what the fuck that’s Jim Carrey when did this happen
Hot damn I watched this thing like seven times this is fantastic I wonder how much practice and how many takes this took to get so smooth
What got me was the realization that there’s more than one actress. I can’t tell them apart, but I don’t know where that is on the scale from “actually twins” to “good stunt double” to “actually i’m just faceblind”.
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