The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Thomas Shey]

Actually, it does! I've been watching Hank Green's cancer treatment process over on YouTube, and he mentions that the radiation therapy he received to treat his Hodgkin's Lymphoma also makes it so that he's now more likely to get leukemia.

God sure has a weird sense of humour.

Well, anything that isn't really precisely targeted is going to do that sort of things; in its way, its like trying to cure fungus infections--anything liable to kill the fungus will probably do you no world of good. After all, its not like cancer is a foreign invader; its your own damn cells having gone nuts.

 

[Cadence]

Can we get the cross-tabs of that with whether they play Minecraft on creative or survival mode?

 

[trappedslider]

its your own damn cells having gone nuts.

Can we just say that humans are predisposed towards getting cancer from everything/anything?

 

[RealAlHazred]

If you picture Ticket to Ride, some people could set out to just build their routes and maybe everyone gets to, with just a few reroutes when someone else just happened to get there first. And then there is the way to play to grab the key spots once you figure out someone else needs it so that you hamstring everyone else. I have this image of an angry Sheldon Cooper getting into a particular style of game using that strategy ...

Isn't... isn't that the way you're supposed to play? I'm not playing to complete my routes from the beginning, I'm trying to capture the key cities other people obviously need so I can screw them. It's the way I've played Diplomacy and Risk and Monopoly from time immemorial; it's how you secretly "win" the game -- not satisfying the game's "win conditions," but by reducing all other players to frustrated, angry nerds, I've satisfied my own win conditions...

 

[RealAlHazred]

Can we get the cross-tabs of that with whether they play Minecraft on creative or survival mode?

I only play Minecraft competitive games. How am I supposed to "win," playing regular Minecraft?

 

[Cadence]

""Wow, that pizza you ordered is really insipid!"

"Dude, manners!"

"What, I regularly order insipid pizza's myself. Why are you so mad!"

 

[Thomas Shey]

Can we just say that humans are predisposed towards getting cancer from everything/anything?

It isn't just humans; dogs of various stripes are not in the least less prone.

Basically, cellular reproduction is a balancing act, and as such its not all that hard for it to get off kilter. After all, you can get cancer just from cosmic ray impacts.

 

[trappedslider]

It isn't just humans; dogs of various stripes are not in the least less prone.

Basically, cellular reproduction is a balancing act, and as such its not all that hard for it to get off kilter. After all, you can get cancer just from cosmic ray impacts.

Either my point was missed or not clear or ignored.

My brother mocks those lawyer ads that are looking for more people for class action law suits for things like round up weed killer, and he also mocks the new coverage whenever some new thing is linked to causing cancer.

It feels like the list of non-cancer causing stuff is getting shorter by the week.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

The true superpower of a nerd is the ability to turn any discussion of things people love into an argument about what things are named.

 

[Ryujin]

The true superpower of a nerd is the ability to turn any discussion of things people love into an argument about what things are named.

Do not, EVER, discuss nomenclature with a linguistics student