The Chit-Chat Thread

[Ghost Nappa]

School is very close and it feels like I just wasted another summer doing nothing.

[JiraiyaSennin]

PM Title: "I noticed this extremely rude wall post"




This place (not here on VGFacts), has probably the stupidest rules I've ever seen. He's an admin, btw.

One of the rules:

Off topic:
If you are going to reply to a thread make sure it's in response to the original post, and not someone else's post.


So, basically this post right here, that I am making, would be considered off-topic over there.

Is the forum run by a bionic Hitler?

[A Zombie Riot]

Well, the guy who is behind all of it, is a pretty good guy. I've never seen him be rude or anything, and he's generally a happy guy.

The people who are moderating and stuff under his wing... aren't the brightest people.

[Psychospacecow]

School is very close and it feels like I just wasted another summer doing nothing.

So I'm not the only one thinking this then.

[Raiden Blackwood]

I've made up my mind. My next two tattoos are going to be Ifrit and Diablos from FFVIII. :D

That's cool. I was thinking of geting the Heartless and Nobody Logos on my back.


I also wanted to get something like this:

Just with the body a little bit better drawn, the wings bigger, and put some color in it. Possibly with one wing a different color, like one black one white, but I'm not sure just yet.

That would look great! I also want my nickname, in Hylian alphabet, on my knuckles.

[Spoiler]

One of the rules:

Off topic:
If you are going to reply to a thread make sure it's in response to the original post, and not someone else's post.


So, basically this post right here, that I am making, would be considered off-topic over there.

Ladies and gentlemen, the most idiotic forum in the world.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

This video annoyed me to no end. There was so much wrong with his discussion of spinal cord injuries. Since I actually have had the oppritunity to work with patients with spinal cord injuries (and some of them are some of the most amazing stories you'll ever hear, I had to bring some things out.)


He DID indeed mention spinal shock. But, he didn't explain it very well. Spinal shock can be massively deadly. And, it actually travels the spinal cord. Even if she was pierced at the T7 level, there would be a high chance of being paralyzed at the T4-T5 level. The reason being is that blood escapes around the injury, it crushes parts of the spinal cord that were previously unaffected and you become paralyzed at a higher zone than what could have been. It's actually a common phenomenon. He did mention it causes paralysis, but it actually even causes death.

At that level, and if that would happen, (which it most likely would), her Autonomic nervous system would go haywire. This part of your nervous system controls your unconscious organs, affecting things like heart rate, blood pressure, and so forth. Due to the injury being high enough, natural reflex arcs would become damaged and would be displayed, even if she was unconscious, if you were to put a noxious stimulus on her body below the level of injury.

What happens if you step on something sharp? Your heart rate goes up and you quickly move, and your brain shuts the process back down. You don't think about it, you have to think about it to actually shut it down. What if your brain doesn't send back a message to stop the reflex? A painful stimulus in a spinal cord patient from that is affected around T6 or up, upon something that would normally be painful, the person's heart rate will go up, they will start sweating profusely, and their blood pressure sky rockets. And since their brain doesn't send the message to the lower part of the body, they doesn't exit this. It can be deadly.

Why do I mention this? If Aerith was still alive when Cloud put her in water, she would most likely experience what I described above, even if she was still unconscious. Plainly put, there is a very high chance she would turn red and begin sweating quickly. This would be easily visible, even if she wasn't moving. The fact that this does not occur points to her being dead when she was dumped.

A second point he fails to mention is INCOMPLETE spinal cord injuries. Say you went back to a a 6 lane highway, and a crash occurs in the most right hand lane. Two lanes of traffic are blocked off, but the other four keep going. The same thing can happen to spinal cord patients. For example, I actually worked with an incomplete spinal cord patient that partially severed the cord a the C3 level (in his neck.) He should have only control over his shoulders, but no arm, fingers, or legs. But, due to it being an incomplete tear, some of the info gets through. He can't feel anything below his neck, but in what is perhaps the most shocking thing you can imagine, he retained his muscle control and can still walk, unsteady and with a walker, but HE STILL WALKS.

Why do I mention this? A thin sword could potentially piece only part of the cord, leaving her some abilities below the stomach region. While such a thing is rare, it is not unheard of, as I described a case above (BTW, that high that I described is incredibly rare. He may be the only spinal cord patient alive in the world with an injury that high that still walks. I'm not kidding.)
So Aerith may have retained motion, just not feeling. And if spinal shock wouldn't set in, she would most likely keep it. And, based on the way the sword entered, such a scenario is entirely feasible.

A second thing I wanted to bring out is a liver laceration is pretty much always deadly. The sword would have went through her liver. That sword guy in the video never had his liver pierced, and the markings on his skin were clearly in a pattern to avoid his liver. Aerith would have bled to death internally from the liver, and had 7 minutes to live. Tops.

Ok, END RANT!!!

[A Zombie Riot]

One of the rules:

Off topic:
If you are going to reply to a thread make sure it's in response to the original post, and not someone else's post.


So, basically this post right here, that I am making, would be considered off-topic over there.

Ladies and gentlemen, the most idiotic forum in the world.

And here's more proof that the mod who banned me isn't very smart. I made a thread saying the same exact thing he did. I said that some of these rules are very very wrong and misleading.



I pretty much made an entire thread saying exactly what he said (not word for word, but it was pretty darn close). He basically said what I said, and made it seem that what I said didn't exist. Let me remind you, I got banned for just pointing out the flaws in the rules.

[Psychospacecow]

That's a shame Zombie. I hope that Clan of yours goes well. I'd join but my interest for Minecraft is rather low outside vanilla.

[A Zombie Riot]

Thanks! I hope so too.
You should try some of the minigames around. There's a lot of 'em that exist and some of them are super addicting. But this is off topic stuff we're doing here. Hehe.

[Zaliphone]

Spoiler

This video annoyed me to no end. There was so much wrong with his discussion of spinal cord injuries. Since I actually have had the oppritunity to work with patients with spinal cord injuries (and some of them are some of the most amazing stories you'll ever hear, I had to bring some things out.)


He DID indeed mention spinal shock. But, he didn't explain it very well. Spinal shock can be massively deadly. And, it actually travels the spinal cord. Even if she was pierced at the T7 level, there would be a high chance of being paralyzed at the T4-T5 level. The reason being is that blood escapes around the injury, it crushes parts of the spinal cord that were previously unaffected and you become paralyzed at a higher zone than what could have been. It's actually a common phenomenon. He did mention it causes paralysis, but it actually even causes death.

At that level, and if that would happen, (which it most likely would), her Autonomic nervous system would go haywire. This part of your nervous system controls your unconscious organs, affecting things like heart rate, blood pressure, and so forth. Due to the injury being high enough, natural reflex arcs would become damaged and would be displayed, even if she was unconscious, if you were to put a noxious stimulus on her body below the level of injury.

What happens if you step on something sharp? Your heart rate goes up and you quickly move, and your brain shuts the process back down. You don't think about it, you have to think about it to actually shut it down. What if your brain doesn't send back a message to stop the reflex? A painful stimulus in a spinal cord patient from that is affected around T6 or up, upon something that would normally be painful, the person's heart rate will go up, they will start sweating profusely, and their blood pressure sky rockets. And since their brain doesn't send the message to the lower part of the body, they doesn't exit this. It can be deadly.

Why do I mention this? If Aerith was still alive when Cloud put her in water, she would most likely experience what I described above, even if she was still unconscious. Plainly put, there is a very high chance she would turn red and begin sweating quickly. This would be easily visible, even if she wasn't moving. The fact that this does not occur points to her being dead when she was dumped.

A second point he fails to mention is INCOMPLETE spinal cord injuries. Say you went back to a a 6 lane highway, and a crash occurs in the most right hand lane. Two lanes of traffic are blocked off, but the other four keep going. The same thing can happen to spinal cord patients. For example, I actually worked with an incomplete spinal cord patient that partially severed the cord a the C3 level (in his neck.) He should have only control over his shoulders, but no arm, fingers, or legs. But, due to it being an incomplete tear, some of the info gets through. He can't feel anything below his neck, but in what is perhaps the most shocking thing you can imagine, he retained his muscle control and can still walk, unsteady and with a walker, but HE STILL WALKS.

Why do I mention this? A thin sword could potentially piece only part of the cord, leaving her some abilities below the stomach region. While such a thing is rare, it is not unheard of, as I described a case above (BTW, that high that I described is incredibly rare. He may be the only spinal cord patient alive in the world with an injury that high that still walks. I'm not kidding.)
So Aerith may have retained motion, just not feeling. And if spinal shock wouldn't set in, she would most likely keep it. And, based on the way the sword entered, such a scenario is entirely feasible.

A second thing I wanted to bring out is a liver laceration is pretty much always deadly. The sword would have went through her liver. That sword guy in the video never had his liver pierced, and the markings on his skin were clearly in a pattern to avoid his liver. Aerith would have bled to death internally from the liver, and had 7 minutes to live. Tops.

Ok, END RANT!!!

Yeah, those Game Theory videos can be cool, but they get a lot of things wrong. Like the morph ball video was completely wrong IMO, how the hell is Samus supposed to crawl in a huge metal suit of armor!?

[Beware of Cuccos*]

This is my 1,000th post.

[Mass Distraction]

^Time to par-tay!

[Artwark]

I'm kinda worried about Wii U here. What happens if One and ps4 are better than the U? I don't want Nintendo to go out of business man! Its just feels wrong.

On the plus side though I am tempted to get the wii U due to its HD quality. Now I don't buy games on graphics but rather gameplay but in this case the Wii U has colorful HD quality and that I'm really looking forward to get it next year.

Btw I know this sounds stupid but so far in this forum, I couldn't tell who's female here. Not that I'm into girls but just saying....y'know "/

So I'm almost done with my book art of game design by Jesse Shell. Loved that book because there was never a time where I disagreed with him.

[Beware of Cuccos*]

Nintendo will never go out of business.