Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s

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@Testament said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

The weirdest thing I ever talked about publicly that got me strange looks was the fact that teleporters should actually kill you and create an exact copy/duplicate at the other end of the teleport. Only the duplicate thinks it’s the original, so in your mind, you don’t know that the copy/duplicate is dying every single time you teleport.

The Ship of Theseus problem is my favorite grenade to drop into a lame party vibe.

[Testament]

@shit-piss-love Fun fact: If you really break it down, the Ship of Theseus problem is basically the entire plot of Cyberpunk 2077

[shit-piss-love]

@Testament said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

@shit-piss-love Fun fact: If you really break it down, the Ship of Theseus problem is basically the entire plot of Cyberpunk 2077

Less fun fact: The Ship of Theseus problem is basically the entire plot of going to sleep at night.

[GF]

@Testament Ghost In The Shell, too, if I remember it right.

Wait, are my memories the Ship of Theseus?

[Testament]

@GF Probably. Is the you that went to sleep last night the same you that woke up this morning?

[Smile]

@Jumpscare hmmm what /is/ small ice called? googles

ETA: Nugget ice!

[insomniac]

@shit-piss-love said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

Less fun fact: The Ship of Theseus problem is basically the entire plot of going to sleep at night.

Nah, not unless you define the “self” to such a narrow degree that it becomes useless. When I go to sleep, everything that makes me “me” continues to exist and act; I even continue in awareness, experiencing vivid sensory hallucinations even if I forget them afterwards.

[Roz]

@eye8urcake said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

@sao said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

I have googled shit about shock and gunshot wounds and first aid so many fucking times that they probably could prosecute me for something.

Every time a search history comes into a case in court, I die a little inside.

[BloodAngel]

Played a violinist cannibal chocolatier serial killer once. We all get to be over-edgy once. So, the google search for that one had to be all time of trouble. How to make these or that out of insert body part.

[Evilgrayson]

I’ve researched a lot of weird things. The one that really comes to mind right now, though, is the history and practices of the Thuggee.

[helvetica]

@BloodAngel said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

cannibal chocolatier

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Remembered another.

How much less does a body tend to weigh once it’s been drained of blood.

[BloodAngel]

@helvetica Early world of darkness days for me. 2000’s.

[insomniac]

My revolutionary Free Councilor had me looking up some stuff on making bombs at home, which is definitely my biggest “watchlist” research.

My Arx Prodigal had me looking up pre-modern tattooing techniques. They range from the impressively hardcore to… well, just literally cutting patterns in the skin and adding some dye.

[Sillylily]

[Tempest prognosticator(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_prognosticator)

[Juniper]

What it’s like to be waterboarded.

For exactly the reason you would suspect.

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@Juniper said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

What it’s like to be waterboarded.

“Researched” this IRL. It is not pleasant. Do not recommend.

[mietze]

Thanks to @snackness I now know that early methods of cpr/revival involved attempts at anal resuscitation.

[Jumpscare]

More gems from my internet research.

[mietze]

I found a chart for hallucinogenic mushroom effects that even roughly corresponded to the dice rolling outcome levels of the game i play.

Actually I’ve done a lot of drug effects research now that I think of it because in RL I am a square.