Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s

[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

[shit-piss-love]

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.

[shit-piss-love]

@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.

[lordbelh]

I’ve researched how to launder money pretty deeply, including company registration and accounting laws in various locations around the world. I built up an organizational chart of the various companies, and how the money flow worked, all for a part of my character’s life that never actually came up in play.

Oh yeah, lots of bombs, chemicals, weapons, and murder and mayhem related stuff, too. But y’know. Everybody researches that for rp, right?