Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s
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Park Ranger uniforms.
But also, we used to do fambly breakfasts every week, so just about every Sunday morning you could find me and Puffin in a restaurant, talking about war and setting up ambushes and killing people. (We were both Firan staffers). Got some very interesting looks.
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@hellfrog I always loved talking about Shadowrun plans in public.
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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.
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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.
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@shit-piss-love Fun fact: If you really break it down, the Ship of Theseus problem is basically the entire plot of Cyberpunk 2077
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@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.
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@Testament Ghost In The Shell, too, if I remember it right.
Wait, are my memories the Ship of Theseus?
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@GF Probably. Is the you that went to sleep last night the same you that woke up this morning?
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@Jumpscare hmmm what /is/ small ice called? googles
ETA: Nugget ice!
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@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.
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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Remembered another.
How much less does a body tend to weigh once it’s been drained of blood.
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@helvetica Early world of darkness days for me. 2000’s.
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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.
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[Tempest prognosticator(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_prognosticator)
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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.
