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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I think it's a lot more likely people will be exploited for fame or money to take drugs that hulk them out for a few years then result in turbocancer. Yeah it’ll just be a bunch of dudes that look like Rich Piana getting heart attacks and dying at 40
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Tiny Timbs posted:Yeah it’ll just be a bunch of dudes that look like Rich Piana getting heart attacks and dying at 40 There's ways of using HGH and steroids that dont leave you looking like liver king and if you think most pro athletes aren't on some level of gear you haven't been paying attention
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Wingnut Ninja posted:It would be horrifically unethical, but if pro sports dropped all restrictions on performance enhancement it would be like the loving space race of biomedical research. 20 years from now we'd be like "oh no, I got paralyzed in a car crash, I'll need to pick up a stem cell booster at the drug store and take all weekend to heal up". A goon made the point that if you allow performance enhancement, the athletes are then competing on both their athletic aptitude, and their genetic response to the drugs. So you have to roll a nat 20 on the genetic lottery like twice in a row, once for being very receptive to those drugs and once for being born an Adonis. It's like that Cyberpunk anime where the character is "built different", i.e. lucky enough to be naturally tolerant of cyberware to a rare degree, and gets a tragic amount of attention due to it. MA-Horus posted:if you think most pro athletes aren't on some level of gear you haven't been paying attention It's exactly why I never pay attention to sports 
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MA-Horus posted:There's ways of using HGH and steroids that dont leave you looking like liver king and if you think most pro athletes aren't on some level of gear you haven't been paying attention Sure there are ways, but every incentive in this hypothetical league is going to be to overuse the stuff or try novel drugs with unknown long term effects. Even if they include medical oversight, the doctors will have a ton of pressure on them to sign off on questionable options. No one involved is going to care about the athletes’ health in five years, including the athletes themselves when it gets them paid.
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I think we can all agree that baseball was much more fun to watch during the steroids era.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Sure there are ways, but every incentive in this hypothetical league is going to be to overuse the stuff or try novel drugs with unknown long term effects. Even if they include medical oversight, the doctors will have a ton of pressure on them to sign off on questionable options. No one involved is going to care about the athletes’ health in five years, including the athletes themselves when it gets them paid. Is be surprised if any pro cyclists weren’t doping tbh
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Sure there are ways, but every incentive in this hypothetical league is going to be to overuse the stuff or try novel drugs with unknown long term effects. Even if they include medical oversight, the doctors will have a ton of pressure on them to sign off on questionable options. No one involved is going to care about the athletes’ health in five years, including the athletes themselves when it gets them paid.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Sure there are ways, but every incentive in this hypothetical league is going to be to overuse the stuff or try novel drugs with unknown long term effects. Even if they include medical oversight, the doctors will have a ton of pressure on them to sign off on questionable options. No one involved is going to care about the athletes’ health in five years, including the athletes themselves when it gets them paid. If you want to see the results, just check how it went for WWF-era wrestlers. Oh, they're all dead.
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Zero VGS posted:If you want to see the results, just check how it went for WWF-era wrestlers. Oh, they're all dead. Sorta? Thats mostly due to doing copious amounts of somas or cocaine though. Plenty of known roidy magoo wrestlers are stoll kicking as of today.
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Defenestrategy posted:Sorta? Thats mostly due to doing copious amounts of somas or cocaine though. Plenty of known roidy magoo wrestlers are stoll kicking as of today. Or opioid painkillers from the horrendous injuries they'd do to themselves and each other, plus the stimulants they then took to avoid being low all the time... Those drug cocktails with unpredictable interactions aren't helped by what the gear is doing to their endocrine system.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I’m a product of the University of California system and graduated in the era of the Governator, which means I have Arnold’s autograph on my diploma. Without knowing how Minnesota works in terms of its state university system, I’d like to think that Jesse Ventura signed off on diplomas for state schools as well. Which means that there’s a non-zero chance that there’s someone out there who did their undergrad in either of those states and went to grad school in the other, therefore spending a fuckton of money to get the autographs of two of the cast members of Predator. My sister and I have Arnie on our diplomas. Our mom got Reagan, SAD!
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I think the NFL only tests for steroids like, once or twice a year or something to that effect. There are a ton of players that are clearly on steroids, and many who don't take them regularly will take them for injury rehabilitation. The NFL seeming cares a lot more about a player smoking weed than they do about using HGH or some other performance enhancer.
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Grip it and rip it posted:I think the NFL only tests for steroids like, once or twice a year or something to that effect. There are a ton of players that are clearly on steroids, and many who don't take them regularly will take them for injury rehabilitation. The NFL seeming cares a lot more about a player smoking weed than they do about using HGH or some other performance enhancer. The cynical reason would be that if they’re publicly so strict on weed then maybe people will think “wow the nfl is so strict on drugs! It must be drug free!” Though it’s probably actually reefer madness/drug war propaganda and old people running things.
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hobbesmaster posted:The cynical reason would be that if they’re publicly so strict on weed then maybe people will think “wow the nfl is so strict on drugs! It must be drug free!” If the NFL started to openly let players use marijuana, they run the risk of everyone deciding they’d rather play frisbee golf or hacky sack and skateboarding.
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https://www.metalsucks.net/2024/02/02/billionaires-hate-him-how-one-thrash-metal-drummer-cost-elon-musk-56-billion/ Lol, always find the local / niche angle
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Zamujasa posted:get out and touch some earth read that wrong and got boatmurdered.
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Which one of you wrote this.
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Cythereal posted:Which one of you wrote this. Wasn't me. I wrote a real book.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Wasn't me. I wrote a real book. I’d hope everyone here aspires to be above LitRPG as a genre. But the real questions are: which rip it flavor and how many?
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Cythereal posted:Which one of you wrote this. Not me- I only write fiction.
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Too bad he didn't bring his sword, he's going to be useless against lava monsters in all that
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:i was lucky enough to watch Jurassic Park on 35mm last year and it was loving incredible The effects in JP hold up much better than they should. There are some scenes where the CG really doesn't, but most of it was practical with maybe a dash of CG to help and those scenes loving work. The entire T-rex reveal scene is amazing, and when it roars at Grant as he holds the flare...that shot is goddamned terrifying.
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Oh yeah I like how John Hammond is one of the most interesting villains in cinema. At first he’s a kindly grandpa with grandkids in peril but fun to pick up all the clues the entire situation is his fault.
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Godholio posted:The effects in JP hold up much better than they should. There are some scenes where the CG really doesn't, but most of it was practical with maybe a dash of CG to help and those scenes loving work. The entire T-rex reveal scene is amazing, and when it roars at Grant as he holds the flare...that shot is goddamned terrifying. Best shot in theatre was sexy goldblum
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Vortex Street posted:Delurking to say most women have known this phrase for years…it was part of a Sex and the City episode from August 2000. Its been common in Aus for at least a decade too. I just found it low effort when Trump used it Behold, a tourism ad that outdid 'Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya?' in misjudgement, using a sub-variant https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-08/c-u-in-the-nt-tourism-slogan-causes-social-media-stir/8004430 Paingod556 fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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Meanwhile, in NZ, quote:Luxon and Peters were each challenged by one kaiwero (warrior).
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A considerable modernization and improvement upon Let's see where this goes.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Meanwhile, in NZ, Ah, I see they've been studying at the LBJ school of politics.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Meanwhile, in NZ, My wife's argument that we should move there is gaining steam.
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I can't get a good read or form a real clear opinion about the border bill that was released yesterday, as I'm basically just in favor of whatever decreases Donnie's chances. So I'm really just tracking and enjoying the chuckefuckery https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1754536110145851737?t=X-NVjGLe3vcpsoJ8NnXn7g&s=19
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facialimpediment posted:I can't get a good read or form a real clear opinion about the border bill that was released yesterday, as I'm basically just in favor of whatever decreases Donnie's chances. For those of us without twitter what's this referring to
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That Works posted:For those of us without twitter what's this referring to The border bill text was released yesterday. The fact sheets, bill text, and etc simply don't matter as chud commentators are saying the Republicans involved with the negotiation should be prosecuted for (mystery) crimes. Quite a few Republican Senators are making revolty noises against McConnell (like that Lee thing). Meanwhile, the entire House GOP leadership is yelling "gently caress your bill, we aren't even going to call it up". The same poo poo Donnie asked for a few years ago from Congress is now supposedly within Biden's power according to Republicans (no). Usually when a party doesn't want to fix a problem and instead campaign on it, it's whispered and not screamed like what Republicans are doing. And it's a pretty lovely bill from the liberal/prog perspective since it doesn't even make dreamers permanent! All very odd, but basically how politics works now.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I like vibes. I don't like that politicans like vibes too, so much so that they're making vibes their job instead of the betterment of humanity It's not even vibes, the Republican party operates on "gently caress you, no" as their primary philosophy. The border poo poo in the bill is something the Republians of the '90s would have had as their wet dreams. Unilateral ability of the president to shut down the border completely whenever the juiced-as-all-hell metrics they report cross a threshold. Dumbshit Donnie tried that and got roasted to hell and back, now it's being proposed as law and Republicans have to stomp their feet and yell about it because the orange-faced toddler at the top doesn't want someone to take his toys away.
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The draft may be DOA, but it did effectively move immigration policy to the right. Democrats and Biden signaling significant acceptance of right’s demands on border, and republicans still mad about it. The bill is more than border, it’s also billions in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
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Remnants of a Nuclear Missile Are Found in a Garage https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/04/us/seattle-nuclear-missile-garage.htmlquote:The police responded to a call from a U.S. Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage.
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