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  • TeepotoCurated TumblrCertain hobbies set off warning bells
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    24 days ago

    In the book there’s an additional interesting scene with Rico and the recruiter: Rico runs in to the recruiter as he’s leaving the office. The recruiter does actually have prosthetic legs, and he’s walking out the door. Rico asks why he didn’t have them on before. The recruiter explains that his job is actually to scare away recruits. He’s supposed to show potential recruits his missing legs as a consequence of his service. That way those that aren’t really serious about it, those who are doing it because it just seems like a cool idea, don’t go through with signing up. He then explains that the government doesn’t require him to be a living warning sign in his off-time, so he puts on his legs and goes about his life that way.




  • Balatro doesn’t have anything like gambling. There’s no betting. You don’t even have an opponent. The chips are only points, and the goal is to get as high a score as you can. The rules vary wildly from poker in ways that could never work with multiple players, let alone with real cards. It just looks like poker at the start and that description helps give you an initial idea of how to play.











  • My father had it. With his medication, he lasted (with good quality of life) until something else got him. What I’d like to point out though, is what “20 years” means in țhis context. That means it came from a study, right? Some people in that study lived less than that, some more. How old is that study then? Or more specifically, how old are the diagnoses and treatments of the people in that study?

    Even if that’s very recent study, that means that at least some of the group started their treatment in the 90s or earlier. You’ll have more modern treatments based on what’s been learned since then, before even considering what will be learned during the long course of time you’ll have this. There’s more hope than you’re allowing yourself here.