do you mind sharing the machine?

Atlas Orthogonal Percussion Instrument*. Basically it pushes the top vertebra back into alignment based on the precise angle needed.

For some background, the cause is I had whiplash many years ago. I also likely have EDS (a potential factor for the low-speed whiplash) so it’s possible even if this machine has some basis it might not be a reliable fix for me.

* often called just the first 2 words

That’s not a contradiction, the fact that it is the page you get from searching the term is exactly their point.

Looking at the page Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, it even seems to point to both having the same origin (1874 USA) and later changing:

Osteopathic medicine (as defined and regulated in the United States) emerged historically from the quasi-medical practice of osteopathy, but has become a distinct and proper medical profession.

Be it resolved, that the American Osteopathic Association institute a policy, both officially in our publications and individually on a conversational basis, to use the terms osteopathic medicine in place of the word osteopathy and osteopathic physician and surgeon in place of osteopath; the words osteopathy and osteopath being reserved for historical, sentimental, and informal discussions only

Though also…

DO schools provide an additional 300–500 hours in the study of hands-on manual medicine and the body’s musculoskeletal system, which is referred to as osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM). Osteopathic manipulation is a pseudoscience.

and from the related sources:

Mark Crislip also pointed out that DOs are using less and less osteopathic manipulation in their practice. This is a good thing, and hopefully it will eventually completely fade away. Essentially we need to distinguish between osteopathic medicine, which is mostly equivalent to standard medicine, and osteopathic manipulation, which is pure pseudoscience akin to straight chiropractic.

EDIT: Also it really sucks that things are muddied like this, I have a neck problem and there’s a potential solution that uses a precision machine but I have no idea if it’s a real procedure or just more quackery. I’ve asked a few times and got no responses or just downvotes. Though I also don’t know if the chiro places near me have it or the needed x-ray capability.

EDIT: On second look I’m guessing the description was more of a rhetorical (which would make more sense if it were read before the image). So all I can say is

<me pretending I have a project>: haha same

Then again, it’s Top Gear. That might have been one of the guys’ fault. 🤔

TV magic:

The Robin used by Jeremy Clarkson, the Stig and Ken Block had the differential modified to allow the car to roll over more easily. The car also had unequal sized wheels fitted creating an imbalance toward the driver’s side.

I did mean both… Newgrounds is known for animation, too. Have you never seen a flash animation?

Also wouldn’t blender be better suited for vertex colored animations?

I make the models in Blender. Animation itself could be done in either, but a mix of the two probably makes more sense (Blender for character animations, in-engine for more dynamic/combined stuff or scenes etc.).

Blender-only would probably be fine if you can export to Blender Game Engine but I’m not sure it’s really a thing anymore. Godot has exports for multiple platforms (also obviously, interactivity). Though anything that could render a scene could work, Raylib or other frameworks/engines.

I feel like in either case the point is lost though since it’ll have to be rasterized eventually.

Not quite. The major point is that it’s being rendered on the user’s computer as-needed rather than the rasterized result being loaded for every pixel on the screen for every frame. The data difference can be huge, particularly as the frames/animations add up.

The most “real” implementation also allows zooming and transformations whereas something like a runtime-rasterized SVG might have ugly pixellation if you do that (haven’t tested Godot’s new SVG oversampling) or even just from bezier conversion with too few points. So I prefer real minimal polygons over rasterized-solution SVGs.

The 3D version of this isn’t even anything exotic. It’s just a 3D game without textures, using old techniques that actually still have some support thanks to being in the 3D formats. It’s an aesthetic choice that is also an optimization.

I miss Flash for vector reasons, both for animations and games. My internet is still slow enough to matter, especially with streaming speed/stability issues.

WebGL is a thing but a bit of a mess, especially downloading. Ruffle or using Wick editor are options… but even Newgrounds doesn’t highlight this (unless you find it first and go to info page from there). I assume most animators just render their animations now.

Have tinkered with vertex color (untextured) models in Godot, I see workflow possibilities there (also for 2D to a lesser extent) but good luck if it’s gotta be me. Some chunk of development is also different from the content it allows.

Does the water give fish arms and legs?

Actually scratch that it don’t matter. How much river water do I have to drink until my pollution stops? Or maybe not if it makes me piss more. Isn’t that pollution? Some kind of sick game you’re pulling here, buster.

Get me out of here. I already use FOSS*, tell me what license to use and I can also do testing (both bug reports and medical/biomech stuff).

I know, probably not even close to a real option. Same as it ever was.

* Godot, Blender, Krita, Linux etc

I don’t think I have any federation issues (at least directly), but yeah I don’t get replies probably because what I post is too niche. On 3 posts so far at least (~8 upvotes each) in 3 different communities.

Well, looking back most anything I post is probably doomed this way no matter the instance, unless maybe it’s something more general or eye-catching on a bigger community.

For a practical test, search for kbin.social (and then ctrl+f for it also to get the direct results). Or, just look at a community: !kbinMeta@kbin.social

The only thing that appears missing is the avatars images. Though I assume the text content is doomed in the long-run when it comes to new instances, as I doubt re-federation (3rd-party federation) is a thing. Unless of course, someone manually crossposts said content.

All I can think here is

On the other hand: anything anti-consumer like this (like bricking game consoles) has potential to backfire in a myriad of ways when the inevitable exploits are found.

Ransomware customers, target people you don’t like (perhaps even by employees), or simply brick devices to cause returns and/or drive up customer support costs, or just cause a scandal to tarnish the brand itself (or force recalls/end of sales in places that actually have consumer protections). EDIT: Also imagine a dealership where no truck can even be driven off the lot, especially if they all need something like the computer to be fixed/replaced.

The closer to a real brick it is (rather than just a soft lockout), the more potential there is for disaster. Also it reinforces exactly the sentiment that’d cause people to look for said exploits.

On paper sure they are villages, but I think a US village and one from elsewhere would likely feel drastically different. Lacking actual community (see Bowling Alone), or just look at all of the things that the village lost (shops, train station, industry etc) and what it still has(franchise dollar store, gas station etc).

It could just be coincidence, though “retirement village” is a term (also ecovillages) so maybe not. Aside from decay, I’d imagine the common perspective of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it (unless you stop for gas/maybe breakfast) probably doesn’t help with image either.

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Hey, give a little credit to our public schools (poorly-optimized eye-candy) new games! (where 10-20GiB is now considered small)

I still see it being an issue of pricing and questionable value (over older/used/already-owned) of a bottlenecked part, particularly when it ends up with users who aren’t esports users (for a multitude of reasons). In other words: stagnation.

It’s more obvious with AMD selling new 4GB cards still in the budget category rather than ultra-budget, as in they aren’t raising the floor. The jokes still work:

EDIT: There were even polaris GPUs with 8GB

Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever

I will never be convinced that isn’t a copy. Grod-dang emdot-tu drives don’t have thoughts, Michael!

Now getting a brain case to be put into other bodies? Sure. Though I would immediately be unrecognizable as a human, not because I’d become some cyberbrute but because I’d be something more like Wall-E(/an ROV) or at times some monolith in a forest tied into the Myconet.

Maybe humanoid arms, maybe eyes that aren’t cameras, but other than that I’m not sure. Maybe living gel (that assists with homeostasis, bioreaction) though that wouldn’t be obviously human either. It might be the most obvious just when I’m doing some hobby-esque things, or making a mistake and immediately being aware of it.

where no one knows you personally, and you don’t even know anything in the future

That’s my life already. So I guess it should be me, maybe they can fix my health and maybe I could live more comfortably+freely and learn a little more. Some symbiotic cyborg tech would be nice too, but maybe happy/purposeful revival is already a stretch.

I feel like if it’s not every day+not a money issue+well below combustion+not putting a significant risk on others (driving) then it’s probably not too bad.

Having usage that is less instant, less portable, less potent, less common, or more variable may help too (ritual, not habit). Also if your stuff is low-quality (cheap/free) you probably won’t worry so much about wasting it if you let it sit.

Or maybe that’s a cope from me in a similar spot. Though either way things are not changing for the better for me, aside from maybe the small (mostly sustaining) steps I’m still doing.