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We used to write stories together!
You can find them here:
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We also have some 8-bit desktop ponies here:
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>>1178004I remember that's the plot of a Kiekeboe comic.
How much blood does a vampire need to survive?
No.1178006
>>1178005Well, I find vampire lore different and inconsistant, depending on whose telling the story.
For example, I regard vampires as "undead". As in they're technically a zombie, but drinking blood and maybe other factors allow a rejuvination to appear more recently deceased.
But in, say, Hotel Transylvania, vampires seem to be living beings and not too different from humans. It's never confirmed if vampires can turn humans into vampires but Mavis is a born vampire and so is Dennis.
So it varies I guess.
If I were to guess a logical accuracy, an actual vampire bat needs to consume 20grams (two tablespoons of blood) per night.
So if we multiply the body/mass of the bat to that of a human and calculate the blood intake along with it, I'd say that's roughly the answer.
(Kind of like how Spider-man has the human strength proportioned to a spider. Spider-man's strength is on the average to a human that it would be for a spider... something like that.)
Given I don't know bat-to-human ratio maths, I'll go ahead and say 3-5 pints of blood. Adult humans on average have 10 pints of blood. I imagine vampires would drain a victim entirely of their blood to prevent witnesses.
Purely guess-work given these are mythological beings.
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>>1178005Also, there has been some accounts of vampires, though whenever these were accounts of paranoia due to hysteria at the time is uncertain.
But I do believe vampires
could be real. The reasons why stories of ghosts and aliens have persisted throughout history to todays time is because of fresh accounts and evidence backing it up. While vampires don't have as much accounts or evidence, it still a mythology that persist to todays time.
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>>1178007Ya think zombies are real too?
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>>1178009Literally who?
But no, sadly, like many posters here, it was out of bounds for the dream scene.
It would have had so much Sweetie Belle, though. It would have been nifty.
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>>1178008At one point in history, they were real, though not the sort you're thinking of.
From what I've read, zombies were from Haitian folklore, most common with vodou. It's when a victim is drugged with a drought that consist of various poison ingrediants and leave the victim in a stupor yet compliant state that the poisoner can manipulate into servitude.
As for the kind of zombies made traditional by George A. Romero, well there is a fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, more commonly known as "zombie-ant fungus". This fungus. The video game "The Last Of Us" depict zombies inspired by this fungus.
Plus, I read somewhere (or was it a YouTube video? May want to look it up yourself given it was ages a go and can't remember the video), that todays scientist can indeed make a zombie virus if they wanted to, but choose not to because of the impracticality of it.
Which is kinda true. Zombie movies may make zombies appear as a threat, but if they really are just mindless corpses then they'll likely just trip over stuff like idiots on a bender and their flesh will decay to bone in about a week or two, give or take maggots and dogs and such.
And given the zombies pass infection through biting, it would be more easy to contain a zombie pandemic than it would covid.
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>>1178011Well, you'll always be one of the first to come up if I have to think about Ponyville.
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>>1178013Real talk though, while voodoo / cordiceps ae pretty far fetched on the scale of reality, rabies actually is a real thing.
Personally, I feel like if zombie outbreaks or vampires were real, we'd probably be dead already. Those creatures are far more powerful than any human being.
So, nah.
However, I haven't found many professional scientists that deny the existence of skeletons. Those are definitely real.
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>>1178015==Vampires==
I believe if vampires are real, they would be a secret society and choose victims that will not be missed or, as my starting question, maybe rely on alternate sources like blood banks to keep a low profile. Even if the percentage of underground (figuratively) vampires could rival living humans, humans would be quick to kill them off.
People think vampires are killers, but in truth, humans are too good at killing that we need hunting licences to prevent us from over-killing things. If human government made vampire hunting open and legal, even if vampires had enhanced strength or powers, they would still be under constant threat of humans.
==Zombies==
As I said, if there was a "zombie virus", such a pandemic would be short-lived for a number of reasons.
1. Unlike COVID which could pass in breathing vicinity of people, zombies appear limited by physically biting into others. If the zombie virus can go airborn like COVID then it can be an issue, but if it stays infectious via biting then just don't get bitten.
2. If they ar eliterally animated corpses, then they will decay like corpses. It takes roughly ten days for flesh to decay to the bone.
Maybe zombies are able to slow the process or heal/regenerate flesh by consuming the flesh of the living, but if there is no food source then it will just have a week or two until loss of motor skills.
3. How "mindless" are they? Will they be able to comprehend stairs, door handles or kerbs? To be able to walk or even run is one thing, but if they keep tripping up on things not only will it slow them down but cause further damage to them.
4. Other environemntal factors such as flies laying eggs into them, weather such as hot, cold or rain hasteing the decay, etc.
5. Come to think of it, "flesh eating" zombies make no sense. If a human is surrounded by zombies and most of their flesh and muscles is ripped from them and consumed, how would they be able to move with removed or severed ligiments? Even if zombies could, hypothetically, regenerate by consuming others flesh, newly animated zombies would not be able to sustain themselves if they're robbed of most of their functions to begin with.
The only way I can see a zombie virus being used efficiently as a pandemic would be as a bioweapon. Bombs with zombie gas let off in public places during peak hours. This would cause some great panic as you'd expect from the movies, but, again, humans are "too good at killing". Once they realise the zombies are just mindless zombies it won't take long for the zombies to be purged by active survivors while the passive survivors will simply wait it out. they would be more concern if the virus is an airborn contagent and the media will probably spin this, but once they realise it's not things will quickly get back to normal.
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Good morning everyone.
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>>1178026How are you tonight?
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>>1178028not the best, my anxiety is getting to me ><
i hope you are doing well tho!
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>>1178029All good here, thanks!
How do you usually handle such a situation?
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>>1178030i meditate, sometimes i comfort eat (which i know isn't the healthiest coping mechanism), and when i can, sometimes i talk to a friend to help me unwind
i even talked with my dad, and he helped me feel a bit better overall
how about you? when you are stressed or anxious, how do you manage it?
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>>1178031Luckily I barely ever have the feeling of anxiety. I guess I just try to take my mind off of whatever is causing it by getting occupied with something else.
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>>1178032how do you do that? how does one just "get occupied" with something else?
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>>1178033That's really not possible to explain, I just do it. I focus on another task and that helps. Maybe your anxieties are stronger, or more general.
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>>1178034that game looks like you could get lost in it for a month just playing nonstop!
>>1178035well i can safely say my anxieties are pretty damn strong; not that suffering is a competition. so it's hard to distract my mind; part of the issue is i tend to fall into a ruminating cycle, so it just compounds a lot
>>1178036i find that the anxiety often follows me to unrelated things, and unless i get completely engrossed, it's hard to shake off
i liken it to getting pine sap on you. it's super sticky, it smells potent, and it's insanely hard to get off ><
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>>1178037That does happen to people. There's a reason why it's got the monicker of "Cracktorio". And in just a few hours, the Big Expansion drops.
And yeah I get that. It would need to be something half-way meditative, so you do get fully engrossed like that. Ironically enough, maybe something just like Factorio.
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>>1178037Sorry for not replying, I had to start my work day.
I hope you will feel better soon!
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>>1178038heh, i've already got a full game schedule, amongst other things, but i'll keep Factorio in my list
and i have a lot of things like that, it's just that sometimes it strikes when i can't do something that holds my attention enough for whatever reason ><
>>1178039have fun at work!
>hugs <3 No.1178042
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>>1178041sometimes column A, sometimes column B
i'm usually good about dealing with it, but tonight the bug bit me good
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>>1178046Time to build the biggest factory in the universe.
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>>1178047We'll get there, heh. For now... the bootstrap base is done and I'm working my way to oil processing. I'm a bit worried since I seem to have spawned somewhere without a fresh source of coal in sight, other than the guaranteed noobpatch, but that's a concern for a few hundred thousand units of it down the line. For now, oil. With oil, explosives. With explosives, the ability to flatten terrain.
Oil processing in Factorio is both simple and surprisingly complex. The bitchbasic way to do it is just "oil goes in, petroleum goes out", and then you turn that petroleum into plastic or sulphur or whatever. That's very inefficient though. You have to use that recipe for a while though since unlocking the Real recipe requires you to have plastic in the first place. That one is different. Rather than making petroleum, you make petroleum but also light oil and heavy oil. It's possible to further process the heavy oil into light oil and light oil into petroleum and petroleum is mostly what you want, but there's also stuff you can only make from the other two so you don't want to just reflexively process it all. I never quite designed a perfect way to handle this. What I figured out Works™, but with each new refinery setup I always tweak it somewhat.
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>>1178064Dammit, forgot the pic!
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I just stabbed a bitch
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>>1178065The style looks vary familiar.
>>1178066But why though?
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>>1178071Oh yeah, that's the one!
Hope you have a nice evening, I'm off to work.
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>"I will untangle the spaghetti bootstrap base some time down the line" and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself
Yeah no it's staying like this until the resources get fully extracted and then I'm just rolling it up completely
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>>1178069I stabbed her with my dick
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>>1178081B-But that would be wrong!
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Were uncouth things happening while I was gone?
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>>1178083N-No! Not at all! What makes you think that?
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>>1178085Come on, Clarity. Do you really think I would be the type to do anything uncouth or lewd?
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>>1178086Alright, I'll trust you!
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