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Did one more refresher on my pharmacy explainer, but it's 99% the same as the last version.
SCPantera@SCPantera
Navigating Retail Pharmacy, Third Edition Part 1, by @SCPantera open.substack.com/pub/scpantera/…
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SCPantera
@SCPantera
Video games, pharmacisting, compulsive shitposter.
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@conor64 I have a long, diverse, and individualized answer for you. Pervasive competence issues at the core domain of public health were bad; the repeated decision to do monstrous acts and drape the field’s moral authority on them was worse.
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“slop-peddling social media management team accidentally posts obvious engagement bait on wrong feed after forgetting to log out of secretary of education’s official account” should be a bigger story, but it won’t be
Linda McMahon@Linda_McMahon
In 2005, everything changed! The "PlayStation Portable" (PSP) was released and it did more than make gaming portable...it made entertainment personal, mobile, and always within reach. It was the beginning of life on the go.
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Take the cents from this interaction, you probably need it
Seth Dirks@SirDustyDirks
Valve: 350 employees Epic Games: 4,000 employees Valve: $17B annual revenue Epic Games: $5-6B Valve charges devs 30% of their revenue for simply listing their game. Epic Games charges devs 0% revenue share on the first $1,000,000 Valve is one of the greediest companies in gaming. You cannot be pro valve and be pro developer at the same time.
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The enduring asspain over this game continues to amaze me. I remember being distinctly surprised that they had the balls to flip the script on Whitey Bad and portray Diverse Underclass Commie Revolutionaries as the murderous bloodthirsty thugs they were after spending the game's first half establising their grievances were real.
I wonder how much owes to a memory-hole effect; the overton window started moving so fast it was redshifting by 2016 so people forget that was definitely bucking trends for 2013. I never did get to finish the original Bioshock so I can't compare to it well but IIRC Rapture, the Libertarian Paradise, was *working;* it was an outside-context problem that destroyed it. Really, Bioshock has more in common with Libertarians Move To Mars stories than Culture Has Some Problems stories; sci-fi where the ocean replaces the isolating void of space to make Rapture a tabula-rasa stage. But the surface level gloss is just "lol libertarians bad."
So I can't really tell where the umbrage lies - chuds too stupid to see past surface level would've hated the first game too. Perhaps because Infinite was a sequel; the dazzle of the mechanics was gone, the story/gameplay link was a little looser (the magic powers were explained but not tied into the baseline plot nearly as well,) or maybe chuds are so stupid that they didn't parse lolbertarianism in the first game as political; only things existing in the modern endlessly propagandized racialist milleau scan as "political." A bunch of mind-raped normies playing this only a year before gamergate popped off might've done it?
On the other hand, the story revolves around a father/daughter relationship where the player commits ultraviolence to protect her... and somehow the daughter character generated a revolution in 3DCGI tech, all for the sake of... porn. Lots and lots of porn. Perhaps ~politics~ is of tertiary import concerning the chudmind compared to that? Ugh.
No matter how I slice it I'll never comprehend how that damn game rustled so many jimmies. Truly a sociological phenomena for the ages.
Christina Tasty@ChristinaTasty
I love how the games biggest, non-pornographic cultural impact was an awakening moment for people that games glazed as the greatest thing ever can just be "meh" and created resentment over "games are art" because of it. How many people were tricked by Adam Sessler's word salad?
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it's impossible to explain the early 2000s to zoomers, but just to give you a sense:
in 1995, backpack rapper will i am started a backpack rap group called Black Eyed Peas with a mexican-american and a filipino guy, released two albums, added a blonde female vocalist and moved to pop-rap.
the pop-rap album is recorded over the course of 2001, and is allegedly both interrupted and inspired by 9/11
9/11 album has three singles: let's get retarded, shut up, and a kind of 'do they even know it's christmas' consciousness-raising song called 'where is the love?' about how we just have to love each other. the album is now quadruple platinum
after this, will i am starts a tech co and acquires an israeli machine learning company. i think he also made hardware for the early iphone
this year he's teaching a course on agentic AI at ASU
Rock@TheCensoredRock
The elites don’t want you to know this song exists and that it used to be played on the radio
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it doesn't, what sucks is to lose and waste time, for example games where if you spend 40 minutes in a mission and you die at the end, you get no resources back making you have wasted time gaming, instead of just not getting a special loot or something like that
Drake JoJo 👁️@DrakeVagabond
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Each hardware platform had its own characteristics in how colors appeared on CRT televisions, so I always had to be careful when choosing colors.
The Super Famicom offered a wide color palette, but from my personal experience, it was actually quite difficult to create a clean yellow gradient.
For example, Tem’s hair in Illusion of Gaia was built using a sequence like white → yellow → reddish orange → darker red. By letting these colors “pull” on each other, I aimed to keep the saturation high and give it a more vibrant look.
At the same time, for the protagonist in ActRaiser 2, I placed gold-like elements in key areas. Compared to Tem’s bright blond hair, these appear more subdued. I believe I reused darker tones from the skin palette to build those gradients (though my memory might not be perfect—it was over 30 years ago).
As another point of comparison, if we look at the gold dragon boss in ActRaiser 2, its gold should appear more vivid than the player character’s gold elements. This difference was achieved by adjusting saturation and brightness to change the perceived material quality.
All of these color decisions were made while trying to find what looked best on CRT displays.
Brightness and saturation affect how pixel colors interact—sometimes making them appear to shrink or expand. Because of that, I would use darker colors for parts I wanted to appear smaller, and brighter colors for parts I wanted to appear larger.
That said, because each hardware system had its own characteristics, and CRT monitors varied depending on environment and aging, it was impossible to define a single “correct” approach to color and pixel placement.
Even though it was digital work, it often felt like I was creating something very organic and almost “alive.”
Kurriochi@kurriochi
@ariga_megamix Was there a special drawing technique to make sure consumer CRT TVs don't blur the sprites? I remember the Crash Bandicoot developers saying they made him orange because the red version would bleed colour on some TV sets of the time.
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@eigenrobot @felmointheass nerd over there probably thinks women can have orgasms
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@felmointheass google "odium inimicitiae," read the comments, and think about what just happened here. go with god 🙏
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came in fluffer sankey diagram jokes have circled back around to being funny again
Sweet Meteor O'Death@smod4real
This graph is a crime against humanity
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Calling people gay as an insult is back on the menu boiiiiiiìis
Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice
We got a call from Grindr after this and said your team was their biggest users. Congrats!
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If missiles were dropping on US cities the two factions in US politics would be "we should bomb them into the stone age" and "we should exterminate their entire country".
Salman Soz@SalmanSoz
@ishaantharoor I think that is a key reason the US engages in so many wars. If missiles were dropping on US cities, politicians would be more restrained. The only impact on Americans seems to be about gas prices. The people in the theater have their lives and livelihoods to protect. Unfair.
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Sorry to lib out here, but couldnt nearly all people who cam claim Hispanic ethnicity also claim Native American heritage?
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@eigenrobot they eventually cut their outpatient pharmacy services because they could only scam the state for millions instead of hundreds of millions
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@eigenrobot 's a pretty regular thing, my first non-chain job was working per diem for a hospital's outpatient pharmacy
Was paid insanely because they couldn't keep staff
because the hospital admin was threatening to close
because they were butthurt about CA changing 340B reimbursement
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i had a similar experience in urgent care recently
real spit on your hands and hoist the black flag moment
Ken Nelson@atKenNelson
My radicalizing moment was taking my son to urgent care and the illegal ahead asking price, told free, and then I have to pay $125 copay. How did I know he was illegal? They discussed it.
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