Usedmacaronisalesman
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A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.
It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.
Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.
Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.
The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.
It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.
The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.
When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.
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@deon_lt 3 was my favorite for the music and dope ahh dragon fusion system. Garr is my favorite character in the series because he learned the truth of his life's dedication and chose to overcome it
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GIVEAWAY! I will be giving away 3 copies of Breath of Fire IV (Steam) in 24 hours time. To be in with a chance you need to do the following:
1. Follow me
2. Like and retweet this post
3. Comment with your favourite BoF memory and character, and why!
Giveaway will end at 18:00 GMT on 03/04/2026. I will then add the lucky people on Steam and gift them the game either that evening or the following evening.
2 years and 154 days of asking @capcom_official, @dev1_official, @CapcomUSA_ , @CapcomEurope to release a collection or remakes/remaster of Breath of Fire games, 1 to 5 on PS5/Switch 2/Xbox/Steam. Likes, shares, etc all help spread the word.
#pleasecapcom #bringbackbreathoffire
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@TheDavidVinc Playing destiny dc right now. Love tales games but the 2d ones especially
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This little gem right here!

Bandai Namco US@BandaiNamcoUS
What was the first #Talesof game you played?
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@deon_lt @capcom_official @dev1_official @CapcomUSA_ @CapcomEurope This campaign is at least 50% the reason I log into x no Diddy. Keep it up
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2 years and 58 days of asking @capcom_official, @dev1_official, @CapcomUSA_ , @CapcomEurope to release a collection or remakes/remaster of Breath of Fire games, 1 to 5 on PS5/Switch 2/Xbox/Steam. Likes, shares, etc all help spread the word.
#pleasecapcom #bringbackbreathoffire
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@TheDavidVinc This is how I found you so it's a shame you're cutting back but I get it
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I swear I block more people on Twitter than I do on YouTube despite having exponentially less followers here. The toxicity and vitriol that I experience here over the most innocuous stuff is astounding. Like people don't realize I'm a real person. My new years resolution is to use this website for business purposes only - because sharing my personal life experiences or inferences that I make on the genre is just too much for these trolls
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@peachflavor3d Vanillaware hate pc tho unfortunately. Such a goated game and vita emulation is tuff
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Another piece of #Muramasa: The Demon Blade artwork by Takashi Noma most likely featured in an artbook. Creating awareness to make this game relevant enough for a re-release on modern systems and PC. Usual upscale/clean/retouch applied.

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BTW, this is my current game project: Vikings on Trampolines. Its a co-op/versus brawler where you're vikings, you fight on trampolines, and balloons are sentient and evil. Currently working on the 1-4 player Adventure mode.
You can see more here:
store.steampowered.com/app/748810/Vik…
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@AspenVesper I just happened to be in position to send a good kittay pic
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I didn’t think that many people would enter it guh it’s just a spare code for only the first game that I got for free from Humble Bundle.
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Okay. Etrian Odyssey 1 HD Steam code. Who wants it? And yes, I’m giving it away. Reply with an amazing kitten picture to enter. And trolls… don’t get blocked!
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@RadicalFishGame Say co-op multiplayer and I wishlist rn
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Cutting weird grass and fighting weird grass!
We're working hard on new areas in #AlabasterDawn with enemies and new destructibles!
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@TheProjectUnity This is how they say thank you. They're Spanish monkes
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@DodgeRollGames No way you can announce this and only have it on mobile. Add to other platforms and we'll all be on it til etg2 drops
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@kirawontmiss Ok but why is she the one who looks surprised tho
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These 2 are the only candidates who are fighting for the people
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