Like in the title, please have them appear in other places. I’ve had 2 Scarlet Spear runs ruined by this just today. It’s silly that I even need to suggest this.
In the anatomy park episode when "pearl harbor" guy croaks Rick gives up and says "welp I can't cure death"
This leaves me with some questions.
Why didn't Rick save him? (Assuming he could have)
Did Rick think the effort outweighed the end goal?
Did he have to do it in efforts to save morty in some way?
Pirates of the pancreas was there to save so why was it worth giving up if he even had a choice to do so?
Was jerry lucky as shit and only got shot in not so fatal areas? [Least likely]
Does a bullet vs natural death matter?
Does he just not have the technology on hand to save him in time? Does the hospital have something special?
Just so many questions.
And obviously this pertains to basically all death in the show. Is there a certain point carbon based life forms aren't salvageable? What are the conditions that might extend or shorten that cut off point? Would love help thinking about this or some insight if you have some.
P.S. I know we are all thinkin about bird person. Sorry I mean Phoenix person.
Edit: formatting and such.
Here is Foyan (from the first 10 pages of his book):
>Whatever you are doing ... there is something that transcends the Buddhas and Zen Masters; but as soon as you want to understand it, it's not there. It's not really there; as soon as you try to gather your attention on it, you have already turned away from it.... Does this mean that you will realize it if you do not aim the mind and do not develop intellectual understanding? Far from it – you will fail even more seriously to realize it. Even understanding does not get it, much less not understanding!
Why develop “intellectual understanding”? Why be able to aim or focus the mind?
Let’s look at what Foyan said another way: there are people who have stunted their ability to aim the mind or dumbed themselves down out of laziness, hopelessness, or even thinking it would make it better for them to “realize”, have suppressed their ability to think.
Even people who are marginally literate are under the spell of words and concepts, whether they know it or not.
Once humans have become habituated to living in the world of a head on a head, the intellect is necessary to follow that mechanism; to notice its constructs you have to be able to follow them, or at least to recognize them for what they are. You have to be interested enough, to care enough, to put the energy into it, the discipline into it. No one ever said that the zen characters were not sharp. And its getting more and more obvious that the people who endlessly misrepresent the zen teachings and make stuff up about zen are not the sharpest pencils in the box.
Some literal statements are spoken with the intent that you take them literally. They want you to look at the finger as if there is nothing more.
In zen, if you haven't learned about pointing, you might as well go back to square one. Joshu never meant to take the mystery out of the universe. Zen pointing is pointing at the world. Show me where zen pointing points at concepts, please. Buddha Mind, the unborn, is not separate or different from the world. Intellectual constructs, concepts, can't step one inch into the unborn. Its part of the head on the head.
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I really enjoy making nations in EU4 that legitimately feel like they'd "stand the test of time". God knows what the recipe for success is going to be for the rest of the 21st century, but it seems like there a few things that are quite important for the time period directly after EU4 ends:
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Industrialization: Access to coal + iron, especially beneficial if it's located inside your nations home territory. Make sure the coal provinces are developed highly enough to make it the new trade good. Big bonus points for cloth production in well developed cities, and even more bonus points if you have a colonial nation or TC region sending you lots of cotton, like the British Empire did. Another aspect of industrialization is that there are some really important materials that you'll be hard pressed to get without Doing A Colonialism, like rubber in the East Indies or coal/iron if you don't have it in your ancestral land. Make sure you either control these areas or have the capacity to control them soon.
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Religious/Cultural Unity: This is much more of a 20th century concern, but it's existential for a lot of the EU4 empires as culture converting isn't very common in normal gameplay. This fact depresses me a bit, but it seems like the large empires that stayed together into the 1900s were the expansionist land empires that settled and converted the land to their own culture (Russia and America). This suggests that an empire that largely allows conquered people to retain their own culture would very likely break apart in the 19th century. Maybe a potential solution would be for overseas empire to copy the idea of "Romanization", having clear explicit policies that any natives living could attain the full rights of citizens in a process that made them loyal to the state. Alternatively, maybe the empire could support the idea of pan-xism, where x is their greater culture group. A pan-arab empire might not have as much difficulty surviving nationalism if the entire middle east saw itself as belonging to a union of culture groups, ruled by a single nation and kept together by their belief in Islam.
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Rivals: As EU4's time period transitions into Victoria II's, there is an even greater emphasis on Great Power politics, as the 5/10 greatest nations vie for influence and success on the world stage. With this in mind, it seems that empires will struggle to succeed in the 19th century unless they already enter it as a great power. It's also important that the nations nei
I bought the Splinter Z and added the Smoant Cylon TC 218 mod. I’ve tried both wattage and TCR mode. It’s good. It works. But then my E-nano arrived. First desktop vape I’ve tried since the vapexhale a while back. First hit was holy shit. THIS is it. Clouds AND flavor on a fast hit. Evenly and fully extracted. So my question is...does anyone out there have both of these vapes and has figured out a way to dial in the Splinter Z to function on par with the E-nano? Because I really appreciate a portable vape that I can sit outside on the deck with.
Thought that in the shower.
