Talonflame

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What game from your childhood is most nostalgic for you? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I still need to play Link Between Worlds. Link To The Past is the best 2D Zelda imo

What game from your childhood is most nostalgic for you? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I can still hear that rabbit music

What game from your childhood is most nostalgic for you? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The original one?

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What game from your childhood is most nostalgic for you? (lemmy.cafe)
You are Anti-Semitic in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm absolutely against anti Semitism but it's not anti Semitism to say Israel is committing a genocide. I wish more people realised that.

Why are Japanese pilots flying airliners into thunderstorms? in c/[email protected]
obnoxious virus in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A virus that changes the font every time you go to a new page or hit refresh

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Another reason I'll never use Facebook. It's been a hellsite for a long time

How are there cases of people deliberately staying awake for so long they died? Wouldn't you just automatically pass out and sleep long before you got to that point? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If these waste products are CNS depressants, wouldn't they cause you to pass out and sleep (similar to how people often pass out and sleep a couple hours after taking an ambien, for instance. Ambien is also a CNS depressant) before death happens?

Sort of like how your body prevents you from dying from holding your own breath by forcing you to breathe again once passed out.

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How are there cases of people deliberately staying awake for so long they died? Wouldn't you just automatically pass out and sleep long before you got to that point? (lemmy.cafe)
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(Note: I'm not talking about FFI, but healthy people.)

It's said that we need sleep because waste products, such as adenosine (which is a CNS depressant) build up in our brains while we're awake. When we sleep, the glymphatic system activates and flushes it out. Too much adenosine is known to cause a slower heart rate, the body temperature to decrease, immune system to weaken, hallucinations, and more.

I read about how a Chinese guy (in 2014 or 2012?) deliberately stayed awake for 11 nights with no sleep at all to watch the world cup, and he died. The articles said he died of sleep deprivation.

Here's the part which confuses me. I understand why too much of a CNS depressant waste product in your brain would be deadly, since it'd supress vital functions such as breathing, heart rate etc. I'm just wondering why it wouldn't make you automatically pass out and sleep, long before it got to that level as it's something which very gradually builds up in your brain the longer you're awake.

How is it possible that some people have deliberately stayed awake for so long they died? Doesn't the brain have a failsafe to force you to sleep before you die of sleep deprivation? in c/[email protected]
Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Was about to say this too. Can't tell a difference between most games made in 2013 vs 2023.