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#1  Edited By TrafalgarLaw

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Bone marrow transplants referred to as 'slightly uncomfortable' is the best description of British understatement I've ever heard.

It depends on an individual basis, some people have almost zero problems after the transplant. The most comfortable transplants are those in which your own stem cells (gained through the umbilical cord or via blood) are used, a bit modified and injected back into your blood. Miraculously, they always find their way to the bone marrow and start life anew. You don't even need immunosuppresive medication if it's your own stem cells.

The transplant itself isn't that taxing, the prerequisite steps taken and maintenance of the transplant can be.

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I like the picture, it's a nice way of saying Ryan will always be with them, and always in our hearts.

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It isn't a cure by any means. Lets hypothetically say you eradicated all immune cells infected by the HIV virus by performing bone marrow transplant. There are a lot of (hidden) reservoirs the HIV virus can reside in, giving you a relapse into aids.

The bone marrow transplant procedure has a high mortality of around 20-25%, higher in children. Though we now have a much safer way of transplanting through injecting G-CSF mobilized stem cells directly into your bloodstream, instead of sticking a thick (aspiration) needle into your bone (marrow). Depending on which one the doctor goes for is important.

A lot of immunosuppressive medication is used just to keep the transplant in check (auto-immune graft vs. host disease). These are drugs with terrible side effects like causing diabetes, weight gain, opportunistic infections that can even lead to cancers (lymfomas, kaposki sarcoma), mood swings etc.

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#4  Edited By TrafalgarLaw

Europe is a tier 3 "country" now?

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@thehbk said:

@trafalgarlaw said:

@youngfrey said:

@rafaelfc said:

Indies should just stay away from those policies and flood the PS4 and PC with their games.

That will either push Microsoft to revise their policy or the consumers to go where the games are.

Easy to say, but Indie devs need to get their titles in front of as many potential consumers as possible, so discounting an entire large market segment is probably a bad idea. Also, if some devs did boycott the XBox One, that would mean anyone who didn't would have less competition.

I wouldn't worry too much, Xbox's days are numbered. Recent UK charts show that Knack (I puppy you not) outsold FM5, BF4 and all XB1 titles alltogether. Indies are going to make or break consoles this generation and Microsoft is showing their contempt at them. For now, boycotting XB1 would help their dev cycles instead of sitting on finished games while they try to even get it working on XB1.

I would be worried about the UK population more than the Xbox brand since that means people were stupid enough to buy Knack over all other Xbox titles or BF4.

Is this an attempt to insult people from the UK "being stupid enough to buy Knack"? For all it's worth, at least Knack works and didn't need a formal apology from the developers and publisher.

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#6  Edited By TrafalgarLaw

I wish I woke up 30 mins ago, sent a PM to mods. Don't do it, you have us.

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@bocam said:

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@oldirtybearon: I'm not saying a white man can't face hardship. I'm only saying that the kind of person I'm profiling there hasn't faced hardship because he isheterosexual white man.

But how the fuck can you know what hardships another person has faced as you're not that person? There are more troubles in the world then just the -isms or phobias.

That's what I was saying in the sentence you quoted. I don't say that being a heterosexual white male makes you invincible. But it does immunize you against facing systemic discrimination based on sexual orientation, race and gender. In white-majority countries, of course.

You're saying immigrants, i.e. Polish people (usually white men) immigrating into european countries cannot face discrimination or hardships? Or white men with obesity? Or maybe a cleft lip? C'mon man, saying that white people cannot be discriminated against is a misconception. Yes, it happens a lot less but that doesn't mean white people have this magical thing called "privileges" or cannot empathize with those have been discriminated against.

I at least applaud OP saying she can fend for herself, though I'm not sure everyone else can.

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#8  Edited By TrafalgarLaw

@youngfrey said:

@rafaelfc said:

Indies should just stay away from those policies and flood the PS4 and PC with their games.

That will either push Microsoft to revise their policy or the consumers to go where the games are.

Easy to say, but Indie devs need to get their titles in front of as many potential consumers as possible, so discounting an entire large market segment is probably a bad idea. Also, if some devs did boycott the XBox One, that would mean anyone who didn't would have less competition.

I wouldn't worry too much, Xbox's days are numbered. Recent UK charts show that Knack (I puppy you not) outsold FM5, BF4 and all XB1 titles alltogether. Indies are going to make or break consoles this generation and Microsoft is showing their contempt at them. For now, boycotting XB1 would help their dev cycles instead of sitting on finished games while they try to even get it working on XB1.

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I hate to be so blunt about this, but if micro-transactions bother you then you are fucked this generation. Get another hobby because developers have found out that adding micro-transactions significantly increases profits. It does not matter what system you choose (even PC is going to head in this direction), you are going to have to deal with $60 games that offer micro-transactions. All you have to do is look at IOS games. The top-100 list of most profitable games are almost all micro-transaction based games.

At GDC the last couple of years (when developers started making games for the generation) most of the talks were about how micro-transactions, games as service, and online only are the future of gaming.

There are going to be a few outliers, but micro-transactions are your future, no matter what the gaming community thinks of it.

I'm sorry but no, I cannot accept this and won't stand for it.

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#10  Edited By TrafalgarLaw

A shark (squalus acanthias), a squid (loligo vulgaris), a starfish (asterias rubens), a worm (lubricus terrestis), a jellyfish (scyphozoa scyphomedae), a sheep heart, cow lungs and a real human (homo sapiens).