Baldur’s Gate 3 is apparently based on a true story.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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Baldur's Gate sounds like it's based on Australia tbf
I just got to the scary shadow place, and TBH I cant tell the difference
"Faerun" I'm pretty sure is just a province in australia
Even Mind Flayers are afraid of living in Australia
Apparently she's yet to undergo ceremorphosis so I wonder what sort of powers she's getting.
Ophidascaris robertsi is a roundworm usually found in pythons. The Canberra hospital patient marks the world-first case of the parasite being found in humans.
The patient resides near a lake area inhabited by carpet pythons. Despite no direct snake contact, she often collected native grasses, including warrigal greens, from around the lake to use in cooking, Senanayake said.
The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens.
Moral of the story: make sure you wash all the snake shit off your produce and hands before eating.
You don't have to eat a round worm for it to get all up in you. They can enter through the skin on your hands and feet. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000630.htm
Well frankly that's on you for going outside.
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People in Australia always say that everyone overstated its dangers.
But I think Australians just want us to visit and store more of their mindworms.
Could have been the mind worms all along, "No it's perfectly safe. Please bring your delicious brains to our land"
It's too bad that the brain doesn't have the capability to feel itself. Imagine the fun of having a little buddy wiggling though your thoughts.
Maybe it'd even tickle :3
A past team member of mine had a client who kept telling providers that she "has worms in my brain." Multiple providers discounted the medical relevance of this individual's claims as delusions due to her schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and her low level of function.
My team member fought the providers like hell to get her an fMRI. Well the fMRI showed her brain was riddled with at that point inoperable tumors, and she died not long afterwards.
I'd heard other accounts of similar stories, but that was the first real-world example I had. If I had a client telling me there were ants in his belly, I'm not going to believe that's accurate, but I made damn sure we addressed it with providers.
People can describe physical symptoms in seemingly bizarre ways. Even if the exact scenario they are describing is clearly false, it doesn't mean they aren't experiencing very real physical symptoms.
Reminds me of an episode of one of those medical shows where a nonverbal autistic kid keeps trying to tell everyone he's got worms in his eyes but he can only tell them by drawing the worms so it just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines on paper.
Or shutter island when DiCaprio is talking about his dead wife saying she had a bug in her brain before going crazy and killing their kids.
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Damn this a bad memory
Chomp :)
Hey thanks buddy have some thought juice to go along with that
I felt that just by reading it, thank you very much.
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Fuck's sake. I always thought brain worms was one of my irrational fears.
I love this bit, best news article in ages
That poor patient, she was so courageous and wonderful,” Senanayake said. “You don’t want to be the first patient in the world with a roundworm found in pythons and we really take our hats off to her. She’s been wonderful.
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That's what the worms want you to think
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"The patient resides near a lake area inhabited by carpet pythons. Despite no direct snake contact, she often collected native grasses, including warrigal greens, from around the lake to use in cooking, Senanayake said.
The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens."
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Excuse me while I boil my food for a half hour.
Never change Australia. Unless you want to become more deadly.
You probably didn’t intend it but ‘deadly’ is also a word used in the Aboriginal community to mean something is good or awesome.
So this works on two levels.
And she hasn't transformed into a mindflayer? She should harness her Illithid powers. The Absolute's clearly chosen her as a True Soul.
I've never been to Australia, and yet this explains so much about me.
so, can we make this a "in world-last discovery"?
of course it was Australia
Lol, if this was in America the lady would have been charged a billion dollars!
Brain worms are a preexisting condition not covered by insurance.
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The world is burning, I got worms in my brains
I guess Ashnikko wasn't being metaphorical with that line in Worms.
Krikey...
Are we sure it wasnt a brain slug?
Pretty sure that's a yeerk friend. Brain slugs attach to the brain through the skull where they mount from the outside and they have little antenna.
Anybody remember what flavor of instant oatmeal you use against yeerks by any chance? I need to make a run to the store.
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