Placebo parachutes

[bouteillebleu]

Are parachutes safer than the alternative? The writers of this article think that it's about time someone did a placebo-controlled study... Now I'm just trying to imagine exactly what a placebo parachute would be. Presumably just one that wouldn't open on the way down?

The best section of the article is the Contributors section: "GCSS had the original idea. JPP tried to talk him out of it. JPP did the first literature search but GCSS lost it. GCSS drafted the manuscript but JPP deleted all the best jokes. GCSS is the guarantor, and JPP says it serves him right."

Anyway, apart from this, I have been recently reading a semantics article that looks like it was written by people who'd escaped from a maths department (I started Linguistics to get away from mathematics, not to run into it again...), and practising my Japanese by, er, playing a dating simulator for the Playstation 2. theblunderbuss's PS2, to be exact, as I don't own one. Yet. When Disgaea makes it to Europe, I'm getting one - well, when Disgaea's got here and my finals are over. By that time, of course, most of the people I know with PS2s will be playing other fun Atlus games like La Pucelle and so on, but I care not.

Oh, and finally, I won these Chrono Cross keychains a few days ago. Kid and Leena in particular are very cute in chibi form.

Comments

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I just managed to get Disgaea, so you won't be the only one playing it. :)

[bouteillebleu.livejournal.com]

Though given that there's been no release date mentioned - who knows, you may have finished it by the time it arrives here. :)

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Yes, I may have finished it, but I only truly finish games that majorly suck. I've got a character on FFII/IV that I've been working on for a good decade at least.

[bouteillebleu.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. I think I'll be playing Chrono Cross for a while yet - and I've technically "finished" it, as I'm on my second play through. But you need to go through it three times to get everyone, and then there's all the equipment to buy and people to level up...

So I agree with you there, yes. A game's only really finished when you get tired of it.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I'll modify that to say permanently tired of it. I'll certainly get tired of a game after lots of playing time, but it doesn't mean I don't want to play it again eventually.

I replay games, I reread books...there definitely a pattern here.