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WCDT Strips 3066 to 3070 (12th - 16th October 2015)
War Sparrow:
PTSD is weird. They actually don't know what causes it. It's linked to heart rate variability (if your heartate goes up when your excited, and down when your not, as opposed to being fairly regular) whether the person chose to be in or could escape the situation, if the person didn't wait six hours to go to sleep(there was a study done that linked sleeping right after a traumatic incident caused it to go into long term memory, before the body got the chance to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system with regards to the incident.) There are case studies of people falling at an airport, with no injury, and getting PTSD. There are people that get hit by trains and are fine.
Perfectly Reasonable:
I was going to agree with Akima that Bubbles needs sturdier exercise gear.
But what is she mainjacking? If it isn't "My Litttle Pony" episodes, she could be much closer to Faye than we want to think. Maybe they -do- need each other...
Akima:
I think the cause of PTSD is clear enough; traumatic stress (it's right there on the label). What is not clear is the mechanism through which it works, and why some people experience it following circumstances which do not affect others in the same way.
--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 16 Oct 2015, 03:44 ---I hope Jeph expands on if, and why Bubbles has PTSD, too. "Been to war" isn't really a good enough explanation-it takes more than a really bad experience to develop something like that.
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--- Quote from: Thrudd on 16 Oct 2015, 08:33 ---Also, just to raise a point, her PTSD may not have anything to do with direct combat at all since a soldiers training is supposed to include the tools to deal with combat stress long before they are mustered out on active duty.
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I am puzzled by these postings above suggesting that the stress of battle is not a sufficient explanation for Bubbles' possible PTSD. Since the days when it was called "shell-shock", has not a major part of the literature on the subject related to military psychological casualties?
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 16 Oct 2015, 16:25 ---But what is she mainjacking? If it isn't "My Litttle Pony" episodes, she could be much closer to Faye than we want to think.
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I thought she was just recharging. Though the cable is a bit thin for that, now I come to think of it (depending on the charging voltage, obviously). Bubbles must have some pretty solid energy-storage after all.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 16 Oct 2015, 16:25 ---But what is she mainjacking? If it isn't "My Litttle Pony" episodes, she could be much closer to Faye than we want to think. Maybe they -do- need each other...
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I figured it's her power supply or something. If she's an older model, she probably operates differently than the newer models, kind of like how new idevices use lightning cables now instead of those wide rectangular things.
Kugai:
I think she's recharging. She is and older model of military AnthroPC and it may also a faculty of her being an early Military Combat AI/AnthroPC. You know, a limiting factor built into her by the military as a form of controlling her and her kind just in case.
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