What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[nathan_p]

Faffing about with research bullshit.

- Installing Open Office.
- Getting a library card so I can creep at the downtown library tomorrow.
- Going over 1890s food prices.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Off to watch Warehouse 13
It's an OK show. The concept is amusing, but the writers are so slow about their plot arcs, and the characters don't have much room for development.

[EndOfTheEarth]

XD Granted. My Creative Writing Professor from the last semester said the same thing often.

[Dual]

Playing Bioshock for the first time.

I have a question for all the people who've played it.

How the HELL does the main character eat twenty year old potatochips without getting sick?

I mean, seriously. Is his stomache made of pure iron?

[Dual]

It restores health.

Despite all logic.

Bullet wounds? Eat a potatochip, it'll make you feel better.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Only a little though...and there's a story element that I can't tell you about yet that could explain it. The only time that it creates a noticeable question mark is one particular room where there's piles of them, then it's possible to repair a good chunk of your health bar by chowing down. Similarly, there's a gene tonic that lets you do the same with alcohol, which is nice, considering the number of bars there seem to be in Rapture.

[nathan_p]

Potato chips don't really expire if still sealed; I would guess they just start tasting bad. They would taste bad, sure, but if still in original packaging they wouldn't kill you.

[EndOfTheEarth]

It's only been at most two years since the disaster at the Kashmir Restaurant. That was New Year's Eve (start of '59). Jack gets to Rapture in 1960. Still though, that's a bit of a while.

I have three theories:

1) The potato chips are vacuum sealed and have nothing in them to degrade them.

2) Rapture, being the society of the future, found a way to infinitely preserve potato chips.

3) Jack is using all of these Rapturian medical devices, which supposedly prevent you from getting sick, repair serious injuries, etc.

For a real challenge, try explaining the creme-filled cakes.

Say hi to Dr. Steinman for me, would you kindly!

[nathan_p]

Creme-filled cakes?

Twinkies! They're like cockroaches, survive everything.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Not the ones that are out of the wrapper,
The ones still in though, I agree.

For comparison value though, there's a section later in the game where the food has been left out. The cheeses and cakes are appropriately moldy.

[Hannah]

Thanks. I'm never going to be able to eat Twinkies after that lovely metaphor.

[Contradiction]

Drinking a strawberry banana smoothie. Omnomnom.

Also, procrastinating. :D