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Vtuber rigging test, start! Behold what full-body motion capture can accomplish. ✨ But don't behold too closely because my skirt kinda flew up in the end there. 🫣 #warudo

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ok wait WAIT… hear me out for a sec bc this might actually make sense 🤭🤭🤭 so in this clip where pond gives something to phuwin… what if that was the car key. like actually. bc pond already looked kinda drunk there so it would make sense for him to be like “yeah u drive” AND THEN at the end of songkran: pond = alone on the side of the road on his phone phuwin = on the other side walking fast with fot like hello???? what if phuwin already went with fot to go get the car and pond was just standing there waiting for them to come pick him up 😭😭😭 bc why were they separated like that AND pond just standing there like that… it’s giving “my ride is on the way” idk but this is lining up a little too well like… u know what. yeah. this is facts actually i’m not even being delulu anymore this just makes sense. i was the drop of water on pond’s shoulder btw i saw everything!!! 🤡🤡🤡

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BowTiedBroke

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Nobody comes into my office and says they've been losing ground for years. They come in for a knee or a shoulder. But when you ask the right questions, a different story emerges. They stopped hiking because it got too hard. They gave up tennis. They hesitate before the stairs they used to take without thinking. They've quietly rearranged their lives around what they can no longer do... and most of them didn't notice it happening. This is what I think of as the narrowing of people's lives. It's not a dramatic event. Instead, it's a gradual shrinking of what's physically possible, so slow that people mistake the adaptation for a choice. It wasn't a choice. It was the slow, quiet disappearance of capacity that nobody warned them to protect. They normalized all the changes and attributed them solely to aging. The narrowing is not inevitable!! Dammit... it's not ;-)! But it requires intention to resist because the body will not hold the capacity to do things you do not train, and the losses accumulate in silence until they don't.

Nobody comes into my office and says they've been losing ground for years. They come in for a knee or a shoulder. But when you ask the right questions, a different story emerges. They stopped hiking because it got too hard. They gave up tennis. They hesitate before the stairs they used to take without thinking. They've quietly rearranged their lives around what they can no longer do... and most of them didn't notice it happening. This is what I think of as the narrowing of people's lives. It's not a dramatic event. Instead, it's a gradual shrinking of what's physically possible, so slow that people mistake the adaptation for a choice. It wasn't a choice. It was the slow, quiet disappearance of capacity that nobody warned them to protect. They normalized all the changes and attributed them solely to aging. The narrowing is not inevitable!! Dammit... it's not ;-)! But it requires intention to resist because the body will not hold the capacity to do things you do not train, and the losses accumulate in silence until they don't.

Howard Luks MD

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