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On the subject of modeling the real world for virtual environments: "But the real messiness starts with liquids, gases, and plasmas. What happens when your avatar puts sugar in a bowl of water or dips an apple into honey? Even if we program the honey to get stuck on the apple and slowly drip off the apple, Richard notes that this will surely lead to a player wondering (at some juncture) why honey drips off kittens at the same rate it drips off apples." -- Greg Lastowka, 2004-01-22, referring to Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard Bartle.

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it doesn't?

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I would invite you to verify this experimentally, but I wouldn't want that to be interpreted as volunteering Perrine as a test subject. ;-)

(Actually, we could test this with something like a rabbit's foot or a scrap of fake fur...)

I haven't done the ecperiment, but I know which way I'd bet.

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the hair provides much more surface area to cling to than a hairless apple has.

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And, if the apple is sliced, as in the Rosh HaShana custom, perhaps the moisture of the fruit will even more accelerate the dripping.

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I was thinking that about sliced apples, but felt too shy to postulate honey-dipped kitty right now. Although honey is kind of antibiotic in its properties (notice how it goes bad sitting on the shelf at room temperature), I wouldn't think it's good to submerge an open wound in it, especially not Perrine's. I love that cat 2nd only to my own. And she's had it rough enough.

Mine is currently watching the hallway for intruders. From the safety of under Sheila the table. I like the rabbit's foot or fake fur concept.

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One must think also of the built-in dehoneyfication system that a kitty has. Although a full-body immersion is likely to give a excessive workload and result in detriment to the continued well-being of the kit.

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"I wouldn't think it's good to submerge an open wound in it"

Interestingly enough, I've heard that people have done exactly that with it, as a primitive-conditions way of protecting a wound from infection. (When I heard about it, it was unclear whether this was an "emergency, caught short, what do we have on hand?" thing (the same conditions under which one might wash a wound with urine (I imagine that stings) due to a lack of clean water), or a "modern antibiotics haven't been invented yet" thing. ISTR soldiers being involved. And I guess it'd probably be sometime after folks figured out germs cause infections.

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I know that stuff already. But we live in one of the most ersatz civilized places on earth and have access to antibiotics and neosporin. I think of honey as something to be used under duress.

What is ISTR? I wish people would quit abbreviating so much. Just a general gripe.

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ISTR = "I seem to recall".

Hmm. Must remember to visit the "which netspeak abbreviations do I use when, and why" thing after the pattern-matching analysis that just started in the back of my head resolves a bit.

(Urk. Having serious problems with the "stay asleep long enough for it to do any good" thing.)

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