Don't give up, skeleton!

For me, it's because, as a child, I was incredibly cranky, and as soon as caffeine-free Coke was introduced, Mom had me start drinking that, and, hey, I got a lot less crabby, so that made me want to avoid caffeine. I also never really cared for the smell of coffee, either, so had absolutely no interest in drinking even decaf.

And so the two surgeons filmed a handover after heart surgery and sent it to the Ferrari pitcrew who were told to critique and improve handover process

And from this:

we got this:

The error rate during patien handovers dropped from 30% to 10% with the F1 informed protocol.

I love this!

And it that it wasn't a one and done.

The doctors went to the race tracks to watch the car changes and the pit crews went to the hospitals and watched a live transfer and offered suggestions and they kept working with them to improve.

After there was a successful improvement of the most vital metrics of a handover of a patient from surgery to ICU, the pit crews also worked with other hospitals for other procedures and it's now a whole thing of trying to apply the specialized, streamlined and speedy teamwork and nonverbal coordination of pit crews to other high-risk fields.

Don't get me wrong, in both the base game and the DLC there is plenty of creepy and scary stuff: the crawling hands, the scarlet rot, Caelid, the Shadow Lands in general.

Not to mention Rykard who is the only Soulslike boss to elicit a "Whaaaat the fuuuuuck is that?! That is a crime against nature. You are an abomination." from me.

Which, like I said, Rykard is the only fucker to get me to react like that.

But none of that was terrifying for me. It was just like "Okay, fuck, I am probably gonna die."

But after clearing the Hornsent Inquisitor boss fight in the DLC and getting access to The Abyssal Woods, I do what I normally do when accessing an area for the first time.

I hop on Torren to ride around and have a look.

Only to get what? Two meters into the woods and Torrent immediatley bucks me off his back and disappears. Now I get genuinely confused and I try summoning him again.

"The Spectral Steed is frightened and cannot be summoned."

What the fuck is so bad about this forest that it's frightened Torrent?! is what I think and immediatley start freaking out.

Because this is Torrent. I've ridden him into battle, towards Radahn, towards The Fire Giant, countless dragons, Erdtree Avatars.

You name it, if I could Summon Torrent for the fight, I did it at least once.

So, to suddenly be in a place where I can't ride Torrent, not because I just can't Summon him but because he doesn't want to materialize.

Yeah I just about shat myself with fear and wondered what the fuck was in these woods.

And then I found the messages basically telling me "Stick to the grass, don't let them see you, you cannot kill them."

And then I saw them

Rawhide

Death Valley Days: Snowshoe Thompson (as Fred Daniels // S2E13, 1954)

Wanted: Dead or Alive: The Hostage (as Jumbo Kane // S2E6, 1959)

Death Valley Days: The Hat That Wore the West (as Brogger // S11E5, 1962)

I like Evrarte’s reaction to mega rich light-bending guy and I like his shirt collar situation