{"id":31419,"date":"2016-04-01T14:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T19:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31419"},"modified":"2016-04-01T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T19:48:58","slug":"soma-ep6-under-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31419","title":{"rendered":"SOMA EP6: Under The Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ocycCpep07c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ocycCpep07c'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really curious about the Catherine Edit of SOMA. I watched a few YouTube videos. Near the end of the game you find yourself in an installation where she inhabits the PA system while you run errands. There are a few other points like the one in this episode, where Simon leaves her running while he does a fetch quest. It&#8217;s possible she&#8217;s awake for a quarter of the game&#8217;s five-hour runtime. <\/p>\n<p>Below are a few more comments on surgery, continuing the discussion from the show:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Josh and Rutskarn both refer to incidents where they were sedated and awoke with the sensation that no time had passed. I didn&#8217;t even realize that was possible. That&#8217;s actually kind of creepy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually been under general anesthetic five times in my life:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Once as a small child, to have my <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adenoid\">Adenoids<\/a> removed \/ reduced. It&#8217;s one of my earliest memories, and it&#8217;s mostly a collection of emotions and words. The only image I have is when I woke up in the recovery room and the first thing I saw was a  radiator. I wonder if that&#8217;s why I have such a negative feeling associated with them, and why I enjoyed pulverizing people with them in Half-Life 2. Probably not. I think everyone enjoyed doing that.\n<li>When I was 19, and had <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nasal_concha\">turbinate<\/a> reduction surgery. I wonder if these two surgeries are why my voice has such a strange, muted quality, like my head is packed with wet cotton. I&#8217;ve been told my dad had a rich radio voice when he was young. Then again, I sound a lot like my younger brother Patrick, so maybe the surgeries didn&#8217;t have any impact on my voice at all.\n<li>As mentioned on the show, when I was 20 I was sedated for gastrointestinal endoscopy<span class='snote' title='1'>That&#8217;s just fancy doctor talk for &#8220;Stick a camera down your throat&#8221;.<\/span> and woke up during the procedure.\n<li>Another &#8220;camera looking at innards&#8221; procedure.\n<li>There was that one time they took my gallbladder, but <a href=\"?p=1256\">I already wrote about that<\/a>.\n<\/ol>\n<p>My point is, I&#8217;ve never had the abrupt cut to post-surgery that Josh described. For me it&#8217;s always like waking up after a long sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I&#8217;m really curious about the Catherine Edit of SOMA. I watched a few YouTube videos. Near the end of the game you find yourself in an installation where she inhabits the PA system while you run errands. 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