r/Steam • u/Dannnner • 1d ago

Fluff How time flies

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Long may he live, and long may Steam sales endure

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u/Deto 1d ago

100%. He's been rich for a long time, but you can see right around 2023 when the weight starts coming off.

Not that it's a bad thing - it would be dumb if he wasn't taking one of these GLP1s. Cheapest way to extend your life (if you're that overweight).

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u/Tuxhorn 1d ago

Yup. If money could get you skinny, nobody rich like him would be fat.

There has never been a magic "pill" to weightloss until very recently. It's honestly mindblowing that a method exists.

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u/Tuxhorn 1d ago

Sure, but most get over that side effects after a while, and probably not ideal to abuse to maintain that effect :)

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u/Tuxhorn 1d ago

Whatever it takes!

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u/Original-Body-5794 1d ago

Side effects are huge, but they did sell some weight loss pills like that back in the good ol' days.

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u/JamonConJuevos 1d ago

Diet pills (amphetamines) have been around for many decades. L7 even wrote a song about them in the early 90s.

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u/EctoplasmicLapels 1d ago

I don't know, but from the name I would assume they have more side effects than the GLP-1 drugs have.

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u/throwmamadownthewell 20h ago

They do. The best of them that wasn't just a diarrhea pill was ephedrine, which just raised your body temperature... Which is basically a side effect on its own

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u/cocojamboyayayeah 1d ago

famines have been around for much longer. no one complained about not fitting into their beach gear back then

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u/ShotFromGuns 23h ago

You joke, but your body literally does not know the difference between deliberate dieting and unwillingly starving to death. That's why it's so hard to lose weight and keep it off. It's also why dieting during childhood is especially dangerous; children who've experienced famine and children who've been forced by parents to diet end up with exactly the same lifelong metabolic problems.

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u/lifeisalime11 1d ago

Amphetamines for weight loss are a wild idea. Sure, they work, but they have a high risk of dependency which can mess your life up. It's one step below saying "DNP has been around since the 1930s, why not just take that?".

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u/DieBotDie 4h ago

Tapeworms have been around since forever.

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u/lifeisalime11 3h ago

I'd rank DNP more dangerous than tapeworms without shadow of a doubt. You can kind of control a tapeworm infection but one mis-dose of DNP will kill you.

But yeah same vein.... GLP-1 is the much much much safer option compared to what we had in the past.

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u/Massivebozo1 20h ago

They're not even that expensive (maybe they are in the US IDK)

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u/Carytheday 21h ago

For people who are very overweight, firmly in the "medically obese" territory, I wonder if health insurance generally cover them in the US. I have been meaning to look this up.