BRPS, how I love thee

From post here:

He was born in a mountain town in South Africa. (Name removed) was treated like slime because he was half canine half feline and he was nearly killed in middle school. At sixteen he found out about his abilitys when his father told him what he really was... a Wind Walker. A wind demon created when a loin and a wolf fall truly in love and try to bear children. They must train on a tall mountain for two years, but (Name removed) being impatient and over confident in him stayed up for only a year and a half. When he got back to his village he found his home burned to the ground. This ignited something deep in him and was fueled by the anger and hatred of those who hurt him in the past... the urge to kill. (Name removed) became an assassin to feed this urge and to eliminate those who created laws against other races and hurt those who are lower on the social scale. But that all stopped on his 30th assignment

30 is a nice round number, I guess.

SoaP

Went to see Snakes on a Plane with da_norvegicus and a bunch of his schoolmates.

The lads enjoyed it, and I probably would've too if I had less familiarity with snakes. I was willing to suspend disbelief on the 'snakes go homicidal' bit - it's not normal snake behaviour, but at least they had a rationale for that. But they just weren't convincing as snakes - far too much obvious CGI, some of it in the look but most in how they moved.

Also, and I know Hollywood's never been even remotely realistic about this stuff, but... just for the record, even if you are bitten by one of the world's most venomous snakes, unless you are amazingly unlucky and suffer a direct hit to a vein or some such, you have a good fifteen minutes of activity left. In all likelihood, much longer. You are not going to seize up and die on the spot.

Also also... if they're going to terrify people with snakes, is it too much to ask that they at least give some vaguely responsible presentation of the first-aid? I realise that snakebite treatment doctrine varies from place to place, and that the whole 'multiple poorly-identified exotic species' is a first-aid nightmare, but I don't know *anywhere* where the treatment depicted would have been considered appropriate.