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General Off Topic / Re: Chinese flu - Doomsday 2020

« on: July 18, 2020, 04:22:38 pm »

The infection fatality rate ended up being somewhere between .1% - .3% which according to the US's 5 level pandemic plan would put it at most level 2 which is the "voluntary quarantining of sick people".
https://swprs.org/studies-on-covid-19-lethality/

This situation has been mostly a media and political farce just like I had said three months ago.

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General Off Topic / Re: Chinese flu - Doomsday 2020

« on: March 21, 2020, 12:49:18 am »

Ain't nothing strange about that. What good is all your tp gonna do in the end times when I come knocking on your door with my fully loaded ar15 asking for a roll or two?

Strange wasn't the right word I suppose. More like disgusting but I guess that's advertising just doing its job.

[Politicians/media take action to prevent spread of virus, leading to fewer deaths]
"Wow, so few deaths, they overreacted and shut everything down for nothing!"

[Politicians/media take no action to prevent spread of virus, leading to many deaths]
"Wow, it's like they don't even care about us, just watching us die and shit!"

Politicians/media action has been to point the finger and tell everyone else to take no action.

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General Off Topic / Re: Chinese flu - Doomsday 2020

« on: March 18, 2020, 09:09:06 pm »

[Politicians/media take action to prevent spread of virus, leading to fewer deaths]
"Wow, so few deaths, they overreacted and shut everything down for nothing!"

[Politicians/media take no action to prevent spread of virus, leading to many deaths]
"Wow, it's like they don't even care about us, just watching us die and shit!"

The 'shutting everything down' had the affect of people isolating even less at the supposed height of the illness by congregating at grocery stores buying up all the damn TP, cold medicine, frozen and canned foods and soft drinks, oddly enough I still saw a pallet with water left on it. I thought it was a bit strange when I heard a first time ad on my local radio station for a sporting goods store focusing on ammo of all things. The media and entertainment industry are probably also loving this ratings bonanza.

The illness itself is not what I'm concerned about, it's the induced panic and the knock-on affect this will have for when it finally blows over. Even if I'm wrong I'll still be indignant as "wolf" has been cried I don't know how many times in my lifetime with SARS, bird flu, swine flu, ebola, zika, etc.

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General Off Topic / Re: Chinese flu - Doomsday 2020

« on: March 18, 2020, 11:40:34 am »

We've gotta hurry up and spread this thing to kill the projected ~400,000 people before it all blows over and the media and politicians [continue to] look like shit.

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General Off Topic / Re: Chinese flu - Doomsday 2020

« on: March 03, 2020, 02:03:21 pm »

I wonder how many people have actually gotten sick, not known it, and then got better. Do they track those numbers as well?

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General Off Topic / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: August 21, 2019, 01:56:04 am »

I'm still listening to this 13 years out

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General Off Topic / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: August 14, 2019, 10:48:19 pm »

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General Off Topic / Re: ROAST THE FUCK OUT OF ME

« on: July 27, 2019, 10:32:00 pm »

Those numbers seem good. I'm about the same height but ~60kg smaller and eating that much food never appealed to me.

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General / Re: Let's talk fondly about OKAM.

« on: January 20, 2019, 02:23:11 am »

You know what, I'm about to say it. I never liked RipperX.

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General Off Topic / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: January 19, 2019, 10:41:58 pm »

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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: Escape from Tarkov

« on: January 15, 2019, 02:44:01 pm »

There's still no animation for the magazine reloads and partial quest hand-ins are only for separate items. Made getting 5 low-tier armor for a quest kind of annoying. The flea market is a nice way to gauge the value of something and make money.

I've also slowed down on the amount I'm playing, I haven't been able to find a good audio compressor and playing optimally listening for faint footsteps and movement is deafening with the ambient noises coupled with shitting yourself when the gunshots go off. The lag has also been pretty bad because I guess they have a trial period going on and the servers are taxed.

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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: Escape from Tarkov

« on: January 14, 2019, 07:28:07 pm »

It's complicated in the fact that you kind of need to look online for maps and their exits, what loot is worth holding onto for quests later down the line, which ammo types are the best (although the description with "armor-piercing" is all I've bothered with), and how to fit certain attachments onto weapons.

The loop is pretty simple, load out your character with what's in your budget, go into a map and loot/kill what you can while doing trader tasks along the way and then get out. You can play as an NPC every 10 minutes for a risk free opportunity to loot a map, "risk free" in the sense that you won't lose any gear from your main character and stash but have a chance to add to it with whatever you can scavenge with bare bones equipment.

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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: Escape from Tarkov

« on: January 14, 2019, 04:35:23 pm »

I picked this up a couple weeks ago and boy does it put me on edge. I play like I'm a freegan Solid Snake, creeping around picking up leftover canned goods and electronic parts.

I've had no luck trying to be nice to fellow scavs, the one time a scav player didn't just shoot me on sight he got me killed by giving away our position shooting at NPC scavs.

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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: Monster Hunter World

« on: August 29, 2018, 02:06:22 am »

I had the most trouble with Nergigante. It's a bit unintuitive to avoid the body slam attack by staying on the ground and using invulnerability frames instead of getting up to try and get out of the way.

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General Off Topic / Re: Am I racist? 2.0

« on: May 10, 2018, 03:18:55 am »

That's the whole thing now though, it's no longer "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me". Words are violence now and thus being physically confrontational or violent against someone is justified if their views differ from yours because it is causing physical harm by speaking them.