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Yep, it is both a game and a watch.

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Jen0125 posted...

Idk how they got my number or ascertained that a 32 yo woman is a good recruit opportunity

Presumably, they got it from the same place that telemarketers do, and they didn't know or care how old you were. That's pretty clearly a bot.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

That having been said having just skimmed through the nintendo presentation all they had was Zelda and that SMT game where mc seems to turn into a magical girl(?) eh I expected more from how hyped people are.

New 2D Metroid got people pretty excited.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Project Zero, that is Fatal Frame right?

Yeah, they've ported the Fatal Frame game from the WiiU.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

"Familiar Franchises" are back, do not tease me like that Nintendo. That obviously makes me think of Golden Sun, Nintendo Wars and Another Code...

You're in for a fun surprise, then.

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I fully expect 2023 for BotW2. 3D Zeldas never make their first announced release date.

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I'm legitimately amazed they kept Dread a secret. I would really have expected that to leak.

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I'd forgotten about Metroid Dread. That was barely a rumor back in like 2008. Whoa.

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My bad.

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Hugh.

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Lokarin posted...

So far only Vermont is above the recommended 79% vaccination rollout.

If Vermont is your best... ...

Vermont's actually been doing super well for pretty much the whole pandemic. They've just been sitting up there, quietly leading the country in most of the pertinent metrics.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

At the perfect level of ripeness, it's god-tier

It is one of those fruits that really varies in how good it is based on ripeness. Pineapple's another one: Most of the time, it's pretty mediocre. Get one that's perfectly ripe, though, and that's gotta be one of my favourite fruits.

Revelation34 posted...

I guess in general I don't like a lot of tropical fruit except bananas kinda. Papaya is the worst one since it tastes like an armpit smells. Actually I don't think I ever had guava as a fruit but I like guava flavored things.

Tropical fruits do tend to have a level of tartness to them that is less common in other fruits, which is why so many of them are so sensitive to ripeness (proper ripeness provides sweetness to offset the tartness, without that, they're a little overwhelming). If you're not a fan of that, I can see that turning you off of them in general.

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It's a public forum, dude. You may not be listening, but this is a message plenty of people still need to hear.

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Soup_or_Science posted...

The convenient label of what your brain being tricked into what's going on is that breathing warm air is uncomfortable

That's the root of the problem, but it doesn't account for the fact that it feels like you're having trouble breathing. The discomfort of breathing warmer, moister air and the feeling of having something over your nose/mouth are triggers that create the sensation that breathing is harder, even if it isn't actually impaired.

Philip027 posted...

I don't need a measuring of blood oxygen intake to know that I'm having a harder/easier time breathing. If you think that it is necessary, you're being ridiculous.

If you're actually trying to diagnose and treat breathing difficulties, O2 sats are absolutely necessary. That's how you determine how serious the problem is. Conversely, if one's O2 saturation hasn't decreased, they aren't having trouble breathing. They may be experiencing discomfort that feels like difficulty breathing, but their lungs are working just fine and that discomfort can be safely ignored.

Speaking from experience, I went through this after choking on some water (badly enough that it took a serious conscious effort to get enough air into my lungs to clear the blockage, though water can't create a complete blockage). I felt like I wasn't getting enough air, despite breathing feeling okay, so I went to the ER, because I was concerned that there may have been water in there impeding gas exchange. My O2 saturation was 100% (meaning it was literally impossible for my oxygen intake to be any better), my x-ray was clean, and the stethescope turned up nothing, so the conclusion was that the irritation of my lungs and bronchi was just making me feel like there was a problem. I kept an eye on it and took my inhaler, because asthma means that irritation could trigger bronchospasms that would turn into actual breathing difficulties, but despite how it felt, it was indeed fine.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

High school age, so anyone vaccinated would be a high risk group. So anyone not marked would have some sort of health issue, yeah that's not proper...

Most of the US opened up vaccinations to all age ranges a couple months ago. The supply isn't necessarily there yet, depending on the region, but everyone is at least eligible, even if they haven't made it in yet.

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Zeus posted...

Not for nothing, but why is anybody teaching sex ed to first graders? They're what, 5-6 years old?

Generally speaking, curricula like this cover pretty simple stuff at that age. Basic anatomy, the idea of consent/how to respond to people not respecting yours, and in this case, the fact that it's normal for masturbation to feel good, all of which is education children can benefit from even at that age. It's not going to be until several years later that the details of intercourse and whatnot come up.

Broadly, though, the idea that kids shouldn't be learning sex ed until they're old enough for it to be relevant is flawed. You generally don't want to pre-empt it by too much, since otherwise you risk them forgetting the details that they didn't care about, but you do want them to have the necessary information before they actually need it.

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Sounds like a pretty reasonable way to handle contact tracing, and destroying the records after the potential transmission period ends covers any privacy concerns. The alternative would be outright banning unvaccinated students from the prom or holding a separate event just for the Plagued Ones, and this is obviously a better option than those.

Full Throttle posted...

Republican Heifer, Melissa Litchfield were outraged stating "You had to produce your papers and if you didn't produce your papers you were branded with a black sharpie. What does that mean to you? I'm just going to let that sit there"

Does she also get butthurt when clubs and bars give minors different-coloured stamps/bracelets after they present an ID that shows they're under 21? Or when companies give visitor passes that non-employees have to wear while on their premises? The concept of requiring documentation to prove your authorization to do things is nothing particularly special or problematic, nor is creating a special class of people that have failed that authorization but are permitted onsite with limited permissions and requiring some means of easily identifying members of that class.

The problem with the Nazis wasn't that they asked people for papers, it was that they murdered people with the "wrong" papers. Papers are fine, murder is bad. It's really quite simple.

Full Throttle posted...

"We truly feel they are literally branding our kids if they don't get 'approved vaccine'".

Last I checked, "literally branding" people involved a literal brand, not a sharpie that washes off pretty readily once you no longer need it (or fades on its own within a few days, if you can't be bothered to use soap). What a bunch of drama queens.

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Philip027 posted...

Yeah, I've found doctors are pretty fond of giving that sort of line out when they can't otherwise explain why their patients are in pain. Guess that means they're just making the pain up though and it must be all in their head though, right?

Pain's a bit of a trickier subject, since there are so many examples of nerves just inexplicably deciding to hurt. Even if there's no apparent physical explanation, I have no difficulty believing that pain is genuine, since that just happens sometimes, so I wouldn't default to a psychosomatic explanation there (and anyone that does is just being lazy and refusing to admit that they don't know, which is bad).

Breathing's a lot more straightforward: If you're getting the normal amount of oxygen into your blood, you're breathing fine. That's an easy, reliable metric for measuring normal function (pulse oximetry can be a little unreliable in terms of absolute measurements, but it's good at internal consistency). Therefore, any sense that you aren't must be a result of misinterpreting some signal or other.

I should reiterate that it all being in your head doesn't mean it isn't legitimate (same with pain). Whatever the basis for it, your experience is real, and it should be treated as a genuine problem regardless. This explanation just informs how you should approach that problem. It doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

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Zeus posted...

That looks delicious.

The first serving I had from it, I felt like it could use a bit more cinnamon, or possibly a bit of ginger. Every night after that, though, I thought it was pretty much perfect, so I guess the flavours blended better as it sat in the fridge. I also used frozen mango instead of fresh (I made it specifically because we had a surplus of frozen mango), but I didn't adjust the amount of water in the filling to compensate for how much water came out of the fruit, so it was a bit runnier than I think might have been ideal. All in all, though, it was fantastic. Would recommend.

Revelation34 posted...

I'm not a fan of mango. At least on it's own.

I wasn't a fan for much of my life, but it's grown on me in recent years. This in particular was a delightful way to have it. Mixing it into white chocolate ganache and making truffles with it is also very nice (though that makes for a very soft ganache).

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Xenoblade X.

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Soup_or_Science posted...

Wait, are we talking about PIE?

What the hell's a cobbler

Some manner of filling (usually fruit, though I'm sure exceptions exist) baked with biscuit/scone dough on top. It's similar to pie, but there's no bottom crust and the pastry is lighter and thicker because it's got some leavening in it.

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Philip027 posted...

I have a noticeably harder time breathing when I have a mask on than when I don't. End of. If the "O2 saturation readings" wouldn't account for that, then maybe a new metric needs to be found.

Do you say this because you have an idea for what a better metric might be of breathing ability than the amount of oxygen in your blood? Because I certainly don't. That's kind of the only point of breathing (well, that and getting rid of CO2, but the two go hand in hand). If your O2 sats haven't changed, your breathing ability hasn't changed.

Philip027 posted...

Do you go up to people who are clearly feeling like s*** and say things like "nah, you only think you're feeling s***ty" as if you were some kind of expert on the subject on someone else's experiences?

If I know for a fact that there is no physiological basis for their apparent symptoms? Sure (presuming there's some context for it, since approaching people out of the blue and saying that would be weird). I do a similar thing all the time with people that say their flu shot gave them the flu (the flu shot can't infect them, those symptoms are just the immune response to the vaccination).

I'm not an expert on your experiences, but I do know a thing or two about your (and all of humanity's) physiology, and what I know tells me that there is no physical explanation for your experiences (unless your respiratory physiology somehow differs from everyone else's, but you haven't mentioned anything like that and I therefore have no reason to assume that to be the case). That means they're psychosomatic.

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Oh, I know I have. There's no question about that. Not much I can do about it now, though, so I don't dwell on it.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Meant to be fat

If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.

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I came in here to link this:
https://www.thespruceeats.com/fresh-mango-cobbler-3058208

I have nothing more to contribute.

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Philip027 posted...

Again (...) it's not panic, it's not anxiety. I know what these feel like, and this ain't it, chief.

Whatever you want to call it, the central point is that you only feel like you're having trouble breathing. You're not actually having trouble. Whether that's a panic response, anxiety response, or just your brain being tricked in some other manner that doesn't have a convenient label, that's what's going on.

Philip027 posted...

Your "data" doesn't account for everyone, simple as that.

So you believe that your O2 saturation readings would differ significantly if you were to conduct this experiment on yourself? Despite every actual study on the subject finding that that is not the case? Do you have reason to believe that your respiratory physiology somehow differs from everyone else's?

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Zeus posted...

But yeah, I don't have much confidence in the vaccine or anything else actually preventing it.

Why not?

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Yellow posted...

Hot take, they're both the same but your nostalgia makes one seem better.

So even if they make a new one people will hate it and not blame themselves.

Nah, I wouldn't go that far. YL's a lot better than people gave it credit for, mostly because their nostalgia hyped it up like crazy, but both Banjo games were definitely better.

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Final Fantasy2389 posted...

The problem with YL imo, is that the levels are too big and not well focused and it gets very tedious after a while.

I'm not opposed to big levels (hence I like Tooie better than Kazooie), but given the scale of the game, I think I would have preferred to see more, smaller worlds than the 5 large ones we got. Tooie got away with big worlds because there was so many and so much variety between them (and even within them, in many cases) and because the player was made to bounce around between them so much that you had a greater variety of experiences. YL's worlds were similarly large, but there weren't many of them and they were generally best handled one at a time (there were pagies that required moves from later levels, certainly, but that mostly just meant coming back at the end of the game to finish them off, rather than levels actually being interconnected), so it just felt like a less varied experience.

Also, flying really trivializes pretty much everything once you get it, such that I feel like I should have rushed to the point of unlocking that instead of trying to do so many earlier challenges legitimately. That just wasn't good design. Also, Kartos was awful.

Final Fantasy2389 posted...

Also, the final boss is cheap and has like 5 stages you need to beat in one go.

That too. The multi-stage thing is consistent with the old Grunty fights, so I'm not too bothered by that, but the actual execution of the fight just wasn't that fun, especially with how tricky (in awkward ways, more so than truly challenging ones) the final phase was.

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Philip027 posted...

Obviously the firing on the spot was the right thing to do, but I'm curious as to what there's even an "order name" field for in their system. Every sort of fast foody kind of place I've went to like this never even asked me for a name and just gave me a number.

I'm guessing it's the same rationale as Starbucks getting names for orders instead of just numbers. Service feels more personalized if somebody addresses you by name, even if, intellectually, you know they're just reading it off the order slip.

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Any time I try to make jokes about the twin towers, they fall flat.

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Philip027 posted...

There is no amount of examples you can provide that would change the fact that my breathing is noticeably impaired when I'm wearing a mask.

It is not an anxiety response. I don't experience any such thing about wearing a mask. I know what an anxiety response looks/feels like, and it's not what I'm experiencing here.

Which explanation do you think is more likely?

• Feeling like your breathing is impaired is a subconscious panic response (albeit a mild one) to having something covering your mouth/nose
• Your respiratory system somehow works differently from that of everyone that has conducted such an experiment, all of which have found no measurable changes in breathing ability

The data's out there, and there is absolutely no evidence that masks reduce blood oxygenation. Whatever you're feeling, it's not hypoxia (or hypercapnea, since that's the body's actual metric for identifying such problems), no matter how strongly you feel that it must be a physical issue.

Philip027 posted...

Again, please don't try to dictate to me or others what's going on in our heads.

Technically, I'm dictating what's going on in your lungs, which is going to be a consistent experience because everybody's lungs work the same way (at least as far as this is concerned). What I'm suggesting is going on in your head is just the most plausible explanation for your experience, since there's nothing going on in your lungs that would explain it.

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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...

In fact, I can't think of one IP Nintendo bought for themselves.

Xenoblade would probably qualify. The first game was developed as a third-party title, then Nintendo acquired Monolith as a second-party developer and it's since developed into one of their IP's.

papercup posted...

But Yooka-Laylee was just a bad game, and Banjo-Kazooie wasn't

Eh, YL wasn't that bad. It just wasn't nearly as good as either Banjo game, which disappointed people that were hyped up for a glorious return to the glory days of 3D platformers. I'll gladly give them another chance if they release another one (3D one, that is, since Impossible Lair exists), since I think there was real potential there, it just didn't quite reach it.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

And if the people's initial reception of Yooka Laylee is anything to go by, there won't be another one for 30 years.

As much as YL got a lot of hate, it's not like the genre's reputation has suffered for it. Mario Odyssey was incredibly well-received, A Hat in Time similarly so, and there are plenty of other indie 3D platformers that are solid enough and have seen enough success to indicate interest in the genre. I fully expect more successes moving forward, wherever they come from.

BK itself, however, probably isn't going to see much. The vast majority of Rare's talent that was involved in the original games left when MS bought the studio. Playtonic may make more spiritual successors, and MS may make BK games that lack the original development talent, but unless MS acquires Playtonic and puts them to work on BK, I wouldn't expect a proper sequel.

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helIy posted...

isn't it also on switch though

That came later, and with substantially less fanfare. The big countdown thing that they were hyping up (which most people were expecting to be a sequel or remake, given that they counted down to it for like a week) was a simple mobile port.

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Philip027 posted...

I have a harder time breathing with a mask on, and it sure as shit isn't "psychological"

That isn't going to stop me from wearing one when I'm supposed to, but please don't try to tell me that any breathing difficulty I may encounter with it in is just in my head.

There are countless examples out there of people that have worn pulse oximeters for entire 8-hour shifts while wearing a mask and seen no change from their regular O2 saturation levels. Masks do not appreciably limit our ability to breathe. It is, in fact, all in your head: an instinctive response to having something covering your nose and mouth rather than a consequence of any actual changes in blood gas concentrations.

As I said, that doesn't mean it's not legitimate. Trouble breathing is trouble breathing, and anxiety responses are genuine problems that should be addressed instead of dismissed. It does, however, mean that it's possible to overcome it by training yourself out of that anxiety response, rather than accepting it as an inevitable physical reality.

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Conner4REAL posted...

The asthma excuse is an outright lie.

Seriously. I've put mine on during an asthma attack and been perfectly fine. I've also put one on while in the emergency room because I felt like I was having trouble breathing after choking, and my O2 sat was still 100% (which also meant I wasn't actually having trouble breathing and I was actually just reacting to the irritation in my trachea/lungs, which was nifty). There is no physical basis for masks impairing breathing. Any sense that they do is entirely psychological (which isn't necessarily invalid, but it should be treated as the anxiety issue it is instead of letting people pretend it's physical).

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helIy posted...

yeah, people have been asking for a remaster collection of 1-6 for years

and square finally does it!

for phones.

i haven't seen one person who is happy about this

This is that TWEWY announcement from a few years ago all over again. Run a countdown to a big reveal... and it's a mobile port.

Squenix has a rather tenuous grasp on what people actually want.

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mrduckbear posted...

He claims the vaccines have MIND CHIPS in them to control their every move

It really baffles me that people are truly so disconnected from reality that they think the technology exists to not only control people using implanted microchips, but also to get those microchips so small that they could pass through a vaccine needle and not be immediately noticed by recipients, and to produce such things on a global scale and procure them without instantly bankrupting everyone involved. Nothing about that is even remotely plausible.

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Fair, next. He wants to martyr himself because he's got too much moronic pride to take a very reasonable plea deal, I see no reason not to give him that.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

It's not uncommon for it to get beyond the point at which you can just clean them at home yourself (at least easily)

In fact, part of the reason it can get compacted is because of people trying to clean their ears with cotton swabs and pushing the wax in deeper

It also depends a lot on the consistency of your earwax. Some people's wax won't be easily washed out just by flushing the ear canal with a bit of water, and is therefore more prone to building up and forming blockages.

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Lokarin posted...

oh noes, why ever would they release a game in such a condition

:?

Presumably time and budget constraints. They're just coming back from bankruptcy, after all, so I imagine they don't exactly have the funds to delay a game's launch indefinitely while they iron out problems. I think the whole 3D thing was probably a mistake, given how much more involved that is than a 2D game.

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Zeus posted...

The fact that all dogs can be aggressive doesn't change the fact that some breeds are more aggressive than others and far more dangerous than others. The odds of a toy dog killing somebody are tremendously lower than that of a big dog killing somebody, and big dogs can easily kill grown adults. Any problem you could have with a dog is generally magnified with size.

I don't know about "more aggressive" (you do more commonly run into people deliberately training larger dogs to be aggressive, but you also get a lot of people failing to train their small dogs to *not* be aggressive because of the widespread attitude that small dog aggression isn't a problem), but larger dogs are indeed generally more dangerous. An aggressive chihuahua or pomeranian will do far less damage than an equally aggressive pit bull or mastiff.

Really, though, aggression is invariably a product of training (whether deliberately or incompetently), so I think we should just be charging owners with any crimes committed by their dogs. Obviously, some manner of exceptions would be needed for people working with rescues, since they present clear training challenges that aren't the current owner's fault (provided they are in fact doing their due diligence to raise the rescue responsibly), but holding people accountable for making their dogs dangerous would hopefully cut down on the number of dogs being killed because of their owners' failures.

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I had it done once, and as I was walking away from it, I just couldn't get over how loud my pants were. The sound of the legs rubbing against each other was deafening.

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thedeerzord posted...

But I'm doing it on purpose for the laughs.

everyone else is not

Yes, that is what I said. Thank you for paraphrasing.

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"I'm the only one posting stupid things ironically. Everyone else is just genuinely stupid."

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Jen0125 posted...

Do you think only people who have children create or invent things that last for generations?

No no, he was talking about culture. Which, of course, can only be passed through generations from parents to their children. Any other routes of exchange are just being polluted by the gays and shouldn't be considered, which means the gays are undermining society by eliminating cultural exchange.

Good lord.

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