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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Did I not just explain this? That is a lower concern than the threat to personal freedom.

You're more concerned about personal freedom than that freedom endangering the lives of everyone around them?

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Zeus posted...

You mean a guy who got the vaccine still got COVID and you're crowing about it because...?

Because he's actively opposing further public health measures to reduce the risk of transmitting Covid.

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Pfizer, then Moderna.

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Friendzoned by a disembodied Gorgon head.

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Yeah, the degree to which the story is integrated into the gameplay loop and the central mechanics actually make sense instead of just being there for the sake of the game is really quite impressive. And then there are just so many delightful character interactions and side quests. I was particularly fond of Achilles'.

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C-Raine posted...

What about people who have recovered from covid and thus have better, longer lasting(forever rather than 6 months) immunity than the vaccinated?

Uhhh, pretty much all available evidence suggests that vaccine-induced immune responses are both more effective and long-lasting than infection-induced ones, such that people that have recovered are still overwhelmingly advised to get the shot.

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I believe Youtube explicitly forbids them from doing so. I'm guessing other platforms have similar restrictions.

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LinkPizza posted...

Money, probably...

That's presuming productivity remains the same and wages are adjusted to still pay people as though they worked full weeks (meaning there's no change in the amounts of money involved either way), as is generally the premise of any compressed schedule ideas. Zeus seems to be suggesting that the idea is fundamentally wrong, not that it's a bad idea because it would compromise productivity. There have, in fact, been a number of 4-day week experiments (most recently, Iceland conducted a major one (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779)) that have found that productivity either remains the same or improves overall, while work-life balance, mental health, and other measures of general well-being get a whole lot better.

He is correct that, if 4-day weeks become the norm, there will be people proposing a 3-day week instead, but that's going to go one of two ways:

• Studies will be conducted that find that it does result in productivity losses that are not outweighed by other benefits, in which case the idea will be shot down on those grounds
• Studies will find that productivity remains the same, in which case there's no reason not to adopt the idea

Either way, there's no reason to bring up the idea as though the mere thought of people asking for it is enough to justify refusing a 4-day week. Data can be collected to determine whether or not it's a problem, and an informed decision made from there instead of relying on knee-jerk emotional reactions to deviating from an established norm.

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All hail Lord Gates. His voice has never been clearer or more divine than through this perfect 5G reception. I understand now that I was born to be an antenna. Praise be to Bill for granting me this purpose.

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Zeus posted...

I think the real problem is you ask this question but not the implications of focusing all of your video game violence on male NPCs. That speaks volumes.

Focusing VG violence on male NPC's is all but impossible to separate from the background of not deliberately gendering your VG violence, given that so many targets in violent games are male. If one did deliberately choose to target males all the time, that would be more or less an equal red flag (though it may also be a consequence of how frowned upon hurting women is, in which case it's not "I specifically want to hurt men" and instead "I specifically don't want to hurt women"), but good luck actually noticing such a trend.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockhopper_penguin

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Eeyup. If you don't have the time, energy, or interest to do a proper garden (and, to be fair, many don't, and that's okay), clover looks mostly the same, never grows high enough to warrant mowing, uses vastly less water, never needs fertilizing (in fact, if you have a 50/50 clover/grass lawn, the clover will fix enough nitrogen to sustain the grass without added fertilizing), outcompetes most weeds, can still be walked on as desired, flowers occasionally so it's not just boring green all the time, and actually benefits pollinators. Grass lawns are a useless, idiotic relic of a period when they actually did show wealth, clung to by posers who haven't clued in that nobody actually believes that anymore and people who've never actually put any sort of thought into why such a wasteful status quo exists.

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Smarkil posted...

It's weird that they would build content around a license they can't keep.

It's not that unusual for "live service" games. Incorporating content based on other IP's can draw new players to the game, creating the opportunity to engage them and keep them playing (and paying) even after the content is gone.

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Notschmendrake posted...

literally opened the topic with proof of what i was saying

One 21 Heat clear isn't exactly proof that fists are the best weapon.

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Zeus posted...

Even if they lowered to four days a week, you'd have people complaining about being tired and not having enough time asking for three 8-hour days a week.

If three 8-hour days ends up being enough to get all the work done, why would that be a bad thing?

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I mean, if we're actually looking for anything resembling objective rankings, you have to look at a lot more than personal experience:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fYeJpxFXZBO2UycHOz4qt90T3ZurFZKCtg07UQNZVyc/edit#gid=1880723554

The current WR for heat (61, set just a week ago, actually) uses Zeus Shield, the top 10 runs are split between that, Rama Bow, and Beowulf Shield, then other aspects and weapons start showing up. Fists don't show up until #23, but all weapons are represented somewhere in the 55+ range, which pretty clearly just indicates that they're all good enough to push high heat and you can do just fine by using whatever's most enjoyable/comfortable for your personal preference.

That said, good job, that's a nice run.

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I don't think that's necessarily the best way to communicate the point, but there is a noticeable difference between how mental exhaustion and physical exhaustion feel, if you end up in a situation where you can isolate them and predominantly feel one or the other.

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That's basically what I did when I got it. I waited for a 20% off sale, because why not, but I immediately played it as soon as I bought it because it's one I was really hyped for.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

As for this specific example, if the masked are right then they are protected and the unmasked person isn't doing them any harm.

I also know that you aren't really so out of touch with reality as to have missed the endless reminders that masks are substantially more effective for keeping diseases like Covid in than they are for keeping them out, meaning wearing a mask is more a matter of protecting people around you (and, by extension, not wearing one is endangering those people) than of protecting yourself. Do you genuinely not understand that, or are you ignoring it because you don't like it?

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Its R0 value is considered as high as nine

Good lord. Obviously, that value's going to vary from region to region, since that's just how R0 values work, but that's absolutely massive.

Veedrock- posted...

Just goes to show that getting case numbers down to zero was never the win condition people thought covid would acknowledge.

I mean, it is a win condition as far as local restrictions go, but unless you keep new cases from coming in (and strictly control the ones that do), you're not going to be able to stay that way.

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helIy posted...

every aspect is so good and doesn't require hammer upgrades to be viable

Zag spear is pretty much useless without one of the special-buffing hammers (or at least, it offers nothing unique or valuable in any way). Achilles is pretty much just vanilla casting with an extra step, which is good for cast builds, but nothing particularly interesting in its own right. Hades is just not good (or if you can make it good, you pretty much need Quick Spin to actually get the buff going). Guan Yu is also pretty dependent on Quick Spin to take advantage of its special charge (and if you aren't doing that, there's little point in picking Guan Yu).

So... Achilles is so good and doesn't require hammer upgrades to be viable. The rest, not so much.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Vaccinated people need to protect other vaccinated people? Vaccinated people need to be protected from unvaccinated people? Isn't that what the vaccine is for?

Why are you talking about vaccines when I asked you a question about how masks work?

SunWuKung420 posted...

It's not common sense when you're literally making up lies to create false analogies because we are in disagreement.

How is washing your hands to avoid contaminating food you're serving to the public not analogous to wearing a mask to avoid spreading an aerosol-borne virus?

SunWuKung420 posted...

1% chance of surviving a serious car wreck without a seatbelt.
99% chance of surviving covid before you factor in a vaccine.

They are not the same.

Analogies do not require the numbers to be the same. Only the logic.

Of course, your numbers are innately flawed because serious car accidents are vastly rarer than covid infections. The US sees ~6 million accidents of any severity per year (of which only a relatively small fraction are serious enough for not wearing a seatbelt to cause death). Meanwhile, they've seen 36.7 million covid cases in 17 months (~25 million per year, if we average that). If you're going to compare statistics, you need to ensure they're actually comparable before doing so.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

If you're vaccinated and feel unsafe, wear a mask. It you feel safe, don't. Personal choices.

Is your failure to comprehend that masks do more to protect those around you than they do yourself because you are incapable of understanding that, or because you're unwilling? If the former, you've had well over a year to speak up about that, but I'm still willing to explain it help you learn if needed. If the latter, get bent, you disingenuous smear of pond scum.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Once again, your personal attacks prove your statements lack merit.

It's not a personal attack to advise against eating at a restaurant whose employees don't believe in washing their hands to protect their customers. That's just plain common sense.

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Notschmendrake posted...

I'm not playing it now. I'm playing it STILL. Just beat down extreme measures hellmode hades for the first time.

Thats right fellas, a girl is better at video games than you

Double FO or GTFO.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

It should be a personal freedom to wear a mask or not.

Do you feel that way about food service employees washing their hands? Or about cooking meat until it's actually cooked? Or about washing dishes with something more sanitary than the same damp rag you've been using for the past four days?

If you're that bent on public health and safety taking a back seat to "personal freedom," then as a matter of personal protection, nobody should ever eat anywhere you work.

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Mostly, I think the issue with Rama/Chiron is that you pretty much need to adjust your boon picks depending on which hammers you get, since that's what determines whether you should be focusing on attacks or specials. That's an extra level of flexibility that you don't need for other weapons, which can be off-putting and frustrating if you get unlucky.

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Zag bow is pretty gimped. Chiron, Hera, and Rama, however, are very strong, if sometimes a little dependent on hammers (namely the two special hammers, in the case of Chiron and Rama).

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Cruddy_horse posted...

I wish there was a better word for "Cross-Progression" I thought there was crossplay which made me excited since I'd have 6 or so people to play with on another platform but no, it's just for cows that buy the same game on multiple ones.

Usually, I've seen that called cross-saving or cloud saving, but that's not tremendously consistent.

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Lobomoon posted...

Thanks. I just got mine and the second is on September 30. Should be OK then.

Yep, that's fine. Generally speaking, the people scheduling your appointments will know the limits well enough that you can trust that they're scheduled you appropriately. Exceptions will always exist, of course, because humans, but this is a pretty easy one to keep straight.

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15 weeks, I believe. That's what I was told, anyway. My second dose was automatically scheduled for 105 days/15 weeks after my first, but I got to take it much earlier (that would have been Sept 17, I got it July 10) because extra supplies came in.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

They're not Nintendo games, chief.

They're Square games you can play on the SNES.

They look rectangular to me.

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Dead Cells is great, but I liked Hades better. I would say this is a pointless comparison to make, though, because both are very thoroughly worth playing such that making a choice between them is only going to be relevant in the small handful of cases where somebody will only ever be able to afford one.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

The circumstances in the second story are that a man who is trying to shop is being prevented from doing so by the other customers of the store.

I know you aren't really so out of touch with reality as to not realize that the central issue is not that he's trying to shop, but that he's trying to ignore public health recommendations that are meant to ensure the safety of everyone around him. In fact, I think we all know that. Why are you trying to act as though you genuinely believe such a thing when everybody knows better?

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I don't think I've ever had a problem with the heads going so far into the lava that I couldn't hit them with the fists.

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It's almost like it's not a question of how many people believe something, it's a question of what they believe and which people are being assholes.

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kangolcone posted...

lies. You develop gills for under cannabis tea breathing.

Huh. Nifty. Guess you can't believe everything you hear.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Everything negative you've heard regarding cannabis is a lie.

I've heard that if you completely submerge yourself in cannabis tea for 20 minutes, you'll drown.

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Given that the PS5 shortage is due in part to the pandemic, probably the pandemic.

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KodyKeir posted...

They had fired the woman that was collecting and publishing the data and then tried to have her arrested while seizing all her computers when she continued to publish the data.

Even now, I see that they're only reporting data Tue-Fri. Country-wide, there's a huge dip in numbers on the weekends, but Florida seems to actually have nobody publishing data on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Are Jupiters' farts pointless?

No fart is ever truly pointless, but I'd say they're pretty unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

KodyKeir posted...

People say a lie can get around the world before the truth can get it's boots on, but they forget the once the truth has it's boots on it will kick the hell out of the lie.

I don't know about that. Pretty much everything about the world's response to Covid very much calls that belief into question. People are desperately clinging to lies even once the truth has reached them because they like the lies better.

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Depends where you put them.

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There's a part of me that's actually kind of looking forward to when Trump dies (ideally after living out the remainder of his natural life, not bothering anyone else), just so we can see what truly mind-boggling mental gymnastics these people pull out to explain how he's still going to be president.

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At this point, I'm pretty sure we've had more "Trump will become president" days than Raptures. I can't even begin to keep up.

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hypnox posted...

But Kevin Smith's doctor claims he survived the heart attack because he was high.

To throw out some idle speculation (not anything conclusively researched), I'd guess that was because it helped him to be more relaxed than he would have been sober. On the flip side, though, I'd hypothesize that those for whom weed causes some degree of anxiety would be at a higher risk of a lethal heart attack because of the added stress.

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What if it's the voice of your butt?

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Dikitain posted...

Although, I think the best thing for that was the work from home stuff we have been doing recently. I didn't put more then 5000 miles on my car in 2020 because of that, and this year I don't think I have even cracked 2500 yet.

I have to say, I kind of enjoyed the full lockdown in 2020 for that. I gassed up for $0.75 per litre in March (normal is in the $1.15-1.25 range, currently it's $1.35), and that tank lasted until July (well after I went back to in-person work). Going for groceries once every two weeks just didn't add up to much by way of car usage.

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Without doing any actual research on the subject, my general impression is that the more moderate proponents (that is, the ones that identify benefits but don't treat it as the holy grail of medicinal substances) generally don't make a big deal out of heart benefits, but the more moderate opponents (that is, the ones that identify some harms but don't treat it as a one-way ticket to meth addiction) also don't make a big deal out of it causing heart problems. From this very scientific and not at all unreliable assessment, I can conclude that it's mostly neutral, as far as cardiac health goes.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Without consent yes, but the entire ordeal sounds like it should already be covered by property damage and sexual assault then.

The issue is that it's only being considered property damage, with no extra severity being given to the charges for the sexual assault part. By the sounds of things, they don't differentiate between spreading semen on somebody's clothes and spreading toothpaste on them, which is very much not a good thing.

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It's the only one of those five I've played, so that checks out. As everyone knows, any game I haven't played sucks and is automatically inferior to games I have played.

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Oh hey, Florida actually has data available now. They haven't the last few times I've checked.

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