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Topic | A question about grocery stores |
Forceful_Dragon 08/18/21 9:04:15 AM #4 | Never myself, but I can understand if maybe you are trying to track down a turkey a few days before thanksgiving, or perhaps if you are one of those extreme couponer types you might have an inside line on some products that are either free or nearly free if you combine the right coupons so you'd be checking beforehand to make sure the stock hasn't already been picked clean by people after the same thing. --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/18/21 12:47:43 AM #339 | But you don't understand, the Taliban has so much more reverence for Trump because he's such a good negotiator. They would have waited at least 4 years out of respect before invading. --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/17/21 11:47:39 PM #336 | Jakyl25 posted... how he would have done it Better. With the best plan. He had a fabulous, perfect plan just ready to go. He told his plan to a few people and they all said they have never seen a more beautiful plan. But then the election got stolen so he never had a chance to use his plan. . If that isn't enough to answer your questions then you must hate this country. --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/17/21 6:26:07 PM #307 | Yeah I don't think we watched the same footage if you think Omar played better. --- |
Topic | Should the US allow people to preset their votes for after their death? |
Forceful_Dragon 08/17/21 5:25:12 PM #6 | banananor posted... invisible fourth option: "No, and if I shoot someone after they leave the in-person ballot box their vote doesn't count" Flip that. Make it "yes" still, but you acquire the cumulative voting rights of anyone you kill. --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/17/21 5:20:13 PM #303 | AOC playing Among Us with Disguised Toast and friends was one of the best things. Unlike Omar, who also joined, she had a good grasp on the game mechanics pretty quickly. --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/17/21 1:09:05 AM #55 | My wife and I re watched Triangle and Palm Springs last week and we're going to watch a couple more this week if we can. --- |
Topic | Board 8's Favorite Video Game Character Round 6 (Golden Parcel) Topic [fvgc] |
Forceful_Dragon 08/16/21 9:45:16 PM #180 | |
Topic | Board 8's Favorite Video Game Character Round 6 (Golden Parcel) Topic [fvgc] |
Forceful_Dragon 08/16/21 9:40:36 PM #179 | +10 Missile (Ghost Trick) +9 Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) +8 Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII) +7 The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3) +6 Samus Aran (Metroid) +5 Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) +4 GLaDOS (Portal) +3 Count Bleck (Super Paper Mario) +2 Kyle Hyde (Hotel Dusk: Room 215) +1 Bowser (Super Mario Bros.) --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/16/21 11:12:14 AM #186 | it's almost like it's possible to be nationalist in some respects, and a selfish individualist in others. But Tribalist is probably a better term for what we see in our country these days. Putting the red or blue tribe above all else (though you see it exhibited more strongly with the red) will allow you to hold a variety of conflicting opinions as long as they line up with the tribe you subscribe to. --- |
Topic | Do you consider yourself a fan of major league baseball? |
Forceful_Dragon 08/15/21 1:14:19 AM #5 | MZero posted... I'm a fan of the Diamondbacks, which I don't think you can classify as major league baseball. Oof, I'm sorry --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/13/21 1:24:55 PM #67 | BlAcK TuRtLe posted... The easy solution to all of this is to just refuse treatment of Covid for anyone that doesn't have their vaccine Oh damn. I don't think I could ever fully support something like this from a 'good Samaritan' standpoint, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I was tempted. You could force them to provide proof of vaccination or proof that they are allergic to the vaccine. --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/13/21 1:04:06 PM #63 | So I think I've settled on what's been bothering me about numbers regarding the pandemic and the chain of thought involved that results in comparing apples and oranges. First something like this will be stated: "99.999% of those vaccinated do not die from covid." --This means of EVERYONE vaccinated .001% go on to both contract a breakthrough case of covid, and then die from the breakthrough case. Then something like this will be stated: "You are 25 times more likely to die from covid if you are unvaccinated" --But this isn't comparing the totality of unvaccinated people to the totality of vaccinated people. This is compared 1 unvaccinated person with covid against 1 vaccinated person who got a breakthrough case of COVID. So some people see those two claims next to each other and say "So even if you aren't vaccinated your chance of dying is only .0025% I'll take my chances!" . And it doesn't work that way! All the second statement is saying is that "even in the unlikely event you get a breakthrough case, a vaccinated person is 25x less likely to die than a vaccinated person". The chance to contract that breakthrough case is still quite low. So one the one hand you have people where two low probability events would need to occur. First contracting a breakthrough case (unlikely) and then having a severe enough case to die (much less likely if vaccinated). And on the other hand you have two higher probably events which is an unvaccinated person getting the virus that they aren't protected at all from and then the chance of a fatal case once contracted. I can see the difference in how the numbers are being used, but sometimes the numbers are presented carelessly without enough explicit preface (such as in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b442uKKMnmE ) and other times they are just being deliberated misunderstood and shared by such a vast number of people that I don't know how to even begin to set things right. . . Edit: Ugh I just watched that video again and I'm pissed off again. They are using the numbers 160,000,000 people vaccinated and 1,000~ vaccinated people have died from covid to arrive at their 99.999% but they are presenting it as "99.999% likely to survive a breakthrough case" and it\s really ".001% chance to BOTH CONTRACT and then SUBSEQUENTLY DIE FROM a breakthrough case". It would only be 99.999% likely to survive a breakthrough case if there were 160,000,000 breakthrough cases against 1,000 deaths. WHY CANT PEOPLE MATH --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/13/21 9:56:15 AM #54 | Now, not to defend Rand Paul because I'm under the impression the stock transaction was improper as well, but what specifically constitutes his insider information at the time he made the purchase? Can we tie him to any news that wasn't public at that point? Because even though the WHO hadn't declared a pandemic yet, it's not like we hadn't heard of COVID-19. By that point we were all fully aware of the damage it was causing in Wuhan and the fears that it was going to continue to spread unchecked. And there had been a public announcement by WHO that remdesivir "may have real efficacy" against COVID-19, so that wasn't secret knowledge either. On Feb 26 when the purchase occurred the price varied between 70.72 and 75.47 and while it did peak a bit higher in the mid 80s over the next few months, it was actually 10 points lower at the same time the following year if they held it as a long term investment. It sounds like the purchase was in the $1,000 - $15,000 range and I've seen an article that indicates they lost money overall on that stock. I guess I'm just not convinced that it is inherently shady to invest in a medical company two days after promising news about one of their products was made publicly. Most of the people who got in trouble were people who sold stocks before the pandemic announcement and the resulting market crash. --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/12/21 10:33:36 PM #39 | Which has been sufficiently covered now. So now that we're on the same page we can turn the page. --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/12/21 10:21:45 PM #37 | Not the exactly same, red. But we've covered the pedantry of the argument so I think we can all move on now. --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/12/21 9:18:04 PM #30 | I mean, this is the contest board. I'm sure we all remember early contests where people would say "Mario is catching up" when the percentage gap closed but the vote gap got larger. It's kind of like that. --- |
Topic | I really don't know what KCF's favorite game is. |
Forceful_Dragon 08/12/21 8:28:35 PM #5 | It's okay you don't have to confirm it. I know it's right and that's good enough for me. --- |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
Forceful_Dragon 08/12/21 8:26:44 PM #26 | kevwaffles posted... To assign arbitrary numbers to demonstrate what you're saying: Let's say these numbers are accurate. It is doing harm to be pedantic about it and phrase anything in a way that will discourage people from getting the vaccine regardless of how technically correct you are when you preface it. The only headline should be "vaccines are fantastic and cases are significantly low among vaccinated" instead of "vaccine has resulted in a higher percentage of new delta variant cases" --- |
Topic | I really don't know what KCF's favorite game is. |
Forceful_Dragon 08/11/21 9:29:08 PM #4 | |
Topic | I really don't know what Ulti's favorite game is. |
Forceful_Dragon 08/10/21 10:29:24 AM #21 | Gotta be hearthstone or WarCraft 3. He's mentioned those more than any other game. --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/10/21 8:53:57 AM #53 | |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/10/21 1:44:30 AM #49 | So because I've had time loops on my brain for a couple days now I did have an idea for a different take on the genre that I don't think I've seen done before. In these types of movies there is typically something bad happening that the scenario get's looped until it is fixed (Edge of Tomorrow, Source Code) or the main character needs to do the right sequence of things (Groundhog day) or something along those lines. But the end result is usually something better happening. What if it were the reverse? More specifically I'm thinking about those interview you see on local news stations when someone does something awful and the neighbor next door always says how shocked they are and says something like "If you had asked me yesterday, I would have told you they weren't capable of doing something so awful" in reference to whatever atrocity had been committed by their neighbor. Well what if yesterday they weren't capable. What if a perfectly normal and nice person got stuck in a day loop and rather than taking the opportunity to improve themselves or have that perfect kind of day to break the loop they instead go the other direction. A slow descent into madness while they relive the same day thousands of times again. And the day loop just happens to end on a day where the main character did something particularly heinous, but rather than a day reset they are now stuck with the consequences of their actions. That's really all I have to my idea so far, but to me at least that sounds like something I'd be interested in seeing. And as far as I know nothing like that has been done, but maybe some of you have heard of something like that? --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/09/21 10:38:54 PM #47 | I'm watching Triangle again right now because apparently my wife had not seen it. I thought that we had watched it together but I guess this was one I saw by myself. So far it's holding up. But more importantly, where does everyone stand on the classic time loop gem that is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban? --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/09/21 3:06:32 PM #39 | Raka_Putra posted... How was the Happy Death Day sequel? I preferred the original. They provide an explanation for the loop in the second. --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/09/21 12:53:13 AM #32 | |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/09/21 12:07:16 AM #28 | I haven't seen Live. Die. Repeat since it was originally released as Edge of Tomorrow, but I generally remember that movie pretty favorably so if this is going to become a hub for time loop discussion maybe I'll give that a watch sometime this week and see how it holds up. Snake5555555555 posted... I personally recommend Timecrimes, Predestination, and Triangle the most! I also love all 3 of these. And I know it's not a time loop, but I can't think about these movies without including Coherence in the same conversation. I don't even want to say what Coherence is about in case there is anyone who hasn't seen it yet. --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/08/21 9:34:21 PM #26 | Mega Mana posted... There's a neat idea in there. Yup, but it's as if someone read a neat idea and then waited a month and made a film from memory without making or checking any notes. --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/08/21 8:47:09 PM #24 | TL:DR (Major Movie Spoilers) --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/08/21 8:43:48 PM #23 | It's just all bad. And I'm sure I didn't explain it as well as I could have, or maybe I focused on too many of the wrong details, but you'll just have to take my word for it that the movie itself is not any better than my version of it. --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
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Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
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Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
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Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/08/21 8:40:42 PM #19 | This post is going to contain FULL SPOILERS for the movie 6:45. Do not click to view these spoilers unless (A) you want to know them and (B) you want to have your day ruined by the wasted potential that is this movie. --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/08/21 7:21:58 PM #18 | |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/08/21 4:58:27 PM #12 | |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/08/21 12:04:58 PM #10 | |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/08/21 6:15:30 AM #7 | |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/07/21 9:16:25 PM #5 | The looping itself was very sloppy. There is a distinct lack of precision to things when they repeat, and even when things are different, they are different in the wrong way. For example (incredibly mild spoilers) There is also a big spoilers for the end of the movie that I could share, but without sharing it I can say that they tried to take things in a different direction than expected, and it could have worked if that aspect of the movie wasn't also handled very poorly. The director Craig Singer seems to focus on low budget horror/thriller, but I'm definitely going to steer clear of anything he touches until I hear good things. And this didn't need to be a big budget movie. It could easily have been a low budget, high concept piece. But the concept was just so poorly executed. --- |
Topic | Do not see 6:45 (movie) |
Forceful_Dragon 08/07/21 8:26:27 PM #1 | I've seen a lot of movies since my wife and I started paying for the Regal Unlimited program and naturally some of them haven't been very good. This isn't terribly surprising when you start to expand the movies you see to include ones that you don't expect much from just because they are free. Normally when I don't enjoy a movie I would just keep it to myself because subjectivity is a thing that exists. This movie though was so bad that I don't think it would be worth the time it takes to watch even if it were free. It's a low budget thriller that hasn't been heavily advertised so I wouldn't be surprised if most of you have not heard about it. The movie bills itself as a gritty "day loop" movie such as Groundhog Day, or Happy Death Day or Live Die Repeat. The elevator pitch is that it's about a couple on vacation, but the day keeps ending with their murder and then they wake up again at 6:45. I was intrigued by the looping aspect of it because I enjoy those Groundhog-Day-Like movies, but this was a very poorly executed example of that. I can go into more detail about it's failings if anyone is curious, but otherwise the less said about it the better. It was 90 minutes I would not care to relive any more than necessary. --- |
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