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AwesomeTurtwig posted...

I definitely don't hang out here as much as I used to. Though that's probably true for most. I'm pretty active in discord. In fact I chat with a couple PotDers almost daily there.

Is it a PotD Discord, or is it some other kind of Discord?

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Sycophant posted...

Why are the bigots always from my country. I am sorry world

You say that like half of Europe isn't longdicking us for being too soft.

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KodyKeir posted...

that's just the percent of the population in the US that has died so far, and may even be an under reported figure, once excess deaths have been modelled in, that number will be higher.

Is this directly from the virus? Or is it "coronavirus-related?" Can that even be discerned?

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KodyKeir posted...

Over time? 100%

For specific situations it is otherwise dependent on multiple factors such as mask wearing and the ability of the air you are in to circulate and refresh with clean air.

But if the chances of catching it are 100%, isn't that 0.15% rate just for mortality?

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adjl posted...

That's assuming you exist in America. That 0.15% is the (approximate) chance of catching the virus and dying of it.

What are the chances of just catching it?

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AwesomeTurtwig posted...

:)

I post updates on Twitter

https://twitter.com/BiologgerGame

Have you more or less moved on from GameFAQs?

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adjl posted...

For further context, ~0.15% of the US population has been killed by Covid. Obviously, given the variation in risk level between different demographics, treating that as a blanket "chance for every American to die of Covid" isn't altogether accurate, but that's still a 200-fold difference (and that's pretending that 0.0007% is actually a mortality rate and not just morbidity).

That's assuming I catch the virus. I have a... let's call it "high" chance of dying if I catch corona. But how likely am I to catch corona? I haven't caught it yet.

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captpackrat posted...

Even if it were instantly fatal, that's still just 0.0007% mortality vs 1.8% mortality from COVID (or higher, depending on your country). And that doesn't include the myriad possible complications from COVID, like thrombosis, ARDS, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, liver injury, stroke, encephalitis, fungal infections, and Long COVID, which afflicts 10-20% of COVID patients.

But can I avoid corona? If I get the vaccine, that's it, I'm exposed to the vaccine. Now it's a matter of whether or not I suffer the complications.

But corona, I might dodge that entirely for the rest of my life. I've dodged it so far, despite a number of scares I always test negative. Maybe I just won't catch it.

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captpackrat posted...

The risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome after receiving the Janssen vaccine is 7 per 1 million women aged 18-49. It's even rarer for men and women over 50. Keep in mind this is a serious but not necessarily fatal complication.

The mortality rate for COVID-19 is 1.8% in the US, and 2.4% in the UK. That means 18 out of every 1000 US patients will die from the disease.

18,000 people out of 1 million infected will die from COVID in the US, while just 7 out of 1 million will experience a potentially serious side effect from the vaccine.

Thrombosis? No, that is no small deal. I'm not gonna look at that and say "Psh, it's just thrombosis."

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I don't want corona, but I also don't wanna die of any vaccine side effects. The question is, which gamble is safer to take?

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Mead posted...

why is that important

Because seasons are great

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Jen0125 posted...

Living in a place with no seasons except summer I don't really get excited for winter and fall holidays anymore. They don't feel the same as when I was growing up.

It's important to stay in tune with the season no matter where you live. For instance, Dallas is about as hot as it gets for a lot of people. Well into October you might see no leaf change. And yet, this is what Dallas becomes during the Halloween season.



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papercup posted...

Usually mid-late september

To clarify, do you mean Halloween specifically, or anything autumnal in vibe at all? I may be explaining this wrong.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I wouldn't call that a "Halloween" feeling, though.

It's like saying that when summer "begins" in the beginning of June it's a 4th of July feeling (it is not).

It kinda is though, you go to a seasonal aisle when summer kicks off, it's rife with reds and whites and blues. 4th of July is the Christmas of summer.

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waterdeepchu posted...

As far as I'm concerned, Halloween is two months long starting in September.

I compare it to Christmas. Christmas/New Year's is often lumped in with Thanksgiving. It's generally accepted that you start the "Christmas season" starting in November. And if you really love Christmas, earlier than that.

Therefore, the same should apply to Halloween. Starting in September, or even earlier if you really love fall/Halloween.

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fishy071 posted...

Actually, it never really begins for me. I don't like fall, and I can't stand winter. I'm not a fan of Halloween either. I am usually forced into the mood in mid-October.

So do you have very little/no appreciation for any holiday seasons?

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Most of September and the first week of October or so is more of a general "fall" feeling.

I'm counting that. I'm talking about "Summer is done, let's move on."

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A lot of people are not feeling the fall vibe until mid-October?

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Some months have a feel. Some months don't. Some months are just "nothing months." Some people endure. Accept the nothing month for what it is. Other people take a nothing month and say "If nothing's going on, I'm taking this time to at least pre-game for whatever the next season/mood/vibe is." Even if you haven't seen this Sarah's Scribbles comic, you've heard of people who take the "empty parking lot" that is August and use it as a time to look forward to the dark times.



But what is August to you? And when does fall or the Halloween season or whatever name you wanna give it, begin from your perspective?

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EclairReturns posted...

Those sound like the words of some sort of emotionally troubled youth what ran away from a chaotic home environment in order to join some street-gang.

But what you have to consider is this fax?

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In the pro fighting game community there are all these aggro dudes who lift and claim they could beat me up. Fighting games are for tough guys, as tough as someone can be while still being a committed video game enjoyer.

So what's the nerdiest video game genre? And where on the hierarchy of video game genres do platformers fit in?

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Judgmenl posted...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/833060/Biologger/ is still on my wishlist. Hope you are making good progress.

I see. He's left Kongregate and moved on to Steam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kIeXggrLoM

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@AwesomeTurtwig whatever happened to your Kongregate catalogue?

https://www.kongregate.com/accounts/AwesomeTurtwig

You haven't signed in since April 2015. Circa 2015 seems to have been the turning point for a lot of things we used to know, love, and have.

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Mead posted...

what are you even babbling about there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSEAi2UzckQ

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Every year. Except this year. I've been dreading this day for a while.



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Mead posted...

yeah cause nobody wants to read entire essays about what randoms think about smash bros

But why am I having more success on GameFAQs?

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Mead posted...

Youre on the wrong subreddits

I'm not though. GameFAQs as a whole has about <2000 registered members on at any given moment.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards

I'm up with the worms right now and there are two separate Smash subreddits I could talk about Smash on, whose activity now dwarfs GameFAQs at present.

https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SmashBrosUltimate/

Neither one has been good for discussion, especially for me. But the fact that this is where all the people go now would suggest that it is good for discussion. Somehow I get more done on a site as dead as GameFAQs. How? Because GameFAQs is simply built better for this kind of thing.

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Mead posted...

yep

I say lots of things. But the issue is it's not just me, no one is having long form discussion like we used to be able to. It's all memes now.

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Mead posted...

Well, what did you say?

You mean when I try to talk to a lot of people?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_United_States#Holidays_most_commonly_celebrated

Christmas easily tops the list of holidays in the US in terms of sales. But what I didn't expect was Halloween to be so low on the list. A meager $6.9 billion in USD sales. Maybe Halloween favors are just really affordable.

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Mead posted...

Nope. Theyre still just people discussing things, youre just on the wrong subs.

yes its an aggregate based site, theres plenty of other sites on the internet if that isnt what you are looking for

You're not understanding. I want to talk to a lot of people. Not a handful of people. I used to be able to do that. Like @Muscles said, you find more engagement on GameFAQs of all places than on Reddit. And there ain't dick worth of engagement on GameFAQs.

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Mead posted...

The layout is customizable, and there are several subs and communities where all people do is have discussions with each other

The majority of these subreddits have devolved into just posting memes. Because Reddit, while the best place we have for long form discussion, isn't exactly good for long form discussion. It's content-driven, so it's not discussion that rises to the top, it's whatever content people like best. Funny pictures & videos. Any place where discussion is happening, the population is so scarce that discussion is pretty much impossible.

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Mead posted...

There is an entire internet of other places to go

Plus you could always go out and explore the actual meatspace if you wanted to

Not if I actually want to reach the community at large.

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Sneaky subliminal subterfuge, not including Christmas. I wanted to pick Christmas. But it wasn't on the list. And if I was more easily influenced, I wouldn't have picked "Other." I would've immediately gone for "Okay what's the next best thing on the list?"

Nah, I want Christmas. Thanksgiving and New Year's are essentially partner holidays to Christmas. And Halloween is like the crazy uncle. By having Christmas, you essentially have all holidays, because Christmas is the concentrated essence of a holiday season itself.

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Reigning_King posted...

Your real problem is that you're on reddit at all.

Mead posted...

If its bothering you this much then youre spending too much time there

I don't want to be on Reddit, but there's nowhere else to go.

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It's a broken website. Constantly going down, constantly malfunctioning, but it's more or less the go-to website for long form discussion.

I think this is reflective of a larger issue with today's Internet. Malfunctions & downtime are way more par for the course now than they used to be. GameFAQs went down when Sonic was announced for Brawl, and that was exceptional. Reddit goes down once a month and we're like "Well, that's just Reddit, one of the biggest websites on the Internet, that's just acceptable functionality for Reddit."

What site in 2008 was as big as Reddit is today? We wouldn't have put up with that site being that bad back then. But we put up with it today because tech is now so big, there's nowhere to go. What're you gonna do? Go to Ruqqus? That's what they said about Voat. And now look at what's become of Voat.

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Red_Frog posted...

What would someone put in their channel if they don't support emos?

"I like Justin Bieber!!1!1"

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yeah, that's sort of my point. Most Internet "fame" isn't really fame at all.

Then what is real fame?

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BTH_Phoenix posted...

I'm going to guess some people go outside in the summer.

Once summer is over and the stats are in, we'll see.

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Mead posted...

so what

If we learn when GameFAQs is most active, we'll learn when the most happenin' most exciting time to be on GameFAQs is. The time when people are saying "I could not be on GameFAQs right now, but I'd rather be on GameFAQs right now."

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Never apologize for comedy.

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Mead posted...

The cost of an expensive haircut is far more than $100 and that has been the case for decades

So what's a reasonable haircut cost?

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Blightzkrieg posted...

idk, to me chewy is just a pic of some hairy balls

What about @ICOYAR? Remember him? Whatever happened to him? The fact that he was driven away, I think, is testament to the very real community of this board. That he left, because of perceived pressure from actual people.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

That sounds exactly like every forum

I wouldn't say so. On a real forum, people have reputations built up over multiple incidents. Like mrduckbear. People know mrduckbear because he has a reputation in the community. He the individual. Not just for any one thread he's made.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Is reddit not a forum?

Because I don't think that is going anywhere

I wouldn't call Reddit a forum. If you're Reddit famous, you're famous for one very popular thread. The subreddits have no "community" like a forum does. Everyone blends in. And Reddit knows this, that's why they recently started letting people have avatars/create their own Snoo. Which is still a futile effort because Reddit simply isn't designed like a forum. It's designed around content, not community or discussion.

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By which I mean April has the most registered users earn the Loyalist badge. "Sticky" being a term used for how well a website retains long periods of use out of its users. In April more than any other month so far, people were coming on every day, not missing a moment.

January: 21,546
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/64

February: 34,305
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/65

March: 33,732
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/66

April: 35,991
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/67

May: 33,372
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/68

June: 34,017
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/69

July: 22,440
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/70

August: 21,939
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/71

September: 22,820
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/72

October: 21,938
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/73

November: 22,093
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/74

December: 21,479
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=%21/badges/75

Now, you might be thinking this count isn't complete. We have to wait for the rest of the year to play out. In fact, I'm pretty sure we'll have to wait for the January 2022 count to come in. I'm pretty sure GameFAQs only started officially counting this in the February of some year, and the months in the 20,000s are waiting for the current GameFAQs userbase to roll around on them.

But so far it's April. Probably because it's a 30-day month, easier to earn than the 31-day months. But I wonder why June, also a 30-day month, couldn't match April? What were people doing in June that they couldn't come on GameFAQs every day, despite coming on every day in larger numbers in April?

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It means pretty much about the same, because it didn't mean jack shit back then, either.

Forum fame, back when forum fame meant something, will at least get you a video essay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfnQcFNCp4

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Mead posted...

The cost of change is. . .change.

But what have we lost specifically? The cost of an expensive haircut is a little under $100. What have we lost in migrating from forums to this "content & audience"-centric Internet?

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