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Megaman Battle Network

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

There was some slowdown and some of the enemy models did strange things when they died, but overall it seemed to work fine for me.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

People are more likely to wear masks if they see other people wearing masks. By wearing one yourself, you add a little bit to the social pressure to wear a mask. To get from nobody wearing them to everybody wear them, some people are going to have to be the first.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Oh right, I'm sorry for not getting back to you with the data Corrik, but I couldn't find consistent numbers (or any numbers in some cases) and got frustrated and stopped. My bad on that one.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Even assuming you could spread the voters out perfectly, that'd still be 60k people for that station.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

In 2016, only a quarter of polling stations served more than 2000 people.

Louisville has only one polling station serving more than 600000 people. That's a problem to say the least.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

I suppose a lot of the problem is the right wing defund planned parenthood movement was a straight up attack, so they're thinking defund the police is the same thing.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

When my brother committed suicide, one of the things I noticed was just how many people came and talked about the impact he had on their lives. When you're suicidal, it's easy to think things would be better for people without you, but that's not remotely true. I guarantee there's more people out there than you think that appreciate you.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Sure thing. I can't start on it right away, but I'll try to pull all that together.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

The evidence is more than strong enough to have 99% certainty that the system is biased with that data set.

But if you think there needs to be more data and longer term trends then fine. If you're willing to tell me what it would take to convince you, I might just take the time to put it together for you. In exchange, if I present that data, you agree to accept that there is bias in police use of force. If you disagree with my sources you may challenge them by providing an alternate source.

Do you agree Corrik?

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Corrik7 posted...

Thanks for looking it up, though I do expect Latinos may have gotten lumped in with whites in these stats which makes them maybe unusable.

That's 70% to 27% in crime.

That's 61% to 39% deaths.

Is that discrepancy as great as you thought it would be? I doubt it is.

Both tables have separation for Hispanic people, so that shouldn't be a factor. The discrepancy is more than large enough to provide high-confidence evidence of bias in use of force by police officers. Do you agree with this assessment?


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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Using FBI statistics from 2016. For violent offences, white people made up 69.6% of arrests, black people made up 26.9% of arrests.

Homicide rates by police are harder to get official sources on. I'll use Statistica for lack of an official source, and unfortunately the only source I could find from them uses 2019, but claims previous years had similar numbers. According to them, there were 331 white people killed by police, and 212 black people. Even ignoring bias in arrest rates, this shows a clear difference in force used by the police depending on the race of the suspect.

Why I took the time to put this together given it'll be dismissed out of hand, I don't know.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

I think studies have shown humans only really understand three probabilities, 0%, 50%, and 100%. So things just get pushed into one of those categories.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

The "he tripped" part is really emblematic of the entire issue people are having with the police. The violence is what makes individuals bad. The "he tripped" nonsense is what makes the police bad.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Question for the VNs aren't games club, do you consider Candyland or Snakes and Ladders to be games?

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

I got credited in a video for solving Cracking the Cryptic's puzzle hunt.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

And sometimes the two sides are 2+2=5 and 2+2=6

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Not having body cams active during all of this really sends a message.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

You always aim for the center of mass though. Less likely to have stray bullets kill civilians, if you're shooting you're (supposed to be) in a situation where stopping the target immediately is imperative, and shooting limbs doesn't even decrease lethality much anyways if I remember the stats.

This is coming from a Canadian who doesn't want guns in the same province as them, so take that how you will.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

He said it was him when asked IIRC

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Didn't the protests in Minneapolis get tear gassed before things turned rowdy anyways?

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

"Now, were getting them out anyway, but wed like to get them out a lot faster. And when you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon you just see them thrown in, rough I said, please dont be too nice. Like when you guys put somebody in the car and youre protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over? Like, dont hit their head and theyve just killed somebody dont hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?"

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Yeah, you should just report officers like Chauvin, and the system will do justice! Twice out of eighteen complaints. But hey, those two letters of reprimand really showed him!

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Dark Young Link posted...

Well it's a shame if he was overly punished, but that's how driving while drunk goes. You're bound to be punished.

I agree. I think him driving drunk while being as lawful as he is is pretty hypocritical. But attack him for THAT, don't put words in his mouth.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Corrik is correct that people mischaracterize the drunk driving thing. His complaint was entirely about his punishment not fitting the letter of the law. He had no objection to being punished.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Tceles Nottub B

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

There was some noodle bar/intenet cafe in London called Chopstix I think it was. I think it was part of a chain? I remember eating there a few times on a trip. Got curry over shanghai noodles, it was great. I don't remember it that clearly though, given I was 11 or something like that at the time.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

If they have their biggest day for new cases in the run-up to opening, it means it's not at all safe to open. Shows they're opening before they actually got a handle on things.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

The tweet didn't even call it Spanish flu, so I don't know why you'd bring up the not starting in Spain thing.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

I got prizes for both brackets of Rivalry Rumble. I don't think I've been on any other by the end. I'd have been on this time, but I overestimated Skyrim.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

The system as I understand it would work something like this:

Assume there's two people, A and B. Each person's gibberish is simply their letter each time for simplicity's sake. A is infected, and posts their sent message log to the hospital. The hospital now has a a bunch of "A" messages in the list.
B downloads that list to see if they've heard any infected messages. B then learns that they were in contact with someone infected, because their phone received "A" as a message. They isolate, and later test positive. They submit their messages, and now the hospital has "A" and "B" in their list. However, because neither phone sent their list of messages received, the hospital has no way of learning that A infected B, or was even ever in contact with them.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

If I'm reading it right the gibberish isn't encrypted, it's simply a randomly generated string. It doesn't record location data at all, and having full access to the data on any given phone gives you no information at all.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

My mattress has a top so I can't flip it, and my hips are in the same point of the mattress after turning it. I do turn it, it just doesn't help much in the long run.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Thanks for the advice guys, it really helps. Once the lockdowns end I'll take a look. I don't deal well with heat when I'm trying to sleep, so I'll probably avoid memory foam then. How hot are the latex ones?

As for how I break the damn things... Well, I seem to somehow put 80% of my weight on one point of the mattress while I sleep and it's in the middle to rotating it does nothing. It's not broken broken, just worn down to the point where I'm feeling the metal of the springs. I don't have a good answer, it's pretty out there as far as problems go.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

I have a recurring issue with my mattresses breaking way too fast. My room is pretty small so I have a twin size bed, and my hip is right in the middle of the mattress. I seem to put a lot more weight on my hips when I sleep than most people, because even a decent mattress never lasts a year.

I'm going to have to look into something different, like a topper or memory foam, but that's a big purchase to make without really knowing what I'm doing. Any advice?

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

This is probably dumb to post because it's going to be annoying to deal with, but regarding the Trump injection quotes...

A, Trump's talk about injection was in response to talking about using bleach and isopropyl alcohol to disinfect surfaces.

B. He specifically said injection.

C. Trump's defense of the quotes isn't to specify he was talking about an actual procedure, it was to claim he was being sarcastic to be a shit-stirrer. "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,"


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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

A very quick google search turned this up from 2018.

https://www.businessinsider.com/r-former-trump-adviser-flynn-says-he-knew-lying-to-the-fbi-was-a-crime-2018-12

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

I heard that Trudeau closed the border by calling up Pence, having him bring the idea up to Trump, having Trump contact him, then praising Trump for the idea

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

If those other places needed them immediately to save lives and NY was at that point stocking them to prepare, it'd make sense to give them away now while still requesting more of them.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

On top of the game itself being really good, it does a great job with its themes.

The moment when the breathing technique doesn't work was masterful IMO.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

...ertyu blocked me?

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Just to confirm, this whole spat is because Dancedreamer is saying intelligent != smart and Wang is saying intelligent = smart right?

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

It doesn't appear to be on sale in Canada V_V

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

(1) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
(8) Halo: Reach
(14) Bravely Default: Flying Fairy
(10) Bastion
(9) VVVVVV
(12) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
(14) Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
(7) Fire Emblem: Awakening
(1) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
(8) The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
(4) Minecraft
(3) Undertale
(6) Shovel Knight
(2) Super Mario Odyssey
(5) Persona 4 Golden
(12) FTL: Faster Than Light
(6) Overwatch
(14) The Stanley Parable
(9) Sid Meier's Civilization V
(4) Super Meat Boy
(13) Slay the Spire
(3) Portal 2
(1) Dark Souls
(16) Hotline Miami
(11) Terraria
(10) Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
(16) Subnautica
(12) Crypt of the NecroDancer
(13) Mario Kart 8
(3) Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver Version
(6) Celeste
(10) Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

32 which is way more than I expected. Between my friend lending me games, a whole lot of humble bundle, and some free stuff from Epic, You can do a lot of gaming on a small budget.


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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

People around here are taking social distancing seriously. People are crossing the street to avoid walking directly next to someone.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Does it ring a bell? Well to quote Shakespeare...

Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: "No!"


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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Other than the obvious humanitarian concerns, not supporting the illegal population in a pandemic is going to end up with a lot of dead citizens that would otherwise be saved.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

Supporting illegals makes sense from a self-preservation perspective anyways. The goal is to keep people home and not desperate, to protect the population as a whole. Leaving anyone out of that is a massive security risk.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

BoF1 was my first non-pokemon RPG. It's a massive nostalgia game. It's clunky, but overall enjoyable.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs

This is going to be absolutely devastating here. Half the people in my city are age 60+. That's not hyperbole either, the median age is literally 60.

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JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs