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Sarcasthma posted...

Looks like Kirby's still angry about getting modded for saying transphobic things.

That's the problem with his generation: They never want to take responsibility for their own actions.

T0ffee posted...

I'm now definitely intrigued on how this world came to be. There haven't been any significant lore explanation on how this whole continent formed or why the areas of Xeno 1 and 2 are here. Hopefully they'll explain it eventually, and not leave it like, "that's how the world is" type of explanation.

They do. There's plenty of room to expand on the details of the world's history and whatnot, and there's a solid chance the story DLC is going to do that, but the origins are explained. I'll leave it at that.

T0ffee posted...

And I can I just say how awesome the main cast is? I don't think I have felt this kind of immediate attachment to the party compared to the other Xeno games.

100%. I think there's room to say that some of the individual characters don't necessarily measure up to others from previous games, but the sheer chemistry between party members is just unmatched by pretty much any other game I've seen. I absolutely adored watching them interact and develop alongside each other. I think a big part of that is the sheer volume of casual, non-story-related interactions they have, through side quests and camp conversations, but the end result is that it feels like I'm going on an adventure with them in a way that very few other games can boast. It's just great.

FatalAccident posted...

When this dialogue used to come up in NBA 2k18 you could actually pay in game currency (or real world money) to plead for your job.

Annoying I cant even do that in this game.

I'm not generally a fan of losing after investing that much time, which is why I tend not to play hardcore mode in ARPG's and usually play Civ on easier difficulties, but if a game presented me with such a lose condition but then offered to let me pay real money to avoid it, I'd probably actually snap the game in half. That's utterly bullshit, even compared to the rest of the horrible world of game monetization.

dragon504 posted...

Seems more like the first than the second one so far.

It is. Generally a darker tone (there's a very strong argument to be made that 2 ends up being darker than 1 once you finally get into the meat of it, but the early impressions definitely come across as a more light-hearted game), and less whimsical art style, and fewer hamfisted shonen tropes (including blatantly subverting the fanservice bath scene in a way that provides meaningful worldbuilding, as opposed to 2 mostly playing the trope straight). Gameplay-wise, it arguably builds more on 2's foundation than 1's, but it incorporates a lot from both.

dragon504 posted...

I'm glad the affinity chart is back. I dunno why, but I really like that feature and wish more games had it. Would be really nice in something like Elder Scrolls imo.

It is a really nifty feature. It doesn't make a huge difference to Xenoblade's gameplay (consider, for comparison, the Bomber's Notebook in Majora's Mask, which serves a similar worldbuilding purpose but also helps to track sidequest progress and guess at next steps), but it really helps to flesh out the world by establishing everyone you interact with as being somehow interconnected and meaningfully affected by the actions you take.

But now they can justify charging more for their cheapest plan, which increases their revenue across the board (because most people don't consider the alternative of just not having Internet to really be an option). It's not about what you need, it's about how much money they want.

Lokarin posted...

what's weird is that it's financially more viable for them to just throw them out than to give them away as a promotion

What would they promote, realistically? For a promotion to be worthwhile, you have to generate enough publicity for whatever's being promoted to justify the costs of creating promotional material, potentially adding extra staff, and the opportunity cost of using up store space on the free product.

Revelation34 posted...

So you're admitting it only applies to sanity?

What do you think is the difference between applying only to sanity and applying to sanity and powers of reason?

I can kind of understand wanting to have one upgrade that's temporary and doesn't last past the end of the cycle, then another that's permanent and does, but 100 hits is just so few that it renders the razor sword pretty much useless.

I found the durability thing worked well for the early game, when it contributed to the whole "starting from nothing and trying to survive" vibe and using runes and environmental damage to conserve durability was a viable option. Once weapons became plentiful enough to not really have to conserve any but the rarest and enemy health scaled faster than rune damage and other non-weapon options, though, it just became a chore.

papercup posted...

I've never actually used the razor sword, I always just give it back to them with the gold dust

I may have used it like once or twice, but the whole limited use thing always made me so petrified that I would break it and have to start over again that I never wanted to put it to any real use.

And then BotW was nothing but breakable weapons, which sent my consumable hoarding tendencies into overdrive.

Freebird during the church fight scene in Kingsman.

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pedro45 posted...

I'd say onion and garlic powder except i can't take salt and pepper for granted.

Pretty much this. Salt and (usually) pepper are pretty much mandatory in anything savory. They aren't exactly exciting, leave them (or something that contains them, like soy sauce) out of just about anything, and it doesn't really matter what else goes in there, it's going to taste lacking. Discounting those (which we probably should, given that they're such defaults), onion and garlic also show up in almost everything I cook, so I'd say they have to take it.

Yep, he's being a terribly silly goose. A lot of people seem to think that they can only dislike something if they discredit people who do like it, and I think he's fallen into that trap.

It helps that one of the main themes of the game is "free everybody so they can do what they want," which leaves the door wide open for sidequests amounting to "how do we accomplish what we want now that we're free?". That's a very open-ended concept with massive potential for variation based on the personalities, cultures, and situations of the various colonies, and really lends itself to sidequests that feel like they make a genuine difference.

SomeUsername529 posted...

I have no idea if the guy I was responding to was just being stupid on purpose but I thought I obviously was.

I honestly wasn't sure. Poe's Law is a powerful force, sometimes. Even with the obviously-ridiculous mention of Philips, I could believe that you were genuinely overstating the impact of not reporting digital sales consistently (there are absolutely people out there who would go from "Nintendo doesn't report digital sales" to "Nintendo refuses to admit how poorly BotW sold") and ignoring ongoing discussion about BotW. Online sarcasm can be tricky business.

99% sure he was serious, though.

As much as potato quest gets memed pretty hard, it really was spectacular, and one of the best-executed examples of the game's core themes. Gameplay-wise, it wasn't the best, but feasting on those spuds after it was all said and done was a goddamn triumph.

Brb, crying over video game potatoes.

Psythik posted...

That's why I don't understand how this is legal. Nobody is going after said "service". They've been around for over a decade now.

funkyfritter posted...

it's probably not legal, but operates in enough of a grey area that taking them to court would not be a simple endeavor.

adjl posted...

If they're small, taking them to court over the slice they take out of streaming services' revenue isn't worth the hassle.

Given what's happening to streaming as a whole these days (excessive fragmentation, fee increases, inconsistent libraries, ads...), I expect them to increase in popularity over the next couple years while streaming services lose subscribers. That will probably catalyze aggressive takedown efforts, similar to what happened to Napster when iTunes entered the market and Napster constituted a clear threat to them. That will generally be a matter of missing the point (that is, that streaming services are losing subscribers because their quality of service is dropping and this less-than-legal alternative can do the job so much better), but such is the nature of anti-piracy efforts.

Revelation34 posted...

Sanity is the only valid part of that definition.

I'm generally inclined to consider a literal dictionary a more credible authority on the meaning of words than some random dude on GameFAQs with a well-established history of extreme cognitive inflexibility and refusal to admit to making mistakes.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

The view of the republicans is that the decision being made infringes on the rights of another individual.

And, to prevent that, they're willing to infringe upon the rights of a different individual. Fascism often uses the pretense of protecting one group's rights to strip those of another. As such, invoking that pretense to claim it's not fascism makes very little sense.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

People should be free to do what they want and support the party they prefer if it's not infringing on the rights of others.

The problem is that that's an idealistic fantasy that will never actually be relevant to the real world. Politics affects people's rights. So long as governments make any sort of laws, that will always be true. Therefore, you cannot support a political party without having some impact on people's rights.

Now, that doesn't mean people shouldn't be free to vote or voice support as they choose. That freedom, however, does not mean they are above being judged for, held accountable for, or asked to defend those decisions, which is what a lot of "free speech advocates" seem to think it should. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence, and it's certainly not freedom from having to deal with people that don't like the things you say.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Where as the "lib"s I omitted from the quote believe people should not be free to support the other party.

Where are you getting that? Did they suggest republican voters should be jailed? Assaulted? Killed? Or just that they shouldn't vote republican for reasons which they're generally happy to share (also known as "supporting the party they prefer," to use your wording)?

More specifically, the actual issue at hand was not wanting their intellectual property used to promote a cause with which they vehemently disagree. That's 100% fair game, as dictated by intellectual property laws and basic respect for artists and their art. Free speech does not protect the use of copyrighted material against the wishes of the copyright holder.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

Do you mean a love/hate game? Or one that you didn't like at first, but became a favorite?

I believe he means games that you're terrible at, but still really like playing.

funkyfritter posted...

Based on what you're describing it's probably not legal, but operates in enough of a grey area that taking them to court would not be a simple endeavor.

Which is part of why they don't advertise particularly heavily. If they're small, taking them to court over the slice they take out of streaming services' revenue isn't worth the hassle. If they're taking a larger slice, it becomes worthwhile, and they know they ultimately won't win if it comes to that, so they aim to collect what they can while flying under the radar.

SomeUsername529 posted...

I mean, I did say that I had no idea if the story itself was particularly special. More just that its clearly not a soulless slog like those aimless Fantastic Beasts movies were/are.

The thing with games - especially open-world, sandboxy sorts of games - is that being soulless isn't necessarily a bad thing, since the player can put the soul into it. In a way, that seems to me to be the appeal of Legacy: Regardless of how uninspired the actual story might be, it's still an opportunity to just dick around freely in the world of Hogwarts and explore the universe however the player wants.

A TV series, however, wouldn't be able to capitalize on that freedom and would have to instead pull off a decent story. That's certainly doable, but it's not something that the game's success predicts.

Kanatteru posted...

legacy doesn't have quidditch lol. i bet they're gonna add that as paid DLC in a year from now though

I'd be surprised if they don't, given how surprising it is that it isn't in there now. There are plenty of people that would happily drop $70 on Quidditch Simulator 2023 alone.

Psythik posted...

I feel like the only people who liked BotW were under the age of 20 when it released and didn't actually play any older Zelda titles.

I liked it, and I was 28 when it came out and have played pretty much every other Zelda game. You are allowed to dislike a piece of media without coming up with sweeping generalizations about what sets you apart from people who do like it, you know.

Psythik posted...

Why isn't everyone using this app?

• Because they don't know about it
• Because getting away from sketchy piratey sorts of streaming sites was one of the major reasons official streaming platforms took off the way they did, since people are generally much more comfortable with services that are obviously above board and that they can readily trust won't give them viruses (regardless of what the actual risk is; optics play a huge role in popularity)

Psythik posted...

Why aren't the Streamio devs running any advertising campaigns? They should have ads on TV and YouTube saying something like "stop paying for multiple providers", just use this. It's legal.

Presumably because attracting more attention to themselves risks attracting attention to less-than-legal happenings behind the scenes, potentially interfering with their content delivery. They could make more money in a shorter period of time if they didn't try to fly under the radar, but they stand to last longer by not getting greedy and establishing themselves as an actual competitor.

Savoots posted...

Okay, at this point it's clear you're just looking for pendency, and I'm not about to entertain this.

You don't need to entertain anything. I provided the stats shortly after he asked that.

Also, the term is "pedantry." Because if there's one thing worth being pedantic about, it's pedantry.

T0ffee posted...

I can already see that fully maxing out the classes before postgame is gonna be a chore.

Yeah, don't do that. If nothing else, there are actually two post-game exclusive classes, so you actually can't max everything out before then. Beyond that, though, the absolute best way to grind CP (like rank 1-20 in five minutes) requires you to de-level everyone to maximize their gains and kill a level 80ish enemy repeatedly, which you can't do until beating the game. There is an alternative that uses level 90+ enemies and doesn't require quite as much de-leveling, but it still goes much, much faster after postgame.

That said, you can work your way through a good chunk of the classes on your way through the game if you don't end up overlevelled. Pretty much just play as whatever interests you/you have fun with and don't get too stuck on the fact that you won't max out all of them.

Zareth posted...

Yet people love Spider-Man. Makes you think.

-1*-1=1

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Being anti-abortion is not indicative of fascism.

Not wanting to get an abortion yourself is not fascist. Wanting to make it impossible for anyone else to get one, however, very much is.

Fingerpuppet posted...

Explaining to a GameFAQs user to understand that it is not sufficient to attack the source is like explaining to a communist that you need to take a shower once in a while.

Explaining that a given source is not a valid basis for an argument is perfectly sufficient, provided it's on the basis of examining how logically valid the source is (critical thinking) and not just a matter of saying they're unreliable or biased or anything like that (basically ad hominem). Again, Zang did not do the latter. He only said that VAERS wasn't a valid basis for drawing conclusions about vaccine side effects, which is completely valid. You then chose to misinterpret that as attacking the source instead of asking for clarification because you didn't understand the problem with VAERS.

If you don't understand something, ask about it. Other people aren't responsible for spelling everything out for you under the assumption that you know nothing about a subject when you decide to inject yourself into a discussion of it.

Revelation34 posted...

They could just do various shows using all the lore that was never part of the books.

They could, but that's pretty much what Fantastic Beasts was. There's interest in the HP expanded universe and there's certainly material that can be turned into TV, but what I'm saying is that Legacy's success won't necessarily translate into success for that TV show because interest in Legacy is more because of what sort of game it is than because of the lore it explores.

SomeUsername529 posted...

Apparently the game sold 12 million copies and made about $850 million since launch. In another week or two it'll eclipse the total earnings of the last two Fantastic Beasts movies. No idea if a TV show based on this game would be any good but clearly the market for Harry Potter stuff that isn't directionless soulless garbage is still huge.

I don't think it's so much that Legacy tells a story that's more appealing than other Harry Potter EU stuff so much as it is that the fandom has had a long-standing desire to play an open-world RPG set in the HP universe. The notion of dicking around freely with spells and brooms and quidditch is something that appeals to a lot of people, and Legacy is the first time that's really come to fruition. It's similar to why Pokemon Go was so explosively successful: People like the idea of going on their own adventure to catch Pokemon, and Go provided exactly that.

To that end, I don't know that a TV show has much potential to cash in on the game's success. A TV show would be simply a matter of telling another story from the universe's history, not unlike what Fantastic Beasts did. That's something that's going to have to succeed on its own merits, rather than being able to coast on a fundamental idea that people really like.

mcnichoj posted...

Are some of you saying you don't get your annual Polio shots either?

I get polio shots as often as is recommended by my local public health authorities.

VideoboysaysCube posted...

the pallet-swap bosses

I'd actually go so far as to say the bosses had the opposite problem of being palette swaps. They all played differently enough to be interesting and had cool designs in terms of the shapes of their models, but they all shared exactly the same general aesthetic aside from token elemental-themed accents (and even those weren't as pronounced in BotW as in AoC, where they were more interesting). They didn't do enough palette-swapping to make them feel visually distinctive, which meant they all kind of blurred together.

Carrying credit card debt for the sake of your credit score is a bad idea, given the high interest rate and the fact that carrying a credit card balance often actually hurts your score, but there are countless stories of people's credit scores dropping suddenly after paying off student loans, car loans, or other long-term debts. That's not to say you can't have a good credit score without long-term debt, but freeing yourself from long-term debt (especially early) often does have a negative impact.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459259/#article-25470.s4

The incidence of myocarditis is approximately 1.5 million cases worldwide per year. Incidence is usually estimated between 10 to 20 cases per 100,000 persons. The overall incidence is unknown and probably underdiagnosed.

So the Covid vaccine accounted for an extra 5-10% more cases. It might actually be less than that, but where other instances are often underdiagnosed because the symptoms aren't severe enough to warrant a doctor visit and/or meet the clinical threshold, I'm inclined to assume that roughly the same pattern applies to vaccine-induced cases and that vaccine-induced myocarditis is equally underdiagnosed. That's speculation and I don't have any concrete basis for that opinion, but intuitively it makes sense.

Something something alternative facts.

It stopped being the best Zelda game two years after it came out. Still an excellent game, though.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

I consider BotW a decent enough game, but a terrible Zelda.

That's not an unusual take. BotW deviated from the established formula to enough of an extent that it's not really possible to predict that somebody who liked other Zelda games will like BotW.

papercup posted...

And WW >>> OoT

OoT was better than WW, but WWHD was better than OoT. That remake took WW from being near the bottom of the pack to being a legitimate contender for the best 3D Zelda.

Muscles posted...

It would take less than 5 minutes of reading the lyrics to see it was definitely not in line with their values, why was there absolutely no fact checking there?

>Reading
>Republicans

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You're correct that the risk is lower than from Covid itself (and cases resulting from Covid itself are more severe in addition to being more likely, much like is also the case with the AZ/JJ blood clots), but it's higher than the general population rate. That's mostly what that VAERS study was finding in the first place: That myocarditis was being reported among vaccine recipients at higher than the expected background rate, prompting later research that confirmed it to be a rare (~1/100,000, highest among males between ~15 and 30) side effect.

Mostly, the end result of that research is that those getting an mRNA shot are warned of the possibility of myocarditis as a side effect and told to seek medical attention if they have any of the symptoms of it. I believe there have been a handful of cases that have required a day or two in hospital, but most are treated easily and sent on their way. None (that I know of) have resulted in death, aside from that possible case in Germany our other friend seems to think is both conclusive and representative of more than one person.

ReturnOfFa posted...

it aligns with it quite nicely. there may be minor discrepancies between those positions, but they still align in how the present in the media. I also haven't heard a rational argument against mandates that don't rely on anti-vaccine dogma.

In my experience, anti-mandate folks tend to fall under one or more of the following umbrellas:

• Libertarians who don't want government imposing any sort of requirement on people under any circumstances (which obviously doesn't work well for public health)
• Covid deniers that refuse to believe the worst public health crisis in a century is bad enough to warrant any interventions beyond what people choose to do for themselves
• People somewhere on the anti-vaxx spectrum, including quite a few that are willing to accept that more established vaccines are probably okay, but have bought into the fearmongering around how the Covid ones are "rushed" or "untested"

I haven't seen many exceptions to this, but there are indeed a few people who oppose mandates that aren't actually anti-vaxx. They're equally mistaken about what constitutes sensible public health policy and are often influenced by the anti-vaxx fear, but that's still secondary to their main concerns.

Fingerpuppet posted...

claiming a source is bad is not an argument.

Sure it is. There's some nuance to that and it's usually more productive to say why a source is bad, especially when dealing with somebody who just doesn't understand and needs it spelled out for them, but if the source used to reach a conclusion doesn't actually constitute a valid basis for that conclusion, pointing that out is no different than pointing out any other flawed logical process in forming an argument.

Fingerpuppet posted...

Your belief is that if you don't like where something comes from, then the information must be wrong.

Where did you get that? All he said was that VAERS isn't a valid basis for forming conclusions about vaccine safety. That's a true statement, not him saying that the information is wrong because he doesn't like it.

agesboy posted...

"Killing In The Name Of" by Rage Against the Machine was played at maga rallies too. Don't think it was anything officially decided by Trump's campaign staff, but it's still pretty hilarious. Tom Morello mocked the shit out of em for it

See also: People boycotting Rage Against the Machine a year or two ago because Tom Morello said something "too political" on Twitter. He also had a field day with that.

Muscles posted...

It does oversaturate the market making it harder for people to find the work of actual artists

Which still doesn't stop you from creating it. It just stops you from becoming commercially successful doing so.

I'm gonna guess you didn't get modded for questioning pfizer so much as you got modded for pushing dangerous anti-vaxx rhetoric. As usual.

tonicpalin posted...

horse to water. anti-mandate is not anti-vaccine.also google "bill gates oral polio vaccine". blah blah blah . yadda yadda.

Do you not understand that n=1 is utterly useless for identifying broader trends? Even if the case study in question was able to conclude beyond a shadow of a doubt that the covid vaccine was responsible for that patient's death (which this one wasn't), it's still only one patient. There are innumerable variables that may have made that one patient exceptionally vulnerable to dying of the vaccine that mean that outcome can't be generalized without further study. At best, that case suggests that 70-year-old men with Parkinson's and a documented history of adverse reactions to Covid vaccines might be better off skipping further ones, and that's neither conclusive nor applicable to most of the world. As it happens, I would be inclined to agree that somebody that reacted poorly to one shot probably shouldn't get subsequent ones, something which most agree with and is already baked into most vaccine requirements in the form of medical exemptions.

If you have a point, try making it instead of dropping vague hints at what you mean. I know you feel validated when nobody can prove you wrong, but when that's because you haven't actually said anything to which people can respond, you haven't actually accomplished anything.

captpackrat posted...

If you've never looked at VAERS, it has some of the stupidest "symptoms" I've ever seen.

For the COVID vaccine, here's a small sampling of some of the dumber ones:

Yep. As much as my example was obviously exaggerated to make a point, there's no shortage of similarly absurd claims actually on there. There are also plenty of legitimate claims that warrant further study (because, again, VAERS just says "there might be a correlation here," not "there is a correlation" or "there's a causal link"), but there's a desperate need to curate the data before trying to do anything with them.

chelsea___wtf posted...

ok but if anyone does find a vaccine that turns your penis into a goose please pm me

Will do.

tonicpalin posted...

sheesh....
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/hard-evidence-in-new-study-brain-heart-damage-caused-by-mrna-vaccine_5074383.html
and the paper the article references.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/10/1651

inb5 banned for being "offensive" for linking to news and german research. no context.

N=1 isn't exactly useful for identifying a risk factor, especially in the context of 10 billion other doses, but that may qualify as an example of a documented death from vaccine-related myocarditis, which would make my statement of zero incorrect. That's a pretty big "may," though. The findings aren't exactly conclusive, the article reporting on them is very obviously heavily biased against covid vaccination (looking at the language used and some of the other articles the outlet has published), most of the quotes in the article come from somebody unrelated to the case commenting on it in his youtube video... All in all, not exactly a definitive causal link.

Fingerpuppet posted...

That's a bold claim. How do you know that?

Because every effort I've made to find documentation of deaths from vaccine-related myocarditis has come up empty. Sure, that's not *proof* that none have happened, since it's logically impossible to prove a negative like that, but I've exercised sufficient rigour to be comfortable concluding that the comparison overwhelmingly favours the vaccine, at least until somebody is able to credibly demonstrate otherwise.

Are you able to credibly demonstrate that deaths *have* occurred from vaccine-related myocarditis in sufficient quantities to consider them more dangerous than Covid itself? Or are you contenting yourself with briefly googling, finding nothing that proves they haven't, and hiding behind a disingenuous "well it could have happened" as though that's anything more than idle speculation?

Fingerpuppet posted...

If I provide a source to justify my position, and you see that it's from an outlet that has a bias, then you can't simply point out the bias to defeat my argument.

But the issue with VAERS isn't that it's biased. The issue with VAERS is in its fundamental design: it's data collected from laypeople with zero qualified oversight and no consideration of the plausibility of causal relationships between the apparent correlated variables. It's a valuable tool for vaccine research, since it helps researchers to identify apparent correlations that are worth investigating further, but if anyone else wants to draw any actual conclusions, they need to look at that further research and critically evaluate that instead of just the information in VAERS. It's not that VAERS isn't a valid source of information regarding vaccine side effects, it's that any conclusions based solely on VAERS are not valid because they have not been substantiated beyond unverified anecdotes.

Again, I could go into VAERS and say that the Covid vaccine turned my penis into a goose. Is that evidence that the Covid vaccine turns penises into geese? No. It's just evidence of a possible link, which can be explored further if somebody suspects that there may be something worth digging into (suspicion that would, in turn, be informed by considerations like how many reports of honkydonk there were, the mechanistic plausibility of a causal link, outside statistics showing an increase in the incidence of such events that roughly lined up with an increase in vaccinations...).

Now, as it happens, while the source you linked was not enough to infer a causal link on its own (it basically just summarized VAERS to say "hey this report is coming up pretty often, maybe it's worth investigating further"), subsequent research inspired by those findings has found a probable causal link between mRNA vaccines and elevated risk of myocarditis. You chose a poor source, but ended up at the same conclusion that has been accepted to probably be true. Don't mistake that for VAERS being a better source than people are giving it credit for. That was either luck or a matter of working backwards from the common knowledge you already had and trying to find a source to corroborate that.

Of course, all of this is entirely ancillary to the fact that you responded to a request for evidence of widespread vaccine fatalities with evidence (however tenuous) of a non-fatal side effect. We can argue over the validity of your conclusion all you want, but it's never going to actually relate to the question at hand and therefore amounts quite unambiguously to a strawman argument.

Fingerpuppet posted...

A better question is to ask this: what is the probability that a healthy (no smoking, BMI in a normal range, etc.), young adult will die of COVID vs the same but for Myocarditis following the vaccine?

Well, given that there have been zero documented deaths from vaccine-related myocarditis, I think you'll find the comparison still overwhelmingly favours the vaccine.

Muscles posted...

If AI takes over all the jobs there won't be a money based economy anymore, the fun jobs (like being a writer, musician, athlete, etc.) will be for fun/fame not extra resources. Why take the fun jobs out of life along with the shit jobs?

The existence of AI creating art doesn't prevent you from creating art. It just prevents it from being commercially viable, which, as you say, is no longer meaningful when there's no money-based economy.