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LinkPizza posted...

AFAIK, every flight is oversold... They ju at always count on people not making it.

Every flight can be oversold, but many (particularly to less popular destinations and/or at slower times of the year) aren't. Off-hand, I have no idea what percentage of flights actually are, but it's well below 100%.

LinkPizza posted...

And they pay people to wait...

Depends a lot on the airline, and often the payment is just a voucher for future flights with that airline. Regardless, the fact that I'll be compensated if I have to wait doesn't make it any less stressful that I might have to do so, particularly where I'm often not in a position where waiting is really an option for me and that means I'm relying on strangers to give up their spots.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Oddly enough the driving route and the walking route are identical.

That's not that odd, especially for a shorter trip. The only times you'll see routes vary are either when there are pedestrian shortcuts or when driving a longer distance allows you to use faster roads/stop less frequently to save time, both of which become substantially less likely for shorter trips.

Smarkil posted...

That's not a brisk stroll. That's barely even a stroll. Regular walking speed is like 4 miles an hour.

I believe Google tends to presume 5 km/h (3 mph) for its walking times, at least on even terrain. Biking times presume 20 km/h (12.5 mph, again, on even terrain). Both are pretty easy to beat if you're in reasonable shape and/or try to hurry.

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keyblader1985 posted...

Joy is wherever you want it to be. Purpose is nonexistent in the grand scheme, so it doesn't make too much sense to worry about it. Time enjoyed is time not wasted.

Pretty much. Life is pointless, and always will be. Just have fun with it.

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I don't really have anywhere I feel the need to fly right now, and I don't see that changing in the next year or so. Flying sucks, so unless I have a strong desire or need to go somewhere to which I have to fly, I'm in no rush to get on a plane. That's going to be especially true if large numbers of people are looking to fly as soon as possible, since flying is at its worst when planes are overcrowded and there's a serious risk of not being able to find space for my carry-on or even being outright bumped because the flight was oversold.

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OhhhJa posted...

the idea behind pardons is that they exist to provide a counterbalance to the shortcomings of the judiciary

I don't mind the idea of there being some means to overrule the judicial branch when they do something questionable, but if it's going to be left entirely to the unchecked, capricious whims of a single person, it'd probably be better to just use a random number generator.

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Zeus posted...

Kind of like how it's only worth buying fire insurance after a fire. After all, that's when it'll do the most good... oh wait.

You buy fire insurance before you actually have a fire, but usually some time after fire has actually been invented/discovered. A space force should be established before any military incidents occur in space and the country is left defenseless, but establishing it before there have even been remote hints of such incidents or any reason to believe that any other country is capable of/interested in perpetrating them is nonetheless premature.

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It's currently very cloudy here with some extremely low fog and also very persistent rain. I'm not even trying to see it.

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Presumably because they don't like them.

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OhhhJa posted...

Ironically enough, and I said this here months ago, our lockdowns could actually force the virus to mutate to become even more transmissable

Much like treating bacterial infections with antibiotics can result in the evolution of antibiotic resistance. That doesn't mean we shouldn't use antibiotics, though.

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DragonClaw01 posted...

Yeah, took me awhile to figure why pencils have a prop 65 warning, but evidently wood shavings are carcinogenic. Of course that is probably only the case if you say work in lumber mill or something, but learn something new everyday I guess. Pencils are hazardous to your health according to Ca.

Yep, most sawdust is carcinogenic, enough so that wearing respiratory protection while doing any super-dusty work is a good idea if you do it often enough. Cedar is particularly bad (like an order of magnitude worse than other woods).

Of course, that's completely meaningless in the context of pencil usage.

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Personally, when it comes to Switch games (since physical PC games aren't really a thing anymore), I tend to buy physical copies of larger releases unless it's something I expect to want to play impulsively, such as Smash or Animal Crossing. Those, I buy digitally so I can always access them on demand without needing to carry around extra game carts.

FatalAccident posted...

With streaming movies you dont get the same 4K quality as a blu ray, is it the same with games?

Digital downloads aren't streaming. With streaming, you don't download and store a copy of the product, you download small parts of it at a time and delete them as they're consumed. That means you're limited by your connection speed and the speed of the server, and since higher quality video takes up more bandwidth, it's generally harder to get higher-quality stuff streamed than to watch it from a disc.

With most digitally distributed games, you're not streaming them, you're downloading the full game and storing a copy of it (streaming games is something various companies keep trying, but it generally struggles to get off the ground because most people don't have the necessary internet speed to avoid troublesome lag). That way, you're not limited by your internet connection, you're just limited by the read/write speed of whatever storage medium you're using. Sometimes, that works out to better performance than a physical copy, since optical media is generally pretty slow compared to HDD's (and especially SSD's). Other times, it ends up being worse because being able to read from an optical drive and the HDD at the same time can yield performance boosts (off-hand, I don't actually know how often that kind of parallel processing is used to optimize games). In general, though, you aren't likely to see major performance advantages either way.

EvilMegas posted...

"2K is ending virtual currency sales platinum in Battleborn as of Feb. 24, 2020. The game's servers will remain active and the game will continue to be playable until January 2021, according to 2K, but after that Battleborn will no longer be playable including the game's single-player campaign"

That's not simply delisting it from the storefront, that's shutting down the game's servers, which renders it unplayable for everyone regardless of their purchase format. That's a downside to server-based single-player modes, not a downside to digital.

Exceptions exist, but by and large, people are still able to play copies they've already purchased of games that have been removed from digital storefronts. Most recently, people who bought Cyberpunk digitally on PS4 are still able to play it (as much as they ever could >.>), people just no longer have the option of buying new digital copies. It's quite rare to actually see people's ability to play games they purchased taken away from them.

reason posted...

Physical is ALWAYS better, because you actually own the game. It can never been taken away. "Purchases" digital downloads is only paying for a rental fee.

You're only ever paying for a license regardless of your purchase format. Hypothetically, they have just as much legal right to revoke your license to a physical game as to a digital one. Obviously, it's significantly less practically possible to enforce such a revocation for a physical game than for a digital one, but legally, they're no different. Continuing to play a physical copy after having your license revoked is no less illegal than playing a pirated digital copy, as much as it seems better because all they can really do is say "don't play that anymore."

Of course, that's largely a moot point because that almost never happens. As much as people are paranoid about digital games being taken away, it's far, far more common for people to lose physical games to theft, fire, or any other manner of physical destruction than for digital games to be revoked.

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Mead posted...

I think pretty much everyone ignores it too

Which is mostly a consequence of going overboard in execution. When you routinely tell people things they know are harmless are harmful, they stop listening to you.

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mrduckbear posted...

Some said during CPR, his BONES could be heard to crack as chest compressions were carried out before he started turning blue

That might not actually have been his bones. Breaking ribs during CPR isn't uncommon, but it's also pretty common for the cartilage around the ribs to make a cracking noise for pretty much the same reason you can crack your knuckles.

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Artificial, main one doesn't have lights. We used to do a real one, but my youngest sister developed very severe asthma shortly after she was born and having a real tree indoors triggered that, and we decided we liked having her breathe more than having a real tree.

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Joe_Biden posted...

well maybe in star wars one year is like four our years

This is possible, but it still doesn't explain how the Jedi have become so completely forgotten when they were so prominent within living memory. Disney's Atlantis ran into the same issue: They tried to claim that the Atlanteans had forgotten their entire history and written language, despite that history and the written language's use having happened very comfortably within most of their lifespans (not just "old people were there," pretty much everyone in the city that wasn't already elderly when the calamity struck was still alive).

People forgetting their history is one thing, and perfectly plausible, but the degree to which the Jedi had vanished from the public memory is more in line with the passage of several generations, not the amount of time it takes for Luke to go from being a newborn to a young adult.

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RampageHowl posted...

If $1200 is gonna make or break you, you've done goofed in life. That will help through a month maybe 2, now what?

A month or two can be the difference between being able to afford rent until work starts up again and ending up jobless on a long-term basis because being homeless means you can't meet the necessary personal hygiene standards to remain employed.

RampageHowl posted...

As to the question, no. I'm a big boy and I don't need big brother watching over my back telling me what I need or don't need to do.

If you're going to choose to not get vaccinated, then apparently you do. That's not a very sensible, big boy decision, after all.

jkdarlow posted...

Not to mention some of these vaccines are only 90% effective, whats the other 10% of the vaccine then, must be a nanobot or something, proper fishy to me.

RNA that degrades before it can be translated, an immune system that just randomly doesn't mount an adequate immune response, translation errors resulting in viral proteins that don't match the wild-type ones, infections by variant strains that aren't vaccinated against... It's not that 10% of the vaccines are secretly tiny robots and not real vaccines (if they were putting microscopic robots in, they could fit them in an actual vaccine just as well as they could in a bottle of saline), it's that 10% of vaccinated people still end up infected.

RampageHowl posted...

Because driving to work has a greater chance of death than corona.

People like saying this, but they never actually provide the statistics on it. Would you care to break that trend? To do so, you'll need statistics on automobile fatalities per million miles driven and the average commute length, then dividing one by the other will give you the approximate chance of dying as a result of driving to work. That should be easy to compare to Covid's fatality rate.

Of course, I feel that I should warn you that the result of that division is likely to be several orders of magnitude smaller than Covid's CFR, so there's a very strong chance you'll waste your time by doing that. But hey, that's just the price of making empirical claims without backing them up with empirical data. You really only have yourself to blame for that.

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ScritchOwl posted...

3. Selling anything under a widly used name that is not close to the item (callling an poached egg in broth egg drop soup) or selling rock lobster as main lobster, or saing you are using romaine lettuce but using iceberg)

Depending on where you are, that may be full-on-illegal. "Egg drop soup," less so, since there's some room for interpretation, but if they claim to be using one ingredient when they use something different (usually cheaper), that's false advertising.

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Zeus posted...

Which I guess you could also chalk up to there not being enough of a plan originally being in place so that things would be better reflected in the OT's story. That or they needed to *really* scale back the PT.

Pretty much. Lucas was very much making it up as he went along with little regard for inconsistencies like that. Realistically, given the size of the Empire and the degree to which the Jedi had vanished from the public memory, if the goal of the PT was really to tell the story of Anakin's fall, the Jedi should already have been near extinction and the Empire should already have been well established. Having both of those things happen within a mere 20 years just isn't that plausible.

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ScritchOwl posted...

I mean I have never had a dried apple with gluten

You might be surprised. Flour ends up in a ton of stuff, due to how incredibly useful its various physical properties are. Pieces of apple may have been dredged in flour before being dried to keep them from sticking together, for example, which would leave residual gluten (and for particularly sensitive people that actually have celiac disease, that's enough to be a problem).

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Mead posted...

So a snow blower sucks up snow and shoots it somewhere else?

thats more of a snow sucker

They're sometimes called "snow throwers" instead. Either works, I feel.

SunWuKung420 posted...

You could use a leaf blower on loose, unpacked snow.

Usually, if you're doing that, you want a blower that's designed for that purpose. Operating a regular leaf blower in winter temperatures can be very bad for them.

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Zeus posted...

At the start of ANH (the first SW film), the Jedi Order is basically dead, so they aren't very OP. At that point, people are amazed that any Jedi still exist, despite the fact that like 20 years earlier they were common and had a peace-keeping organization that stretched throughout the galaxy.

The time scale on that really is kind of odd. The galaxy has pretty much forgotten everything about the Jedi despite the fact that the Jedi were a very big deal within living memory. Sure, they were all but wiped out and no longer have a significant presence, and the Empire didn't exactly do much to keep their memory alive, but that'd be like none of us knowing that the Soviet Union was a thing.

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Shoregrey posted...

I cured both myself and my dad's covid symptoms in 24 hours. I have beeen using this cocktail for 20 years and the overage legnth of my colds are 10-36 hours.

n=2, no control group (placebo or otherwise), an outcome that most infected people see anyway...

I have no difficulty believing that taking immune-boosting stuff can help with the body's immune response (though whether beyond what can be achieved through simple good nutrition, I'm not sure), but suggesting based on your personal anecdotal experiences that taking supplements means one has no need to worry about Covid is just plain absurd.

Shoregrey posted...

More viral, less deadly. Virology 101.

Yes and no. Broadly, killing the host is bad for viral spread, because then the host stops spreading it. Covid's spread, however, is not currently limited by the death of its host, but by our artificial efforts to limit it by isolating infected people. For covid to improve its virulence, it needs to extend the asymptomatic transmission period so our current measures (2-week isolation) still let some contagious people through. There's currently no selective pressure on Covid that would encourage it to be less deadly, so there's no reason to expect it to evolve that way.

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Ogurisama posted...

Switch had issues earlier this year between March and June.

Manufacturing issues aside, the Switch also hit a huge, unexpected spike in demand in that period. Animal Crossing launched at pretty much the perfect time, just as people were getting locked down and really needed something comforting and lighthearted to pass the free time they suddenly had, and it ended up being a major system-seller as a result. That demand was also unusually skewed in favour of the regular model because relatively few people were spending enough time outside of the house to justify the portable-focused Lite, hence there were so many stories of stores selling out of regular Switches while having shelves full of Lites.

I'm sure there were also manufacturing problems, because it's 2020, but increased demand also played a major role there.

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Especially less than a year after it came out. Usually that kind of revisionism takes quite a bit longer.

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Joe_Biden posted...

do

do you think a first offense dui means you go to prison

she got probation, which is normal for this

Pretty much. It was a DUI with actual damage (as distinct from just failing a breathalyzer after being pulled over), which are generally treated much more harshly, but where it was a single-vehicle accident that didn't harm anyone else or damage anyone else's property, I'm not surprised that didn't happen here. Probation with a license suspension, fine, and community service is actually quite normal for such an offence. If anything, I'm surprise she got such a harsh sentence, given the track record for rich/famous people and DUI's.

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Consoles? Probably not. Consoles are genuinely hard to produce in large quantities, and launch demand is often higher than is feasible to meet. There's little benefit in creating an artificial shortage there, particularly where having a larger install base gives a competitive edge in today's multiplat-heavy world and opens the door to so much more money from game sales.

Other products? Absolutely. Stuff like the NES/SNES Classic and Amiibos are much easier to produce plenty of, and there's plenty of room to generate extra demand by doing more limited productions runs, not unlike what often happens with any given year's "hot Christmas toy," or the Disney Vault. Some of that still boils down to having difficulty predicting just how many will sell and not wanting to overproduce and leave stock sitting in warehouses, but there's almost certainly a deliberate element in there. Just look at Mario 3D All Stars for a clear-cut example: Nintendo's cutting off digital sales at the end of March. There's no genuine shortage of the digital product or concerns about overproducing it (since it can literally be replicated infinitely on demand); that limit to its availability is 100% an artificial decision to capitalize on people's fear of not being able to get the product later to drive up demand.

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Mead posted...

they can deny my foot up their ass

If there's room for it next to their head.

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peanutt121 posted...

I can't seem to find one doing a search. Just put your mask as high on your face as you can and then place your glasses about 1/4 inch down from the top of your mask, on the outside, thereby creating a seal of sorts. Your glasses should only be touching the mask and not your nose skin. This works just fine for me but I have a habit of wearing my glasses lower on my nose than most people do.

Pretty much, just go full librarian with your glasses and you'll at least be a bit better off, if not actually fine.

LinkPizza posted...

Then that means theres literally nothing I can do as I dont control my subconscious. So, the end result is I still cant breath well while wearing the masks...

Eh, yes and no. You won't be able to just say "I don't actually feel this way" and stop having troubles, but you may be able to train yourself out of that response by consciously making yourself breathe normally whenever you notice you're breathing heavily and reminding yourself that there's no reason to feel like you aren't getting enough air. It's not perfect, and it'll take time, but you should eventually get more comfortable with it.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Switch Lite users would riot

Maybe they could make it so that setting the Lite down on a table would count as docking it. That'd do the job.

Alternatively, I'm sure both of them will get over it.

Blightzkrieg posted...

They literally scrapped the whole game and started development over with a new studio

It's gonna be a fucking trashfire

I don't doubt that Retro will do a decent job with it, but given that the handover happened nearly two years ago and we've heard nothing since, I think it could be a while yet (especially where one of those years has very much thrown a wrench into international collaborations). Presumably, Retro wasn't able to immediately jump into development as soon as the announcement came, but it's still quite a while to hear nothing.

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Frankly, anyone too stupid to wear a seatbelt is too stupid to belong on the road. I'm fine with legislating the matter accordingly.

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What if it was Metroid Prime 4 when the Switch is docked but then it turned into Metroid Fusion 2 when you switch to handheld mode?

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Eh, I'd say pole fitness has already done a pretty good job of cementing itself in modern culture as being more than just a thing for strippers. By the time your kids are old enough to care, I doubt the association will be strong enough for them to care.

That said, you're basically obligated to weird your kids out whenever possible, so if anything, I'd say a stripper pole is a valuable asset for that, not something to worry about.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

what about my safety? it's a new vaccine w/o thoroughly documented side effects.

By the time any of this becomes an issue (heck, by the time you're even eligible for it, since I'm guessing you're not exactly high-priority), several million people will have been vaccinated before you. That's a thorough enough trial to be reasonable certain it won't hurt you.

DANTE20XX posted...

So you're saying we should start being like Japan and China (among other places) where people wear masks all the time if they believe they have a cold or suspect others might? They've done that for a long time.

*Shrug* It probably won't happen, but colds are also significantly less dangerous than Covid. It won't surprise me at all if wearing masks during flu season becomes a lot more common, particularly once we have clear data on how much milder it makes this flu season, but I doubt it'll ever become as commonplace as it is in East Asia, given how strongly so much of the US has resisted wearing them for a far more serious health concern. Many Americans have very explicitly proclaimed that they don't care about giving other people colds.

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It worked reasonably well most of the time, and I'm not really sure how they could have done it better except to tone down the visuals enough to be able to load more rooms simultaneously (I certainly wouldn't prefer an actual load screen between rooms), or possibly introduce more hallways between rooms to act as quasi-loading screens (which makes for more awkward, unpleasant level design). The occasional wait in front of an unresponsive door was pretty bothersome, though.

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ImperialScrolls posted...

My body my choice.

So long as it is just your body, sure. Start breathing into other people's air, though, and you should expect to have to follow some guidelines to ensure you don't hurt them by doing so.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Neurons function by conducting electrical impulses.

Electrochemical impulses*

You don't just have actual electricity flowing around in there. You have sodium and potassium (and calcium, in the case of muscles) crossing axon membranes to create voltage differences that trigger the release of whatever chemical messengers correspond to that neuron. It wouldn't be completely impossible to create a device that could tap into that potential difference to draw power from it (that is, after all, roughly how batteries work), but you'd be extremely hard pressed to do so without interfering with normal nerve function, and you definitely can't just inject such a device into the bloodstream and hope it ends up attached to exactly the right spot on a neuron.

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TaKun782 posted...

Thing is though, how could you even prove you had it done before you enter into a place and so on?

Presumably by giving people some manner of vaccination card to show as proof of vaccination. That's likely to run into counterfeiting issues, though (because there's no shortage of people that would literally rather buy a black market proof of vaccination card than just get the vaccine and do their part for public safety, because 'Murica), and I'm not sure how to handle that for people who legitimately can't be vaccinated (allergies, immunocompromise...).

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Cacciato posted...

I never played Metroid Prime, but in this one you can run or drive up to them and theyre just there stuck in PS2 graphics mode until the game catches up. Wont even open until then.

Metroid Prime used doors as a means of buffering its load times. In general, you opened doors by shooting them, at which point they'd stop glowing and open whenever you got close enough to them. Every now and then, though, the room wouldn't finish loading by the time you got to the door, so you'd just run awkwardly into it and have to wait a few seconds for it to open. There were definitely times this got me - if not outright killed - more damaged than I would have liked because I was trying to just run past enemies and had to wait in a rather vulnerable spot for a few seconds because the door was slow.

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Arcturusisnow posted...

Except you are ever so slightly wrong. My county health department told me that, yes the antibodies last only a few months, but the B-Cells that are also created are what do the most work and they last quite a bit longer if not forever. The B-Cells create new antibodies when the disease rears it's ugly head again.

That is the hope. The B-cells are lasting substantially longer than the antibodies, so people are hoping that will lead to longer-term immunity, though we have already seen recovered patients being infected a second time. Part of the longitudinal follow-up for vaccine trial participants will include administering a sample of viral proteins to see if they can mount an antibody response to it even after their serum antibodies have faded.

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Judgmenl posted...

Yup they are, impatient little fucks.

Honestly, it doesn't sound like further delays would have fixed the problems, at least not without going so far as to Duke Nukem Forever it and make everyone stop caring. Yes, they would have faced a fan backlash if they pushed it back another year, and even more of a shareholder backlash (which they care about a whole lot more than interwebs people), but it sounds like it would still have been a substantial effort to put out a complete game that quickly.

Cacciato posted...

the most annoying one: running to an objective and getting there before everythings loaded in so Im all of a sudden surrounded by enemies. Ive learned to stop a couple hundred feet away and give it a second to load in.

Flashbacks to some of the doors in Metroid Prime >.>

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

Does that mean call of duty and league of legends can be considered fighting games?

LoL, no, because the combat system generally aligns more with what one expects from an RTS than an action game (although there's a case to be made that it's a subset of ARPG). CoD, maybe, but the PvP in question is generally presumed to be 1v1 (or at the very least, on a smaller scale), which CoD generally is not.

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MartianManchild posted...

Now that really leads to the next question. If we are only getting 3 months of natural immunity, how is a vaccine going to be any better?

Vaccines have a number of ways to effect longer-lasting immunity than a natural infection. You may have seen the term "adjuvant" thrown around in other discussions of vaccines. That refers broadly to chemicals that are added to the mixture to promote a longer-lasting immune response (the details of which, I don't have). The body's also generally in a better position to develop immunity when it isn't actively fighting an infection (since that diverts a lot of resources). One of the most common ways to make immunity last a long time, though, is to give multiple doses. You got several copies of most of your infant/toddler vaccines, Hep B is delivered in 3 shots, HPV is 2, you get a tetanus booster every 10 years... There's ample precedent for using multiple doses and booster shots to maintain immunity, and the current Covid vaccine is no exception (you get two shots, 4 weeks apart).

MartianManchild posted...

Is everyone going to have to be getting vaccines every three months for the rest of our lives to effectively control this thing?

That remains to be seen. My understanding is that the current vaccine is lasting longer than 3 months, but there's no way to know just how long it will last without actually waiting it out (aside from extrapolating antibody counts once they start to decline, but that can still take a while). There's a good chance that we'll need regular booster shots to maintain long-term immunity, but that may not be the case and/or another vaccine candidate will end up lasting longer and taking over from this first one (vaccinating everyone in the world multiple times a year simply isn't a practical long-term solution and there will therefore be plenty of demand driving the development of something better).

Of course, there's also the fact that vaccines won't be necessary if the virus is eradicated. Even if we need doses every 3 months to maintain immunity, we really only have to sustain that long enough for the world to hit 0 cases. If we start seeing mutations that bypass that immunity (as with influenza), that may stop being a viable goal, but most of the vaccine candidates are being designed so they can be repurposed for different coronaviruses if a different one springs up. Really, we'll just have to wait and see.

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Mandatory in the sense of "if you don't get it we'll break into your house and hold you down while we forcibly administer it"? No. Mandatory in the sense of "you need proof of vaccination to do anything in public once distancing/mask restrictions are lifted"? That's more reasonable.

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Smarkil posted...

But that's what I don't understand about the decision. Why would Visa need a PR move?

That is a good question. It's not like Visa or Mastercard really need to promote themselves. It may actually be that they were concerned about being held legally liable once the issue was brought out into the public eye, which is fair. Distancing themselves from it at least demonstrates that they are unwilling to continue supporting such content, which could work in their favour if it comes to convincing a jury that they weren't complicit.

Smarkil posted...

If that's what ends up happening to Visa/MC as a result of this then they made an enormous f***ing mistake. So they better hope it doesn't go that way.

If it does, it was going to happen regardless of this particular incident.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

sure, people set their expectations for games way too high but in this case, its because the devs released a broken pile of shit

This particular issue is completely CDPR's fault. The community's disappointment, however - up to and including physically assaulting a reviewer who dared to criticize one aspect of the game pre-launch (the blatant seizure triggers) - was also a consequence of overhyping it. Overhyping it is also part of why CDPR overextended themselves so much, since they knew they had very lofty expectations to live up to.

At the end of the day, yeah, CDPR delivered something barely functional and that's on them, as is this refund debacle, but overhyping was definitely a major issue with this game.

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Smash, Arms (unusual controls or not, it's absolutely a "real fighting game"), and Pokken Tournament (Bamco developed that one, so it's not actually first-party, but I'd count it).

Krow_Incarnate posted...

There is no discernible reason to group it together with the like of the aforementioned games because it hardly shared anything in common with them that isn't shared among all action games to some degree.

The only meaningful distinction between fighting games and action games is a focus on PvP. Everything else you listed is just a consequence of most of the genre's devs having no imagination beyond "let's clone Street Fighter because people liked that one" and fans eating it up because they also lack such imagination.

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You never get monetary gifts back, either. The best you can do is replace them with different money.

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Clench281 posted...

I don't get this argument. I mean, I still wear underwear

Fortunately, not covering your nose and mouth with your underwear is relatively socially acceptable.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

Winter literally seething in jealousy at the thought of x rays burying themselves in Jen's chest

Short-wavelength electromagnetic radiation getting to second base before he does.

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AWinterJ posted...

You mean your ex that you couldn't keep away from? Yeah. Whatever the case you deserve this.

U mad.

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