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Looking at the CDC about 1 million Americans would have died over the last four months (in a normal year), wouldn't that give an error of around 14k or am I misunderstanding your formula?

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Yeah, despite Leon's protests, a series contest will likely happen sooner than later. However, we'll likely see a 64 entrant bracket so a lot of fodder will still make the bracket.

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From my experience, cause of death is a lot more complicated than one would think and the factors related to it can be numerous.

Using the terminal cancer example. Sure, the patient was going to die soon, but COVID-19 could have hasten their death. On the flip side, people die from secondary infections so technically you could argue that it wasn't COVID-19 that did it.

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shane15 posted...

I thought FF was doing alright and then i remembered Mario and Metroid are in the poll.

I mean, Zelda won with the same competition two years ago so there's been an uptick for Final Fantasy.

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Pretty much, what makes it worse is each nation (or even each province/state) measures differently so even the inaccuracies are in varying degrees. It's this gap in knowledge that's preventing places from properly opening/closing up so the hospital system are not overflowing.

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swirIdude posted...

BGE 2025 is going to be a contest full of heavy hitters.

Yeah, just picking 128 games is going to lead to a bunch of snubs. For example, comparing it to the last two game of the decade contests it would be like if they were 32 game contests.

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Yeah, same thing happened in Italy back in March. They closed a small area so people went to other areas, bringing the disease with them.

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Corrik7 posted...

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/health/spain-coronavirus-antibody-study-lancet-intl/index.html

Okay this is CNN so I want to unpack from the actual article and just focus on the numbers.

5% of the population has antibodies. Let's start there.

Spain's population is like 47-50 million.

Spain has approximately 250k confirmed cases.

For 5% of their population to have antibodies... It means that 2.35 million people in Spain have had the virus.

Now, we also have another study that says antibody presence to tests fades quickly but that the immunity remains achieved within tcells regardless of antibodies showing.

Thus, there may be even MORE than this amount that have had the virus.

So 2.35 million+ and 250k confirmed cases. That means only 10.6% of the cases were confirmed that existed (at most). Thus for every confirmed case likely another 9 went undiagnosed.

At least.

I mean Spain has around a 10% mortality rate so it's quite clear they are either only testing vulnerable people or people who are quite sick. The adjustment puts the mortality rate at just under 1% which is more in line with the 0.3%-1% death rate that's been estimated...

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SmartMuffin posted...

https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1280254674449436672

I don't know who that is, but I'm hoping he's making a correlation =/= causation joke to bait dumb people.

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Yeah, comparing other countries is more difficult because everyone measures tests differently. Heck even in different places within the country things are measured differently.

For my area, the stat I look at is hospital capacity.

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Fewer people with the disease for one thing. India for example didn't start spiking until recently and could very well overtake the United States once this is all done with. The United States was unlucky and handled the situation poorly, that's sometimes how life is.

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Yeah, poor people being more likely to get sick and die isn't a mind-blowing revelation, even before COVID-19.

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Super Mario 64 DS if you want to get technical...

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Just got the game. I picked the island that has the rivers creating an island in the middle along with three land masses surrounding it. The downside is I'm initially stuck on the bottom left part. The good news is the new update allows me to swim so I'm currently building the museum on the bottom right section so I don't overcrowd my starting area. Still need to wait for a ladder to travel everywhere.

I was also taunted with a balloon package before I bought a slingshot...

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My dad is a hoarder too. Good thing he's to cheap to ever consider buying a storage unit.

Though I wouldn't put it past him to buy an apartment to store everything...

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CoolCly posted...

I mentioned to my dad that it'll probably become illegal for a human to drive a car at some point, like maybe it will be awhile like in 50 years or 100 years but it will happen, and he thinks i am totally insane.

I think he just hasn't thought about it.

I mean we have the technology where if humans stopped driving, driverless cars would perform just fine.

The issue is converting everyone to a driverless car at the same time.

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mnkboy907 posted...

I think I can safely say this is the only time I've owned a shiny version of a Pokemon before the standard version.

I found a shiny Karrablast in White as my first encounter in the route it was found.

That was pretty fun, too bad the Pokedex showed a normal looking one though.

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Only thing I can think of is that the combination of paralysis and speed drops contained a miscalculation. So instead of...

Speed * (2/4)[stat drops] * (1/4)[paralysis]

It was for example calculated as

Speed * (2/4)[stat drops] / (1/4)[paralysis]

You would have to look at the game code for the true calculation.

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That's mostly due to the competition. Without the backlash, TLOU2 would probably be a strong second place.

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Yeah, being the best doesn't mean you're the fastest.

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LeonhartFour posted...

I like Virtua Fighter, but why add Akira when you already have Ryu, Ken, and Terry?

To give Smash Bros. more "fighting game" cred.

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And that's because of Tancent and not a moderator on a power trip?

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While true, it's behind more than 9 other N64 games

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They replaced Conker's Bad Fur Day and Perfect Dark with Donkey Kong 64 and Pokemon Snap.

I imagine Snap is only on there due to the announcement of the sequel.

Mario Kart 64 and Star Fox 64 are the notable games to have yet to appear in this poll. After that we are in niche fanbase territory.

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World Number 1, Djokovic has tested positive and is the 4th player to test positive after his Adria Tour exhibition tournament.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/tennis/tennis-novak-djokovic-coronavirus-positive-test-1.5623347

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Underleveled posted...

I'm surprised Pit isn't up there. I seem to remember him being in quite a few.

He was in Palutena's and Duck Hunt's

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Pretty much, I didn't know what to do with them so I only considered the title card to be their trailer...

Same with Daisy and Dark Samus.

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Went through the trailers for Smash 4 and Ultimate. I only counted the "trailer part" and not the "gameplay part." Also trailers where multiple characters were revealed (e.g. Charizard & Greninja) were only counted once.

Additionally I only counted Mario and Link for the Inkling trailer (along with Inkling of course) as they were the only characters visible while the others were silhouettes.

The Top 5
1. Mario - 14
2. Link - 12
3. Kirby - 8
4. Samus - 7
5. Bowser - 6
5. Donkey Kong - 6

Also the following have yet to appear in a trailer: Dr. Mario, Ice Climbers, Ike, Jigglypuff, Lucario, Ness, Pichu, R.O.B., Shiek, Solid Snake, Squirtle, Toon Link, Young Link.

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Well Kirby is the main character of Super Smash Bros.

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So the hot spots are currently, South America, South Asia and... South Africa

I'm sensing a pattern

Yes I know USA, Russia and the Middle East are also hot spots...

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Yesmar_ posted...

I'm still mystified as to why Hot Coffee was somehow AO worthy.

Mostly media backlash, it was a time when people like Jack Thompson were at their anti-video game height in the mid 2000s.

Safer_777 posted...

So I still don't get it but whatever. You have a game where you can saw people in half but M rating. But if you saw someone having sex or having huge nudity but nobody get's hurt it is AO rating.
If USA was a conservative country(like most Middle East Countries for example)I would understand it. But we are talking about a country that produces the most porn on the world and there are so many groups fighting to have people beeing naked on their home and stuff like that.
So yeah.

The United States is a big enough country where it can be hyper-sexualization and anti-sex at the same time. It's the same thing with alcohol.

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Adults only are games which features nudity. There's probably other things, like gambling with real money I imagine would be rated AO.

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Advokaiser posted...

No, I mean, literally no one has said: "No more Pokmon, please! We have too many already!".

Pokemon has the benefit of being one of the largest series so everyone kind of expects them to have more representatives. It also helps that the Pokemon have been more unique than the Fire Emblem characters

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ZeldaTPLink posted...

Is this the only place in the internet where Crono would beat Waluigi in this poll?

Maybe places that anti-vote Waluigi?

Are there any other websites that is mostly populated with 30+ year old gamers?

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I mean there are thousands of Nintendo characters you could add, but we have reached the point of diminishing returns. Anything that isn't a brand new creation is simply throwing a bone to a small fanbase.

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Yeah, Waluigi is pretty much a meme. It also helps that he's the only Nintendo option in that poll.

Personally the next Mario character I want is Paper Mario, but at this point we are scraping the bottom of the barrel for non-third party characters for Smash so I'm pretty neutral on Waluigi.

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I imagine GameFAQs does not have a "complete gaming experience" in regards to newer games

The more I look at Atari's performance the more "Other" is making sense. The Atari 2600 had around a 75% market share which would translate to around 5-6% performance here.

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Little Mac, but that's because I thought we were talking about an in-game tier list.

Contest-wise I think it will be Alph. Popo/Nana and the Mii Fighters have enough joke votes to avoid being last IMO.

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AxemRedRanger posted...

So how would people interpret Other's continual strong performance in this poll every time it's run?
If even Microsoft is under 1%, it strongly suggests nothing from this millennium could be contributing anything noteworthy to Other.
Atari doing so well means I could maybe buy about half of Other being from its pre-crash console competitors. But what else is there that mattered at all that the other options don't cover? At that point you're left with total dregs.
I think the real answer is probably that many people aren't interpreting "video game system" to necessarily mean "video game console." Other is doing extremely well in the U.K. and I know their early home gaming scene was dominated by home computers of the era like the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.

Another option is the various handheld systems released over the years

Advokaiser posted...

What is a NEC?

TurboGrafx-16

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Yeah, I usually split the game based on whether you were required to defeat Bowser in order to reach it.

With that logic I tend to combine TTC/RR with the rest of the second floor.

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I mean you can do that without having students at the school.

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HaRRicH posted...

Tick Tock Clock is over-rated, but one of my favorite things to do in that level is climb all the way to the top star when the clock is completely stopped. That self-imposed challenge gets points from me.

When I was young, the only way I could get to the top was if the clock was stopped.

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LiquidOshawott posted...

This is gonna be a super controversial list get ready

5 > 2 > 8 > 1 > 6 > 3 > 7 > 4

That's not too controversial if you take an overall poll from the Pokemon fanbase, maybe 8 is too high

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Corrik7 posted...

The biggest thing there that is interesting is schools reopening. While many states have bars and gyms and such already reopened or about to, schools is the one that many others don't yet.

Yeah schools opening are a bit weird since summer vacation is almost here. Might as well wait until September.

The only exception that makes sense would be for final exams required to go to university

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

I think at some point they slightly pivoted from the idea that theres only one of most legendary Pokmon and instead theyre just super uncommon. I took a look at Articunos bulbapedia page and it seems theres been two different Articunos in the anime.

I always thought the anime went the "multiple but rare" route, especially since there was a baby Lugia in one episode.

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Safer_777 posted...

But I thought that each Area has its unique legendaries. For example the Birts are in Kando. The Gerbils are in Johto. And so on.

That hasn't been true since gen III as the gerbils were in Kanto.

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mnkboy907 posted...

It's only from looking at the Worldometer charts that I learned Bangladesh is a country and not a city (I guess I thought it was in India or Thailand?). After that I looked on the map, and wow, 165 million people is a lot for that space.

It was part of Pakistan after India and Pakistan split, but it's been independent since the 1970s.

Also yeah, it's the 6th most dense nation of the world and the five ahead of it (Monaco, Singapore, Bahrain, Malta and Maldives) are all tiny in terms of area (less than 1000 square kilometers vs. Bangladesh's 144,000)

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To be fair the last contest had more matches, but even adjusting for that, 2018 would have still had 160 pages.

Good work

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PrinceOfKoopas posted...

So it's "all third-party developers are indies"?

Pretty much (at least with this argument).

Though in all seriousness, where do we draw the line? When a company has a certain amount of employees? revenue? games made?

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PrinceOfKoopas posted...

Based on what kind of argument?

They aren't (or not funded by) Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony.

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