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HannibalBarca3 posted...

How do I get a bridge? I'm locked out of 2/3rds of the island due to a lack of a bridge

You get a vaulting pole from Blathers pretty early on (I think just as soon as he shows up in the tent?) and can cross rivers from that.

You can place a single bridge a bit after that. Nook will ask you about it.

You can build bridges freely (well, not "free", they cost money, but whenever you want) after about a week.

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https://twitter.com/ZachStafford/status/1243534669607567360

Some ill-worded pointless amusement during this stressful time. I know it's not strictly related or important, but I laughed.

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CellBlock7 posted...

I'll bet my account this doesn't pass.

My bet would be on this going back and forth until either the crisis is basically over, or they settle on something mediocre like $500 per family that really accomplishes nothing.

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I kinda hate this just because it's close enough for me to imagine it, and yet I realistically know that it won't pass.

I have $10k~ left to pay off, and the idea of that being erased sounds amazing. Just removing the monthly payments would be a really big burden lifted, but I know that it'll never happen.

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Corrik7 posted...

https://mobile.twitter.com/HeidiNBC/status/1242238268277755905

Man and woman ingest FISH TANK CLEANER because it says "chloroquine" in one of the many ingredients. Man dies. Woman hospitalized. Woman now blaming Trump for her husband's death.

Lmfao.

What they did was obviously very dumb.

However, it should be a lesson to Trump that his words have weight, and that he shouldn't be brazenly throwing out alleged cures in a time when people are scared and confused. There are a lot of people who follow him extremely closely, and stuff like this was bound to happen when he explicitly touted this as a cure.

Obviously it isn't solely his fault, and the couple did something extremely stupid...but nonetheless, he should really realize that, as a leader with a fairly dedicated following, he really shouldn't be promoting untested and potentially dangerous things like this. I don't think it's that unreasonable to say that Trump should be more responsible in what he advocates for.

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Maddening/Classic life for sure.

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Antifar posted...

I can't believe everybody's cousin's best friend's wife who works at the CDC/Army/National Guard was wrong about an impending national lockdown.

I'll own up to posting something along these lines here a few days ago.

With that said, my state has started localized lockdowns, so I think that that's the info I heard.

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Yeah, it's really bad. It devolved into cheap, quick, and trashy as fuck reality shows. The channel is basically the opposite of learning.

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Amazing games, and my favorite series ever.

I disagree with people who say that the newer games are bad. 4 wasn't great, but 5 was solid and 6 was amazing. AAI2 is super top tier as well.

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I have like 11k left. The idea of that almost all being erased in one go sounds so incredible

Sadly, I'm sure that this will go nowhere.

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pokemon2poker posted...

Haven't seen you in forever. I hope you finally watched Fiji. You'll the time for that soon if you haven't.

I actually still haven't. I've kept up with new seasons, but I've been super lazy about rewatches or watching older seasons or anything lately. I really should, though.

EverDownward posted...

that's a thing that's been going around for about a week now, everybody receiving texts saying "a friend of a friend" higher up somewhere saying the lockdown is coming and to prepare. how do you know your sister didn't get this text, and then passed it on to you?

I'll concede that it's entirely possible, but I'd also imagine that her job would give her some kind of warning in advance of something like that, so I do take it at least somewhat seriously. It's not guaranteed by any means for sure, but I thought it was at least worth passing along that I've heard it from a source who may very well have a bit more inside info.

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I know that this rumor has been circulated a few times, but I've heard that the federal government is talking about shutting down and/or doing a lockdown for 2~ weeks.

My source is my sister, who works for a state prison, and thus does have some slight inside info there. It could very well be another baseless rumor, but she called my family to warn us to stock up a bit more based on that. I thought it might be worth passing on.

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It really is crazy.

It seems like pretty much every conversation now is about the virus.

Talk to someone and the immediate topic of discussion is "How many new cases are there", "how many deaths have there been", "how close is it to us", or "what else is shutting down."

Someone compared it to that Twilight Zone episode with the world ending due to drifting towards the sun (except jk it was a dream and it's going the opposite, but you know), and yeah, it does feel like that.

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You'd think that this would be illegal as fuck, but I somehow see him getting away with this on some technicality that somehow makes it just slightly off of qualifying as insider trading.

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Fucking ghouls. Jesus.

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It's this or 9/11 for sure.

Tough to say which is ultimately bigger. 9/11 was more of a seismic all at once impact, whereas the coronavirus is more of a sustained degradation of things as the situation worsens day by day. It's hard to ultimately compare the two.

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Gheb posted...

I was actually supposed to go to Springfield later this week, but company firm is doing mandatory work from home until I hear otherwise. I was kinda looking forward to Springfield Brewing Company's mac & cheese. That shit is great.

I strongly suspect that Springfield has a fucking lot of cases, honestly.

There are only three confirmed there as of now, but from what I hear, the testing is staggeringly bad there. My mom works at a nursing home there, where they have a suspected case from a woman whose daughter was traveling out-of-country, visited her mom, and then her mom got really sick a few days later. They tried ordering a test for the woman, but they were not able to secure one. As big as Springfield is, and for as bad as the testing has been, I think it's going to get hit really hard.

It's also a big hub for nearby towns (such as mine, 20~ minutes away), and I expect it to sweep through the entire region once it hits.

If you do end up going, be careful. I'm thinking that there are far more cases out there than the three that are currently being reported.

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Schools in my area (Springfield, MO area and towns nearby) are closing down until April. My niece and nephew were already on spring break this week, but it got extended until at least April 3rd.

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Outside, today.

Actually going somewhere, Saturday for my nephew's birthday party.

I work from home regularly anyway, so I'm not actually impacted that hard by the isolation stuff.

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krazychao5 posted...

Go to store now for SD card. Or just delete software you don't see yourself using in the near future.

Issue there is that the only place in town that sells them is Wal-Mart, and mine tends to carry cheaper brands that I'd rather not use as my sole SD card. I'm kinda iffy about it really.

I was actually at Best Buy the other day and I was looking at official Switch SD cards, and I considered snagging one just due to this precise situation, but I held off. I'm starting to regret it now, though.

As far as deleting stuff, I don't think I could delete enough to make room. Most of the stuff on my Switch is either stuff I play on and off (Mario Maker 2/Baba is You), stuff I haven't gotten to yet (Hollow Knight/two of the four Shovel Knight campaigns), and then Cuphead which I'm keeping on there while awaiting the DLC. There's also patches/DLC for stuff I play regularly like Three Houses/Smash, too, which I similarly don't want to delete.

...I also live in a nowhere town with 1.5 mbps net, so downloading things is a massive pain, and the idea of re-downloading everything is a huge pain. A lot of those took 6-8 hours each to download.

Not trying to make excuses, but physical is highly, highly preferable if at all possible. It's just a matter of if that's going to be possible by Friday or not.

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krazychao5 posted...

^^ why don't you want digital version of AC?

soulunison2 posted...

Do digital like I did

My Switch is too low on space to get it digitally without getting a new SD card. I considered doing that, but just transferring over/re-downloading everything sounds like a massive pain when I can just get it physically.

Honestly though, I probably would have just gone digital and gotten a new SD card a while back if I knew that things were going to get this bad.

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It's kind of jarring just how uncertain things are right now.

Animal Crossing is out on Friday, and I kind of landed on just picking it up in store (I don't have Amazon prime, so my options are "pay 10 bucks for shipping or wait a week", and neither sounds super appealing), but it's like...what are things even going to look like by Friday?

The situation changes rapidly day by day. My town currently has no confirmed cases, but a town twenty minutes from me, that's a massive hub of activity, has three, with a new case appearing basically every day. I strongly suspect that it's teetering on the cusp of a major outbreak, and once it hits there, it's going to hit here.

I legitimately don't know that it's going to be super safe to go out by Friday, depending on how things play out. I could also see some kind of lockdown happening by then if the situation keeps worsening.

It's just a bizarre feeling. Friday is just a few days away, but the world could look entirely different by then. I just want my AC. :(

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I honestly didn't know that one company owned all of those. I figured they were all owned by different groups. That company must be staggeringly rich.

But yeah, that's going to cripple Vegas's economy for a while. I'd imagine a lot of tourist towns are going to get slammed by this, really.

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I'm going to my nephew's birthday party at a bowling alley/arcade in like an hour, and I am a tiny bit anxious. There's only been one confirmed case in the town it's in (Springfield, MO), but I suspect that there will be way more soon.

I don't plan to bowl or anything, but it does seem like a pretty dicey place to visit right now.

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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Don't people there freak out over snow storms and blizzards?

Anyway I was lucky and found toilet paper and bought a couple of packages.

Also bought two 24pks of beer and some food.

Maybe it will last a week.

Don't know about next month or next year.

Soon production and transport of many things will stop because either they'll get locked down or the people who make and transport things will be dead and gone.

Nah, we don't get a ton of snow here. We rarely get a big storm or something, but it has never been this bad.

The worst I can remember is an ice storm from several years ago. Power lines froze over and broke, leaving several people without power in very cold temperatures for days if not weeks. That definitely got pretty bad, but I don't think the sheer hysteria hit the levels of what we're seeing now.

Oh, and we also regularly get tornadoes, but nobody really cares about those most of the time. They're such a regular occurrence that most people just kind of watch them for a bit without really worrying unless it's a special situation, like a big one hitting a town directly, such as with Joplin a number of years ago.

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I live in a really small town in Missouri, and supplies were already kind of low yesterday, with toilet paper being totally gone.

A case was confirmed very close to here shortly after that, too. I'd hate to even try to go shopping today.

Honestly, not to diminish the seriousness of the situation, but it is interesting to experience. I've never been through anything quite like all of this. Like I said, though, it is concerning to think that how things would go with an even worse situation.

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ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...

He is telling everyone he has corona

Trump could cough up a lung live on TV, and his administration would get some crazy ass doctor to release a report about how Trump is the most healthy person who ever lived and that his blood is the cure for corona and that he'll probably live to 300.

Trump is all about his tough guy image. No chance he admits to being sick. If he does get it, we'll probably never know unless it leaks.

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The worst of it hasn't even hit yet, and we have:

-Numerous major events being canceled.
-Businesses in danger already.
-The stock market in free fall.
-A huge upswing in racism.
-The virus dominating discussion in the news, in person, and online.
-Hoarding and scalping of supplies.
-Travel bans.
-Trouble distributing testing kits.
-Insurance companies showing their asses and trying to get out of covering patients for treatments relating to the virus.

It's genuinely fascinating just how hard and fast society was shaken by this. It honestly makes me wonder just how hard a more deadly event than this would hit. Not to downplay the effects of the virus by any means, especially among the elderly, but the vast majority of people who get the disease should be fine. If an even more deadly disease were to spread to similar degrees, it's kind of scary to think of just what might happen.

Perhaps I'm making light of the situation a bit too much, but just stepping back and look at how this is impacting society at large, it is honestly really interesting. It's tough to think of many events that have impacted things this much and this quickly.

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E32005 posted...

god he's such an idiot

what do numbers matter, donnie?

His #1 concern, by far, is how good he looks in all of this.

He has made it abundantly clear that he's willing to lie or generally skew info as long as it makes him look good. Keeping the confirmed number of cases on land lower is part of that, even if everyone knows that the situation is pretty damn bad. It's pretty much all about how he looks.

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Aside from various persistent side-y/daily games, I'm doing a second run of Three Houses (Blue Lions, maddening, no NG after a first run of Gold Deer/hard) and I started up OoT 3DS (not super super far in yet, just got to the fire dungeon, but only just started it a day or two ago).

Waiting for Animal Crossing in a few weeks, too.

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Bump.

I checked the Amazon Reddit, but it's quite dead. Most of the responses I've seen are all for Prime, so I'd like to try to get some confirmation, but it's a fairly specific situation.

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I don't really use Amazon much, and I almost never preorder anything, but I was thinking of trying to preorder something just due to general business around its release.

My big issue is in shipping. I saw individually that shipping is free for orders over $50, and that selecting two-day shipping on preorders will make it release date shipping, but I wasn't sure if those apply together to make it free release date shipping. I've tried looking it up, but pretty much every answer about shipping relates to Prime or just mentions the free two-day shipping for non-Prime members, but not if they work together. Most of my friends who order things regularly have Prime, too, so I haven't been able to confirm this.

Has anyone tried preordering with Amazon sans Prime, and had actual luck getting the item on release with free shipping?

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This sucks. Pete isn't perfect, but he'd be a way better candidate than Biden or Bloomberg by far. I know he was a longshot, but I was hoping that he would end up being the moderate pick over them.

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So_Hajile posted...

Extinction (3) was to be the last one, but it did well enough that they continued on. They solution to the issue of a desert planet and that there was a cure for all the zombies? Ignore it in the next one because, hey, 3D is now big again and they came up with a shotgun that shoots quarters.

These movies collapse when placed under any scrutiny while contained to just themselves (Chris kept in a cell since the outbreak makes zero sense, for example). When stacked against each other, it gets worse.

That honestly makes a ton of sense. I felt like the movies had a fairly clear sense of progression and in-universe consistency at first, but it felt like more instances of plot holes, retcons, and characters vanishing started occurring up after the third one. I could see that being the case for sure.

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p-m posted...

In a way yes, although really the Paul W.S Anderson directed ones are the most important. Basically they're a commentary on video games/video game logic and also the artificial nature of cinema. The plot is as coherent as it needs to be. The films are a lot more intelligent and worthwhile than some people (usually angry nerds who don't grasp the concept of an adaptation) make them out to be. I like them a lot but then I have absolutely no fondness for the Resident Evil games.

Can you expand upon that? I'd honestly love to hear more about that, because that sounds like an interesting angle to it.

Watching them casually made them feel incredibly disconnected to me, but I'd be interested to hear more about that view.

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I'll admit that I never saw any of the final movie (I read the plot summary, and it seemed awful, especially considering that the penultimate movie set up like five supporting characters who literally all get offscreen'd between movies), but it felt like anything beyond "Here's more zombies" kind of got chucked out after the third movie.

I'm still skeptical of any stronger plot elements there or significant direction between movies. Characters like the little girl from the second movie and K-Mart or whatever from the third just ended up seeming to vanish with no explanation given, and like I said, the whole desertification plotline seemed to get dropped too. It sort of feels like every movie exists in a vacuum with a few random returning characters and cameos in lieu of actual planned progression or development.

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I kind of saw them in bits and pieces scattered over several years on cable (supplemented with Wiki plot summaries), but as far as I can tell, there was absolutely nothing resembling a coherent plotline or direction after the first two or so movies.

Characters routinely disappeared and reappeared with no explanation, major deaths happened offscreen but then turned out to be fake or were just disregarded, characters were killed off en masse offscreen between movies, plotlines and arcs never really went anywhere, and major events seemed to be retconned for no reason, like the world becoming a giant desert over time in one of the movies seemingly not being a thing after that.

Was there an actual overarching plot beyond "Overpowered lady kills zombies" hidden in there? Because it kind of seems like there was no clear direction in the series whatsoever and that all of the movies just did their own things with no real regard for story. It's kind of impressive in a way tbh.

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https://gdconf.com/news/important-gdc-2020-update

Not shocking. Most major devs had already called it off.

The plan is to reschedule for some time in the summer.

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The fairy tale part is a highlight of TW3 for me, between the main game and both DLCs. I fucking loved it.

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I can never decide between I2-5, which I think is the best case on a strictly technical level of presenting a fucking awesome mystery with a great payoff for the game, and 3-5, which has the pure emotional payoff of three games of plotlines and character development.

My top 10 is:

1. I2-5 (tied)
2. 3-5 (tied)
3. 2-4
4. 6-5
5. 3-4
6. 5-5
7. I2-3
8. 2-2
9. 6-3
10. 4-1

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Both TW3 DLCs were great. HoS for story, B&W for gameplay.

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In universe, nah, it was a trial run that you're just left to infer didn't pan out.

Meta-wise, it was just kind of an awkward concept designed to setup the "gotcha" of being unable to finish the case but it not mattering. It's a lot of why I dislike 4-4, since the entire last court segment has almost no actual cross-examinations or anything.

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Hm, that's a shame. I'm not sure I'd want to play fan translations either tbh.

AAI2 is tied with AA3 as my favorite in the series, and the only reason I don't rank I2-5 over 3-5 as my favorite case in the series is that 3-5 had the pure emotional payoff of three games of plot and development. AAI2 is absolutely phenomenal, and the fan translation is good enough that you'd never notice that it isn't an official translation.

I honestly believe that any AA fan owes it to themselves to play AAI2. It's seriously amazing.

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American Dad.

First season sucked, it became decent after that, but it honestly found its stride more in the TBS era/recent years than anything else.

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I keep toying with the idea of making a serious effort at getting published, but I don't think I have the confidence for it. I finished my last novel several months ago, my friend read it and liked it (I don't have the money to hire a professional editor or anything, so it's the best I can do), and I kind of wrote out a basic query letter along with a synopsis and a longer summary, but I just feel too intimidated to go beyond that. I have very little confidence in my writing, so trying to put myself out there is a really daunting task.

I haven't done too much writing lately, either. I've been a bit too depressed to do much beyond a few very short (4-5~ pages) stories in almost a year now. I want to pick myself up out of that and to work on something longer again, but I haven't had much luck.

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Really tempted to jump on AI here, especially since it's already rare as fuck in stores, but I also really feel like I could wait it out and get it for a bit cheaper down the road.

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Ace Attorney.

If you count 4/5/6 as a second trilogy, I'd say it applies twice, though those aren't really a trilogy.

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A billion percent yes. It's my favorite series ever, and Ace Attorney 3 is tied as my favorite game of all time (with Ace Attorney Investigations 2). The series is excellent, and the Trilogy as a whole is a great deal, so half off is an absolute steal.

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Tour is absolute garbage all around. Gachas in general are greedy, but MKT took it several levels beyond that. Horrible, horrible game.

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Ehh, I've been catching up on stuff. The last Three Houses DLC drops soon, and SFV Championship Edition is out in a few days too. I might get both.

Past that, March and April have a lot, though I only personally plan to snag Animal Crossing right away from those.

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