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I could believe it ... neutraphils have proven to be resistant to bullets in vitro

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Of course being in complete renal failure my immune system is about as useful as a heater in a southern summer.

The biggest fear with the Kung Flu is that Scarlett works in a casino with recycled air, qnd a while bunch of random people visiting from all over the world. She could get the virus and pass it on to me, and I'm deader than Aerith in Final Fantasy VII.

Until this passes she's not even going to let me go into a grocery store, movie theater, or a restaurant. Hopefully, it doesn't spread to Mississippi.

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I didn't watch AEW Revolution, but I did watch Wednesday night Dynamite, and Cody; aka Stardust, aka Gravel Rhodes, now has this horrible neck tattoo.

I thought it was just Kinesiology tape at first, but then I realized it was a crappy neck tattoo. What the heck is os he doing to his body with that terrible tattoo? Heck, even MJF called him.out on the tattoo being terrible


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Kung Flu isn't that bad in the south, Florida is a fairly densely populated state with lots of old people and there's only like a dozen cases. It's gonna get a lot better once spring rolls in.

Also it looks like Cody's neck got stabbed by glass.

My mother's viewing is on Friday, and the funeral is noon on Monday. I'm dealing with it all surprisingly well, but she was ill for quite a while so I guess I'm just more mentally prepared than I was a year ago for my brother passing.

In more bad news; a flight from White Plains New York is set to arrive next week from the current quarantined area. They put my wife in charge of dealing with the flight and people. Hopefully, the flight is canceled, but it might be time for me to panic.

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They cancelled E3 over Covid 19.

At dialysis this morning I now have a mask waiting for me, and have to wash my hands before and after treatment. Also, my chest (where my access is) was wiped down with bleach water before being wiped down with alcohol before getting stuck.

It's not yet time to panic, but the CDC said that at least 70% of Americans will come in contact with Kung Flu. Not get sick, but still.

I'll leave it at that.

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I just want a real E3 again

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Some of the large colleges at my state have started to go to "online only" for the rest of the semester, I have a feeling mine will as well.

Oh yeah, the WHO declared it an Official Pandemic, so that's fun.

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March Madness is not going to have the madness because games will be played without fans at the various sites.

I went to sleep and woke up to more bad news.

Finally, The state of Missouri is telling Jim Baler to stop selling a a Conid 19 cure. A cure that clearly does not exist. So, there's that.

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I wasn't planning on going to Europe anyway, but now that I can't go, I suddenly really want to, maybe see the sights in ole Parie.

Oh, if you haven't heard The U.S. has banned international flights to Europe because of Covid 19.

In closer scarier news, the first case of Covid 19 has hit Mississippi in Hattiesburg, which is 45 minutes north of where I live, and a major college town to, but no worries yet.

Hopefully, there will be some good video game related news or geek news in general to talk about very soon.

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TLoU2 GotY

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Hard games like Dark Souls or Nioh 1 and 2 are not my cup of tea. I'm just not the type of person to get his jollies from mental pain and suffering. Unless it's the mental pain and suffering of others for my amusement. So, that is my take on the whole genre.

In fun news, I'm at an early dinner with Scarlett, and my brother, not Oreon, called me and ask if I'm willing to help chip in for a bus ticket for my other brother to come to the funeral...

He's not really my brother, just my cousin, but my mon raised him; until he decided that being a career drug addict was a better life than... well anything.

Last year when my brother died he told me he couldn't visit him in the hospital because he was going through some personal problems. (Aren't we all.) Later I find out this idiot transitioned from being a crack head to a meth head, and OD'd a month before our brother died.

A year later and more meth later. (I am proud of him for keeping up with the times, and moving from crack to meth.) He wants to come to the funeral of a woman he disowned after taking him in, and raising him after his mother died.

Then this fool last night text us at 2 in the morning now wanting to play a song at the funeral.

I'm sure this isn't the last fun story I have from this moron or my family before Monday's funeral.

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So continuing my addiction, I recently stopped at a Gamestop and picked up 3 more FF Mystery Mini boxes. Got 2 Sue Storms (blargh) and finally got a Doctor Doom. I might just go without the Namor, although I also kinda want the Human Torch.

And last night I watched Spenser Confidential starring Mark Wahlberg which, surprisingly enough, is a NF original (which explains why I hadn't heard of it before seeing it in my feed). I enjoyed it, but it also kinda reminded me how much these streaming services are stepping up their game.

The Wave Master posted...

Hard games like Dark Souls or Nioh 1 and 2 are not my cup of tea. I'm just not the type of person to get his jollies from mental pain and suffering. Unless it's the mental pain and suffering of others for my amusement. So, that is my take on the whole genre.

I like difficulty, but not in "story" games. If I'm playing a game for the story, difficulty can be a distraction. If I'm playing a game for the challenge, I want the story to be less pronounced.

The Wave Master posted...

In fun news, I'm at an early dinner with Scarlett, and my brother, not Oreon, called me and ask if I'm willing to help chip in for a bus ticket for my other brother to come to the funeral...

Did you ever finally answer my earlier question about why you own your mother's home? Oo

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All filming in New Mexico has been suspended. Stranger Things, my show, and every production that I know of just got put on a 2-week pause.

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Stay safe man.

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It's my house. I just let my family live there, and thus I always considered it my mother's house. Legally it's my house, and it's in my name. My sister, her husband, and her kids fell on hard time, (Self Inflicted) and when I was very sick and in the hospital with my renal failure; I let them move into the house, and 8 years later they still haven't left. It was supposed to be temporary, but a decade isn't temporary at all.

Then my mother got ill, and they used her illness as an excuse/reason to keep livingv their essentially rent free.

Now with my mother passing there just doesn't seem to be a reason for them to stay. Time for my 40 something year old sister to leave the next.

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Thinking about making the next topic a Covid 19 related topic like Corona-Geek or Geekvid 19.

Before this mini apocalypse, I already had a title I wanted to implement, but I guess I'm wondering if I should keep up with the times or stick to our Geek heritage?

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Maybe something about being stuck inside, so why not watch some movies?

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Quarantine and chill with Corona-chan?

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shadowsword87 posted...

Maybe something about being stuck inside, so why not watch some movies?

My first thought was a snide comment about how being stuck inside and avoiding social interaction isn't actually a behavior change for geeks, but it's hard to convey that sort of thing in a short title.

"Coronavirus" and "Covid" don't really work well either. Not like H1Geek1 would.

I'd be tempted to think of any geeky virus/outbreak/viral apocalypse references and then play off that (like Y: The Last Man or The Omega Man or The Last Ship), but most of them don't really have titles that work with the substitution. And most comic/video game/etc virus stories are all zombie-related these days. So I'm tempted to just suggest something more generic, like Geekpocalypse Now

The real downside with a flu-related topic title is, if this things takes a REAL turn for the worse, and get way more tragic than swine flu/bird flu/SARS/etc did, and a lot of people die, then the new topic is going to start feeling pretty morbid, and sort of a case of "Man, I really wish we hadn't named it that."

Maybe we should just go with something happy, sunshiny, and distracting from all the mess. Like "My Little Geek: Friendship is Nerdy".
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So, "The Geek Topic has closed it's Ports" is a non-starter?

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

So, "The Geek Topic has closed it's Ports" is a non-starter?

I do like that one.

But again... are we going to regret being too morbid? Defiant mockery can become a bit tasteless and tactless at a certain point.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I do like that one.

But again... are we going to regret being too morbid? Defiant mockery can become a bit tasteless and tactless at a certain point.

You can be the violinist on the deck of the Titanic, or you can be one of the deck chairs...

But I'm also something of a nihilist, so others are more than welcome to weigh in, I don't host the topic or anything...but I know SBA would be running a gag theme by now if this happened in it's heyday...

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Kung Flu: The Geek Continues

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The Wave Master posted...

I let them move into the house, and 8 years later they still haven't left.

LOL! >_<

The Wave Master posted...

Thinking about making the next topic a Covid 19 related topic like Corona-Geek or Geekvid 19.

Before this mini apocalypse, I already had a title I wanted to implement, but I guess I'm wondering if I should keep up with the times or stick to our Geek heritage?

Geek Topic: The Purell, Guns, and Canned Food Edition

Geek Topic: Postponed Until Further Notice

Geek Topic: 3 more months of winter

Geek Topic: Hibernating until all this shit blows over

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Quarantine and chill with Corona-chan?

Instead of Quarantine we should go with [REC] because that's the original =p

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The real downside with a flu-related topic title is, if this things takes a REAL turn for the worse, and get way more tragic than swine flu/bird flu/SARS/etc did, and a lot of people die, then the new topic is going to start feeling pretty morbid, and sort of a case of "Man, I really wish we hadn't named it that."

Yep... but when has that ever stopped us? If not for bad decisions, we wouldn't make decisions at all.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

So, "The Geek Topic has closed it's Ports" is a non-starter?

Yes, because that's bad grammar.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I do like that one.

Despite the grammatical mistake?!

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28 Geeks Later

Korruptor posted...

28 Geeks Later

I dig it

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Yeah, I'm being paid not to work for 2 weeks while NBC has all their shows suspended for that time. I kinda suspect it'll last longer than that, though.

My tickets to a play have been pushed next month, and I was supposed to see Rage Against the Machine in 2 weeks, but that has been rescheduled...

Least my board game group is getting together more, since all of us are in jobs that have suspended. More time for Animal Crossing and to finish up other games.

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I dread the prospect of being quarantined mostly from the perspective that I might have to actually cook or, more likely, rely on dry foods for a few weeks.

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Zeus, you're a grown man. Learn how to cook. I love cooking, it may he a southern thing, but I cook on a semi daily basis. It might be because I'm at home all the time, but I find cooking to be fun. The dishes afterwards, not so much. (Zeus, I'm sure you can cook, but don't enjoy it. I assume p.o. can cook well because he gets to test out his various poisons.)

Scarlett is pretty sure she's going to be laid off from her supervisor job at the casino. The good news is that we will be able to catch up on some shows we missed. We also already planned separation time where I get to play video games, and she reads her books or cooks. (See what did there) as she can cook and definitely bake better than I can.

Either way this minimum 8 week quarantine should just be a minor inconvenience. (Until it probably isn't.)

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I have cooked my whole life, but man it's nice not to have to lol. I was eating out alot recently, but I'm staying home now to be safe, so cooking more again.

Not everyone is a good cook though, some people were never meant to cook lol, and others have like no taste buds so have no clue they can't cook at all.

My wife had a friend, who was a mother of 4 (but they were all grown up) and had a husband and she cooked for all of them their whole lives (well not the husbands whole life). She cooked with instant mashed potatoes and things like hamburger helper etc, and it was.....really not good.......but they didn't know better because that is what they ate their whole lives.

Maybe the love she has for them made it taste better to them.

Maybe her husband secretly sneaks in burgers before he comes home lol.


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wolfy42 posted...

. She cooked with instant mashed potatoes

Those should be considered a federal crime. How hard is it to mash a few potatoes for your kids? Fuck, if you don't want to mash them at least bake them whole. Microwave them for like 9 minutes if you have to. But there's never a good reason for instant mashed.

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I have been at my current job for over six and a half months now, and I'm not tired of cooking yet, though there have been evenings where I'd get home and not want to put in too much effort in my own meal. That said, I agree that some things are so easy, like potatoes, that they should never be "instant." You might as well be paying for canned air at that point.

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Entity13 posted...

I have been at my current job for over six and a half months now

That sounds illegal they really ought to give you some time off

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Real mashed potatoes are a lot of work. All the best potato dishes are actually a lot of work. Except for baking them.
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Revelation34 posted...

Except for baking them.

There's nothing wrong with a baked potato.

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Mashed potatoes are easy if you have a potato masher

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

There's nothing wrong with a baked potato.

I said they're easy.
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

There's nothing wrong with a baked potato.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide#Occurrence_in_food_and_associated_health_risks
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide#Occurrence_in_food_and_associated_health_risks

Ok Buzz Killington.

You could have just pointed out that technically potatoes are part of the Nightshade family...

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

You could have just pointed out that technically potatoes are part of the Nightshade family.

I could have!

But I prefer pointing out how pretty much everything we do as humans incrementally inches us closer and closer to death. It helps support my philosophy of "Life is hazardous to your health."
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Idirs Elba has corona. He was just her eon a show before they shut it (and all other) shows down. They might have to test that whole crew now.

Well...back to Monster Hunter for me.

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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Well...back to Monster Hunter for me

:'(

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Metalsonic66 posted...

:'(

Eh?

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I can't play it since the update. Probably I'll have to do some upgrades to my PC

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Lost my wifi for a while the other day so I wound up:

A) Realizing that despite picking up a ton of DVDs, I didn't really feel like watching anything

B) Finally watching 2 of the digital films I have on itunes (through purchased DVDs with digital codes)

Which brings me to:

C) Despite often mentioning Hobo with a Shotgun as one of my favorite films, I realize that I might have only seen it once or twice max because I couldn't remember half that shit. Granted, I really love it for the fake trailer -- which provided a rough outline for the film and additionally some of its quips were rather clumsily incorporated into the film at moments that didn't really work -- so I guess I shouldn't find it *that* surprising. The biggest things I remembered from the full film were the scene where Slick torches a bus and the Plague, although I guess the Plague was also in the trailer. What wasn't in the film, however, was the scene where the chick was taken at the end to replace the Plague member she killed. Still a really fun movie, though.

D) The Dark Shadows movie is much better than I remembered, and I kinda liked it the first time around (despite taking the show's concept in a somewhat more comical direction). I had recalled being annoyed by Depp's performance as Barnabus Collins, but a lot of those things weren't really bugging me while I was watching it again. Only made it halfway through that night, although I'll probably finish it tonight.

Then we have ...

E) The movie is also notable for featuring Michelle Pfeiffer, which is notable for my previous discussion of how she's aged. It effectively serves as a kinda in-between since Dark Shadows came out in 2012 or so.

The Wave Master posted...

Scarlett is pretty sure she's going to be laid off from her supervisor job at the casino. The good news is that we will be able to catch up on some shows we missed. We also already planned separation time where I get to play video games, and she reads her books or cooks. (See what did there) as she can cook and definitely bake better than I can.

It's pretty much a guarantee at this point. CT shut down its casinos today and I imagine other states are all doing the same.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Idirs Elba has corona.

Gee, how will he get through another 2-episode season of Luther?!


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Zeus posted...

Gee, how will he get through another 2-episode season of Luther?!

Or another abysmal movie no one in their right mind likes?

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If there's a quarantine I'll need game recommendations from my Steam library. Probably save them for next thread.
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Castle Crashers
Sonic Mania
Broforce
Terraria
Limbo
Shovel Knight

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.hack//Quarantine, and the three games before it. What, they're not on Steam? Bad form, Bamco.

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