Poll of the Day > its the end of the world

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we are all slowly suffocating physically, mentally, socially, financially etc.

things arent going to improve without a vaccine. asymptomatic people can still have internal organ damage. Florida, California, Texas, and Arizona are lit up and ready to overload hospitals

as we know it

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Well, I feel fine

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To many good games coming out in the next year for the world to end, sorry.

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we don't need to worry about global warming 'cuz we've had an available nuclear winter since the 40s

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teddy241 posted...

we are all slowly suffocating physically, mentally, socially, financially etc.

We've literally suffered worse than this in every single one of those facets throughout human history.

Go back and ask the 50%+ of the European population that died from the Black Plague (that took them almost 200 years to recover from) if they'd be willing to come forward and trade places with us. For that matter, go back and ask the tens of millions of people dying from the Spanish Flu in the middle of a global war if they'd trade places with us.

I get that this looks absolutely unprecedented to people who've spent the first 20+ years of their lives coddled and wrapped in bubble wrap and who mostly slept through history class, but this is nowhere near as game-breaking as some people have convinced themselves it is. The human race will certainly survive, most of modern society and culture will survive, and in the end you'll be extremely surprised just how status quo everything winds up feeling after everything's said and done.

My mother spent most of her childhood being told hiding under a desk would protect her from the explosive nuclear war that was almost certainly inevitably just around the corner. As a young adult, she watched as men landed on the moon and was told it was going to usher in an entirely new age of space exploration and human expansion. When I was an adult, some people were flying planes into buildings in a terrorist attack, and people were screaming about how nothing was ever going to be the same again and how could anyone ever truly feel safe again? That last one only really lasted for a year or two until everything pretty much went back to business as normal.

I know it can be hard to separate yourself from situations when you're in the middle of them, but things are almost never as bad as you think they are at the time. Life will go on.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

We've literally suffered worse than this in every single one of those facets throughout human history.

Go back and ask the 50%+ of the European population that died from the Black Plague (that took them almost 200 years to recover from) if they'd be willing to come forward and trade places with us. For that matter, go back and ask the tens of millions of people dying from the Spanish Flu in the middle of a global war if they'd trade places with us.

I get that this looks absolutely unprecedented to people who've spent the first 20+ years of their lives coddled and wrapped in bubble wrap and who mostly slept through history class, but this is nowhere near as game-breaking as some people have convinced themselves it is. The human race will certainly survive, most of modern society and culture will survive, and in the end you'll be extremely surprised just how status quo everything winds up feeling after everything's said and done.

My mother spent most of her childhood being told hiding under a desk would protect her from the explosive nuclear war that was almost certainly inevitably just around the corner. As a young adult, she watched as men landed on the moon and was told it was going to usher in an entirely new age of space exploration and human expansion. When I was an adult, some people were flying planes into buildings in a terrorist attack, and people were screaming about how nothing was ever going to be the same again and how could anyone ever truly feel safe again? That last one only really lasted for a year or two until everything pretty much went back to business as normal.

I know it can be hard to separate yourself from situations when you're in the middle of them, but things are almost never as bad as you think they are at the time. Life will go on.

That is not very paranoid at all!!!

What about the aliens controlling all of this, and feeding on our young?

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

When I was an adult, some people were flying planes into buildings in a terrorist attack, and people were screaming about how nothing was ever going to be the same again and how could anyone ever truly feel safe again? That last one only really lasted for a year or two until everything pretty much went back to business as normal.

Well, except for air travel. That got a whole lot more obnoxious.

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Adapt to the change.

You realize life is about as good as its ever been?

I mean I guess you could argue that it took a dip this decade but it's still better than anytime since before the 70s

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwCA8B0qFI0

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

We've literally suffered worse than this in every single one of those facets throughout human history.

Go back and ask the 50%+ of the European population that died from the Black Plague (that took them almost 200 years to recover from) if they'd be willing to come forward and trade places with us. For that matter, go back and ask the tens of millions of people dying from the Spanish Flu in the middle of a global war if they'd trade places with us.

I get that this looks absolutely unprecedented to people who've spent the first 20+ years of their lives coddled and wrapped in bubble wrap and who mostly slept through history class, but this is nowhere near as game-breaking as some people have convinced themselves it is. The human race will certainly survive, most of modern society and culture will survive, and in the end you'll be extremely surprised just how status quo everything winds up feeling after everything's said and done.

My mother spent most of her childhood being told hiding under a desk would protect her from the explosive nuclear war that was almost certainly inevitably just around the corner. As a young adult, she watched as men landed on the moon and was told it was going to usher in an entirely new age of space exploration and human expansion. When I was an adult, some people were flying planes into buildings in a terrorist attack, and people were screaming about how nothing was ever going to be the same again and how could anyone ever truly feel safe again? That last one only really lasted for a year or two until everything pretty much went back to business as normal.

I know it can be hard to separate yourself from situations when you're in the middle of them, but things are almost never as bad as you think they are at the time. Life will go on.

damn dude busted in with the real talk tho segment

the world's not over, it's just different now. it has changed before. and the way it was before probably wasn't sustainable anyway

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Accept Jesus

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wolfy42 posted...

That is not very paranoid at all!!!

Oh, shit, you're right! Wait, let me switch to my alt.
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Wait, god damn it. This isn't contextually appropriate either!
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teddy241 posted...

damn dude busted in with the real talk tho segment

Damn straight. Now suck it up, throw on a mask, get out there and carpe motherfuckin' diem.

OOH RAH!
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As long as I am here, the world will never end.

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The World Ends with You

Remember that game? fun

https://youtu.be/SJUhlRoBL8M

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PyroBlade1985 posted...

Like Cyberpunk?

Hell yeah, and rogue legacy 2 and balders gate 3 and waaaay to many other ones to list it's freaking insane.

Also am I the only poster who doesn't know anyones alts at all, and just responds to everyone as if they are a different person?

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wolfy42 posted...

and balders gate 3

I'm so wary of that game. On the one hand, I absolutely loved BG1 and BG2. On the other hand, it's 20 years later, a completely different team is working on it, and there's almost zero continuity between this and BG2. And there've been missteps in the BG franchise recently (Beamdog's additions to the Enhanced Editions not being entirely popular).

Most people who are excited about it seem to be people who loved Divinity: Original Sin 2 (because the same team is working on it), but D:OS2 doesn't really seem like what I want out of a BG game.

Plus, I'm not super-keen on the mind flayer-heavy narrative the marketing seems to be pushing.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though. I need me some quality narrative-heavy WRPGs. All the companies that used to make them are kind of turning to feces these days.



wolfy42 posted...

Also am I the only poster who doesn't know anyones alts at all, and just responds to everyone as if they are a different person?

Half the time I don't even look at who is posting, and just respond to the content of their posts. Depends on my mood.
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I watched 2012 again last night, and the end where they say that theyre basically going to re-colonise Africa is ridiculous. Sorry guys, coming in. We need what you have again.



They need another BG game done like Dark Alliance.

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