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General Discussion / Re: [🧼👏] Wash your hands, not your pons (Happy thread)
« on: April 15, 2020, 07:59:14 pm »
That. I mean, I get why people do it, but. Still. That's not a dog. Also hopefully they're not actually boozing up the racoon, either :-\

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: COVID-19: Super Stay Home Edition
« on: April 15, 2020, 07:56:21 pm »
Florida is absolutely going out of its way to not fucking test, yes. So far as I'm aware we still don't have a state-level relaxation on guidelines for who to test, guidelines that would pointedly fucking miss asymptomatic, presymptomatic, and mildly symptomatic infected. It's basically an utter pain in the ass to even get recommended for testing unless you're approaching the point it's time to stick your ass in a hospital.

There's apparently supply issues in regards to testing availability, too, for what it's worth, but florida is fucking up basically everything it can fuck up on top of it. If there's a hell, desantis'll burn in it for the clusterfuck he's helmed in regards to the crow plague.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: COVID-19: Super Stay Home Edition
« on: April 15, 2020, 07:12:41 pm »
Eh, it depends a lot on specifics. Folks without much storage space (small apartment stuff) tend to shop more. Folks with a fair amount tend to shop less, since they, y'know, have places to put things. Where I'm at (and the baseline I try to meet for my household regardless), we usually have enough squirrelled away we could go without grocery shopping for probably a month, maybe two if we stretched things. It wouldn't be exactly enjoyable (fresh or comfort food is most of our regular monthly/bi-monthly shopping, with replenishing staples less common), but we wouldn't starve.

This is mostly just due to habitual hurricane prep -- sometimes shit breaks down for weeks because nature just decked your ass like an angry fist of god, so you have weeks of emergency supplies -- but it applies to other issues, too, heh. We've never really had to lean on the habit, but it is a massive relief to not really have to worry about food at any given time, even if shit's gone pretty south. Things get particularly unpleasant when you're worrying about when your next meal is going to be. Much less so if it's just when your next good one is.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 15, 2020, 04:48:37 pm »
Though to further clarify many/most of the people on that advisory council are pretty dogshit for one reason or another. Thing reads like a who's-who of "People who are going to advise doing shit that gets extra people killed." There's sarcastic stuff floating around replacing notables from it with well known supervillians and horror flick monsters, and sometimes they produce a list less likely to get the american public killed.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: COVID-19: Super Stay Home Edition
« on: April 15, 2020, 04:37:22 pm »
Eh, the confirmed case count means precisely fuck and all. Almost nowhere on the planet is testing to the degree that number is even fucking remotely reliable right now. If there's a confirmed case in your actual home area the number of infected is probably pretty significant, especially given the incident rates of a- and pre-symptomatic carriers.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: COVID-19: Super Stay Home Edition
« on: April 15, 2020, 12:56:29 pm »
Yeah, our local papers were pretty cheerful about how we (and some neighboring counties) didn't have positive cases for a while. Conveniently left out were the testing rates -- at the time one of the involved could literally have their total testing numbers counted on your fingers. Others would leave you toes to spare.

Needless to say once testing continued for a bit, they found positives :P

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 15, 2020, 12:53:02 pm »
Around the point of a dude hiding in cardboard boxes.

Also the functioning mecha thing, probably. I think it has like cyborgs and other weirdness these days, too?

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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: April 15, 2020, 12:49:39 pm »
Phos Toni - In Den Haag. The beat/bass string thing that kicks in at 1:02/1:03 is just delicious. If any of y'all know something else with that sort of thing in it, lemme know.

E: So for a while now I've been chilling with music while I'm at work, occasionally jotting down something that catches my attention. Finally got around to going through the slips of paper I was filling up with titles, so now y'all all get a dump, too. Plus some other ones near the bottom that's just good fun. There's, uh. 90-ish songs, mostly glitch hop and electroswing. Artist, title, more-or-less unformatted url, short comment. No particular ordering to them, also I seriously can't be arsed to doublecheck links, so if something's dead it's dead just search for title/creator yerself. Enjoy :P

Spoiler: let's just spoiler this thing (click to show/hide)
and that's much (if not really all) of what I've been listening to for like the last month or two, at least that managed to catch my attention

E2: Whoops, missed
Spoiler: a few (click to show/hide)

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Other Games / Re: Blurb on Games that probably don't deserve their own threads.
« on: April 15, 2020, 06:51:18 am »
Quote from: Aoi on April 15, 2020, 06:20:06 am
One Step From Eden is kind of weird... the action plays like a versus bullet hell on a 4x4 grid with flavors of StS with how your skills are drawn and on the map.
It's Megaman Battle Network, the roguelite deckbuilding bullet hell. More or less. Seems pretty neat, but if I ever actually get it I'll be using cheat engine to slow the bugger down 'cause damn.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 14, 2020, 07:00:46 pm »
Starting to watch a code vein playthrough. One of the sounds the enemies make is, apparently. Variations on REEEEEE. Had to hear it a couple times to be sure, but. What.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: COVID-19: Super Stay Home Edition
« on: April 14, 2020, 07:41:53 am »
Quote from: Max™ on April 14, 2020, 01:50:22 am
We're coming up on 3 million tests in the US now.

That's nearly 9000 tests per 1,000,000 people.
That's almost a full percent of the population! Not quite. It's still <1%. But it's almost out of the (0.009) tenths of hundredths! Almost. Not there yet. But getting there. Only took. *checks notes* Shit, timeline's fuzzy. Call it two months, be generous? Give it another month for a full percent, or 3 months per percent of the population tested. Do that 100 more times and a quarter century from now we'd have tested everyone :V

Well, they were saying something like only 70-80% likely infection saturation, so only 70-80 more times, so 17-20 more years to identify everyone that caught it. I guess if we just stick to the dead (which, I'unno, rate there's all over the place, let's go with 4% of infected? That's under worse case seen, iirc.) it'd only take like (70*3*.04) 9 months to positively identify the dead if I'm mathing right after being awake for like five minutes. By that point we're probably going to be more busy trying to figure out what to do with those hundreds of thousands of extra corpses...

...

There's going to be a lot of people that die from the crow plague untested, a lot of deaths not acknowledged as caused by it, huh.

Quote from: McTraveller on April 14, 2020, 07:11:25 am
The commander wasn't fired because he was concerned for his crew. He was fired because he didn't follow proper chain of command and/or security procedures.  If you can't understand that difference and why it matters in a military vessel... (and this coming from a person who is by no means a military apologist).
That was 'cause the chain of command was trying to get his subordinates fucking killed by the crow plague, though. From what I understand they weren't the first in American military history to do pull that, some largely without censure, and probably won't be the last.

Though last I checked he wasn't even fired. Someone or another figured out that shitcanning the guy trying to keep his people from drowning in their own lungs after his superiors fucked up handling the situation was a bad look, I guess.

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In other news - what's up with all these personae popping up on the media saying that the medical establishment is wrong about COVID, and it can't be solved with modern medicine but instead we have to use homeopathic methods?  What gets me about these isn't the concept that vitamins and "being healthy" can help your immune system.  What gets me is the tone of absolute authority these voices have.
Fuck, these shits make their goddamn living off this crap. Peddling horseshit to the desperate is literally their standard operating procedure. That tone of absolute authority is how they functionally murder and defraud people under normal circumstances. Covid's probably a goddamn superstimulus to those fuckers. Lot more desperate people to prey on, and reality offering zero chance of a reliable pharmaceutical aid anytime soon.

Personally be pretty comfortable with tossing the lot of the bastards in jail (and yes, I'm aware those are basically plague pits right now), but that's not really on the table :-\

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General Discussion / Re: [🧼👏] Wash your hands, not your pons (Happy thread)
« on: April 13, 2020, 07:42:43 pm »
Quote from: Dunamisdeos on April 13, 2020, 02:56:23 pm
Is it ok to post a pic of my kid? I don't know if that's against a rule.
I don't think it's against a rule, but there's a bit of a consent and unwanted/undesirable exposure thing going on with posting pictures of other folks in general, and kinda' especially with folks that can't, y'know, say no. You have more or less total control over their image and use thereof right now, do try to not abuse it :-\

As is that one didn't seem to be particularly identifiable, so it's probably not a huge deal, but as a basic behavior thing I probably wouldn't be putting pictures of my kid online like... at all. For a whole bunch of reasons, and especially not into just the random wild. Parent should be teaching their kids good online picture hygiene, not indulging in the opposite, yeah?

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite Europe related terrible jokes thread
« on: April 11, 2020, 07:39:24 pm »
Quote from: Naturegirl1999 on April 10, 2020, 02:13:40 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on April 10, 2020, 01:59:19 pm
Quote from: Iduno on April 10, 2020, 08:58:13 am
Ok, so why does the stadium look unusual?
u r a cheeki monkey do u no that i swear on me nan ill deck u rite in the gabba
i think this is the post with the most intentional spelling mistakes I have seen
truly you are blessed

There exist posts that are paragraphs, hundreds of words long of jibberjabber even worse than that.

Hell, if you go out of forum posts I've seen worse in published word, though I think only in Anthony's Pornucopia. Possibly the most impressive transcribed accent I've ever read, that had. Shame about the rest of it. Or what was being discussed with it, for that matter...

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Other Games / Re: Games I want to know about
« on: April 11, 2020, 12:47:57 pm »
I've played like... a little bit? The controls and whatnot were frustrating for reasons I don't quite recall, so I just... stopped. It doesn't really play like X-com or Into the Breach, though. Closer to a more party based/isometric space hulk, maybe? It's been a bit and I didn't play a huge amount, so I don't quite recall the specifics. Dunno if I would advise against it, exactly, but I didn't enjoy it.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: COVID-19: Super Stay Home Edition
« on: April 11, 2020, 10:03:10 am »
Yeah, I've been using one of the arcgis things for florida numbers -- our dashboard is using basically the same system.

I can see the joke coming, though. "America likes our crow plague like we like our military spending: More than the next twenty countries combined."

Though so far it's only four or five. Give it another month or two.

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