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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 16, 2020, 02:03:28 pm »
There's been some other GOP congresscritter saying the house bill intended to maybe reduce the extent people get hyperfucked for catching or trying to avoid spreading the plague wasn't going far enough, too.

If I didn't know better I'd think some of them are starting to care about not dying or watching their parents/grandparents/whatever die to an uncontrolled pandemic. Maybe someone's showed them a venn diagram of their voter base and at-risk patients or somethin'. It'd be a new thing for GOP officials to give a fuck about the population keeling over dead, really.

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Other Games / Re: Pocket games thread
« on: March 16, 2020, 12:52:32 pm »
Yeah, I've won a run with basically that exact combo. Game's not really set up to handle 20+ robot dogs played in 1-2 turns, heh, on top of other stuff.

Had a pretty nice recent one that was mostly the... forget what it's called, one that duplicates and exhausts and deals damage based on the number of copies in play. Had three or four copies in the deck by the last fight, and it was on an assassin so every third or fourth hit was doing extra percentile damage. Few other multi-hit cards and some other stuff going on, but it basically just shredded everything, heh.

Biggest complaint I have is probably just how long it takes to unlock the other classes, really. Takes a goodly number of wins, even with taking double xp.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: SARS-Cov-2: Coronavirus World Tour 2020
« on: March 16, 2020, 11:30:41 am »
Welp, we're apparently at the Madagascar-closes-borders stage of the not!game. Life imitating art, I guess.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 16, 2020, 09:06:22 am »
Eh, technically we sorta' didn't -- the liquidity injection didn't so much spend money as move numbers around on spreadsheets, iirc -- but it damn sure looked like it from a distance so I don't know if that actually matters.

In any case, it seems to be sorta' in a seismograph holding pattern jittering around -10% like someone on a deadly mix of uppers. Next question is what craters it next. Chatter I've been seeing is guessing the shitgibbon in chief tweets something extra stupid to undermine what little investor confidence is left, ah ha ha.

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Other Games / Re: Pocket games thread
« on: March 16, 2020, 07:39:13 am »
It's pretty alright, yeah. Some fights can be pretty tough, sometimes you just start crushing. Fairy and robot seem the strongest "builds" at the moment, for what it's worth (especially mixed, using fairy junk generators and robot exhaust scaling). The data thing is a thing, but the game's also kinda' buggy and will often just... stop running the ads anyway part way through a run. Which is nice, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: SARS-Cov-2: Coronavirus World Tour 2020
« on: March 16, 2020, 07:07:13 am »
Heh, yeah, my household's "normal" stock is 2-3 weeks, usually. Can't bring ourselves to waste the gas and/or time making grocery trips every few days, we food shop once or twice a month. If it weren't just me doing the shopping it might be even less... it's hard to push more than one buggy at a time, y'know?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 15, 2020, 11:39:00 pm »
Quote from: Max™ on March 15, 2020, 11:32:38 pm
I don't even know how to react to 0% interest from the fed and it looking like the dow is still gonna open at a loss tomorrow.
Eh, shit's pretty simple. First you laugh a bit, then you cry a bit, then you do whatever your normal day is 'cause even if a recession is about to join hands with a boomer murdering plague to omnifuck the country you still got your normal stuff to do in the interim leading up to the shit proper hitting the fan. Maybe stock up on some long term supplies if you can work any in between your locality's pandemic panic buying sprees.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 15, 2020, 12:06:56 pm »
Eh, they got till july, more or less. If more places get delayed we might actually see some of the later states kinda' matter for once.

E: Oh hey, we seem to have basically scraped the bottom of the financial bag of tricks we could call on to mitigate a recession... prior to the recession actually hitting? Welcome back '08, I guess. Except probably worse. We don't have nearly as competent a government this time :-\

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: SARS-Cov-2: Coronavirus World Tour 2020
« on: March 15, 2020, 08:07:22 am »
Quote from: McTraveller on March 15, 2020, 07:59:31 am
I guess in my mind there's a difference in having a plan in case things are worst case versus assuming that the worst case is inevitable.  The former is prudence, the latter leads to hysteria.  I just want peace!
Dude, you're not going to get peace when something that's best case multiple times as deadly as the flu is gearing up to scythe its way through the country's elderly lol

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 15, 2020, 07:48:46 am »
Like... it's one of those things polling seems to be indicating you wouldn't fukkin' start to guess from the online ecosystem, but from what I understand, to all appearances, even among younger voters, something over a majority of dem voter folks don't see some great difference between the candidates. General sentiment for basically all the democrat candidates has apparently been pretty high, with some exceptions (bloomshit, pete with certain minorities, etc.). High online/politically connected folks show different behavior there, but even among youngins that's, y'know, a minority among minorities. The rest of electorate just doesn't seem to be following the same sort of patterns.

Which, I mean, is probably a good thing if you care more about getting trump out of office than which geriatric does the kicking, I guess.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 15, 2020, 07:41:51 am »
Well, that sounds mildly terrifying. I wonder how they're going to manage to screw it up. Loot boxes? What's the spread on the loot box bet?

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: SARS-Cov-2: Coronavirus World Tour 2020
« on: March 15, 2020, 07:39:37 am »
I mean, give it another week or two? This thing can have a long incubation period, and seems to just recently-ish be really kicking off stateside. Bit more of a ramp up and the shit really hits the fan, given how limited the US's ICU et al coverage is. Maybe we get lucky and it actually isn't as dangerous as it seems to be basically everywhere it's seriously hitting, but I'm not sure I'd be betting on that. No one worth note in the frontline medical field seems to be.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 15, 2020, 07:25:14 am »
Quote from: SalmonGod on March 15, 2020, 07:11:15 am
Quote from: DemonOfWrath on March 15, 2020, 06:49:04 am
When you are electing one single person for the entirety of a nation... no you can't expect them to represent your interests as much when you're significantly the minority faction, being bluntly realistic. Will there be a democratic nominee who mostly represents the left flank of the party? Not for a while, considering Bernie is currently getting crushed.

If we were actually that much of a minority, then I'd be more sympathetic to your point.  But we're talking like 70-80% of voters under 40.
Bruv, if that were true we'd be dealing with a very different situation. Busters are currently polling at like 4-6% of supporters, not under 40s. Turnout depression's probably higher than that, but it's not anywhere near 70-80% of voters. Most of us under 40 folks are not happy but we're still damn sure going to vote and probably vote blue. Bloomshit or gabbard might have been a bridge too far on that front, but biden just... isn't. As near as we can tell right now. That might change in a future election, when someone closer to AOC runs against someone what isn't trump, but it's pretty damn unlikely to be this one, for better or worse.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 15, 2020, 07:09:00 am »
I mean, yeah. It would probably be a moral act to just go shoot the people setting prices in our health care industry at this point. I've said more than once in relation to the ACA, we probably would have seen as much improvement if we had just literally guillotined health care and insurance upper level administration across the country, and it's not even a joke. Like, Biden's thing would still be an improvement but it cannot be stressed enough a significant portion of that is due to just how massively fucked up the US healthcare industry is for patients.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 15, 2020, 06:56:47 am »
I mean, hell, we have good samaritan laws scattered around the country. It's not that far, it's just the specific stealing meds thing is pretty at-odds with how our shit's set up. But there's similar (if weaker, more specific, or watered down) protections literally already on the books.

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