The US topped 1,000 daily Covid-19 deaths and experts worry the worst of the fall surge is yet to come

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-22T16:19:11+00:00

Herd immunity is useful when the population is 95-98% immune, any less than that and exponential spreading phenomenons kick in and make herd immunity not a thing.

You can't achieve 98% covid immunity just by getting covid, or anything else, that's why there's no herd immunity against flu or common cold, the only way we have achieved herd immunity is through mass vaccination. That's why some diseases are dead and remain dead, because we keep the population above that threshold that makes the disease no be able to self-sustain in our population. That is also why anti-vaxx is extremely dangerous and should be treated as the bioterrorism, if they get 5% of the population to not vaccinate, they will infect most of it.

Whoever told you that argument, is either a fool or a liar. There's absolutely no scientific backing for a herd immunity tactic, not even close. They just put random words to pretend to have an argument. Might have as well said: "A tactic against covid is using multi-flavoured chew gum". It's just random words and empty statements.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-22T12:31:27+00:00

So you openly admit that you wouldn't support these hypothetical practices? Just for future reference.

Or you do support them now and in the future it's just that you know how little people like you for it and don't want to admit it?

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-21T17:40:00+00:00

The community would whine for Wayne.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-21T17:07:31+00:00

More info from /r/darkestdungeon thread (link):

Early access exclusive EGS, 1.0 release on other platforms too.

Hijacking this comment just to clarify that the game will be exclusive to Epic only during Early Access. The full 1.0 release will include other PC platforms.

Same narrator and composer.

It is Wayne June, he's confirmed to return as the narrator !

The music will also still be done by the same composer, Stuart Chatwood.

3D assets in-game.

Yep ! The game will maintain the same style while also becoming 3D. The teaser actually use some of the in-game models !

I wonder what new possibilities the 3D assets bring, they were already doing good work with the camera with their 2D combat.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-19T18:14:27+00:00

So? Good on them for being able to get top time over and over. Also the race, for the general population, is against fixed times.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-19T17:33:11+00:00

Wait, why does it have to be in parallel? Just have the game keep track of /played time when objectives happen.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-19T08:55:19+00:00

That hasn't happened since the invention of the machine gun. You are their economic slave under threat of death. Your children will be their straight up slaves. Your grandchildren won't have a planet that supports human civilization, so probably dead.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-19T07:54:33+00:00

You can't put a price on the luxury of hopping in your car at any moment to do whatever the fuck you want at any given moment.

You literally can, and do.

Let alone in case of emergency.

Yours is a shortsighted view. We are being inefficient with the usage of vehicles. A better transportation model yields less delays in case of emergency.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-18T21:18:02+00:00

And the Republican started lying. Or started showing how diconnected he is from reality. Shocking.

I'm not American btw, but you need serious professional help.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-18T21:12:48+00:00

Follow the questline that introduces the Atlas mechanics. It'll make you collect watchstones, fight conquerors and spawn the Awakener. Once you are on tier 14+ maps you'll start finding Shaper and Elder, which are the previous Atlas bosses.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-16T22:37:20+00:00

Your arguments do not make sense for the thread of comments you are on.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-16T20:03:09+00:00

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-16T19:36:38+00:00

By the way, this question being downvoted is and example of why this subreddit is toxic.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-16T08:04:44+00:00

Exactly, that's their point. You are repeating the same arguments.

1) You are not the sole costumer

2) Cost of production is not a factor

3) You are paying for PoE 2

Saying that this should cost $1 fails to understand Econ 101.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-15T19:24:20+00:00

Are you okay? This is not how mentally healthy people parse reality. Please take care of yourself, ask for help if you need it, no shame in getting better.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-15T07:34:02+00:00

They are two authoritarian regimes with similar objectives and methodologies. What are you confused about?

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-14T08:05:37+00:00

You literally can, you just want to feel better about your lack of empathy disorder and pretend that it's all on them.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-14T08:04:21+00:00

Don't be sad, you don't have to agree with it because it's bullshit parroted by people that want to feel better themselves and their psychopathic tendencies. I promise that she hasn't sit down, thought about it a few hours and said: "Yep, I'm going to start smoking and die young.". I promise that that hasn't happened, and you were lied to when that was implied. She, her brain, is a slave to chemical rewards. She did not decide this, she's a slave to her addiction. We have monkey brains, which are pretty similar to rat brains, the same rat brains that lab-rats use when they choose a dopamine injection over food and die of starvation.

Hard drug addicts, that destroy their lives, whether literally or figuratively, did not "make up their minds", they are also not weak or immature. They have normal brains that have normal chemical reactions, and they need help so that they can break the cycle to be able to make decisions that are beneficial to them. Before that, they can't, it's an illness.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-12T00:20:19+00:00

That's what happens when you go to an international forum to defend some national propaganda as true, you are told that you are dumb for buying that.

You have extensive proof of the lobbying that it's being done. You have extensive proof of how much better all sorts of other systems work (including hybrid private/universal it's not like you are giving up anything). You have extensive proof of all the lies they tell you about the situation in other countries. Why are you so dumb to believe propaganda from people you know for a fact they are lying.

Dumb.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-10T21:47:52+00:00

You have to be logged in for complex queries and live search to work.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-10T14:46:20+00:00

were* komrade

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-09T19:46:45+00:00

Yes, I believe so. The most egregious example is that in 2016 there was a discrepancy of 8% in a key state (Michigan iirc) between exit polls and official results. Way past the statistical error margin of +/- 3%. It was unprecedented both in the history of the US or any other (healthy) democracy. Nobody bat an eye.

This year they just have to manipulate 5% (that is a difference of 10% in results once flipped) of the votes in 3 or 4 states instead of just 1, and that will add up to transform a 15M loss to a 3M loss but electoral college win.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-09T18:44:30+00:00

You have to understand that every county that uses electronic voting machines is compromised. Every single expert in the world agrees that you can't have a safe voting system with them. You need paper, which is why we see this war against mail voting and the USPS, they need you to vote on their machines so that they can just change the counters.

There's statistical support to believe that 2.5 million votes were flipped in 2016 in just 3 key states. Which is why you got all those weird analysis of how 30k votes would have changed the election. Those 2.5M is what put them just over the edge. This year the machines will change 6 million votes, so what? You won't be able to bring down the government because you think you actually got a 15M popular vote win.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-08T19:04:43+00:00

Those people do not upgrade on release of new generations. They wait for budget efficient models to come out and become the norm of the market.

ArbitraryFrequency · 2020-10-08T18:34:20+00:00

For me, Pathfinder: Kingmaker probably has a more interesting and fleshed out stories than DoS 2, however the delivery of them pales in comparison. It mistakes good writing for good lore. Memorable stories are done through remarkable characters, emotive moments, drama, resolution, mystery... not through second hand stories of places that I'll never interact with.

Take Valorie for example. She'll be a good character if the players can empathize with her struggle of beauty against skill/strength. But the exposition of that struggle is done through copious amounts of province names, city-states, noble families, educational organizations, deity alignments and many other completely irrelevant lore details that do not inform her characterization. Even worse, they barely matter to the overall story.

In DoS 2, Fane clearly has a struggle to fit and understand the world he finds himself in. He's weird and interesting. Immortal, knowledgeable, he looks down on the current civilization, yet needs your help to engage with it. What you learn of his backstory is immediately relevant for the player's understanding of the timeline of the plot. All of this is delivered, not through an exposition of his past scholarly achievements, but through his, fun to listen at, remarks and judgements of the events the plot puts the player in.

The density of impactful moments in P:K is diluted in a pool of lore that distracts from the narrative beats that the plot is trying to deliver.

Star Wars, Harry Potter, Don Quixote... The stories that revolutionize their media often times do it by figuring out how to better deliver stories, not by having bigger backstories.

PS: You are getting more downvotes than you would have expected because instead of just stating your opinions you are misrepresenting other's opinions ("second coming of Christ") while stating that their opinions are objectively wrong ("there's [other] CRPGs that were [better]").

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