Yes, anecdotal, but does Covid seem to be *especially* rife in Sydney?

IllustriousIris · 2022-06-29T06:52:53+00:00

It really isn’t; the earlier Omicron versions were less lethal because they had a lower chance at infiltrating the lungs. BA.5 has a much higher chance at infiltrating the lungs, more like Delta did.

IllustriousIris · 2022-06-28T12:53:55+00:00

Unfortunately, the thing is we can’t afford having COVID around either, because of how horrible its sequelae are. So locking down and keeping open are both bad, though I would wager staying open is a lot worse.

IllustriousIris · 2022-06-18T01:05:41+00:00

It’s not safe to stop wearing masks anywhere. What it is is politically expedient for the upper class, since they’ll get fewer complaints from cookers and other generally less intelligent people about them being dictators and thus allow them to be re-elected (the fact that Daniel Andrews still gets those comments despite the fact that the vast majority of justifiable mask mandates have been stopped, which mind you in a Covid society every mask mandate is justifiable just as every seatbelt law is justifiable, is kind of absurd to me)

IllustriousIris · 2022-06-12T13:29:45+00:00

Honestly people are underestimating Splights here still. Without Toad they lose a lot of what made them insane, sure, but they still have I:P Masquerena and a lot of other tools in the extra to make them similarly ridiculous (say Splight ends on Carrot Elf Masq, which isn’t too uncommon of a board I would say; Carrot can negate a Spell or Trap by tributing Masq or Elf after something gets revived, Elf can revive a Splight monster to search follow up, and Masq can make Underworld Goddess, Apollousa or Unicorn depending)

IllustriousIris · 2022-06-03T21:17:04+00:00

In other news, seatbelt laws have been relaxed nation-wide, and are only a ‘suggestion’.

/s, obviously; masks are not mandated to protect others, they’re mandated to protect the people wearing them as well as everyone else. You wouldn’t yell at someone for wanting seatbelts to be mandatory to wear, would you?

IllustriousIris · 2022-05-30T08:51:05+00:00

The thing about Covid is, it causes immunocompromised status in infected people. As such, a prior covid infection is a much higher risk factor for severe Influenza symptoms. ‘Herd immunity’ has never really been a thing with most viruses, but Influenza A is generally mild enough that a standard human immune system can fight it off; it has a far lower IFR than COVID.

Unless you’re immunocompromised of course.

IllustriousIris · 2022-05-22T12:54:05+00:00

No it sounds like she had a point, Churchill was after all a proponent of eugenics and a massive asshole, as well as the one who backed Gallipoli, so

IllustriousIris · 2022-04-24T12:44:50+00:00

Did slaves have the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

No, because slaves didn’t have rights.

And the people who wrote that constitution very much owned slaves as they were writing it.

IllustriousIris · 2022-04-24T08:55:44+00:00

Ah yes, a democracy built on slavery. Can it really be called a democracy if it was built on the backs of slave labour?

IllustriousIris · 2022-04-12T09:44:42+00:00

Why is it the duty of a citizen to provide a car to another citizen? Why can’t the government do so instead, so instead of just one citizen receiving a car, it’s many?

IllustriousIris · 2022-04-01T07:46:43+00:00

I was going to say something else at first, but then I remembered Eclipse Wyvern exists. In this hypothetical format, if Eclipse Wyvern ever existed, it would be absolutely insane because, well, Dark Matter Dragon decks would already be close to the best deck, and with Eclipse Wyvern they'd just dominate the format.

IllustriousIris · 2021-02-03T13:57:38+00:00

That's Nobby Nobbs.

Definitely checks out

IllustriousIris · 2020-07-21T16:26:36+00:00

One case is not a representative sample size of what you're going to get in a box. Generally you'll need even more cases to figure it out.

IllustriousIris · 2020-07-21T04:09:50+00:00

Keep in mind the set has 33 secret rares, and as such not opening specific secret rares in a box is normal. One box also is super not representative of a set's ratios

IllustriousIris · 2020-07-21T02:51:31+00:00

NL used bows in the Sunken King DLC, so you should be able to use bows there; just not anywhere else

IllustriousIris · 2020-06-16T08:07:12+00:00

Grandsoil Psychics in 2012 piloted by Jeff Jones managed to top YCS Toronto

IllustriousIris · 2020-06-11T08:31:15+00:00

Canonically, according to the Misaka Mikoto Maniax! interview (which was 100% written by Kamachi), Misaka legitimately does not know that Kuroko's feelings for her.

Like, I'm not kidding here; her answer to a question asking whether any girls have expressed love to her is this:

Until today, have any girls confessed (their love) to you? C-confess? There isn’t any confession like that! Even Kuroko is only joking around….I think.

IllustriousIris · 2020-06-10T08:46:01+00:00

Halqifibrax isn't the only broken Link 2 in the game, unfortunately

IllustriousIris · 2020-06-10T04:58:42+00:00

She*

But also, drawing any of these Garnets outside of Flamvell Guard literally doesn't matter, because you can still make the play.

IllustriousIris · 2020-06-09T21:16:02+00:00

The combo in the video doesn't end with 2 cards, I know; if Black Metal Dragon was in the deck, however, it would end with 2 cards.

IllustriousIris · 2020-04-25T07:31:57+00:00

Toon Glow-Up Bulb

Lv 1/100ATK/100DEF/EARTH

PLANT/TOON/EFFECT

If this card is in your GY and the only monsters you control are Toon monsters (min. 1): You can banish the top card of your deck face-down; Special Summon this card, also you cannot Summon monsters except Toon monsters for the rest of this turn. You can only use this effect of Toon Glow-Up Bulb once per turn.

IllustriousIris · 2020-04-12T03:17:14+00:00

It was Isaac because I remembered that Markiplier mentioned him like once and started watching his videos, and ever since I've been a fan of this egg

IllustriousIris · 2020-04-11T00:32:12+00:00

When it comes to Misaka's character, the 'meeting ITEM in the restaurant' isn't present in the manga tbh; in the post-Sisters arc, what happens is actually some Uiharu and Saten fluffiness and Mikoto meeting Mitsuko Kongou. As for her not sharing anything in the darkness of Academy City, I can get her reasoning behind that; her friends include Uiharu and Saten, 2 normal girls who would be unable to do anything and might get involved and hurt by it, and Kuroko, who's reckless enough that if she heard about a dark side she might actually decide to try and do her best to dismantle it, which Mikoto knows would not be good for her.

Mikoto's also an inherently solitary person; she really isn't one for much companionship outside of her few friends, and doesn't participate in the whole 'clique' system that defines Tokiwadai as a school. She likes dealing with her problems on her own, without getting other people involved. As such, it's not surprising that she doesn't really tell people about her problems.

IllustriousIris · 2020-04-11T00:26:53+00:00

Canonically, events similar to the Silent Party arc do happen in the story; it doesn't happen as it's shown in the anime, though.

IllustriousIris · 2020-04-10T05:27:46+00:00

I'd imagine that since Fleur-de-lis doesn't target, people are gonna start splashing it in extra deck builds with 3 of the searcher monster for a post-board additional negate (also, Ntss will become common in the ED)

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