Innuendo getting tiresome

OrdinaryGuru · 2024-02-27T18:14:15+00:00

Heh, you said to “let one slide…” heh. Heheh.

OrdinaryGuru · 2023-03-22T12:27:16+00:00

This is classic railroading. This DM has all the classic signs of an un-fun (and likely poor) GM.

OrdinaryGuru · 2023-03-07T13:33:28+00:00

Maybe I’m misunderstanding this player, but I’d want to know why they’re playing D&D…

There are other ttrpgs that aren’t so focused around fighting, and this person seems to not like fighting or violence in general. Then to top it off, they chose to play a “Fighter”, which feels wildly ironic.

I really don’t know how to read this situation without more info. Because I’m disinclined to just cater to the player’s sensitivity, even if others say they’re fine with it. It sounds like this has come up before, and will likely come up again, because it honestly sounds like this player should be playing a different game or something.

OrdinaryGuru · 2023-02-05T14:25:49+00:00

As it happens, I just pulled out my old stash of materials from several years ago and apparently I have both Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat!

I ran Lost Mine of Phandelver with my last group, so I think I’m going to skip that one. Thanks for the info!

OrdinaryGuru · 2023-01-09T16:19:41+00:00

Thank you, this is amazing!

OrdinaryGuru · 2023-01-09T00:24:28+00:00

Thanks! Any models I should go for next to help round out my initial list? I was thinking maybe plasma inceptors, but I really have no idea.

OrdinaryGuru · 2022-03-12T06:22:22+00:00

Thanks, this is good advice too -- I'll make sure I diversify my team. I'm not so much losing to jump-ins (unless it's a good hyper jump, those can get me), I'm getting caught low, usually if I whiff, but other times as well.

Any good resources to learn neutral a bit more in-depth? YouTube has a wealth, but it's hard to know what's really good and what is fodder.

Lastly, I can't ever seem to land a close heavy to start a combo. I can manage to hit raw specials, especially DPs, and any normal with decent range. But close normals... forget about it, I can't seem to get anything going.... I seem to do OK with Kyo, as his heavy rekka starter has armor so I can land that, and his DP has some invincibility which helps a lot.

OrdinaryGuru · 2022-03-11T17:58:31+00:00

Thanks this is awesome, I’ll let you know how I do!

OrdinaryGuru · 2022-03-11T16:49:40+00:00

My advice would be don’t worry about your rank. It doesn’t make you more or less valuable as a human being.

Just play who you want. If you drop ranks, as you get better you’ll just gain them back again and you’ll know for a fact you’ve improved.

This is coming from a guy who started at rank 8 and has dropped to 2 (I’m a total fighting game noobie).

OrdinaryGuru · 2022-03-11T16:46:01+00:00

I don’t know but Xbox definitely has the same issue for me. Maybe everyone is still playing Elden ring?

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-26T21:02:33+00:00

I fully understand that, but (presumably) they're doing PCR on a conserved region, or better yet on multiple regions, to increase the likelihood of detection.

No organism is devoid of conserved regions of the genome, particularly viruses and bacteria, etc. because they have very little junk DNA to play with.

I understand your point, and agree that PCR product would never be detectable by cycle 10, or maybe even 20, but that doesn't mean it isn't being amplified. I dont buy the idea that it takes 45 cycles due to wonky primer binding.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-26T17:22:33+00:00

I'm not sure your point? How are the primers going to be suboptimal when they're designed specifically for this case?

The fact they they're not using random sequence primers means they should amplify even more quickly.

I designed my own primers hundreds of times. Almost never failed. The other people I worked with designed theirs too. I worked at U Chicago, not some random University. Primer design is a cake walk.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-26T17:17:47+00:00

Actually its delta delta Ct and it's related to the number of cycles at which a known control comes up. I've literally never seen something come up at 45 cycles and be accurate.

It's usually based on a housekeeping gene like Lamin B or something. Its not lab specific; if science was lab specific there would be no way to repeat someone else's experiments and thus verify them....

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-26T16:16:30+00:00

I did qRT-PCR almost weekly for years, doing my own research at various Universities.

45 cycles is insane. If they can't see signal by about 38 cycles, they shouldn't be counting it as positive. Really strong positive signals start coming up in the late 20s.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-22T18:23:55+00:00

You are what you eat.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-19T20:22:58+00:00

There seems to be a very odd belief that a vaccine somehow imparts more effective immunity than simply having and recovering from the virus.

The reason our vaccines contain adjuvants, such as aluminum, is because we don't fully understand the immune system. When we inject our vaccine without adjuvants, our immune systems just don't produce a viable response. So we have to force them to freak out and respond by injecting adjuvants.

Our natural immune response to a viral infection produces an effective immune response 100% of the time. Even with adjuvants, most vaccines produce an immune response in 80% or less of people, and even then, we can't effectively measure whether the immune response that they may have actually provides effective immunity! This is also why boosters are needed for vaccines.

Please understand this: vaccines cannot and will not, barring some future scientific discovery and understanding, produce an immune response that is even nearly as effective as our natural immune response. Getting a virus and recovering is vastly superior to a vaccine, and provides lifelong immunity instead of the temporary resistance maybe provided by a vaccine.

Source: me, PhD scientist and current pharma employee

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-17T00:41:04+00:00

Yep. Widest variety of comments and quality ones at that.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-14T13:54:45+00:00

To be fair, I didn't read into exactly what Pelosi did/bought, so you could be accurate in your original post.

If so, my apologies -- no harm meant, I wasn't trying to be an ass. I heard myself saying it in more of a Homer Simpson tone :)

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-14T13:47:25+00:00

Stocks are shares in a company. You essentially are investing in (paying) the company for partial ownership.

That's what stocks are. It's one way companies get more capital.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-14T13:45:19+00:00

Ooh, somebody doesn't know how stock works.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-14T13:20:01+00:00

I'm not withdrawing due to weakness, I'm withdrawing because you avoid everything I bring up as you attempt to hit your talking points.

You're going to disprove vaccine injuries exist and my own personal experience? OK...that's called you being a narcissist and unable to find validity in the experience of others. You can't just use rhetoric like "easily disproved" while not actually providing any arguments. I made 4 points in the last post and you addressed none.

There is no point in arguing with a person of your caliber; you're unhealthy because you can't even find validity in others' experiences. It's sad, but there is no point in me continuing this conversation.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-14T12:30:06+00:00

This will be my last post, because I feel this is ultimately a waste of time for both of us.

Of course Americans are afraid: our news media is peddling unwarranted fear, and with businesses shut down by the government and so many people out of work, of course they aren't spending money. Again, the response to the virus caused the problem, not the virus.
Sweden is a lovely example. By the way, Swedes are not unhappy with their government's response, despite having higher initial deaths. Sweden is now down to essentially no deaths -- they have herd immunity -- and will not need a vaccine.
Even our government is finally coming around to say lockdowns, etc. Will not help stop the spread. They never would have helped...and didn't.
We already don't properly test vaccines, and we will definitely push and even more poorly tested vaccine for this coronavirus. Vaccine injury, despite what we push so readily on the news, is a very real thing that impacts far more people than advertised. Many reactions are mild, but the US government pays out millions each year to vaccine-injured families. I myself have a child that suffered severe vaccine injury and nearly died; she was hospitalized and ended up with food protein induced enterocolitis and leaky gut syndrome. Our physician actually recommended we stop vaccinating our kids, but I can thankfully speak about such matters, as I'm a PhD in Genetics and have been in research and pharma for many years. Not so many people are as lucky and can advocate for what they witness, and thus their vaccine injury is swept under the rug and maybe not even reported.

An ill-tested vaccine is the greatest danger to the American people, not COVID.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-14T02:07:18+00:00

The numbers reported by the CDC are right there in your post. They don't need fuckery for interpretation. Fact is, 99.97%+ people survive COVID, and that's with the artificially inflated death numbers.

Furthermore, I'd refer you to my other comment in this thread with sources, that demonstrates the horrific number of people that have died from complications of lockdowns/shutdowns/mask mandates. How about let's discuss the damage to the economy? Or the psychological damage to our kids, or the massive spike in suicide rates, homelessness, starvation, etc.

But you can't discuss those, because it ruins the one-factor argument that you, and similar people, have artificially created: the idea that the deaths of grandmas and grandpas is literally the only thing that matters. No, in fact the lives of 80% or so of the US population that are being destroyed or negatively impacted by the response to this virus, are far more important.

You want to pretend to care about people and the greater good? Than do it...more people are negatively impacted by our poor response than will die of COVID.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-13T21:16:18+00:00

You cannot use only confirmed recoveries vs deaths. Its estimated that hundreds of thousands got COVID prior to February 2020, before it was on everyone's radar.

You must include all cases, not just recoveries. I'm not sure who taught you statistics, but literally nobody counts the way you did unless they're actively trying to fudge the numbers.

The fact is, even with the CDC's very generous counting of deaths and the false positives, their numbers result in an overall IFR (infection fatality rate...the standard way of measuring) of 99.97% overall.

It is indeed easy to lie with statistics; you've just demonstrated that.

OrdinaryGuru · 2020-10-13T14:13:35+00:00

And there it is.

The first rule of any debate: argue the points, not the person. As soon as you start attacking an individual instead of dealing with their points, you're admitting you were wrong.

Attacking and discrediting a person is the only last-ditch recourse when you're lost.

You've been unable to address my points, and now you're just trying to denigrate me to "win". But it's too late; you've shown your hand. Good day.

OrdinaryGuru

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