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« on: September 11, 2021, 08:11:16 AM »
It's really interesting hearing the perspective of someone who thinks we live in a Jason Bourne movie. Think you forgot to take your Brain Force supplements this morning.
Parking that bizarre conspiratorial diatribe aside, I reiterate my point once again. 5 people have died in the UK from the vaccine, all of whom were probably about to kick the bucket due to age or had pre existing conditions, out of the hundreds of millions of doses administered.
Unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die from covid than those that are vaccinated. We're at the point now where we can confidently proclaim that the pandemic is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Nobody is banning you from questioning the efficacy of vaccines. You're literally doing it now on a backwater gaming forum. The reason that media outlets are averse to airing these opinions is because it's misinformation. Misinformation is dangerous. How many times have we seen some middle aged wine mom in the news regret their decision to not get vaccinated because they read a Facebook post claiming the vaccines give you seizures. All the while their lungs are collapsing in on themselves in the ICU.
See, I'd have more respect for you and the anti vax "truthers" if there was even just a micro granule of consistency to your opinions. If you're that skeptical about vaccines then you might as well just question the entire body of medical science while you're at it. Every medical treatment has risk involved, from dollar store painkillers right up to chemotherapy.
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« on: September 11, 2021, 04:07:01 AM »
>heart problems
See, this is my beef with these right wing rags that disgorge misinformation for clicks. "Heart problems" is such an amorphous and vague term that doesn't really elucidate what the actual condition involves.
A known and considerably rare side effect of Pfizer and Moderna is yeah sure, heart inflammation. Despite the alarming terminology, and what these toilet paper pieces don't tell you is that heart inflammation as a result of vaccination hasn't been proven to be morbidly serious and can be treated with rest and a couple of painkillers. Very few cases actually result in requiring serious medical treatment.
How about some actual data? The EMA analysis of cases found:
Pfizer-BioNTech - 145 cases of myocarditis and 138 cases of pericarditis out of 177m doses given
Moderna - 19 case of myocarditis and 19 cases of pericarditis out of 20 million doses given
Five people died. The review said they were all either elderly or had other health conditions.
The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has also been investigating the link.
It reported: "A consistent pattern of cases occurring more frequently in young males and shortly after the second dose of the vaccines.
"These reports are extremely rare, and the events are typically mild with individuals usually recovering within a short time with standard treatment and rest," it added.
Take the soccer mom ideology out of my thread please.
Take note of pericarditus. It's a disease I picked up back in november(which is apparently a possible obscure side effect of covid)
Carditus isn't lethal, but there's no cure for it. There's an operation where they scrape enflammed tissue from your heart but it's a low success rate. It might just be because my heart's already damaged, but the carditus is constant and it throttles the fuck out of me. It straddles me into a fine line between being disabled, but mobile enough not to qualify for disability.
Carditus comes in many different flavors of severity as well. Although the chances are low from getting it from the pfizer shot at least, it's a really shitty mid-tier side effect to roll. I'd honestly tell you that if I had a choice to take a vaccine to possibly stop me from getting enhanced covid but get carditus as a result, I'd just ask them to kill me instead.
You know, we can talk mathematical chances and odds all day long, but life's showed me repeatedly that no matter the odds you never take chances on anything. One percent chance doesn't give a shit about you when you're the sorry fuck who rolled it.
I admit the toilet paper pieces are garbage, but I think dahuterschuter's reservations touch onto an issue that's not talked about. The advertising campaigns about the vaccinations aren't being straight with people.
I challenge you to go out and talk to people and ask them what they think "immunity" means when they get the covid shot. You might find a higher number of people think they can walk into a cloud of covid particles and they won't get sick. They'll also tell you that the adverts mislead you about taking the vaccine when pregnant, stating that it is "safe" when there's actually no proof yet. At least out where I am, that's the case. A massive amount of mistrust stems from the government's shit ass handling and presentation of everything.
I'm really not sure what you're point is here? All medicines have a cost benefit analysis attached to them, including the most mildest of treatments. You can get potential liver damage from paracetamol, aspirin can thin your blood etc. The question that medical professionals then have to ask themselves is; do the benefits of said treatment outweigh the potential risks? It's pretty much irrefutable at this point that the yielded benefits of vaccines dwarf any exceptionally rare health risks they may pose to an incredibly small demographic of the population. I don't understand why people have to treat vaccines as this special enigma when they probably take a plethora of other medications unfazed.
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« on: September 10, 2021, 11:26:20 AM »
>heart problems
See, this is my beef with these right wing rags that disgorge misinformation for clicks. "Heart problems" is such an amorphous and vague term that doesn't really elucidate what the actual condition involves.
A known and considerably rare side effect of Pfizer and Moderna is yeah sure, heart inflammation. Despite the alarming terminology, and what these toilet paper pieces don't tell you is that heart inflammation as a result of vaccination hasn't been proven to be morbidly serious and can be treated with rest and a couple of painkillers. Very few cases actually result in requiring serious medical treatment.
How about some actual data? The EMA analysis of cases found:
Pfizer-BioNTech - 145 cases of myocarditis and 138 cases of pericarditis out of 177m doses given
Moderna - 19 case of myocarditis and 19 cases of pericarditis out of 20 million doses given
Five people died. The review said they were all either elderly or had other health conditions.
The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has also been investigating the link.
It reported: "A consistent pattern of cases occurring more frequently in young males and shortly after the second dose of the vaccines.
"These reports are extremely rare, and the events are typically mild with individuals usually recovering within a short time with standard treatment and rest," it added.
Take the soccer mom ideology out of my thread please.
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« on: September 08, 2021, 07:16:15 AM »
Hello, what is situation with vaccination in U.S.A? Is there a lot of side effects and if there is what are they?
Death, miscarriages, possibly spike protein accumulation in various areas of the body.
The boomer Facebook pages are that way - - >
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« on: May 14, 2021, 05:06:32 AM »
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« on: April 23, 2021, 07:16:26 AM »
tfw made this thread more than a year ago thinking it would get 20 replies at best and fizzle out after the hype died down while rona just became another bird flu. 
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« on: April 07, 2021, 04:45:04 AM »
The writing in this movie is just plain awful, even for a dumb monster movie. I genuinely thought we were past the 90s "leet hacker" movie trope by now.
pOuR wHisKeY iN tHe cOmPuTer tO sToP tHe rObO mOnSTeR was a top tier eye roll moment even for this kind of film.
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« on: March 01, 2021, 04:32:30 PM »
 "I don't think I can make it on the outside Andy...I'm an institutional man now."
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« on: February 22, 2021, 06:11:05 PM »
Lockdown ending June 21st in the UK. All restrictions are getting chucked supposedly.
Club DJs around the country are gearing up for the absolute tsunami of Mr Brightside requests on June 22nd.
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« on: January 25, 2021, 03:02:39 PM »
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« on: January 22, 2021, 11:30:29 AM »
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« on: January 19, 2021, 11:57:18 AM »
Definitely worst president of modern times for sure.
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« on: January 13, 2021, 11:53:39 AM »
6 digit death toll for UK baybeee
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« on: January 10, 2021, 05:33:57 AM »
TIL from conservatives that "Orwellian" just means getting booted off a social media's private platform for encouraging your sycophants to storm a government building.
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« on: January 09, 2021, 10:37:41 AM »
No point serenading you in cheap clichés, but there does come a point where you need to self heal, learn from the failure as best you can and build yourself back up again. Easier said than done I know, but even just getting out bed and tackling the day is an accomplishment, even if it is just a simple walk around the block. Don't downplay anything that you do achieve. Baby steps are better than no steps.
I lost my job, my girlfriend and my mental health in 2020. A fair bit was due to covid, but a lot of it was other things. I came very close to checking out, but thankfully I didn't. Success or happiness isn't a straight path. You learn more from life shattering moments than you ever do from the peaks.
I mean, when this covid fiasco is over, we're all gonna be able to say to ourselves that we survived a global pandemic. That's an historic achievement in and of itself.
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« on: January 08, 2021, 01:19:11 PM »
the all lives matter thing is just dumb people not understanding that "black lives matter" is supposed to mean "black lives matter too."
Black lives are part of all lives tho.
but if all lives matter, then why are black people still systematically mistreated?
that's why you emphasize black lives—it's not about putting anyone else down, but raising black lives up to the standard enjoyed by most other groups of people who aren't as affected by racism in our country
you can say "all lives matter" if you want, but you're going to sound incredibly glib, because BLM isn't trying to say otherwise—it's about drawing attention to what needs to be drawn attention to, because presently, nobody else in america has to worry as much about stuff like police brutality like black people do
When I say "All lives matter." it should be interpreted as "I am for a world where all lives are equal." or "All lives should matter."
I feel like this better invokes images of unity than singling out one colour/gender/identity/species/age.
Lives matter. All lives should matter. All lives matter.
With BLM - its like there is an implication that all other lives are on some absolute level of justice while black people are the only group that is still mistreated in this world and that is definitely not true. There is cross-species slavery, genocides, abuses of power etc.
I think my problem is that I'm looking at this localized issue (USA) from a global scale, hence the concept disconnect.
I think the problem with the All Lives Matter response is that it's an extremely obtuse phrasing and kind of misses the entire point. Yeah like no shit, all lives do matter, but right now at least in the US, black lives don't matter in the eyes of the criminal justice system. This is patently irrefutable. You wouldn't turn around to a Leukemia patient and tell them "all illnesses matter" would you? No, because it doesn't solve anything and is extremely obnoxious.
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« on: January 07, 2021, 09:18:23 AM »
HE'S IN 
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« on: January 06, 2021, 03:16:46 PM »
 What did he mean by this?
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« on: January 05, 2021, 09:49:58 AM »
Despair  
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« on: January 04, 2021, 07:18:13 AM »
Another day, another tweet by a guy who wears a poorly fitted shirt and white converse about how lockdowns dont work.
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« on: December 31, 2020, 04:39:12 PM »
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« on: December 30, 2020, 01:44:58 AM »
3rd UK lockdown just dropped let's fucking go.
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« on: December 25, 2020, 05:28:44 PM »
Spoiler So I completed the game. The last mission took me like 35-40 mins in total probably. Adam Smasher was a complete pushover of a final boss. My semi rare tech AR shredded him in like 5 minutes. Honestly had more trouble with the dual welding Samurai guy in the previous segment of the game.
Was not expecting how quickly you can wrap up the main story. If you can commit to it and skip a lot of dialogue it's probably like 15 to 20 hours in total. Pretty shocking considering how meaty TW3's was.
Maybe they're saving up the meat for DLCs?
I hope so. With any luck they'll give out the first expansion for free given the absolute fuckery that ensued post release.
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« on: December 24, 2020, 05:27:04 PM »
Spoiler So I completed the game. The last mission took me like 35-40 mins in total probably. Adam Smasher was a complete pushover of a final boss. My semi rare tech AR shredded him in like 5 minutes. Honestly had more trouble with the dual welding Samurai guy in the previous segment of the game.
Was not expecting how quickly you can wrap up the main story. If you can commit to it and skip a lot of dialogue it's probably like 15 to 20 hours in total. Pretty shocking considering how meaty TW3's was.
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« on: December 22, 2020, 12:54:37 PM »
Okay so I've sunk enough hours into this game to explore some of the thoughts I have of it. Haven't completed the main storyline yet (I'm at the Hanako questline that warns you of not being able to return should you continue) so not everything I say will encapsulate every facet of the game, but I'm pretty sure I've got the gist of what it was going for.
The setting and aesthetics are great. Characters are well fleshed out and engaging. Johnny Silverhand is probably my favourite in the game. Sidequests aren't just half baked "collect a package" type set ups. They're really well conceptualised and lengthy.
Now, the critiques. Glitches and crashes notwithstanding there's a lot of really wasted potential here and just straight up missing aspects of the game that were promised.
-Lifepaths. Probably my biggest gripe. They impact absolutely fuck all except for the prologue and a select few dialogue options. What happened to "your life path isn't set in stone"? I distinctly remember being told we would get to deviate between lifepaths, i.e. Street kids can become Corpos, Nomads can become Street kids etc. Maybe I've missed some obscure questline that I haven't discovered yet but I chose street kid and I haven't once been offered the option to move up the food chain to become a Corpo or join a bunch of Nomads. The closest I came to this was the Panam questline were she offered me to join the Aldecados, but the game promptly shut down any prospect of accepting her offer, essentially just giving me a couple different ways to say "lolno".
Why isn't there a corpo questline where I can backstab my way to becoming CEO of the various corporations in the game? Why can't I become a street boss, or have my street cred actually mean something other than having a couple more options at a clothing vendor? Happy to be corrected if I'm just straight up missing a side gig but at this point in the game I thought the options would be well and truly presented to me by now.
-Gangs. Apart from the Maelstrom quest at the start of the game and that brief stint in Pacifica with the Voodo Boys, I have had absolutely fuck all interactions with any of the other gangs and I've nearly completed the main questline. They could have been removed from the game post launch and I would have absolutely no clue they were ever there. Why can't I join one of the gangs too? All they've ended up bringing to the game is a slight change in the aesthetics of different parts of the city. Sorry, but "kill a cyberpsycho that's part of X gang" isn't good enough for them to be a substantial feature of the game. Hell, fucking Skyrim gives you the option to join various different factions. At least give us a quest line for each of the gangs.
-Perks and Attributes. Apart from being able to open doors and hack computers, I'm not seeing a whole lot of gameplay usage for them. I can hack cameras but I can't hack into people's hardware, take control and cause mayhem among the ranks? Again, it just comes back to my main point of wasted potential. There's so much they could have done but they just went for the convential "gain 10% damage in melee/shooting/hacking" garbage we've seen in every other RPG.
-AI. Inexcusable, but it's already been touched upon here.
Even after all that and the bugs, I still don't consider it a bad game, I just think features that were promised or at least alluded to have not been integrated at all. Definitely seems like this game has something really special to bring, but it just can't quite stick the landing for whatever reason.
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« on: December 22, 2020, 10:22:39 AM »
Honestly the glitches don't bother me that much anymore but for the love of christ please give us an option to mute Delaware if we aren't pursuing his questline. Sick of seeing that white gormless looking face pop up every time I enter a new area.
"V iVe PiCkEd uP a SiGnAl iN yOuR aReA"
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« on: December 19, 2020, 07:55:24 PM »
sequel fags: "noooooo, you can't just make a TV series that's better than our entire trilogy. You have to sUbVeRt eXpEcTaTiOnS. I literally have no other concept that makes a good movie ;((("
Mando chads: "haha beskar goes brrrr"
Bro your style of arguing is so cringe
Bro you voted for trump
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« on: December 19, 2020, 07:04:35 AM »
>it's a "sequel virgin gets overly defensive about the fact that Rian Johnson can't write to save himself" episode.
Chad Favreau will be delivering your next batch of copium.
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« on: December 19, 2020, 05:43:03 AM »
 The Last Jedi was objectively trash. Chadalorians unite.
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« on: December 19, 2020, 05:34:16 AM »
sequel fags: "noooooo, you can't just make a TV series that's better than our entire trilogy. You have to sUbVeRt eXpEcTaTiOnS. I literally have no other concept that makes a good movie ;((("
Mando chads: "haha beskar goes brrrr"
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