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| Topic | Kingdom Come Deliverance or Rainbow Six Siege? Which one should I buy and play? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/31/18 5:34:44 AM #25 | Oakland510_ posted... How is terrorist hunt game mode? Repetitive. Good to learn the maps and mechanics. Occasionally you'll continue doing it for daily quests for renown. Not really a feature I'd buy the game solely for. --- |
| Topic | Is your Wi-Fi WIRED or WIRELESS?? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/31/18 12:13:20 AM #5 | If I'm paying for 100 mbps I don't want to settle for a less than reliable connection that won't surpass 60-70, especially with online gaming. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/31/18 12:12:22 AM #49 | |
| Topic | Kingdom Come Deliverance or Rainbow Six Siege? Which one should I buy and play? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/31/18 12:10:53 AM #21 | Oakland510_ posted... I meant how would my teammates know if I communicate with them or not? The maps are so small and teams are small so they would know if we don't talk? Each person is critical in winning that they would know what everyone is doing? It's not at all like battlefield where your individual contribution doesn't amount to much and it's not like CoD where it's just the culmination of individual performances and people just run, gun, die, repeat. It's 5v5 team based objectives with one life per round. Every teammate absolutely knows what any other teammate is doing because getting past defenders' gadgets or successfully stymieing attackers' push depends on working together. There are common strats people learn such that at casual level play you could get away with not talking. But even small information such as calling out where you died gives your team a big advantage. You could technically play ranked refusing to talk on mic and just typing, but teammates might get annoyed at you. Rainbow six can have a bit of a toxic community, not unlike overwatch. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/31/18 12:06:58 AM #47 | Clinical trials have specific inclusion criteria when enlisting patients onto experimental trials. To include patients who don't meet the criteria, you risk confounding the results and getting poor data. So to guise this as furthering research is missing how the scientific method is even done. This bill is not in the spirit of evidence-based medicine and is based on emotional appeal. I can't be the only person who sees this. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/31/18 12:04:55 AM #44 | Paging @Coffeebeanz @megamanfreakXD @NeuralLaxative @DanHarenChamp @MrPeppers I need to sample your opinions on this. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/31/18 12:01:30 AM #43 | DavidWong posted... Yeah, but if you're 100% gonna die in 2 months, but have a 0.05% chance to survive with this experimental trial, fuck it if I'm gonna die anyway give me the long shot, and be ready with the damn morphine if I end up in excruciating pain I recommend you shadow in a hospital at some point and get a glimpse of how much of a train wreck people can be when it comes to disease and how a snowball's chance in hell is not always worth the potential complications. You literally have no idea the hell you can put yourself through more than just pain that can be solved with a little morphine. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:57:27 PM #40 | Damn_Underscore posted... That's why there are doctors. As a doctor, you can advise your patient not to try a treatment. The increasing prevalence of people seeking alternative medicine and "naturopathic" medicine shows patients are easily swayed, even outside of their doctor's recommendations. Coupled with false hope in light of terminal illness and this is exacerbated. The problem is when mainstream medicine takes shortcuts, you get shit like Thalidomide and an erosion of the public's trust with modern medicine. Without reading the bill, it's unclear whether or not these still need to be prescribed by a physician, or if there is some pathway that circumvents this because of the "right to try." The emotional language in the article kind of worries me a bit. If it still needs to be prescribed, then at least there is still that safeguard. But as much as I try and put forth the ethical position here, I'm not blinded to the subset of my profession that is morally bankrupt or too burned out to care. I've rotated with some doctors with outdated practices or otherwise don't follow evidence-based medicine as well. I'm sure some oncologists are not exempt from that. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:48:51 PM #31 | Capn Circus posted... Chemo therapy in some cases??? Yes, like chemo therapy in some cases. And some of these drugs will be new chemo drugs with an unknown side effect/toxicity profile and no proven efficacy, as opposed to the chemo regimens that do have data behind them. --- |
| Topic | Kingdom Come Deliverance or Rainbow Six Siege? Which one should I buy and play? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:39:20 PM #17 | Oakland510_ posted... Do we need a mic for Rainbow Six Siege? You don't need it, especially in casual, but if you have any interest in playing ranked and having a more enjoyable experience through teamwork, I'd really recommend it. Things like call outs to enemy locations can mean the difference in a round. And playing with an uncoordinated team can be frustrating, much like in overwatch, the difference being there is more of a role of an individual "clutch" to carry a team compared with overwatch. --- |
| Topic | Kingdom Come Deliverance or Rainbow Six Siege? Which one should I buy and play? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:29:57 PM #8 | DarthAragorn posted... Soviet_Poland posted...DarthAragorn posted...standard and advanced are different entries on most sites i think Ah, my bad. I thought when Chimera came out they were phasing out standard, but I guess they decided against it. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:25:56 PM #22 | creativerealms posted... I will be honest with you I would rather these people take untested or under tested treatments that might help them rather then rely on quack treatments that will do nothing and just scam them out of money. As when they are that despite all the woo peddlers come out of the woodwork. I think you're failing to recognize that the potential treatment options from this pool are the woo. Or rather the woo that never makes it to market because pharma has to operate under regulations as opposed to the actual woo. But drugs very, very often don't make it through clinical trials despite initial promise. The public just never sees this. Granting access to these drugs is really not much different from homeopathic or naturopathic alternatives (read: snake oil) from an evidenced-based standpoint. Again, science is not done through major breakthroughs. The process is much longer and much more boring, but a lot safer. --- |
| Topic | Kingdom Come Deliverance or Rainbow Six Siege? Which one should I buy and play? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:23:15 PM #6 | DarthAragorn posted... standard and advanced are different entries on most sites i think I think they removed standard as an option since operation chimera and turned it into advanced. But raised the price because it included their limited time boxes. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:21:27 PM #17 | Spooking posted... President Trump has always been pro-science, so this is of no surprise. I'll take "what the fuck is ethics" for 500, Alex. --- |
| Topic | Kingdom Come Deliverance or Rainbow Six Siege? Which one should I buy and play? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:19:57 PM #3 | R6:S better be the advanced version on sale. The starter edition is a joke and should not be bought under any circumstance. Spring for the standard edition (now called advanced I think). That being said, both of these games scratch a much different itch. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:18:33 PM #11 | Rimmer_Dall posted... ... people who are gonna die anyway and may find something that works. Or may cause terrible side effects leading to significant harm and decrease in quality of the remainder of their life, which may also come with financial burden of the loved ones left behind. Seriously, people who don't deal with patients every day have absolutely no clue just how harmful some things can be. Just because something *can* be done doesn't mean it should. And when there is already a process to fast-track drugs with initially promising results, taking that a step further is just going to increase the amount of harmful or ineffective treatments out there. --- |
| Topic | Trump signs "Right to Try" bill |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 11:14:56 PM #9 | I think laypeople have this exaggerated view of experimental treatments with expectations that they'll be the exception. The reality is that the whole process of FDA approval is there to serve as a filter from treatments that aren't efficacious or even downright harmful. I'll be a doctor in less than a year and I've learned so much about the potential harm we can do. My job is just as much protecting patients from the plethora of harmful approaches or snake oil salesman than it is treating them. There's just too much to know to expect any lay person to even come close to an informed opinion about treatments. My fear is something like this is thin-veiled PR boosts ("Think of the poor, dying patients!", but really is just handing big pharma a boon by taking shortcuts and selling false hope. There already is a process for treatments that show drastically improved survival benefits to get fast-track approvals. Jumping from Phase I to terminally ill patients just seems like poor stewardship, and a little exploitative IMO. --- |
| Topic | XKCD is always relevant (Roseanne) |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 10:59:56 PM #1 | |
| Topic | Khajiit must keep their post outside the CEity |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 10:53:15 PM #15 | RoboLaserGandhi posted... "Profiling bastards! They make us set up shop outside the city because they think we're all skooma dealers!" xD --- |
| Topic | Liberals, what do you want to do about illegal immigration? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 10:48:23 PM #24 | Immigration process reform that streamlines it educated/skilled workers, or otherwise incentives uneducated/unskilled to pursue education or technical training upon immigration rather than a long lottery system. Amnesty for those currently here. Willing to compromise complete amnesty for just dream act students, not their parents. Keep the current system in which military service can grant their parents citizenship. Tighten border security, but more importantly, visa reform since this topic always ignores the significant amount of people who overstay their visas here. So many eastern europeans with thick accents and broken english and no one bats an eye, but places like Arizona pass a "papers, please" law that lets LEO basically solicit any person of color when it's just as possible their family has been in the U.S. for generations. I'm white and first generation American born here. No one has ever questioned my immigration status in spite of having a very foreign name that English speakers can't pronounce. Meanwhile growing up in the southwest I've had citizen friends of hispanic descent get questioned frequently. The benefits of amnesty lie in the fact that a lot of the waste and economic burden that comes from illegal immigration stems from relying on the safety net because there is no upward mobility (i.e., dream act students had a much tougher road getting through college than citizens who could take out federal loans, since we already invested in their public education, it's a waste to not cultivate that intelligence and talent into a skilled/educated tax paying citizen). It would also incentivize them to culturally integrate and less likely for them to send money back home away from our economy if this becomes their new home. That being said, tightening border security and/or visa reform can only do so much. Short of extremely authoritarian methods, you'll never have 100% efficacy so the problem will eventually resurface. But I find a lot of conservatives ignore the economic boon because they can't overlook some emotional facet, which is kind of funny considering their party's alleged ideology, but I digress. --- |
| Topic | Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Is Most Extreme In States Without Immigrants |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 10:37:41 PM #35 | Spooking posted... 'Illegal Alien' is what the IRS refers to them as. Changing the language - romanticizing, actually - is Orwellian. You really have to showcase your bias to consider "undocumented immigrant" to be romanticized to be the point of Orwellian. Why not just drop the act instead of rationalizing your prejudices? --- |
| Topic | Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Is Most Extreme In States Without Immigrants |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 10:33:52 PM #31 | Questionmarktarius posted... actual article is about the perception of illegals committing crimes at a higher rate, which 100% of them already have anyway. If you've ever jay walked before I'm tagging you as a filthy criminal. Instead of hiding behind that facade, why not just admit you think that technically means they're more likely to commit other crime, if only because you don't like immigrants? I'd respect you a lot more over the mental gymnastics. --- |
| Topic | So, networks are now removing Roseanne's re-runs from their lineups. Too far? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 10:28:32 PM #61 | TrevorBlack79 posted... Reading Caution's posts in Cartman's voice has made him much more entertaining. This post, for example: I'm dyinggggggg right now --- |
| Topic | I'm getting married real soon. |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 10:22:08 PM #10 | lilORANG posted... so you're saying I'm dooooomed Some people have religious beliefs that preclude them from living together before marriage, and they make it work after the fact. It was important for myself, but consistent with my values. Doesn't mean you're doomed. --- |
| Topic | Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Is Most Extreme In States Without Immigrants |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 10:20:23 PM #24 | Spooking posted... The study is bias. Asking about "undocumented immigrants" changes the language. The IRS refers to them as 'illegal aliens', it's the far, far left who calls them undocumented immigrants. The study was poisoned from the get-go. Yeah and there is a pretty insensitive word that people used to refer to black people by, but we're not claiming the shift of language is biased there, are we? --- |
| Topic | I'm getting married real soon. |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 10:10:46 PM #8 | lilORANG posted... did you live with your boo first? I'm thinking the biggest change is having to share a tv Yeah we lived together for 5 years before we got hitched. I think it's important as well, because living habits can be quite different relative to bae coming over for date night/sleeping over once in a while. --- |
| Topic | Do you associate depression with lack of eating or too much eating? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 9:42:10 PM #4 | Change in eating habits is a symptom of depression. By definition, it can go either way. --- |
| Topic | So, networks are now removing Roseanne's re-runs from their lineups. Too far? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 9:40:16 PM #10 | Hexenherz posted... I really feel like we're living in the 21st century soviet union at this point. Communities have been socially engineering behavior deemed acceptable by the masses through the use of shame since we stopped hunting and gathering. And even then, probably some of that happened. And the subset of conservatives who think this was an overreaction conveniently forget that "the good old days" had this type of behavior too. --- |
| Topic | How long until people see Net Neutrality repeal changes? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 9:26:47 PM #9 | It'll be insidious for sure. People react to sudden, massive changes in the status quo. People won't notice piece-meal policy change on a neighborhood level. They want it to fly under the radar until we're all normalized to the idea of paying for different levels of access to the internet. The sad thing is it'll eventually reach a point where people will rationalize it by saying they don't go to 90% of the internet and feel they get a "better deal" by some package. --- |
| Topic | I'm getting married real soon. |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 9:24:41 PM #6 | Congrats. I didn't find post-married life to be any different than when I was just in a long-term relationship with my SO. I think that's kind of the key. Any sort of expectations of things being different just by virtue of marriage leaves room to introduce arbitrary, artificial barriers to a genuine relationship. --- |
| Topic | Reasons to never give beggars/homeless people money |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 9:20:44 PM #45 | If people solicit me for money, I don't give it. If they initially solicit for food, I tend to buy them food. I have at occasions created a "care package" with those draw string backpacks that include hygiene products, water bottles, protein-dense non-perishable foods, packages of socks, etc. If you buy these things in bulk you can make a half dozen or so for relatively cheap. And I'll hand these out if I'm at a stoplight where someone has a sign, usually for the women or men who are older. I'm less likely to assist younger, able-bodied men. I recognize even in a state of being able to work there may be barriers to them securing a job if they don't have shelter or a means to shave/shower/etc, so I recognize it's kind of an implicit bias. I realize this doesn't create any impact on a systemic scale, but I like to think the care packages make their lives a little more comfortable for a short period. Any one of us can get the perfect storm of events that lead to homelessness. --- |
| Topic | Question for atheists, do you respect religious beliefs? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 9:08:29 PM #9 | Depends what you mean by respect of the "actual beliefs." I think a lot of religions share common moral ground and try and promote virtuous behavior and I respect that. I think they often promote a sense of community, and I respect that. If we're talking about the overlap of political belief, I think religious communities often create in-groups and shy away from the moral foundation of their religion in the name of identity politics, I don't respect that. An example would be Christians who work to undermine the social safety net in direct opposition to Christ's teachings. I get that they might think favorable welfare may engender learned helplessness and some people take advantage of that system, but I think expecting them to independently arise from their circumstances to be overly reductionist and idealistic and not in the spirit of their religion. I don't believe in the validity of any of their origin stories or take any of their allegories as literal, I don't know if that construes as "disrespect." I do contend that I don't think my tendency towards atheism means I am automatically correct. Metaphysical questions/problems and questions outside of the realm of our means of investigation, scientific enquiry, etc are inherently unknowable and I'm equally as stumped about how all of this came to be to begin with. The difference is I don't fill in the gaps with idiosyncratic placeholders. I do feel like I tend to be more inclusive in so far as I have friends who are pretty devout christians, catholics, muslims, etc. Because I'm not invested in any particular brand, I kind of see more of their similarities than they do from within, if that makes sense. And as a result, I find I'm able to respect people of all faiths a bit more evenly, where by anecdote I've met a lot of religious people who are hypercritical of any faith outside of their own. --- |
| Topic | CE rate my monitor setup and wallpapers pls |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 8:58:27 PM #15 | |
| Topic | so do i buy dark souls remastered or nah |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 8:57:47 PM #4 | If console - sure If PC and own Prepare to die edition - ehhhhh It honestly looks like DSFix and an extra bonfire added and they somehow got to a $20 price point, whereas remasters that provided more were given for free to previous owners (Skyrim, Bioshock, etc). As much as I love DS and FromSoftware, I'm kind of annoyed at this version. I suppose if you wanted to experience DS with teeming online activity and whether or not $20 is worth that to you. --- |
| Topic | Kind of wild how actual threats aren't addressed, but harmless pranks get |
| Soviet_Poland 05/30/18 8:55:31 PM #8 | So one isolated example of a harmless prank getting punished means the entire country is teeming with idiots and that there is an epidemic of actual threats falling through the cracks? I haven't seen a straw man like that since the wizard of oz. --- |
| Topic | Eating Thai, watching Star Wars before Game 7. |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 10:14:15 PM #6 | |
| Topic | Solo was fucking fantastic (spoilers) |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 10:12:18 PM #3 | My issue with the movie was that it was For what it's worth, I thought Alden and Donald did great in their respective performances, but they were constrained by a story that I don't feel necessarily needed to be told. It left me feeling like a generic action film with a star wars theme rather than part of the SWU. I'd much rather prefer spin-offs to introduce novel characters in new locations inspired by existing SW lore. It was a shallowly enjoyable film, but I didn't find it very memorable. --- |
| Topic | 17 year old basketball player dies on court |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 10:08:10 PM #5 | Tyranthraxus posted... That's terrible. It sounds like he might have had an aneurysm. This kind of scenario is more classic for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Genetic defect causing the middle wall of the heart separating the ventricles to be thickened, which can block forward flow. Can be fatal during periods of intense exercise because of the high cardiac output. They die because of either a deadly arrhythmia or because it triggers a reflex that causes extreme slowing of the heart and bottoming out of your blood pressure. KawiKa posted... I can see heart screening being mandatory for young athletes soon. It already is in most places for this exact reason. --- |
| Topic | Thoughts on Destiny 2? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 8:01:50 PM #23 | TroutPaste posted... Does anyone know how to avoid over leveling ? Seems like there's no challenge The entire campaign is essentially just a tutorial to the raid and/or heroic strike content at end game. --- |
| Topic | Thoughts on Destiny 2? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 1:45:41 PM #14 | Dash_Harber posted... Yeah, it's fun. Had an okay amount of content. I got my 40-60 hours out of it, so I can't complain. It improved on a lot of things from the first one. I feel like one or two good full expansions will improve it immensely. This is a good point. People went from D1, which was fleshed out with multiple expansions and generally considered to be in a good place at the end of its cycle. Then D2 came out, which mirrored how bare bones D1 was during vanilla launch. I still got a good 40-60 hours, grinded a character to max light level, did the raid a few times and beat the end game PvP once. As a stand alone game, I definitely got my money's worth. But people's expectations were that of where D1 left off. But let's be real, activision was going to mirror the life-cycle of D1 with its expansions, so there was no chance in hell D2 would start off like a game with multiple DLCs. Whether or not that's a valid complaint, D2 seems like it went one step forward and two steps back in a lot of people's minds. I guess since I only played vanilla D1 and never the expansions, I had a more favorable view of the game. --- |
| Topic | Thoughts on Destiny 2? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 1:42:21 PM #12 | Very pretty game with smooth game play and fun gunplay. Not really much in terms of story and the end game grind is arbitrary to some people (grind weekly quests that are repeat content in order to get higher level gear in order to shoot at higher level enemies that are also repeat content). The first play through is definitely worth $10. The rest depends how much you enjoy MMO carrot-on-a-stick gameplay. It's more casual than MMOs, so that might appeal to people who no longer have the time for an MMO but do enjoy the general idea. It gets a ton of hate and it's community must be some of the most self-hating individuals to continue to play a game they so vocally despise, and which betrays their alleged values. --- |
| Topic | Are forums internet wide dying? |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 5:27:22 AM #2 | It's called social media. SoundNetwork posted... How do youngins communicate with strangers nowadays reddit, instagram, twitter, snapchat, etc. The internet is a lot more consolidated compared to the compartmentalized forum era of 15 years ago. --- |
| Topic | I hate surgeons |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 5:19:41 AM #5 | More than eight hours into surgery, Boutte's staff called 911 because she stopped breathing, according to court documents. This is the egregious part here--trying to do an 8 hour long procedure outpatient with what sounds like no anesthesiologist. --- |
| Topic | I hate surgeons |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 5:10:32 AM #4 | "My patients are bad and boujee. Building up fat in the booty. My patients are snatched with big booties. We got tummy tucks and BBLs TOO!" --- |
| Topic | Iowa governor and human being signs fetal 'heartbeat bill' into law |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 5:06:23 AM #203 | UnfairRepresent posted... If your mother had aborted you, you wouldn't exist today. I'll never understand this bullshit appeal to emotion. No, it doesn't influence my opinion because if I was an aborted fetus, I necessarily wouldn't know what I was missing. And this is coming from someone with a generally good and fulfilling life. You can't retroactively apply what you experienced and apply it to every potential life. Think of all the billion sperm that never had a chance! /s --- |
| Topic | What are the must play PS4 games |
| Soviet_Poland 05/28/18 4:54:06 AM #4 | |
| Topic | I managed to lose a match in Overwatch with no deaths and 4 medals. |
| Soviet_Poland 05/26/18 10:17:13 PM #17 | Medals are sensitive, but not specific. It might be that you had all those medals because your team is not stepping up. It could also be indicative of not doing your role correctly. For example, a reinhardt can easily get gold elim/kills if they charge in, get a kill, swing a few times, then die. Of course, then your team is without a tank and they all drop like flies as a result of the rein not doing their job. Rein gets gold offensive medals and goes "what are you guys even doing?" See? --- |
| Topic | imagine ever drinking hot coffee over iced coffee |
| Soviet_Poland 05/26/18 5:25:28 PM #21 | Muffinz0rz posted... uh don't you just end up with lukewarm coffee then Hahahaha, that was pretty good. --- |
| Topic | imagine ever drinking hot coffee over iced coffee |
| Soviet_Poland 05/26/18 5:24:08 PM #19 | It's not like this is something you have to pick sides on. I drink both. --- |
| Topic | Solo: A Star Wars Story was exceedingly and utterly average. |
| Soviet_Poland 05/26/18 5:22:35 PM #5 | Skye Reynolds posted... Except this would be like if Chris Helmsworth had been the only actor in 30 years to have played Thor, then some random blond guy who looked nothing like him got the part. I have a lot of criticisms about Solo, but this isn't one of them. I went in with your exact opinion, but Alden Ehrenreich actually did a pretty good job. You can tell he studied and practiced some of Ford's mannerisms and did capture a bit of Han Solo (albeit it constrained to the writer's vision of him). --- |
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