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It's more akin to uncompressed paper than sawdust, really.

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darkknight109 posted...

Yeah, I think the odds that Nintendo actually pays attention to Fire Emblem and gives them some decent Smash representation are probably pretty slim...

FE's definitely not lacking for Smash representation, it's just that Haar's an extremely minor character even compared to others in the Tellius games (I'd expect Soren or Zelgius first, though the latter would likely be a clone of Ike), and there's no particular incentive to represent Tellius further (namely, the games are no longer for sale and there's nothing new there to promote).

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Zeus posted...

So I'm not entirely sure what definitions you're relying upon.

The biggest distinction people usually make between piracy and theft is that the owner doesn't actually lose whatever is being pirated. It's like fire: you can light your own torch from a fire, but that doesn't take away any of the original fire. Now, fixating on that distinction ignores the less direct harm of piracy (namely that it creates a culture of devaluing the pirated products, as well as putting those who put work into creating the stuff at a disadvantage relative to the thieves), so it's not an ideal way to look at the issue, but it's the rationale used nonetheless.

Gr8M8 posted...

This is about art, right?

It's about anything.

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Mead posted...

Also people in the comments are calling BS saying the game looks much better on their PS4 and that the clip in the video is from someones game not fully rendering a new area yet

It did look better after giving some models a chance to load. The question is how long that load takes.

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You can't steal ideas themselves. You can steal all tangible benefits the idea's existence might offer. Where ideas have no practical value outside of those tangible benefits, practically speaking, you can steal ideas.

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keyblader1985 posted...

That's one hell of a visual.

You're lying in bed, drifting off to sleep. Your eyes start to fall shut, when suddenly, you see this peering out from your closet door:

https://i.imgur.com/U3lUKWN.png

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darkknight109 posted...

I'm thinking they'll go with Haar from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

I wouldn't mind this, but there's also absolutely no way it'll happen.

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I have hot chocolate much more often, but hot spiced cider is an excellent - if uncommon - treat.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

what

I'm guessing that "is" is supposed to be "us."

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likehelly posted...

look, some games do it right, and some don't

Translation: Some games have a good enough aim assist to compensate for how objectively bad controllers are for shooters.

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brian577 posted...

For how long???

Until vaccines roll out to enough of an extent to take over as the primary public health measure.

I know you want definite answers, but the fact of the matter is that definite answers do not exist. That's not incompetence on the part of doctors and scientists, that's the simple reality of such a complex, chaotic situation.

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VioletMassacre posted...

Maybe it's just me, but isn't it pretty much a given that a cyberpunk game taking place in something called "Night City" is extremely likely to have flahing lights and stuff?

It sounds like this goes even beyond that, with specific scenes that are all but deliberately designed to trigger seizures. Flashing lights are to be expected, but not to this scale.

Revelation34 posted...

Those warnings are pretty pointless since most people ignore them anyway.

They're largely a CYA measure, preventing publishers from being sued if somebody has a seizure while playing their game. Most people don't really ignore them so much as they accept that it's a risk and move forward anyway because they're not in any particular danger. Those epileptics with a history of seizures induced by video games do tend to consider it more seriously, including many that give up gaming altogether for it.

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I don't think I've ever done ginger snaps either, though I have done soft molasses cookies. I took two of those and sandwiched an eggnog buttercream between them, which was amazing.

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likehelly posted...

it definitely needs more aim assist than the amount it has of none

"Controllers are better than M+KB for shooters" - Helly, c. 2013
"This console shooter needs better aim assist" - Helly, 2020

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Zeus posted...

idk, when buying gifts for billionaires you have to go bigger.

Giving a billionaire a gift that will be meaningful based on dollar value alone is a thoroughly impractical, foolish idea. If you're giving a billionaire a gift, you need to get something they will like, but wouldn't have thought of buying for themselves. That's true of every gift, really, but at least with non-billionaires you can say they wouldn't have bought it for themselves because of the cost, should you fail to achieve that ideal.

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dedbus posted...

I honestly thought those warnings were like hot sauce and they put that shit on everything.

Pretty much every video game carries it, because you can all but guarantee that just about every game is going to end up flickering from time to time (even if it's just as a result of clipping the camera out of the map) and that's something epileptics should be aware of before playing, but this sounds like it's a particularly egregious example that's extremely likely to cause seizures in photosensitive people. That warrants special mention.

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Voxwik posted...

Review bombs usually have one specific (sometimes trivial) cause that people rally around. As far as I know this game has some bugs but nothing on the level that triggers review bombs.

CDPR has been getting some negative press lately for their crunch practices, which have been very much called into question as Cyberpunk has been developed. The numerous delays (including a very last-minute one) are generally a reflection that they've pushed their development team to their absolute limits, and I could see some coordinated review bombing over that.

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Coffee extract is concentrated enough to take over vanilla's place, though again, it'll be a very different flavour. Depending on what you're making, you can also directly add coffee grounds to give a coffee flavour, provided it's something where the texture won't be a problem (cookies=good, custard=bad). That can be really handy if the extra liquid from adding coffee itself would mess with the dough/batter's consistency (such as with cookies).

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Fundraising a couple million to give a billionaire a gift seems kind of silly. If dude wants it, he could buy it a hundred times over and not see his quality of life change at all.

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wwinterj25 posted...

That too. Some folk are already having a allergic reaction to it over here. Perhaps a exempt card for those(like with masks) will be the idea but it's not really worked for masks as some folk will always try to pull a fast one. We shall see.

Hard to say. I know a lot of places here have been mandating masks regardless of exemptions, requesting (usually quite politely) that anyone that can't wear a mask for whatever reason call them to do a curbside pickup, so that might be the way to go for people that can't be vaccinated. That won't help them access stuff like movie theatres or flights, though.

In terms of fairness, I like the idea of letting vaccine-allergic people get out of needing the cards, but at the same time, that does undermine the whole point of the cards (that is, to ensure that Covid isn't being brought into the establishments in question and spread among a crowd that isn't avoiding it). Of course, they're a pretty small minority and everyone else in the establishments will be vaccinated (vaccines aren't perfect, but vaccinated people are still vastly safer), so maybe that won't be too big of a deal. I guess we'll see what governments decide, since presumably they've thought of this issue as well.

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zebatov posted...

Lol. Blitz said the skin doesnt mean anything. Only someone who wanted a problem would create one from nothing about that, as was done. You said something erroneous in response, so I said Especially...

zebatov posted...

It doesnt [mean anything]. Thats the thing. [It means] Even less when its words describing a character someone has created.

Awkward syntax, to be sure, but the basic gist of that statement is "words mean even less than the skin that means nothing," which simplifies to "words mean less than nothing," or my approximate summary of "words don't mean anything." If that's not what you were trying to say, you should attempt to reword your point because you failed to say anything else. If that is what you were trying to say, then what you said is silly and you should feel silly.

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GunslingerGunsl posted...

I hope not. I was just saying that I'd gladly donate to my favorite steakhouse to keep it open. It's too good to let it go. They offer pick up options now so it's a plus.

There's a taco place near my apartment that I haven't been to yet, and one of the retail news facebook groups for the city made a post about how they've got excellent food, but have really been struggling with the recent shutdowns of restaurants (take-out only for a few weeks, and this place is pretty obscure). Every evening since then, the place has had a lineup around the block, which is just fantastic to see.

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It's really rather baffling that nobody in CDPR saw a problem with this. This is Incredibles 2 all over again.

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zebatov posted...

I dont need a blood orgy to live.

You also don't need movie theatres, restaurants, or planes to live. Presumably, essential businesses would be prohibited from requiring these, since that would obviously be really, really bad, but it's fair game for non-essential stuff.

ReturnOfFa posted...

Yeah well, I needed proof of a TB test before getting into a medical program.

Eeyup. There's ample precedent for requiring proof of vaccinations for any job where you're working with particularly high-risk people.

ultra magnus13 posted...

If the government want to say you can't enter without _______, they can f*** right off. That is between the business and customer.

If we could trust businesses to place the interests of public health ahead of their own prosperity, that'd work fine. But we can't. That's the whole reason the entire FDA exists in the first place: To prevent products and services from being offered that will harm the public (or if a harmful product is permitted, such as cigarettes, to ensure the public is fully informed of the risks involved). There's ample precedent for government intervention to ensure that businesses don't harm the public for the sake of their bottom line (particularly when it comes to issues that are too complex or controversial for the public to be reasonably able to make informed decisions), and this falls well within that concept.

In practice, what's likely to happen is that businesses that don't require these cards for entry will be required to continue operating at distancing-friendly capacity and mandating masks. If all patrons are vaccinated, that should obviate such measures, which is generally going to be very attractive for businesses. Presumably, once the vaccination campaign reaches the herd immunity threshold and the virus disappears, the program will stop being beneficial enough to justify the administration expenses, so it'll be scrapped. That will depend on how the numbers look moving forward, though.

wwinterj25 posted...

To turn folk away who can't get it yet seems a bad idea.

I'll heartily agree with this, though I'm fairly certain nobody's planning on implementing such a program until vaccines are widely available. That would very obviously be a bad idea, especially while we can still rely on less effective measures than vaccines to keep businesses operating. That said, I don't know how this will handle people that genuinely can't get the vaccine (allergies, etc.), since that is a substantial problem with the idea.

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Muscles posted...

Yeah, but I wasn't being a Karen about it, I was just waiting on a job interview with said manager

This.

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GastroFan posted...

Am I the only one that I know of who believes that, even before Covid, there were too many restaurants and too many stores?

Yes and no. It is very true that the retail and food service markets are generally very crowded, especially with establishments trying to chase current trends (a few years ago, something like 6 or 7 gourmet burger places opened within a year of each other here, a city of 350,000 people). That's why so many end up folding as the local industry evolves, leaving only the ones that do actually manage to stand out (or have enough capital to weather the rough early years) while the unsuccessful ones have their locations taken over by a new business (it's pretty much natural selection, really).

On the other hand, that constant turnover and evolution is what allows a population to shape their local business community to be optimal for them. In order to have the best local restaurant scene possible (to focus on food service), you need new businesses coming in with new ideas to shake it up with meaningful competition. Proponents of capitalism are always fond of praising the concept of the free market, but the fact of the matter is that a free market can really only work when that market is quite large. If there are only one or two restaurants occupying a given niche in an area, the lack of competitors means you don't really have the option of denying them business unless you also want to give up whatever they offer. Redundancy gives consumers choice, and that choice in turn allows them to shape their community, which is generally a good thing.

Now, the tragedy of Covid (or any other recession event, really) is not simply that small businesses are going under. Small businesses go under every day, Covid or no (something like 50% of new businesses don't make it past their first year). It's that businesses that the community has chosen to support and that had cemented a solid place in the local scene - meaning they would otherwise have survived - are dying, which is an irreplaceable loss in many cases. In time, the economic side of things will be rebuilt (commercial properties leased, people employed again, etc.), but the faces of neighbourhoods will be changing, which is sad. So... buy local and order take-out more often than you otherwise might, if you can. That's all any of us can really do until this blows over.

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If words don't mean anything, then arranging them nonsensically shouldn't make any difference in their ability to communicate meaning (since there's no meaning to communicate). If it does, then your premise has been proven incorrect.

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I should really make a habit of keeping english muffins on hand to be able to make breakfast sandwiches at home. I can do them on bagels, but they generally don't stay together as well because of how much denser the bagels are (even more so where they're Montreal ones).

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zebatov posted...

Especially when theyre only describing a character someone has created.

Meticulous farce spending octopus friendly exclusionary french fries.

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Lokarin posted...

what do you mean by burrito?

'cuz the way the question is phrased it's like you're saying "Is Wonton soup good for anything besides Chinese food?"

Presumably he means tortillas.

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zebatov posted...

Theres no going back.

Speaking as somebody who lives in a province that was able to mostly lift restrictions because everybody complied well enough early on that we were able to get the virus under control, there absolutely is going back. Things didn't completely return to normal, obviously (masks still needed, distancing measures in place), but most places were able to reopen back in like June, and we've only just shut down some sectors again on a very temporary basis because there's a second wave raging that's primarily been spreading via restaurants/bars (which are still able to offer take-out) and gyms (which are actually closed for the next week or so).

This "doom and gloom" mentality is just silly. Keeping Covid in check is absolutely possible, if people commit to doing so instead of throwing tantrums over being told to wear a mask. It's a whole lot harder for areas that are actually raging out of control than for areas that started early (that "raging second wave" peaked at 37 cases in one day here, which was a substantial outlier from the 10-15/day we saw before/since), but if you commit to taking the problem seriously (and hold people who don't accountable for their wanton disregard for the well-being of their neighbours), there's still hope.

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zebatov posted...

It doesnt. Thats the thing. Even less when its words describing a character someone has created.

"Words don't mean anything."

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Basically any sandwich where a higher filling:bread ratio works well can be made into a wrap successfully.

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Far-Queue posted...

Only put coffee because I figure the coffee would heighten the chocolate

It will, and those would be good brownies, but you'll still want a bit of vanilla in there to round it out. It's well worth doing, just not as a vanilla substitute.

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LinkPizza posted...

Maple syrup sounds good...

Honestly, in vanilla-like quantities (0.5-2 tsp per batch), you don't actually get that much maple flavour. If you want to actually add maple flavour, you're better off going for a tbsp or two, otherwise you just get the sort of "background flavour" that vanilla provides.

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I've had good results substituting maple syrup for vanilla, 1:1. It's not perfect, but a chunk of maple syrup's flavour actually comes from vanillin, so it gives a reasonable approximation. Using coffee will be a very different flavour and you should probably still use vanilla (or a substitute) anyway in conjunction with it (if in smaller quantities than you might without the coffee). I don't find honey to be a strong enough flavour to be noticeable over the flavour of chocolate, so unless you're using it just for sweetening purposes, I wouldn't bother with it.

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brian577 posted...

And what exactly am I supposed to do? The people in charge have all the power, I have none.

Wear a mask in public places, maintain distancing, self-isolate for two weeks if you travel to a new region, and encourage everyone you know to do the same. People in charge have no power over this disease; controlling it needs to be a coordinated effort from the entire populace, which is why government interventions have largely been focused on restricting people's ability to sabotage that effort.

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Pretty much everybody said it was that good.

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Her being a stripper shouldn't discredit her testimony.

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Mead posted...

depends on the incubation time really

Yep. 100% mortality after a week of being asymptomatically contagious would still be able to spread very effectively. Not as effectively as Covid has, since hosts dying does still put a damper on transmission, but still quite well.

LuciferSage posted...

Half the problem with Hanta or Ebola as bioweapons. They literally kill people faster than they can get on an airplane.

Pretty much. Ebola's got a mortality rate ~50 times higher than Covid's, yet the 2014 outbreak only managed to kill a little over 11,000 people in two years (100 times less than Covid has managed in a third of that time). The dead don't transmit viruses very well, especially in societies that understand how to handle corpses safely.

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Muscles posted...

Seems a little too 1984 for my taste

It's not really any different from mask mandates: If you can't demonstrate that you're taking the best available precautions to avoid endangering people within a place of business, you aren't allowed in.

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Unbridled9 posted...

Let me ask you this. Let's say Hilary won in 2016. Then, come 2020, Trump runs again and this time he wins. He not only wins but he wins with more votes than Obama did with several states that had been going for Hilary on election night by wide margins suddenly flipping to Trump. Would you think the election was honest or would you say Trump cheated to win?

In an election with some of the most aggressive "get out and vote" messaging in US history (Trump also got more votes than Obama, remember), with more mail-in voting than any other election in US history due to the ongoing public health crisis that discouraged many people from voting in person (a crisis which hypothetical Hillary's voter base is generally less respectful of than hypothetical Trump's), when hypothetical Hillary had spent most of the previous year saying that nobody should vote by mail because she was trying to make it illegal? Yes, I would expect hypothetical Trump to receive unprecedented numbers of votes and also to see many states flip after election night due to how overwhelming the partisan bias in absentee voting can be expected to be. It'd be disappointing to see an apparent victory slip away like that, but it would be completely within the realm of reasonable expectations.

Quite simply, everyone that paid any modicum of attention should have expected Trump to get relatively few mail-in votes because he told his base not to vote by mail. That's not evidence of fraud, that's evidence that Trump supporters have a grade 1 reading level.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

How?

Presumably with some manner of firearm.

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Side note, I'm fully expecting that, of that 42% that is demanding that Fauci take the vaccine publicly, at least 50-60% will refuse to believe that he didn't just take a saline shot after he does it. They're not demanding this because it will actually increase their confidence in the vaccine, they're demanding it because they think they've come up with a clever "gotcha" to trick Fauci into admitting the vaccine is unsafe. If this idea fails, they'll just come up with another one.

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LuciferSage posted...

Point being, when has there ever been a vaccine that has to be "boosted" every 3 months?

When has there ever been a vaccine for a coronavirus? If science never did anything it had never done before, we'd still be eating raw meat and wishing it were easier to slide big rocks.

To more seriously address your concerns, a vaccine that requires a booster shot every 3 months is not particularly sustainable on a long-term basis, no. The supply issue alone will make that extremely challenging, to say nothing of the manpower issues that most local health care systems would have giving out that many vaccines and how quickly public buy-in would drop off in the face of such inconvenience. Hopefully, a couple rounds of that will be enough to achieve the herd immunity threshold needed to wipe out the virus, in which case, it's good enough. If not, the impracticality of such a vaccine schedule is going to be a major motivating factor to develop a more practical, long-lasting vaccine. Development is not going to stop just because one candidate is reasonably successful. Long-term, it would not surprise me if we end up with an annual coronavirus vaccine, the same as we do with influenza, but I have complete faith that getting a booster shot every 3 months will not be the endgame of this vaccination campaign.

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streamofthesky posted...

Republicans complain about "California trying to dictate" required gas mileage in cars, yet have never cared about Texas dictating the contents of school history books. And now Texas is outright trying to exert imperialism over other states all over the country!
Texas! The fiercely independent state constantly asserting its hypothetical right to be its own country, trying to straight up bully other states into being its colonies! How does literally any voter in Texas support or defend this?!

It's almost like all of these "principled" objections actually just boil down to "stop doing something I don't like."

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OhhhJa posted...

I mean they somehow predicted this would happen but didn't prepare for it at all

*Looks at Obama-era pandemic surveillance/response team that Trump disbanded*
*Looks at PPE stockpile that was particularly depleted by H1N1, which Obama and Trump failed to replenish*
*Looks at long list of obvious ways Trump has failed to respond effectively, including actively undermining the public's willingness to cooperate with infection control measures*

It sounds to me like it's less a matter of failing to identify necessary preparations and more a matter of failing to execute them.

OhhhJa posted...

Well, for one, biden has most commonly used the phrase.

Perhaps my sarcasm wasn't clear. I'll rephrase:

Citing public use of a conspiracy theory's name by a politician (whether directly or more cryptically, such as in acronym form) as proof that said conspiracy is afoot is, has always been, and will always be utterly ridiculous and stupid.

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"All lives matter!"
"Covid's only killing old people, open stuff back up!"

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

You'd be much better off just making an armored gunship if you want a high vantage point for a weapon system.

For that matter, just use arc-fire artillery with a $10 camera drone for spotting. All the armour, all the firepower, none of the hassle of trying to lift it.

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wwinterj25 posted...

In that case let's just give bullies more ammo then.

But it's not giving bullies more ammo. It's giving them more targets. They provide their own ammo.

wwinterj25 posted...

Why bother trying to stop bullying when it just happens anyway? This can apply to racism, sexism, homophobia and other type of victimisation too.

Nobody's saying that you shouldn't try to stop bullying. Just that uniform policies are a silly way to go about it. You don't try to stop racism by bleaching everyone's skin, after all.

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