Posts made by Ganymede

@TNP

Of course.

I’m not strongly attached to life.

@TNP

No. Those were her words, not mine.

Sleeping on the couch isn’t a punishment because we have a guest room with a huge bed and her feet are like motherfucking ice.

My partner before I go downstairs for a drink after I ask her if she needs anything: No, thanks, I’m fine.

My partner after I sit my ass back down on the bed: Can you get a can of soda for me from downstairs?

My partner: Can we work out together? I feel like I’m getting fat and lazy.

Also my partner: Can you give me the password to access your computer? I’m too lazy to go upstairs and use the computer with all of my shit on it that you bought me.

@TNP

Yeah, I think that you would like the Uncharted series and The Last of Us if you enjoyed Dishonored.

@TNP

Well, if you are okay with shooters, there’s the Uncharted series and The Last of Us.

@TNP

Homeworld is on the best RTS games I have ever played. It has an interesting storyline and was revolutionary for its time. RTS in space means 3D attacks, so there is incredible pwnage when you grease people by hyper jumping above them.

Chimera Squad is an XCOM spin-off set a few years after XCOM2. You play a squad of cops in a city of humans and aliens. It looks pretty nifty as a strategy game.

As for me, I played Kingdom Hearts 3 for about 30 minutes and wanted to kill myself. How anyone liked that game, I will never know. Good lord.

@TNP said in General Video Game Thread:

@Warma-Sheen said in General Video Game Thread:

@Ganymede I agree that it was a bit of a let down. But only because they built everything up very well. It was a fun experience but they couldn't quite take it to another level at the end.

Agreed. It also doesn't seem very replayable to me but that's subjective. Still, was fun.

It is definitely MU material.

That said, Chimera Squad looks cool. And I hear Homeworld is on sale on Steam.

Finished Greedfall. The Battlemage build makes it ridiculously easy, I think. Ending is kind of a let down. But the game is really fun and I love how the politics work out.

@buttercup

This is truly and virtuously awesome.

@Testament said in General Video Game Thread:

The controls feel kind of loose, though that's said after literally only 45 minutes of playing yesterday morning before work. And combat seems odd. Not bad so far, but odd. And challenging.

You can tactically pause the game to target particular enemies, if you're using ranged combat; however, I have not tried that because I went with a Battle Mage loadout* (and am loving it). Combat can be very challenging against the Guardians; it's not as punitive as Dark Souls or combo-driven like The Witcher. Where the game shines is in its social interactions, story line, and gorgeous environments..

• -- You go full-on cleric. Take a mage and focus on bumping your Stasis tree with skill points until you get Shield of the Enlightened and Magic Healing,maxing out both; then bump your heavy-weapons track; then take Storm and Fury after. Meanwhile, raise your Strength and Endurance attributes. And, given my play style, I stuck points into my Vigor talent, then into Charisma, and then into Intuition.

I love Greedfall.

It's not the most polished game. It's not the most original. Yet the story and quest-writing will remind you of Dragon Age: Origins or The Witcher series in their depth. There's really no "fetch" questing, which is great.

Combat isn't perfect, but it has its challenges.

But it is really pretty to look at.

I was about to avoid it after reading a review in PC Gamer by Lauren Morton, but then I realized that she was caught up with the sort of minutiae that I don't give a shit about.

@ZombieGenesis said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

This may sound gross to some but whatever. When this whole thing started my wife and I didn't want to be TP hoarders but we also did not want to find ourselves without it. So we opted to install a bidet on our toilet. It cost us around $50 and it's cut our TP usage down to, maybe, a roll a week.

I have not hoarded, but I have TP to spare. As I said in another thread, if anyone needs help getting supplies in the Dayton, Ohio area, please feel free to PM me and I would be happy to deliver reasonable supplies to people.

@RightMeow

You still should see a lawyer. I don't know what jurisdiction you live in, but you may be entitled to paid leave under the recent federal legislation and you may still be entitled to unemployment for a voluntary layoff resulting from the pandemic under state law.

@RightMeow

You may want to see a lawyer and discuss the concept of bad faith with them.

This should infuriate everyone.

The short of it: not a couple of months before China lost control, Prof. Matthew Kavanaugh at Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security, along with other authors/experts, published an article in Journal of International Affairs warning of a future pandemic and begging for proper funding to the infrastructure and systems set up by previous administrations to prevent loss.

"Every U.S. President in recent decades has had to respond to at least one pandemic disease. Political leadership has proven decisive. In the coming years, U.S. foreign policy will face at least three inter-related issues: today's major pandemics of AIDS, TB, and Malaria; future outbreaks with the potential to become pandemics; and rising risk from infectious diseases associated with climate change. A review of epidemiologic data shows global progress on each issue is threatened. A coordinated U.S. effort, across agencies and engaged with national and multilateral partners, could save lives and address significant foreign policy interests. Such an effort could boost economic prosperity by reducing disease-related lost productivity, which we estimate at $1.7 trillion, with returns to investment in pandemic-related global health efforts averaging 17–20 to 1. Foreign policy focus on pandemics could also address economic and social inequalities and support climate adaptation and mitigation. Pandemic-related global health spending is 0.19% of the U.S. budget—a figure that has been flat in recent years even with growing needs and significant potential gains from investment."

In other words, despite the media's reporting, it seems pretty fucking clear to me that people have been warning about this for years.

@Seamus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

So what you're saying is... "The Chinese Flu"?

Real world reminder and peeve:

Please stop calling COVID-19 "the Chinese virus."

It's not Chinese. It is no more Chinese than MAGA hats or iPhones. We don't call the 1918 Spanish Flu "the American flu" because the first reported case was from Kansas. We adopted a more neutral way of identifying these viruses long ago (with MERS being an exception, I guess, but people are going to hate on Muslims no matter what it seems).

But, Gany, what about the Zika and Ebola viruses?

The zika virus was first identified in 1947,and is alternately identified by virologists as ZIKV. Like the Spanish flu, the Asian flu, and the Hong Kong flu, this virus was identified back when the place of origin (or, in the case of the Spanish flu, no fucking good reason) was important to virologists. In the case of ZIKV, it was named after the Ziika forest in Uganda.

The Ebola virus is alternately identified as EBOV, and was originally thought to be a new strain of the Marburg virus in 1976. It was allegedly named after the Ebola river in the DRC. The Marburg virus was originally discovered in 1967 around the German city with the same name, but we don't call it "the German virus."

The difference is that few people identify as "Ebolan" or "Ziikan." The term "Chinese" refers to a visible minority in Western nations that have a history of being oppressed by the white majority. So, if you want to be an ally -- who doesn't? -- just call the virus "COVID-19" or "COVID". Because for a layperson the origin of a virus doesn't help in protecting against or treating it.

@RightMeow

I'm trying not to judge, but here's what I do know.

With my insurance, I pay $100 for urgent care and $300 for emergency care.

My private clinic demands around $75.

I am told on a daily basis about how wrong it is to value money over life, which is fair.

So, here we go:

Spend the extra money to save lives.

Because I tell you, the private clinics have donated most if not all of their PPE to hospitals, so you risk those health care workers and everyone else who visits the clinic if you're sick.

I don’t know why I have to get angry at this.

If you have the sniffles, stay at home. If you have a fever, stay at home. If you are coughing, stay at home. But if you are having respiratory distress, go to a hospital.

Do not fucking go to private practices. Do not go to pain clinics. Fucking don’t go fucking out of your fucking house if you are sick.

The number of sick people showing up at clinics and not disclosing their sickness until after they set foot in the waiting room is mindnumbingly irresponsible and fucking stupid.

For fuck’s sake.