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mimico_polak said:
If you're into FPS then your choice is b/w XBOX and PS4/5.
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Oh come on, you can't leave out PC lol

Edit: tho I did too purposely due to the cost if you're going high end.
 
Lightcycle said:
Would be the most budget-friendly over a VR rig.

Also have this big ass TV that I could put to use as well.
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For sure. Plus I'm not knowledgeable enough about the whole VR world to know what type of games are out there, or how good the environment is.

As for PC gaming, definitely an option...but pricing is always something to be considered.

Good thing is...if you get a PS4/3 then the PS5 is apparently backward compatible so you can still play the games.

On another note. I don't play online, simply solo games. Online gaming has never appealed to me, and that's why the games I listed are the ones I play.
 
mimico_polak said:
On another note. I don't play online, simply solo games. Online gaming has never appealed to me, and that's why the games I listed are the ones I play.
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I don't play online either.

It's not that I don't like my ass being handed to me by a 10-year old kid in Bulgaria, it's the constant high-pitched childish yammering that's annoying.

So embarrassing when someone walks in and hears me blubbering like that.
 
Lightcycle said:
Is being mistaken for Vietnamese offensive to other Asians?

Honestly don't know.

Asking for a friend.

I love pho...
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Well give it a try with someone Chinese,they will likely go ballistic its near as good as holding up your left hand when a Muslin man wants to shake hands.
Equally opportunistic offensive here....
 
Lightcycle said:
I don't play online either.

It's not that I don't like my ass being handed to me by a 10-year old kid in Bulgaria, it's the constant high-pitched childish yammering that's annoying.

So embarrassing when someone walks in and hears me blubbering like that.
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I don't know if I'll stop finding joy in that...when you beat an opponent so badly they need to resort to personal insults, it's the ultimate sign of dominance.

I've had some funny sportsman moments tho where I teabag a guy, he later kills me and teabags me, and we become frds lol

Dirty Frank said:
Well give it a try with someone Chinese,they will likely go ballistic its near as good as holding up your left hand when a Muslin man wants to shake hands.
Equally opportunistic offensive here....
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I'm almost certain if you refer to a Chinese person (not Hong Kong or Taiwan even tho both are part of China) as Taiwanese, they will lose their ****. I once told a Chinese girl I was from Taiwan and she immediately yelled "TAIWAN IS NOT A COUNTRY!" After booting her out of my car, Google gave me some disturbing insight between Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China's politics.
 
J_F said:
explain Poland
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There are a lot of things that go into the numbers. The last time I was in Poland (2010) I don't remember seeing a single Chinese person. Today the entire Chinese population of Poland is still small, about 8,000 and travel between the countries is equally small. Canada has 8000 arrivals from China every 4 days. That might be a clue.
 
Lightcycle said:
I've seen so many stats arranged in so many ways. I think it's still early days to trust in the numbers because of:

- inadequate testing, especially when it comes to COVID-19 confirmed cases. I trust the death toll numbers a bit more because there needs to be a post-mortem. But stats that show the US spiking in the last week or so are skewed because they just started taking testing more seriously in that time frame. Meanwhile, developing countries with very few confirmed cases? Well big surprise... their resources for testing are not as well-funded as the western nations.

- per capita deaths, population density. A lot of charts show the US leading COVID-19 cases, without ever mentioning that they have 10X the population of Canada. However, this is further complicated because although Canada's population density is more than 1/10th the density of the US, 90% of the population live in a handful of citiies, so I think our population density is very similar to the US.

- Another complicating factor is age distribution. A country like Cambodia had a huge genocide in the 1970s, so their population is relatively young. Only 3.8% of their population is over the age of 65. Compare that to Japan, where 33% of the population is over 65. Obviously more people in Cambodia are going to arrive on the other side of COVID-19 unscathed than in Japan.

I'm not a US apologist, I think their government is under-reacting and their attitudes towards personal liberty being more important than the common good is leading them to a disaster.

However, I think there are many, many countries that are doing just as poorly as the US, but because of all the reasons above, the stats are painting an incomplete picture.
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I watched a good explanation of stats on CNN this morning. The infectious disease guy studied ships that were infected, his argument was that cruise ships were the only controlled samples - scientists have access to ages, health conditions, infection rates and outcomes. He argued the overall death rate to be .85% for the general population and .65% adjusted to healthy people under 70 years old.
 
Mad Mike said:
I watched a good explanation of stats on CNN this morning. The infectious disease guy studied ships that were infected, his argument was that cruise ships were the only controlled samples - scientists have access to ages, health conditions, infection rates and outcomes. He argued the overall death rate to be .85% for the general population and .65% adjusted to healthy people under 70 years old.
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There's so much we don't know yet.

It's not even clear how long immunity lasts after you get over COVID-19. If you can get it more than once, then forget about herd immunity. And then we're in for a really long and bumpy ride.
 
J_F said:
explain Poland
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I'm not expert, and obviously not in the country but I do have a lot of family there.

The country clamped down hard as **** on everyone. Basically shut the country down except for actual essentials. Hotels, businesses, public places, all were shut down quickly. The national airline, LOT, shut down flights very quickly as well.

That could be part of it. But it could also be a lack of testing. However, just speaking with my cousin right now he said there's no mass hysteria, and overall people are being civil, and everyone is holding to the lockdown with no major violations in their area.
 
Watched the movie 'Contagion' yesterday....**** me I hope we don't get to the level of panic that was depicted. Pandemonium in the streets, violence between people, looting....sent shivers down my spine.
 
mimico_polak said:
I'm not expert, and obviously not in the country but I do have a lot of family there.

The country clamped down hard as **** on everyone. Basically shut the country down except for actual essentials. Hotels, businesses, public places, all were shut down quickly. The national airline, LOT, shut down flights very quickly as well.

That could be part of it. But it could also be a lack of testing. However, just speaking with my cousin right now he said there's no mass hysteria, and overall people are being civil, and everyone is holding to the lockdown with no major violations in their area.
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thanks for the thoughtful reply, the only one
a little different than

your #'s suck
it's China's fault because Trudeau

so maybe I was kind of correct in my observation that Canada has some work to do
hopefully you're felling better

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Trials said:
Some won't care but some might:
news.mongabay.com

National parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to great apes

Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo shut its doors to tourists this week in an attempt to protect its great apes from possibly being infected by the novel coronavirus. The park, which hosts one of the last remaining populations of the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei...
news.mongabay.com news.mongabay.com

&
www.businessinsider.com

Everything we know about the pangolin — the scaly mammal that may have spread the coronavirus to humans

Pangolins are nocturnal mammals than are often poached for their scales. Their meat is also considered a delicacy in China and Vietnam.
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So....if it ends up being the pangolin, can we blame it? lol
 
油井緋色 said:
So....if it ends up being the pangolin, can we blame it? lol
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No it means if the rest of the primates get it, they can blame humans, they were smart enough not to eat the Pangolin's
 
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