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5 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Pre ordered my A1Up Star Wars pinball today. As of now, they're supposed to be shipping on 02/08. I hope that holds. I'm really looking forward to having some fun with it. 

That's good you have a date to look forward to.  Atgames said they'll send an email when my machine is ready and then I have 48 hours to pay or they go to the next order.  Could be next week or could be march. 

9 hours ago, RussTCB said:

I don't have a Pac Man cab of theirs so if I were gonna buy one, that would be it for sure. 

Yea man, I play pac man on my SF cab constantly so for me it'll be a good pick.  I split my family room in half to add a bedroom for my son downstairs so I'm limited on space with the AtGames pinball on the way.  When he moves out I'll make it into an arcade room.   I put in my preorder for the pinball day one so hopefully it's soon.  Not sure if you've been following what they're doing but supposedly they're working on some type of bridge piece to run your pc on the pinball cab.  I got a new gaming pc and set it up with vpx so I'll be good to go getting GnR pinball rolling asap 🤘

On 1/11/2021 at 1:44 PM, RussTCB said:

Arcade1Up did their CES announcements this morning. Completely underwhelming for me but I know a LOT of other people will be excited for them. 

The big ones so far are Dragons Lair, X-Men and Killer Instinct 

Even though this is the third version they're putting out I'm thinking about getting the new Pac man.  I just think it's timeless and looks like they nailed it this time.

No thanks.

For some reason the Greatest Hits release a few months back really turned me off to the band.  The fact that they're re releasing what was essentially a re release in 2004 (we all owned everything on GH) tells me there's nothing left from them creatively.  RIP GnR

On 12/18/2020 at 5:32 PM, RussTCB said:

Why does anyone feel like Mandos arc is over? This was one mission he took on. It just took two seasons to complete it. There's a whole other galaxy out here are stuff for him to get involved with. 

If Grogu is out it's going to ruin the show for my two daughters.  I agree with you though.  They hit a home run with baby Yoda but there needs to be more to the story than that.

Just to add a little to the conversation about Special Edition vs. original theatrical releases.  I remember reading years ago that any release of the original trilogy in it's initial form gets a 50/50 split with George Lucas's ex wife.  So by making special editions she gets none of it.  And that's why it's never sold as "original theatrical release" but rather thrown in as bonus material.  Sort of a loophole around the ex getting money for royalties.  Not sure how the Disney aquisition may have affected anything though.  When they first released the original trilogy on dvd (before BD) they had the original films all as bonus material.  They're cool to watch every now and then.

1 hour ago, dontdamnmeuyi2015 said:

This is the main reason why this virus exists. Stupid selfish humans who don't give a shit about anyone other than themselves. So sick and tired of it!

there won't ever be a normal life for any of us again. We will have to conform to dummies out there that we come in contact with who just don't give a shit. 

And these people if/when they get the virus should not be allowed any hospital care. Why take care away from someone who really needs it.

And I'm pretty sure this isn't the last virus in our lifetimes. As long as we continue to fuck up this planet and each other, more dangerous viruses are waiting to come out and play.

Good for you!

I can tell you this.  I've been in about 500 houses since this all started.  I have to ask a number of covid related questions before going in.  Before last month I had two people tell me they had it months prior so I went in and did my job.  The past month I've had a dozen people tell me they currently have it.  Three of those twelve were going to let me in before I had a chance to ask.  Many people barely speak English and some may be lying or might not know they have it.  I had a landlord translate for me one day last week for his tennant and the guy said nobody was sick.  Two minutes later I hear someone puking in the next room.  I can only go with my personal experience but from what I've been seeing this second wave is far worse than the first one.

33 minutes ago, daile1bm said:

Do you think the obese, the drug dependent, and people with STD's, for example, shouldn't be allowed health care as well? Those people also tend to bring illness upon themselves which takes care away from others that also really need it. Also often borne from stupid, selfish behaviors. We have to conform to dummies who don't give a shit in a lot more areas than just covid when it comes to medical treatment. Not to the same levels as covid (with the exception of obesity), but they're still a strain on finite resources, which can be avoided in most cases.

I'm on board with that.

1 hour ago, soon said:

Essential workers who turn down a vaccination should have to make that abundantly clear to all customers. Especially when the pubic roll out suggests that they are vaccinated. "Im an idiot" would suffice.

I'm the one with a respirator on all day not the customer.  I'm the one exposing myself every day to this virus.  People are being careless.  I saw a customer last week who told me he has the virus in and out of his home three times.  I saw another covid positive customer go into the corner liquor store.  Saturday a customer rushed me because he was having a party later in the day.  I'm out here dealing with this "new normal" and you don't have the first clue about it piss ant.

1 minute ago, SoulMonster said:

You are both quite young and healthy - why would you be get it so early?

Essential worker.

1 minute ago, SoulMonster said:

What a magnificent hypothetical! Why would she tell me she has tested positive for HIV at all? She hasn't tested positive for HIV. Unless she has taken an HIV test after the drug trial using the wrong testing kit. Which would be very stupid of her. Seems she doesn't really understand what has happened to her, if she were to get tested for HIV with the very method that now doesn't work on her. 

Anyway, considering that I know now of this clinical trial and presumably would correctly identify her accent as Aussie, I would certainly not be put off by her false positive HIV test but perhaps by her being so stupid.

Still, who here has been "severely damaged emotionally"? The stupid girl who can't help herself from incorrectly blurting out that she is testing positive for HIV prior to sex and hence can't get laid, or her potential suitors who might need to find someone else to fuck? I still fail to see how this anyone could be severely damaged emotionally from this, but kudos to you for apparently spending some time trying to come up with a scenario -- and assumingly discarding many even more unlikely scenarios in the process. It just doesn't convince me, though, but maybe it just takes more to damage my emotions than yours?

I'd pass.

18 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

Let's turn this around: 

You are a good guy and decides to sign up for voluntary medicine testing, knowing you will be injected with a new drug in development where the goal is to study any potential side effects. You are waiving rights knowing that shit can happen. This is an experimental drug, after all. Shit does happen. After the testing it turns out you might test falsely positive for HIV. You are being told that you don't have HIV, at all, but that now after this procedure your body behaves as if you do. Would you be "severely damaged emotionally"? 

Personally, I would indeed just shrug it off. I would know that if I ever had to be tested for HIV in the future (extremely unlikely considering the circumstances), I would just have to be tested using a kit that doesn't rely on the specific anti-HIV antibodies that my body now produces, and that except for this extremely unlikely scenario, it would have no practical implications on my life.

Ok so riddle me this... You meet a nice girl and the two of you hit it off.  Before you get her into bed she tells you she had taken part in the initial covid vaccine tests.  She tells you she had tested positive for HIV but not to worry because it was just a false positive.  Would you close the deal or would you run for the hills?  

11 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

Pfizer's stock not rocketing right now is utterly bizarre! Must have dodgy financials.

Must be lack of confidence.

1 minute ago, SoulMonster said:

Had to go through what? They suffered no other side effects than having their immune system being armed to also fight HIV in addition to Covid-19. Hardly the worst of fates. Still, there are practical implications of having an immune system ready to fight HIV, it signals that you have already had an HIV infection and hence that you would test positive for HIV if tested if using test kits targeted against those specific antibodies. And that's a bit of a nuisance. Still, they are aware of this now and will simply have to use different test kits if they ever have to test if they are infected with HIV in the future.

I mean, considering all the things that can wrong in clinical trials, and have gone wrong in the passed, ending up as a false positive for HIV can hardly be considered a tragedy. For perspective, people may die when being included in clinical trials if the drug really underperforms.

If someone was told they tested positive for HIV they would be severely damaged emotionally.  You'd just shrug it off though right?

Just now, soon said:

You can’t claim to understand the roll out and make the claim that it would be selfish to take a dose, with the idiotic and uninformed suggestion being that it would take a dose from the vulnerable. It won’t though.

It will just serve to protect the vulnerable... 

So were you talking shit while making that claim? Or are you talking shit now?

You're really dense this morning.  I said people that are jumping at the first opportunity to take the vaccine aren't doing it for the greater good.  They're taking it because they want to protect themselves from getting it.  Read nice and slow before you go into one of your little piss ant rants again.

3 minutes ago, Dazey said:

I know I shouldn't laugh and I hope that all the people who were caught up in this are okay now but I can't help but chuckle to myself at the absurdity of some poor fucker doing their bit for the common good and coming away with (fake)AIDS for their troubles.   

It's horrific that people had to go through it but they did.

14 minutes ago, soon said:

Can’t respond then, eh?

instead take a moment to look up New Jersey’s vaccine rollout plan and then realize that given they are prioritizing healthcare workers, then vulnerable, then other roles likes teachers, etc, etc.

Your entire dumbass arguments aren’t even rooted in reality. It’s not possible to be “selfish” and jump in line ahead of the vulnerable.

MAGAs need to shut the fuck up once and for all. 

I know the order of administering the vaccine you moron.  I'm in one of the first waves to get it if I choose to take it.  I'm right after the healthcare workers.  I'm declining to get it.  Why does that bother you?  Why are you so angry?

5 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

They didn't scrap any doses of finished vaccine. An Australian vaccine in development was halted when it was discovered in clinical trials that its side effects were too large. That just shows us the process works. Any drugs-in-development that aren't working as they should should be stopped and not released to the markets.

And for perspective, about 95 % of all new medicines fail in development because they are either not as efficient against the disease they are supposed to treat, or displays too many and severe side effects (or a combination thereof). So it is not unexpected that some of these Covid-19 vaccines fail, too. And it is a compliment to our drug development pathways that we can discover problems with new medicines before they are rolled out and actually used on patients. In short, the system works.

And we know what is in these vaccines, contrary to what you claim. No regulatory body will approve a medicine without a thoroughly described formulation and composition. In fact, few other things in society is so well studied and defined as novel medicines. Done to its molecular counterparts. But that doesn't mean there can't be unforeseen side effects after market launch. But as long as clinical trials have been done correctly and with a large enough amount of people, any unexpected side effects will be rare.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/world/australia/uq-coronavirus-vaccine-false-positive.amp.html

So I heard about this a few days ago and Googled it.  It came up as one of the most common search results.  Today it's gone from common searches.  Why would big tech remove it?  Why would this fact be suppressed?

7 minutes ago, soon said:

You’re dumb as fuck. 
you don’t even understand that many immunocompromised and unmunosupressed can’t get a vaccine.

Say more ridiculous things now...

You're real tough behind your keyboard huh?  

Just now, SoulMonster said:

But this wasn't about the reasons people want the vaccine, it was about you saying you don't want it. And I was just pointing out that we healthy people should take it, too, when offered, because this is about herd mentality and not me, me, me .

I'm not saying I'll never take it but I'll at least wait and see the long term effects before jumping to get it now.  If I was 80 years old or a life long smoker I'd feel different but like I said there's a risk/reward factor for me personally.  Just look at what happened in Australia.  They scrapped 50 million doses because people were testing positive for HIV.  They say they're false positives but I wonder what's in these vaccines that we still don't know just yet.

42 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

Yeah, that wasn't the only place where you differed from him.

Aside from our views on politics Dazey and I might have more in common than you think.

24 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

Yeah, that wasn't the only place where you differed from him.

I don't smoke, occasionally drink, eat a clean strict diet, and exercise every morning.  I've got a 99.99% chance of surviving if I even get the virus.  I go to work and back home.  At work I wear a respirator all day as my PPE.  I haven't gone out to dinner, haven't gone to any indoor gatherings, haven't had anyone over my house this whole time.  And I'm ok with it all.  Does it mean I'm selfish because I don't want to jump to get this vaccine?  People want this vaccine so they can get back to their normal lives.  They want it to protect themselves.  Saying we should take it to protect others sounds really heroic but in reality people want it because they're selfish.

4 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

Is the point that since there is only a small chance of dying or suffering lasting damage from Covid-19, that you shouldn't get the vaccine? What sense is there in that? Only morons would buy such an argument. That's like not wearing a seat belt because is it unlikely that an accident will happen.

And the probability of dying or getting sick from Covid-19 is much, much, much higher than dying or getting sick from the vaccine. The data we have is very clear on this. You should fear the disease more than the cure. 

Lastly, even if you are in the group of people who won't get very sick from Covid-19 or die (and you can't say this for sure until you have become infected), the point of vaccination is to achieve herd immunity. This isn't about us as individuals, but us as society. By vaccinating ourselves, we protect the weak among us. We protect those who would get vey sick if infected, those who would die. It is an act of solidarity. Not getting the vaccines purely because you feel confident that you won't get very sick from Covid-19, is an act of selfishness.

The weak will be getting the vaccine and will be protected.  The selfish imo are the ones rushing to be first in line to get it.  Why not think of others who might need it more than yourself?

19 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

Just recall what the scientists said,

I'm 42, in great shape, and never smoked.  I'll pass on taking the vaccine.  Any chance I would have taken it went to zero after what happened in Australia.