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Well, to be fair, Texas still has 2x the current death rate per capita of the worst place in Canada (my province) and nearly 30x of better-run provinces. So things may be more back to normal for you as a person, but clearly the state itself is failing in controlling the spread and resulting deaths as a result of its policy. Comparing death rates /100k: Texas - 0.68 Saskatchewan - 0.38 Ontario - .027

Good. The more damage, the better.

I am in the "six months to a year" group with a bit of a caveat—I think that most of Canada should see good enough vaccination (85-90% of the entire population) plus others who have been infected to see a big drop in outbreaks and deaths (at least enough to not be a concern at all to the healthcare system). I think COVID will be here to stay and will become endemic, and we will certainly have some parts of our lives that change in minor ways (less hand shaking, more common to see people wearing masks, etc), but overall we'll generally be back to pre-pandemic routines. Having said that, I expect COVID deaths to still always be much higher than flu deaths going forward. It seems like it's far more dangerous to elderly/vulnerable people than the flu, even after being fully infected. Since it's also so much more contagious, I think we'll regularly see 2-3x more deaths from COVID than flu each year.

Question: How do you pronounce Latinx? Lat-in-EX? Or Lat-inks? Or something else?

The thread about this has devolved into people insisting the mods should be paid, and the mods insisting they shouldn't be, while insulting the users now (and users insulting mods). Meanwhile, people want the mods to delete their accounts, and the mods say the posting records can only be anonymized, not deleted. In one instance, a fairly well-known user went back and started deleting their own posts to scrub their history, and the mods restored them against the user's will since some were large OT threads and were "too important" to the community to be removed. The user has since been banned/left. One mod, who said people didn't actually care about the mods, actually set up a gofundme to "prove" that people didn't actually want to pay them anything. They raised over $1,000 and were quickly forced to backtrack, and said they would donate it to charity. But the point of course is that a large corporation should be paying them for their labour, not that users owe them anything, and it wasn't the gotcha that they thought it was. Now that mod is basically fighting with users.

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Exactly. In my province, about half the people who died last month (before the big spike this month) were fully vaccinated. BUT, the stats show that those people were basically all 80+ with severe health issues. Under 80, the vast majority who died were unvaccinated. Unfortunately, anti-vaxxers (and people who don't understand stats or anything else that is complicated) just see the headline "majority who died were fully vaccinated."

Why is it that historically, Canadians have been over represented on D1P?

For sure. However, the uncertainty has allowed a lot of people to receive extra doses (and presumably extra protection) in order to have two of the same kind. For people who receive two AstraZeneca doses, they were also allowed to receive two additional doses of Moderna or Pfizer. They are invincible now.

Weirdly, I have not also received a ban, even though I've made sure to post in that thread every few pages with a subtle (or not so subtle) link to here. I even blatantly posted the site in a few communities I am involved in (mostly Canadian politics...so look forward to more OF THAT).

Kenney might be one of the worst premiers in Canadian history, both as a person and electorally. Imagine defeating the NDP (after their first win in a generation, and only because of a divided right) and then completely blowing it and likely losing the next election to the person you beat before:

Must have!

Ironically, NintendoERA kind of left resetera and moved to another forum, I think something like famiboards?

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If you need to raise money, just allow microtransactions. $5 to add 10k to your displayed post count.

lol 2024?

Whether it turns out to be anything large or not, there are already a sizable group of users who appear angry at the sale. He has been charging for ad-free premium accounts for years under the message of "helping to keep the lights on" for a community forum...well, it wasn't really a community forum, it was a private forum with a single owner who appears to have been clearing $500k per year. It also now sounds like all of the initial staff who help set it up were never given ownership stakes, and all left within the first year or two. The only people who ever received a stake were the tech team, and he bought them out a while ago. Right now the mods (and their idiot supporters) are trying to argue that they enjoy working for free while someone walks away with $500k/yr + $4.5m sale. Fuck them. Modding is fine if it's for non-profit reasons, etc. But for a site making actual money, mods should be paid for their labour.

There is only one thing I do furiously.

Honestly I just really like the inclusion of modern features like ADS, sprint, gun modifications, an ACTUAL FOV SLIDER, etc. lol

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Well I did my part and subtly pitch dayonepatch in the big thread about the sale on resetera.

First balance patch is out, and...it requires no patch! The devs have also been quite open about what they are working on (with a public Trello board), and are bumping things up in priority based on feedback (such as allowing progression in solo mode). Patch notes: Campaign – this is an attempt to address some of the concerns regarding the challenges presented by some difficulties. Roaming Special Spawn rate decreased on all difficulties Adjusted Supply Point earning rates for Blue Dog Hollow: The Sound of Thunder to better account for level repeats Swarm – adjustments made in response to what we've observed with Swarm matches. Bruisers max health reduced to 800 from 850 Bruisers damage reduced to 15 from 20 Bruiser Burst delay to 3 from 2.65 Bruiser Weakspot multiplier increased to 1.65 from 1.5 Tallboy damage increased to 20 from 15 Hocker Projectile speed to 2500 from 3000 Hocker Projectile cooldown to 7 from 6 Stinger Projectile spread reduced to 20 from 30 Stinger Projectile speed increased to 5500 from 5000

I think I disagree—the game is great. It's not L4D2, but it moves the co-op horde genre forward. The card system is fantastic.