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19 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Also, if you trust China's numbers then I have some stuff you sell you.

One last comment.  China's numbers (75,000) are probably low.  Either from lying or not having all the information on how many truly are infected.  But this isn't bad news really.  Deaths are much easier to track and harder to lie about.  So if the number of infected is drastically higher that means we are greatly overestimating the fatality % of the disease.  It probably is not as deadly as it looks right now and those percentages will probably fall as we get more accurate data from other countries.

Just now, Ghost_MH said:

 

While I don't trust China's numbers, let's say we do. They got to that small a number by quarantining whole cities and shutting down large factories. China put like a third of the US population under lockdown. I don't think what has happened there is at all comparable to what would happen here.

 

I'm not all doom and gloom like others, but at the same time it's silly to not be a little concerned when the federal government has been so lax on keeping an outbreak under control.

Healthy concern and keeping an eye on things are fine.  Probably a good idea to have some extra water and food at your house just in case.  But getting worked up to a panic and pushing bs numbers around does not help anyone.

12 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

Also, you know, potentially up to 14% of old people dying. Let's say that the 50% of the US is infected. That's still 3 to 4 million dead.

"let's say 50% of the US is infected"  Wow.  You should be a clickbait headline writer.  Why stop there?  What if 110% got infected?  What would the death toll be then?

China has 75,000 infected.  They have a population of 1,386,000,000.  Let me know when they hit 1%.  

7 hours ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

In the age range that this virus has been predominately causing fatalities, its approximately twice that of the flu. Its certainly not touching SARS in terms of lethality, but its more than your typical flu season (not counting outbreaks like 1918!). 

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

 

It REALLY needs to be stressed that the vast majority of the deaths to date have been in the very old. Interestingly, the young have been largely spared. Someone please put RBG in a plastic bubble RIGHT NOW! 

Yes... the part of this story that does not get reported (because scare mongering sells) is that this virus is killing mostly elderly with existing conditions.  .2% fatality rate up to 39.  .4% up to age 50.  80+ year olds are 14.8%.

So your best bet when this hits is to not be old.

I can understand why 90% of that trailer was live action.  Those look like last gen rock band characters. 

At what point were 'Jedi Knights' not like the Knights of the Round Table?  

They were always patterned after Arthurian knights.  I guess this wasn't SHOWN so much outside of the prequel trilogy since they had mostly been wiped out.

20 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Is it now considered ironic that this code was for additional lives? 

It's like rain on your wedding day.

1 minute ago, EternallDarkness said:

 

Yes I know, but they used to be there every day. The number of days they are there have been cut back. Same with that roaming band at Epcot in future world. He's cut back on those little touches that helped to make a trip into the parks something special. He's sucking the magic out of the parks. 

Kind of a fun 'small world' story:

I took my family to Disney 3 years ago and my wife (who had lived for 5 years in Japan and plays Taiko drums) recognized one of the Taiko drummers at Epcot and talked to him after the show.  They knew each other in japan and had played together.  

12 hours ago, Rbk_3 said:

 I already have a PC that likely beats this. Once the 3080ti comes around it will crush it.  With that said, this is very exciting for a $500 machine. 

Yeah that $500 number is what wins the argument.  A 3080ti will probably cost about $1200 or more, and still needs a computer around it.  

1 hour ago, Bloodporne said:

S1 was truly great, but I couldn't even make it through S2 and the episode of S3 I saw seemed to suggest it completely went off a cliff with evil Russians and other boring shit. 

You should give us more of your thoughts about the show.  Could you review S4 for us now?

46 minutes ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

 

 

Smart Delivery: This technology empowers you to buy a game once and know that – whether you are playing it on Xbox One or Xbox Series X – you are getting the right version of that game on whatever Xbox you’re playing on. We’re making the commitment to use Smart Delivery on all our exclusive Xbox Game Studios titles, including Halo Infinite, ensuring you only have to purchase a title once in order to play the best available version for whichever Xbox console they choose to play on. This technology is available for all developers and publishers, and they can choose to use it for titles that will be release on Xbox One first and come to the Xbox Series X later.

This is awesome.  It means no re buying games.  If someone does not upgrade right away they can buy the new Halo this fall to play on an existing Xbox... but if they do upgrade some day they will be able to play the Series X version of Halo with the same license.  

That is kind of an obvious feature - but it is new and game changing at the same time.  Certainly did not happen last gen.

23 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

 Followed up by an even weirder take. Impressive 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

So you are trolling me now?

No one would care about looks in a Sinefield reunion, or an office reunion or most other shows.  Friends was an unfunny show with little premise.  All it had was - here is a collection of hot people - lets watch them date.  So yea seeing them as old folks changes the game.

2 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

This is one of the weirdest takes ever. So people who love Friends aren’t gonna like it because some of them are less attractive?

I assume you have never seen the show? The characters getting older and getting married is what killed the show. It was about young attractive people and their dating adventures. 

Adventures of your 50's are a lot different. 

The women mostly look great still. The dudes from this show have aged horribly. 

The people who want a reunion probably aren't going to enjoy the reality of what they get. 

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2 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Hopefully it gets better writing than BL3. 

Apparently the screenplay is by Craign Mazin who wrote Chernobyl for HBO.  So maybe.  But the dialog from Chernobyl is a long way from what they will be going for in this.

I have little hope for a video game movie directed by Eli Roth.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/borderlands-movie-eli-roth-lionsgate-1203509333/

I'm sure this will have a strong deadpool vibe.

1 hour ago, crispy4000 said:

IMO, they might be lucky to even get there with it.  At least faux-k was convincing.  RT-related frame rate and resolution cutting will be plainly obvious.

 

It’s not as outlandish as the native 8k talk though, lol.  Very selective use cases there.

Very selective use cases = the menu's will be in 8k.    

13 hours ago, heydude93 said:

I still don't think most of the gaming audience is prepared for how stunning next gen graphics will look.  Maybe not at launch, but definitely within four years.  Replaying PS4 games right now, even the spectacular ones like Horizon and Death Stranding, will likely feel similar to how revisiting PS3 remasters feels right now. Just wait for the upcoming PS5 and Xbox footage, which should be dropping within three or four months

 

I'm sure the footage we will see in 3 or 4 months will be amazing.  E3 footage always is.

As I have said before this is the smallest step up percentage wise in power that we have ever had in console generations.  All the games at release will be playable on the previous gen.  I would hold your expectations in check.

Of course I am a day one buyer.  Most of us on here probably are.  But you have to be realistic in what you are getting.  This isn't going to be life changing.

18 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

A whole bunch of things in Asia have been canceled or moved, but other than Mobile World Congress (phone trade show in Barcelona with an attendance of ~100k) I haven't heard of much else in Europe or the Americas being canceled because of the virus.

 

According to the CDC, MA does have confirmed cases, but there have only been 15 confirmed cases in the US in total.

 

Sure seems like an overabundance of caution.

I don't think it is a great idea to have people from all over the world congregating in one place, then having everyone travel back to their own country right now.

36 minutes ago, legend said:

 

It's really tough to estimate. If I had to guess, I'd say movie CGI would be there in 20 years, so for games maybe 50? But it's a shot in the dark because we can't easily quantify what is wrong, just that what we have is wrong  

This is laugh out loud funny.  50 years ago was 1970.  People were writing computer programs by physically punching holes in cards.  No one knows what computers will be like in 10 years.  50 years is not worth guessing about.

4 minutes ago, heydude93 said:

 

You're not wrong.  But also the specs of the PS5 already sound completely bonkers.  Graphics for PS5 games might look like pre-rendered CGI out of the box this gen.  Visual detail to the naked eye is going to start plateauing soon, and we'll probably see a shift towards more abstract and expressive art styles anyway, which aren't as expensive on processing speed. I'm sure we'll get an upgrade later, slim models, and all that, but since a boost in framerate is the main selling point of the Pro models why can't a PS5 model with extra vRAM and harddrive space be released this year?

That is one way to look at it...

Another true way to look at it is: this is the smallest step forward ever for a new console release.  You will see less of a difference from a PS4 game to a PS5 game than ever before in any console iteration.  This coupled with the fact the the first year or two will be releases of the same games for both systems there seems to be very little reason to be an early adopter.

It will be interesting to see if they can even get manufacturing geared up to release these two consoles before Christmas.  Apple has already said they are having manufacturing issues related to Corona virus and I would expect things to get worse before they get better.  

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

That 500 GB hard drive doe.

The two things easiest and most likely to change are hard drives and memory.  With the size of next gen games and the importance of fast load times I don't see how either side could go with 500 GB.  It will be hard for someone to just plug in a USB HD to the system and get the same incredible load times - and the cost to add more space at that speed would be large (at least at the start of the gen)

We should have a D1P list of the greatest movies of all time.  Pinned to the top.  Added to as needed.  Would be handy when looking for something to watch.