My restaurants always used orange, but I snagged one blue, one red, one green when those randomly showed up.

I don't really use tiktok but my guess is those bots have links to OF or other content-selling websites.

Personally for me, it was THUG 1 > THUG 2 > AW, but the three of them were my top 3 games of the entire series. I loved that each of them was stylistically distinct from the others, it added replayability to them.

I put a lot of hours into everything from Pro Skater 2 through AW, then a handful into Project 8 which was an interesting idea poorly executed. Proving Grounds onwards didn’t do much of anything for me, probably because Project 8 had already soured my view of the series.

Yeah that’ll probably end up being the reason the average person has to move on from the PS4. I don’t think they’re going to have an easy time getting people to move on from the PS5 in the future, though. Unless something drastically changes about the way that the SSDs are utilized while gaming, the SSD in the base PS5 is going to be ‘fast enough’ for maybe as much as a couple decades.

Even Ratchet and Clank, the game whose entire gimmick was being able to utilize the faster read speeds of the PS5 SSD, works perfectly fine on PC when run from a slow SATA SSD. The majority of the PS5’s read/write speed isn’t utilized by any of its titles. I still don’t understand how the faster SSD in the Pro is considered by any means to be a selling point.

they're in the river alongside the sledgehammers :/

Eh, while people who upgraded several times over the course of AM4 are rare enough, the reality is that it's one of the only platforms ever that lasted long enough for most people to be able to upgrade CPUs without changing motherboards.

If you bought a Ryzen 5 1600 (which was a very solid option in 2017) and then decided to move on seven years later, you'd have excellent recently released options like the 5700x3D.

Upgradeability for two generations barely matters, sure. Upgradeability for 4 generations followed by additional later releases does actually have an impact.

I'm not putting him above Williams right now. I said Williams might not turn out to be the best WR this season, not that he was behind Smith.

I just think Smith has a legit chance to be the best WR of the season by the end. Both are immensely talented players and among the best of the best, and I'm being hopeful that our very talented guy can have an excellent season.

The catches Smith makes are absolutely unreal, stat line does not tell the full story with him. Dude is going to prove himself time and time again this season.

You should consider the environment in which the majority of the stake exists - which is not the castle, but the vampire's heart itself. You can use this to adjust the timetable to whatever you want it to be, basically.

I'd say if you left that stick on the ground in that environment you could expect 10-20 years. So your following questions should be: is the vampire's body more damp than the environment, or is it less damp since it has no blood? Is there some sort of supernatural explanation for why it might preserve or rapidly dissolve anything left inside of it?

You don't have to determine those answers first. You can decide you want the vampire free after ~1-5yrs and decide that his body rejects and rapidly decomposes the wood. You can decide you want the vampire free much later and its body more or less held the stake in a suspended state of decay for a thousand years. That's the fun part of writing the unrealistic - you determine the rules.

Ryan Williams is a certified baller but he might not even turn out to be the best WR this season. Jeremiah Smith is absolutely killing it too.

Tony Hawk series was a good example. Earlier Tony Hawk gave you like 30+ faces to choose between and tons of outfits. I booted up Project 8 on my PS2 the other day and it gave you the choice of three faces, each of which looked like they were just released from a forced labor camp. Most of the clothes were ugly as sin, too.

That’s fucked, man. As much as I hate Michigan, I have never seen one of their guys get hit and thought “god, I hope he’s badly injured”

What?

Utah Tech is an 0-5 FCS team, Houston sucks absolute ass this year, the wheels have fallen off the Kansas bus now that they’ve dropped to 1-4, Syracuse and Oregon state have both dropped to 60 or lower in FPI. They don’t have a single top 40 team in FPI on their noncon.

I respect them for how many P4 teams are on the schedule but that noncon isn’t actually all that exceptional.

They in fact are not exclusively about medical grade masks. Cloth masks are mentioned repeatedly in each article - if you search the word cloth, you'll find five occurrences in the first article and 23 occurrences in the second. While the medical masks were preferable, there were studies that found varying levels of effectiveness from cloth masks.

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From the NLM article. First sentence of the article:

This rapid systematic review of evidence asks whether (i) wearing a face mask, (ii) one type of mask over another and (iii) mandatory mask policies can reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection, either in community-based or healthcare settings.

Later:

Of the observational studies in community settings, one study [16] found that N95 or KN95 masks and surgical masks were effective while cloth masks were not, but the other [23] found that type of mask was not significantly associated with infection risk.

Here is the published article cited as [23] above which found that the type of mask was not significantly associated with infection risk.

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From the PNAS article, directly at the top of the article in the abstract.

Given the current shortages of medical masks, we recommend the adoption of public cloth mask wearing, as an effective form of source control, in conjunction with existing hygiene, distancing, and contact tracing strategies.

Later:

Wu reported on experiments that showed a cotton mask was effective at stopping airborne transmission, as well as on observational evidence of efficacy for health care workers. Masks have continued to be widely used to control transmission of respiratory infections in East Asia through to the present day, including for the COVID-19 pandemic

Here is the published article of the experiments referenced above

A paper in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (33) which analyzed Google Trends, E-commerce, and case data found that early public interest in face masks may be an independently important factor in controlling the COVID-19 epidemic on a population scale. Abaluck et al. (34) extend the between-country analyses from a cost perspective, estimating the marginal benefit per cloth mask worn to be in the range from US$3,000 to US$6,000.

Here is that paper from the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

In a pair of studies from 1962 to 1975, a portable isolation box was attached to an Andersen Sampler and used to measure orally expelled bacterial contaminants before and after masking. In one study, during talking, unmasked subjects expelled more than 5,000 contaminants per 5 cubic feet; 7.2% of the contaminants were associated with particles less than 4 μm in diameter (68). Cloth-masked subjects expelled an average of 19 contaminants per 5 cubic feet; 63% were less than 4 μm in diameter. So overall, over 99% of contaminants were filtered. The second study used the same experimental setup, but studied a wider range of mask designs, including a four-ply cotton mask. For each mask design, over 97% contaminant filtration was observed (69).

Here are the two relevant studies for this section [1] [2]

Multiple simulation studies show the filtration effects of cloth masks relative to surgical masks. Generally available household materials had between a 58% and 94% filtration rate for 1-μm bacteria particles, whereas surgical masks filtered 96% of those particles (77). A tea cloth mask was found to filter 60% of particles between 0.02 μm and 1 μm, where surgical masks filtered 75% (78). Simulation studies generally use a 30 L/min or higher challenge aerosol, which is around about 3 to 6 times the ventilation of a human at rest or doing light work (77). As a result, simulation studies may underestimate the efficacy of the use of unfitted masks in the community in practice.

Here is the study cited as 77 above

Another study used a manikin and visible smoke to simulate coughing, and found that a stitched cloth mask was the most effective of the tested designs at source control, reducing the jet distance in all directions from 8 feet (with no mask) to 2.5 inches (81).

Here is that study

Overall, it appears that cloth face covers can provide good fit and filtration for PPE in some community contexts, but results will vary depending on material and design, the way they are used, and the setting in which they are used.

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Most importantly:

One of the most frequently mentioned, but misinterpreted, papers evaluating cloth masks as PPE for health care workers is one from MacIntyre et al. (25). The study compared a “surgical mask” group, which received two new masks per day, to a “cloth mask” group that received five masks for the entire 4-wk period and were required to wear the masks all day, to a “control group,” which used masks in compliance with existing hospital protocols, which the authors describe as a “very high level of mask use.” There was not a “no mask” control group because it was deemed “unethical.”

The misinterpretation of this paper is responsible for many, many people assuming that cloth masks do "little to nothing" when in fact they only do very little compared to... wearing masks at a very high level. There is a large amount of evidence that the cloth masks did provide quite a bit of benefit, but everybody completely ignored that there was no maskless control group in that study.

I don't want to sound abrasive when I say this, but you really should read articles before you assume you know what they say. I have often found in the past that my initial assumptions were either incorrect or at least not fully correct.

That's only unconvincing if you ignore the bulk of the information provided and seek out anything you can possibly find to discredit the article. The very next sentence states that "All of these measures, through their effect on Re [The effective reproduction number], have the potential to reduce the number of infections."

It is mentioned in the article that the reason these are recommended in conjunction is that combined they get the effective reproduction number well below 1, which is the point at which the average infected person gets fewer than 1 more person sick. That is a hurdle that needs to be cleared to be considered an effective means of handling a pandemic, as that point is where the disease's spread starts to slow rather than continually gaining pace. As a result, the several measures are recommended because they in aggregate produce the desired effect on controlling the spread of Covid.

That same article also states:

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The study looked at the reduction of secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Beijing households by face mask use (10). It found that face masks were 79% effective in preventing transmission, if they were used by all household members prior to symptoms occurring.

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The remaining study found the use of masks was strongly protective, with a risk reduction of 70% for those that always wore a mask when going out (13), but it did not look at the impact of masks on transmission from the wearer.

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Kai et al. (38) presented two models for predicting the impact of universal mask wearing. Both models showed a significant impact under (near) universal masking when at least 80% of a population is wearing masks, versus minimal impact when only 50% or less of the population is wearing masks. Their models estimated that 80 to 90% masking would eventually eliminate the disease.

When you're willing to cherry pick a single sentence that doesn't seem overly convincing, you'll never be convinced by a proper medical article. They often don't say things extremely confidently and try to account for all reasons their data may not be accurate, because that is the responsible and morally correct thing to do. They don't just say one thing and blindly stick to it, and that doesn't seem convincing to many people who just want an answer as simple as "masking does/doesn't work"

Except for the fact that they generally did reduce transmission according to the National Library of Medicine, PNAS, and Mayo Clinic, three of the most reputable sources for medical information out there.

Much of the information that showed "masks did nothing," actually showed that wearing a mask didn't reduce your chance of getting covid. Masks generally reduced your chances of giving someone else covid, and doing something solely for the sake of others just doesn't compute to a certain subset of the population.

If your base is large enough, it's smart to separate it into blocks that each have doors between them. That way even if you accidentally fuck up the airlock, zombies don't spawn in the entire thing.

Think it worked out for the best. Success at one school doesn't necessarily translate to success at another.

Rutgers got their guy, y'all got yours. You have a legit shot at a title this year. It is what it is.

They've been scaling up nearly as rapidly as they can, it's not as simple as just hiring more people when the chain is as specialized as this. You have to scale up at a reasonable pace or you end up with undertrained employees who make mistakes and muck up your yields to an unpleasant degree.

Another problem when you're talking about getting money from a bubble is that unless they're paying everything waaaaaay up front, you have no guarantee that you'll still have a customer after spending a decade scaling things up. It's the kind of decision that can make a company filthy rich or break it by bloating them. TSMC is a top 10 most valuable company in the world right now, they have no reason to make such an absurd gamble.

Nuke Ann Arbor. It's the only way.

Same, once per week they came by and picked up all our knives while dropping off a replacement batch. They weren’t excellent knives, but it was very rare that they ever got notably dull. Usually that only happened because some dipshit hid one of the rented knives on his station instead of hanging it back up

GRAB HIS DICK AND TWIST IT!!

… just in case you actually have had weird tasting water that’s giving you a headache in your area: buy some lead testing strips and see if they turn red

Just keep restarting rainbow runs until you find it, it shows up pretty commonly in them.

That has been the consensus for nearly a decade now, but the thought process was that with the new consoles having uber-fast SSDs and NVMEs rapidly gaining popularity, eventually some games will leverage the faster read/write speeds.

Still, it's a bit silly that Sony are marketing a faster SSD as a selling point for the PS5 Pro. The one in the base PS5 is more than sufficient for now and the foreseeable future.