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  1. logboy
    my initial impression was that it was using a series of zones as sections, like uncharted, to control exploration. now it's moved to a desert with skeletal caves, and it feels like it wants to be zelda.
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    watching my brother play god of war : ragnarok. dull and unengaging so far. seems like it's desperate to disguise how small it is? if it is big, it's currently the biggest tutorial i've ever seen.
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    lots of folk in china not vaccinated? i would have thought they'd all be, but it makes sense if cases there are so capable of rapid growth. the nuance of variants and versions of vaccines has been a missed or mishandled aspect of communication in the last few years. here in the UK, lots took the idea they'd be safer once the initial + booster doses to mean they'd be simply *safe* rather than better off now than before them; that would have been done and dusted almost two years ago, and there's the widespread understanding that six months might be all a dose really covers you for, and they're still sticking to their guns that what they were told initially is as much as they'll do, as far as they'll compromise of accepting the need. the elderly especially over-simplified this. the young were more likely to assume the elderly were more at risk - even the only at risk - so many who declared themselves fit (how?!) to fight didn't bother at all. some who i know of that were young and vaccinated contracted covid and were hit very very hard - shocked that they were, too. honestly, i still think there was a way to carefully and calmly say that vaccination of everyone was the best solution for a resolution / return to life as we know it. for now, it actually feels like it's a story that's not over that risks being the dominant one again in the coming few years. with variants created easily within unvaccinated or unboosted people, the psychological challenge is now how to put the genie of apparent safety back in the bottle when / if a new variant takes us somewhere closer to being back to square one. i don't even know if there's enough vaccinated people globally or in various countries to prevent that, or if infection rates and measures adopted worldwide can prevent it.
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    actually, we had lots of people across the world (some here?) saying they only had a cold in the last couple of years, when they had a potentially fatal virus that had (and has) killed millions. seriously, the oddest thing now is watching people's vastly varying ways of dealing with now. most seem to think it's over, many realise it's not and don't draw attention to their position and accept the comfort of vaccines and are dragged somewhat into the illusion all is now well. on a day out in london recently i saw literally a handful of mask wearers all day, and walk past / through crowds of tens of thousands (london is the most unvaccinated part of the UK) - in the small town i live in, i can go shopping and see as many people wearing masks on any give day. in china it's all gone to shit because their control went OTT and has been dropped like a stone.
  5. logboy
    i've not had covid. according to current research, this is because i have no friends. i support this theory. i am 49, and managed to get a booster about a month ago. got a free flu jab in the deal. all 50+ get annual flu jabs in the UK.
  6. logboy
    i think mimi's death is the end of low. it's the balance of her voice with alan's, as well as their personalities and sensibilities mixing that make that work so well. i wouldn't be surprised if alan did other stuff still, and played low songs on occasion. i've seen them live many times, and, despite how so much of it shouldn't work at all, it always did - and especially well more often than not.
  7. logboy
    this brings back memories of seeing the (original) cassette on the shelves week after week in my local HMV some thirty years back. never made a move on it as an album. remastered, i might have picked up the CD. i am perplexed by the shirts and tote bags too. fwiw, i pretty much felt warp was done by the time MHTRTC appeared. ducking for cover right now.
  8. logboy

    Brexit :(

    logboy replied to BCM's topic in General Banter

    don't think it's as frequently assumed impact from a global pandemic, but portrayed ... it's the cover story. as the pandemic fades - and that in itself is intentional, financially, as it's not sustainable due to downturn in trade due also to brexit - the realities of brexit slowly drift in and are accepted by more of the population. it's a very slow trickle, so it will take years. as with many issues decided by governments and of great impact upon the population, the hope will be adjustment will occur. there's still strong doubt that would be possible, because the impacts of brexit were not understood and therefore not negotiated for, so there's a sense they're also playing for time and hoping for someone else to get the blame long down the road. in other words : it's a fuck up, they know it's a fuck up, they don't want it to be their fuck up.
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    afaik, iirc ... there's an MTV interview on YT in which RDJ states he always found talking about electronic music was pointless and it made it pointless to listen to. my opinion of this is that it's the origin of his approach to interviews. he's probably contractually obliged or expected to do them, doesn't mean he isn't going to make up nonsense to cause people trouble when they try to gather or use knowledge about him, or simply make it so fruitless people give up on requiring it or listening to it. also ... didn't RDJ record onto DAT at double speed to make it more cost effective? this accounts for the loss in quality. one of the Ae guys noticed this and asked him about it. should effectively be quite easy to hear when you remember what recording to consumer tape formats can do ... same with cassettes and VHS also. i wouldn't be surprised though, if there's a better master and RDJ made a copy onto another at double speed to submit to R&S. holding a little bit back for more than one reason, i suspect.
  10. logboy
    it does look like the USA is on a slow and obvious roll towards civil war. i know plenty of people elected trump in '16 because he wouldn't do politics in a traditional way, but ... he used this as a cover for not being willing or able to understand what the hell politics was about or for. he did it by accident too, it seems - he wanted to be associated with having run, and managed to land the job. he's used mobilisation of supporters (and the threat of it) to intimidate and control others. he'll try to shield himself from prosecution for 1/6 with it, and if he doesn't succeed, he'll set them completely loose. in fact, he's so afraid of the label of loser, he'll destroy everything else to try and hide it. the best he can really hope for, far from being found right or successful, is confusion over whether the truth is definitive and reliable enough. he's very much the true and most prominent purveyor and exploiter of false information. america might take democracy and global stability with it also. very bizarre. from a UK point of view, so many tactics and techniques has been lifted from the visible and discernible trump ones of the last few years that it's highlighting the problems with populist governance and making it all a little harder to exploit here. we're fucked, but the USA looks like it's fucked and fucking everything else up with it.
  11. logboy
    bits and pieces. nothing visible as it once was. it’s there though. expecting more visible as cases rise and winter approaches, more work done.
  12. logboy
    calls for boosters have started in the UK. increases in cases and hospitalisations have arisen around major recent events. we've shifted from an early sense that vaccination was the only way out and it would be compulsory, to a muddling through of trying to keep economies going, and onto accepting people not choosing to vaccinate at all. lowest rate here appears to be london. this is typically described as an issue reflecting how it's much more multicultural, and reliant upon news systems outside the norm, and prone to misinformation and distrust as a result. we have seen talk about revisions of vaccines being possible within weeks, which moved slightly to temper the excitement by saying they'd still need relatively lengthy testing and approval. we've also seen rapid development in the background of possible new technologies or techniques for vaccines that will cope with evolving variants that appear down the line post-injection. this is all likely to resurge in interest and importance later in the year when colder weather returns. it's surprising how easy it's been to get people to behave as though nothing is going on ... i think this is a symptom of fatigue and poor / differing understanding. if they can push 'one shot lasts a lifetime' creations, i think you might find renewed interest in take-up. you might also find surprising indifference. given covid liked the elderly initially, and we annually boost for flu in the over 50's anyway, you might find programs rolled out side-by-side for these. more of the story still to happen though, so expecting changes and surprises along the way over the second half of the year.
  13. logboy
    as a fan of glasses, and MC, his 'alfie' ones were made by oliver goldsmith, who also made for peter sellers, eric morecambe and more. company still exists. https://www.olivergoldsmith.co.uk
  14. logboy
    quite a lot of use for the term ‘endemic’ in here. afaik, it actually refers to a virus that doesn’t see rising rates of infection once conditions to control it are removed. this is far from the case, so far, it seems. not in countries that have supposedly moved on, or in those trying to contain it with a zero covid policy. very high infection rates, very high hospitalisations, quite a lot of death. it seems to be so infectious that societies can’t control it enough before other factors are stressed too hard and are too costly to keep running. this is an acceptance of the health damage as a preference over the societal and economic damage of trying to fight it or mitigate against it from governments, and a passing to the population with fingers firmly crossed.
  15. logboy
    never subbed, myself. i don’t like that business model, as i simply don’t have the health or personality to endlessly consume and get vfm. it would turn into overpaying far more quickly for me. physical media was fine for films, but streaming made that into a format fetish, and hoarding exercise … dumped too much of it and sold what i could from that. i had hoped netflix’s international studios might make accessing new foreign stuff far easier, but crossovers have been minimal. i don’t really think the companies own sense of its own identity matches what field they’re working in. reminds me of uber trying claim it was a tech company and not a taxi service. mismatch, misfire. still expect similar model will return to favour as it ties to never ending growth in internet speed, use and access you’ll not see the back of.
  16. logboy
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-omicron-deltacron-ba2-measles-b2035093.html im never quite sure about claims of a variant being less significant, as i still think high infection and death rates are normalised as a byproduct or technique for downplaying as a way to push for removal of restrictions, reduction of costs and responsibilities. there’s also long covid, remaining mysteries and concerns about organ, brain damage and much more. interested to see what happens after months of supposedly returning to a long gone ‘normal’ as i imagine a very high chance of a return to the normal of the last two years and a lesson in what normal can possibly be now or at any time with a fundamental change like covid. some countries will prove more willing and capable of such moves - china and HK probably currently still are locking down with comparatively small rises that don’t register in the west - and it may highlight non-human costs are dominant now.
  17. logboy
    deltacron detected two days ago, as contagious as measles. i'd be more concerned about the psychological state of the population, and those governing them, as it's the greatest weapon or weakness in preventing or suffering from any variant that appears. not to downplay what may evolve, but the move away from measures and data, dismantling of testing and all those other systems put in place is very arguably far too early and even dangerously hubristic. the shock that should come from new infection rises and further deaths will be downplayed naturally by how hard it will be to sense it as an issue and the reluctance to go back to heavy reporting of it all. i suspect there's a painful transition to some kind of acceptance of it, and it's a million miles away from the apparent intention to develop vaccines and eradicate it that was there at the start and quickly began to fade away.
  18. logboy
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/global-covid-19-death-toll-may-be-three-times-higher-than-official-figures long had a sense manipulation and disinformation was playing a part in figures, especially in very very large or secretive nations, but also aware of how even this will be written off in a similar way by those still struggling to wrap their head around it. oddly easy to lose tens of millions and it doesn’t seem quite real, especially ironic when we can sense people’s existence from afar so much more easily in the last 30 years.
  19. logboy
    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-long-covid-less-common-in-fully-vaccinated-uk-health-agency-says-12542755
  20. logboy
    the UK are lifting restrictions completely, and a month earlier than planned, without apparent specific scientific involvement in making that move. political cover for brexit disasters and other central political failings has seen the pandemic turn from useful to politicians to increasingly risky for the public. the transition has to come, but it's shortened by stresses to the system that were very avoidable and predictable. financial pressure is being shifted onto those still willing and able to spend on isolation, tests and lockdowns. only splitting hairs to describe the events that have occurred over the last two years allows for attempts at dismissing it all as unprecedented. the planet, however, has seen pandemics before, and this one continues with much political or societal hubris and complacency exacerbating it. as much as people are tired and want to move on, infections have no awareness of this, but can take advantage of it. you'll be seeing hospitalisations, deaths and mandates / antivax stuff being very visible in the news for several years or more still, i guess. by then you'll be even more tired of it all, but you'll have moved on and left some behind. far from fading into accepted annual loss of life due to endemic illness, as per influenza and other more accepted illnesses, the appearance of covid during a time so able to document and communicate the experience from all levels will make this harder to accept as 'done'. it will more likely reemerge as an issue that will tie back to a longer-term known contemporary set of stories and issues, due to the more reliably global nature of it than infections that hit parts of the world, or age groups across it. anyone can get it, anyone can spread it. and there's billions of us.
  21. logboy
    sure, but then there’s self taught and there’s … uneducated, or … dumb. for example, i have a poor university education but left school with nothing. my brother left school with nothing. he had a good boss and is extremely good at what he does. we discuss the pandemic with no major struggles in observing or communicating. the major difference is a little speed and attention to detail, but the intelligence overall is close that it’s not a clash or struggle, nor is it conspiracy theory territory. there’s a sense the level and standard of each country’s education system is reflected in the detail of how it’s population has responded and behaved. the USA, for example, has a familiar tinge of not realising there’s other countries. there’s no place in a global issue beyond what turns up on its soil, rather than what’s occurring elsewhere involving different cultures and systems. the UK doesn’t quite get it’s a small country with an historical global impact over many centuries that convinced it that everything it does is somehow likely guaranteed to be a major success. despite 160K+ deaths (plus so much more) to the contrary. it’s also doesn’t know it’s education level is 19th century and about discipline and basic skills for employment in industrial settings run by people with greater privilege and exploitative inclinations. i am sure many other places rely or succeed through greater awareness of, and concern for, or fear of, other people. some will be more inclined to accept being told what to do. either to avoid trouble from punishment, or from knowing the impact of spreading disease and being very conscious of what it does.
  22. logboy
    there’s a huge element of poorly-educated people airing their baffling opinion that formal education is actually a negative process of removing common sense. they then gradually head towards pursuing their *own research* which pushes towards highlighting what was so flawed about their initial assertion, and indicates how challenging and nuanced education is - that it involves the evolution of ideas by seeking, checking and connecting them. not simply picking one out and trying to push it towards being true by repeating it often and loudly.
  23. logboy
    i was bad at science at school. i’ve been online since the early 90s. i was designing websites for a living at 21, and am now almost 50. i’ve also seen firsthand, mediocre websites taken seriously, because they look a cut above … almost 20 years ago. it’s didn’t surprise me, but the level it’s affected us to is beyond imagination and still quite subtle in its characteristics that it will be studied for an age.
  24. logboy
    i suspect fear is caused by many or most aspects of this pandemic’s initial and ongoing management and disjointed responses between countries. the biggest cause of fear might be that the central mistake that’s made to result in infection, and by implication and connection, death, is actually a very easy one to make. most subsequent decisions, following hearing this and responding dramatic unfamiliar political intervention to instruct how to avoid this mistake and it’s consequences, derived from medical guidance, are taken to avoid the risk of looking to have failed in such a basic way. “they’ve made it illegal to breathe!” for example. the anti-vax nonsense isn’t connecting to, but rather ignoring, collective concerns and collaboration … it’s turned the failure to take personal responsibility for your part in a bigger pictures into an attempted display of wishing to appear to be doing something positive for likeminded individuals - rather than looking selfish, or hoping to hide selfishness and failure to see a biggest picture as seeing a different one. so, lots of avoidance of risking doing something that will make people look daft pushes back so hard it simply achieves making them look stupid anyway. lots of these collectives end up acting in the same or similar ways, like the wider society they’re resisting being part of. they’re an isolating subset that’s built into hardening resistance and determined to make themselves a minority being punished rather than getting it wrong or being in fear of what it should have been quick to understand was easier to adjust to in order to prevent than fight back against. as so much has evolved via online communication, and as so many people have rudimentary usage of websites, the conspiracies have the same appearance and outlet as the tried and tested science. that’s hurt us a lot. i still think, as covid 19 was identified late ‘19 and vaccination designs began in earnest months before lockdowns in major countries, a matter-of-fact approach to it coming soon and it being the quickest and cleanest way to improve life would have helped enormously. vaccinations have been done on large scales, and we could have not panicked then gained so much or lost a lot less. quick and complete lockdowns were long known to work, but lack of preparation meant not applying wisdom and experience without panic, and the lies went around the world before the truth got it’s boots on.
  25. logboy
    it's the lack of basic responsibility in people who have otherwise probably always been capable of basic responsibility that fascinates me. tv host in the UK has spent two years lightly debating in an entertainment-like format and allowing so-called balance, contributing towards the phenomena where fact has become opinion. and bullshit is read as fact. annoys me. he keeps saying i don't want people wearing masks, i want to see their faces. he's a regular cyclist. waiting for someone to tell him they don't want him to wear a helmet because they want to see his haircut. see how he reacts. in theory, it would dawn on him how daft his approach can be. likely he'll never make the connection. too much BS has gone on for two long, too intensely. i would hope some will one day be pinned for their bad contributions and actively weapons-grade stupidity, because this is a major even with lots of evidence trails, unlike previous ones that were more localised or predated the explosion in internet usage.
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