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[RegisKillbin @RegisKillbin]

So... I made a video game... and now you can buy it. SkyShard is a city building auto battler, and I think it's pretty damn fun (so do the 96% positive reviewers on our demo).

It just launched in Early Access at $11.99, a 20% launch discount (with regional pricing too).

This literally would not be possible without all the support I've gotten over the years. Thank you!!

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

lol uh, okay. Thanks for letting me know, fridge.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@rileyj_s This should be illegal.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@daddycole45 @RabbitUnique @PanasonicDX4500 No, that's fair. I just meant that most people are saying, "oh, well hantavirus doesn't work like that".

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@RabbitUnique Right. In the same way where we believe we already know everything about hanta, and even this Andes strain that's the only one capable of human-to-human transmission.

And maybe we do. And it's silly that I'm even talking about it. But like... it's not that there's 0 precedent.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@RabbitUnique And I'm not saying anybody is directly at fault for any of it. I'm just pointing out the similarities in the early stages.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@RabbitUnique But the early sentiment at the time from the experts were, "It's probably fine", "Well it'd be bad if it did X, but it didn't", "Okay it did X, but there's still time to contain it", "Okay we weren't able to contain it".

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@RabbitUnique You're right, I don't have a tweet that says, "We're 100% sure COVID19 is nothing".

But you don't believe that the spirit of that tweet was to reassure the public that it wasn't as scary as some of the rumors they had been hearing at the start of 2020?

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@prionthot @RabbitUnique @PanasonicDX4500 Correct. I wasn’t suggesting that there was some nefarious scheme by the medical community around COVID.

All I’m saying is that the medical community was confident that COVID-19 was nothing too in the initial stages, and that changed VERY quickly in a few months.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@RabbitUnique @PanasonicDX4500 I mean, I hope you guys are right and this is a nothingburger.

I'm not saying that everybody should panic. But I am saying that I have a simple primate brain that has the ability for pattern recognition, for better or worse.

It just feels like we've heard this before.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@DS__LFC__ @PanasonicDX4500 I'll accept that, sure. Hopefully you're right, and nothing happens.

I am not an epidemiologist. I'm just a random dude on the internet talking shit.

But I am also pointing out that we heard the same sort of cavalier attitude at the start of 2020.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@RabbitUnique @PanasonicDX4500 I mean yeah, you're basically saying, "well yeah, they didn't know it was a problem then".

That's my fucking point. Don't you think we could be dismissing this thing a little prematurely?

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@PanasonicDX4500 And look, I'm not saying that hantavirus is gonna be anything more than a blip in the news cycle.

But I also don't think it's wrong for people to keep an eye on any further developments.

COVID, was at one time, just a minor issue that we "didn't need to worry about".

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@PanasonicDX4500 https://t.co/uuB4i1OIp4

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@PanasonicDX4500 I've got no problem admitting I'm an idiot and shouldn't even be commenting on this post, but I remember people saying the same shit about COVID.

About how it's really not that big of a deal, that most strains burn themselves out, that it was only because of close contact, etc.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@its_The_Dr You didn’t even watch your own video. She’s basically saying that currently, corporations treat natural resources like they’re infinite, and we know that they’re not, so they should start taking that into account.

It’s really hard to run a business when there’s no fucking planet

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

Kevin "I'm Not Building a Data Center Where I Live" O'Leary.

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

I’m the only developer of data centers on earth that graduated from environmental studies. I'm pretty aware of what these concerns are. They are around air, water use, heat, noise pollution. So sustainability is at the heart of what we do in terms of all these proposals. We search for the best technology. There's many air-cooled turbines now, so you're blending in air-cooled versus water. There's so many different ways to generate power. We can also put a percentage of the power generation through solar, wind, and batteries because the battery technology is 10X more efficient than it was just five years ago. So that's very helpful because it makes the cost of energy lower.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@JoshStrifeHayes It’s because we are. Every leftist has their pet issue, and heaven forbid you end up slightly less left than them on whatever it is.

For a group that claims to value inclusivity, we’re way too fast to damn anybody that doesn’t conform to our own personal worldview.

[Dewd @amountaindewd]

@rileyj_s “Anyone who would letterspace lowercase would steal sheep.”

- Erik Spiekermann misquoting Frederic Goudy

The original quote was “black letter” and not “lowercase”, but there’s a reason the quote is famous, lol.