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If Pfizer can modify its vaccine in ten weeks, as they have been saying for the last year or so, I wonder why they haven't bothered to update it to be more resilient against delta? Seeing as studies show its efficacy in preventing infection against delta drops by around 30%.
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Rabelais D posted:If Pfizer can modify its vaccine in ten weeks, as they have been saying for the last year or so, I wonder why they haven't bothered to update it to be more resilient against delta? Seeing as studies show its efficacy in preventing infection against delta drops by around 30%. Probably because it's cheaper for them and easier on current supply chains to focus on a booster jab that brings protection up to >90%. Them making more money off this strategy probably helps too.
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Nov 27, 2021 00:13
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Private Speech posted:That one is kind of whatever to be honest, it's not the only game to have nipples in. (see also mass effect cameltoes etc.) Its less about computer nipples and more it was expressly against his contract to appear nude in anything, was specifically made without his consent and then embedded in the game? Like, that's some next tier shitheelness.
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Nov 27, 2021 00:26
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Private Speech posted:That one is kind of whatever to be honest, it's not the only game to have nipples in. (see also mass effect cameltoes etc.) I mean - there being a lot of worse stuff that happened doesn't change the fact that they made a nude model of him without his consent and put it in the game files.
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Nov 27, 2021 00:26
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BalloonFish posted:That was exactly the one I was thinking of that got all the crusty retired Captains, RN worked up about 'weak names'. One of the most numerous classes of WW2 were the Flower-class corvettes - literally hundreds of ships, all named after flowers.
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Nov 27, 2021 00:37
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HopperUK posted:I mean - there being a lot of worse stuff that happened doesn't change the fact that they made a nude model of him without his consent and put it in the game files. the process of digitising a person's likeness pretty much guarantees that. there was an interesting story recently, for me at least, that jet li dropped out of the original matrix sequels when he realised that they would be "capturing" his movements and able to replicate and apply what he considered his long worked upon, unique abilities to any physical model.
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Nov 27, 2021 00:46
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Barry Foster posted:It's because inital reports are that its approx. 500% more infectious than Delta, and may have a higher IFR as well. Like I say those initial reports are completely worthless because there's only a few hundred cases *at most* so far identified. You just can't make any kind of confident pronouncement on transmissability on such low numbers, let alone IFR.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:the process of digitising a person's likeness pretty much guarantees that. there was an interesting story recently, for me at least, that jet li dropped out of the original matrix sequels when he realised that they would be "capturing" his movements and able to replicate and apply what he considered his long worked upon, unique abilities to any physical model. They didn't do a full 3d scan and motion capture of Eliot Page, an actor who famously has never appeared nude in a movie. They scanned their face then decided that the body they made for the shower scene needed textured nipples added despite there being zero reason to include them. Also yes its loving sus that Cage, a man who claims to have an album full of childhood photos of page, was in a position to request that the model be made that way. Also given that he came out recently it seems especially horrible thing to do. Page was probably suffering gender disphoria and they essentially included a nude poser model of them in the game files. even if it wasn't intended to be seen thats really lovely and unprofessional. Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 27, 2021 |
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HopperUK posted:Yo, not having a go at you or anything but Elliot Page came out as trans a while back and uses he/him nowadays. Now you mention it I do remember reading something about that but I forgot - guess I haven't seen anything with him in since then. Private Speech posted:That one is kind of whatever to be honest, it's not the only game to have nipples in. (see also mass effect cameltoes etc.) I don't have a problem with nipples in games like gta5, cyberpunk or whatever but making a nude model of someone without their knowledge, let alone consent is pretty unethical for a games studio to do imo, especially then publishing it in a triple A game even if it's buried in the files. it's a bit different than some nerd making a nude texture mod for a character based on someones likeness, and Page did consider legal action. Cage also spent a year collating a binder of photos of Page from the age of 6 through his teenage years before they even met.
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Nov 27, 2021 01:08
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goddamnedtwisto posted:One of the most numerous classes of WW2 were the Flower-class corvettes - literally hundreds of ships, all named after flowers. Corvettes are tiny though, it's fine to give them pansy (lol) names. But you want your big fuckoff battleships to have proper mythological or terrifying names like Prometheus or Disemboweler (those two could actually be sister ships for thematic reasons). Only because Disemliverer isn't a word.
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You can also use the time honoured method of "words beginning with In-" especially if you start using words like inarticulate and incommunicado as you run out of the cool ones 
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OwlFancier posted:You can also use the time honoured method of "words beginning with In-" especially if you start using words like inarticulate and incommunicado as you run out of the cool ones I watched a youtube video about the Battle of May Island recently and one of the main ships involved was HMS Inflexible. Like okay I guess it could be taken in a proper military discipline sort of way like Unyielding, but it definitely comes across as more of a negative word you wouldn't really want associated with your military. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZS0RpOgdfQ Good video if you like naval fuckups.
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Guavanaut posted:HMS Inverness That's a good point, we need an HMS Invergordon to commemorate the brave sailors who mutinied in 1931.
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I don't want to be a massive oval office but my understanding of South Africa's Covid situation is that a) their current Delta rates were low enough that it was easier to displace it, and b) SA has a vaccination rate of 28% 1-dose 23% 2-dose and 72% wholly unprotected. The variations are real and theoretically scary, but in practise we don't know yet since we're in a total opposite situation with 1 million Deltas a month and 12% (excluding 0-12 yo's) wholly unprotected. Again, the variations are real, but it's running free in a very beneficial environment.
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My cousin served in (on? It’s a sub so hard to tell) the HMS Superb, which I loved because a) it’s not something like Vengeance, it’s Superb! And b) because all the sailors called it the “Super Bee” which is adorable 🐝 🐝
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Imagine if he'd served on the HMS Cumtruck. Makes you think
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HMS Dreadnaught didn’t just cause a frenzy in the navies across the world and provoking an arms’ race against Germany, she did so in style. Goddamn Dreadnaught is a killer name and honestly nothing tops it IMO.
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Bunch of numberplates round my way start with HMS which makes for some boring ship names.
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Unkempt posted:Bunch of numberplates round my way start with HMS which makes for some boring ship names. GSV first name buncho’numbers
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BigglesSWE posted:HMS Dreadnaught didn’t just cause a frenzy in the navies across the world and provoking an arms’ race against Germany, she did so in style. Goddamn Dreadnaught is a killer name and honestly nothing tops it IMO. Agreed, where did the word come from?
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I assume it just means what it sounds like, it's a pretty cool ship, eh kills foreigners and doesn't afraid of anything.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:HMS Corbyn when? Yarr.
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Alctel posted:Agreed, where did the word come from? a galleon under Drake was named that first. Probably comes from an old bible quote, “Feareth God and Dread Not”
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Alctel posted:Agreed, where did the word come from? It's simply a ship that would dread naught - Fear Nothing - but it was not the first of that name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought
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The name was meant to evoke the holy machines that the greatest of Space Marines are implanted into in Warhammer 40k.
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If those existed they would definitely have stuffed thatcher and prince phillip into them.
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OwlFancier posted:You can also use the time honoured method of "words beginning with In-" especially if you start using words like inarticulate and incommunicado as you run out of the cool ones
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OwlFancier posted:You can also use the time honoured method of "words beginning with In-" especially if you start using words like inarticulate and incommunicado as you run out of the cool ones That was fun to do in Eve, name your ships things like Insubstantial, Inperceivable, Incoherent, Inconstant and so on.
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Ataxerxes posted:That was fun to do in Eve, name your ships things like Insubstantial, Inperceivable, Incoherent, Inconstant and so on. Inconceivable Indistinguishable Inch
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CGI Stardust posted:the HMS Inflammable, first and last of its name Still better than HMS Incel.
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All aboard the HMS Innertube for bouncy wartime fun
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radmonger posted:Still better than HMS Incel. That's appropriate for the navy though
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Failed Imagineer posted:That's appropriate for the navy though Hey now, the British Navy may have many faults, but rum, sodomy and the lash are three things it famously never skimps on.
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Isomermaid posted:All aboard the HMS Innertube for bouncy wartime fun The HMS incontinent is a great little runner I heard
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There was HMS Invincible, turns out she wasn't - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Invincible_(1907) As for Dreadnought, eh, she wasn't quite as out of the blue as people make out - other people, the Yanks for one, had sussed the concept of all-big-gun turbine battleship, it's just that as world Top Dog naval builders at the time we got ours out first. It's more a matter of the tech advancing to the stage where it was the obvious thing to do than some lone genius having a lightbulb moment.
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Skarsnik posted:The HMS incontinent is a great little runner I heard HMS Incontinentia for all the Life Of Brian fans out there.  feedmegin posted:There was HMS Invincible, turns out she wasn't - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Invincible_(1907) Yanks and surprisingly the Japanese (i think they learned a lot from destroying the Russians at Tsushima) were both heading the same way. Dreadnought has some quite bad design choices and was already way outclassed by WW1, first is not always best. 
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