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TheatrclBarristr said:
We had different strains of flu before the Spanish flu. We have not built up immunity to that virus, and it still has major outbreaks as recently as the 2009 swine flu pandemic. We do not treat that particular strain as a mild annoyance.
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While true that some strains are still very alarming (and for damn good reason X_X), the general population of today do tend to treat the Cold and Flu as mild annoyances (they don't when they first showed up, but eventually people do tend to get used to unpleasant things). You only have to look at how often people still come to work, or go to school with either of them, or how people react to knowing if someone has either of them. Though that could be due to social peer pressure as well, not to mention employers attitudes to their workers being sick (the bastards).

So unless COVID becomes like the Spanish Flu in lethality (which IS still possible), it will (I feel) in the next few years be viewed much the same as Cold's and Flu's (Go get your retinue immunization jab today!). Honestly, it's already happening with it's less media coverage and Governments back pedaling on restrictions, both of which play crazy stupid levels of influence on the general public point of view.
 
1stSlug said:
It's a bit of a mental hic-up that many modern cultures have in regards to age disparity in relationships. And on some levels it IS something to be worried about.

I personally find it a little ick for much older (+15-20 years older than partner) person to date/marry young adults (18-25), but I stop caring once the younger person is 25-30 (adult). Mostly because I attribute age to mental maturity (and because your teenage 'hump everything' hormones have started to settle the F down by then). After that point, age is simply a number and should make little difference between consenting adults and it's not my business to care what other consenting adults do in their private lives.
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Agreed. As far as we best know rn, brains finish developing at 25. If at 25 you want to date a geriatric, I'd still be convinced you know well enough what you want. Michiko x Smasher was ick, but 25 y.o. Taylor with the venerable Saburou "liver spot" Arasaka is still something I could hypothetically find fine.
 
1stSlug said:
It's a bit of a mental hic-up that many modern cultures have in regards to age disparity in relationships. And on some levels it IS something to be worried about.

I personally find it a little ick for much older (+15-20 years older than partner) person to date/marry young adults (18-25), but I stop caring once the younger person is 25-30 (adult). Mostly because I attribute age to mental maturity (and because your teenage 'hump everything' hormones have started to settle the F down by then). After that point, age is simply a number and should make little difference between consenting adults and it's not my business to care what other consenting adults do in their private lives.
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This. the only time I care about what adults do in large age gaps is if the said adults have enough experience for that.

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of bullshit out there in the world, like heavily sheltered women still living in Hardcore Fundie Mormon compounds, etc. But thankfully nowdays that sort of thing is getting rarer and rarer, now that most people now the kinda harm that can bring about, even if everyone's of legal age.
 
jesus said:
Agreed. As far as we best know rn, brains finish developing at 25. If at 25 you want to date a geriatric, I'd still be convinced you know well enough what you want. Michiko x Smasher was ick, but 25 y.o. Taylor with the venerable Saburou "liver spot" Arasaka is still something I could hypothetically find fine.
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I think there's still power disparities to consider. For average people, that works well though.
 
Nyvis said:
I think there's still power disparities to consider. For average people, that works well though.
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True. After another 8 years with her powerset, Taylor could be too powerful. Could Saburou meaningfully gainsay any of the decisions she made for them both? Especially since his very health could be entirely dependent on her decisions. It's certainly food for thought.
 
1stSlug said:
While true that some strains are still very alarming (and for damn good reason X_X), the general population of today do tend to treat the Cold and Flu as mild annoyances (they don't when they first showed up, but eventually people do tend to get used to unpleasant things).
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We already have seasonal coronaviruses. They're one of the virus groups that cause the common cold, in fact. SARS-CoV-2 is "some strain", and the next novel coronavirus (or any other respiratory tract virus) of similar transmissibility and virulence will also be "some strain". SARS-CoV-2 would look less severe now because it is no longer a novel virus, but that's because most people have acquired some degree of immunity against it, and a virus you are immune against is less likely to kill you. If the immunity was somehow lost, say if someone decides to release a sample they took a decade or three later, then we would have a fresh new pandemic to be alarmed about, same as the old.
 
timuzhti said:
We already have seasonal coronaviruses. They're one of the virus groups that cause the common cold, in fact. SARS-CoV-2 is "some strain", and the next novel coronavirus (or any other respiratory tract virus) of similar transmissibility and virulence will also be "some strain". SARS-CoV-2 would look less severe now because it is no longer a novel virus, but that's because most people have acquired some degree of immunity against it, and a virus you are immune against is less likely to kill you. If the immunity was somehow lost, say if someone decides to release a sample they took a decade or three later, then we would have a fresh new pandemic to be alarmed about, same as the old.
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If I understand it correctly, we even have a descendant of the Black Death still in circulation in our populations today, but it's considered weak enough that most people think it's a cold if they catch it...

It's kinda the nature of the beast - the strains that leave a host living to spread the sickness spread more than a strain that kills the host.
 
GamingGeek said:
If I understand it correctly, we even have a descendant of the Black Death still in circulation in our populations today, but it's considered weak enough that most people think it's a cold if they catch it...

It's kinda the nature of the beast - the strains that leave a host living to spread the sickness spread more than a strain that kills the host.
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There are still areas of London where any kind of development is restricted.

These are Plague Pits. Mass Graves with Bubonic Plague still able to become active again.
 
Eastern Calculus said:
I can commiserate. I once caught my little one taste testing a handrail. I didn't want to cause a scene, but I was dying inside. At that point I remember resigning myself to getting sick. Lo and behold, a week later we all got sick.

Feel better soon, Spira!
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Building up that robust immunity system! When I was a kid I'd drink out of those filthy water fountains. You know the ones, right? You press the trigger, and the water barely dribbles out sometimes, so you have to practically kiss the fountain to get the water. :D Good times.

On another note. I actually wasn't aware Spira was sick, so I've been worried if something happened cause it's been so long since a skitterdoc update. I finally check in on the forum, and the first thing I see was that she was sick! :oops:
 
GamingGeek said:
Eh, the under 18 part is the biggest issue, far more than a 18-70 gap In setting, thanks to how crazy the life extension tech is, almost anyone rich could be super old and you'd have no way to know outside of how they act.

And that guy acts like a stupid 20 something rebel in 2077. He does NOT act (or seems to think) like his age would imply.


At least I'm assuming the person was talking about Taylor being older when his theoretical interaction happened......
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Like I said I thought he was younger, cause like you said acts like a 20 something rebel, but yeah I was assuming some time closer to 2077 when Taylor would be a full adult.
 
Slaggedfire said:
@1stSlug Triple post. Bro edit that into one post.
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EDITED: @Slaggedfire Brah. As requested, I have condensed posts into one.

Slaggedfire said:
Building up that robust immunity system! When I was a kid I'd drink out of those filthy water fountains. You know the ones, right? You press the trigger, and the water barely dribbles out sometimes, so you have to practically kiss the fountain to get the water. :D Good times.

On another note. I actually wasn't aware Spira was sick, so I've been worried if something happened cause it's been so long since a skitterdoc update. I finally check in on the forum, and the first thing I see was that she was sick! :oops:
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Yeah, it sucks for everyone :(, all we can do is wait and wish for a speedy recovery.

masterofmadness said:
Like I said I thought he was younger, cause like you said acts like a 20 something rebel, but yeah I was assuming some time closer to 2077 when Taylor would be a full adult.
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Besides, he's such a tool. Wouldn't want our Taylor getting stuck with a buffoon anyways. Now, Panan however. d-(-_^)-b

Nyvis said:
I think there's still power disparities to consider. For average people, that works well though.
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Like I said, there are things to worry about, but that's true for any form of relationship (ugh, human feelings are so messy and confusing!). Like almost anything concerning humanity, it's usually all shades of gray and in the end, we simply have to accept that what other people do with their own lives isn't our concern, until it effects us personally.
 
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SpiraSpira said:
SNIP
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Ouch, hope you get better soon. Part of me wants to say how amazing the variance we are having with Covid, I mean, virtually asymptomatic to fast fatal, but with such a huge sample size it really makes sense.
Had it twice, once was close to yours, other I basically coughed for a day and was fine then.
ZhaWarudo said:
Covid still exists? I was under the impression it just puffed.
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I can't decide if your trolling or not. But as a point *gestures to the photo on CNN a week or so back of blocks long backup of hearses at crematoriums in China* Some places have a three day waiting list to burn bodies, so yea, Covid is still going strong.

ScissorSlipper said:
That sounds semi apocalyptic so I have a hard time believing it but it seems reasonable.
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Not really, few years back some archeologists found intact supposedly viable Spanish flu in a dig in Yukon or Alaska I think it was. And on a more personal example the mother of a friend of mine (also an archeologist) found out back in the 80s when she went to donate blood that she had been exposed to smallpox at some point ontop of having to get inoculations to tons of 'eradicated' diseases as part of the standard for a number of excavations she worked on.
 
the sragoon body still may have sensorsbfunctional, its possible to conect the sensors to a helmet or one of the spiders

also you may be able to make a linear frame using it
 
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Not really, few years back some archeologists found intact supposedly viable Spanish flu in a dig in Yukon or Alaska I think it was. And on a more personal example the mother of a friend of mine (also an archeologist) found out back in the 80s when she went to donate blood that she had been exposed to smallpox at some point ontop of having to get inoculations to tons of 'eradicated' diseases as part of the standard for a number of excavations she worked on.
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Did some overseas work guarding some digs and working with mostly isolated ingenious peoples. Holy Hannah, the number of inoculations required was insane. Small pox shot scar still is a fun story. Add in a G6PD deficiency and more than glad to have left all that behind lol.

It's crazy how many wierd af diseases still are floating around in pockets around the world.

On 2077 topic relations it is really frightening what someone like Biotechnica could do / is doing with
 
Heirx said:
On 2077 topic relations it is really frightening what someone like Biotechnica could do / is doing with
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There is a radio station in game called Morro Rock Radio, the station DJ is Maximum Mike (the creator's player character) and one of the things he discusses is Biotechnica using it's work rebuilding ecosystems as a cover for building a massive organic super computer.
 
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Riggnarock said:
Biotechnica using it's work rebuilding ecosystems as a cover for building a massive organic super computer.
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An artificial entity that can replicate itself, intended as a self-maintaining labor force, mistakenly created a little too smart, and when it starts building more of itself it builds them better.

And better.

And better.

And it adapts itself, creating new forms to suit new tasks. Every new organism it builds is more neurons in its brain. It extends itself and consumes everything organic that isn't itself. When there's nothing left it converts its biomass into artificial plants that take energy from the sun and pass it up the chain to the artificial animals which use it to reproduce. More and more and more and more and bigger and bigger and bigger.

Jump forward a few years and half the continent has been completely taken over by artificial flora and fauna, everything in perfect instantaneous communication to form a single hyperintelligent entity constantly adapting itself to every environment it spreads into, creating its own ecosystems.

The hive mind is an evolutionarily perfect organism and outcompetes everything else. The extinction of all other life on the planet is inevitable.
 
Bassoe said:
An artificial entity that can replicate itself, intended as a self-maintaining labor force, mistakenly created a little too smart, and when it starts building more of itself it builds them better.

And better.

And better.

And it adapts itself, creating new forms to suit new tasks. Every new organism it builds is more neurons in its brain. It extends itself and consumes everything organic that isn't itself. When there's nothing left it converts its biomass into artificial plants that take energy from the sun and pass it up the chain to the artificial animals which use it to reproduce. More and more and more and more and bigger and bigger and bigger.

Jump forward a few years and half the continent has been completely taken over by artificial flora and fauna, everything in perfect instantaneous communication to form a single hyperintelligent entity constantly adapting itself to every environment it spreads into, creating its own ecosystems.

The hive mind is an evolutionarily perfect organism and outcompetes everything else. The extinction of all other life on the planet is inevitable.
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Zerg rush? Zerg rush!

Seriously this is how Tyrannids and Zerg are born. 0 Stars/DNR

Biotechnica: Accidentally Hyper-Evolving Biological Murder Beasts

Umbrella Corp: Not bad, 8/10, good first attempt.
 
Heirx said:
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I would love to see all those Corp's met up and compare whose bioweapon is better, I suspect that would be a fun short story, which would end with that galaxy being cleansed with fire. For safety reasons.

Also, has anyone heard any news about our beloved author as of late? I suspect they've not had an easy run in with the Rona. :(
 
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Just leave him to his space. Politely dressed pressure is still a form of pressure. It'll become a more relevant question for the thread once it's been longer. Afterall, there are other reasons why we might be in a sort of mini-hiccup in the update schedule, what with the bad winter weather ending this year in NA and Christmas/New Years holidays.
 
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