Posts by kleinluka

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On 1/22/2021 at 5:51 AM, Vaya said: getting the 1st dose of vaccine in 30 mins woo

how's it going? Got your 2nd dose yet?

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On 2/25/2021 at 5:28 PM, blackdog said:

@kleinluka I didn’t even know Alienware designs mice; looks bulky but also comfy.

Yeah, it's actually very comfy and doesn't feel bulky at all when it's in your hand. Like putting on a fancy glove I've got one of their headsets and keyboards too. Surprisingly good quality for all the shit people say about Alienware

Alienware Wired/Wireless Gaming Mouse AW610M: 16000 DPI Optical Sensor - 350 Hour Rechargeable Battery Life - 7 Buttons - 3-Zone Alienfx RGB Lighting https://www.amazon.ca/Alienware-Wire…473049018&psc=1

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Out of curiosity, did you have any symptoms when you had Covid?

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On 1/6/2021 at 12:23 PM, Buddy said: I am not taking the vaccine, I've had COVID back in November.

FYI that does not mean you are now immune. You can get re-infected if you have already had covid.

From the CDC:

Quote from Minos

1 hour ago, Minos said: Hey man, I'm sorry to hear about your mother. I lost a dear girlfriend to cancer, and my stepdad to covid, so I can imagine your pain. It's not easy. I merely said that enforcing this, like you are suggesting, will potentially create more damage than some other more nuanced approach (like for example giving people enough time to quell doubts about its long term effects). If we are to emerge better from this, we need to stand together, instead of breaking apart or giving in to fear. Humanity survived the Black Plague, Spanish Flu, and many other horrible diseases, and it will survive this too. Btw, pandemics last about 3 years historically, and with talks that the South African variant could negate some of the vaccine, maybe prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

These are unstable times, and as the riots in LA showed, when shit hits the fan, no authority will save us. I watched places I know getting sacked on live television with the authorities completely unable to do anything. Many places around me were boarded up, while the police force was mobilized to protect the local malls. It felt very eerie to be outside, and made me realize first hand how security is just an illusion.

Anyway, hang in there bro, stay chill, healthy, and be strong for your girlfriend and your family. They need you to be on top of your game right now ❤️

Thanks for your comments. Just to clarify, my mother's cancer surgery was last year. She survived it (so far), cancer is gone (so far)... but many others are not as lucky and are having their surgeries postponed due to ICUs being full with covid patients. I'm really sorry about your girlfriend and your stepdad Anyway, I've made my point about how I feel about things moving forward. Everyone needs to make their own decision. My only hope is that people think of the consequences and how they affect others and not just themselves.

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17 hours ago, Minos said: @kleinluka what you are saying, at first glance, sounds beautiful. But think about it. You are saying that people who take a vaccine are pro humanity, good people, and the people who refuse it, should rightly be banned from society. It's hard to imagine what kind of repercussions such a segregation would cause. It could potentially do much more damage to the social fabric, than a portion of the population getting sick with covid.

Why should others have to pay the (sometimes ultimate) price for people who choose to ignore the advice of every health agency on the planet? Fuck yes, I would want to be kept separate from people who pose a risk to me and my family.

The two main vaccines currently have an efficacy of 90+ %, there will be others rolling out shortly where this protection is only in the realm of 70% I think many of these things will largely depend on whether it can be determined that the vaccines prevent transmission, which as of right now I think we still need more data to say for sure.

If the vaccines don't stop transmission, then herd immunity through vaccine becomes far-fetched and at that point it really doesn't make a difference to me if you get vaccinated or not. However, the unvaccinated portion of the population would still be an unjust burden on the medical system by continuing to fill up ICUs and hospitals. Here in Ontario they are now pausing cancer surgeries because our ICUs are packed full of covid patients. I'm sorry but if you don't vaccinate because you just don't want to but then need to be hospitalized and meanwhile my mom gets her cancer surgery delayed and risks death because of your choice...you see why I would have a problem with this? If you actually had a legit reason not to get vaccinated, like a medical condition, that's a totally different thing and anyone would understand. But if you don't get vaccinated because of some unfounded rumour about vaccine safety, something that is not based on legitimate data or scientific fact, then yes, it should be you who pays the price for that choice and not my mom, or somebody else's mom. The vaccine has now been given to millions of people across the world and there have been, to my knowledge, reports of less than 10 severe reactions, most of which were treated within an hour and the patient released home. There is no scientific evidence the vaccine poses a risk in the long-term and no reason to think that it would.

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13 minutes ago, ┌HP┘ said:

to be clear, by services I mean medical services.

Yeah it sucks for those who make the decision not to get vaccinated. But it is a logical consequence of that choice.

It is not possible to achieve herd immunity without vaccination. It certainly has never been done.

The vaccine has now been given to millions of people (one of my friends in Germany got his 1st shot of the Pfizer vaccine today). The number of severe adverse reactions can be counted on one (max 2 hands) I believe. That is definitely in line with other vaccines and other medications available on the market. Honestly, the side effects of covid are already known and are much much worse.

As for long-term side effects. I read a very interesting article about this by a virologist (I can't find it as I am posting this)... but the way it was explained (and I am badly paraphrasing) was basically that based on how this type of vaccine works, the ingredients in the vaccine dissipate in your body very early on so it's not even possible for the vaccine to cause problems years down the line. The jab's main job is to trigger an antibody/immune response and provide instructions on how to fight the virus if it enters the body. When that is achieved, the actual vaccine itself basically dissolves in your body. Again, I am really badly paraphrasing what the original quote was, but that is essentially how it works.

Also, I repeat again that the vaccine was not "rushed" out the door as some are claiming. The safety trials were completed satisfactorily. The reason it feels like it was rushed is because in normal vaccine development the stages take much longer to pass as they aren't being pumped full of money by literally every country on the planet.

I will be taking the shot as soon as I can. For those of you who choose not to, that's certainly your choice. Just know you are contributing to the global community not achieving herd immunity. I also imagine you will be restricted from getting certain services, or entering certain public places, and rightly so.

Get vaccinated so I can see my family again, travel somewhere if possible, plan my wedding for 2022, get a clean bill of health after a difficult 2020 and get rid of the remaining stones in my kidney (this shit is not fun).

There seems to be some uncertainty among certain people regarding how safe the vaccines are given how comparatively fast they were developed. Just wanted to share this post I came across the other day to respond to that.

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Quote Here is info from a Phd friend of mine to help you.

The waits for normal non-urgent vaccines are surrounded by reasons why speeding them up is fine...

1. ⁠The Clinical trials can be sped up for two reasons; the global govt's are investing a huge amount of money to make doses so you can go directly through the phases of those clinical trials (normally you'd not have that kind of money, so it takes way longer) in a much speedier way.

2. ⁠In the middle of a pandemic it's SUPER easy to rapidly enroll patients in large quantities to measure infection rates in tens of thousands of people, and this allows them to get their efficacy endpoints in months VS years. Normally getting patients is more waiting and produces longer timelines.

3. ⁠For safety, they already know what adverse events to look out for; inflammatory reactions, or antibody-dependent enhancement...those are real risks, but they are captured in the real world clinical trials.

By definition, every approved vaccine has a benefit to risk ratio. This doesn't mean the risks are zero, so in the very rare cases where the risks happen, like the anaphylaxes in 1/1,000,000 kids in prior vaccines, those super rare cases are compensated and they certainly don't negate the positive results for the vast majority of everyone else.

TL;DR: Vaccines don't require crazy long term research as long as the studies are big enough and pumped full of enough money to make the ratios for efficacy endpoints massive and unequivocal. Side effects will be felt acutely and shortly after taking the vaccine...as such, they will have had 1-1.5 years with tens of thousands of subjects, and there have been very few and very rare cases of side effects. They are speeding up the money and waiting for people portions...not the science portion.

There are approx three different vaccines that have released interim phase three trial results currently. To create a vaccine you need some way of delivering the information on the disease to the body and we have lots of different tried and tested approaches for this. So you have the technology, then all you need is the information on the disease. The genetic sequence of the virus was analysed very early in the pandemic and so this enabled vaccine development to gets started. Lessons had also been learnt from sars which is very similar to the virus that causes COVID 19.

For all the vaccines on trial

Phase 1/2 of trials ran cocurrently- these assess safety and whether there is measurable immune responses. The Phase three trial had accelerated recruitment across countries because people interested and countries cooperated together. It can take years to recruit the numbers we have seen in the phase three trials that take in a varied population in order to see effectiveness, It can also take time to get the funds for all this. So the combination of established platforms and international coopertaion and funding has really fast tracked the vaccines without cutting corners around safety or efficacy. That is why we are in such a good place now for vaccine development.

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The regulatory authorities will never pass a vaccine that is unsafe. Other than clean water, vaccines have saved more lives than any other medicine globally. It has gone quicker because everyone has worked together and focused entirely on this virus. Also remember you are given the template for bits of the virus or a strain that cannot replicate in humans. The side effects of COVID are awful and certain, the side effects with the vaccine are, to date much milder.

Hope this helps you and eases and concerns you might have.

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I’m gonna hold off until the full PS5 version gets released

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Just now, Radu said: Think I saw some pop up on twitter. Really like the red tube (that didn't age well) building kit!

Thank you Yeah, I am really happy with how that one turned out!

^^^Nice, I hope more companies adopt a similar approach.

I really like WFH. I do miss interacting with my colleagues sometimes but this could be solved by going to the studio maybe one out of every 4 weeks (once it's safe to do so again).

My only downside is that I move even less than I did before, and I was already not moving a lot before WFH. At least before I'd walk to the subway station, then walk from there to the studio and walk around the studio itself all day. Now I pretty much just rotate between my desk chair, my couch and my bed with the occasional walk sprinkled in here and there.

If anyone is curious, I finally added some of my work on WDL to my ArtStation

https://www.artstation.com/dluka

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On 7/16/2020 at 8:06 PM, [HP] said: with the pandemic and everything that's going on in the world right now, really don't feel like going 30 straight hours feeling like shit.

It really wasn't that bad. Yes, there were some very sad moments but overall it was just a really good game IMO.

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On 9/18/2020 at 2:33 PM, [HP] said:

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Sorry for necro, but hey! ❤️

This would have been cool 10 years ago when people were still playing the game ? I miss L4D

I finally caught up to the latest episode. Kinda sad this show is ending but considering all my favourite characters have been killed off with a couple exceptions it's probably for the better.

Also, how is Negan now the most likeable character on the show? Everyone else annoys the shit out of me now except Negan.

I haven't seen it yet, but reading Minos' and blackdog's comments I already got the feeling that the movie was "all over the place" by just watching the trailers. It just looks like a ton of random action scenes compiled together with no coherence or story. I must have watched like 3 trailers about the movie now and I still don't know wtf it's about or why I should give a shit.