We've all been there.

Those are the new models.

Not to mention hi, thigh, Thai, rye, pie, sky, eye, why, and fry all sound nothing alike.

My first grade teacher told us words didn't rhyme unless they ended with at least the same 3 letters. It's like they were trying to make us stupid.

O ya

The moment that the woman was "trapped" and I had to save her, but I fell and suddenly she was free and able to pick me up, then went back to being "trapped", I quit the game.

And I know what you did last summer is the same movie as prom night.

This some ai looking shit.

Kinglish*

Also suddenly bots aren't "bots" anymore and nobody can check cause it's a private company.

I'm def looking forward to proper AR, but everything you said could and does apply to VR. If they shrink it (which they're working on) you can already work within VR screens, watch movies, etc. To be honest, I see more use for VR than AR. We'll see what the future holds, but I don't see people shelling out $1k like they do with phones just so they can see their notifications floating in mid air. I'll probably eat those words, though.

VR is def not going to be for everyone, just like consoles or PCs aren't for everyone, or games in general. And while I can say that I'm having a blast with it, that doesn't really mean much. I think a better argument is that Facebook did see the potential in all their boardroom meetings looking at data that they decided to shift their entire business to VR. You can point to their failure, but I think that's more to do with overhyping the metaverse than VR itself. Because, yeah, the metaverse is absolute garbage.

Phone VR is the very reason most people think VR is just a fad. It was so bad. My dad said the same thing you did till he visited and tried my OG Vive, then immediately changed his tune to "I want one". I'd wait for high res oled headsets to come out, though, that's what's really going to make it great.

I've played all the bioshocks. I'll pass, thank you.

My grandma and uncle aren't OK, though. They both died because people listened to crybaby politicians instead of scientists when it came to wearing masks. Unfortunately the vaccine didn't come fast enough for them.

I'll be perfectly honest with you, I was secretly glad that the elderly and immunocompromised were given first dibs at the vaccine for that very reason. That in itself was a much bigger "trial" than anything they could have done in a lab, and if it proved to be safe and effective on the weakest among us, then by the time my age group was eligible I felt confident getting the vaccine.

CDC isn't always right, but this isn't a hypothesis they're experimenting with. This is collected data. You can't mess that up. Might that data change over time? Yes, but right now it says that a massive number of people, even if they were asymptomatic, are suffering from lasting health issues due to covid.

Actually if they get something wrong and retract it, that makes me trust them more rather than some idiot politician who doubles down when he's proven wrong. Scientists aren't born with all future knowledge already in their head, they make a theory, test it, then adjust it if necessary. Because of the nature of covid they weren't able to do this in the privacy of a lab so we all got to see the process play out. I'm disappointed people don't understand this, we learned this in elementary school. Maybe you need a refresher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxm_beTs2LU

None of these contradicts that 1 in 5 of all cases get long covid, and they're not even science journals, they're propaganda sites. You OK?

Do you have any scientific sources that say otherwise?

Correct. China's handling went the complete opposite direction and much too far. But too many people use them as an example to justify having no covid precautions whatsoever.

I can't force you to do anything. I've supplied all the data so if you wish to continue endangering your health and the health of your loved ones simply because it's easier to succumb to your trauma and pretend everything is OK rather than accepting this new threat exists and doing the responsible thing, then that's up to you.

Mandates shouldn't be necessary if people used their freedom of choice to choose the responsible and safe thing rather than to simply wanting to be a contrarian. Otherwise that's like saying "if you're afraid of car crashes then you can drive safe as long as you let me be while I drive drunk over the speed limit. I don't want any laws." Particularly with pandemics, your choices affect everyone around you as well.

It's not black or white. More and more we're learning about the severity of long covid, which affects almost one in five of all cases. Not just old people, in fact, they're less likely to get it.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220622.htm

People forget we're still in the impact zone of this thing as it hasn't even been three years since it started, and we're much better off than we should be considering vaccines usually take five to ten years to develop

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/timeline#:%7E:text=A%20typical%20vaccine%20development%20timeline,vaccine%20doses%20for%20widespread%20distribution

So the answer isn't "just get covid". It's to continue to take reasonable precautions while we continue to figure this thing out.

Vaccine hesitancy is perfectly understandable for one that was developed so quickly. But per this data, this may be one of the largest "trials" in history, and they're proven to work

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ND-COVID-Vaccine&gclid=Cj0KCQiA1ZGcBhCoARIsAGQ0kkqS3nfl6qLvRsoRZ5eBtF2a-ek829PQ_90mre1ZKim9WFlZhIAimQkaAgkDEALw_wcB

Masks, however, are the most effective, easiest, and most affordable action we can take. They're not perfect, but their effectiveness goes up considerably the more people wear them.

It ain't just black or white, bruv.