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While my broken game PC is being replaced, I began a replay of Icewind Dale. Unfortunately the character voices are broken and it uses the ancient AD&D ruleset, but otherwise it's playable. I did check the progress of the Co8 port of IWD, but that seems to have slowed to a near halt. That's too bad; I would have liked to played it with the ToEE engine.

Wouldn't rat cannibalism be a good thing?

No, it's just a bit of harmless humor.

I think the goal is to reach a baseline level of cases where contact tracing can feasibly keep it contained. The hiring of contact tracers is on the order of thousands. If you have millions of cases, then there's no way they could be sufficiently effective. If we're not in lockdown, just a few missed cases can rapidly spread the pandemic again and we're back to flattening the curve. Hence, there's a case goal to reach. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/25/844088634/when-is-it-safe-to-ease-social-distancing-heres-what-one-model-says-for-each-sta

I binge watched the first season of Motherland last weekend. Seems mainly to be targeted at a young adult audience. It wasn't horrible. Might make a decent PnP RPG setting.

Is there such a thing as a written exam to demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect? I think one would need to honestly rate one's own effectiveness first, in order to find out if you have it.

When DJT initiates a ploy, he'll stick with it to the end just to lend 'legitimacy'. This includes taking a drug that could potentially cause heart complications, while saying "what have you got to lose?". Err, your heart, your life.

How in the world??? https://laughingsquid.com/anamorphic-digital-waves-inside-of-glass-box/

We should call them up and ask what happened to our lost luggage.