Gromnir

will need to check it out as we always thought it were an almost criminal oversight to not include any version o' the song which inspired the name o' the game title. another curious absent song from the fo catalog HA! Good Fun!

recommended apocalypse playlist. say what you will 'bout the game(s), the song list(s) is strong. following is a noticeable absent track from an obsidian addition to the ip: @Azdeus you mentioned the alcohol shortage? perhaps your body doesn't know how to handle such a consistent low blood-alcohol. drink more and see if things improve. ... not serious advice btw. feel better. HA! Good Fun!

Nightly Met Opera Streams tonight is a good offering, even if you ain't russian. this coming week will be all wagner. HA! Good Fun!

has already been covid-19 delays o' a few SCOTUS and fed appellate cases which relate to trump issues. in a criminal trial, where one needs confront accuser and finder o' fact will be called 'pon to decide truthfulness o' witnesses based on their witness demeanor while being questioned, am understanding the need for live and in person court proceedings. no good alternative given legal and practical limits. where issues is legal and not factual, technology should be able to overcome any health concerns. is no reason for persons to be in physical proximity to deal with legal questions. sure, we expect hiccups getting technology to work, particular as so many judges and Justices is older and as susceptible as they is to covid-19, they is, as a group, even more at risk to the weird old person autofail disease related to anything as modern and complex as a microwave oven ui. covid-19 is lame excuse but is real in short-term. such delays o' appellate and SCOTUS cases should be taking only as long as required to streamline tech such that even judges and Justices can manage. HA! Good Fun!

aren't most o' the highways leading in and out o' denver containing stretches with little more than a laughable guardrail between you and oblivion? is not even road shoulder in a few such places. white line for edge o' road is 'bout a foot away from guardrail, or so it seems when driving. we got some kinda weird genetic flaw which makes us callous indifferent to heights. am knowing how even short falls may be lethal but is as if our brain refuses to take such stuff serious. were a helpful (maybe not) attribute while we were working roofing many years past, but at this ages such narrow stoopid has us doing foolish stuff with ladders which don't resonate 'til after we is back on terra firma and reflect for a moment. HA! Good Fun!

am not a doctor, but unless you also had a fever, am thinking covid-19 chances is kinda low for what you describe. that said, if happened to Gromnir as you describe, we would mention to a doctor rather than rando boardies. sleep apnea came to mind when you described, but self-diagnose is foolish particular if it leads to not getting medical advice. HA! Good Fun!

well, the karma part for ron might be misplaced, but it is worth noting how rand were one o' only two senators who voted against the recent coronavirus relief bill, and rand forced a vote on a last minute amendment complete unrelated to coronavirus which delayed the bill. so argue karma for rand, while unnecessary in our mind, avoids your criticisms. might wanna call rand diagnosis irony, but is actually coincidence. fact some might consider it to be justice as well as coincidence kinda puts it square in karma territory, no? also, like it or not, am thinking if karma is a thing it would prove how god/the universe has craptacular aim. far too often the villains go unscathed while those 'round 'em is the people getting smote. perhaps there is karma in the universe, but as often as not it is the innocents vol identifies who is actual targeted by the wrath o' the universe. but again, is a stretch to put rand in same category with abused children and your grandma... though for all you know the grandma is a closeted serial killer and the abused child shoves lit firecrackers up squirrel butts for fun. is how the karma folks look at such inequities, no? aside, so is clear, am not personal wishing a severe respiratory illness on anybody, not even our worstest enemies. one thing being overlooked in all this is what a terrible way it is to die, gasping and unable to to breathe despite struggling to do so. #$%& karma if it uses covid-19 to punish. in any event, as kinda a weekend existentialist, is few things we believe in absolutely. however, we got zero doubts 'bout the following: Life is not Fair. deal with it. HA! Good Fun!

is particular illustrative as paul included death totals from march 17. four days following his vid release, the numbers o' deaths has near tripled. ~5k on 3/17 and ~13k on 3/21. doubling every 3 days represents the kinda exponential growth which is current overwhelming italian hospitals. am baffled by folks who look at extremes taken by chinese, coupled with current situation in italy, who is nevertheless dismissive o' the current pandemic. however, while paul is misrepresenting the dangers o' the disease, he is not wrong 'bout government impulses in time o' crisis. we warned our fellows after 9/11 how in our estimation the single greatest danger we faced were not acts o' future foreign terrorism, but rather the well-intentioned efforts o' our own elected representatives to suspend civil liberties, freedoms which would disappear and never return. we were almost as horrified by the bipartisan patriot act votes as we were by images o' the towers falling. fast-forward to 2020. doj has asked congress to functional suspend habeas corpus, not that Congress has authority to do so. DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic it is ok to be afraid o' covid-19. it is stoopid to do as is ron paul and minimize the dangers o' covid-19. however, you may never get back what you sacrifice today to feel a bit more safe. HA! Good Fun!

apologies for double, but didn't wanna edit previous message. we will observe that while showering is not on the list o' things we feels unmotivated to accomplish, gaming hours have dropped substantial... which is kinda counter-intuitive. we live in a relative underpopulated area. we can take dogs for a walk and when we do we maybe see one or two other folks; is not difficult to keep a large 'mount o' physical distance 'tween us others during such sojourns. so we take dogs for walks and do research with/for a colleague and we make soup. why soup? we like to make soup. makes house smell like soup. soup is good food. we like soup. anyways, am 'bout to run out of chicken and beef stock. thought we would be catching up on all those games we got stockpiled and have barely played. nope. dogs are getting a lotta exercise. for various reasons we won't be able to keep up the extreme dog walking much longer. what to do when we cut back on the walks? can't put a finger on why it is we just don't feel like gaming. HA! Good Fun!

know that you have my sincere hope that you and yours get well soon.

has been best described as herd instinct + fear. during better times, do a little experiment. walk outdoors into a crowded public place and look up. keep looking up and have a friend track how many fellow pedestrians do same as gorgon. there were stories online 'bout panic buying o' tp during their initial coronavirus scare in asia. seeming viral spread from that point. why tp in hong kong? didn't matter 'cause folks noticed emptying shelves and replicated behavior 'til all tp were gone. fear that you would be the person left w/o tp took over good sense o' average persons. stories 'bout tp hoarding were spread 'cross world via internet and the part 'bout panic buying o' tp being the newest sport for ignoramuses failed to gain traction but images o' folks panic buying tp resonated. all you needed were a couple folks to repeat behavior o' panic buy in europe or australia or us and then herd mentality would kick in as people saw emptying shelves and shopping carts laden with tp. HA! Good Fun!

is pretty easy to track dak success as a function o' cowboys ol health. can stick any decent qb behind that ol when it is healthyish and production will not drop. have pointed out how at the rb position demarco murray production in virtual every statistical category were superior to elliot's, including big plays and elliot is a top-tier back. will see something similar at qb if a change occurs and another competent signal caller is brought in to helm the offense. spend big money on dak is a waste with proviso that we do not see another competent qb available. remaining options is quickly dwindling (perhaps gone) and count on the draft is not a good idea. dak is not worth money he is demanding save for recognition dallas didn't take measures to mitigate his loss and is now stuck with a no-win situation. HA! Good Fun!

perhaps never before have so many been relieved to realize they have a runny nose. HA! Good Fun!

U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic were our understanding washington post were lowering paywall for coronavirus, but this one appears to be blocked. if you can find elsewhere, it is worth a read, though am recognizing it won't change minds o' anybody... yet. if situation worsens, then there will be need to blame somebody. "Inside the White House, Trump’s advisers struggled to get him to take the virus seriously, according to multiple officials with knowledge of meetings among those advisers and with the president. "Azar couldn’t get through to Trump to speak with him about the virus until Jan. 18, according to two senior administration officials. When he reached Trump by phone, the president interjected to ask about vaping and when flavored vaping products would be back on the market, the senior administration officials said." if true... am actual kinda hesitant 'bout a story like this. reporters better be absolutely certain o' their source reliability. HA! Good Fun! ps article is now at msn

the biggest hurdle for helping folks in Gromnir's family who are at risk is Gromnir's family. we got an 82 year old aunt who recent visited her 79 year old sister in socal. the 82 year old were so pleased with how empty were the plane on her return trip. 82 year old's travel companion were her daughter, an rn. ? they didn't wanna cancel plane and lodging reservations made months in advance. didn't change visit itinerary at all given the covid-19 situation. later we got off the phone with the 79 year old aunt who now lives in socal. she complained o' folks at costco buying all the tp ("particularly the asians"... she even mimicked an asian accent as she described a conversation she had with a woman in the store) and then shared how when she went to the nail salon, her friend didn't wanna sit close enough so our aunt could hear. our aunt pointed out how silly such social distancing is given neither she or friend has been showing symptoms and fact is there is almost 0 orange county covid-19 sufferers at this time. am not certain if that "fact" she shared is true, but we pointed out how with limited testing and so many being asymptomatic, that 0 number were not something she should depend 'pon to make reasonable safety judgements. aunt then observed how hypocritical it were for her friend to complain 'bout social distancing at an asian nail salon, 'cause y'know how filthy those places actually are. ... have mentioned previous how we have spinal/nerve issues. we ordinarily take prednisone. decided in february to stop taking and informed our doctor we had stopped. she agreed it were a good idea to halt prednisone, but is not as if she called Gromnir to warn us. doctors are swamped at this time. nevertheless, wondering how many other folks who maybe ain't as aware as us is taking meds which would make 'em more vulnerable and nobody is informing them o' dangers. our mother had cancer and sister had lupus. while we were taking care o' them they took more than a dozen pills a day. am suspecting many older folks fill up their pill box for the week and have only slimmest notion o' what a majority o' those pills do. we had a few brief conversations with current older family members on both sides o' family 'bout whether or not they had checked to see if they should stop taking any meds or otherwise change treatment. most were dismissive and assumed the doctors would let 'em know what they should do, if anything. hope they are right. HA! Good Fun!

as to fauci image posted 'bove, we will say, watching the briefing in real time, looked more like fauci were wiping sweat from brow, which were understandable given the exchange trump were having with reporters. President kept asking fauci to bail him out and explain how trump were justified in expressing non-scientific and over-optimistic views regarding a host o' issues including testing and the antimalarial drugs. fauci were not able to do so to trump's satisfaction. btw, the particular moment captured in time in the image 'bove were trump referencing the state department as the deep state department. compare trump pressers to governor cuomo. don't particular like cuomo, but he is saying right things in a time o' crisis. as algroth observes, is a misleading headline from cnn on the china recovery stuff.... or at least is misleading if only headline is read. majority recovery ignores how numbers from china suggest 4% mortality and 20% o' folks need some kinda hospitalization. so technical true regarding majority, but vast underrepresenting scope o' dangers. here in the US we are hoping the 4% number is a result o' insufficient widespread testing, but we do not know for certain. am also facing a monumental surge capacity crisis as we do not have anywhere near enough beds and ventilators and healthy doctors if we cannot flatten the curve. HA! Good Fun!

doesn't make sense to hard boil eggs to preserve shelf life. s'posed have a dozen eggs been sitting in fridge 3 weeks and 6 days *snort* and then hard boil in belief you get an extra week? stoopid... and unlikely. that said, freeze eggs will preserve indefinite. can't freeze in shell though if you wanna preserve. crack eggs into freezer safe container then keep for a year... which might be relevant if we were facing food shortages. 'course even in italy, where pandemic situation is far worse, is no food shortages. following initial wave o' panic buying, italians, who is now under lockdown, have no difficulty finding tp and rice on shelves at stores. is unlikely we face a US egg shortage in foreseeable future and if we do, is gonna be for some reason not direct attributable to covid-19. really wanna preserve eggs, then crack and freeze... but why? from a recent business insider article: "It's also possible we are biologically programmed to hoard. Birds, squirrels, and other animals tend to hoard stuff. "There are a number of ways to handle shortages, including those caused by hoarding. "The best way is to convince people to stop doing it, especially with plentiful products like toilet paper. However, logic often fails when dealing with emotional issues." am getting that some folks can't help but channel their inner t!tmouse in times o' crisis, but one would hope we had evolved a bit more. shop to avoid needing to shop more frequent than otherwise necessary, but shop in anticipation o' shortages or 'cause o' primitive hoarding instincts is less than helpful. and for those who don't trust the liberal media, even the washington examiner, sorta a step removed from breitbart, has recognized the disconnect 'tween trump and his medical experts. Fauci and Trump struggle to stay on same page about possible coronavirus treatment HA! Good Fun!

thanks to our self-awareness, the nightmare scenario o' a Gromnir moderator o' these boards has been avoided. would that a few other individuals had indulged in similar self-reflection before taking on the responsibility. HA! Good Fun!

am not giving recent washington post efforts a break, but we will observe how the 2.2 million number were specific referenced in the linked article: "If no action to limit the viral spread were taken, as many as 2.2 million people in the United States could die over the course of the pandemic, according to epidemiologist Neil Ferguson and others at the Imperial College Covid-19 Response Team." do nothing = 2.2million... plus admitted non specific and undetermined deaths from overwhelmed health systems with insufficient surge capacities. efforts has already been taken, so 2.2 is no longer a relevant number. that said, insufficient surge is a given in the US. have mentioned previous how 90% o' us hospitals nationwide were already at or beyond capacity before the covid-19 outbreak. nothing were done at the fed level until last two weeks to begin addressing surge problems. the reason current efforts is so focused on flattening the curve is precise 'cause o' the recognition many will die for no other reason that they is left in hospital hallways to expire as triage decisions force doctors to repeated make life-death calls for people who could be saved if resources existed to meet the need. and again, the need were becoming quick apparent in january, if not earlier. am not defending washington post, but if headline were 2.2 million worst case scenario, there would be justifiable pushback recognizing how that number from the report were result on zero mitigation. that said, we agree (am gonna assume we agree) there needs to be more emphasis placed on education o' the charlie fox we face regarding surge capacity. example: there are no extra ventilators. ny state assumes it will need an additional 30,000. US stockpiles is 12k total. response to situation: President announces at presser he signed order which gives him authority to direct manufacturing sector to start producing necessities, then he tweets next day he is holding such authority until it is needed. were needed back in january 2020. woulda' made a huge difference in january. in march 2020 is no less necessary, but have gotta accept how many walking, talking, breathing americans is already dead and they just don't know it yet. will be deaths due to insufficient resources including insufficient hospital beds and insufficient healthy doctors/nurses. failure to take obvious actions to keep the number o' deaths due to failed surge as low as possible is, understatement of the year, disappointing. HA! Good Fun!

am old. hurl mentions his child and zoom. so 'course first thing we think o' is so much for the future. we can't even shrug off the 70s. HA! Good Fun!

kinda off-topic, so will just mention how our atypical posting style has us mention a poster by name frequent. is not unusual. just a couple examples. regardless, it is amusing how some will indulge in worst kinda deflection. issue were a poster claiming indifference to the murder o' not just a particular rando reporter, but reporters in general. he then got angry when it were suggested he were indifferent to reporter murder. confronted with actual words in which he expressed indifference to reporter murder (example o' creep we s'pose) the poster lost water and created the signature worthy self one-upmanship statement o' being indifferent to almost any murder save those affecting him and his. what? 'course the real issue is perceived creep. deflection. conspiracy. sense o' victimization. lack o' basic empathy. etc. ideal choice for moderator. more relevant, dr. fauci has been noticeable absent at daily pressers. Why Hasn’t Tony Fauci Been at the Coronavirus Press Conferences? am recognizing the hypocrisy o' calling out posters for conspiracy theories and then linking a slate article, so am qualifying by saying we ain't suggesting anything in the article is true save for reporting o' dr. fauci absence, which were noticeable to us but doesn't appear to have been reported elsewheres. HA! Good Fun!

repeat "yeah, try and keep self supplied with basics and buy more than normal 'cause you wanna minimize trips to stores anyway, but the hoarding is so comical stoopid at this point." is only our most frequent post comment. can go back and see multiple instances where am suggesting is a good idea to stock up on basic needs. stores is not repeated stripped clean o' frozen vegetables, rice and toilet paper (to name but a few items) 'cause folks is buying enough to avoid going shopping more frequent than once every 2-3 weeks. need only read posts from a few resident boardie chuckleheads to see behaviours much different than simple a minimization o' near future shopping trips as explanation for their sudden altered grocery purchases. is always a point at which reasonable behaviour, taken to an extreme, becomes unreasonable. fact it is impossible to pinpoint the exact point where reasonable becomes stoopid and selfish does not change recognition that more than a few, in the name o' me and mine, have crossed beyond any arguable fuzzy border and is fully wallowing in the unreasonable and harmful range o' the spectrum. HA! Good Fun!

courts disagree with you. sure, were an international court in hague, but us and iran had agreed to arbitration. is no suggestion iran commited fraud-- us were aware o' what they were getting and what they were giving. however, K is voidable (not necessarily void) if there is defect or imbalance which prevents basics o' K: offer, acceptance, consideration. lopsided in and of itself is not a defect. dorris may sell her ex-husband's 1966 mustang to peter for $1. is not a bad K 'cause it is so lopsided. if a contract is made with a minor, the minor (or guardian) may void the K. if doug makes a K with paul for sale of doug's 1966 mustang, paul may have K voided if paul were drunk at time the K were formed. etc. am thinking is high improbability o' showing a K 'tween the US + EU and iran had US at a fundamental power disadvantage as to make K voidable is. not that we are talking K law anyways. HA! Good Fun!

why? sure, insult may have been directed at you (and others), but you need always consider sources, yes? am personal reassured when we see who it is who most frequent insults Gromnir. reddit cellar dwellers and conspiracy theory nutters. misogynistic and racist dopplegangers? insults from such quarters is reassuring rather than discouraging. hoarding tp and meat at start o' what is gonna be a +12 month situation is asinine and only serves to force those most vulnerable to leave their homes more frequent, 'gainst dr. advice, to acquire their basic needs. there is no food shortage or paper product shortage at this time. supply chains is temp overrun by the monolithic stoopid hoarding instincts o' too many. yeah, try and keep self supplied with basics and buy more than normal 'cause you wanna minimize trips to stores anyway, but the hoarding is so comical stoopid at this point. pretending as if only a select few has ever needed take care o' family as excuse for selfishness and ignorance is arguable sociopathic. etc. *shrug* me and mine. conspiracy. crippling polarization. regardless, always consider sources, 'cause insults may be compliments in disguise. HA! Good Fun!

1) the billions was iran's money being returned to them. 2) iran stopped pursuing their nuke weapons development. sure, iran giving up development o' nukes weren't a huge sacrifice when it were so easy to quick restart such at anytime, but there weren't a way to stop iran regardless. get iran to voluntarily give up their development were deemed significant enough legitimize the return to iran o' their money. again, am not defending the original deal, but iran were adhering to the deal and the billions they received were their own money which decades past were seized in banks 'cross the globe. HA! Good Fun!