Top Gun

Y'all have the worst fucking taste. This arc is awesome and High School Musical Dandy was goddamn magical.

So you're a complete and utter sociopath. Got it. Just because the place you live was stupid enough to plop the testing sites right next to hospitals doesn't mean every state was. No one said that people should just randomly drive up and flood testing sites right now, because we can't even fucking handle the people who have legitimate cause to think they're infected. Case in point: I have a close family member who works in a healthcare-related field and was exposed to someone who tested positive. He waited in line for 3 or 4 hours at one testing site before being told he'd have to come back the next day because they were swamped. He then had to come back the next day, and after another few-hour wait he finally got tested. It then took another week for him to finally get the (negative) test results. Our response has been fucking pathetic. But if we do ever manage to get our shit together, then yes, we absolutely need to institute large-scale testing. One of the most insidious things about COVID-19 is that a significant percentage of people who contract it are apparently asymptomatic, so to get an accurate idea of just how prevalent its spread is, there's going to need to be widespread testing of people who don't even think they were exposed.

I keep replying to you because you keep getting shit wrong, or woefully misinterpreting it, and in a time like this misinformation can be incredibly dangerous. As Daos already pointed out, you completely botched the reading of the one statistic you cited. As for the number of automobile fatalities every year, you're comparing the global death toll with the worst-case COVID-19 death toll in the US alone if no measures had been taken, so...you don't really have a point to make at all. (And that aside, the global automobile fatality rate is irrelevant in and of itself, given that it includes many countries whose vehicle safety standards are woefully inferior to those in the US.) Even if the COVID-19 fatality rate was in the realm of 1% (which various estimates have placed it at), you're talking about almost 80 million people worldwide. Still think this isn't serious? Oh, and shockingly enough, you completely misrepresented your point about people "overwhelming" the healthcare system. Those lines were at remote testing sites, not the goddamn hospital. The people crammed into every hallway in New York's ICUs aren't there on a whim...they're in dire need of critical medical care. Oh, and all the people at those testing sites SHOULD be getting tested, as should the populace as a whole, so we can get a good handle on just how widespread this virus is and where hotspots are. But because our government's initial response was a clusterfuck of massive proportions, we were woefully unprepared to initiate widespread testing, hence those long lines at the few sites just getting set up now. You didn't see that happen in a country like South Korea that was well-prepared from the get-go. Either stop being an idiot and properly educate yourself, or just shut the fuck up and let those who know what the hell they're talking about do so. That's all I want from you.

...1 in 77 odds of dying "every time you get in a car"? Where are you pulling this bullshit from? And the healthcare system is swamped because the 10-15% of infected people who develop serious complications are all being admitted at once, and ICUs aren't designed to handle an influx like that. It has abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with "healthy people" flooding the hospital. Get some actual goddamn sources, for fuck's sake.

Dude I'm loving the hell out of this arc.

Don't you play me like that.

Yeah, it makes no sense whatsoever. For reference, in the original Ocean dub he was played by Naraku's actor, someone with a much deeper voice and more gravitas. But yeah, Escaflowne is an all-time classic and features some of Yoko Kanno's absolute best work.

That was...unexpected.

I'd love to go old-school and finally have Escaflowne on the block, as it always should have been. Unfortunately FUNi would probably make Toonami air their new dub, and no one needs more McNuggets.

I think there's a pretty clear delineation between the more classic "travel to another word" series and the modern definition of "isekai." For one, the former usually involved female protagonists, which I'm sure was inspired in no small part by Alice in Wonderland, and the worlds they traveled to usually took their cues from classic high fantasy. Think Escaflowne, or Inuyasha, or Twelve Kingdoms, among others. Series called "isekai" today usually involve a male protagonist (almost always a milquetoast loser in his former life), almost always have the the protagonist dying and getting reincarnated instead of just traveling somewhere, and tend to have worlds that are (inexplicably) based on video game mechanics. I know it's just personal taste speaking, but I need Toonami to pick up an isekai series like I need another hole in the head. The whole phenomenon seems immensely unappealing and creatively bankrupt to me.

...you know what, fuck it. I have better things to do than try to explain this to idiots. Like get rip-roaring drunk.

I'm going to explain this and use small words so you can understand it. No one, anywhere, is suggesting that lockdowns will have to last more than a year straight. The infection curves will flatten. It may be after a great deal of suffering (because our leadership are short-sighted colossal idiots), but it will flatten, probably far closer to June than April. We'll probably be okay to lift most social restrictions then, provided we finally get actual widespread testing and can monitor for flare-ups. There may need to be more localized quarantines put in place during these flare-ups, but so long as we're doing our job and rigorously testing people, they can be confined locally. ...okay, I had to use some bigger words in there. My apologies.

Way back in the Before Times of our ancient One Piece chats, the most we used to do in one night was 5 in a row, and that was an absolute chore. I have no earthly idea how people string together a dozen 45-minute episodes of just sitting there vapidly staring at a screen.

While that's certainly true, I fully agree with him in principle. Bingeing seems like such an unappealing way to consume media.

FFS people, "we may not have a vaccine for 12-18 months" does not translate to "everyone has to stay socially isolated for 12-18 months." Do some goddamn research.

Those people tend to have five years' worth of shit already stashed away in their nuke-proof bunker. It's the average morons I'm more concerned about.

Uh-huh.

We're already beyond that point. We should have been on full lockdown at least a week ago.

He should absolutely be putting those measures in place, and so should the entire country. They work. Instead you have fuckwits like Florida just figuring out in the last day or two that, oh, hey, maybe we should think about closing our beaches.

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Real talk though, Kyousougiga is a heartwarming (and batshit crazy) story about the importance of family, so that'd be a feel-good pick.

Boku no Pico.

You heard it here folks, hurricanes follow the same exact tracks every year. Who needs sophisticated modeling being run on massive computer clusters to determine cones of uncertainty when you can just stick your head outside and see if it's windy?

Are you being deliberately obtuse, or does it just come naturally to you? The start of the very first small-scale clinical trials does not mean we're going to get this thing in just a couple of months. These things take substantially more time, as the efficacy and possible side-effects of any vaccine have to be thoroughly understood before approval, and then the actual production has to start (which even for the seasonal flu vaccine, something we understand very well, starts months in advance of each flu season). Even if your random guesses happened to be correct, it wouldn't make them any more based on actual comprehensive understanding. No, I don't need a meteorologist to tell me it's raining now, but I sure as fuck need one to tell me the most likely path a hurricane will take, or the probability that a given frontal system will produce severe weather tomorrow. But hey, novel vaccine development is just as simple as sticking your head out the window and looking up at the sky, right?

Get ready for FOUR WEEKS OF GIANT HAND-FIGHTING ACTION!!! (Also the fact that Kubo's going right back to Jump to serialize something else finally murders the "oh no his editors ruined Bleach's ending" excuse.)