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(Phys Org2)   "The Last of Us" may not be a work of fiction after all. Duke sucks   (phys.org) divider line
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Subtonic
2023-01-31 10:36:52 AM  
Nothing a little tough acting tinactin can't fix.
 
rainbowbutter
2023-01-31 10:39:05 AM  
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it's still real to me dammit!
 
Private_Citizen [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 10:39:05 AM  
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Relax and breathe deep, let your cares melt away and become a real Fun Guy.
 
fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 10:39:35 AM  
Sorry but I've heard more than enough Linda Ronstadt for one lifetime, TYVM.
 
Mad_Radhu
2023-01-31 10:39:54 AM  
Time to start working on that bunker.

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MythDragon
2023-01-31 10:45:10 AM  
What's all that clicking noise?
 
Chthonic Echoes [OhFark]
2023-01-31 10:47:47 AM  

Mad_Radhu: Time to start working on that bunker.

[Fark user image image 425x238]


Based on their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we can conclude that--in the face of a real crisis outside of their overactive fantasy lives--preppers are unequipped for survival.

/Can't trust experts.
//Too delicate to wear face masks.
///Terrified of modern medicine.
 
Mulchpuppy
2023-01-31 10:48:29 AM  
So they're saying one of the big differences why this isn't potentially "The Last of Us" is because of the spores.  Which was one thing in the game they opted not to put in the show because...well, we all remember "The Happening."

Guess it's time to start working on the bunker.
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 10:49:27 AM  
Valley Fever is back in the news. And spreading.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/valley-fever-historically-found-only-southwest-spreading-can-devastati-rcna64313
 
FarkingReading
2023-01-31 10:54:08 AM  
And we already had other climate change and black mold links today:

https://theconversation.com/exxon-scientists-accurately-forecast-climate-change-back-in-the-1970s-what-if-we-had-listened-to-them-and-acted-then-197944

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/black-mold-christian-childers-florida-hurricane-ian-b2268512.html
 
RyansPrivates
2023-01-31 10:55:37 AM  

rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!


Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.
 
eagles95
2023-01-31 10:57:18 AM  

RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.


same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene
 
HailRobonia
2023-01-31 10:59:48 AM  
Few people realize that The Last of Us is a sequel series to the show This is Us.
 
educated [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 11:00:57 AM  

rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!


We just watched that episode last night.

Easily the most beautiful episode of television I've ever seen.
 
Gleeman [BareFark]
2023-01-31 11:03:50 AM  

eagles95: RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.

same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene


Hope they don't watch Penny Dreadful, over the top amounts of saucy stuff for all flavors.

/damn near porn level
 
RyansPrivates
2023-01-31 11:05:42 AM  

eagles95: RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.

same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene


Those are people whose opinions on any media I don't care about.
 
dkimball
2023-01-31 11:09:33 AM  
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dkimball
2023-01-31 11:14:24 AM  

eagles95: RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.

same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene


I didn't mind the whole gary love thing, but they went off the rails of the whole point of the show.  Two totally new characters on the 3rd episode that are no longer.  I knew this show was going to turn into... cool for a while and then turn into human-vs-human and the occasional love interest (can name several in walking dead).
I watched #3 and it started off normally, and then I was like "already???? boooo!"

Oh yeah, can the girl be any more stereotypical ... as if she acted that way for her whole life she wouldn't have got the crap beat out of her every day.
 
Veloram
2023-01-31 11:15:04 AM  
Something something Torment Nexus
 
Capo Del Bandito
2023-01-31 11:16:01 AM  

Chthonic Echoes: Mad_Radhu: Time to start working on that bunker.

[Fark user image image 425x238]

Based on their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we can conclude that--in the face of a real crisis outside of their overactive fantasy lives--preppers are unequipped for survival.

/Can't trust experts.
//Too delicate to wear face masks.
///Terrified of modern medicine.


If my prepper brother kicks it, his 90 proof liquor stash, and the canned foods cabinet, will be mine.
 
genner
2023-01-31 11:18:33 AM  
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drewsfarkthrowaway
2023-01-31 11:22:30 AM  
It was never a work of fiction. It was a tale of societal collapse of our own making in the same vein as "1984" was, another work that was once considered too outlandish to ever come true.
 
Halfabee64
2023-01-31 11:26:03 AM  
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Mad_Radhu
2023-01-31 11:27:51 AM  

Capo Del Bandito: Chthonic Echoes: Mad_Radhu: Time to start working on that bunker.

[Fark user image image 425x238]

Based on their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we can conclude that--in the face of a real crisis outside of their overactive fantasy lives--preppers are unequipped for survival.

/Can't trust experts.
//Too delicate to wear face masks.
///Terrified of modern medicine.

If my prepper brother kicks it, his 90 proof liquor stash, and the canned foods cabinet, will be mine.


It's too bad that they didn't throw in an Easter egg of a stack of porn mags and a 55 gallon barrel of lube in Bill's bunker.

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Evil Mackerel
2023-01-31 11:35:12 AM  
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1funguy
2023-01-31 11:35:42 AM  

Private_Citizen: [Fark user image image 266x329]
Relax and breathe deep, let your cares melt away and become a real Fun Guy.


HEY...

WAIT A MINUTE...
 
educated [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 11:37:37 AM  

eagles95: RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.

same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene


I am sure they would have been fine with it if it had been two hawt women.
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2023-01-31 11:41:15 AM  
I haven't watched the series, but I understand that they changed the transmission from airborne to actually needing to be bitten, as with zombies, and people "turn" quickly. How does that become a worldwide pandemic? The whole mechanism of a pandemic is that the contagion needs to be easily spread by unsymptomatic people.
 
declan294
2023-01-31 11:43:12 AM  

eagles95: RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.

same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene


After the episode last night I was really let down. I had seen headlines about it being the best hour of television possibly of the year. I went in hyped up (my fault a bit). However, my hype was for a bad-ass zombie showdown or some backstory breakthrough about the infection that had me going "Whaaaat". All I got was a love story. However 20 minutes after when I started to think about it, it truly was one of the best stories, even for zombie fans, ever told about the truths of a post-apocalyptic time. I thought it was brilliant and well written/acted/filmed, etc... Not what I was hyped about but I am sure there is that to come. Really really good.
 
educated [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 11:43:48 AM  

Tyrone Slothrop: I haven't watched the series, but I understand that they changed the transmission from airborne to actually needing to be bitten, as with zombies, and people "turn" quickly. How does that become a worldwide pandemic? The whole mechanism of a pandemic is that the contagion needs to be easily spread by unsymptomatic people.


Food supply.

Fungus lived in foundations of the food supply (flour, grains) that were distributed to the world.
They play it as having taken place all within a week or so once infected food went into the market.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-31 11:44:51 AM  
The planet has a fever, trying to fight off the infection.
 
Mulchpuppy
2023-01-31 11:45:23 AM  

Tyrone Slothrop: I haven't watched the series, but I understand that they changed the transmission from airborne to actually needing to be bitten, as with zombies, and people "turn" quickly. How does that become a worldwide pandemic? The whole mechanism of a pandemic is that the contagion needs to be easily spread by unsymptomatic people.


Initial infection was from contaminated flour.  Large factory in Jakarta that exports worldwide.
 
Mulchpuppy
2023-01-31 11:48:11 AM  

dkimball: I didn't mind the whole gary love thing, but they went off the rails of the whole point of the show.  Two totally new characters on the 3rd episode that are no longer.  I knew this show was going to turn into... cool for a while and then turn into human-vs-human and the occasional love interest (can name several in walking dead).
I watched #3 and it started off normally, and then I was like "already???? boooo!"


Have you contacted HBO to let them know that they're missing "the whole point of the show?"  I guess those crazy showrunnners don't know what they're doing...
 
6nome
2023-01-31 11:48:59 AM  
I'm just picturing a Trumper watching the prepper archetype in the show and masturbating to it. "Oh, yeah, this is me." "Oh cool, a Don't Tread On Me flag. This is my kind of show!"

Then he turns gay and the Trumper has conflicting feelings.
 
bronskrat
2023-01-31 11:49:48 AM  
"Despite the substantial global burden of human fungal infections, there are no approved fungal vaccines to protect at risk individuals."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-021-00294-8#rightslink


We're doomed. Best to suck the pipe now!
 
pileofbutts
2023-01-31 11:49:48 AM  
clickclickclickclickclickclick
 
bronskrat
2023-01-31 11:53:26 AM  

dkimball: eagles95: RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.

same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene

I didn't mind the whole gary love thing, but they went off the rails of the whole point of the show.  Two totally new characters on the 3rd episode that are no longer.  I knew this show was going to turn into... cool for a while and then turn into human-vs-human and the occasional love interest (can name several in walking dead).
I watched #3 and it started off normally, and then I was like "already???? boooo!"



You might not want to ever play the game. Navigating Bill during the love scene was very difficult with a PS4 controller! But seriously, there are other things in the game you wouldn't like.
 
Madstand [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 11:53:55 AM  

RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.


That episode went in a direction I did not expect.  And I love it for it.
 
Last Man on Earth
2023-01-31 11:54:55 AM  

Mulchpuppy: dkimball: I didn't mind the whole gary love thing, but they went off the rails of the whole point of the show.  Two totally new characters on the 3rd episode that are no longer.  I knew this show was going to turn into... cool for a while and then turn into human-vs-human and the occasional love interest (can name several in walking dead).
I watched #3 and it started off normally, and then I was like "already???? boooo!"

Have you contacted HBO to let them know that they're missing "the whole point of the show?"  I guess those crazy showrunnners don't know what they're doing...


One of whom is the same guy who wrote the game it's based on.  If someone thinks "the whole point of the show" is about zombies rather than being about people and their connections to one another, they've never seen or heard anything abut The Last Of Us before.  The only meaningful difference was that this was a digression from the father/daughter development.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 11:55:42 AM  
Less "Last of Us" and more "Nausicaa," then.
 
kmgenesis23
2023-01-31 11:56:58 AM  
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SpaceMonkey-66 [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 11:58:01 AM  

Gleeman: eagles95: RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.

same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene

Hope they don't watch Penny Dreadful, over the top amounts of saucy stuff for all flavors.

/damn near porn level


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Would like a word.........
 
dkimball
2023-01-31 11:58:44 AM  

Mulchpuppy: dkimball: I didn't mind the whole gary love thing, but they went off the rails of the whole point of the show.  Two totally new characters on the 3rd episode that are no longer.  I knew this show was going to turn into... cool for a while and then turn into human-vs-human and the occasional love interest (can name several in walking dead).
I watched #3 and it started off normally, and then I was like "already???? boooo!"

Have you contacted HBO to let them know that they're missing "the whole point of the show?"  I guess those crazy showrunnners don't know what they're doing...


Yes, I did.  I told them to contact you so they could get some more bad advise on the show.
 
WoodyHayes [OhFark]
2023-01-31 11:58:56 AM  

6nome: I'm just picturing a Trumper watching the prepper archetype in the show and masturbating to it. "Oh, yeah, this is me." "Oh cool, a Don't Tread On Me flag. This is my kind of show!"

Then he turns gay and the Trumper has conflicting feelings.


You're weird.
 
educated [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 12:03:49 PM  

WoodyHayes: 6nome: I'm just picturing a Trumper watching the prepper archetype in the show and masturbating to it. "Oh, yeah, this is me." "Oh cool, a Don't Tread On Me flag. This is my kind of show!"

Then he turns gay and the Trumper has conflicting feelings.

You're weird.


We don't kink shame here.
 
Bandito King [OhFark]
2023-01-31 12:04:31 PM  

dkimball: eagles95: RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.

same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene

I didn't mind the whole gary love thing, but they went off the rails of the whole point of the show.  Two totally new characters on the 3rd episode that are no longer.  I knew this show was going to turn into... cool for a while and then turn into human-vs-human and the occasional love interest (can name several in walking dead).
I watched #3 and it started off normally, and then I was like "already???? boooo!"

Oh yeah, can the girl be any more stereotypical ... as if she acted that way for her whole life she wouldn't have got the crap beat out of her every day.


She didn't act that way her whole life - she has PTSD; but she is also basically a street urchin. No parents and a dead girlfriend she feels responsible for. (Sorry if spoilers, I only played the game)

So it's reasonable for her to have turned a bit acerbic.
 
Marcos P
2023-01-31 12:09:56 PM  
No he doesn't go to hell!!

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The Goddamn Batman
2023-01-31 12:14:59 PM  
I loved The Last of Us game. One of my favorite stories in gaming ever. And this episode was fantastic. They couldn't have handled Bill and Frank's backstory any better. Absolutely f*cking heartbreaking and beautiful.
 
Poster1212
2023-01-31 12:17:56 PM  
When the Last of Us writers changed the fungi to be self aware for miles instead of using spores (like in the video game), that turn the series more like Running Dead than Walking Dead
 
Bag of Hammers
2023-01-31 12:20:22 PM  

eagles95: RyansPrivates: rainbowbutter: [img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net image 768x384]it's still real to me dammit!

Can I just say that last episode was one of the most poignant, romantic episodes of TV I've ever seen?

Got me right in the goddamn feels.

same.....but I know people who hated it because icky same sex love scene


I watched the episode and also had my feels gut punched, but I also feared the online response from the usual suspects the next day and surprisingly haven't seen any yet.  Has anybody done a wellness check on Ben Shapiro, because he should be all over this.  Actually, I don't want to know.
 
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