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[Sirus]

Um. Maybe $25-30? You get the three games, plus Japanese versions if you prefer moonrunes and moonspeak.

[WillowLuman]

Well, the convention's over. Truth be told there weren't too many activities this year and only a couple of the panels I could get to were interesting, but I had fun going around the halls and John Barrowman is seriously awesome in person.

[scrdest]

Weakening probably happens naturally. Infectiousness would probably increase normally though. Since as the virus mutates, the strains that reproduce more would become more proliferant whilst the ones that do not may die out. Since a living host can continuously create more of the virus and infect other people, a really lethal virus would probably become less lethal because of that and because it's presence selects for people who are more resistant.

If I recall correctly, one of the reasons for the Black Death becoming less deadly over time was because of that (though it was caused by bacteria rather than a virus).

Correct on all counts. As far as evolutionary advantage is concerned, Bacteria and Viruses have the same pressures. And, for that matter, Viruses *do* have a reliable way of being infectious and quite non-lethal - they can integrate into the host's DNA, and some did, permanently - you can trace the common ancestry of some species by looking for them in the two species and comparing.

I might make a separate thread to stop cluttering Happy Thread with it.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Weakening probably happens naturally. Infectiousness would probably increase normally though. Since as the virus mutates, the strains that reproduce more would become more proliferant whilst the ones that do not may die out. Since a living host can continuously create more of the virus and infect other people, a really lethal virus would probably become less lethal because of that and because it's presence selects for people who are more resistant.

If I recall correctly, one of the reasons for the Black Death becoming less deadly over time was because of that (though it was caused by bacteria rather than a virus).

Correct on all counts. As far as evolutionary advantage is concerned, Bacteria and Viruses have the same pressures. And, for that matter, Viruses *do* have a reliable way of being infectious and quite non-lethal - they can integrate into the host's DNA, and some did, permanently - you can trace the common ancestry of some species by looking for them in the two species and comparing.

I might make a separate thread to stop cluttering Happy Thread with it.

Deadly Bioweapons: It's In Your DNA Edition?

[Sinistar]

I've decided today is a Happy Day.

Everyone be happy, today.

OR ELSE

[Yoink]

* Yoink sobs quietly in the corner.

[Sinistar]

TEARS OF HAPPINESS, I PRESUME

[~Neri]

Spoiler: Happiness is Mandatory (click to show/hide)

[ggamer]

Alternatively, it's a happy if you're an ecoterrorist who has successfully bred a virus that kills exclusively homo sapiens sapiens by turning them into predigested protein-rich mush, and designed a vaccine to give to all your fanatical ecoterrorist friends.

Thankfully, none of us would do that.

Tang?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Snow has finaly fallen and it is a snow day today
No school! Yay

[Flying Dice]

I too share in the good fortune of a massive snowstorm.

[Tawa]

I have February break right now, so I don't have to head to school for seven more days.

Unfortunately, I also have much snow. Like, thigh-height snow. And I'm pretty tall.

All this snow and no school days to waste it on

[Spehss _]

Toady posted examples of generated poems on the devlog. One of the bugs includes poems being thousands of stanzas long.

[ggamer]

fuck you guys

not only is my college cold as shit with no snow, we're a bunch of godless commies that don't celebrate president's day

[Tack]

Spoiler: Happiness is Mandatory (click to show/hide)