Darkwing Duck

Just now, archer said:

 

You can take a look at pathetic efforts to control COVID vs effective efforts

 

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-maps-and-cases/

 

The USA has more people infected per capita than all but three other countries in the world. And two of those are postage stamp-sized countries barely worthy of being called a country.

 

You can look at South Korea which had its first COVID patient identified as on the same day as the first patient was detected in the US.

 

South Korea has had 156 people infected per 100,000.

The US has had 8170 people infected per 100,000.

 

And that's from the very same starting point. One of those country's response to the virus was more effective than the other.

 

Or you can look at it another way: the USA is 4.25% of the world's population and has 20% of the COVID deaths. So you're 4.7 times as likely to die from COVID if you're in the US than if you have been living in other parts of the world.

 

Considering the US has a much better healthcare system than many places, a difference that big is explained by a bungled response to the virus.

 

Now would Biden have screwed up that badly?

 

The short answer is "no". A longer answer is "hell, no".

 

We've discussed at length the Trump administration's obsession with snake oil cures, silencing the CDC, Trump flatly contradicting statements from healthcare officials, and many other things.

 

If you want to discuss that, go back and pick out one of those conversations and ask a question about it. I don't think anyone has the patience to walk you through a year's worth of daily conversations about the Trump administration's deliberate mishandling of the COVID crisis.

South Korea is not Biden.

34 minutes ago, Simon said:

I'm going to go under the assumption that your initial question (and responses) are not disingenuous -- but be careful.

 

You are correct, we don't know how many would have died under Biden...hell, we don't know how many actually died under Trump because he managed to politicize a pandemic and usher in a post-truth era (the actual numbers are looking to be significantly higher).  What we do know is that the numbers under Biden would have been significantly less since there has been zero indication that he would have dismissed the pandemic...much to the contrary, he and Obama prepared for one. Any response would have been better than what we had and we had the potential to be world leaders in response (vs. leading the world in dismissing the pandemic as a "non-concern").

Those are not mutually exclusive factoids...and I would strongly encourage you not to post intentionally misleading graphics like that.

When you are dealing with a predecessor who implemented massive policy changes through executive order and dealing with an immediate massive humanitarian crisis (the pandemic, which we have bungled on an epic scale) executive orders are needed to both reverse prior policy shifts by Trump (not Congress) and to bring the immediate action required to start bringing the pandemic under some modicum of control.

Frankly, I don’t even know how my initial question could possibly be construed as disingenuous.

”because he managed to politicize a pandemic”.  Okay, good to know that the moderator isn’t neutral.   I’ll keep that in mind in the future.

«the numbers under Biden would have been significantly less”. Prove it.

“Graphics like that”. What graphics?  I haven’t posted any graphics.

25 minutes ago, Starlord said:

 

450,000 US Covid deaths - 1/5 of the Global deaths thanks to a non-existent national plan, constant mixed messages, flip-flopping strategies, and embracing pseudo-science.  The Trump Covid response alone is a numbers based reason that almost anyone is better than Trump and that he's one of the worst Presidents ever.

 98% of your answer is not numbers-based.

The part that is, specifically “450,000 US Covid deaths” is rather meaningless since we have no idea how many would have died under Biden.

27 minutes ago, Starlord said:

Trump shifted campaign donor funds into his heavily indebted private business after his election loss, report says

More specifically, the money went to rent space, order catering and pay for lodging during a time he contested the election results.

plans for a celebration party?

5 minutes ago, archer said:

 

Biden has 23 million more Twitter followers than Trump.  

That’s a good point.  One should never underestimate the value of the 11 - 14 year-old voter.

Can anyone give me a numbers-based reason they believe Biden is better than Trump or vice versa?

”Trump is a big, orange doodoo head.” is not numbers-based.

”Trump is ten big, orange doodoo heads,» goes against the spirit of my question.

4 minutes ago, pawsplay said:

It could do a lot of things, including reducing enemy movement.

Remember that this is 4e

20 hours ago, pawsplay said:

I would probably avoid flat bonuses or anything that could be accomplished with Teamwork or team attacks. For RSR: Tactics, I would be thinking more along the lines of:

- Rally: Aid END

- Distract: Drain DCV

- Outmaneuver: Change Environment

- One Move Ahead: Telepathy, surface thoughts only, receive only

 

For playability reasons, I would avoid actions that cause him to simply stand around and grant bonuses.

I don’t really understand your Chsnge Environment suggestion.  What exactly would the Change Environment do?

2 hours ago, HeroGM said:

Explain the usable on others and why please?

Usable on Others allows a power to be used by someone else.  For example, an 8 point Combat Skill Level bought at the base Usable on Others allows the character with the CSL to give it to another character.  Usable on Others can apply a larger advantage modifier to allow both character to use the CSLs simultaneously or to enable 8 characters (or more) to use the power simultaneously.

I’m building a Super Soldier in 4e.  He was a US soldier in Afghanistan who was killed in an act of heroism saving a bunch of native students at an all-girls school from an IDE.  He post-humously received the Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart.  He was then turned into a cyborg by the government. He’s a Super Patriot Super Soldier.   Named “Chain Breaker,” he is a gay, black man.  Like Captain America, he’ll have very high Presence and Hand-to-Hand combat. He’ll be a cyborg more like Steve Austin than the classic Victor Stone, though he will have an onboard computer like Midnighter. 

As a Super Soldier, I want one of his really standout powers to be his tactical acumen.  He’ll have various minor powers requiring a Tactics skill roll.  The effect will put him in the same general flavor as a DND Warlord.  He can spend his actions making his teammates fight more effectively.

I’m having problems coming up with ideas for these powers, though.  I’ve got only three ideas so far.  The first one is an 8 point Combat Skill Level Usable on Others (up to 8 characters simultaneously) costs END, requires a skill roll: Tactics.  The second one is Combat Sense, Usable on Others (up to 8 characters simultaneously), costs END, rsr: Tactics.  The third one is Mind Link (8 characters), requires gestures throughout. rsr: Tactics, characters must see each other.

Do you have any other ideas?

In 4E, is it legal to use Sweeping with Stretching or is Sweeping limited to using baseball bat types of attacks (such as swinging Greyhound busses or telephone poles to attack everyone in an area)?

To give a bit of background,

I'm the player in Nedoking's campaign.  I am playing a stretchy-bouncy "Rubberband Man" archetype.  I'm looking to build a power called "Bounce."  

Here's how I built it

Bounce

-1.5 ALL Points fade after 1 Segment

0.25 Trigger (uncontrollably stikes an object which does not take knockback)

-0.5 Linked to Absorption

-0.5 RSR: Breakfall