Megalomaniak I saw no proof in there that Kubrick didn't film 2001: A Space Odyssey on the moon.

Hehehe :-)

And this is how one shall recognize "them", by reverting the burden of proof and additionally often times distracting from the original claim.

Tomcat I have a counter question: is the covid vaccination voluntary or what? Why are people who do not want to be vaccinated restricted in their civil rights?

It is voluntary where I live (Spain), but a vast majority is vaccinated at least two, most three times. COVID related deaths are not in local news any more. It is also voluntary in other parts of Europe (like Germany).

People who do not want to be vaccinated are not restricted. There had been discussions to do so, but that's hard to enforce actually and would probably flood the courts with sense- and meaningless law suits. I personally, if I may express my thoughts, find those people irresponsible. From my observation (and that includes family members) those are mostly people who lack proper education and/or who have been influenced by the media sources they visit, often times for hours a day.

I think (but my opinion is as good as anybody else's) the deniers' mental capabilities ("mental antibodies" in this context :-)) to reason were not very developed from the beginning, and further worn off by a constant stream of misinformation that fit in short messages and appeal to negative feelings rather than scientific finding.

Nice Sunday everybody :-)

        Pixophir From my observation (and that includes family members) those are mostly people who lack proper education and/or who have been influenced by the media sources they visit, often times for hours a day.

        And do you have state (public) media calling for refusal to vaccinate?

        There had been discussions to do so, but that's hard to enforce actually and would probably flood the courts with sense- and meaningless law suits.

        And is there any reason to believe that a court might find the opponents' claims legitimate?

            I had the vaccine and still got covid. It was not like I had to be hospitalized, but I can say it was borderline having the respiratory flu, if anyone else knows what that's like.

              Tomcat And do you have state (public) media calling for refusal to vaccinate?

              Well, certainly not sites and info systems run by the country's or the EU health department. I can't remember reading or hearing from any 3rd party sources that news outlets other than extremely biased ones and those leaning to what's often called "the far right", have advertized such idiocy. But then again, I rarely touch sources other than (pop-)sciency ones, or ones that deal with the technical matters around programming, my new hobby, or quite generally news outlets I subjectively have pegged as spreading "too much information". But even those not totally nonsensical ones (random examples German Die Zeit (neutral), Spanisch El Pais (conservative), English The Guardian(neutral/left leaning)) for instance) I read with a very healthy dose of scepticism.

              And I do not touch social media to avoid all those algorithms that sort the information that reaches me.

              But neither local news outlets (El Apuron (conservative), El Time (arch conservative)) or administration sites ever touted any form of denial here.

              Tomcat And is there any reason to believe that a court might find the opponents' claims legitimate?

              I have no idea. I can imagine that could happen, but my opinion about jurisdiction is actually close to the topic we're discussing, so I better, well, shut up :-)

              Nerdzmasterz I had the vaccine and still got covid. It was not like I had to be hospitalized, but I can say it was borderline having the respiratory flu, if anyone else knows what that's like.

              Yes, the vaccination is there to prepare your body's immune system for a better reaction. It does not guarantee that you won't get infected, but that the infection will very very likely have a less dangerous effect. I may have caught it multiple times, but until now it didn't have a strong effect on me. But the protection should be wearing off by now, let's see if we get another shot before the winter. I read there are new and adapted jabs available soon(tm).

                      Pixophir But neither local news outlets (El Apuron (conservative), El Time (arch conservative)) or administration sites ever touted any form of denial here.

                      So, on that basis, it could be argued that under the influence of propaganda, there are supporters of vaccination?

                        I think vaccines and conspiracy theories are kind of outside the scope of the forums, as per rule 6. Especially since these topics can be quite heated and there are plenty of more open and general social media sites for discussing such material, let's keep away from such topics on the forums 🙂

                        cybereality To be honest, conspiracy theories give me a sense of powerlessness( or at least the one's I grow up being surrounded by). They make me feel that there is no way to become successful or acheive anything, without being in on some conspiracy somewhere. I think people have a vague sense that something is wrong but, since they can't put their finger on it, they gravitate to conspiracies that ironcially cover up what's wrong. The infalsifiable nature of some many conspiracy theories means that there is nothing you can do abut it if you believed it; that seems like quite a downer to me.

                            Most discussions, for some reason, slip into taboo topics 😆

                            Audiobellum To be honest, conspiracy theories give me a sense of powerlessness( or at least the one's I grow up being surrounded by). They make me feel that there is no way to become successful or acheive anything, without being in on some conspiracy somewhere.

                            And I get the impotent feeling that you can't make your first million honestly "I can account for every million except the first".

                              When it comes to inputs, what's the best way to replace a wall of if/else statements? I mean, which this out:

                              func weapon_select(time):
	if Input.is_action_just_pressed("weapon1") and 0 in weapon_numbers:weapon_switching(weapon_numbers.find(0))
	elif Input.is_action_just_pressed("weapon2") and 1 in weapon_numbers:weapon_switching(weapon_numbers.find(1))
	elif Input.is_action_just_pressed("weapon3") and 2 in weapon_numbers:weapon_switching(weapon_numbers.find(2))
	elif Input.is_action_just_pressed("weapon4") and 3 in weapon_numbers:weapon_switching(weapon_numbers.find(3))
	elif Input.is_action_just_pressed("weapon5") and 4 in weapon_numbers:weapon_switching(weapon_numbers.find(4))
	elif Input.is_action_just_pressed("weapon6") and 5 in weapon_numbers:weapon_switching(weapon_numbers.find(5))
	var current_weapon_index = weapon_numbers[weapon_index]; var current_weapon = weapon_manager[current_weapon_index]
	if not equiping:current_weapon.in_use()
	var is_zooming =  weapon_manager[current_weapon_index].enable_zoom == true and Input.is_action_pressed("zoom")
	if is_zooming and not equiping:camera.fov = lerp(camera.fov,fview["zoom"],zoom_lerp * time)
	else:camera.fov = lerp(camera.fov,fview["default"],zoom_lerp * time)

                              Is there some way to turn it into a few lines of code?

                              Hm... You might be able to use a match for each action? This might be a bit confusing, but go with me just a second...

                              Say we had a var weapon = 0. Say

                              "weapon" + str(weapon + 1) and weapon in weapon_numbers:weapon_switching(weapon_numbers.find(weapon))

                              It should also work if weapon is 1, 2, 3, or whatever.

                                Megalomaniak saw no proof in there that Kubrick didn't film 2001: A Space Odyssey on the moon.

                                What if Kubrick secretly died during the filming of Dr. Strangelove (from laughing uncontrollably at Peter Sellers), and NASA produced his subsequent movies using a Kubrick impersonator?

                                    Nerdzmasterz I think a problem could still arise if I have to use an input to alter the number in inside the variable var weapon, while also using that same variable in an input. Still, I have an idea that just came to my mind and it involves using a for loop; wise me look. I'll be right back to tell you if it worked.

                                      Nerdzmasterz Okay, so I used an for loop as a solution but, even though it technically works, I notice that I got a crazy amount of errors in my debugger( it's 1941 errors) and I consider that concerning. The code for the for loop looks like this:

                                      func test_code():
	for i in 6:
		if Input.is_action_just_pressed("weapon"+String(i)) and i-1 in weapon_numbers:weapon_switching(weapon_numbers.find(i-1))

                                        Nerdzmasterz I checked it out again, one of the error is the debugger questioning the existence of "weapon0" which makes sense, I can fix that easily. Still, I wonder if running a foor loop for the entire game could hamper performance or something.

                                        Edit: Yeah, I fixed that error. Performance still seems okay but, I'm not sure.

                                        Edit again: I'm going to try and break my own code just to stress test it. I suspect that something could be wrong with it, because there is no elif condition that prevents certain type of errors if I were to press multiple weapon numbers at once. Will be back to tell you what's up.

                                          Nerdzmasterz Okay, so there doesn't seem to be any problems with this appoarch. Still, I suspect that their might be a problem with it where performance is concerned( though I can't see it all). I'm not sure if anyone should be using foor loops in this fashion. All of this code is running in the process function, which means that the foor loop is running repeatedly. In my programmer noob opinion, that has got to cause problems( or I could be wrong about something).

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                                            Oh, yeah. Don't put a for loop in process. I've always read to only have for loops in functions that are not constant. One could have a function like switch_weapons() that does this instead. Then call the function each time you need to switch whatever weapon is being used.

                                              Nerdzmasterz Yeah but, how do I call that function with an input when the function determines the input that I'm suppose to be using?

                                                The input should determine the function, usually- at least for me. Have the process function check if the input is being used. If so, call the function with the correct weapon. Something like this in the _process function:

                                                if Input.is_action_pressed("Whatever_input):
    #switch_weapon_function