Arthmoor

SARS (1 and 2), MERS, COVID-19, and the "Common Cold" are all Coronaviruses. Very contagious among humans and we don't develop lasting immunity to them. So yes, certainly possible they could have been researching a bioweapons application for a particularly nasty strain. It's not so outlandish to think that it could be an escape from the lab. Not all bioweapon escapes need to become The Stand. It also pays to keep in mind that COVID-19 hasn't yet killed anywhere close to the number of people that the bog standard seasonal influenza ourbreaks do each year. So there's an element of false crisis involved here. As for the whole animal kingdom thing, the rumor has it that this came from a bunch of idiots eating bat heads or something and being rather unsanitary about it. Bottom line is, this will pass. You'll probably even catch it and have no idea what you've got because your body will display all of the same symptoms as a seasonal cold. Which means most of the same things we all do to ease our symptoms will work just as well as they always have. The panic being generated from this is overblown.

Ran into this video last week - has a really good breakdown of what exactly COVID-19 is. Which is a strain of the SARS virus. COVID-19 actually describes the ensuing lung infection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0A0LyMru3I I've also heard the theory on it being a botched bioweapon release as well, ironically NOT from any of our own US media either. And yes, I know, bioweapons are designed to kill billions. When they're finished. According to this theory, the virus was still being developed using Coronavirus methodology because it works and we humans don't develop immunities to them easily. As far as where it actually came from, the only thing anyone seems to agree on is that it's from the Wuhan region of China.

Heh, that's impossible as there is no such thing Local media in the area where you (the general you) live may be less problematic, but they're all still beholden to their ratings systems and a crisis makes for good ratings. So they're going to keep it alive for as long as they can. Also, I know this may sound paranoid or something, but watch what your governments are doing behind the scenes while everyone's attention is on the virus. This is when they like to sneak in crap we'd normally jump on them for in the open.

Even people who live in the middle of nowhere are affected The State of Utah closed all public schools statewide for 14 days (beyond the expected spring break that's already coming), all restaurants and bars are closed except for delivery options, pretty much every major event that had been planned has been canceled, and there's even several counties that are enforcing travel restrictions in and out of other nearby counties. When they said "May you live in interesting times" I doubt this is what anyone had in mind.

I don't see why an answer of some kind wouldn't be possible. Cartogriffi would be the one to forward the question through and he's easily accessible on the official forum or on some modding servers on Discord.

You might just be surprised how easy it is to get a response from them.

Leo, dude, you need to chill out.

You made no offers to me of any kind on Nexus about anything to do with Morrowind mods. I don't know where you're getting that from. Aside from a token role here as something of a consultant, I've not done any modding in Morrowind since around 2003 or so. I was also never a part of any of the original UMP projects. So no, I never had any dealings with Thepal. As for the "troll and thief" stuff, you know full well what those posts in GMAD were referring to and they're entirely irrelevant to this thread and this project so I don't see any useful purpose in you bringing that up.

Would be rather ironic if a "patch for purists" turned out to be one that's doing far more than just fixing bugs. As for the "USKP" style, I think Leo already covered it pretty well. We fix bugs, and they're all very well documented. Though we aren't a separate team from Kivan. He was actively part of that project until he disappeared midway through 2012. We simply continued on with it after he left, and provided it more organizational structure than it had in the past. Regarding someone taking over the UMP if AndalayBay steps aside, I'm sure our team would probably be happy to pick things up and maintain them once it got to that point, but nothing has been discussed on that front yet.

What's "PfP" referencing?

A lot of the Oblivion ones either did nothing or were placebo effects. The OBSE team examined them all in detail and reported on the handful that actually did work. Most of the rest were never even read by the engine and many that were weren't acted on after that. The reason people didn't get into this sort of ini hacking for Skyrim and FO4 isn't so much because of conversion to 64 bit, it's because by that point people knew those tweaks did nothing.

Shelter was the only one I've played that was worth the bother, and then it showed up on PC so I haven't played it on the phone since

It's been mentioned before. They haven't given any kind of a hard date though. If it never comes to PC then I guess I won't be playing it cause I'm not spending a bunch of money on a new phone for the sake of one game.

Sounds like a pretty big overhaul. I'll still have to wait for it to hit PC though since my phone can't run it.

That's why they posted the news article