I just recently started it for the first time.

If you’re into this sort of game, it’s really good. I haven’t exactly played a ton of similar games to compare it to, but it’s pretty hard for me to imagine a game that would do what it does better. I think if it had launched in the state it’s currently in it would have absolutely blown peoples minds when it launched a decade ago.

Also since it is, at its core, a decade old game, it runs really well on my computer which is mostly made up of 10+ year old components (and on linux! I did have a little audio stuttering issue that was fixed by just adding a launch option in steam, pretty sure that was just a quirk of my particular hardware)

The story is a little weird, not bad, just maybe not what I would have chosen if I was the writer, and the story is secondary to the building and exploration in this kind of game anyway.

I could nitpick some things about the UI if I really wanted to, and the usual issues with procedurally generated content where you have a big universe to explore but it feels kind of empty (which is also kind of the point) and some of the planets start feeling kind of the same after a while.

No, but it is important if you’re trying to record video of police brutality and such which is where my concerns lie about how these laws could be twisted

I think the same concerns still apply, if you can’t post that video anywhere it doesn’t do much good for you to record it.

I don’t know what the existing laws in the UK look like,

In general though, in the US, it’s usually legal to film things that are happening in public places, that’s part of what’s (supposed) to protect us from stuff like filming ICE agents.

Now of course, I’m not saying that it’s not important to do something to protect people from creeps recording them and posting them online without their consent

But I also feel like this is the kind of law that needs to be crafted very carefully to make sure that it’s not going to infringe on legitimate reasons people may have to record people in public. I could absolutely see Republicans here twisting a law like this that was made with good intentions to go after people for posting videos of ice arrests online.

I’m also dipping my toes into 40k lore

It kind of depends on what factions you care about, and what kinds of stories you like to read, this is pretty much where I’m at.

The horus heresy - I’m still working my way through this, there’s a ton of books and stories, not all of them are necessarily worth it and some of them kind of rehash some of the same events from different perspectives. Read the first 3 or 4, then you can kind of skip around until the end, there’s a few suggested reading lists floating around online to help you decide what you want to read. The heresy takes place 10k years before the main 40k universe, so it gets you a solid primer on why the universe ended up the way it is.

Pretty much all of the eisenhorn stories are pretty good, and get you a bit away from the giant battles with space Marines and such so you can get more of a feel for what else is going on around the imperium.

Pretty much anything written by Dan Abnett is pretty good, he’s pretty widely accepted to be one of the better and more consistent 40k writers. There’s some valid criticism of him, I won’t pretend he’s the world’s best writer, but pretty much everything he’s done is readable and enjoyable.

If you like orks (I like orks) Brutal Kunnin’ and Da Big Dakka are both fun reads, and Mike Brooks seems to get orks and other xenos pretty well.

That’s about where I’m at personally. Not too sure where I’ll go from here, I got a ton of the heresy left to get through still, and besides that I’ll honestly probably just grab whatever happens to catch my eye at a book store or library

Some of it is stress, but we get it just as much on the boring stuff too (we also handle a lot of the non emergency lines in my county) for things like a parking complaint where there’s nothing urgent going on and the caller is cool as a cucumber, they’re just completely clueless about anything I’m asking.

Like the other person said I think the question was about the ICE car

But I work in 911 dispatch, so I spend a good chunk of my night getting vehicle descriptions, you would be absolutely amazed at how many have no clue what kind of car they’re driving themselves or can’t even give a basic description

Me: What kind of vehicle is it?
Caller: I don’t know, I’m not really a car-person.
Me: Can you tell if it’s a sedan, an SUV, or a pickup truck?
Caller: I don’t know, I just told you that I’m not a car-person!

Also a shocking number of people don’t know their own address, phone number, what the nearest cross-street is to their house (or even the nearest major road or big intersection,) what municipality they live in (it may be different than the “city” part of their mailing address,) what the address is of their work, whether their car has power locks and power windows (and in fact what that even means,) whether their spouse has any important medical history, where water shut-offs are in their house, the difference between a smoke detector going off and giving a low-battery chirp, etc.

I’m sure it’s more complex than I’m making it out to be, but each gas in the air has its own freezing/melting boiling/condensation/sublimation points, so I’d imagine you could just kind of take advantage of that

Basically just cool it down to x temperature at y pressure, and all of the carbon dioxide should be solid, the oxygen a liquid and the nitrogen still a gas, and they’ve all sort of separated themselves out. Fish out the dry ice, siphon off the oxygen, and you’re left with nitrogen.

Might need to do a couple more rounds of that on each of those to account for other gases in the mix depending on how pure you need it to be, but in theory I imagine it could be that simple (again in practice I’m sure there’s probably a lot of details I’m missing)

Not standing and walking in front of a car is basically cop 101. “Routine” vehicle stops are one of the most potentially dangerous things cops do, there’s all of the unknowns of who is actually in the car and how they’re going to react, what can happen if they try to flee, dangers from passing traffic, etc.

So they always approach your car very carefully and absolutely do not walk in front of it if it can be avoided.

De got dragged by a car he tried to break into to arrest someone less than a year ago, if that didn’t teach them I don’t think anything will.

So what I’m hearing is that this moron didn’t learn his lesson about fucking around with vehicles after he got hurt just a few months ago.

This is very flimsy so take it for what it’s worth, but I have a really bad feeling that bird flu is about to become a much bigger deal, at least in the bird population if it doesn’t make the jump to humans

It’s winter here, I live in an area where most of the birds migrate south for the winter. Some species don’t migrate, some individuals don’t, and some birds even migrate to here, so there’s usually some birds around here for the winter.

This year I’ve seen more.

And when I’m out walking my dog at night, they’re on the ground, not up in trees or in bushes where you’d expect to see birds, or even hiding out in the undergrowth of wooded areas they’re out in the open on the grass, sidewalk, middle of the road, etc. in the middle of the night.

I see one almost every night, sometimes a few of them. And I have a bad feeling that these birds are sick and too weak to do much besides flutter away to a different patch of grass when I get close.

I’ve been in this house for about 5 years, been taking my dog for walks almost every night since then, rain or shine, summer or winter. This isn’t something I’ve seen until this year. And I’ve seen it in a handful of places outside of my neighborhood as well.

It may be me being paranoid, it may be something other than bird flu, but it’s not exactly giving me the warm-fuzzies.

You know, it’s now occuring to me that I have absolutely no clue what Roblox actually is. It’s been around forever, I’ve been seeing gift cards for it in stores for I’m pretty sure well over a decade, I hear lots of talk about all of the dangers and how addictive it is for kids, etc.

But I haven’t the foggiest idea what the game is actually like. To the best of my knowledge I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a single screenshot of it, at least not one that was clearly labeled as being from Roblox.

And while I’m a childfree curmudgeon in my 30s, I do have a few friends with kids that I see with some regularity, and I’ve never heard any of them mention Roblox even in passing.

I feel like I’m in a really weird bubble of roblox-ignorance, I’m not exactly mad about it, but it feels weird that for as big as Roblox is supposed to be that I’ve never seen anyone talk about the actual game, just how big of a problem it is.