thanks, happy belated cake day to you!

One person shits their pants, everyone has to wear diapers

Group punishments are bullshit

Nice thanks for the explanation!

It’s an awesome idea…but I wonder what happens when one gets destroyed in combat

Let’s take the troops from Germany and push them somewhere else!

She said she wanted a guy that would chase her so…

I read game manuals and strategy guides like my dad read the newspaper while eating breakfast on summer mornings. They had so much little bits of world building in the writing and design. Reading manuals on the ride home from the store set the tone before you even fired up the game for the first time

Games like Metal Gear Solid had mini comic book sections with loads of awesome artwork for their manuals

Manuals and guides are responsible for making me a gun nerd! Looking at the history and use cases for each one in the game carried over to the real deal. I remember guides for Rainbow Six, Medal of Honor: Frontline and Syphon Filter 2 being full of stuff like that

Yeah I’m not scanning an unknown QR code on a grungy bill

better just do nothing because that works way better

Citizens: You can’t spy on me without a legal reason!

Govt: I know, but they can.

(big tech giants appear with decades of data)

It’s hard to describe since it’s mostly based on feel. You start by feeling around to build a kind of mental map in your head. Then when you start you’re keeping the right amount of pressure on the tension wrench as you mess with each pin. You gotta have a gentle touch and it takes some time to find how much is enough.

MIT has a paper on the process too, I’ll see if I can find it and link it here

Right? I know it’s all about making money in the end but just a few minutes of picking might be enough, and if not you can say you tried.

Look all I’m saying is if you didn’t work on at least one weird skill during covid you did it wrong

A basic kit from sparrows costs like $20 and it’s way easier than most people think

With my AI nightmare camera glasses!

I would look at ESP32 boards and make something like this

I want laws enforced. Not just immigration law, but search and siezure laws, due process laws. And laws pertaining to the right to bear arms and use of force by federal agents encountering people lawfully using them.

If the use of force continuum (day one police stuff all law enforcement is held to) was followed we wouldn’t have damning frame by frame video of agents shooting a disarmed man on his hands and knees.

https://youtu.be/vOB-PS1nyVo

Companies can do things without investors, but investors can’t do anything without companies.

If I invest in stock on my toilet at home I’m technically helping the company financially, but I’m not actually developing or making things of real economic value. I’m just betting they will and that their numbers will go up.

Look at finance! They don’t make anything of actual value, they just bet what’s going to happen to the people that do

My first thought was the flag patch, then “get your hands off the fucking panel”, then “why is his knee there”