By this point in the story I thought Dutch was all dried out with no sauce, but the oil baron and Angelo Bronte made me think he just might pull it back.
What mine (m1 pro, 16gb ram, has fans) is good at:
- Very low power usage and exceptionally long battery life
- Screen is above and beyond what a laptop needs
- generally fast and can manage cpu-heavy games and video transcoding
What it’s bad at
- ever being able to upgrade
- some functionality requires third-party apps or terminal knowledge
- not all programs have an Apple silicon version and need the translation layer
- virtualization is inconsistent and unpredictable
They’re cool devices. I’ve been a longtime laptop hater but I’m happy with mine. Yes you do need the 16gb ram upgrade that they will rip you off for. Get a pro model if you think you’ll need active cooling, but my fans rarely turn on.
To be clear - I’d be willing to contribute to this. Cash is a no go but I’ve made purchases from Amazon and other US retailers online before so it should be OK.
I have to jump through so many hoops to send cash to US comrades so I can't help with day to day stuff.
However - and you can tell me if I'm out of line here - have you considered creating an amazon wishlist on a burner account and sharing it here? That way you definitely get the specific goods you need without worrying about money management. Stuff like the sleeping bag and clothes you mentioned.
The ingame currency only tractor beams also got nerfed, this is now a required item for moving cargo above a certain size.
Seems like they realised cargo players buy a starter ship and nothing else and that’s simply not an acceptable contribution.
They should be more like the boomers who buy every new fomo pvp fighter but seemingly only sit in stations and complain about pronouns and millenials instead of every actually flying their $800 collection.
I just remembered Shadows of Doubt, I think that's the most recent game with this system that I've played. It has proc gen cities where every citizen has a job and a sometimes spontaneous daily routine. Every few days a citizen will murder another one and leave behind a trail of evidence. It's supposed to hit 1.0 this month as well.
Very raw and buggy in places but in ways that leads to more hilarious outcomes. You hide in a freezing vent waiting for someone to head out to the club for them to apparently decide nah not tonight 2 seconds after leaving the building and catch you in the middle of reading their emails.
I think about Oblivion and it's NPC scheduling far too often. It feels like the missing piece in otherwise amazing games like Deus Ex MD or Pathologic 2.
I remember MGS V had elements of this. Guards would patrol, be relieved at certain times, there was scheduled transports of prisoners and resources. If you knocked out an entire base of guards at night eventually the morning shift would turn up and start waking them up, putting the base on alert.
Geopolitics is just a map painting game to these people. When your borders are bigger thats good. Why would you not want your borders to be bigger? Graduated from Total War university with a PhD in Medieval 2 crusade strategies.
I don't know if you'll see my comment following the removal of yours, but I suggest you look further into the history of fascism, the conditions that lead to it, and that socialists have consistently been the driving force of anti-fascism throughout history. To connect the two together because they both use "authority" is to be political illiterate and apply horseshoe theory.
Regarding authority, your use of it doesn't mean anything. All states wield authority - in liberal democracies and under fascism authority is used to enforce the class interests of the bourgeoisie. Look at how those who do not participate in capitalism will quickly lose their access to shelter and food and end up incarcerated as homelessness itself has become criminalised. Or the use of the national guard and overmilitarised police against the George Floyd and pro-Palestine protests.
In socialist states authority is used in the class interest of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, intially for the effective redistribution of resources and then to prevent reactionary and bourgeoisie influence on society and government. You can compare the approval rates that citizens of socialist states such as the PRC have of their government to those of liberal democracies such as the US, and then look at statistics such as home ownership and poverty alleviation to understand which system functions better as a democracy acting in the interests of it's population.
I did the opposite and made a well spaced out organised city where noone could get to work on time, so it’s time for me to learn the ins and outs of transit and travel time or embrace the shitbox I guess.
I was in a very similar place for most of the past year, and I'm not entirely out of it. Some of those feelings have gone away, but others have not. I didn't get things back together by myself, it was the support of others that allowed me to start healing.
I hope things will get better for you, and this community (including me) is here for anything you need to keep going and start moving towards a better place. If you just want to talk, for someone to listen, people to play games with or whatever helps take your mind off things or helps you work through everything please reach out. That includes material assistance too.
I can't give advice without specifics of where you are but please feel free to post in !mutual_aid@hexbear.net if you are struggling to pay for essentials.
9 months. It has been hell. At points I felt like the job market just wouldn’t get better, even if the economy recovered the new hiring processes were here to stay and I wasn’t compatible with them.
Time to return to work. Hoping this won’t end in redundancy or bankruptcy like all my other jobs. This time I’m going to become an immensely boring person for a year, get my finances in order and have actual retirement and emergency funds in place.
Squadron 42 is the singleplayer main development focus which we are told contains all the features and functionality that will make star citizen great and which are then slowly drip-fed into the actually playable game. I have seen nothing besides the "wow cool features" that would put it on a level above 2016's Call of Duty Infinite Warfare.
I don't do combat so I have zero interest in it, I play SC because I like doing salvage and cargo trading. It's also the only game I've found where you play as a person on a ship and not the ship itself, free to leave your seat and walk around mid-flight even going on to form part of the gameplay loops.
I feel some dissonance with the rest of the community when a lot of the game's FOMO sales drives revolve around cockpit only PvP orientated ships where this one will be the NEW META on sale for LIMITED TIME ONLY tied directly into the SQUADRON 42 LORE. Like I just want to salvage wrecks, drag boxes around my cargo hold and do contraband runs on the dark side of moons but there's like 8 ships in the game that allow for this.
Det. Greggs beats down a physically restrained "suspect" not once but twice
Hey ACAB applies to them all. I was referring to Kima's personal story being about commitment and compromise in relationships and eventual parenthood instead of what all the other cops were up to. Still a bastard but we see some personal growth and a welcome break from the self-destructive behavior of the other characters.
Bodie was so conflicting because he showed zero remorse and the little bits of humanity we saw died when he killed his friend who was also still a CHILD at the time and just went on business as usual.
But he still didn't deserve what happened to him,
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Death by cop in the dumbest way possible
And then McNulty tries to do the exact same shit the day after.
This is the face of the show and the cops in general for most of the seasons too, the reference point for cop behaviour, he's even portrayed as one of the "better cops" when Omar gets arrested.
Kima was the most human of them all and Bunk was just sad. It felt like as long as he kept being one of the more / only competent detectives noone would ever try get him to avoid liver failure in the next few years.
If we start Prez discourse we could get a 200+ comment hexbear thread going.
McNulty was a terrible person the entire series who committed a series of crimes being saved by his badge every time and whose only decent quality was being a passable detective willing to tackle big cases.
He even put himself on the level of the completely irredeemable fuck ups like
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Herc when he gets Bodie killed in the final season because his illegal case building meant he had to pick him up in the middle of the street instead of doing any degree of witness protection
The wire was ACAB throughout. Every cop in that show was either a criminal themselves, corrupt, incompetent and almost always extremely racist. The one (arguably) good cop in the entire show gets forced out.
It did a great job of showing how the police and the gangs are two different criminal organisations with their own heirarchies filled with actual human beings.
Season 3 was the highlight of the entire show, watching the police become the "muscle" for the drug dealers.
I'd go as far as to say it was a crime show, not a cop show.