I just don’t really know how it’s really going to work. Couldn’t you just design your own parts with one weird bit of geometry and the computer wouldn’t recognize it?

Like, I get you don’t want ghost guns, but it seems like the bigger prize is going after illegal and currently legal guns that are actually used in mass shootings. 3D printed stuff seems like small potatoes compared to the daily casualty rates.

I think the Valve era was pretty incredible.

Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Half Life + HL2, and Portal + 2 all pushed the genres forward or were utterly unique for their time.

I can’t think of any other dev ATM that was doing what valve was doing in the 00s and early 10s.

Honestly, I think it’s hard on players when you’d get like, four Voxes spawning simultaneously with AA blocking eagles, and defensive strats getting blown up immediately. We burned through tons of tickets that way, trying to raise flags.

It’s a very lethal combo. And with all the buildings, my orbitals wouldn’t fire for ~10 seconds sometimes giving voxes plenty of time to roll out of the AoE for orbital railguns.

I think it’s hard to extrapolate, but my guess is that the Voxes stopped lots of missions in their tracks, and a failed mission meant no progress towards the end goal. I believe you had to have three successful, consecutive missions for progress to count at the end of the operation.

Definitely fine. I fill up my car like…once a month, if that.

They’ll probably just beg for bailouts while laying off workers, and those workers will blame the company more than those who they voted for (or didn’t vote for, last election).

I really want a multilingual randomizer as well, client side. So it truly feels like an international force with rando teammates.

Mine failed that way, yeah. Though I think it was user error after trying to repair a mouse that wasn’t designed to be serviced officially. All the rubber wore off the wing, so I had to disassemble and replace it with a generic part. The left and right clicks are a bit spongy now, and middle click only intermittently works now, but the mouse is grippy again. I wish more mice were actually repairable.

It’s annoying to have mice that break down and need to be repurchased instead of a few replacement parts. 90% of the mouse was fine.

You will drive and you will like it! Sounds like it basically kills off biking and scooters in its entirety.

I generally recommend repotting in a mix of bark, it’s probably getting aerial roots because it wants a bigger pot.

These generally grow on trees and need humidity but not extended soaks- I water mine once a week under a grow light with 80% bark soil. High humidity with very little actual standing water. They’re sort of like succulents, in some ways!

Sometimes a bit of cold is fine for these plants. I believe some need a week of cold in order to flower consistently. Our drafty house is perfect for this- temperatures around 15-21c

Here is mine- the soil is out of focus, but it’s primarily bark with a very small amount of other soil to keep some moisture in. I probably need to repot soonish!

Also, we’ve had unisex bathrooms for decades. Family bathrooms too. This isn’t novel stuff. Stall bathrooms are terrible anyways.

I’ve never encountered a gendered bathroom in anyone’s home either, lol.

Legislation and not understanding how the technology works; name a more iconic duo.

Limit it based off speed, not off “watts” lol. You can run a motor at however many watts you want; the motor controller does that. It’s like tweaking the sear on an AUG.

The problem is parents buying 14 year olds emotos that can easily do 50+ mph and weigh a lot.

Getting rid of the three class system was a galaxy brain move, lol.

Have fun with emotos on shared use trails, instead of gentle class I-3 bikes doing 15.

I’d take my chances if I was 100% boned in a failing shuttle or space station. But yes, that would be a bleak re-entry.

I used to be hard-core into cars. I loved driving. Traffic, staggeringly bad insurance, and idiotic driving have largely soured me on driving. Yes, I will always have a car so I can get out to the great outdoors, but I have largely stopped driving in urban environments. The bike, bus, and train are faster, cheaper, or straight up easier than fighting an hour+ through traffic to go to a fun venue nine miles away.

Nowadays, I vote gleefully for everything that improves mass transit, bike infrastructure, and third places. There’s an incredible knock-on effect with traffic reduction. The more bus rapid transit lanes, the more comprehensive the rail network, and the larger and safer the bike lanes become, the faster it is to get around the city- even if one or more options is out of commission due to highway construction or tunnel repairs. A decade ago, I sat in gridlock traffic for three hours to go two city blocks. These days, I can get across town on bike in 26 minutes. Traffic is down- it only takes about an hour to cross the city.

And the wholesale destruction of USAID and PEPFAR means people are simultaneously starving to death in chunks of the world, not getting vaccines, and also not getting HIV prevention meds, which means long term, HIV infection is going to increase worldwide over time. That is going to be a massive, silent genocide that will be orders of magnitude worse, but largely undocumented.

That was a serious, serious fuckup on voters parts. Not to mention massive cuts to everyday things like critical medical R&D, science R&D, disaster preparedness, NASA, department of education, PBS and Corp for public broadcasting, department of health, FDA + food safety programs, and many other programs that people take for granted without thinking (housing grants for home buying, federal student loans, food stamps, weather prediction for natural disasters, Medicare/ACA/Medicaid, etc)

His cuts to the IRS are going to result in less money for shit like bridges, roads, and electrical grids too.

3 more years

If he doesn’t erode the government intuitions critical to elections

Western US. You don’t want it, though. It’s all the crappy $40 tents and stuff.

Yep, I’m not a big caver, but my friend is into it, and showed us beautiful crystal caverns that are in the process of getting gated because of people wandering in (and spraypainting the crystals 400+ feet down). It was a fun and reasonably safe experience. Just sad that other people feel the need to desecrate the natural world. These places take hundreds of thousands of years to form. Don’t destroy the overnight.

We have the same problem here in the US. Camping areas have blown up on Tik Tok, and people leave whole tents and other massive garbage. There’s not enough park rangers to staunch the flow of waste and illegal camping. It’s damaging lakes when people toss their camping gear into it.

They do, but only because most platforms suck ass. Logging into Origin or Microsoft stores is miserable, and social integration is rare, or broken AF. If everything was cross platform, cross play, and universal social profiles and security, I’m fine with multiple platforms.