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Closest I've been exposed to that sounds like that is Time Break Chronicles. Is on steam.

Only seen some video play... and not much at that, because for however pretty the art is, it's damn busy on the world map. I watched a bit of gameplay and bounced right off, couldn't tell what the hell was going on and what was something to pick up or just decoration. Art design was arguably the weakest bit of the game I was seeing, ha.

So it's a friday before a holiday. What's the over/under on something super-shitty getting released end of day because it's a friday, or not getting released because people might have an extra day off to protest?

I think they've already closed the term, actually? SCOTUS is on holiday until october, or something like that.

That sounds right, to my understanding. The decision is extremely narrow in a way that sets little precedent.

The precedent the SCOTUS will do this exact same thing to every other regulatory body the conservative majority doesn't like that crosses their desk is pretty damn large, actually. Calling it narrow is myopic; the threat is doing the same damn thing to everything else they encounter going forward, and this court has given every indication that is exactly what they will do.

The message is clear though. Any sweeping changes this country needs has to go through Congress, and the SC is banking on a continuing conservative majority.

It's not even congress; SCOTUS has made it clear with this one that the only one that gets to decide what Congress means is them. Congress can go screw itself, SCOTUS decides what it means now.

The fucked up thing is that this or Roe somehow isn't even the worst decision they might make in the next bit. Next term they're going to decide if state legislatures can shit on their own state constitutions in regards to elections (i.e. what Trump was asking them to do in 2020) -- if they decide yes (damn likely, at this point), that pretty literally means there's just flat out no more US democracy left, because red state fuckers will be able to just do whatever the fuck to their elections without any restraint whatsoever. At that point it's either going to be Fuck the SCOTUS or Fuck the US, with no other options left.

The TAS any% on that one is either sub 10 minutes... or actually 0 or somethin', depending on how you count the stuff that sometimes catches attempts by bots to make accounts. It's quite low, in any case.

Quote from: hector13 on June 29, 2022, 11:49:09 am

Why would someone want to rob someone knowing they have a gun?

Isn’t that the entire reason people want guns in the first place?

They'll wait for you to leave the house, then burglarize it.

And since no-one in their right mind has the time and money to setup a Fort Knox for their guns, affordable gun lockers won't deter them either. They'll either pick the laughably insecure lock (cf. LockPickingLawyer), cut the locker open on-site, or just steal the whole damn thing and open it elsewhere.

One hour gone from the house and a bit of staking out the place is all that's needed.

Pretty much that, yup. Firearms are easy to lift, easy to sell stateside -- they're prime theft targets*. Firearms stolen from randos are something like 3rd as a source of firearms used/owned illegally, iirc, after stuff bought legally(ish) and ones stolen from family/friends.

*It's actually one of the smaller contributing factors to firearms in the home making you less safe, ha. They increase the likelihood of a home invasion by a bit.

Meanwhile one of my past french teachers hasnt locked his housedoor in 30 years.

Eh, I lock mine out of habit, but it's less to genuinely keep anyone out and more to slow them down. It's largely more important for folks that's fine to be coming in, even, because them not just walking in means we have time to make sure my grandfather isn't streaking again before they come in. It's a kindness to the visitor, really.

It seems like the symptoms are getting milder with each new variant.

I... haven't noticed any reporting on anything even remotely looking like that. Treatments have been improving, but symptomatic severity and overall danger/lethality/etc. has largely seemed to be about the same (while infectiousness increases) with each new variant.