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oh ffs black on black crime. First, your statistic about black cops is wrong because the majority of cops are white. I want to see some actual data to support your statement there.

... you're forgetting ph's earlier post, which notes not that black cops cause 78% of total police-on-black shootings, but that of the ones they do shoot, 78% are still black. The bit you're quoting is a mild misstatement. Insofar as actual points in contrast to the position Ph is trying to build by quoting the number in question, it's strongly worth noting that institutional racism is a thing, and it is entirely possible to be racist against one's own race. That minority LEOs also disproportionately target minorities doesn't really mean much insofar as general institutional equality goes. Doesn't mean that corruption and whatnot still isn't a larger problem, but it doesn't necessarily mean that racism within the system is reduced in magnitude and impact, either.

As for the general thread of thought that reducing or eliminating racism within the police force somehow wouldn't help, I... just have to look at those making the claim with extreme askance. If we could bring the levels of excess down to what's performed against non-minorities, that would frankly be a goddamn coup and a major improvement. Even if, by some incredibly unlikely occurrence, things met half-way, it would still be a notable step forward. This apparent sentiment that correcting for racism would do little to nothing to improve the situation is just... off. Fix everything, of course not, but major freaking improvement? Almost certainly.

I'd rather imagine they've already done animal testing, or intend to sooner or later. Poisoning (inflicting cancer upon, whatever) and torturing non-human animals for science is basically standard operating procedure.

I wish there was confusion in that appellation. But no. Unfortunately no.

It's only a small comfort that part of that lack of confusion comes from cthulhukitty.

... subject's probably leaning a bit close to the forum ToS at this point, though.

Be about the first person to defend the subject as a viable and impressive artform, but there's no denying that things can get more than a little weird.

E: And that australia stuff was oddly tame, Strange. Seen some of that over here in florida -- not the sharks, but snakes in odd places and lesser-crocs around and about, sure.

While it probably does make it easier to catch, you're also adding 'How do I record this thing?' into the mess, as well as likely-sizable video files you aren't actually going to use most of.

It's... also a lot rougher on the system, if you're trying to LP on a weaker rig. I'd probably churn out a few small VLPs myself, if it didn't mean my computer igniting and burning down the surrounding countryside, all while chugging horrifically.

I sorta' tried, once. To get it set up, anyway. Nevermind actually recording, the gorram software itself chortled at my CPU with a hearty GET REKT. Not pleasant. Screenshots are nicer. Or just text, when it's possible. Those, I actually produced a few (for Incursion, years back).

We don't know. Might as well ask why the friggin' safety was apparently off. Unless there ends up being a trial, we almost certainly won't find out (not that a trial would guarantee things, either, but it makes it more likely). Beyond that, adrenaline and whatnot tends to make for pretty terrible aim. And there's SG's point, yeah.

... nothin' wrong with a little protein, WF

I mean, sure, you wipe it off but if there's some leavings... eh. It's not like canned goods and whatnot don't have an acceptable level of bug bit saturation.

Huh. I just tried using Dwarf Fortress as another example, but as it turns out the media files in it are barely anything.

Actually, if you're looking for a similarly low-rez game that is an example, ToME 4 is a damned good one. The actual game data (for the no music version) is something like 20 megs -- the remaining ~130 megs of the program is entirely graphics. The music adds something like another 120 megs

Ooh, perfect 40k game? Honestly, it would be something that would probably be better off as several different games. The core conceit I'd like to see from an ideal 40k game would be something along the lines of Distant Worlds, except with even further zoom-in.

Sandbox-style thing where you can choose to control as much or as little of the faction you're in control of as you like, with what amounts to extra game modes, dungeon keeper possession style, for individual unit control.

Slightly further out would be homeworld (for space stuff) or Attack of the Paper Zombies (for ground stuff) style control for individual battles/combat scenarios. Probably throw in some Sim City-styling and whatnot for potential planetary governance stuff (which would be radically different if you were playing, say, Ork, Necron, or 'Nid, and probably still significantly different if you were governing over, say, a hive world instead of a garden one or somethin').

Massive scale strategy where you can play anything down to an individual guardsmen if you wanted to, as well. Overarching sandbox/simulation with planetary/city wide, individual conflict, and single unit modes folded up into it.

Course, what that actually amounts to is wanting a massive 40k 4x game, a 40k citybuilding game (You have no idea how much I want one of those, actually. Potential to be so fluffy ;_;), a Homeworld style space RTS game, a scaled up (armies, damnit) DoW sequel, a RTT squad based game (DoW2's closer to that, but I'd prefer something like AotPZ or its sequel thing, Infested Planet), a space sim game (though I'd probably prefer something 2D, there, personally -- along the lines of Transcendence or somethin'), and a FPS and/or RPG and/or Action game.

It's just, if we were talking eye in the sky impossible madness, I'd want all of that to be the exact same game. Full scale, top to bottom immersion.