belathus

joined 1 year ago

Started a campaign in XCOM 2, using the Long War of the Chosen mod, along with Mod Jam. XCOM is one of those games I've revisited regularly over the years, and mods help keep it fresh. Found out the person who made Mod Jam is taking a break and someone else made a replacement already - TedJam. Maybe I'll play another campaign after this one using TedJam instead.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair enough. However, they should release the footage regardless. Especially since 4 people got shot, 2 of which were bystanders, and that this was over a cheap fare. Cops are pretty untrustworthy.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh? Would getting shot in the head protesing in Israel be more productive? I donno about you, but I work my ass off and would love to take some time at the end of the day with a game or movie. Unfortunately, I'm not rich enough to stop a genocide half a world away.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 41 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Probably because there was no knife in the footage.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So Israel deployed snipers using lethal ammunition to target protesters with excessive force. In this case, a US citizen. For some reason, this event reminds me of the Boston Massacre. Protesting the slaughter means you get slaughtered too.

I'm guessing we've abandoned all pretext of a red line that Israel can cross and they're free to do whatever, and the whole situation just feels like we've decided that we're on the side of evil because we keep supporting this. Might as well start putting skulls on our caps.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looking at other sources, it looks like they're shipping them to other counties. Now they're homeless somewhere else. How heartwarming.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 4 points 4 months ago

Biggest, not all.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 58 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Abuse doesn't usually fix anything.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I used to work in HVAC. I remember we had a small cold room that was struggling to maintain temperature, as in, design was supposed to be 0°F but it couldn't get below 36°F. There was a large hole in the box that was undoubtedly the cause of the problem, so I asked the installer how they accounted for that. "Oh, I doubled the infiltration value." When I tried calculating the actual losses it was way, way higher than the infiltration value. Like, the room needed someting like 3-4 times its total refrigeration capacity to reach target with a giant fucking hole in the box.

No idea who thought putting a giant hole in the box was a good idea.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Judge Judy. I like this modification of the phrase.

[–] belathus@bookwormstory.social 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Personally, I really, really, really wish we had a viable third party candidate. I don't want either of these fucks in office.

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