DeepThought42 @ DeepThought42 @lemmy.world

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I wish the media wasn't so focused on stuff like this. It's only feeding their egos and driving them to even further to out compete each other in the worlds biggest a-hole contest.

X4 - Foundations. I've played over a thousand hours of this game, and cursed it's name through much of that gameplay. On the surface it's a passable first-person space-flight simulator (in the loosest sense of the term) with combat, trading, and various missions. It also supports higher tier empire building and strategy, which I've found the most compelling, but that aspect is often at odds with it's first-person nature. I grit my teeth every time I've had to interrupt the act of building out a new station or coordinate an assault on an enemy system in order to personally save a single transport ship from a pirate/Xenon/Kha'ak attack because no matter how good or how many NPC escorts I hire they are never adequate. And if you lose a ship, good luck figuring how which station or trade routes it was servicing. The one saving grace was the ability to pause the game in order to do things like designing a station or directing ships without the concern of being interrupted. Naturally, this drags out the game significantly.

Other major detractors are the clunky, thoroughly inadequate UI (yes, there are mods that help, but they never go far enough) and the laughably bad missions. However, I must stop myself here or I will end up writing a lengthy thesis on this game.

Suffice it to say, it's a flawed, but oddly addictive game.

During the course of the investigation into the shooting, deputy Herandez resigned from the force.

Good. So now maybe they should look into their hiring and retention policies to ensure this doesn't happen again.

They have to know that if they reject the sound logic of the lower courts then their heads could be literally on the line, if not from the current president, possibly the next.

The Supreme Court is the final appeals court, so it makes sense that they can be asked to review cases like this. However, in this case I certainly hope they do the logical thing and pass on hearing this case since the appeals court clearly got it right.

It's scary how close they came to pulling that conspiracy off.

Good to be reminded of this again, thanks. I just wish that it didn't feel so .... relevant.

It's the tried and true method of sticking your head in the sand and hoping the problem goes away.

Yes, yes I was kidding, but also pointing out the dangers of getting too chummy with a dictator. Their moods can be fickle and their friends can quickly become enemies or liabilities.

I suspect Putin got what we wanted out of that interview, so Carlson is probably safe saying he was "annoyed". Still he should be careful to avoid stairs, upper story windows, planes, and ingesting anything he didn't make himself for the next few years to be on the safe side.

Pong on the Atari 2600.

Good news it seems, but we'll have to wait to see what the SCOTUS says.

Watched the documentary. Good stuff, thanks for posting that link. While I can't say I anything new except for some details I either didn't know, or had forgotten, is was a good reminder of the events surrounding the 1/6 insurrection. It's a good reminder of why Trump should never be President again, but we'll have to see what the courts and the voters say about that.

Also, Robert Ray's (Former Trump Attorney) arguments became almost comical as the documentary played. I almost laughed out loud at hearing some of the mental gymnastics he was trying to perform in saying that Trump shouldn't be convicted because of the first amendment right to free speech.

They can keep him.

As others have said, the full, medical transition of children isn't really a thing. Therefor my response is entirely limited to the psychological and limited medical support parents should give to a child while the child matures to the point where full medical transition can then be possible.

That said, I would conditionally consider it child abuse if a parent has the means to help their child mitigate their gender dysphoria issues, but refuses to do so. Where I would not consider it abuse is when there are major financial (i.e. the parents are poor), logistical (they live in a remote area with limited/no internet connectivity), or safety issues (the child or families lives become jeopardized should others in their community learn of the child's apparent gender change) that would prohibit an otherwise willing parent from doing all that can be done to help their child in this regard. I would still expect a parent to do what they can, but if they cannot help the child, say for example receive all the necessary psychiatric help and/or medications then I would not necessarily fault the parents.

Good stuff. Looking forward to both the new EVA mechanic and the new interaction system.

Also, great to see more self deprecating humor from CIG.

While growing up my family's home had heating stoves capable of burning both wood and coal. While we primarily burned wood, coal would sometimes be used, particularly on nights when it was really cold out as it tended to burn hotter and usually burned longer than wood of the same volume.

That poor stenographer having to dictate all that bullshit

Legal difficulties then? Legal entanglements? How about legal challenges? Ah, I know - legal kerfuffles! Surely one of those better describes his situation! :P

What the ever living fuck.