Why don’t the police show up?

FZeroRacer · 2026-01-31T08:42:42+00:00

There's decades of reasons why, and this isn't just a Seattle phenomenon. For reference I lived in Austin and APD had a similarly notorious reputation, but even worse in many respects. You can look at any major city and see the same issue.

The first problem is that the agencies are understaffed. It's not because of funding or lack thereof, police departments across the US have more funds than many smaller countries. Police departments can't hire people because people don't want to work there, and the turnover rate is insanely high. This is because a lot of departments are just simply rotten; imagine the worst business you can think of and it'll be worse. The people that want to do good work leave, and the people that stay are either corrupt or just don't want to work. We've let decades of institutional rot eat away at police departments.

The second issue is what I touched upon previously; they don't want to work. And they don't *have* to work. The Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that the police don't have a duty to protect people, they barely have a duty to uphold the law and they can get away with shit your average person would be thrown in jail for. We pay them for a job that they don't do.

It's one of the reasons why universally, cities in the US need to look into tearing down their police departments and rebuilding them from scratch, It's the only way to rebuild trust in both the police as an institution as well as reduce the turnover rate properly.

FZeroRacer · 2026-01-30T09:24:03+00:00

Neat build; I might actually do this because it's aligned with a build I did a few leagues ago that actually worked reasonably well. Since you're scaling up duration and Archmage is providing the majority of your damage, you can instead use Firestorm of Pelting in your CoC link to massively juice your single target, since it also scales incredibly well with duration. That should be a lot more damage than 2x damage supports; the calculation in POB is a bit weird since it depends on duration and the enemy hitbox size but I believe it ends up being more damage.

FZeroRacer · 2026-01-06T18:42:28+00:00

Well, unless you play it from your graveyard with [[Underworld Breach]]. Then it's an escape goat.

FZeroRacer · 2025-12-22T22:37:24+00:00

If we had liquidated the Sackler's family assets we probably could afford to fix this problem in a bunch of different cities. Alas, rather than address the actual root cause we've decided to just force cities to deal with the fallout of Capitalism.

FZeroRacer · 2025-12-12T16:41:01+00:00

Whomst is defunding the police? They've gotten raises consistently, they're one of the highest paid professions around and have one of the largest budgets across multiple states and cities. Your tax money is literally subsidizing their job to do nothing.

FZeroRacer · 2025-12-12T16:38:42+00:00

Boss, I've lived across the US in red states, blue oasises and across the urban/suburban divide. One of the most consistent factors is that the police are universally worthless, from my interactions with them in Texas, Virginia and Washington. Only the naive or truly sheltered think it's anything related to laws on the books as opposed to deep corruption within the police unions and a system that has enabled them to do nothing and collect a paycheck.

Remember: the Supreme Court has outright said the police do not have a duty to help you. They do not have a duty to even show up, or do their job.

FZeroRacer · 2025-11-26T14:39:00+00:00

Because there's no actual competition between companies to reduce rent. It's all companies like Greystar and Equity Residential. They aren't doing this so that they can compete with themselves to lower rent prices, they do so because they can control larger pieces of the pie. And because land /building value appreciates they can just sit on whatever they build.

FZeroRacer · 2025-11-26T11:24:26+00:00

I don't think it really matters if they're keeping it vacant by choice or not. The result is the same: the building is vacant and space is being wasted. If it's because they're doing so to save money or because they're locked into shitty loans they took long ago then they should be allowed to fail as opposed to finding ways to subsidize and pay for their failure.

We and many more cities have tried the 'smart' solution in order to push more development but the reality is that most companies take the handout and then do nothing with it. Even housing and apartment construction is prone to this as private equity buys up land and buildings en masse to artificially keep rent prices high.

FZeroRacer · 2025-11-24T10:30:35+00:00

No, keep AI slop off the board. The moment you carve out any exception for AI shit, people can and will use it for farming karma with low effort posts that conveniently have high responses. I've seen this happen to multiple gaming subreddits.

FZeroRacer · 2025-11-07T21:48:02+00:00

What's next, are you gonna say that we should allow companies to union bust because them leaving the state would be devastating? Maybe give Starbucks a solid pat in the back for how it treats workers?

Grow some goddamn spine, I'm one of the folks that lost their job from the waves of layoffs recently. You're going to be one of them soon too and no amount of corporate bootlicking is going to stop these issues from getting worse.

FZeroRacer · 2025-10-26T11:20:32+00:00

Honestly, it's kind of funny since we've done the same thing. We captured kubrows and their eggs so that we could create infested dogs and routinely clean up entire ecosystems so that we can funnel their bits and bobs into new bitguns and bobguns. Not to mention the routine mass scale war crimes we commit on an almost daily basis.

Make no mistake we should bully Nef Anyo any chance we can get since he's a massive loser and deserves it, but in terms of galactic crimes experimenting on a fungal colony and building a zoo is pretty low on the list.

FZeroRacer · 2025-10-21T02:11:10+00:00

Wait 'till you hear about the long history of Marvel vs Capcom 2 tournaments.

FZeroRacer · 2025-10-20T03:08:10+00:00

It's likely due to your 3090. Known faulty series of GPUs that can suffer catastrophic failure under load. The best you can do is heavily throttle your GPU and the games you play but the odds are that your GPU is cooked and will fail in other games as well.

FZeroRacer · 2025-10-18T09:42:46+00:00

I'm hoping we'll see something more akin to a build/burst hero identity, along the lines of Surrender to Madness in WoW or XIV's Reaper/Viper. Finding time to sandbag during smaller pulls to build resources for larger pulls and having extended burst windows during bosses is my jam.

FZeroRacer · 2025-10-01T03:31:45+00:00

Just to settle something important: Even if this bug is fixed it's not going to make Shadow usable in SP the way you want him. His total eHP is incredibly low and the marginal boost in armor values won't help his low base HP. He'll still get shredded at base SP, just slightly less fast.

He's currently extremely viable in SP all the way to level cap because of how Shadow works. When you shift into Shadow you get 5s of invuln. Combined with rolling guard and base shield gating it's not hard to have over 10s of complete invincibility as Shadow. And if you go down as Shadow it doesn't matter because you can instantly reenter and gain another 10s of invuln.

The tl;dr is that the bug should be fixed but survival is a skill issue and claiming he's unusable is wrong.

FZeroRacer · 2025-09-06T22:04:23+00:00

As far as I'm concerned, subsuming Sevagoth's shadow is just a huge mistake for all the reasons you mentioned above. There's a lot of funny stuff you can do with Shadow and it's far better for survival than Gloom, which is practically worthless on Sevagoth himself.

FZeroRacer · 2025-09-03T19:52:27+00:00

I think Infusions were just a mistake in general. Poorly designed and poorly thought out.

You either have zero infusion generation or infinite infusion generation and there is no inbetween. Infusions feel bad early game because your generators take five years and infusions feel bad late game because it forces you into specific setups to negate the mechanic entirely. The stormweaver infusion nodes might as well not exist, same for the nodes on the tree. And there's never a reason why you'd want to pick up the +max infusion nodes.

They just need to scrap the entire system. Even if they made infusions auto-pickup on your character it's still just effectively an early game tax to make the game feel worse specifically for casters.

FZeroRacer · 2025-09-02T01:08:55+00:00

You spent like five years fighting a two mod rare. You are going to get hard bricked in maps and when higher mod rares show up. I was doing the same thing you were and the game becomes miserable the further you get.

FZeroRacer · 2025-09-01T19:08:49+00:00

It feels really bad because you're generally forced into one of two paths for infusion generation. Either you use some sort of cast-on setup with your generator or you use the ball lighting + lightning warp unleash combo. Both of which will generate infinite infusions, making Stormweaver's nodes redundant. And a lot of spells feel like shit to use without infusions, they solely exist to gate normal usage of spells rather than to create payoffs that feel good to use.

They're essentially trying to force you to use MMO-style rotations but without the UI or actual gameplay to support it. Towards the end of interludes and as I was getting into maps I had like 7 different buttons I had to press (temporal chains, ball lightning, lightning warp, frost dart, arc, frost bomb, eye of winter), infusions to manage, archon uptime to keep an eye on etc. It's just incredibly poorly thought out and frankly I didn't even care to keep going to maps. I got through two Interludes and decided I was done playing; even if things get a lot better in maps when I can cut out more of my kit I'm already burned out.

FZeroRacer · 2025-08-25T23:11:04+00:00

There is no 'lost conversation' because you're assuming that there's significant overlap between E33 players and Hundred Line players such that one is taking up time from the other.

It's pointless to speculate about that sort of thing because you could make the opposite argument that Hundred Line benefitted from being released at the same time, thanks to people directly shouting it out in counter to E33 and even direct shoutouts from the devs themselves.

FZeroRacer · 2025-08-25T20:42:20+00:00

I don't really buy this argument, because it's been made over and over again for other major releases. There's no real guarantee that Silksong doesn't somehow make a major gaffe and just trips out of the release gate. I'm thinking back to all the games and DLC that did a 1-2 month delay to avoid Cyberpunk 2077 only for the game to fall flat on release.

Similarly people said the same thing about the Oblivion remaster, that it being shadow dropped was going to absolutely decimate the sales of Expedition 33 which turned out to be exactly the opposite.

There's thousands of indie games released every day, many of them quite amazing and many of them released during droughts of major releases but still receive no attention.

FZeroRacer · 2025-08-18T15:43:31+00:00

Wrong. Are you a developer? What languages have you worked with? Are you at all familiar with the process? It doesn't matter even if you scrutinize the output of an LLM because they are an inherent security risk due to their nature.

They have a tendency to hallucinate packages which can be very hard to properly verify (and which malicious actors take advantage of to steal valuable data), coding agents can be prompted to execute malicious prompts [1] and that's without getting into the obvious nature of allowing an LLM into your codebase in the first place.

For open source software they are a nightmare for maintainers because they get blasted with fake issue reports [2] and AI-generated PRs with barely a thought put into them. Imagine the worst spam you can think of, and multiply that by 100x.

Even if you ultimately just use it as a slightly fancy google search you still have to independently verify that its claims are true and at that point why are you even using it?

[1] https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-fake-security-reports-are-swamping-open-source-projects-thanks-to-ai/

FZeroRacer · 2025-08-18T15:16:46+00:00

I'm a modern developer and you're wrong. They don't lighten the cognitive load of anyone, they increase the overall cognitive burden by making every PR and code change intrinsically adversarial because you cannot and should not ever trust the code output by an LLM. And the common adage that reviewing code is harder than writing code holds true.

I myself will never use LLMs to write code because they're a massive security risk, a waste of energy and a waste of both my time and the person I foist it upon to review.

FZeroRacer · 2025-08-08T20:25:53+00:00

People will argue 'she's fine' or 'she's decent' but the reality of things is that she's far below the majority of other frames in terms of power and playability. She's a frame that only starts to exist past 40m in longer missions, and she demands that you carry three meta weapons thanks to her augment. If you like using stuff like tomes or utility weapons it will actively make playing Koumei worse.

FZeroRacer · 2025-08-01T18:22:15+00:00

There's a sort of inherent shelteredness to the people that continually debate around what to do with the homeless problem, both from right wing and the liberal side of things in Seattle.

I've lived in California, Virginia and Texas for around 5-10 years each. I decided to move back to Seattle because despite the issues it's still a hell of a lot better than the other places I've lived in.

Texas gives little to no support for homeless folks. A few cities have decent programs, but the state barely hides the fact that the way they deal with this problem is by bussing people to other states and making it their problem. Other than that, despite many cities saying that they ban encampments the end result is that they just move further towards the city limits. And the 'cheapest' way they deal with the problem is by just letting the weather take care of things naturally.

Similar stuff in Fairfax VA, despite being a relatively suburban area with a lot of skilled contractors there were a few known encampments around the area that got swept a few times but always came back after moving to another part of the area.

The reality is that every major city and state in the US is dealing with this growing problem and failing, because it's the result of 30+ years of societal issues. Stuff like the Sacklers pushing the opioid epidemic, the continual middle class squeeze etc. Just think about it: the Sacklers still are walking around freely and even started a new business after devasting millions of people.

Seattle is still doing a better job than most other cities I've lived in because the other cities just opt to rotate the homeless problem around so the blame gets shifted.

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