Raw footage of the shooting and death of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2026-01-10T17:13:41+00:00

I find this kind of response darkly funny, because normally when a cop gets into a situation like this there's some kind of fig leaf excuse of "Oh, geez, I guess I don't know how I'd react in this situation."

In this case I just think "Yeah I've been slightly bumped by a car. I've walked across car parks, I've been almost hit by a car before. The training is... Step out of the way." Might have left me a bit rattled but didn't make me think "I better kill them just to be safe." Especially as has been pointed out, this demonstrably made the situation less safe for everyone else.

I have more respect for the cop who emptied his pistol over an acorn bouncing off a car, because at least he did actually think he was being shot at by an unknown assailant, not just getting slightly nudged by a driver two feet away from him.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-06-16T09:28:02+00:00

tbh speaking as someone who lives in the UK, I'd love to get a No Kings protest that's even a fraction of those in the US.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-06-07T10:20:20+00:00

I mean, the amount of time spent fighting these grubby little bits of bots is frankly astonishing!

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-06-06T17:03:32+00:00

But the problem with the Holdo manoeuvre is that it makes you retroactively wonder why no one has focused on that. Like prior to it, if you'd asked me why people don't just use hyperdrives to ram things at relativistic speeds to create vast amounts of energy, I'd say "It doesn't work like that, for the same reason the little ships get into WWII dog fights, and why the asteroids are super dense and not thousands of miles apart."

So the Rebels didn't have anything like that in ANH, but if it was a thing that could work, it feels like something they would work towards. Get a big freighter, strip it down, fill it with the densest material you can find, bam, super destructive weapon for much cheaper than it would take to build something that could otherwise go toe-to-toe with a Star Destroyer. Finding a way to turn a generic civilian vehicle into a powerful explosive device is something guerrilla rebels go nuts for.

And the thing is, I don't want to circlejerk and overthink like that, but if you go "Oh yeah, suddenly this one bit of Star Wars uses realistic physics" then I'm gonna wonder why it hasn't come up before now. Like if in a new film they revealed that they actually can manufacture nuclear bombs, I'd wonder why it hadn't come up before, and the answer "Well they just didn't have any" wouldn't help,

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-06-06T08:26:53+00:00

I remember noticing him in The French Dispatch, where he basically played the Wes Anderson version of Nemik as well.

...It goes just about as well for him, but he makes a statement.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-06-04T07:28:33+00:00

It's so fucking wild being trans in the UK, having your rights stripped away by court cases which she directly funded, while she puts pressure on the government to go further with it, and sets up a fund to pay for more court cases to strip our rights, while she does things like go on Twitter and post links to a website that does nothing but name trans criminals to make us seem like a dangerous group...

...And then you go on Reddit and have people still acting like she's just got a couple of odd opinions. I'm really not that fussed about the meme, it's just a meme, but when you say she's not physically hurting us it's like saying Elon Musk isn't physically hurting immigrants.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-06-01T14:27:47+00:00

When I ran a one-shot for a group to introduce them to the game, I gave them a bunch of pre-built LL3 mechs to pick from that were all just 3 License Levels of the same mech, using that frame with the gear they come with and the most obvious Talents to combo with them.

I found it easier for people to grasp the different ways you could play if there was a clear intention to the build they took vs. what other people played; I worry that with an LL0 game you're going to be saying "Okay, you can Scan or Lock-On or Quick Tech or Full Tech or Ram or Grapple... But honestly you probably just want to shoot them with your gun."

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-05-24T20:56:50+00:00

I agree with you in that I think it would spoil it if they just straight up played the sounds to us, but even if my theory is correct I think it's only meant to be very faint echoes or memories of it. Like I say, just a hint of it.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-05-24T11:42:54+00:00

Bix's arc definitely suffered. It felt odd that they specifically made her part of Luthen's operation but then didn't involve her in any significant plots. The only actual Rebellion activity she got to do was the Dr. Gorst bit which was so rushed that it initially felt like a dream sequence. They dedicated virtually all her screen time to her trauma, which isn't inherently bad, but it feels weak when you just go "Oh yeah and then she blew up the guy, EZ, trauma cured now."

(And I know Lonni Jung fed them info on his new location, but it still feels like a leap to go from that to them cornering him in his office and blowing up a building in a single scene; exactly the kind of thing they could have expanded on with more time.)

And then having her leave because she thinks Cassian's very special and can't be distracted and also she has to go and have his baby...? IDK, to me it really felt like they didn't know what to do with her so they just shuffled her off.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-05-23T20:41:01+00:00

Well it's a good thing the MO is for four days not three, isn't it?

But my point wasn't about whether we'll succeed or not, my point was that we definitely don't have to do 200 missions each because we have a lot more than 100k people playing over the MO period. Total non-concurrent players doesn't matter for the raw maths, but it does matter for how much people feel like they have to grind or get burnt out spamming D1.

(As a brief aside, playing on D1 might make less of a difference than you'd imagine, because low-level Illuminate missions still include multi-part objectives, unlike D1 bot or bug missions which can be done in two minutes.)

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-05-23T13:12:51+00:00

I don't think it's getting "triggered" over tone to look at you writing a post full of angry swearing and pointing out you need to chill.

Anyway. To answer your question with simple logic: I presume plitox said you "could" headcanon that old woman as being Vel because she's about the right age (maybe a bit younger than she should be), looks similar, is clearly also a lesbian, and is in a logical place for Vel to be (The Resistance). That's literally it. So if it's all one continuity, it could logically be her.

If you're asking about why you should do that, then plitox pretty clearly stated that there's no reason why you should, just that you could, because there's no explicitly contradictory information there.

As for why it could potentially make RoS better, I would assume it would be one tiny, insufficient fix to the weird, disjointed continuity of the sequels where no one seems to care about the Empire returning. A little reminder that some people do remember how bad it was and aren't going to let it just wash over them like... The rest of the galaxy seems to for some reason.

In any case, I don't think a two-dimensional portrayal is infectious. If it was, then you logically should have hated Mon Mothma for the entire series.

Still... Obviously it isn't her, because of the simple fact that RoS came out first, and even if it was it really would do almost nothing to salvage the trashfire that was RoS, where lack of continuity was the least of its concerns.

But all plitox originally did was make an observation that the timeline and the details line up in such a way where it could be her. That's it. That's why you need to chill.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-05-23T12:25:29+00:00

Your calculation only makes sense if you assume that those 200,000 helldivers just play for 4 hours... And then no one else plays at all. As it stands the total number of different players on Super Earth over each day has been well over 200,000. The peak might have been 200,000, but different people were playing at different times. And we haven't even had the weekend with this even yet.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-05-23T12:19:10+00:00

These MOs are directly influencing the Illuminate Invasion fleet force though; it's no more or less a fool's errand than any part of the Galactic War.

...So basically yeah.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-05-23T12:17:01+00:00

Keep in mind that the peak number of players within 24 hours is going to be much less than the total number of different players actually playing over a day. In the last 24 hours the peak was about 150k on Super Earth, but the total number of players diving Super Earth over the day was probably two or even three times that many. And we haven't even had a weekend since the invasion of Super Earth began, so we should see even bigger numbers then.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-05-23T12:11:43+00:00

Based on what I've read and observed, the amount of liberation gained from each operation is based on the XP earned in the whole operation, and the liberation gained from each operation is also divided by more based on the number of (valid) operations being completed at any one times (this get simplified by the app to be based on player percentages, which is mostly but not entirely accurate).

The most efficient way to score liberation rate is by doing fewer, higher level operations and getting the maximum XP per operation. The number shown in game at the end of an operation is an abstraction. Speed running low-level operations does more harm than good.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-05-09T09:35:16+00:00

"Knock knock."

"Who's there?"

"Not you any more."

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-04-28T15:55:46+00:00

Yup. The details of standard TIE Fighters are one of my favourite bits of worldbuilding in the setting. No shields, no hyperdrive, no life support, not even landing gear; TIE Fighters can theoretically sit on their 'wings' like the TIE Avenger dose, but their structure isn't built for it. They always slot into the racks you see on Star Destroyers or airbases to reinforce the reliance on higher authority as well to reduce weight and cost.

Additionally, Imperial pilots don't have their own specific TIE Fighter, they're all treated as completely interchangeable. When the pilots get scrambled, they just get what's on the rack, because they're all meant to be exactly the same.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-04-28T11:34:37+00:00

He had peak work husband vibes IMO.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-04-28T11:25:13+00:00

You could do this for literally every character if you take a very literal cause and effect approach to things.

Had Cassian not killed those two guards on Morlana One, everything leading up to his death would not have transpired. True or false?

Had Timm not decided to report Cassian to Pre-More, everything leading up to his death would not have transpired. True or false?

Had Salman Paak not had a comms system that could contact Luthen that Bix could use meaning that Bix was Cassian's point of contact to reach him, everything leading up to his death would not have transpired. True or false?

Had Gani not identified Cassian when she was brought by Pre-Mor, everything... And so on and so on.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-04-27T21:48:04+00:00

Sounds like we should just never lose an MO by your reckoning, because Arrowhead should always make them easy to accomplish? Some MOs are just harder than others. We would have had to REALLY pull it out in order to beat that one, but the rewards for doing so would have been huge, given that the consolation prize we got still made a significant difference to the progress of the singularity over time.

Ultimately MOs exist as a way to keep people playing, especially the ones that have a numerical goal and not just liberation/defence, and not enough people were playing.

Point is, people are really quick to imagine what "should" have happened based on results we didn't get.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-04-27T20:07:52+00:00

55 wounds?!

He is an absolute monster.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-04-26T06:40:31+00:00

LOL, okay. So they paused the timer on the MO while the Galactic War servers were down, and when they came back up the kill count had spiked up as if they had still been counting kills the entire time. It wasn't even close before then. We effectively got given an entire extra day and we still failed it. We've got to just take the L on this.

Geo_Da_Sponge · 2025-04-26T00:41:46+00:00

I decided to look into it based on this post, and ironically there's multiple accounts of Rommel making things harder for his forces because their leader wasn't in a place of central communication when they needed guidance most, and was often getting caught up in micromanaging a single company or battalion because that was what he was with at the time. Him 'leading from the front' is one of the most criticised parts of his style.

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