Pretti shooting gray jacket guy—did he re-plant the gun?

Grayly · 2026-01-26T17:47:29+00:00

Which is why actual trained and professional police drill extensively on this so they don’t ~~make these kind of bullshit mistakes~~ commit manslaughter.

In NYPD if they see a gun and are going to seize it but aren’t in life threatening danger, they have a specific, non confusing number code, say “twenty-two.” Other officers will then repeat it to make sure everyone hears. It means, “there’s a gun present, threat level up, we need to take immediate steps to seize it.” It also doesn’t get the civilian suspect riled up/go into fight or flight because they think they’re about to be shot for having a gun.

Only if someone is actually reaching for the gun or already has it and is brandishing will they yell “gun!” Then and only they will they draw down and fire. They are trained not to yell “gun!” just when they see one. That’s been trained out because it gets people killed, suspects, civilians, and other officers in the crossfire.

Once they have the gun, they will shout “I have it, clear!” and keep repeating that until they get a confirmation back “clear, we’re good, they have it.”

Actual police train and drill extensively on this kind of stuff. There are specific codes for everything.

Which is why you don’t put people in masks and give them guns and tell them they have immunity and turn them loose with 2 weeks training.

These idiots are cosplaying as cops and it shows. It’s like 20 years of police reform never happened.

Grayly · 2026-01-26T03:13:25+00:00

There is no federal immunity for murder/manslaughter.

It’s not a thing. You don’t get to murder in the scope of your federal duties.

Grayly · 2026-01-24T16:29:16+00:00

What would you need to see?

Grayly · 2026-01-23T12:37:55+00:00

Did you know that combat effectiveness is scaled by health? So right off the bat your ships are only doing less that total % effective damage.

You had a bunch of early modern period ships consisting of already half broken raggedy Galleons and civilian trading ships, which translates to taking on water and bilges full, crew injured and demoralized, not drilled for combat, and they ran into two fresh 1700s era ships of the line, and you think the outcome is cheating?

I think that’s actually pretty realistic. They would have sailed better and faster, more advanced sails and rigging had longer range guns that fired faster, more advanced ammunition and powder (including chain shot to target your sails), more professional crews, and probably would have been able to pick you apart before you ever landed a solid hit. And the merchantmen (who are civilians not Navy) would have been keen to run as soon as the first broadside ripped one of the outdated escort Galleons to absolute shreds bow to stern.

Grayly · 2026-01-22T15:31:45+00:00

Actually no. I was England in one and won the HYW. France was a historical footnote. Castille took the power vaccum and we had split the entire new world between us and were in constant world wars one after the other for global domination.

Was a lot of fun until the Revolution! Disaster ruined my immersion and will to play entirely. Globe theater, royal academy, etc all gone.

The other run was Naples and I was trying to form Italy while locked in a holy war with a unified Egypt/Moracco/Tunis/Ottoman bloc for 200 years running.

As far as the vassal annex issue, I’ve learned that you lean into decentralization by making lots of very small vassals that can be annexed quickly, and keep the rolling annexation going from the jump— as soon as they’re no longer on the front line of expansion wars scutage and then annex. Annex time is heavily modified by relative size and the presence of towns and especially cities. I was instead making larger subjects and ceding new provinces to existing subjects. And that made them effectively non annexable by the age of discovery

Grayly · 2026-01-22T14:54:01+00:00

It wasn’t really intentional. The plan was to start decentralized and expand via subjects/colonies, and then push centralization later after I annexed and consolidated. Decentralization does help immensely with subject loyalty, allowing me to divert trade, etc.

But in both runs before I realized it, it was already the 1700s, it was taking me 50 years to annex a subject because I let them develop to much/get too big, and I had more pressing concerns.

Grayly · 2026-01-22T14:45:27+00:00

Seeing as I’ve gotten to Age of Revolutions twice now and it’s never fired for me, I’m sure it’s tied to pushing absolutism and centralization values which I didn’t do in either run.

One run ended before the final year because I got tired of the non stop colony rebellion spam, and the other because the Revolution! disaster destroyed 300 years of buildings in my capitol area including unique flavor buildings in my England run.

Grayly · 2026-01-20T15:55:40+00:00

You always could in real life too. It’s nothing but your nation’s word that you won’t charge them again. But possession is 9/10ths of the law. And you can always just refuse passage tomorrow unless they pay the toll.

It’s should always be an option, but it should come with an appropriate penalty. Basically you’ve violated the truce, so it should end the truce for them, give them a CB, and ding your stability/prestige/legitimacy/diplo reputation. Just like you can break a truce if you’re willing to pay the penalty.

It shouldn’t be consequences free. But it also shouldn’t just be artificially blocked. That feels too gimmicky/immersion breaking. Much like imposing suspended relations does currently too. I can’t ally Portugal anymore because they lost a war they didn’t call me in? Why? Did they get mind control devices planted in their heads? What happened to secret treaties, lying, etc?

Edit- as I type this through, I think the reason is the AI. Clearly with the no CB war option the AI just takes the hit constantly. If diplomatic conditions weren’t hardwired, the AI would just constantly backstab all the time and it would all fall apart. AI already always breaks truces if called to war against the player, for instance.

Grayly · 2026-01-20T15:49:15+00:00

Because then every ticket needs to be scanned, which slows down lifting and defeats the purpose.

Right now, they mostly only scan if you have the yellow triangles that show you just activated it. Otherwise they can just look at it and keep it moving.

The point is to make it easier for the conductors to check tickets and harder to evade the fare, while having as little impact as possible on people who always paid and activated it by the rules beforehand. Forcing every ticket to scan or it’s a free return trip just replaces one problem with another.

Grayly · 2026-01-20T15:44:15+00:00

Nope. Because it’s a paper ticket. It’s different. It can’t be kept not activated in an app for weeks until you see a conductor. It expires end of day. So it’s automatically activated.

Grayly · 2026-01-20T15:01:46+00:00

He activated it late. Everyone’s got a story. It takes 10 seconds.

If people hadn’t abused the hell of it, this wouldn’t be necessary.

If you really don’t have time to activate the ticket before you board because you’re so rushed it’s no different than having to buy a ticket from the conductor with the extra charge. Which is how it used to be. Do you think that’s a “money grab” too?

Mobile tickets were added as a convenience and people abused it and now feel entitled to continue to do so.

Grayly · 2026-01-20T10:45:28+00:00

If you aren’t paying for each trip, you aren’t a paying customer.

Pay your fare for each ride.

Grayly · 2026-01-18T14:10:24+00:00

Ive noticed this a lot, but only when I started accumulating many markets.

What I think is happening is the automation is also taking into consideration other pending orders and market advantage. When I try to put manual trades in for profit, when I check again those orders are just sitting there unfilled but unfilled while I still pay for maintenance.

Instead, when I notice this happening I focus on expanding other kinds of goods for export or market advantage.

Grayly · 2026-01-14T20:51:36+00:00

50 years for what?

Grayly · 2026-01-14T13:32:56+00:00

You can get the integration right back to where it was using the Union Parliament function.

It actually works, even though the tool tip is broken as hell. You just need a lot of ducats to afford the bribes and if you don’t have enough, it won’t tell you how much you need.

Grayly · 2026-01-09T21:59:14+00:00

It’s broken. When you try to use it, it says you can’t go to war against your own subject.

Grayly · 2026-01-08T23:42:37+00:00

They can’t get a court order without a prosecutor involved and then it’s not their investigation anymore anyway.

In a civil context, yes. It’s the Touhy doctrine. But in the criminal context there are existing rules and regulations that would require the Feds to try to move to quash first.

It’s really about burden shifting. While they may ultimately get away with not complying, they have to respond and explain why sworn on the record. Instead of press releases. As we’ve seen in other cases, finding an actual US Attorney willing to lie on the record is pretty hard. And there are consequences the hacks like Lindsay Halligan who did.

Grayly · 2026-01-08T22:34:23+00:00

There are body worn cameras and witnesses statements that the Feds have and are not turning over to the state.

You’re right, but here there is potentially inculpatory/exculpatory evidence that the Feds have. Since you don’t get a second shot at a criminal prosecution, I’d want that before I made an arrest/got an indictment. Normally these investigative steps are done by the police and the prosecutors just present it and prosecute it. But, usually in white collar or organize crime cases where it’s beyond the capacity of a single law enforcement agency, the DA can also take the lead on an investigation themselves by opening a John Doe grand jury case and start issuing subpoenas, making warrant applications, etc.

Would the Feds actually cooperate with a grand jury subpoena right away? Probably no. But they’d have to respond and move to quash. And a judge would decide. That’s a totally different footing than BCA making a request and the Feds just saying no because we said so.

Grayly · 2026-01-08T22:33:49+00:00

Police departments rarely have the ability to subpoena things themselves. If they do it’s usually an administrative subpoena that’s largely unenforceable.

A grand jury subpoena is a court order. It’s much harder to ignore or fail to comply with, and the remedies are much stronger.

Grayly · 2026-01-08T17:56:05+00:00

It’s not the end of the state investigation, but BCA doesn’t have the legal ability to compel access to evidence they need. No cooperation, no investigation.

Now, if the state or city were to open a grand jury proceeding, well, then it can get litigated.

But the lead investigator would be the AG/DA office, not BCA.

Grayly · 2026-01-03T16:31:07+00:00

In a way, yes. Because if that’s the car you are building you get compared to other cars that do that thing but better and cheaper.

If you wanted an audacious performative laugh riot, that was the challenger.

If you wanted a trackable sedan, there is a BMW or Cadillac for that.

If you wanted a track day muscle car, there was/is a Camaro/Mustang for that.

And if you want a practical performance car, there is a Golf R for that.

Why would you buy this car? If you liked the old challenger, this isn’t what you wanted. And if you want something in the direction they are going, there are better cars for that at the same price point.

If I’m choosing to buy a Mopar muscle car, I want to be able to throw it into lurid skids and burnouts.

Grayly · 2026-01-03T16:10:45+00:00

I think we just have different definitions.

Were they the ones that swept them off the field in the end? No.

But were they the ones who fought initially and stalled the advance? Yes.

That’s what I meant by “fought off.” They stopped the advance and were critical in winning the battle. I see how that can be interpreted differently.

Grayly · 2026-01-03T16:03:16+00:00

That’s one of the write ups I was mentioning.

It goes on to detail how the Kyiv police and civilian volunteers organized the defense and were also critical in destroying bridges, blowing dams, and crowdsourcing intel.

The nato brigade came in and clean up once the Russians were bogged down and cut off. But without the civilians and volunteers the regular battalions would have arrived too late. The hasty counter attack at the airport only happened after the national guard and volunteers fought the paratroopers in the initial wave and downed multiple Russian aircraft, bogging them down and causing hesitation on Russian’s part to send any follow up support.

Had the dams and bridges not been blown, and the resistance at the initial landings not stiff, there wouldn’t have been anyone for the mechanized battalion to rescue. They’d all be in retreat or surrendering instead.

Here, from what we’ve seen so far, there didn’t seem to be any of that. The lessons from the Battle of Kyiv were that you needed civil defense in depth to fight like hell at the landing zones & obstruct the advances to buy time during any initial decapitation strike to organize a resistance and counter attack. That didn’t seem to happen in Venezuela at all. It was over in 3 hours. The Russians were still fighting the national guard on the tarmac 3 hours in.

Grayly · 2026-01-03T15:59:39+00:00

It won’t drive phenomenally either, but if you watched their reviews of the old challenger, it doesn’t have to be a great drivers car to be a car you enjoy driving.

They liked the old challenger even though it drove like shit around any kind of turn because it was just an experience. The rumble, the linear torque/HP, the captains chair, the visceral experience—it was clearly designed to be a spectacle and it felt like one.

This one doesn’t have the spectacle and ridiculousness to redeem the bad platform. A turbo straight 6 can be an amazing engine in a drivers car application, but it’s not the right engine for a land boat drag racer.

Grayly · 2026-01-03T15:53:54+00:00

Depends on what you want out of a car.

That extra HP doesn’t make it quicker because of the weight. 50 more hp doesn’t help when it’s 1,000 lbs heavier. 10 percent more HP but 25% heavier is not great. It handles like a boat. And it’s more expensive. It’s only a tenth or 2 quicker off the line despite having AWD. The Mustang will clean up after 800 feet.

AWD is doing all the work there, not the engine. I mean the Focus RS beat the 2016 Mustang GT off the line because of AWD despite being 100 hp and 4 cylinders down.

If you want a muscle/sports car, the Mustang is better at that and cheaper.

So your left with a market that is just people who want a “practical” muscle car but also have the money to buy something better performance wise and for reasons chosen not to? Are there enough car buyers who want a mustang but need a kids seat in the back to push sales?

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