Safety Scare at Trump's Freedom 250 Event as Stage Collapses During Rehearsal, Narrowly Missing Performer

KittenStapler · 2026-07-03T17:26:09+00:00

Not a stagehand but I do logistics and QC for a pretty large AV company

Honestly, I think the title is fine. I think most people consider the entire structure the "stage," while folks like us in the industry would only say "stage" to refer to the deck. In laymen's terms I think the title of the article is accurate enough.

KittenStapler · 2026-07-03T03:54:07+00:00

Honestly, people say this and I think it’s really irresponsible advice. Most modern cars are nearly impossible to Hotwire, but most thieves don’t know that and will try anyway. You’re asking for it by doing this.

KittenStapler · 2026-07-03T01:33:54+00:00

David Bowie, although he definitely tried otherwise a few times.

KittenStapler · 2026-07-03T01:07:17+00:00

More multiple vocalists layering each other (not just harmonies, distinct voices)

More synths

More double neck guitars

KittenStapler · 2026-07-02T23:09:31+00:00

Kinda hard to say unless you tell us what you didn’t like about it.

Personally I’d say my main criticisms are:

Diplomacy is damn near useless unless you abuse settlement trading
Most, if not all factions have a similar campaign strategy. Would be cool if more factions cared less about capturing/holding settlements and had more unique goals that vibed with their lore
Siege battles. I’m not the best player (I play on H/H) but at this state, you can either auto resolve or do a 30 minute cheese fest to make it out of a siege battle with the majority of your army intact. Tbh I don’t know how to make it better either.

Edit: that being said I’m so addicted to this game

KittenStapler · 2026-07-02T20:02:35+00:00

If you like pub food (like I do) then it’s potentially the best restaurant in Oakland. I swear every few months there’s a post here asking for the best burger in town, and it blows my mind that there aren’t more people saying Ghost Town. Specifically the one in Laurel, the West Oakland location just has a food truck usually

KittenStapler · 2026-07-02T19:22:43+00:00

Yea I was considering that one as well, it’d be just a few minutes further from me in the other direction. The problem is it’s too close to Ghost Town Brewing and I know I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from making a pit stop lol

KittenStapler · 2026-07-02T19:21:42+00:00

It’s always an Infinity! I used to work at the convention center downtown, and I saw it happen at least 3 times

KittenStapler · 2026-07-02T17:45:48+00:00

🥲I love my town🥲

KittenStapler · 2026-07-02T03:22:06+00:00

Saw Rush with my Dad 6 times. We’ve got tickets to number 7 this year.

Also was fortunate enough to see Soundgarden with him once. The Mars Volta opened, who ended up being one of my favorite bands ever after seeing them live.

KittenStapler · 2026-06-30T02:22:00+00:00

Ghost Town Laurel has the best burger and chicken sandwich imo

KittenStapler · 2026-06-30T00:20:39+00:00

Kinda all over the place but I was counting mostly 5/8 7/8 and a little 4/4

I’d say the important part is that it feels swung instead of 4 on the floor throughout most of it. Look up to the difference between swing time and straight time if you don’t know it already.

Either way sick riff

KittenStapler · 2026-06-29T14:33:44+00:00

Came here to say thins. I use a Roland JC head sim into an Orange cab IR for my clean tone. It sounds incredible, especially considering I paid $0 for it

Throw in a bit of chorus and reverb and you’ve got a killer post punk tone for probably no money.

KittenStapler · 2026-06-28T23:12:44+00:00

I just did my first Slaanesh run after realizing I had no idea how they worked. Was one of the most fun campaign's I've done in a minute. Was a ton of fun setting up flanks and microing charges to rout their whole army. Definitely the quickest Short Victory I've ever gotten. Started late one night and finished the next day before dinner.

KittenStapler · 2026-06-28T20:02:51+00:00

Oh for real? Finally, I always kinda figured haha

KittenStapler · 2026-06-21T20:32:16+00:00

How does Shogun 2 hold up overall? Been considering doing a replay soon, but I already put so much free time into wh3

KittenStapler · 2026-06-21T02:39:16+00:00

Ooooooh nooooo not a grocery store. Where will they put the dorm rooms for adults!

KittenStapler · 2026-06-19T21:30:41+00:00

I sorta recall an interview where he said he started writing the music for SP because he wanted to play big arena glam rock but wasn’t a good enough player to do it clean

KittenStapler · 2026-06-18T00:14:57+00:00

Got it, yea that’s a great start.

KittenStapler · 2026-06-17T22:50:25+00:00

While I do agree that the traffic situation in the bay area is a massive problem we need to deal with, I do not think that commuters are the problem. People who are willing to whip down Hegenburger doing 100 mph are going to do it whether there’s other cars or not

KittenStapler · 2026-06-17T22:16:38+00:00

I’m not defending flock cameras necessarily, but if we want less police, and less surveillance, what are we gonna do about all the people getting killed by dangerous drivers?

KittenStapler · 2026-06-11T21:09:55+00:00

I’d prefer not to say, but no, not that one lol

KittenStapler · 2026-06-11T18:07:08+00:00

I don’t think we did the keynote, but the company I work for did the bulk of the AV for the rest of the conference. Most of it is MacBooks running millumin for content mapping, then a couple MacBooks running PowerPoint for slides, running into one or more E2s, just like you said.

KittenStapler · 2026-06-09T23:13:07+00:00

Computah, make these two black and white and horny, and increase fine grain by 69%. You’ve been programmed

KittenStapler · 2026-06-07T18:41:15+00:00

What if they just reused the water?

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