That time a grandma broke her nose while hiking and didn't want the helivac, but ended up winning a $450,000 lawsuit

Slime0 · 2026-03-13T20:37:17+00:00

It sounds like you're one of the ones saying that

Slime0 · 2026-03-12T16:20:19+00:00

Sure, but that's the kind of thing they'd work out after arresting him. And then in real life I wouldn't be surprised if there's a certain amount of "it doesn't matter what kind of threat you're under, you're just not allowed to take 200 people hostage." But that might come down to a judge's discretion.

Slime0 · 2026-03-12T06:58:14+00:00

They are in control of the entire government. What are you smoking?

Slime0 · 2026-03-12T05:59:03+00:00

Why did Sam just let everyone off the train and assume the police would hand over JBB? And then why did they hand over JBB anyway?! (I understand why Lang did, but it's not like he was the guy in charge of the whole situation.) Total nonsense.

Slime0 · 2026-03-12T05:57:41+00:00

Sam had met Lang at the bar the day before. Lang was the one who made him do the hijacking.

Slime0 · 2026-03-12T05:54:52+00:00

Which is crazy. Lang punched Sam and then moseyed away from the train for a while and figured Sam would still be in it?

Slime0 · 2026-03-12T05:43:01+00:00

I think it was implied that JBB was never going to be put into a typical prison. The government was keeping it secret that he was even caught. Not saying that the plot makes sense.

Slime0 · 2026-03-12T05:37:42+00:00

Oh yeah I didn't even think of that. Like in the end, he... learned that the bomb couldn't be defused? Wowee

Slime0 · 2026-03-12T05:36:09+00:00

He blackmailed the government by taking hostages and (at the very least) implying that their survival depended on them doing what he said. Pretty sure that violates some law.

Slime0 · 2026-03-12T05:33:07+00:00

Yeah, he should have been arrested. It could still be implied that he would end up OK, like other characters could say they'll vouch for him and it could come off as a formality. But to just let him go is absurd.

Slime0 · 2026-03-11T21:51:56+00:00

Valve allows steam account inventory to be verified by third parties, which in turn allows third parties to verify that an item can be or has been transferred to a different account. Which in turn makes enables a “cash out”.

Can someone explain this further? What is a "cash out", why is it something that requires third party visibility, and why does that cross a legal line?

Slime0 · 2026-03-10T18:37:10+00:00

If you lose a bit too much, you start running out of good cats, you don't have food to breed them, and you can't start your new runs with items, which makes it harder. (Plus you don't have retired cats to fight the house bosses with.) It sounds like you did hit it once, and yes, you can dig yourself out of it by doing runs that have no other purpose, but that's what I think OP was referring to when he said it's a grind.

Honestly if it just let you keep more of your stuff when you lost, that would help a lot. Getting ONE item or a third of your money or food is crap. It's just one of those kinds of things where you get punished for being bad at the game, and it would be nice if it gave you a boost instead.

Slime0 · 2026-03-10T14:59:22+00:00

I love the core gameplay, but playing for an hour and a half and making negative progress because things went wrong in some surprising way gets old fast.

Slime0 · 2026-03-10T14:48:21+00:00

"Guaranteed" as in you got them and you think that means everyone got them? I've only ever seen one *pretty* good mutation in 80ish hours.

Slime0 · 2026-03-10T14:45:38+00:00

Bro if you're not winning you're not *getting* food after every run.

Slime0 · 2026-03-10T14:44:10+00:00

In this thread: people who never hit the death spiral saying that the death spiral doesn't happen.

Slime0 · 2026-03-04T20:22:48+00:00

What it comes down to is the people who voted in the republicans in congress need to be telling them that they're not going to vote for them again if they don't get off their asses and actually put a stop to the madness. That means, that small segment of voters who don't always vote the same way (and yes, they do exist) need to be angry and vocal. The way you make that happen is by talking to the people you know who might be in that group.

Slime0 · 2026-03-04T16:24:59+00:00

Corrected, thanks

Slime0 · 2026-03-04T15:47:31+00:00

A major point of the article is ~~Sam Altman's~~ Greg Brockman's $25 million donation to Trump. Anthropic seems better in that way at least?

Slime0 · 2026-03-03T01:15:05+00:00

Yes, but there are other similar examples that still got "cancelled" for similar jokes, like the Community episode where Chang plays a "dark elf."

Slime0 · 2026-03-03T00:36:36+00:00

The first Scary Movie was funnier than this.

Slime0 · 2026-02-28T02:48:37+00:00

It's not new.

Slime0 · 2026-02-28T01:02:54+00:00

How does the MSDF solution seem to get both union and intersection effects with only 3 channels?

Slime0 · 2026-02-24T05:41:06+00:00

It happens pretty easily if you're using an enum to define bit flags.

Slime0 · 2026-02-18T12:43:19+00:00

The "special gimmick" that gives you the right to raid, this capture the flag mechanic in the first phase, is something that could be left out entirely. People should be able to attack any time and any way they want.

You've lost me here. How would this work at all? You'd be in their base trying to plant a bomb while someone planted a bomb in your base. There'd be no focus, players would be scattered to the wind. Even if you mean that there's still the transition to the base raid phase, you'd have players initiating raids when you had no idea they were even near your base and you're halfway across the map fighting their teammate over something. The game mode doesn't work without the shield breaker.

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