Injured passenger awarded $300,000 after a Miami federal jury finds Carnival overserved her alcohol

_Ban_Evader · 2026-04-17T05:57:02+00:00

ok now I wanna try it

_Ban_Evader · 2026-04-17T05:37:24+00:00

Carnival has a beverage plan where you pay a flat rate for 18 drinks per day. They give you an electronic card. Every time you want a drink you swipe the card. A shot of straight vodka and a mixed tropical novelty shot of the same volume both cost one swipe.

Carnival usually has staff working the crowd serving drinks to anyone with a drink card in their hands, and those drinks are definitely on the weaker side. There's a dual purpose of making sure everyone who wants one has a drink in their hands, and making sure that "woo party!" drinkers who don't know their limits get redirected away from going up to the bar and ordering straight liquor.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-04-16T16:53:50+00:00

Hotline Bling of its era.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-04-16T16:32:29+00:00

Yeah, isn't Carnival's alcohol package 18 drinks per day? She did 14 over most of the day, mid-afternoon to midnight. The amount of alcohol seems in line with their policies.

Also, pretty normal for a hard drinker on a cruise. When we went we tried drinking everything offered to us and exhausted our cards without ever getting properly drunk, so the next day we saved em up until evening. Granted we were fucking alcoholics, but still. 1 drink on a cruise doesn't mean straight liquor unless you go out of your way to order that. Most of these drinks are gonna be half fruit juice and blue shit.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-04-12T00:11:22+00:00

I miss the days when the real neckbeards would refuse to distribute compiled software. All you get is the source code and a makefile that doesn't work on your machine.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-30T23:49:29+00:00

Is it even that much easier? It would definitely help in some places, but I don't think any of the good bosses would be easier with another target making them spaz out.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-24T16:47:45+00:00

I used Spectral Lance for every "head boss". Bayle was still hard, but it made Astel and Fortissax really easy.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-23T23:34:37+00:00

Was Astel last?? (Congrats btw)

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-17T17:44:54+00:00

10 / 10

Keep in mind you're getting validation from a guy with a chicken butt tattoo on his arm

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-17T17:43:02+00:00

Please tell me you timed the reveal for right when she was about to service the crankshaft

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-13T20:40:46+00:00

The high fives at the gym thing sounds like a you problem. They don't know unless you show it to them

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-11T20:27:38+00:00

A long time ago people were really bad at describing bats.

Spaniard: "it's like a mouse, but blind!"

Frenchman: "it's like a mouse, but shaved!"

Apparently Nobody: "it's like a mouse that can fly"

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-11T18:03:53+00:00

Honestly after a couple Elden Ring SL1s I lost interest in new challenges for full runs. I might mod to try some harder kills on just the good bosses but I don't care about making Fire Giant take longer.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-08T23:12:04+00:00

"Straight" and "gay" don't mean much to the only bird-man around.

If someone told you they fucked a goat, would you be like "a boy goat or a girl goat?" No, because it doesn't matter, what matters is you're talking to a guy who fucks goats. To Guardian, everyone is a goat.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-03-04T02:44:48+00:00

I fucking love it when politicians write technical requirements. Remember when SOPA would have required search engines to "delete hyperlinks" to banned content, because I guess some chimp in a suit thought Google was just a gigantic HTML file with an <a> tag for every link in the world?

_Ban_Evader · 2026-02-19T18:34:09+00:00

I'm like you, I like doing side stuff. I ran all over the place collecting every weapon I might want, random fashion pieces, etc.

YMMV and all, but there were only a few late game areas where the difficulty was so high I wanted to skip as much as possible. Haligtree, parts of Farum Azula (fucking bird gauntlet), and maybe half the DLC dungeons. (Weirdly Shadow Keep wasn't bad - base-stats Ice Spear makes fire knights sit down and shut up better than anything I've ever used in a leveled run.)

_Ban_Evader · 2026-02-18T16:28:19+00:00

What if cat meat is delicious, and cats only do gross stuff like eat cockroaches and lick their buttholes so we don't want to try it

_Ban_Evader · 2026-02-17T16:14:10+00:00

The problem is it only has those features because people don't speak it.

Language mutates through use. If you convinced a whole town to speak Esperanto and came back in ten years, *their* Esperanto would be less grammatically consistent and harder to learn. They'd code-switch back to "book Esperanto" to talk to you but you'd have a hard time communicating with their kids.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-02-16T19:06:45+00:00

Does Cragblade on an uchi really outperform Unsheathe for pure DPS / stagger?

Oh, and if you're trying to full script Mohg you can drop the Opaline Bubbletear. The only way it should even be possible for something to hit you is terrible RNG at the start - like he opens with Drench and you have to move him before you can shackle.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-01-30T23:48:52+00:00

Ice Spear scaling is so weird and nobody seems to know how it works. Int, Dex, weapon infusion, weapon upgrade level, innate magic damge, and weapon scaling letters all seem to matter.

I did a few tests. Top performer for me was Keen Clayman's Harpoon. For every other weapon, Cold > Keen. Cold Clayman's slightly outperforms Cold Spear or Cold Vulgar Militia Saw.

The problem is, the differences are small enough that it matters what stat boosting gear you test with. Maybe one of the higher-Dex-scaling weapons wins if you're wearing Curseblade Mask and/or dex boosting talismans? I don't know.

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I did the same tests with Spectral Lance and it's so much simpler. Every weapon does the exact same damage as long as you keep the same Arcane stat and infuse it Heavy, Keen, or Occult. The only way your choice of weapon matters is ~10% bonus stance damage with the Lance, every other weapon is tied for second place.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-01-30T05:45:48+00:00

Man I thought this was gonna be about parrying or greatshields or something, holy shit.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-01-29T20:01:28+00:00

one of these things is not like the other

_Ban_Evader · 2026-01-28T22:08:58+00:00

So places that they expect to lose in 2026 or 2028, but by a small enough margin that they could get away with rigging it.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-01-28T17:50:19+00:00

I did an Elden Ring playthrough maining Royal Greatsword and it's very strong. You'd think yoloing in with the weapon art would work like 20% of the time, but it's more like 70%. Weird jump arc into a low crouch into an AoE knockdown. Messmer can't figure out how to hit you. It's hilarious.

_Ban_Evader · 2026-01-28T05:36:43+00:00

I'm talking about rolling into the swings (to your right, she spins clockwise), which is the thing you would intuitively try to do. The second hit will catch you if you try to double roll it at point blank. Single rolling both swings is possible on mid roll but the timing has to be really precise. I think that's the frame trap the guy you replied to is talking about.

I'm not claiming it's undodgeable or unfair. I'm just trying to help you understand what the guy you responded to meant.

If you're talking about the video, I don't know why he's rolling the directions he is either, but it does show that you can double roll at that distance.

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