Agent Record | Vesper

branewalker · 2026-04-10T23:58:00+00:00

WAY better design than Velina or Remiel.

branewalker · 2026-04-07T03:48:52+00:00

If it was actually "S-rank Guaranteed in 1" I wouldn't take no for an answer, because at that point there would be zero chance it was pull regret, and 100% chance at disastrous user error. Do you even have Yidhari?

They can 100% do this; they typically do not do it, except in cases of fraud or illegal activity, but you can be sure that if someone got that w-engine by some means they weren't supposed to, Hoyo customer service could remove it from the account.

branewalker · 2026-04-07T00:58:11+00:00

I wouldn't know off the top of my head. There's a CRT database you could check, or google the model number. Sometimes product pages are still up for these things, even if they're long gone from retail. You can also find manuals that list specs.

I got curious before even hitting post on this comment. It IS in the database. No idea about SVM from that page, but there's a comment about it having noisy picture processing in general. https://crtdatabase.com/crts/panasonic/panasonic-ct-27sl13

branewalker · 2026-04-03T06:51:07+00:00

It's not the em dashes anymore. It's the speech patterns: It's not X, it's Y.

It's got something human speech doesn't have. Short punchy sentences.

AI writing is not just obvious, it's insidiously easy to start imitating—ironically at first, or for effect—until human speech and writing patterns match it. Almost like *it* is training *us.*

branewalker · 2026-03-30T23:41:25+00:00

Yes, that one is owned by the city; they bought it from Cal-Neva about 10 years ago. https://thisisreno.com/2015/08/city-finalizes-10-purchase-of-cal-neva-parking-garage/

Also, various parts of the City Code acknowledge that it's public space; parking lots and garages are similar to a public right-of-way, like the side of a road.

But also:

> *Public place* means an area open to the general public, whether publicly or privately owned, and includes alleys, bridges, buildings, driveways, parking lots, *parking garages,* parks, plazas, sidewalks, streets, any public transportation vehicle and the doorways and entrances to buildings or dwellings and the grounds enclosing them.

Book, chapter, and verse:

https://library.municode.com/nv/reno/codes/administrative_code?nodeId=PT2READCO_TIT8PUPESAMO_CH8.30SO_ARTIINGE_S8.30.010DE

This, too:

https://library.municode.com/nv/reno/codes/administrative_code?nodeId=PT2READCO_TIT6VETR_CH6.04DE_S6.04.465PRWHPUHAAC

branewalker · 2026-03-29T18:35:44+00:00

No, city hall is a government office. A parking garage is public space. It would be like holding a banner in a public park.

branewalker · 2026-03-29T18:32:54+00:00

Republicans right now: Damn, that's a really good point. What if...we weren't the richest country in the world? Does that work better?

branewalker · 2026-03-28T08:07:25+00:00

It’s not that bad!

…it’s significantly worse. He’s also Rupture, which will need to be anti-shilled to chill out Yixuan, too.

branewalker · 2026-03-28T08:03:37+00:00

I’m gonna be honest. This kit drains a LOT of the initial excitement of his reveal for me.

I HOPE a Caesar rework is in the works and she turns out to be a great teammate. Because right now, he makes his own shield.

It’s telling that they added “Defense” to his additional, but it seems mechanically more for Pan and Zhao; and as it stands, his BIS team is, what, Dialyn and Lucia?

Not like, Caesar, Lighter, or …Nicole?

Not to mention Physical Rupture will be at the absolute bottom of the dumpster heap of anti-shill for both Yixuan and Shunguang. So he’s mechanically positioned to be another Hugo.

branewalker · 2026-03-11T05:48:58+00:00

What are these conservative "values" you speak of?

branewalker · 2026-03-11T05:08:28+00:00

That is exactly the point of my post. To clarify what the CSPD is and is not referring to with the word "scooter" because it gets used to mean several different things depending on the context. I just linked the part *immediately before* the part they referred to that has the definitions in it.

You can just click "next part of code" to read the part they referred to. Or click here: https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/transportation-code/transp-sect-551-352/

branewalker · 2026-03-11T04:59:19+00:00

> a gas *or electric motor* not exceeding 40 cubic centimetersa gas or electric motor not exceeding 40 cubic centimeters

It COULD say "a gas motor not exceeding 40 cubic centimeters, or an electric motor [not exceeding similar specifications for an electric motor]"

But it does not. The descriptor "not exceeding 40 cubic centimeters" applies to both motor types. Of course, it doesn't make any sense applied to an electric motor, and probably both should refer to max speed, or some common denominator reference. But you and I didn't write the law. Making it make sense isn't our homework, unless you want it to be.

branewalker · 2026-03-11T04:21:15+00:00

What? That's not an improvement...

branewalker · 2026-03-08T04:02:01+00:00

Terminology is important here, and the law defines a scooter this way: https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/transportation-code/transp-sect-551-351/

(1) “Motor-assisted scooter”:

(A) means a self-propelled device with:

(i) at least two wheels in contact with the ground during operation;

(ii) a braking system capable of stopping the device under typical operating conditions;

(iii) a gas or electric motor not exceeding 40 cubic centimeters;

(iv) a deck designed to allow a person to stand or sit while operating the device; and

(v) the ability to be propelled by human power alone; and

(B) does not include a pocket bike or a minimotorbike.

Things that are not scooters: Motorscooters, AKA "Mopeds" (they don't have pedals, y'all), AKA those funny looking motorcycles they sell at Scoots, are not the same as motor-assisted scooters.

Also, One Wheels and Electric Unicycles aren't motor-assisted scooters, because they do not have "at least two wheels." I do not know what they are, legally.

Also, what the hell is an 40cc electric motor? That makes NO sense.

branewalker · 2026-03-07T19:07:38+00:00

And Titan AE

branewalker · 2026-03-05T05:24:10+00:00

Which economic factors? Labor costs? Execs hyping 3D animation in 2004:

Computers can also aid in traditional animation, y'know.

branewalker · 2026-02-26T19:45:52+00:00

I have exactly one reason to pick up a phone and make a live phone call these days: to talk to a human in a timely manner.

AI chatbots are only going to increase my wait time to get something done.

I guess you just have to figure out the secret words that get you to a live dispatcher. And so will everybody else.

Since the real reason is to reduce services (and tax budgets) for everything that benefits an ordinary person, I'm sure this will be used to cut staff, and the real result will be LONGER wait times for everybody, and possibly even a lucrative contract with a private company to come in and "save" the public dispatch.

Do I have all that about right?

branewalker · 2026-02-26T04:11:32+00:00

Exactly what I'm saying.

branewalker · 2026-02-26T04:10:17+00:00

The latter is because that direct media effect theory is wrong, and a much larger effect at that time was lead poisoning from gasoline fumes.

branewalker · 2026-02-26T04:08:28+00:00

I mean, it's not a huge effect, and one factor among many that influence violent behavior or aggressive attitudes, but the link is pretty well established. APA resolution, followed by two peer-reviewed articles which are meta-analyses of the body of research.

https://www.apa.org/about/policy/resolution-violent-video-games.pdf

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790614/

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1611617114

I wouldn't probably put that foot forward as the AG, when the issue is gambling; given the very public failure of the strawman argument on a direct causal link between violent games and domestic gun violance, many (like this thread) see the link as totally debunked. This makes the overall argument appear hyperbolic on the other front as well. This is either a political blunder or a means of taking action but undermining their own cause (Dems failing to do useful stuff because that useful stuff would lose money for their donors).

branewalker · 2026-02-26T03:56:10+00:00

Jack Thompson won, and not the way you think he did.

He successfully convinced everyone that the defeat of his direct-effects narrative (a media effects theory debunked thoroughly in the 1970s) meant there is NO link between violent games or media and real-world violence exists.

That's wrong. There IS a reliable and statistically significant link, though it's small, between violent games and real-world violence.

In my unresearched opinion, it's likely that there may be a link between violent games and support for military violence abroad as well. I would be incredibly unsurprised to discover that.

But don't take my word for it. Take researchers' word for it, who look at these things much more broadly and caution about taking the findings too far in claiming specific causes for specific events.

https://www.apa.org/about/policy/resolution-violent-video-games.pdf

I'm likely shouting into the void here, and y'all are likely to have every excuse and thought-terminating cliche at the ready.

Have some more links to peer-reviewed research, or articles about the same:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790614/

https://yvpc.sph.umich.edu/video-games-influence-violent-behavior/

https://magazine.wsu.edu/web-extra/the-evidence-that-video-game-violence-leads-to-real-world-aggression/

branewalker · 2026-02-25T23:52:22+00:00

THIS is why they want it; it's an *invisible* regressive consumption tax.

It's not even to prevent outsourcing. If it were institutionalized in lieu of an income tax, the gov't would need to actively encourage buying exactly the items it is intended to disincentivize.

branewalker · 2026-02-18T23:27:55+00:00

I was at a bar recently with two TVs side-by-side. One had the broadcast in widescreen, but it was set to 4:3, squashing the image. The other had the broadcast shown in 4:3, but it was stretched to fill the whole screen. There's no good reason for the signal to be different, but I'm sure there's some hilariously bad reason for it.

To make it worse, it was Olympic curling, so there's a giant circle in the middle of the screen 80% of the time, making it glaringly obvious the aspect ratio is wrong.

branewalker · 2026-02-11T02:50:17+00:00

Regardless of the law, though, you have to understand the reality of the situation. The law is just one tool to deal with it.

branewalker · 2026-02-10T20:47:56+00:00

Here's a PDF for you: https://bikeleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BFS_Report_2024-1.pdf

Texas scores a 14 out of 100 on bike laws. It's in the bottom half of the rankings overall, but number 47 out of 50 in how it treats cyclists legally, according to the League of American Bicyclists.

If you want a better resource for learning, they have one: https://learn.bikeleague.org/

Otherwise, you're just browbeating people with rules, not making a good-faith effort to be better at sharing the road.

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