Transporter Room 3

“But that still doesn’t mean you’ll get to play it”

Well then it doesn’t exist.

And until I actually am staring at the introduction screens, it’s vaporware.

Have we gone on long enough to see the endless wheel of “HALF LIFE 3???” once again spin back around? I remember seeing a handful of these a year, every time valve did anything.

Expect nothing, and you can’t be disappointed.

Oof. Honestly I’m surprised it was only three. At least you finally have a paper trail, if you’ve got any insurance that might cover it.

As for the ISP, there’s always the possibility of requesting assistance directly from them, but they probably have internal rules about handing info to non-law enforcement, regardless of the reason.

And if you’ve got some friends who don’t mind backup for intimidation, you could always show up at each workers door, politely introduce yourself and the reason for your appearance. If any of them immediately slam the door in your face or get defensive upon recognizing you (before you tell them why you’re there) then there’s a good chance they know you’re there because they took something.

Anecdote: this happened with my truck in 2019. Someone broke in and stole about $1500 worth of things from a really nice pair of binocs, to the 2000w inverter, and my hand-made bowie knife, and a couple small camping and fishing things. Had to threaten to call the only supervisor I know by name in the police department to get the guy to even take a report for my insurance. They didn’t bother following up with the woman who told me she saw the guy. A few weeks go by and I see someone fitting his description driving the described car, I follow for a bit and he went home. I parked the truck right up in front of the door, knocked, and as soon as he opened and looked past me to the truck he yelled “GET LOST OR I’LL FUCK YOU UP” and that was all I needed to call the cops. After about an hour of waiting someone showed up, talked to the guy, said “well he said he didn’t do it and we never called this woman for a description so we can’t be SURE”

Well lo and behold, a quick glance into his car showed the 2kw inverter under the dashboard, and I was positive I could see the rather distinct custom leather strap of the binoculars under the seat.

No idea who, but apparently someone smashed the guys window to steal a bunch of stuff out of it and they were kind enough to return my items. Crazy how they knew just where to leave them for me to find.

Best of luck in recovering it. Hopefully you get the quick and less… legally/morally ambiguous way.

“is a lengthy time consuming process”

No, it REALLY isn’t, and any pig that tells you otherwise is trying to get you to drop the issue so they don’t have more paperwork.

They don’t give a shit about your stolen items, and 9/10 times it’s a complete waste to even contact them over “petty theft”, regardless of how valuable the item/s are to you.

He said “communications platforms” not “misinformation, social engineering, and mass data collection platform masquerading as a social media platform”

Legit!

I’m already being treated like I’m doing shady shit, might as well actually pullshady shit.

A Kroger near me recently updated their self checkouts and now they’re way more sensitive, they view any hand movements on its little camera as “you just slipped something into the bag I’m calling the employee over”, and you can’t mute them anymore which is the lost infuriating for me. I have trouble doing things with a lot of noise, and having a loud ass computer yelling about everything it’s doing makes my checkout take easily 3-4x as long. There is no benefit to disabling the mute button, it still screams for employees when something went wrong, and it only frustrates and irritates everyone who can hear it, employees included. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard the employees complain about it too.

Tldr FUDs suck, then I kind of rant, and it gets away from me a bit.

Having dealt with FUDs in other hobbies, this shit is EVERYWHERE once you start looking for it.

I love asking people why their thing is better though. Like your boss, I would ask what makes his liquid special, then every time I get a generic answer, I’d ask for more specifics.

Oh, it’s special. What makes it special? it’s got special properties other cleaning liquids don’t? Like what? Ooh, “enzymes?” what enzymes? What is their function? How is it produced? What will happen if I use other liquids? How do those enzymes protect the screen?

And depending on how petty I felt, and how much time I had to kill, I’d keep going until they yell at me to leave or I get some kind of admission that their product is bs. Even if that admission is the “fine then don’t use my superior product, I don’t have to explain anything” crap they use to make themselves feel better. That’s not technically an admission, but to me it says “I have no faith in the words I’m saying, and continuing would only do harm to my product branding since it’s all bullshit”

So far I’ve only gotten one actual admission of “okay I’m just making this shit up as I go, just stop talking so loud please, I have to sell stuff” and honestly I respect that man more than any other peddler I’ve met.

“Today we’re gonna make an entire dream house for only $0.17. So to start with, let’s go outside and see what we can find just laying around.”

grabs $47,000metal detector, hops in a $60k 4x4 with clear product placement labels in every shot, two minutes of time-lapse of someone wandering around aimlessly while apparently looking for things

“Alright so we found a couple old glass bottles that can be washed out and made into a rustic display piece, and if you follow me over here you’ll never guess what I found. That’s right, its 147 acres of forested land with a 6 bedroom, 2.5 floor cabin and small pond, all with blank ownership forms! And with just a couple million graciously donated by my parents, we have all we need!”

" this just goes to show all you need to do to accomplish your dreams is get your hands dirty and do a little hard work."

filler for ad revenue

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All the fields around me are being bought by KENWORTH so they can park their fucking trucks for months on end.

Fields that once grew things now do nothing but provide storage space for massive pollution machines.

I can’t use my telescope at home anymore because the goddamn glare from their fucking lights just bounces off the gravel and concrete and makes light pollution worse than the entire city a few miles down the road. When the clouds are low I can walk around outside in the dead of night and read large print books, because the reflected light shining off the clouds.

I had a couple friends in school, dad was from Uruguay, mom was from Puerto Rico, and they came to visit us in a pretty monochromatic area of the US recently(ish)

We decided to go to a specific Mexican restaurant because apparently one of my friends talks about it all the time to his out of state family.

Immediately upon walking in, both of their faces light up and they go back to Spanish (they speak with heavy accents and a surprising number of people get shitty about it) and they begin speaking to the staff, who just returned blank stares.

Almost none of them speak Spanish. The only few who could all work in the kitchen.

I have never had to work so hard to contain my laughter, because it was just hilarious to me. I can understand why they were not happy, but it was funny to me.

Victims of pirates, I’d guess. But you don’t see many of those anymore.

Every time I bring up pirate games everyone falls over themselves trying to ask if I’ve tried sea of thieves.

Yes. I have. No. It’s nothing like what I want. I can’t even have fun playing it by myself. 0/10 (friends). Would not recommend.

It’s fine with a group, but it’s not what I want. I want single player with a crew of npcs, and for gits and shiggles you could have multi-player available where the crew of your ship can be replaced by other players, or a ship in your fleet can be controlled by other players.

Like… The ocean is a perfect place to hide loading screens too, because it’s relatively flat most of the time, nobody bats an eye if there’s fog obscuring the distance, this game could have so many possibilities but it would be SO expensive to make.

Which is why it will never be made.

Nobody is interested in making a good game, they just want to make money.

That again, isn’t NEEDED.

I enjoy fishing, and I even enjoy occasionally fishing in a game, but if it’s mandatory all the fun goes out of it. Needed for fancy upgrades is a good compromise though. It’s not necessary but if you want to max out…

And if you want to sit back and chill for 47 hours of just fishing? You get a nice haul to sell when you get back to the market.

Here’s the thing…

Indeed. raises eyebrow

GTAbut you built the city

Murder is optional. But it would help test out your emergency response facilities!

My family would love this.

We can’t play in person except twice a year, and games on a screen don’t do it.

Sitting in our respective homes and being able to “see” each other across a table while playing a couple hours a week would be great.

And my parents have friends they’d play with every day if they had this. Some of whom can’t even play in person because they’re confined to a single room in a care home, but they’d be able to wear a headset and move around in their bed. That’s enough.

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag (aka AC: The Pirate Simulator) meets Sid Meiers Pirates! Live The Life.

Basically I want a giant open world with dozens of cities and even more small villages, modernish graphics, and be a pirate. And be able to lead a fleet. And swap ships.

I’m gonna be honest, due to my niche game preferences, if they could add in ability to upgrade and customize every ship with tons of options, including crazy ass “I zip tied a rocket motor to a group of hot wheels cars to see if I could skate” type things. “I replaced one mast with a trebuchet, and because I like to tempt death it also launches flaming oil soaked things” energy.

Maybe toss in a ship editor like starfield had, but with sloops and galleons and shit. Things like fake guns could add to intimidation factor, and while fake guns don’t shoot, they need only good from afar. By the end of the game, hopefully your branding will allow you to win some fights before taking a shot.

And because I like games like Sim city/ cities skylines, building and management games and the like, I’d love if that could somehow be incorporated into things. Both on the ships themselves, and as your “pirate fortress” home base. And I’d want to be able to set up multiple bases, all working together.

All of the addons being an option but not required to finish since having to micromanage the happiness of Pegleg Dave because he ate in the dark without a table again would get old quick.

The downside is, because all these elements don’t really mesh all that smoothly in a game setting, I don’t even think it’s possible to make a good game like that.

Basically I want to be a pirate king in a modern game, and actually feel like a king. In both ability to command what is essentially a rogue nation, and the mild headache that comes with managing it.

We don’t have one where I live, and every time my wife and I go to relatives houses where one is, she keeps telling me how good their food was growing up. I’ve never had them, and by the time I could drive to another town that had one, I was well aware of how shitty they are.

So every holiday, she breaks out the gift cards we got at our wedding, and asks if we can go this time. I’ve explained to her why I refuse to go. She agrees they’re shitty. She still wants to eat there. So I tell her “I won’t try to stop you from eating there, but I won’t be joining you.”

Unfortunately this attitude also makes me drive almost an hour to get things for some hobbies because I refuse to shop at hobby lobby. Most of their stuff feels like “curated aliexpress” though. Cheap shit, but someone found the best cheap shit. Someone gifted me a leather stamp from there that snapped on its second hit. Looked nice though.

Tldr: I say POST AWAY! I WANNA SEE YOUR PROJECTS!

As I’ve progressed in skill in some hobbies, I see people posting “Incredible work! I love ______!” on something that, to be honest, is mediocre at best.

But guess what! It is incredible work, because someone put their time and skill into it, and every new thing they make is advancing their skill. Whether you personally have surpassed that level, or not, is irrelevant.

I love seeing people post their rough drafts, their works in progress, the thing they JUST got into last week and this is their first attempt.

Every master craftsman started out with their first project. And it probably wasn’t very good. But who cares, it’s their passion, and they stuck with it.

I make knives and swords as a hobby, and sell some on occasion. I actually still have my very first knife sitting on my bench. I use it every time I make a new one. My second knife was bought by a friend for $40, and he still has it. Won’t sell it back to me even though I’ve offered more recent ones in trade plus the original 40. Because I made it, and even though more recent stuff may look fancier, and probably much higher quality, it was important to me, and therefore to him. I don’t think he realizes how much hearing that meant to me.

So sure, a couple people might go in pointing out flaws and calling it bad, but you made it, you put time and effort into it, it’s worthy of my screen time. I’m excited to see what you change or improve on next time!

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