You’ve hit the nail on the head there.

I had a Flip3 as a way of trying to kick my QWERTY habit, and it was cool as fuck. It’s a great conversation starter (if you like starting conversations!), it’s a lovely form factor to carry in it’s folded state, and no matter what anyone says, it’s satisfying as fuck to end a particularly heated call by slamming the phone shut.

Other than that though… it’s just a decent phone. No better or worse than anything else aside from the irritating bloatware.

The hinge was weak as fuck and two of my devices suffered screen bleed from the hinge, but then that was nearly five generations of Flip ago.

Yeah there is an element of that, but I don’t think it’s entirely controversial to say that it all gets old very quickly.

Critical thinking takes work and research, which is fine for a specific topic or when you’re reading something with existing context like something historic… but keeping on top of something where all the belligerents are pushing out narrative on a daily basis becomes fucking soul-destroying to fact-check and evaluate.

I don’t think this is a “both sides” fallacy. It’s just being super fed up of the constant shitslinging and media manipulation.

Yeah fair play. Mad respect to the domestic and waste workers making the place looks half decent for everyone… but I can’t really hate on a guy for tidying shit into bags and selling them to people with more money than sense.

If it makes that corner of the world look a bit nicer for humans and animals alike… I can’t hate on it.

That trumpet fanfare on the TNG theme was a banger, no doubt about it.

In fairness - and I’m a massive id fanboy - the company that gave us quality games and trailblazing tech disappeared when they went to Zenimax.

The publishers admittedly treated them well at the start (Mick Gordon… less so), but this soulless bottom-line thinking was always going to hit them eventually.

Shame.

It reminds me of the fifth scene of Broken Sword - the very first sewer.

It’s beautiful.

You’re right. Deaths under that policy would have been classed as a lawful killing, and I’ve noticed that I’ve changed the OPs question erroneously. Thank you.

The question should have read “murdered within seconds and without warning”.

That’s a list of deaths directly connected to police in the UK.

Where is the evidence to support the claim that they were killed within seconds and without warning?

When?

Telling you now. A woman - and probably a guy - will appreciate a tongue far better than a dong.

And above all that: respect and communication.

my friend, I am team Pressure

I mean, wherever on the gender circle you find yourself, power tools are still fuckin’ mint

There’s very few people of a certain vintage who can’t remember hitting their chosen difficulty, watching the screen melt effect, and listening to the opening riff of E1M1 like it was yesterday.

For what it’s worth, Deep Into The Code is a banger. Civvie11’s Pro Doom opening ident captured the spirit of it wonderfully.

Good on you, friend. You stayed with her to the very end, and that is true loyalty to the last minute.

Treasure the memories, and be kind to yourself.

Was that Big Red One?

An Xbox spin off of one of the first two games?

Out of sheer interest, is it because the data was discredited or is there an ethics issue that kills a paper once it’s been cited?

Daikatana.

The first map was absolute mince, the colour tones were boring, the opening cinematics were long and tiresome, and even the whole first episode was a bit shit. The sidekicks were poorly coded and the last map was just a challenge map, especially with the game breaking bug at the end.

However…

The rest of the game was actually pretty good. The Greek episode was absolutely beautiful and excellently designed, the Norwegian episode was great fun and the soundtrack was wonderful, and the last episode was… decent, nothing great but nothing poor.

The patch fixed the bullshit sidekick pathfinding, the titular Daikatana made you feel like a fucking badass if you took the time to level it up, and the story was actually okay for the last three quarters of the game.

Moreover, if you like twitch multiplayer games - the multiplayer component is the closest to pure QuakeWorld I have ever experienced. Fast, unforgiving, great movement mechanics. It’s got a very high skill ceiling.

Unfortunately, the opening hour or four is massively substandard and sunk the entire game - John Romero’s name and the ill fated marketing campaign just made it easy fodder for people to shit on it.

Like Duke Nukem Forever, TimeShift, FEAR 2, or the Half Life expansions… it isn’t amazing… but it’s a competent FPS and does the job.

I remember when Quake Live introduced it, but it never really gained any traction.

A popular server-side mod for Counter-Strike (the 1.6 era) introduced in-map texture substitution for advertising as well… but I think it was pissed on by the community so much that it never saw widespread use.

Sounds like the time is right to try again.

Looks something fresh out of the Channelwood Age. Beautiful.

“great start, now go for the lead!” 🏁