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!” 🏁

I knew a guy who had a homing beacon.

He’d put away a quantity of alcohol that would be fatal to most elephants, the switch would flick, and he would just fuck off. No warning, no goodbyes, nothing.

He’d either get a taxi, hitchhike, walk, or fuck knows what to get the 30 miles back home. Sometimes it was with his belongings. Sometimes we’d return them to him the following day.

It was scarily impressive… once you knew he was safe!

Question 2: where can I find this “Matt”? To ask him these questions, of course.

The UK policing system isn’t perfect, but the whole “two tier policing” is just a dog whistle for the gammon brigade.

…and are we fuck taking law enforcement advice from the fucking Americans of all countries!

Enjoy the time bro. Bonding time is never wasted.

I was reading the Careless People book about Meta.

One thing that stood out to me was the presentation of the tech early birds or the folk who dodged the dotcom bubble bursting - she specifically used the term “economically insensitive”. People who made their money from big tech’s initial offerings and their own shares going through the roof, being set up for life, and basically working for the love of the game.

It’s wild. If I’d gotten to the point where I’d paid off the mortgage and had enough in the buffer to catch any unexpected bills or travel costs or whatever, then yeah maybe I’d go geese farming or otter rehoming or llama cuddling or something.

Ah fair enough. Makes sense that it’s something straightforward. Cheers.