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Time to stop using lemmy.world communities, fellas.

  • It is the reason I have one of those electric swatters. The fuckers get near my sink, I just start lazily waving the swatter over the area and get them all.

  • I just got bit in the ass by bitlocker when my laptop motherboard died. I had to do the unsafe bootloader hack to get back into the drive.

  • Fucking poe's law. I thought you were serious until the last sentence. Even the idea of being made whole isn't something beyond what some fuckers would claim.

  • I don't know if you'd consider visual novels a game, but even if the 'character' you're playing is a male, the feminine aspects come out really well in Doki Doki Literature Club.

  • Depends on the safe, but the people executing a search warrant, if it's a proper search warrant, will either take the safe with them or stay there until it is opened. The locksmith is also (likely) going to be covered because he was acting at the direction of the police. That means he's going to drill it, and probably won't be looking at the search warrant as confirmation. A proper search warrant means you're fucked unless the cops do something stupid, like looking in your cupboard when the search is for a cow.

    It's bogus how heinous the government can be over small crimes.

  • A year, lol. Most places have you on the street within a month of being hired, and you are placed with something called a field training officer, FTO. Any will laugh you out of the area as a poser if you're trying to infiltrate their social lives to gather intel to use if you use TO. The field training phase lasts for 4 months at most. Cops cycle in and out of the job so fast they would never be able to afford a full year of training.

    They also don't use cops who have had tons of complaints. Those get given desk duty. The field trainers are the ones who know how to 'write good,' so they can criticize the reports that the rookies write. The rookies, mind you, are given all the shit cases that the others don't want to work on, allegedly so the rookies can get experience in writing a bunch of different reports.

    The bit about other departments not giving you a chance if you're failed from a training phase is mostly true, but remember that the whole 'desperate for new cops' thing means the small places will hire you if you can breathe without wheezing, and sometimes even if you get out of breath walking to the donut store counter.

    Remember kids, knowing is half the battle! don't use this info in casual conversation to shmooze a cop you meet at the bar or a party to pick up details on their agency >.> <.<

  • I almost wish 1984 was the reality, but it's a horrible mix of 1984 and Brave New World. Rather than just being oppressed due to fear of your comrades turning you in, like 1984, we also get people happily ignoring everything bad to get their fix of the fixed slice of the world presented to them.

    If it was just 1984, at least I'd have hope that enough people could see the problem, rise up against the problem, and not have to contend with the contented masses that just want the status quo.

  • A kid is riding a dirt bike through the woods one day and gets garroted on an invisible glass wire dangling between two trees

    In an interesting tangent, that's actually a thing in brazil. If I remember, there are laws in place that make it illegal to operate a motorcycle without a wire cutter on it.

  • today is only 'conservative' thanks to one very prolific poster. Some of us are sane. Block 'that' user (and all the alts, I guess) and the community he posts in.

    Hmm, I don't know if I can do the bang within a hyperlink, so here !conservative@lemmy.today

  • I've been playing through the first one. It's definitely a good time.

  • Never let your kidnapper take you to a secondary location.

  • I still get emails from AmeriCorps every now and then. It was a fun year of camping in a tent and maintaining trails and such in remote parks, and then another fun year of working in an impoverished school with families who needed help applying for aid. It is mind boggling that these idiots think the best way of saving money is cutting people from the workforce who make a stipend (not even a wage, so it can be fucked with in taxes even more) of something like $11,000 a year... and thus losing labor that makes a large impact down the road.

  • Best simulator ever. And then you find the mods.

  • War thunder for planes, world of warships for ships, tanarus for tanks (obviously in the push mode, the only battle mode worth fighting).

  • Probably my favorite thing is that I haven't seen any posts from that account in a while. Is it still up and running?

  • People got IP banned all the time. How would they do that based on a post if there wasn't IP data connected to the messages? Combine with text being small storage size, and I can't believe that anyone over the age of 22 thought that there was any true anonymity from the backend.

  • I think the best WoD game I've seen was a 2 player game on a forum. Both of them put a lot of effort into their characters, and the DM just built a beautiful setting out of detroit. The way the spirit reflected the physical, and how the npc interactions built the story was just so cool to read.

  • Our best was 4e. The absolutely locked down mechanics let our poor permanent DM plan things out really well, and I got in some lovely character stuff.

    Fate was also pretty good. The looseness let the DM sort of lead the sessions into quasi-not combats even if that approach was taken.