I can see rego plates in the picture, are they not linked to anyone? Ticket the owner, it’s not rocket science.

One way

Same as usual, sleep and then night shift. Work is a lot quieter than normal and pays more, so I’m not complaining (well, except that the supermarket closed at 6 instead of 9 so I didn’t have a chance to pick up something for dinner).

I didn’t know the royal show was on either, I’ve been meaning to go to it at least once in my adult life. I remember as a kid getting dragged around all the boring stuff before finally making it to the rides & showbags, but I think I might be more interested now.

Well, no he didn’t. Not really. I haven’t heard it (and don’t intend to) but according to the quotes in this article he didn’t do that at all.

“The problem is the companies, if they are being pressured by the government – so if that’s real – and if people on the right are like ‘yeah, go get ’em,’ oh my God, you’re crazy. You’re crazy for supporting this because this will be used on you,” he said.

If, if, if. Wouldn’t want to risk upsetting anyone would you?

Unfortunate shadows on Bret’s pants there

Sorry, you’ve misunderstood, I don’t disagree about any of that. I was talking about your use of car ownership as a comparison to gun ownership. It’s something I see come up a lot in gun rights arguments and it’s always seemed so unreasonable to me because of the difference I mentioned being so vital (perhaps because I live in a country much less… enthusiastic about guns). There’s no reason for us to have that particular discussion and I have zero interest in doing so, I just took issue with your comparison, that’s all.

I see your point about the LAMF thing, but that’s such a dishonest comparison. Your post history seems reasonable enough so I’m hoping you won’t just be a dick about this. The difference is cars aren’t a tool specifically for killing people. You’re even changing the context in your comparison, this isn’t a drunk driver killing a dude, it’s someone intentionally hitting a man with their car. When the US gets a global reputation for being the place kids constantly take their parents’ cars to school to kill other kids it’ll be a fine point, until then it’s hurting your case.

For the record, I’m not condoning or celebrating this either. I’m not going to mourn the prick, but I don’t support openly murdering people and see no appeal in laughing or joking about it.

According to the final results screen it took 22.5 hours to complete the 4 main maps 100% and then do what’s presented as the final challenge to hit the credits, but I definitely took my time. Not sure how much postgame content there is. If I end up restarting (I haven’t had a day off since then to get into anything) I should be able to do things a lot quicker. A pretty major theme of the game is the pursuit of efficiency.

A lot of my stress lately has been work-related, and let’s just say I might have a lot of free time coming up to play Pokémon, I should know next week :/

I don’t know much about it because I try to avoid seeing anything and go into games blind, but the Internet has an infuriating need to know everything about upcoming games which makes that very difficult. I am looking forward to Z-A though, it should be fun.

I’ve just been playing Pokémon and Pikmin 4 for the last month or so because I’ve been so stressed that I can’t handle anything more intellectually demanding.

I beat the main story of Pikmin 4 yesterday with no deaths, I’d reload every time anyone died. The final status screen listed 2 deaths, which I’m 100% certain didn’t happen. I guess they must have been from when I played the demo back in June. Now I need to get jnto postgame stuff, but it’s kind of ruined for me. I’ll probably start over instead :( I know it doesn’t make a difference, but still.

Pokémon is just shiny hunting in outbreaks because it’s easy and mindless. I have a good 40-50 mons trained for raids and 90+ combat-ready, but standing in the field and pressing the auto-battle button is about as much ss I’m up for these days. At last count I had around 340 or so shinies, so the living dex is coming along.

Interesting colour scheme, I wonder how they came up with it

I’m sure Corey Comperatore will be relieved to find out the assassin had blanks.

I’m aware, but since Lucha Underground I’ve never really been interested, I just find it all fascinating to read about.

You know, sometimes I miss watching wrestling. Then I hear, like, anything about it and know I made the right choice.

For example according to Wikipedia Roman Reigns is “Regarded as one of the best professional wrestlers in the world.” When I quit he was unwatchable and said he didn’t really care about it but it was an easy paycheck because of his family. Apparently he held a major title for over 3 consecutive years. Glad I missed it.

Wow, how prestigious. I was going to make a joke about it being up there with the one Gillberg held for a year and a half, but at least the Light Heavyweight belt had a respectable history. Maybe I’m just getting old and grumpy.

What is a Xitter-exclusive title?

Even with that name I didn’t realise this was actual competition, the part about betting just made it click. I’m no longer interested in seeing how badly this flops, I just don’t care any more. Good luck to the wrestlers I guess, I’m out.

…Unless it’s not competition and they are talking about betting on scripted stuff, in which case I’m back in so damn hard.

Well once you’ve seen 20 of them they have to try pretty hard to get you excited. It’s just alright, let’s see what Kofi is going to do this time (or who was it before that, Johnny Nitro?), who’s the big guy who’s going to get ganged up on by 6 people then throw them all off dramatically, who’s going to have a tantrum and cheat, let’s just get these boxes checked so we can go home.

I’m at the point where I’ll get vaguely enthusiastic about wanting to watch the next Royal Rumble in about June or July, then by the time January rolls around I’ll almost certainly have forgotten completely. Either that or I’ll have it spoiled for me somewhere between the event & getting a chance to hang out with my sister to watch it, which puts us off (because 99% of the roster is now either someone we’ve never heard of, or someone we dislike). I honestly can’t remember the most recent WWE show of any kind that I saw, it might have been the Rumble Rollins won.

Don’t bother, check their history. Absolutely not worth engaging with them.

You know, it says “women” but one of the incidents mentioned is a 12-year old. It seems like their issues are never actually about protecting women or children, but surely that can’t be the case can it?