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Time to date myself. ADVENT.EXE go building get lamp get keys get bottle XYZZY

I said this later in the thread, but just to be absolutely clear - I do not think the shooting was justified. When I asked those questions of SFLU I was just confirming that he meant what he said; that the only situation where lethal force might be justified was if the attacker was armed. That's all. The attacker knocked the shooter to the ground and started advancing on him. The shooter drew his gun. If he had shot him right at this moment I might feel differently. But as soon as the weapon was shown, the attacker backed off and began walking away. As soon as the attacker is moving away the immediate risk of death/serious injury is nullified; showing the weapon was enough to end the threat. From this point on, firing the weapon was unnecessary and unjustified. The shooter should've stood up, moved away, and called the police.

v5.10 update was pushed out this morning! Here's a summary of the patch notes affecting Battle Royale: Birthday Event You can now find birthday cakes placed around the map with consumable slices next to them. Enjoy those tasty treats! Cake slices give +5 health and +5 shield instantly when consumed. Complete three birthday event challenges to unlock a new emote, spray, and Backbling. The Battlebus and Supply Drops have been decorated to celebrate Fortnite's First Birthday Playground Mode is Back Players can now switch teams in-game. Join the same team to work together creatively, join separate teams to practice fighting each other! Note: Voice chat will remain on across all teams, future iterations of the mode will offer more customization. Aim assist will work when using a gamepad against players on an opposing team. Matches will no longer end if one player leaves the server. Golf carts have been added and spawn 100% of the time. Ammo cans spawn 10x the amount of ammo. Removed grey vending machines, increased the chances of higher-tier machines spawning. Increased launch & bounce pads spawn likelihood. Lowered forced glider deploy height, so players can get back into the action more quickly. Increased max rocket ammo cap to 60. Increased rocket ammo drop rates. Added 100 Supply Drops. Chests now spawn 3 weapons and more ammo & consumables than normal. Floor loot now spawns 3 items. Increased Chug Jug and Slurp Juice spawn chances, decreased Bandages. Added Chug Jugs to floor loot. Respawn timer lowered from 10s to 3s. Weapons and Items Compact SMG added. Available in Epic and Legendary variants. 23-24 base damage. Uses Light Ammo. 50 round capacity. Can be found from floor loot, chests, Supply Drops, and Vending Machines. Slurp Juice now grants 1 health every 0.5 seconds, up to a total of 75. If health is full, shield will be granted instead. Supply Drop loot rates adjusted. Weapons (drops 1) Assault Rifles to 25% from 14.2%. Explosives to 25% from 28.5%. Compact SMG 14.58%. Sniper Rifles to 14.58% from 28.5%. Heavy Shotgun to 10.42% from 7.1%. Minigun to 10.42% from 14.2%. Removed Hand Cannon, Dual Pistols, and Silenced Pistol. Traps (drops 2) Launch Pad to 44.44% from 9.6%. Cozy Campfire to 33.33% from 7.5%. Bouncer to 22.22% from 15%. Removed Damage Traps. Consumables (drops 2) Shield Potion to 20% from 19.1% Small Shield Potion to 17.50% from 12.7% Med Kit to 13.75% from 6.3% Slurp Juice to 11.25% from 5.11% Clinger to 10% from 6.3% Remote Explosives to 10% from 3.3% Impulse Grenade to 10% from 4% Chug Jug to 7.5% from 2.1% Removed Boogie Bombs, Grenades, Bandages, Stink Bombs, Port-a-Forts, and Bush. Materials (drops 2) Wood to 33% from 47.6%. Stone to 33% from 35.7%. Metal to 33% from 16.6%. Gameplay changes Changes to building materials. Wood wall starting health to 80 from 100. Stone wall starting health to 80 from 90. Wood wall max health to 150 from 200. Metal wall max health to 500 from 400. Metal build time to 25s from 20s. Storm Circle changes. Safezone 2 wait time to 120 from 150. Safezone 2 shrink time to 120 from 90. Safezone 4 wait time to 90 from 120. Safezone 6 wait time to 60 from 90. Safezone 7 wait time to 45 from 60. Safezone 8 wait time to 30 from 60. Safezone 9 wait time to 30 from 45. Added moving circle to Safezone 6. Added "Sprint By Default" option, when enabled this makes sprint the default movement. The sprint key will now be used to transition into walking. Newly-placed building pieces will now appear in a different color while players are still overlapping the structure. Improved handling of collision when building pieces are placed right on top of a player. It's much more likely for players to be moved outside of newly-placed structures. Pickaxe damage against enemy and ally player built structures increased to 75 base damage and 150 critical damage. The slow motion and confetti effects for a Victory Royale will now play for the winner regardless of how they win the game. Changing the gyro motion of the Nintendo Switch to rotate around the roll instead of the yaw. This is intended to allow for the users to be able to hold the device in any situation and always have the motion react according to the screen direction instead of being in the Switch's world space. Bug Fixes Fixed an issue causing bullets and projectiles to be blocked by invisible collision. This was being caused by player placed map markers Autorun can now be used while in vehicles. Fixed a logic issue in the autorun canceling code. This should also fix autorun canceling when releasing the stick while using a gamepad. Changed the button layout for Old School and Quick Builder configs so that the “change seat” action button is not the same as the “powerslide” button. Sniper rifle bullets no longer incorrectly stop when passing through certain trigger volumes. Eliminating players will now properly grant challenge progress. If the same player knocks out and eliminates an enemy with two different weapons, they will get elimination quest progress for both weapons. Players will no longer get stuck in the coasting state if they change seats while in a vehicle. Pickaxes will no longer stretch and appear incorrectly if the slow-motion effect plays while players are riding in a vehicle. Fixed an issue where a player would not have a weapon out if hitting a bounce pad into a jump pad under certain network conditions. Players will no longer hold weapons while emoting if they’re riding in an All Terrain Kart. Players will no longer fall through floor or pushed through walls when placing or editing structures. Remote Explosives will now only show damage numbers when damage is done to players. Vehicles can no longer be flipped while standing on top of them. This fixes the issue where players would sometimes become stuck or teleported if standing on a vehicle that flipped. Crouching is no longer allowed while emoting. The Wave emote, emoticons, and sprays will now continue to play even if you’re moving. Many more changes came with this including audio changes and bug fixes, UI updates, art and animation fixes, and improvements to replays and for mobile users, and a big update for Save the World players. Full patch notes can be read at https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/patch-notes/v5-10?sessionInvalidated=true

How're y'all liking Strahd. That's going to be the next one I run.

As both a M:tG player and a D&D player and DM this is marketed right at me. On one hand Ravnica is a neat setting; a world of cities, literally. There is little to no undeveloped land. And the various guilds can make for some cool NPC interplay. On the other hand I'm hip deep in two Forgotten Realms campaigns right now and don't see myself halting them for a new setting anytime soon. It may be one I pick up down the road, or maybe just to read for the lore and not actually play.

Such reading. :P

The only thing that stops a bad guy with Krav Maga is a good guy with Krav Maga. ...or ninjas.

I would love to see the pitch he gives these people to convince them to be on the show.

In that instance I was just clarifying SFLU's statement that the assailant being armed is the only reason to respond with deadly force. I wouldn't expect most people to behave rationally in any of those situations.

I agree.

Pretty much, yeah. It was a bad situation and he was understandably angry, but they have policies in place for dealing with abusive customers and he didn't follow them. Home Depot should've given more consideration to the context of the situation and their employee's years of apparently excellent service, but yeah..the employee reacted badly.

Oh yeah not equally poorly by any stretch. Sorry if I accidentally implied that. Racist asshole, completely no excuse. Employee, broke company policy and made a low key threat, but it was understandable given the situation. Company should've taken the provocation into consideration and been willing to go to bat for their employee, but I can also see why they took the route they did.

All 3 parties (Home Depot, the employee, and the racist asshole) acted poorly IMO.

I like my job and get satisfaction from the results of my work. The day-to-day gets kind of tedious and dealing with organizational politics gets old, but at the end of the day I like what I do. The money is certainly nice; I wouldn't work for free or anything. But ultimately I'm content.

After it happened on my first PS4 controller, I got these nub covers and they work great. I've picked up a pair for every new controller I've gotten.

That's great. I thought I was making up a word because I couldn't come up with the right one. It sounds like a made up word. Yeah, wow. Even if it wasn't an inspector I've never understood how people can advocate deadly force in response to a property crime. I mean, if someone breaks into your home at night while your kids are sleeping or it's a home invasion type scenario...then yeah. It sucks but you have to protect your family. But I've heard people argue that you should shoot like..trespassers on your lawn or someone breaking into your car. I just don't get that.

I generally agree with this, but I have a tough time making that call for other people. I can see the argument that if you can only respond with equal opposing force, then you run into situations where overwhelming force can applied before you can respond. You're helpless against an attacker because you had to let it escalate to the point where it was too late before being able to respond with force sufficient to end the attack. In principle though, I agree. A shove doesn't deserve a lethal response and a standard of...reasonableness (I don't have a good word here) should have to be met before resorting to deadly force to stop someone. "I felt threatened" should not be an excuse to kill someone.

Yeah but what if the cue isn't lacquered properly so it's all splintery.

Any Angry Bird rip-off with Link sling-shotting Deku Nuts into structures filled with moblins.

I wholeheartedly agree.

I'm not attempting to justify anything. I was asking for opinions. All I asked was if people thought lethal force in self defense was ever OK and if it was where was the line for them. SFLU said his line was basically only if an attacker had a weapon, so I gave him those examples to clarify if he really meant only if the attacker was armed. He said still yes, which is all cool, and that was the end of it. You're reading something into it that I didn't intend.

Well, I think that's a little different, but OK cool.

I use my PS4 and XBone on my basement and main living room TVs, and a Chromecast on my bedroom TV.

I agree. This wasn't a case where lethal response was justified.