I wouldn’t be surprised. But, I suspect there’s also a factor of just implausibility. Apparently, the main vessel they use is “experimental”, so it may just literally be impossible to have a recovery vessel without being a literal government.

My money’s on this being the result of someone ignoring the “hey, these are not good conditions” warnings.

One of the other posts in the feed makes it sound like they only do it a handful of times a year, and that cost is covering a multi-day excursion since they have to wait for conditions to be right. Still, no excuse to not have contingencies, but I think their take gets eaten into a fair bit more than the raw math would suggest.

So, in the live feed the BBC has going, there’s a post suggesting that a group of “explorers” were apparently on board based on one of them’s Facebook feed, so it’s safe to say they probably had the full passenger set on there.

BBC’s also got a live feed going for this.

Apparently, the sub’s supposed to have a suite of systems to more or less warn the pilot if things are looking dicey, so hopefully this is a communications problem and not something worse.

Because if you let women have authority, people might start believing things like “men are not automatically good without needing to actually do good things” and “authority isn’t instantly derived from the circumstances of your birth but instead based on your merits as a leader”.

I mean, I know why I haven’t yet in spite of also having played the game since beta.

… It’s because I’m lazy and hate grinding for materials.

True Pacifist Undertale just the other day. Which, to be fair, took me something like two years to get around to doing because I was way too lazy to deal with some of the ending fights of Neutral route.

Now I have the itch to go back and play EarthBound again… Which may be related to the lo-fi Mother 2 mix that got posted earlier today over in the Music community.

Depends on what catches his attention. But, if you’re looking to stay Switch-only, the retro games that come with Switch Online may be worth the money for the subscription, even if you don’t use the actual online components. That’ll at least get you the classic Zeldas (which are generally manageable even for a youngin’) and the old Marios, with the former being solid for discussing things like “where should we go next” and solving the puzzles of individual rooms.

Exactly. Or even just a “They didn’t nab me, so I must be important enough to protect” for the ones who are deep in the paint.

I’m sure there’s at least gonna be a couple of eyes looking out for that because they are exactly the kind of people who’d show up to this expecting no one’ll arrest them.

You mean the same Luke Skywalker who threw his lightsaber away while confronting the most powerful men in the galaxy on board their planet-killing superweapon? And also tried to talk down the ruthless crime lord who had both his sister and her boyfriend as hostages? :P

I think you’re underestimating Picard. Like, not only was the man a wild punk in his youth before Starfleet straightened him out, but it’s shown throughout the series that he’s more than capable of bluffing opponents with access to things like literal time travel.

If nothing else, if he fights Luke, he’s not going to fight on Luke’s terms if he can help it.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it “security through obscurity” so much as just the nature of a web that isn’t all in a few big baskets.

Besides, it’s a knife that cuts both ways: the barriers to fluid movement means the worst people are kinda just stuck festering in a handful of places and everyone eventually learns where they are. Like, the big basket-style web has been a boon for fascists and their ilk in large part because there’s lower barriers to entry and its possible to build a funnel from normal/mainstream boards to the more radicalized ones through intermediary communities.

But, when everyone knows, for instance, that something like Voat or Stormfront is where all the vitriolic racists are, there’s kinda an upper limit to how easily they can lure people in since eventually they’ve gotta drag you there or else you’ll probably slip away from the indoctrination, and that often means tipping their hands just a bit too soon to get past the “wait a moment, these guys are terrible people” filters.

Depends on the bot and its target subs. Some subreddits are set up to restrict posting below a certain karma line, so bots aimed at those will do stuff like posting to their own profile—to get around, say, a moderation tool that’ll auto-ban accounts that post in “free karma subreddits”—to build up the needed karma to post wherever. Those are the ones I assume @Kay_Angel is thinking of

But, a bot that’s aimed at a less restrictive community wouldn’t need to jump through the hoops so would work a lot more directly.

I suspect the answer is that there’s probably a depressing number of authentic human adults who just are like that, and it creates a feedback loop/spiral where people are pushed into being more aggressive/vitriolic as a defense mechanism.

The real problem, I think, is the ease with which those individuals can hop between communities/be directed toward communities particularly sensitive to their brand of bile on social media sites. I know there’s a lot of talk out there about making on-boarding to Fediverse stuff easier, but realistically, being able to layer several barriers along the way (e.g. finding an instance to join, finding an instance to harass without getting either yourself banned or your entire instance defederated) will go a long way toward limiting the influx of bad actors.

Seriously. If you enjoyed the X series and like roguelites in any form, 30XX (and 20XX, the first game in the series) are easily worth picking up. And even if you only like one of those things, I’d say give 'em a shot because I can’t think of many games I’ve played that feel as good when you really get rolling.

Y’know, I never thought about how old he was until now. But, I guess it’s because the “Unabomber” sketch was a lot younger-looking than he actually was.

I wanna say I’m gonna be fiddling with TotK or a replay of Oblivion…

But I’m probably gonna wind up just playing 20 Minutes 'til Dawn all weekend trying to beat max darkness with the new weapons that released two days ago. 😅

Definitely do! And feel free to ping me if you have any thoughts to share. I’m never gonna complain about talking shop when it comes to that system. :P

Oh, the D&D game’s been an absolute side-splitter! :D

I’m the party’s Cleric, so I’ve basically become the group’s straight-man/responsibility compass so that everyone else can just make repeated questionable choices. Like our middle-aged poison specialist who keeps trying to find flavors that are both delicious and might kill her, or our plasmoid who has to be reminded that they are not allowed to eat people we take as prisoners, or our dynamic duo of a warlock and paladin that keep finding new and exciting ways to get in trouble with the local authorities. All while we do things like discover a lost civilization while trying to catch a rare giant scorpion for its meat or thwart pirates while trying to make it to a diplomatic conference we’re cooking the meals for.

And, yeah, Worlds Without Number is a blast. There’s even a free edition if you wanna give it a peek sometime. The entire xWN line is basically my system of choice (since the games themselves are generally mechanically compatible even if they’re fit for different genres).