Actually, I think that if the car is already running, the safest course of action is to floor the accelerator. There’s no way that remanding yourself into the custody of a hostile armed stranger is safer than forcing them to pop off shots at a moving target. Isn’t that what they always say about kidnapping? Better to fight/run, regardless of the weapon, than to allow yourself to be tied up and moved to a second location?
Obviously, there are different behavior expectations with a cop than with a stranger, but if we’re talking only in terms of “I believe this person would shoot at me, and I have no other information about their authority, expectations, or intentions,” I doubt that surrendering is the safer choice.
They buffed monster damage and to-hit rolls at higher levels because they didn't scale well against PCs in Paragon and Epic tier after they started collecting multiple good magic items. To my knowledge, they didn't do anything that would have changed what I was talking about, which was the comparatively bulky nature of everything as opposed to other editions that had lower HP on average, especially at lower levels.
I'm aware that 1hp minions were a feature. They were a clever idea. Functionally, however, they did not solve the issue I'm talking about. Building an adventure for a party of level 1 or 2 PCs that only includes minions is (of course) pretty boring. It also makes the at-will 3x3 AoE spells that many spellcasters get overperform, undermining the whole attempt to balance spellcasters and martial classes.
However, once you stick 2-3 30hp goblins (or kobolds, or bullywugs—this is another issue; everything at a level has about the same HP within its "role," which increases the feeling of sameness) in an encounter, then combat almost inevitably lasts a few turns longer than is welcome, just because all those hit points will need to be depleted.
4e solved some issues, and it created had some issues of its own. In particular, here’s what comes to mind for me:
It increased the base hit points, which solved the issue of low-level characters dying to one unlucky damage roll, but created the issue of making everything feel stickier. If I have to hit every goblin two or three times before it’s even “bloodied,” combat gets slower, and characters feel less heroic if even the most basic enemies can consistently tank multiple hits.
It introduced a system of “daily” and “encounter” powers for everyone. This reduced the issue of spellcasters eclipsing martial classes at high levels, but it created the issue of spellcasters and martial classes feeling similar. Forget spell slots and such, now everyone has the exact same number of special powers in play, and all classes can debuff or hit multiple enemies or move people around or whatever.
In theory, it forbids the unnatural options as well.
Besides, if I were a straight man finding myself unable to resist temptation, I think I’d have an affair with a woman well before I’d try anything with a guy, even if the latter was fully acceptable.
Hell, even the BroForce by Free Lives game was a puzzle game, even if it's a shoot em up platformer.
I think all of those are successful. Obviously, Terraria, Minecraft, and Stardew Valley are on a whole other level, but ULTRAKILL and Celeste both made plenty of money and the complaints about them are due to the dev politics, not the gameplay.
I don’t like that the trannies got a win either, and I certainly don’t approve of the post-launch retconning into trans that Celeste did, but to say that they aren’t objectively successful because of the better results of the biggest indie games of all time seems like saying that your local minor league team that has a winning record and consistently fills their small stadium isn’t successful because they’re not the Yankees or the Red Sox.
I'm fairly certain that even if young men are the biggest driver, black people of all ages and both sexes still outperform their counterparts in other demographics when it comes to violent crime. So, a black woman is less likely to be a violent criminal than a black man, but she's still more likely to be a violent criminal than a white woman.
They have lots of time warring against each other. Really, the anomaly is in how much Europeans have set aside their own historical intracontinental animosity.
The car might be mechanically secure to that speed, but I doubt most drivers are capable of managing, say, lane changes or merging or anything beyond an extremely slight turn at that speed.
I do think there are some places where it could go up to 80 though. Most highways and turnpikes, that would probably be fine.
True enough, if they kept them to admin—or maybe trained them as nurses—I don’t think there would be an issue with that. Of course, that’s counting on them to make a rational decision about sex differences and interactions between women and men….
In principle, it sounds good to make women bear the same responsibilities that men have for the power to vote, but in practice I think integrating women into the armed forces will actually decrease their effectiveness and get more men killed.
(Also, if we’re being realistic, while giving women the vote probably has some bearing on how we got to this point, at this point, I’m not convinced that the votes of men or women have any real impact on what wars we will fight).
Level set in a white-collar office. You have the option to check a fridge in the breakroom. If you do, he snags some lunch with a very white name printed on it and eats it while saying "heh heh time for some... repa-rations" to regain health.
You are correct. I misread and misunderstood what you were saying in your initial comment. I apologize for starting an argument over my misunderstanding.
“Actually, I don’t care, it’s all shit” is a bad thing to say after it’s been pointed out your knowledge is incorrect. It makes it look like you’re sulking, and certainly no one should trust your evaluation when it’s based on at least one piece of faulty knowledge.
I have no idea about the legal grounds, but the realistic answer is that the judicial system as it is would probably protect SBI regardless of legal grounds.
I guess if you went jurisdiction shopping you might be able to find a place that would give you a shot, though.
Plus there's no indication in the show that Palpatine isn't just making that up to entice Anakin. They never actually show this 'power.'
Well, aside from his mother saying in Episode One that there was no father. I don’t think the intention was for the viewer to assume she was lying about a one night stand or something.
According to her post, they’ve already been together 11 years, and in this case she’s very clearly taken his side against outside pressure. Not even a halfhearted “come on, you’re overreacting,” but a wholehearted “wow, you people are insane and I love my husband” response.
Obviously, we’ll never know for sure, but I choose to believe you are being needlessly pessimistic.
In an ironic twist I have decided we are now a pantsing house. I will pants him as often as humanly possible and I will be wearing dresses to make myself invincible.
Shit, she has the tech!
No it isn’t, those aren’t directly contradictory ideas. It’s just good general principle (“this shouldn’t be mandatory”) combined with specific issue foolishness (“it is healthy and safe”).
The doublethink version would be something like “the vaccine is untested and unsafe, and very good and healthy to take.”
Unless he's changed views quite a lot, I don't think Antonio agrees with the echo effect interpretation of "elites" and "agenda."
Damn. Fuck those guys.
I don’t know of anything like this that currently exists, but it’s definitely an interesting idea.
That Ni’qqa clan elf just stole my +2 self-pedaling bicycle!
Yeah, that could be any number of things. Could be they were sick of DEI feminist preaching (because that's what I assume most "domestic violence" talks are these days), could be they didn't think the training was a good use of work time... could even be they thought it made orthodox Jews look bad and wanted to block it because of that.