CodexArcanum

You shouldn't eat precious minerals little loot bug!

Awesome it has motion controls too so when you scratch your nose or wave a fly away, you'll be able to enjoy accidentally calling random people, turning the radio volume way up, or maybe even putting on the e-brake! All without having to look away from the "road" (which you can't see due to a sudden pop-up ad featuring the return of dancing Bonzai buddies!)

Animals in captivity pace their living areas, an expression of anxiety.

But also an ADHD thing, I do this all day while thinking or on the phone. I have to turn off my camera for meetings because I tend to wander in and out of frame while I listen and ponder.

Shrödinger's Roll

Look, this isn't a diceocracy, its a dicetatorship. If they can't roll right, perhaps they have no place in our society.

People in this thread apparently aren't paranoid enough or have some ridiculously optimistic beliefs about the US and surveillance policing.

Here's an article about how the police in my city (New Orleans) worked a secret deal with spy company Palantir to consolidate data from numerous sources to create a crime-prediction system that we've been the unwitting beta testers of. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predictive-policing-tool-new-orleans-nopd

And here's a page from my own city government bragging about the same: https://nola.gov/next/homeland-security/topics/real-time-crime-center-en/

I can't find the story now, but at one time (less than 10 years ago), Palantir and NOPD were working a deal that would require the CCTV feeds from every bar and restaurant in the city to be fed into the "crime control center" which would have instantly made NOLA the most surveilled city on earth. The citizens voted down the bill that would have made it happen, but there was no technical limitation. I'm not convinced they don't have secret access to them anyway.

Police can also subpoena camera operators for footage. This happens with Ring doorbells, Amazon is only too happy to hand over footage from the camera on your front door to the police.

If you are buying cameras for yourself, any video that goes "to the cloud" is now government property. Very few companies have the desire or power to deny their host government's or their police's access to the video. If the cloud is in the USA then our spys already have it. Keep your video local or sync it through your own networks.

If the camera is attached to a business though, you should just assume that government can look through it.

Look, I understand that phrenology is racist junk science, but you can't tell me that if those two walked into the same coffee shop as you, you wouldn't at least be a little suspicious that they've kidnapped and forced some children into slave labor. They've got the look!

They say there are no asexuals in fox holes

I wish I could still get Qorn nuggets locally. They're so damn good, like how good chicken nuggets tasted as a child. Honestly way better in every regard than an actual nuggie.

I see blue armor, scout just needs to grapple out! Now when you're a gunner and out of lines, ah, that's true cruelty!

Absolutely. Pandemic "inflation" threw all kinds of prices too high and nothing is coming back down because most industries are so small that they're all essentially oligarchies now.

I am dead certain that the pandemic has actually put the US into a hard recession which the Fed has been covering up with various tricks. I'm pretty sure that after the presidential election, whichever way it goes, the economy is going to tank.

Seems like the feature freeze for 4.3 is still in effect. I imagine they won't merge it in until they start compiling features for the next build. Good for them though, the feature they paid for is finally coming!