aljazeera has also been under threat of shut down in israel for the last few days. not saying that report is wrong, just important to take the whole context into account.
‘clear’ according to the IDF? some other western intelligence org? clear to people with a vested interest in that narrative?
as far as i’ve seen there’s been no trustworthy analysis of it and i doubt there ever will be.
There’s a fundamental misunderstanding here that seems suspiciously like a bad faith argument.
I was in 3 car accidents over the course of three years, all of which the car I was in was totaled.
The worst of the three was one of those secondary, peak rush-hour accidents. I was on a two lane freeway (two lanes one direction, two lanes the other with a cement divider in the middle) around rush-hour with a pretty heavy amount of traffic but moving fast. I was going between 60 and 70 and in a really good mood. I’d just spent the whole day making music with one of my best friends with crazy vintage equipment and I was on my way to play a show that night. I was daydreaming and looked away from the road for a second, looked back and saw break lights. So I tapped my breaks, but then in a split second I realized those break lights were coming super fast. I did the exact wrong thing and slammed on my breaks. I don’t know exactly what happened, but I was hit from both the front and the back. I was driving a tiny two seater from the early 90s, not exactly the safest car. I felt around myself and I seems to be all in one piece. No pain anywhere. Iwas able to squeeze my way up out of the car, bewildered. I didn’t seem to have any injuries at all. The car looked like a crushed tin can. I went to the hospital just in case and it’s a good thing I did because as the shock wore off I discovered I had a bruised rib that was making it very hard to breathe. But that was my only injury. They gave me painkillers and sent me on my way.
I spent the next year in a fog of painkillers and existential despair and confusion. To this day I have trouble driving and I frequently question whether I’m actually alive or living out a dream in the dying seconds of my mind.
Doing the Lords work. Bless you.
How did you hunt griefers? Like, how did you find out they were griefing and then how did you actually track them down?
Ventpost
I will never understand gankers/griefers. Rp I’m all for, but ramming another cmdr to death, inside a station no less? What’s the point? What’s your endgame here? Do you want to play alone? Because that’s what happens. It’s weird and sad. Follow that behavior to its logical conclusion and you’ll just be blocked by everyone you interact with or banned from the game. Tf is the point of that?
I’m not very social but I enjoy playing in open because I like the feeling of the active world. It sucks when there’s someone who’s just there to be an asshole.
That is all.
Sag A* and Back Again…
Last week I finally made the trip to Sag A* I’d been wanting to do since I got the game. Pictures do not do it justice. It’s just… SO damn big.
And I saw some other pretty cool shit along the way! ! Black hole in a planetary nebula ! Biggest ring on a brown dwarf I’ve ever seen.
After that I switched to my trusty DBX so I could bust my ass all the way back to the bubble after over a year away.
Keep flying, cmdrs o7. See you in the black.
wish I could say I came up with it, but you’re welcome nonetheless! Fly safe o7
Something I realized while on that trip is that if you enjoy the exploration part of this game, you essentially enjoy roleplaying a field researcher with a dash of survival on the side. It’s tedious, boring work and you have to be really into the details of all the stuff you find to keep going.
I keep IRL notes on a lot of my finds. I stay more engaged and I can easily find the location of some interesting thing I passed.
Do it! It took an extremely long time for me, but I was also stopping and exploring constantly so that added a ton amount of time to the trip.
The combination of gratification, pride, and relief I felt completing that final jump to Colonia is hard to describe.
And the amount of stuff I FD’d along the way is mind-boggling. 100% worth it.
I second the folks I see talking up Nebula. Great shit on there.
The ones I spend the most time with are probably Fact Fiend, Animalogic, vlogbrothers, Seth Skorkowsky, XP to Level 3, Hello Future Me, Gus Johnson, Reuben Solo, Andrew Rousso, EVNautilus, David Firth, Adam Millard…
Then there’s a bunch that I only watch on Nebula now: Extra Credits/History, Legal Eagle, Nerdwriter, Adam Neely, Philosophy Tube, Innuendo Studios, Tale Foundry, Just Write, Like Stories of Old, Lindsay Ellis, RealLifeLore, TierZoo.
Then there’s this guy who just makes long, quiet videos of him interacting with stray cats. Good, good, gooooooood shit. Changed his name recently.
Finally Arrived in Colonia
After stopping and starting once or twice over the course of a year, crashing and nearly dying on an extremely high G planet, mistaking a white dwarf for a neutron star and nearly burning to a crisp, and making as few civilized pit stops as possible- yesterday I finally arrived in Colonia.
Next week I start my next journey to Sag A.
PS cmdr here! Though I admit I’m one of those “off exploring the galaxy alone” cmdrs since I’m pretty shy online.
I have been trying to push myself to change that since none of my IRL friends are in to ED, but it’s a steep hill for me to climb.
Correct me if I’m wrong but worrying about this seems silly to me, especially if you’re not a mac user. In order to be accurate the AI would have to be trained on data from the exact model keyboard you have. So you’d have to know exactly what model keyboard your target uses, and get one yourself, then record and analyze all of the keystrokes. I’m sure at some point in the future some crazy person will create a database of every keyboard known to man and then maybe all bets are off, but right now it just seems like a lot of work for something that can be achieved in other ways. Am I missing something?
Me? Me is that you?
I mean… When they’re all the same size and that size is huge and impossible to miss? Yeah. Looking at you Mass Effect.
sick dude! keep going! you’ll find a few undiscovered systems in a row and then you’ll get goin’ in the right direction you’ll be making discoveries left and right. at least, that’s been my experience so far. i kind of wish i’d taken an FC ride. it’s taken a LOOooong ass time to get where i am from the bubble!
Yeah, cut him some slack! Poor guy is an outrage slut. He couldn’t help himself. He probably sprung a raging cocktail wiener as soon as he got through the title.
