As an old and broken skateboarder, I would love nothing more than a pump track within driving distance.

There are some great parks, but nothing with enough flow that I can just carve around to work up a sweat without have to push or climb a ramp to drop in all the time.

Oh I know it has happened, and those type incidents are why the UCMJ now explicitly has the don’t do illegal shit clause.

I was talking here to the 2k or so that deployed recently in LA.

No Marine obeyed an illegal order, and that’s the whole point of this thread.

They were used in a very narrow scope as defined by law, protecting specific government buildings.

It was Trump being a bully and grandstanding, but other than the optics we’re talking about, it was really a lame event.

The vast majority of the 2k Marines did what Marines always do when they don’t have specific orders on a shit deployment, the sat around or caught up on rack time.

Not wringing my hands, in fact I never stated whether I was actually against Trump bombing cities, I just answered what was stopping him.

That was the question, and the answer is still the same.

As far as my lifting a finger? Well, short of the usual civic duties like voting and such, I’m not getting involved.

The chances of me personally firebombing anything is functionally 0.

I certianly expect someone else to handle this for me, the men and women of the US military who aren’t going to a US city into fucking Dresden.

My suggestion was to rely on the mechanism which has handled this type of issue without fail since day one.

Yours is to encite random acts of partisan violence.

I’m going stick with my plan thanks.

Well, let’s see.

It won’t be his moral fiber.

It won’t be China or Russia the only two military powers that have a chance to have any influence on CONUS affairs.

Maybe his desperate desire for public approval as I suspect major ordinance dropped on a US population center isn’t going to poll well, but I’d hate to count on that.

Me? Stop the president from doing literally anything? You vastly over estimate my powers.

If your point is that this mechanism won’t work, then I’m assuming your point is that nothing can stop Trump.

Doesn’t mean my answer was wrong or clueless, only that the means to stop him has failed.

If you think something else is stopping him, I’d be very curious what that might be.

Remind me again how many Marines opened fire on civilians.

The chain of command goes from the secretary of defense all the way down to the most junior enlisted personnel.

You seem to assume I meant the joint chiefs or some small hand full of senior commanders.

Generals don’t pull the trigger, and as someone else pointed out, the logistics involved with bombing a city includes hundreds of service members.

Not sure where you get off calling me clueless as my initial response exactly answers the original question.

If not for honorable service members respecting their oaths and the UCMJ, there is literally nothing stopping Trump from bombing Chicago or LA.

He is commander in chief of the US military.

The US military stresses disobeying illegal orders.

So the simple answer is the US military chain of command respecting their oath to the constitution over loyalty to Trump.

That ok, it’s not doable for me to pay for music, movies, and video games I won’t own.

As one of the youngest siblings, I distinctly remeber being not welcome.

Either a veterinarian or an architect. Ended up in tech, but should have architect in my title with my next promotion.

Ubisoft is the first company that comes to mind when I worry about games going offline.

I’ve talked about it before, but I have something like $2k sunk into Rocksmith 2014 and associated peripherals. I’m not aware of any other game like it for bass guitar, and the new service model of Rocksmith looks like AI shit.

If / when they take down the servers is going to be a very sad day for me.

Lost a lot of cool old stuff in a fire a few years ago, so I’m guessing my original N64.

I was finishing testing one of the largest system I’ve built for our company, and a coworker puts zombo.com up on the giant screens. Haven’t had that good a laugh at work in a while. Should have realized it didnt use flash since our machines block flash.

Nice to know you can still do anything.

That, and the meta data shows the files were edited in Adobe

With the obscure language I use for work, I do tend to keep each system to a single file, even though includes and modules are supported.

Granted, they are generally between 500 and 5000 lines, and are usually written from scratch.

That being said, there is a 0 percent chance I’m going to be feeding anything I write into Grok.

This isn’t a problem, as it is well known that Adobe Premiere is not designed to modify video.

KCD is unique, personally I love it. In some ways it’s kind of the dark souls of first person RPG. The systems are at times a bit clunky, combat is hard, complex, and both you and your character need a lot of training to be profficient.

But that’s the fun of the game. Henry is a useless lump at the start, and you mold him in to what you want.

Personally, I love hardcore challenging single player games, and few in recent years match KCD.

I dont have a system to play KCD2 yet, but from everything I’ve seen, the developer doubled down and kept the majority of the systems in place, just adding scale and polish.

I’m sure the first one is on discount these days, and highly recommend it.