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(He's happy here I just got the picture as he was about to bark)

That is, we track number of sessions/devices using it over time.

A library is like a park, you're allowed to just. Exist in it.

I check out books every 4 weeks, when the learning period from my current books is up, but I go much more frequently with my kid to just sit there and read to them, and that's okay. In my school days, we'd go and do our research for presentations there, just reading, never checking out.

The first few weeks of having the new furniture were absolutely filled with excited librarians whispering to each other, "Look! Someone's using the desklet in the back corner!" and "casually" walking by to enjoy the sight like wildlife researchers who had successfully baited a particularly elusive rare bird. Nobody cared if those people checked anything out or not. There was a need! We saw the need! We filled the need! Hooray!

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Like with the Companions; you do one little mission from Farkas right at the beginning to beat someone up (that's what I got at least), then it's immediately "Right, time for your trial".

And I feel like an alien every time I encounter this sort of thing, because it's so antithetical to any kind of logic or self-consistent ethical framework I can wrap my brain around. It's taking the genuine virtues of mercy and valuing human life and blowing them out of proportion into grotesque parodies of themselves. The victim here is not the one responsible for the ultimate outcome.

Does that mean that we should approach everything with infinite escalation forever? Hell no! But that doesn't change that almost all 'disproportionate' escalation the victim performs is dwarfed by the act of trying to harm an innocent victim in the first place! If I take the 'total violence' of a situation from a 1 to a 3, I've tripled it, but if I take a previously non-violent situation and amp it up from 0.00000000001 to 1, I've scaled it by an insane degree that makes that factor of three look minuscule despite technically being a lesser net increase.

Also, she's an e-minx, to put it politely. A lot of her account is just sexy pics.

...Dang.

Also, when I was trying to find this tweet, I found this;

I couldn't find the actual tweet, but right-wingers often say America should respond to school shootings with better school security and improved parenting. They've cheered cops who stopped school shooters.

Which anti-gun left-wingers ignore because it's any solution other than "more gun control".

And pretend the right only wants "thoughts and prayers" instead of "exploiting a tragedy to ram through gun control anti-gun lefties wanted to pass anyway".

Well, I say "pretend", but it's quite possible that they never left their bubble.

I assumed he was red-stringing here, but the cited reason is actually because of black students being scared of cops.

The real irony is that any man who changes his views because some hot e-floozy thirst traps him is showing he didn't actually have moral convictions.

Meanwhile, not all the thirst-trapping in the world can change the fact that everyone and his cat knows nowadays that this is a surefire recipe for being viewed with contempt by every single woman in your life, and being guaranteed a permanent spot on the national friendzone register (or, even worse, the dreaded exploitationzone).

I couldn’t find the actual tweet, but right-wingers often say America should respond to school shootings with better school security and improved parenting. They’ve cheered cops who stopped school shooters.

it includes details that demand we take them seriously, that are only added so that we can take them seriously, and then it doesn't take itself seriously to the extent that if we DID take that seriously the fiction wouldn't work.

umbrella inc. is nonsensically evil, and the rhodes hill chronic care center is even more nonsensically evil than that. at least umbrella inc. was a very large company with secret facilities most employees didn't know about. rhodes hill is just the one place where every single person who works there is doing insanely evil shit to people with no remorse. how did he hire these people. what the fuck was his selection process. an even more pressing matter than "where are the toilets" is "how did nobody notice this when they visited their loved ones in hospice, as is a very very very common thing with people in hospice care"

and notes in this place go into great detail about the utterly horrific and violating things that rhodes hill did to the completely innocent and completely vulnerable people in their care. they clearly want you to take it seriously or else they would not have put it in there. they're performing brain surgery on people to change their personalities and make them monsters who are still aware of who they once were for, and I cannot stress this enough, literally no reason. you are supposed to be shocked and affected by this.

but if you were shocked and affected by this it would be so tragic you would not be able to play the game at all, much less spin-kick them and decapitate them with Leon's axe! taking the setup seriously and asking the question the game wants you to ask, "how could anyone be so evil as to do this?" results in the immediate and inevitable answer "they literally could not, this doesn't make any fucking sense and is not possible." it's a schlocky B-movie where things don't really have to make sense, why are you bothering with details, other than because we put them in for the purpose of you taking them seriously?

they want you to feel horrified by what Umbrella did to helpless children but also has them as all giggling red-eyed Spooky Zombie Killer Girls from a 2005 Newgrounds horror flash game. they want you to feel horrified by the industrial scale at which Gideon is processing bodies in the basement, they want you to take it seriously in terms of presenting how evil it is but not take it seriously in terms of "how the fuck does this make a lick of sense how does he have this many people from a medical center that is supposed to hold people for a long time."

The set of a spaceship interior is built for set convenience and relatability and entertainment, and we accept an unrealistic layout as part of the suspension of disbelief because realistic spaceship sets would be annoying to produce and boring to watch in many ways, often in ways relating to gravity or air.

Then the show temporarily switches to treating the set as an exact representation with physical realism and a problem that has to be solved under the constraints of set placement, even though applying this standard elsewhere would result in the alleged spaceship vanishing in a puff of logic.

Speaking of Firefly and selectively taking its own setting seriously,

Wash: "Psychic? That sounds like something out of science fiction." Zoe: "We live in a spaceship, dear."

The depicted interior has spacious, pressurized rooms everywhere, connected by large hallways, because that's what's easy to make on a set, and it means actors can walk around the ship and be seen by the audience with easy camera placement.

CO₂ scrubbers are real.

If they're using an absorbent-based capture scrubber, it would make plenty of sense to have the fire kill their scrubber supplies - or just generate enough CO₂, they don't have enough absorbent to solve the problem.

I don't think they are, though, not if they can scale up to transport cattle.

But there are other scrubbers - nuclear submarines IRL can stay submerged effectively indefinitely, their scrubbers work so long as there's nuclear power. If a fire kills their power, it'll kill their scrubbers in the exact same moment it generates a bunch of CO₂ (and CO) that they have to deal with.

In the same direction: Spacious room is precious in IRL space because you're optimizing for ΔV, and IRL military vehicles because nobody is optimizing for luxuries. IRL regular ships are kind of cramped but you can have large rooms. If you accept the sci fi engines, you can definitely launch a larger hab module.

>having no spare parts aboard because spare parts are for real spaceships not studio sets,

Hang on. I distinctly recall that Kaylee had bought up the damaged part several times before that episode, and Mal kept pushing it down the priority list.

>making the emergency vent for the engine room go through the cargo bay,

Which is the largest exterior access on the ship, yes. Cargo bays generally have nothing but cargo. It's also right next to the engine room, and there's a non-zero chance a fire would start in the cargo bay itself.

Wait, I just checked Fandom, and it doesn't say the cargo bay is the 'official' vent for the engine room, just that it's what Mal used in the moment.

>not wearing a spacesuit because that would obscure the actor's face and make him harder to relate to,

Jamie rigged up a spacesuit in case Mal needs it, IIRC. And, again, Mal Reynolds. He does a lot of stupid, emotional things.

>or the gravity can work without power, which breaks the setting.)