Malcador

Done with PQ SWAT. The element leader mission is like an awful QT event, still not sure why I need to hold in some places, well and what's left or right in a given screen isn't clear. Ah well, I did try SWAT 2 but I didn't really dig it, seemed unresponsive, but maybe will retry that later. From my backlog, randomly picked Space Colony HD.

https://news.sky.com/story/idf-admits-mistakenly-identifying-gaza-aid-workers-as-threat-after-video-of-attack-showed-ambulances-were-marked-13342874 "The IDF could not explain why the ambulances were also buried." That's rich.

I just find such incompetence hilarious. Must be a coping mechanism from the experience of my work 😛

Sort of amused I can't access any of my financial accounts due to the websites being down today.

https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations Makes me miss D-E proofs But note - "The price elasticity of import demand, ε, was set at 4." and " The elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs, φ, is 0.25. "

I reiterate my wish he was on time to work on 9/11.

I guess when all these random small nations make concessions, that'll be enough for a Victory. Also Iran got a lower tariff than ROK

Yes, but this isn't anything like those. You just follow orders, spend a lot of time watching training videos or reading materials on LAPD SWAT tactics in the 90s. Then go into some old lady's house and either take her into custody or give her a burst of 9mm to the chest. Just like PQ4 though, Gates' influence is still here, the cops talk straight from regulations

Their inability to understand sales tax is funny.

Police Quest SWAT. Brilliant copaganda, especially from the LAPD in the 90s Awful game though, amazing they shipped it with you doing the same 3 calls over and over. Well, at least SWAT 3 and 4 came from this.

Val Kilmer

The theme song to every Prod deployment

Just a look inside of who's advising Trump

That was pretty good, some day we'll get a better electoral system.

https://archive.ph/jTAcu Long read, and maybe a tad Red White and Blue tinted. Ukrainians seem overly cautious, and seems on both theirs and Allied sides there's a lot of dithering.

And finished Raptor. Kind of easy with the best weapon, but that makes sense. I guess on to Old World.

Well yeah, but certainly not the language's fault when a programmer doesn't know how to reference JAVA_HOME. So many instances where we have this crap, like our engine zips files, and it needs a WinSCP dll that's in C:\My Downloads|work stuff

Gameplay is ok, I am mindlessly causing things to explode. The boss fights require me to tank damage as I am old now. Takes me back where Ctrl is the fire button by default. Why Right Alt is the weapons toggle by default is odd (funny thing I often forget the right Alt and Ctrl exist)

1. Upgrade Java version on server 2. Service dies 3. Find out the path to the JRE is hardcoded. 4. Have to create a JRE 6 folder in some folder with a guy's name in it. 5. Start searching for new job.

Realized if you bail in missions in Raptor you get to keep loot. So repeatedly grinding missions to get loot, got the best weapon in the game. For some reason this reminds me of playing Diablo 2. 20 waves out of 27 done. Seems the version I have (the one from GOG you can't get anymore) is crippled with movement, too.

I once did leave my status as "Be Right Back" for 3 weeks though, before someone pointed it out to me.

Was off yesterday, checked work today to see if a #$@#%@# FTP process decided to work. Amazing to see a guy trying to power his way through my Out Of Office status in Teams, messaging me at 2 am. At least it was a productive day out, got to run into a guy who was drunk at 9:30 AM

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/104289/inzoi-team-patches-bug-that-allowed-players-to-run-over-and-kill-kids/index.html Sigh, never can have anything fun these days...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/ Can't go a week without some funny EOs "Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light. " "It is the policy of my Administration to restore Federal sites dedicated to history, including parks and museums, to solemn and uplifting public monuments that remind Americans of our extraordinary heritage, consistent progress toward becoming a more perfect Union, and unmatched record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing" I think we all know which ones he's talking about.