Supposedly the real-life SAS has had a very successful nonlethal career going many deployments without any shots fired. Their main way of operating is to flood a building with CS Gas and go in with masks - I don’t know if that makes for a good game though.

Alright, my overly-optimistic personality made me feel this was a joke against over-beauracratic bug tracking at software companies. Like, Modules 1-20 are all broken by a Schnoffer update. Okay; get an engineer to start fixing away? No, we need to carefully list each and every Module that’s broken, verify it’s broken, and give each bug a number so we can individually verify it fixed before fixing the next one.

Granted, there’s often good reasons for it that aren’t made clear, but it’s still annoying.

I’m aware of this possibility. It’s just…the bike isn’t the problem. Two bikes crash, both fine. Two pedestrians crash, both fine. Two trains crash once in a double blue moon. It’s only cars. Just cars that keep resulting in these tragedies - THEY are the cause. Not the other, non-armored-tank modes.

It harkens to the days when politics was a disagreement of “how best to help people”. Now, it’s a disagreement of whether to help people.

So how many levels of indirection is okay: (The following are sarcastic statements being made for the purposes of examples)

Banner 1: “I’M GONNA SHOOT A BABY WITH A GUN.”
Banner 2: “I support Banner 1.”
Banner 3: “I support the person holding Banner 1 and their right to make statements of any kind.”
Banner 4: “I don’t like the hyperbole of claiming that anyone is getting threatened.”
Banner 5: “I support Banner 2.”
Banner 6: “Cheese tastes good sometimes.”
Banner 7: “Both banners, including Banner 1 and Banner 6, need to tone down their rhetoric and are just as bad.”
Banner 8: “Banner 2 was attacked just for holding a banner. Free speech doesn’t exist anymore. Hostility is out of control.”

I learned one of my favorite JRPGs, Trails in the Sky, has an especially long script and runtime; in large part because it writes dialog to actually make sense of things rather than let them be said out of context for mysteriousness.

The series ends up being praised for its worldbuilding but can definitely feel boring at times. It’s a little more stomachable if you have a fast reading speed, since it has no voice acting.

I’m not claiming that bubble doesn’t exist, just explaining that they’re not ‘reasonable’ by any normal assessment. Sandy Hook happened. Columbine happened. Virginia Tech happened. Nobody that is not a teeth grinding psychopath, or employed by the firearms industry, should believe gun laws are currently in a good spot in America. And yes, I’m sadly aware plenty of them exist in America. They are all voting for Trump, even if he eats a baby’s face and heart on camera. We can’t change that, and it’s silly to try to sway them with any logic or polite appeal. They will die as psychopaths.

Good thing trains are air conditioned-OH wait, my last commuter rail train’s electrics were out…

Who out there was undecided and thought zero gun legislation is a good idea?

Granted, the specific AR-15 ban isn’t a great approach. But I can’t think of anyone who could’ve voted for him that resists looking at gun laws.

I can’t think of anybody reasonable that opposes some amount of gun legislation, even if an overly specific assault / AR-15 ban is not a good one.