MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

author=SnowOwl
I always leave my projects unlocked, cuz you know I don't make any money of off this thing anyway so why the heck not. Besides I use music, sounds and scripts other people made so it's only fair other people can use my stuff as long as they do it tastefully

I repeat: That is awesome. And you are awesome. If more people had that attitude, it wouldn't be so special, but it is.

author=SnowOwl
like not completely ripping the whole game and renaming it and calling it their own which actually happened once.

That you are still sharing your awesome resources after such a despicable shitheel did such a despicable thing is even more awesome. Like...superhumanly awesome.

Anyway, review submitted.

Spoilers:

It's unimportant how games are judged, but they should be executed by firing squad.

Hey man, look at the rules. it doesn't say I'm going to play the games in any particular order. or even that I'm going to acknowledge which games I am or am not going to play prior to playing them. You will find out if I am going to play your game when I either play it or don't.

spoilers:

This game is so good that I am in awe of it. Every aesthetic choice in this game is just exquisitely executed. What an amazing work of art. I am going to submit a review and then send you a PM with some more thoughts.

But right now I find that I am stuck in Chapter 6? I want to say Chapter 6. The
"aquarium", in any case. And getting stuck is quite disrupting the intense experience I was having with this game. Maybe I am being dumb, but after swimming down the pipe-thingy there seems to be no way to proceed? It looks like there is a passage that would allow me to progress further on the right side of the pipe-thingy but I have no idea how to get there. Every way I've tried seems to be blocked off. I tried pressing enter on the glowy red light doohickey on the outside of the pipe thingy but no luck there either.

Edit: Since you are awesome and apparently left the project unlocked (which is AWESOME, who does that with so many custom resources in the project, OMG YOU ARE SO COOL SRSLY) I think I'm just gonna....open it and test play and cheat past this point. Because I have no patience. And because it does appear to be broken as far as I can figure?

Edit 2, Final Edit: Ok, I figured it out after looking at that map in the editor. You might want to make it more clear that that's a door/airlock thingy, it looked more like a wall to me so I didn't think to investigate it by pressing enter. I know that the art isn't meant to be realistic here, but it doesn't read visually as an airlock because it's not airtight, there's a gap on top on both sides.

author=pianotm
If we are going to constantly discuss this in thread after thread after thread...

It seemed too important NOT to discuss.

author=pianotm
Up until as little as half a millennium ago, policing was done by military organizations and private militias. As such, there has never been a real, dedicated standard for what constitutes proper policing

I feel like 500 years is a long enough time to generate a consensus on what constitutes proper policing. I mean while it is certainly vague even the slogan emblazoned on police cars represents what they should be doing: TO PROTECT AND SERVE.

author=pianotm
Killing people causes stress. Often, police can't even go back to work once they've taken a life. They're too afraid of being put in that position again. I recently saw a video of a police officer killing an unarmed man in which the officer was unquestionably justified. The victim was in a suicidal state of mind and pretended to reach for a weapon. Anarchist websites edited the video to make it look as if the officer had shot an unsuspecting victim in the back. The full video with audio told the truth. The officer can be heard in the video crying, asking the dying, comatose suspect what he was reaching for as paramedics worked on him.

It seems clear to me that this kind of humanizing compassion is the exception rather than the rule, especially if you look at the actions and reactions of some of the cops caught on tape in the above cases (Victor Steen, Kenneth Chamberlain). In some cases these cops not only don't seem like emotionally fraught from killing a human being, they don't even seem like they're scared they're going to get in trouble.

There is definitely an "us versus them" mentality at play where cops seem to regard everyone else as "the enemy" until proven otherwise.

author=pianotm
What will come of these protests? A national police force; a true standing army. And people will blame the protesters. I've linked in the other post to video of SWAT teams starting fires in Ferguson, fires that were blamed on protesters. Even news reporters at the time noted how coordinated the fires were, speculating that a separate group from the protesters were causing them. Of course, the police couldn't possibly be doing it, could they?

I want to say that this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but honestly the world right now scares me shitless so much it's hard to dismiss anything.

author=CAVE
The greater issue would seem to be with the justice system protecting its own (prosecutors spiking cases) and a weird trust in law enforcement.

Yeah I just don't fucking get this. Like...why the fuck do people--does ANYONE-- trust cops? I have held an instinctive distrust of cops since I was old enough to think about it, and shit, I'm white.

author=CAVE
I think that with body cameras running all the time, a side effect you would see would be a decrease in the implicit trust a good percentage of citizens have in law enforcement. It's hard to say "he's a cop why would he lie <_>" when everything is caught on tape. of course, this change in thinking would be slow and gradual.

In the Cunningham case you can faintly hear the cops saying "switch it off, switch it off" right before the taser camera "malfunctions". They kill him seconds later, I believe. So any body camera would need to be a device that the cops didn't have the ability to disable, disarm, switch off or easily break. And tampering with it should be a felony in and of itself with an automatic sentence of years of jail time.

That law seems distressingly unlikely to pass in a country where we can't even like ban assault weapons without congress shitting the bed.

author=CAVE
i don't know how to fix this short of abolishing the grand jury system altogether. all of the damning evidence points to the system as it is merely being another tool for the prosecution, who can dominate everything and basically destroy whatever legitimacy the process had. if you read the transcripts of the wilson jury, the way the prosecutor told the jurors under what circumstances they could indict was completely circuitous and disgusting, considering that jurors don't have a background in law. removing the grand jury system so that the prosecutor is directly responsible for bringing someone to a trial and thus removing the prosecutor's ability to say "hey, what could I do, it was the decision of the grand jury (that i can manipulate to do whatever i want xD) is the best solution i can see.

Well in this case what stops the prosecutor from just...deciding not to indict because they don't feel like it?

I feel like there has to be some kind of separation that can be made between prosecutors and the police because right now they feel much MUCH too chummy.

Anyway what is the deal with grand juries exactly? Like how are they meaningfully different from normal non-grand juries? I honestly don't know much about the finer points of criminal law.