Ordering lobster after your administration has decided to do massive damage to the industry that provides is a bit hypocritical

Nah. I paid to play test. Like all early access titles.

My bucket list also includes entering a nuclear reactor, I would love to see scholars debate if that's weirder than a Hot Pocket pussy but I think you'd win

Very cool stuff. It's funny cause I have a resin printer and was just thinking the other day how easy it would be to make intricate dildo molds with it the other day. My bucket list is weird and I want to someday have a collection of various real and fictional phallic space craft turned into dildos as an art piece. Penetrating the stars, lol

Also every cop car in America has either a shotgun or an AR-15/Surplus M4 in it, I know I asked about the specifics from an Orono PD officer and basically they try to keep the cruisers all having the same available gear, but each officer had to be certified to use the rifle before they would be allowed to use it. Orono is a unicorn of a police department though, not all are as responsible.

As for why police need long arms, when responding to a situation with an armed and dangerous individual, police need to have as much or more lethality as the people they're being called to stop. Pistols are more of a "always available" option in the belt because any call or traffic stop could turn deadly at the drop of a hat, but there's a reason the military doesn't equip infantry with only pistols, they're not actually as good, it's harder to hit your Target with a pistol and there's less "stopping power" to them.

These tools are fine for a typical cop in my opinion if used by someone with two braincells who doesn't jump to bringing out the rifle everytime Becky calls about some dark skinned locksmiths working at her neighbor's door, but we live in a country that is far too protective of shitty officers and promotes a police culture that ousts honest ones.

I kinda want to see these dildos

More like 8,000 to 10,000 more than MSRP on a new civilian Ford Explorer, cause that's what it goes for new, I'm guessing they're pricing it at what they'll sell it for when it's out of service rather than what they bought it for.

It's been playable in some way shape or form for many years, I started playing it in April of 2020, it's currently on Patch 3.17.4, where 3.0 is when they added the first 1/8 scale planet. There's now 4 planets (two earth likes, a city planet, and gas giant) each with a fledged out City with a combined 12 moons that are all completely explorable and have some points of interests like caves, trading outposts, mineable resources, and shipwrecks, dozens of space stations and asteroid fields. Mission and reputation system. A prison for criminal players to spend some lock up time in when caught, and a bunch more.

Here's a marketing video they put out last year, it makes the world seem a bit more loved in than it currently is as it uses alot of older marketing vids, but it's all engine and the kind of stuff you can do. https://youtu.be/m-Rz5PTMuaw

Here's a more balanced video from one of the community's content creators that cuts the bullshit https://youtu.be/Or_w4wEi-I8

I easily put 8 plus hours a week into playing it though, either just enjoying it as an immersive space sim or with my group doing Piracy trying to rob other players. Still a ton to do, and the Developer is the most transparent I've ever seen, not only sharing a roadmap of future features but also a progress tracker that shows what individual teams in their now 700+ employee studio are actively working on and will be working on down the line

Nah, it's definitely a game and the one I play most, no one comes and argues that Valheim and other early access games aren't actually games before they release. They're games for sure, they're just not finished games, but I don't need developers arbitrarily deciding the game is done to have a ton of fun in it.

I can't think of an early access game more deserving of the labor of love than Star Citizen, but I don't think it should win because the award should reward companies that support a game post launch not those that may never launch

Smoke and Steel in Bangor is very good, but only been there once, got the best slow cooked ribs I've ever had and their steaks looked amazing, plus you get to watch or join people who are bad at throwing axes

I think the Right Whales issue is going to damage the industry heavily but I'm optimistic that it can rebound. Though likely still at reduced levels

The thing with the whales is vertical lines that snare them up (allegedly) but if and when people are pushed to it, I bet they can find alternatives to static vertical trap lines.

Did a lot of youth robotics stuff and I see two viable options just off the top of my head, either traps that can stow then release a buoy from the sea floor on a timer, so the lines are only present while the lobstering boats are out collecting, and lineless traps that rely on a RC submersible to hook them up to a tow line so the boats can haul them in.

Both would be costly modifications to make though, but the means of surviving are still there if the Fed and lobstermen can come to an agreement on new practices.

I also kinda like the idea of a coast town having a mom and pop robotics shop to sell and maintain it all.

Fireball nips got named most money making booze in the state a few years back ((Allen's coffee brandy winning by volume though))

Most Mainers also hate tourists so that's not gonna help.

I think if I were to rate the things Mainers hate it'd go

1. Mosquitos
2. Tourists
3. People outside the state telling us how to run our shit.

The likelihood of Mainers making their own gun laws stricter because of something that happened in another state or country is slim to none.

I know the article is about his use of the words but I'm choosing to believe it's about him actually smoking crack to the point it's problematic

"I hate all of you" -Penobscot

Maine's government does not believe right whales are at risk, the Federal government does; specifically the National Marine Fisheries Service, which the State of Maine is suing to try and get the decision reversed. Iirc the Governor and all our representatives in Congress have been vocally outspoken in this for years as NOAA was looking into restrictions on lobster fishing back in 2020 but had no meaningful plan to protect right whales from the thing actually killing them, cruise and cargo liners, proving the environment only matters if it's not in the way of major industry

Kinda, lobsters are fine with warmer waters while snow crabs are not, so Alaska might have just had it's fishing population up and migrate north for colder water. Warm waters are still bad for lobster cause parasites plus we still got that fucking right whale thing going on.

I'm willing to bet a lack of Alaskan crab is gonna drive up demand for Maine Lobster in some cases