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Abyss, on 01 June 2023 - 02:31 PM, said:

That was my view too, and yeah the ones you're thinking are like small rocks - not really more than an irritation as a singular, but a bag of them is basically one rock solid projectile. The main issue comes from the kid's actions coming from his LD, but I feel like the parents still have legal responsibility there; it becomes a safeguarding issue if he's causing harm to those around their house and there is a not unrealistic chance that unchecked, they'll have him taken away by the social services.

A tricksy situation at my mate's on Sunday. Went over for a BBQ.

They've had a family move in next door with two lads who have severe LD. One is quite aggressive towards people he doesn't know and has a tendency to fling stuff over walls / steal things he wants from front yards.

So we were sat in the yard eating, mate's 8mo is out there (pending heart surgery as he was born with a duff valve). The child (who we'll call Launch Kid) throws a bag of hard candies over the fence directly at us - it hit my mate's brother in law in the back of the head, split and some of the stuff (it's that hard candy stuff you find at the seaside that looks like little spiky balls) went over us, the table, and the said 8mo.

They've had words due to other incidents like this and the parents seems to have just resigned to their child doing this due to their LD. Which seems to me like a fast track to a safeguarding issue, because it'd only take one thing being thrown wrong to put the baby into the hospital, and this family can't expect the neighbourhood to stop using their yard on account of their son's LD.

As much as I sympathize with how hard it is (Wife's brother has severe autism so I'm used to behaviours and such) I'm not sure that I'm being the asshole when I'm telling them that if it keeps on they'll need to escalate, especially as this family are moving into the street and aren't seemingly taking any precautions to let folk know or mitigate what's happening at all. Maybe my angry uncle instincts are kicking in a bit...

Wife starts a full time WFH customer service job as of the 28th.

We have to get through June and July before it eases off - but when she gets her first payday, ease off it will, and almost immediately at that.

JPK, on 17 May 2023 - 03:35 PM, said:

My understanding is that because most new players will default to RT for shooting, they made it so that you can do a crotchet beat rhythm on it to get power beam shots out rapidly, but the flip side is every beam (bar Ice) requires at least two shots to start charging and two shots BETWEEN each charge. The ice beam ROF is low enough that it doesn't happen to it.

Got AM2R for some point in the near future.

And as to Cassette Beasts, I'd describe it as a 1980s Pokémon Digimon fusion with elements of SMT (battle system + punching God). It has enough cool unique mechanics to keep it feeling fresh, and the type system is really interesting in that using certain moves against certain monsters will actually do stuff, i.e. if you use poison on metal the metal monster gains contact damage as a buff, or if you use air on a plant type it'll uproot them and make plant type moves less effective if they use them. It's well worth a play.

Band is doing a mini tour in November with Ephemera - Rotherham, Shipley and Halifax, and then I think we have a headline gig the week afterward. Should be good!