Maine is a state where almost half the households have guns. I don’t think opponents of the second amendment are going to find a lot of support there even after yesterday’s mass shooting.
Isn’t that a national poll, as opposed to a poll of Maine residents? I’m talking specifically about Maine, not about the USA as a whole.
Or “oppose the second amendment”, as you propagandistically say, because you dont have facts on your side.
Generally people who quibble about the term “well-regulated militia” do specifically oppose the second amendment. But the constitution of Maine doesn’t have that ambiguity:
Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned.
I might be wrong, but isn’t everything on there already a requirement? I think the mental health check is the only thing that isn’t (unless you consider losing your right to own a gun after being involuntarily committed for any reason to be a mental health check). The problem is that even our existing gun control laws aren’t being properly enforced (otherwise that wouldn’t be part of the poll). I think there needs to be more gun control. I’m just not sure that more gun control is going to work because the government won’t enforce what’s already there.
I personally think a licensing system similar to what we have for cars would help a lot. Want a double-barrel shotgun? The current system would probably work for that. Want an AR-15? You need the enthusiast license which involves a week or two of training, a basic mental health evaluation, and a gun safe (not a flimsy lockbox) to store it in. Want a .50 cal, belt-fed browning machine gun? You gotta get the super ultra deluxe license that requires a year of training and mental health checks, background checks complete with colonoscopies from the FBI and ATF, and you still need a gun safe to store it in. Finally, if your gun is used in a crime then you’re considered to be an accomplice. Your only defense is if you can prove it was properly stored and you reported it as stolen within a reasonable amount of time.
Edit: I got it guys, I’m wrong about existing gun control. I’m leaving the post up because there may be others who are also confused about it.
Not quite, most states don’t have a waiting period either because they haven’t been shown to be effective at curbing crime. In fact avg “time to crime” of a gun is 11yrs according to the ATF, 11yr is quite the waiting period.
You’re not wrong those are all required by law except the mental health checks, but even then you are prohibited if you’ve had an involuntary stay in a mental institution.
But those people aren’t interested in facts, only biased groupthink just look at how they show their thoughts with their downvotes because they have nothing intelligent to say.
Like most things fox news has turned the entire debate into an us vs them thing. Gun control is surprisingly something that most Republicans and Democrats agree on.
People advocating for gun control aren’t necessarily opponents of the 2nd amendment, but people talking about well-regulated militias usually are. What’s the point of bringing up that strange phrase unless you don’t think that the 2nd amendment’s right to bear arms applies to everyone regardless of membership in some sort of militia?
That’s not an unreasonable reading of the text, but if you’re going to look at the Constitution that way, you’ll see that it doesn’t talk about abortion or gay marriage either. I’m in favor of abortion rights and gay marriage, and that’s why I don’t start “but the Constitution doesn’t literally say…” arguments with conservatives.
Saying they were aiming for 30 FPS was a mistake I think. When you play Skylines you want to admire the whole thing functioning especially if you have a decent PC and in 2023 30 FPS is just not acceptable. This is what you get however for making a complex simulation in Unity rather than actually making it from scratch like it should be.
That said, I am getting 30 FPS on a 100k pop map and it is playable once you get used to the occasional jerkiness of it. On my now 8k pop map I’m getting 60-90 FPS after following some guides I’ve seen online about tweaking some settings.
I hope they do eventually optimise this game better but from everything I’ve seen in other Unity games that suffer similar problems its going to be a long road to treak.
Ive seen on some other threads that skylines 2 is able to get better frames if you turn off some settings like fog and depth of field and that it’s likely these two effects specifically that are borked.
There was some law in Australia (I believe) that said restaurants had to remove the cost of ingredients that were taken off the order. Someone figured out that you could go to a chain and do what the person in the picture did to get a small amount of money back. I think the loophole was eventually closed.
as an avid fan of cities skylines I’m so very disappointed.
as someone who works in software… I’m eagerly waiting for next year when I do buy the game.
the games industry is a business at the end of the day and building software is a very expensive process. I understand that executives want to see returns start to come in now rather than later and if they make some customers angry then they’ve weighed the risks and decided it’s worth it.
I don’t think that has been the case for at least a full console generation, maybe more.
Look at the rise and fall of pre-order goodies to get a rough estimate of when publishers really, really wanted you to buy the game day 1 (and when it stopped mattering as much)
The trailer: great footage of an open world game, interesting plot, etc.
The first cut scene: meet your character that beheads a dragon using an epic display of super human athletics and strength.
The tutorial level: do a twelve button combo in 2 seconds to perry.
Open world: you can’t jump over a 2ft fence, you cannot bust open a wood door with your battle axe, and any drop over 3ft will kill you.
Side quest: Install mods to fix poor performance and graphics, get rid of repetitive character lines, fix the wired UI, fix fall damage, and cheat through the unlock puzzle that was only fun the first time, not the 300th time.
When you get to the “major city”: buy this mount, buy this armor skin, buy these resources, buy the mission table resources, buy a map to show all the useless collectables, buy this different money that you can convert to the first money for a conversation fee using a third money you can only get by doing dailies.
patch day; install a giant patch that fixes some bugs, makes more bugs and breaks the mods that fixed everything else.
Someone dies in a cut scene; you can do nothing despite carrying a bag of heath and revive potions that are so common even your car sells them.
End of game: you’ve spent hours preparing, endure an epic 30 minute battle to get the final boss to 1 heath only to be defeated in a cut scene. He runs and the credits roll.
buy dlc go chase after the bad guy in a new zone, but first completely upgrade your gear because your old stuff can’t hurt a fly. Then finally catch the bad guy and defeat him using an all new bejeweled inspired fight system rendering all your equipment and combat skills pointless.
just replay modded Skyrim and have a completely new experience every time
My expert advice to past me: “Stop trying to do so many different things and focus on getting good at one fucking thing at a time”
I still don’t follow that.
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