Hired goons?

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Me? Just livin’ large boy, livin’ so large.

Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth, R’lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow Sign, L’mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum…

This picture has been posted at least 3 years ago online, so even without an original source, I’m going to lean on the side that it’s not AI. Every wacky piece of art isn’t an AI trick.

The design is very human.

Bloodborne.

I love the aesthetic and the setting, but the gameplay just doesn’t click with me. It’s clearly very well polished and designed, but I have never been good at third person melee games and soulsborne stuff cranks the required precision up too much for me. Instead I’ve just listened to dozens of hours of Bloodborne lore to get the experience.

Don’t be paranoid. It’s okay to let your guard down. Everything will be fine. Just fine.

I look away. Tears in my eyes.

Sir, I’m afraid. I’m afraid that it will…be a while.

Added credit to title.

It will see you later.

As a gunner main, using a combat zipline does indeed make the crawlers trivial. All other combats I at least have to worry about glyphids with ranged attacks knocking me off.

It might be freaky to have crawlers, or maybe a specific variant which can crawl right onto the zipline after me.

Given the rarity of SPAS-12s I’d say decent chances it’s an airsoft gun.

That requires the freedom to do so. If it is a situation where the police interaction starts suddenly, there are many scenarios where this advice is not useful.

There are two related but distinct issues, and I hope to keep them separate otherwise the conversation goes in circles:

1 - Can police under the circumstances look at the contents of the phone at all? This is to say, if the phone is completely unlocked, can they look through it?

2 - If the police are allowed to look at the contents, but the phone is locked, in what ways can the police unlock it?

Subject 1: This is by far the more important question, and the one that seems to get ignored in discussions of phone searches like this. I would argue that under most circumstances there is no probable cause to search a phone- the phone can not contain drugs or weapons or other contraband, so to me this is the larger hurdle for police. Police should have to justify what illegal thing they think is on the phone that gives them probable cause, and I don’t think that pictures of illegal things are the same as the illegal things themselves. Lawyers would have to hash this out, because I do notice the suspect here was on parole so perhaps there is a clause of parole for this or something. But this is the bigger, much bigger issue- can police even look at the contents? There is an argument from the pro-search side that constants of an unlocked phone are in plain view, and so that right there is a big nexus for the issue.

Subject 2: If we assume yes, only then does subject 2 become an issue. How much can police compel? Well, they can’t compel speech. A passcode would count as protected speech, so they can’t compel that. Biometrics however, from what I have seen of court reasoning, tend to be viewed as something a person has rather than something they know. This would be analogue to a locked container with a combination lock compared to a key. The police can not compel the combo, but if they find they key in your pocket they can take it and use it.

If you are up in arms about privacy, my view is not to fall into the trap of focusing on 2 and the finer mechanics of where the line for what kinds of ways to lock a phone are, and focus on subject 1. Reduce the circumstances in which searching a phone is acceptable, even if the phone is unlocked to begin with.

This is about biometrics, not passcodes.