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- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 9 hours ago:
Will we even make it to the 35th century?
1: '97
2: '99
3: '01
VC: '02
SA: '04
IV: '08
V: '13
VI: '25
So, 2 -> 2 -> 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 5 -> 12… Taking the first 2, 2, 1 as a downwards arc of the parabola, we should be seeing:
VII: '42
VIII: '71
IX: 2122
X: 2227
XI: 2456
XII: 2844
XIII: 3495
- Comment on Practical Magic 1 day ago:
There’s a part of me that knows, if the fbi or other goons draw up a search warrant (well, I guess subpoena since it’s bank record) for that transaction, we will be hearing about some poor folks getting harassed for ‘cursing’ kirk.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 1 day ago:
Waived.
Sovereign immunity is one of those strange times when the ruling class straight up admits that they own you. It’s completely an obvious concept, and so strange that it’s literally just out in the open and they talk about it.
- Comment on A little memorial at the local dump 1 day ago:
Booby traps would be better, but I suppose we can all understand how that would be bad.
- Comment on DC Comics Cancels Gretchen Felker-Martin's Red Hood After One Issue Following Charlie Kirk Comments 2 days ago:
I mean, good on her, but isn’t this why the majority of us DON’T use our real names on anything we do on the internet?
Signed,
Brad BurndockBurntbacon, first of his lame. - Comment on Too soon? 3 days ago:
Instructions unclear, I now have two strangely smelly women and one weird methodist lady waving pregnancy tests at me.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 days ago:
I looked at the map of known cameras in my area, and I think I could take many of them out. Especially if a drone with spray paint is available. The issue is that those are the known ones, and there are plenty of cameras or license plate readers that aren’t from flock. I know for a fact that when my neighbor went missing in 2020/2021, they tried to find him using license plate readers, and those weren’t flocks, I’d bet. Plus you have just the regular surveillance cameras that a lot of businesses have, and we now know that police can put in work when it’s a big money person’s interests on the line, like with the uhc ceo and, in this case palantir’s deep pockets.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 days ago:
While the laws are probably fucked in their ability to be applied, jugging is a pretty common thing in texas. A town of about 70,000 had about 3 of them a week, when I was following police reports. It was a pretty common pattern, too (one atm at the back end of a parking lot for a walmart that had a bank between the parking lot and the street, then the victim drove to another store like fast food or any of the strip malls up and down that street, and then the car’s window was broken and the money removed from the atm taken if it was still in an easily grabbed envelope), so this was despite the police caring enough to scope out the particular atm where it would happen.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 days ago:
I’m just as curious about the drones. Do they have a ‘stop-and-hover’ mode if you jam them temporarily, or do they set down? As to the cameras, well… it’s a nice fantasy that you’d get away with it, but unless there’s a civil war going on, you’re going to be caught shooting buckshot at them. That’s what they’re truly trying to build, and they’ve gotten there if they can monitor your car from nearly at your home until you leave it (the car), track you walking to wherever you commit the crime and back to your car, then track you as you drive away until you get nearly home.
- Comment on nooooooo 3 days ago:
He leered at the women so openly they all left the car, I bet.
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 4 days ago:
Only at christmastime.
‘Twas the night before Christmas An’ all t’ru de house…’
- Comment on what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting? 4 days ago:
Maybe it’s just the nostalgia of it, but the flying through the tunnel while andross monologues at you, then the tunnel ends and this evil dude, who you’ve never seen as anything but a disembodied face, he just appears as a disembodied face for starfox 64 was fantastic. inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=BSUW2Rsej7I
Spoiler for the forest:
spoiler
The little girl, with everything in the game building up the tension and discovering just what the hell is going on… and then you slowly walk up behind her and she looks at you, giggles, and explodes
- Comment on banger 4 days ago:
Slightly (now) past middle aged white women, from what I hear my friends and coworkers yammer on about when the conversation turns to movies.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 5 days ago:
I always thought expats had to live in little expat communities, keeping themselves aloof from the rest of the population. It’s a level of snobbery beyond even still caring where you’re originally from. That was my understanding from all the little compounds I saw in the global south.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 5 days ago:
Ah, shit.
- Comment on What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? 6 days ago:
Yep. I occasionally hear the fucking stupid doj advertisement about how trump is arresting murderers and violent felons. I always want to shake the people around who are nodding along with it and ask them how they can only bring up a few cases out of the massive amount of people snatched off the streets.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 6 days ago:
Um, just in case, maybe spoiler that? It’s not like that first case was difficult to figure out, but still.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 6 days ago:
Meanwhile, my parent gleefully explained that they were writing AN EMAIL to the PRESIDENT HIMSELF using my disease to assuage their feelings as they demanded he not let stem cell research happen. That’s a level of mental fuckery I could be happy about disappearing.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 week ago:
I was sort of expecting a more in-your-face callout of the 6" being at the 5.5" mark, considering most men…
- Comment on PSA 1 week ago:
Well how else are men supposed to get pregnant? Gotta have an egg to get fertilized.
- Comment on Public service announcement for Matrix Users: If you thought nobody is writing you because nobody likes you, fear not, its just the servers having a meltdown today 1 week ago:
Lol, I figured it out when I was reading through issues on the github, and just decided to check the server status after about an hour… oops.
- Comment on Checkmate theists 1 week ago:
He’s out on the back porch right now, but I bet if I present this to him he might let me fellate him until he adds the special sauce.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 2 weeks ago:
.(This is how it should be, but yes I’m joking)
You had me going there.
- Comment on Oh nuts! 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I’m much more partial to the combination of accretion and secretion and pee… so peeccretions.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 2 weeks ago:
4/10.
Great for its intended use, but performs very poorly at some fork functions.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the match 3 stuff, but there are a lot of ‘adult’ games that are beyond that. Go play The Last Sovereign and tell me it isn’t better than all the final fantasies, I dare you.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve still got the original visual novels sitting on my backup drive, somewhere. I played through the major first storyline, but hadn’t gotten around to UBW and… oh boy, heaven’s something? Definitely was a great read, even after starting with the anime.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
Man, you’re mean. You can’t recommend that without at least a warning of the box of tissues that you’ll need nearby. You’ll be responsible for water stains on desks everywhere.
- Comment on Informative review 2 weeks ago:
Italians can suck my short toe. They didn’t even come up with the pizza, it was italian heritage immigrants. Same thing for people who complain about deep dish pizza (which is really just a weird lasagna/casserole) not being pizza.