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- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 hour ago:
No, in fact at this point, I struggle to imagine what value he could possibly provide his employer that could match or exceed the damage he’s doing. Certainly, everywhere I’ve worked in the games industry he’d have been out on his ass… some time ago. I clearly must be missing something. Who knows? Blackmail on the CEO’s wife or something.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 hour ago:
I can’t say I have any experience with Walther’s PDWs, but their sporting pistols are - while expensive - beautifully machined and crafted devices. Completely impractical for anything else obviously, but then, .22LR wouldn’t exactly be the caliber of choice for self-defense anyway - nor would pistols with very inconvenient shapes, no safety, deliberately added weight for recoil compensation and very, very sensitive triggers, e.g. 1000g or 1360g. I certainly wouldn’t want to walk around with one strapped to me in a holster.
Most people here tend to shoot only unjacketed .22 for sports in any case - much less barrel wear, less cost and it’s not like anything more is needed to penetrate a paper target anyway.
There’s a number of stringent requirements for secure storage that makes most people just lease room for storing privately owned weapons at the range, and would, even if they did bother obtaining a certified gun safe, make it completely impractical to actually use the weapon for self-defense. I believe privately held weapons are supposed to be stored with the firing pin removed and stored separately, if possible. The same goes for transport.
Frankly, even if a person owns a gun, they’re much better off just getting a metal baseball bat if they’re concerned about home invaders.
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 22 hours ago:
“Ah sayd pass meh teh pizza!”
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 1 day ago:
“It’s important to note that special care must be taken to ensure that the vapor generation and delivery system has absolutely no leaks, because otherwise… What were we talking about again? In conclusion, lobster is very tasty, especially served with butter.”
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 day ago:
Frankly, had I been a parent and living in the US, I would have done the same. One can debate whether the circumstances that necessitate it are ideal, but as the matter stands it’s only sensible.
Denmark is, as you might expect, very different. Here, people can - and in the vast majority of cases, will - live their entire lives without ever encountering a real weapon. Certainly, it’s possible to own a gun, but obtaining a license / required insurance and meeting mandatory storage requirements is non-trivial, so only hunters, collectors and sports shooters ever bother. Collectors aside, the type of weapons favored here are also distinctly different. Shotguns used for hunting or skeet shooting are typically break-action side-by-side or over/under respectively, and hunting rifles are, well, hunting rifles - scoped bolt action. People don’t hunt with AR-15’s around here. As for sports shooters owning their own pistols, most use high quality .22LR Walther GSP’s and similar. I’ve seen a few people shoot the occasional 9mm/.45 ACP something or other and an infrequent revolver, but that’s very rare.
Practical personal defense weapons are pretty much non-existent.
- Comment on Is this still on the ace spectrum or what? 1 day ago:
That is incredibly high praise indeed. Thank you.
- Comment on Is this still on the ace spectrum or what? 1 day ago:
I honestly don’t know, but does it really matter? You like what you like, and when you like it. There’s no need to pigeon-hole everything.
- Comment on Russia Tests Hypersonic Missile at NATO’s Doorstep—and Shares the Video 1 day ago:
If Russia is good at nothing else, they’re at least quite adept at making themselves look more dangerous and capable than they really are. Of course, that veil is getting mighty tattered at this point, and when they pull belligerent stunts like this, the response is increasingly derision and ridicule rather than fear and uncertainty. The thing is… It’s the only thing they know how to do, so that’s what they do. It’s not a particularly good idea, but I dare say most everything Russia has done for some time haven’t been very good ideas. At least they’re consistent about shooting themselves in the foot while it’s in their mouth.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 day ago:
This is the US we’re talking about, so there’s no shortage of guns or people willing to teach other people to use guns. Sure, I doubt an eight year old could rock up to the local range and lease a weapon, but… there’s always a crazy uncle. Besides that, there’s no shortage of instructional material to be found online and elsewhere. Guns are not particularly complicated devices. Fill magazine with ammunition, insert magazine, pull and release charging handle (or slide), disengage safety (if any), point and pull the trigger. It’s not particularly difficult. Hitting something is a different matter though.
I mean, I’m Danish, and guns are not exactly commonplace here, but I used to shoot pistols for sport in the indoor range beneath a local school starting when I was eleven.
- Comment on Russia Tests Hypersonic Missile at NATO’s Doorstep—and Shares the Video 1 day ago:
I think we’ve very firmly established that Russia has no interest in being a good neighbor at this point, yes. Just in case you’ve been in a coma for the past decade and just woke up, we’ve also learned that they have no interest in common decency, honesty, integrity, deescalation, diplomacy, lawful behavior or having a functional economy.
On the other hand they seem really into belligerence, aggression, vodka, genocide, kidnapping other people’s children, asymmetrical warfare and vodka (I know I said that twice, but it bears repeating).
- Comment on Russia Tests Hypersonic Missile at NATO’s Doorstep—and Shares the Video 1 day ago:
Well, yeah. There would be no point in making threats if you do it only where nobody can hear you and don’t tell anybody about it.
- Comment on Is 128 players too much for a multiplayer FPS? Yes, says Battlefield 6 1 day ago:
You know what? Fair.
- Comment on Evolutionarily speaking, wouldn't premature ejaculation be considered the desired trait? 1 day ago:
That sounds like a ‘their kind of problem’ to me.
- Comment on We should be allowed to carry swords for self defence 1 day ago:
Problem is: Those people I don’t trust with a sword? I’m one of them.
- Comment on We should be allowed to carry swords for self defence 2 days ago:
Even on my best days I’m having trouble trusting the average person to competently walk and breathe at the same time. To think those same people could responsibly carry around an implement of murder - let alone wield it - is a mighty tall order.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 update aims to "improve stability for a wide range of PCs", but comes without proper patch notes 2 days ago:
Seriously. How and why does that man still have a job?
- Comment on Meet the fascist trying to read everyone's chat messages 2 days ago:
I find “wanting to violate the the constitutional rights rights of every man woman and child in the country” to be grossly incompatible with being the Minister of “Justice”.
Once again, to quote:
Danmarks Riges Grundlov af 5. juni 1953 indskærper, at: ”Boligen er ukrænkelig. Husundersøgelse, beslaglæggelse og undersøgelse af breve og andre papirer samt brud på post-, telegraf- og telefonhemmeligheden må, hvor ingen lov hjemler en særegen undtagelse, alene ske efter en retskendelse” (§ 72).
Grundlovsændringen i 1953 blev fulgt op af en ændring i Retsplejeloven, som trådte i kraft i juni 1954 og indskærper, at politiet som udgangspunkt skal fremvise dommerkendelse for at foretage indgreb i telefonhemmeligheden. Politiet har dog ret til at foretage aflytninger og få udleveret teleoplysninger uden kendelse, hvis det drejer sig om større statshensyn og øjemedet vil forspildes, hvis domstolenes tilsagn skal afventes. Men domstolene skal underrettes ved aflytningens begyndelse, hvorefter domstolene vurderer, om aflytningen kan fortsætte. Hvis dommerkendelsen ikke foreligger inden for 24 timer, skal aflytningen afbrydes. Når det ikke er til gene for sagen, skal den aflyttede også informeres om overvågningen efterfølgende.
Aflytningen kan kun ske i forbindelse med efterforskning af forbrydelser med en strafferamme på seks år eller derover.
This is not what I’m paying you for. Resign immediately.
- Comment on Evolutionarily speaking, wouldn't premature ejaculation be considered the desired trait? 3 days ago:
Who’d want to fuck in the first place if it wasn’t any fun?
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 days ago:
Part of it is just resistance to change, but the hardware restrictions and AI encroachment are legitimate impediments in this case.
- Comment on erotic scenes actors and actresses, how do you not get aroused while acting in those scenes? 3 days ago:
Most people have basic impulse control. Your last question makes me slightly concerned that maybe you don’t.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 4 days ago:
Man, they’re really desperate, huh? Well, I suppose I’d be desperate too if I somehow couldn’t find a sufficiently enormous cunt in all of the UK and had to look elsewhere for one.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 days ago:
Once you people have finally had enough, Linux and/or Libre Office will be right there. Waiting.
- Comment on Israel | IOF soldiers can openly boast about their war crimes on social media 4 days ago:
I encourage them to incriminate themselves. By all means, go right ahead.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 4 days ago:
They certainly do not strike me as people overburdened by introspection. Or ethics, decency, conscience and compassion for that matter.
Regrettably, they’re just smart enough to have stumbled upon the secret known to all psychopaths and sociopaths: That being an unmitigated asshole can be both liberating and profitable, so long as one can manage to dodge the consequences. It helps if other people - usually referred to as ‘victims’ - are too civil to apply the FAFO principle.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 4 days ago:
Because otherwise they’d really have to struggle with some highly uncomfortable and inconvenient realizations.
- Comment on Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging 5 days ago:
Okay, that’s very cool work.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 5 days ago:
It’s not just Musk, these people are all high as satellites successfully inserted into LEO.
- Comment on Far-right Israelis attack residents in West Bank - pepper spraying a 3-month-old baby 1 week ago:
“You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind, until now… Until now, you have become the very thing you swore to destroy.”
– Obi Wan Kenobi
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 week ago:
Oh, all right. Now, let’s talk about the practical applications of Octanitrocubane and the potential to make everything in the vicinity bounce (but just once).
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 week ago:
Can… can we add shrapnel?