HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
"law makers trying to make it legal for you to sell your grandpa's private collection when he dies probably weren't trying to make it legal to buy and sell 150 guns, with no extenuating circumstances, in two years".
And yet, we are going to have more cases like this in time, I imagine, if they're not already happening, purely because the former will be indistinguishable from the latter, given the habits of gun owners (to speak more plainly: older people probably buy a lot of guns, thus, it is quite conceivable that a family that needs to ditch paw-paw's little arsenal might run afoul of the ATF through no genuine fault of their own).
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I think Van Damme is also remembered for his leg splits, incidentally. His ability in that regard is almost a meme unto itself.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
And as I understand it, there's almost nothing in common between a car factory and a modern weapons manufacturer.
Well, perhaps aside from armored vehicles and firearms. WWII suggests that industrial capacity is fungible in some specific contexts.
HalloweenSnarry
21d ago
I think there are some games on the store that are straight-up uncensored, no patch needed.
HalloweenSnarry
30d ago
Perhaps they're referring to one of the oldest immigrations, i.e., the slave trade?
HalloweenSnarry
21d ago
The US brought the state-of-the-art stingers that negated Russian aviation
And even then, don't people say that the Mujahideen simply traded the Stingers for simpler, cheaper weaponry?
HalloweenSnarry
21d ago
I guess Pixiv couldn't just carve out Texas? Granted, I guess that's a lot harder if you're a company based in Japan, whereas Mindgeek is in the West.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
As I understand it, the Fremen were once pilgrims of the Zensunni religion fleeing persecution (there is a vision/flashback in the book mentioning how the Empire denied them the Hajj), so there's definitely a lot of Islamic coding there.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Pretty much isn't a good look either way; either they're just grifting, or they're having a direct, concrete impact (and by the words and deeds of their founder and employees, they sure seem like they are).
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I don't even think it's "too many online games" that's the problem, it's more "too many online games that rely on matchmaking queues or any other server infrastructure the devs have to maintain themselves." If an online game that can run off of end-user-maintained dedicated servers comes out and bombs, it's sad, but it won't also be lost to the sands of time.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
From one perspective, what Hamas would get from a ceasefire is time to rearm, reorganize, and thus, once the ceasefire ends, make it harder for Israel to continue pushing their shit in. We'll never know that counterfactual for sure, though, it seems like.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
We're calling them "YouTube edits" now? My aging Millennial heart hangs heavy on this day.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
That's probably down to culture in the Japanese business world.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Just not doing it at all, but showing you a variety of sex scenes if you die
If you're talking about hentai games, some of those do have difficulty adjustments or at least aren't ball-bustingly hard--indeed, for some, you'd probably have to go out of your way to lose on purpose to see said scenes.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I suppose the point remains that Peterson has lost quite a bit of cachet, because he lost his edge. Before the benzos, he was a smart, articulate dude trying to defend himself from the political zeitgeist. Now, he's a brain-burned weirdo memed for saying "up yours, woke moralists!" I kind of don't want to blame the benzos and the weird asphyxiation(?) treatment he underwent in Russia, but I imagine it all could not have helped.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I was tempted to make reference to Half-Life, which was a revolution in storytelling in games (or FPS games, at least), and that game's main writer was indeed a sci-fi writer who had published some works in the 90's before coming to Valve.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I remember controversy and hilarity about Google's search predictions (not the results, the predictions when you typed in the search bar) from some years before 2016 (e.g. if you started typing "why are Asians..."). I feel like the Grey Tribe response to this problem should have been to just patch the specific issue instead of reengineering the search upstream as an overcorrection.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
If it helps contextualize things, here's a video of a phone call between Macron and Putin, listened in on by Macron's advisors, apparently from before the war started.
I admit, I am somewhat seduced by the idea of "Macron-as-European-overlord," but that may be the tiny neoreactionary part of me noticing the conspicuously-Napoleon-shaped-hole in the West.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Yeah, reading that, my mind went to the Gundam franchise, but I don't think any series from that IP comes close to that description.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Hell, I just saw a Twitter shitpost where Russia repeatedly claims Ukraine or someone else did it, and not ISIS. If Russia is accepting that it was ISIS, that's apparently not being signal-boosted.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I think they meant "how much time, in work hours, did it take for you to get that $5 now vs. the past?" That said, I hear that wages in the US have never really kept up with inflation, so...
I dunno, maybe it is something with the background scripts on ACX, but I could swear the reason is "the page for any ACX post is like 43 times longer than any non-TV-Tropes webpage needs to be, because the comments section is not truncated like on any other Substack post."
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