MrVilliam @ MrVilliam @lemmy.world

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Because he "tells it like it is" or something. Idk. The kind of people still falling for his grift are too shameless to ever admit that they ever fell for his grift, so they're doubling down, succumbing to the sunk cost fallacy. They just stay in their echo chambers and saturate their awareness with weird culture war shit and then never hear about what's actually happening. Half of them probably don't even know that their guy is a defendant in criminal court this week. Willfully ignorant.

Cricket

That high of a dose would cause such uncomfortable introspection that very few (if any) cops would want to continue being a cop after that.

So yeah, I guess what I'm saying is that I agree with you. Much better for everybody.

Get out of the kiln.

In my experience, trans people aren't nearly that stupid, selfish, or hateful. So obviously that user meant that she showed pics of Hunter's dick.

But I'm sure you were "just making a joke" in which case I guess you could explain to everybody why a joke with the punchline "I knew he was trans" would be a good joke in 2024.

Idk if this is something that would be legal in every state, but most shooting ranges I've seen have firearm rentals. This typically helps them to sell guns because you can see how they feel, but there's no obligation to purchase. They also might let you rent stuff that you couldn't legally purchase without crazy licensing, like fully automatic machine guns.

I have a friend who doesn't think it's a good idea for himself to own a gun for similar reasons. Others here seem to be alluding to that being a huge issue, but I don't think that's necessarily the case. It's weird to assume that the people who don't want you own guns must have mental health issues. The data is clear that owning a gun makes a person significantly more likely to be harmed by a gun, whether it's self-inflicted, an accident, a robbery gone wrong, or any number of other events. If you feel like your health and safety are at risk because of anxiety or depression or anything like that, I hope you're able to help yourself by even just chatting with somebody who is qualified to help you, maybe getting some medication and lifestyle tips also. I found that I had a vitamin D deficiency, and just taking a standard supplement every day has had a big positive impact on my mood and attitude. Like, I still feel helpless in a shitty world that we as a species are actively making worse every single day, but now I know that that's a problem that's way too big for li'l ol' me to solve. But what I can do is take a few minutes to type something to an internet stranger to tell them that they matter and that they are worth the effort of helping. You matter and you're worth the effort of helping. Even if you don't think it's particularly dire, check in with yourself. Therapy is not for emergencies, so don't wait until it's an emergency to talk to somebody.

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Whoa. Great recommendation! I'd never seen/heard that!

Cochise by Audioslave or Bulls On Parade by RATM. That's just the right kind of John Wick fuel.

I also play Rocket League lol. It's the only online game I play, and I've been into it ever since it became free to play. I'm not great at it, but it's good fun that has become familiar, yet I can still see pretty continuous improvement in my performance, even if the ranks aren't really reflecting it.

There's are dozens of us!

That's a paradox. The only precedent it set was that a decision could withhold setting a precedent.

"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness! You piece of shit!"

Talk less. Smile more.

Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for.

That's what I was typically doing too. Only once every couple years was I buying a game near release for near full price. I almost certainly wouldn't have tried The Forgotten City if it weren't free, but it was one of the most impactful experiences I've had in gaming.

Idk about game pass, but stuff seems to stay on PS for a pretty long time. Once I caught up with a lot of what I cared about that was older to the catalog, I stopped thinking about when things might leave the service. The biggest shit seems to stay for a year or longer. If I'm still on one game for over a year, I should just buy that game and cancel the service lol.

Breathing heavily, dabbing sweat off his brow, Joe Biden finally stopped swinging the sledgehammer at the bloody pulp that was once a person, who was once Donald Trump, who was once a US president. Joe cleared his throat to signal to the crowd to end their "let's go Brandon" chanting.

"My fellow Americans, by decree of executive order, and I urge Congress to pass legislation to issue permanence to it, a US president is not immune from prosecution, starting now."

And this is the oldest you've ever been.

You shut your whore mouth. Jet's Get Born album is a modern classic, you fuck. I'm not old yet, goddammit. Oh God, it feels like the grave is pulling on me. Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good...

I generally agree with the idea that some amount of piracy is, will always, and should exist as motivation to improve the market, but I don't like that everybody is taking this quote out of context for outrage bait. The context is incredibly important. When asked about whether subscription based gaming could be successful, he said that it couldn't be successful until people became comfortable with not owning their games. He's effectively on your side with that statement. He is saying that you guys want to own your games, therefore that model cannot succeed unless your ideals change.

I am not trying to persuade anybody one way or the other, but I personally don't need to own my games. Most of the time, I buy a game, play it through once (if I even finish it), and then it collects dust. Digital games skip the manufacturing process and the dust collection step, but there's no resale possibility. Ever since upgrading PS+ like 2 years ago, I'm pretty sure I haven't bought a game. I'm actually happier to see a catalog of games that has good enough quality titles, gets updated frequently enough, and is cheap enough vs shelling out $70 on a game I might not even like. I don't feel obligated to get my money's worth out of something on the catalog, just my time's worth. So I delete games before finishing them more often than I finish, mostly because most games today overstay their welcome. I don't want to mindlessly grind for xp or gear or consumables just to get to the next road block. I don't want 100+ hour adventures on a 40+ square mile plot of land full of padding. I want Celeste. I want The Forgotten City. I want Portal and Portal 2. I want Uncharted Lost Legacy. These games are shorter and finite and satisfying. I got to the last parts of Elden Ring and Ghost of Tsushima and realized that I just wasn't really having fun anymore. They became a slog. Ghost of Tsushima was pretty easy to just delete and not really look back on because it was part of that subscription, but I felt some guilt deleting Elden Ring because I paid full price for it. That made me realize that the subscription gaming isn't just paying for the games available, but it's paying for the ability to play games with no real stakes. It's cheap enough that as long as I enjoy 2 or 3 games per year, it's worth it, and I probably enjoy 10+. I'm not gaming because I want to own a game; I want to experience the feelings that these games were artistically designed to elicit. I'm more interested in memories and experiences than material goods. I have enough (or too much) stuff as it is. As I get older, my time is becoming more valuable to me because I'm terribly, morbidly aware that it is a nonrenewable, real resource that is trickling away through my fingers and becoming more scarce with every second that passes. I enjoy a game more if I feel free to quit before wasting time not enjoying it. That freedom is what I'm really paying for. And it probably isn't the popular opinion here, but that's my perspective for anybody wondering why in the fuck anybody would ever pay for something and not even own it.

Also, fuck ubisoft, fuck sony, fuck every AAA company, this is not a bullshit astroturf ad. I just wanted to disrupt the circlejerk long enough for reality to permeate through. There's obviously a market for this or it wouldn't be offered, and it wouldn't be offered unless it were popular enough and profitable enough. One day, it might be more popular than buying games, but as I look at the hundred shitty movie/TV streaming services, maybe now is the best this could ever be. Soon it could be subscriptions for publishers or even just individual franchises. That is the logical future step that will either vastly increase piracy or kill the popularity of gaming altogether. That and/or intrusive ads. I fucking hate capitalism.

Yeah this will end with kids dead I can promise you that.

It started with kids dead, too. It's interesting how the proposed solution to the problem of too many gun deaths is consistently "let's try more guns". Has more guns ever solved this problem?

Beyond that, they want to take a demographic that is notoriously underpaid, underappreciated, in excessive debt, overstressed, and surrounded by shitty kids all day every day, and they want to give these people guns?! I hope parents are getting bulletproof vests for back to school shopping. And I hope the teachers show up armed to negotiate their teachers unions contracts.

And there it is. The reason they aren't doing that. Congress is way too invested in American companies which dominate social media and data collection to ever want to put drastic limitations on their lucrative profit strategies. They want an American company to control it so they can invest and profit off of its spying. They don't care about your privacy; they care about their money and power.

I hope he's building a paper trail to make it absolutely bulletproof when he puts trump in jail and points to numerous fines and warnings that did nothing at all to deter him. An appeal should conclude that if anything, this judge gave trump too many chances before finally jailing him.