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Kal-El814

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  1. Dude looks like he’s 15 and is exercising less control over his gun than I did over The Zapper while playing Duck Hunt.
  2. As always it’s worth noting that the overwhelming majority of gun violence is not committed by the mentally ill, and the overwhelming majority of mentally ill people are not violent. We need better mental health services but counting on them to catch people who would commit gun violence before they do so is like filtering your coffee grounds through a sieve.
  3. Assassin’s Creed games have ALWAYS been “bloated.” How many flags were there to collect in the original? II, Bro, and Rev were padded to hell also. I’d wager most people probably take 2 - 2.5x as long to get through something like Odyssey as they would have to get through Bro, but I don’t think the difference is just “bloat;” I think the newer games are much less repetitive than the old ones. Yeah, river raids and whatever the hell the battles in Odyssey were ended up being very samey but those events has a lot more going on in between them than the missions Xbob was referencing. I dunno, the Ass Creed games have never really been afraid to fuck around with stuff and to jettison things that don’t work... we haven’t had to play tower defense in a while. I think the latest three games have been very good and each have flirted with being something truly special. A little more focus, a few really interesting assassin set pieces, and I think they’d be right there.
  4. My favorite parts of articles like this are comments from the ohiogiuys of the world who go, “I knew it. Scientists are wrong all the time!” Also I’m stunned that the pic in the article is real and not something out of a modified Source engine. Yikes.
  5. I do love how so many of the pro basketball “era” discussions essentially start in the mid - late 80’s since that’s what most of the people talking hoops today, myself included, remember. Wilt, Russell, Kareem are just chilling over here as if the GOAT discussion is somehow a 2 way contest between Jordan and LeBron.
  6. Same guy that wrote the Invincible comic wrote The Walking Dead comic, so possibly?
  7. The only stumble in LeBron’s career was how he handled The Decision. That’s it.
  8. Imagine hating on LeBron for wanting to be like Mike when there’s literally an entire industry dedicated to letting people buy a slice of that pie.
  9. The best Mass Effect Trilogy upgrade would be a mod that eliminates all combat and makes it the visual novel it desperately wants to be. Or make the combat better, which... OLO
  10. I wonder a lot about the extent to which this concern is generational. If you spend most of your gaming time with Fortnite, CoD, etc., where the planned obsolescence is to some extent, part of the affair... do you care as much about something like this happening? Not trying to imply this is less shitty than it is, just thinking aloud.
  11. Catholic. I gave up Catholicism for Lent around the time of my confirmation and never looked back. Despite identifying as agnostic for a few years after that and as atheist since then, I cannot get off my high horse or help laughing when I see Protestants thinking they can trick god with being born again, having all the sex except vaginal, etc. It's not like I believe in confession or that there's a god to fool, even... I don't like that instinct but I haven't been able to purge it completely. "I have a personal relationship with Jesus." OH DO YOU? LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL Sigh.
  12. This whole conversation reminds me of tech that was developed at my previous company. They had fitness trackers and had hacked PDAs to collect data from them that could then be transferred to a computer. They built scales that could do this, glucometers, used (among other things) Apple Newtons so that the handwriting recognition would make data entry of things that couldn't be captured by trackers easier for the user. The problem was this shit happened in the late 90's / dot com boom. The tech involved a shitload of cables, the fitness tracker would give Batman's utility belt size envy, you had to replace batteries all the time, carry around an Apple Newton, etc. The founder of the company has patents on all of this stuff. The idea and the tech were ahead of their time and when companies like Fitbit came around they'd moved onto other things and the patents were specific enough that the founder couldn't go after them. I don't think there's any doubt that at some point things like proof of ownership of physical goods will get more advanced than a physical slice of paper in an office somewhere or some bits of data, as Ghost said, on redundant servers in different physical locations to guard against catastrophe. I don't think we have direct line of sight on what that's going to end up being right now, as NFTs / blockchain create more problems than they solve. So do I think someone's going to invent the car to the current horse drawn carriage? Yeah, I do. But if I'm on my horse now, I don't see an NFT / public ledger in their current form being the equivalent of the automobile, anymore than you could look at my old company's enormous utility belt, Apple Newton, sync cables, etc. and a Fitbit and see the connective tissue.
  13. What @sblfilms said is right. Also the only thing that makes American dicks harder / pussies wetter than thinking about guns is thinking about big, aggressive automobiles dominating the landscape.
  14. Pretty sure she gave Cap his shield back and Sam the Falcon suit back in Civil War. I don’t think she shows up after that, but everyone in that scene is on the run at that moment.
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