There’s a post explaining it somewhere, but IIRC, the reasoning is that due to the population and purpose of creating the instance in the first place, it’s to help protect people from brigading and the like.

Personally, it’s the only thing I don’t like about having an account here. The idea behind the choice is solid, but it does make it difficult to actually know what people think of a comment or post.

I thought that was supposed to be Misa from Death Note…

People have even designed 3d printable one-piece suppressors at this point, no mesh or other filling materials required.

I have a hard time imagining when I need to load, chamber, and fire a gun I don’t own.

Then it’s a good thing that that’s not what they mean. Just like how learning how to handle used needles doesn’t involve shooting up heroin, learning how to handle a gun also provides the knowledge of how to ensure that you know whether a gun is loaded or unloaded, and whether or not the safety is on, and in the worst and most unlikely of cases where you actually need to pick it up to move it or something, how to do so safely.

A perfect example of the kind of situation where this would come in handy is for nurses - particularly those in hospitals and psychiatric facilities. Cops are notoriously lax in the US about checking people for weapons before delivering them into the care of medical practitioners, and nurses have had plenty of encounters with loaded firearms and other weapons in patients’ belongings.

I fail to see how a suppressor only being useful as an accessory for shooting doesn’t make it a common sense accessory (for shooting). They’re common sense in the same way that wearing a mask when you’re sick is common sense. A mask helps prevent you from getting other people sick, it doesn’t protect you from getting sick. Wearing a mask isn’t “not common sense” because it only works while you’re sick and not all the time.

It’s like scraping snow and ice off your car. Cleaning your windshield will let you see when you drive, but cleaning off your roof will prevent a sheet of ice from slamming into the car behind you on the highway when the wind catches an edge, or will save you from having it slide down onto your windshield the next time you slow down and blind you. Calling a snow scraper a common sense accessory isn’t a stretch because a lot of the world never sees freezing temps or snow. Tools are made to be used in context, and within that context it can be common sense to use them for that purpose.

My family’s would probably be “Damn Good Dip,” which is very easy to make: take a container of sour cream and mix a packet of onion soup-mix into it. Serve with potato chips.

For standard dinner faire, my parents make Consomme Rice, which is just white rice cooked using beef consomme instead of water.

My recipe would be Fried Deviled Eggs, which is just deviled eggs but before you put the yolk back in, you batter the whites with panko and throw them in the air fryer until they get crispy and crunchy. It’s an extra step in an already less than easy to prepare food, but I’ve gotten lots of people asking if I’m going to make them when I go to parties.

I’m also known for my Steakhouse-style Garlic Mashed Potatoes, which, like with the rice, the trick is to boil the garlic and potatoes both in chicken stock instead of water, and then mash the garlic cloves right into the potatoes along with butter and cream cheese. It makes them super flavorful.

Redlining still happens today. They just discriminate in more ways now.

Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.

Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.

Yep. The same thing happened to Bernie in the 2016 primary. He polled better than Trump amongst Republicans in some polls right up until people were told whose policies they were, and then many of those same people said that they would vote against him.

One of the original goals for KSP2 was the use of a new engine to get rid of the technical debt from the first game that caused issues like the Kraken…but then the publisher forced them to use the KSP engine because “it would speed up development.”

It was doomed from the beginning.

Somebody who doesn’t take proper any care of their teeth.

Could it maybe be because he’s only popular in highly populous cities that have relatively few electoral votes when compared to the rural areas where he’s not as popular

Really? You’re saying that on a post of a picture showing his popularity across like 80% of the country? I would think that that applies better to Hillary than Bernie, but I have nothing to back that up and she was a fairly unpopular candidate regardless - Trump and Hillary were the two lowest ranking candidates in terms of popularity since they started tracking that. Also, we’re talking about the Democratic primary here, not the election, where only Democrats and independents matter in terms of voting (and independents are allowed to vote in primaries only in some states. Others have closed primaries that are only open to people registered with that political party).

Also, as we all know now, presence on major TV news networks doesn’t align with electoral success either. Trump basically cornered the podcast market and he won the election. People don’t watch TV news anymore.

Right, which is why Trump lost both elections he ran in, since his face has been plastered on the TV day in and day out for practically a decade now. While I do agree that TV doesn’t matter as much anymore, media presence very much does, as Trump shows, and this is where the Democratic Party kneecapped Bernie’s campaign. Not only did they give funding and marketing priority to Hillary (a large portion of Bernie’s funding was from donations from average Americans - I don’t think he had any corporate donors or anything except his own “SuperPac” which is TINY compared to all the others and, again, made up of individual donations), but they also colluded with media organizations to limit the amount of media exposure he had. And even with that handicap on people even knowing about him, he still pulled major points during the primary.

Look at all those small town voting districts that voted for Bernie.

You guys get vacations? Next you’ll tell me you get holidays off too or something…🫠

If they all devoutedly followed the same religion, and defined their whole worldview accordingly, then an AI could be trained on that religion. And it would never stray from orthodoxy.

…and now I want an LLM trained on the Bible just to dunk on “Christians” and their thinly veiled bigotry by quoting actual Jesus at them.

Bernie polled better during the primaries than both Clinton AND Trump. In fact, there were polls showing that he polled better than Trump among Republicans (so long as you only talked about his policies without mentioning his name. As soon as you said his name they’d call him a dirty communist and 180 their opinion - quite literally going from saying they’d vote for somebody with those positions to vowing to never vote for him). Clinton polled worse than Trump, and Bernie had a decent lead over Trump - enough that he was considered the better candidate to run against Trump right up until he dropped out of the race.

So, what happened? Well, major news networks airing 30 minutes of Trump’s empty podium instead of Bernie’s speech happened. He was the target of a major campaign by the leaders of the party who poured tons of money into making sure Hillary’s face was everywhere and his voice was snuffed out. They quite literally said that they were under no obligation to run a fair primary.

And I and the other guy just said that you misunderstood the original comment. You’re the one who doubled down after the first guy.

Me making a sarcastic comment because you doubled down on the first guy by just posting a quote of the original comment isn’t white knighting. It’s just a conversation. If that’s white knighting, then 95% of all internet communication is some form of white knighting. And I can think of much better words to describe the YouTube comments section (and I bet you can, too).

Anyways, hope your Monday wasn’t as hot, humid, and disappointing as mine and I think everybody in this thread can agree that Larian isn’t Ubisoft or Activision, the world is a better place because of that, and the “live service industry” can go suck a big one and keep shaking in their boots.

Totally agree but the person they’re responding to implied they were some scrappy indie production. Ex33 (there are caveats/asterisks here but still) is a much better example. I think at its peak the whole team was like 40 people with hired hands.

Jesus you white knights need to calm down and let them respond for themselves.

Show me on the doll where that comment said Larian is an indie developer. Saying that they lack corporate interference does not equal claiming that they’re an indie team.

There’s this neat thing between indie devs and AAA corporate studios called AA. Big enough to fund larger projects than indie devs while being small enough to usually still be private companies that aren’t beholden to investors and therefore can take larger risks than the AAA devs are allowed, letting them make the games that they would want to play. CD Projekt RED and FromSoft both fit into this category as well, though all 3 companies are getting big enough to potentially start being considered AAA studios.

Yeah, it was that cheap because I have health insurance, otherwise just the ambulance probably would’ve cost over $1,500, and I was perfectly fine by the time I reached the hospital. The ambulance ride and 3 hours at the hospital were mandatory to make sure I was actually okay, but I didn’t have any serious issue that needed medical intervention or anything. My point was that even without a serious illness, and even with health insurance, you can still be one trip to the hospital away from being bankrupted by medical debt.

They’re not doing it to be contrarian. They’re doing it because the Republican party has spent more time than they’ve been alive establishing themselves as the anti-establishment party as well as the victims, and the good ol’ fascist play of giving young men disillusioned with the bad things in their lives an easy target to blame rather than blaming the people who are actually at fault - the Republicans.

There are 40±year-olds who were surprised when Rage Against the Machine didn’t support Trump. What machine did they think they were raging against? The Democrats of course, well known for being the party of the establishment and the status quo. Not like those scrappy Republicans, looking out for the common man while the Dems look down from their big-city ivory towers with disdain.