I’m confused, do you think this is a request for time loop movies?

In response primarily to #4: Yeah, I’ve done a lot of cooking but I’ve never actually started a fire. As long as you’re not being wildly negligent or deep frying something the risk of burning something is very very low.

Well, that name kinda checks out ngl.

To clarify for the OP, these don’t generally scale down the whole gun. Caliber conversions can be as simple as swapping the bolt.

You can also sometimes swap to a larger caliber. They make ‘conversion kits’ for the AR-15 that are functionally just most of a new gun. You can get those for a variety of calibers from 7.62x39 to .50 Beowulf.

It’s like… shockingly faster for me?

If I have to wait five whole minutes for fast food they’re either slammed or they’re having equipment problems. I can literally count on one hand the amount of times it’s happened in the last few years.

Tbf, though, I don’t eat fast food incredibly often. Maybe once a month.

People don’t vote because they see the system is rigged so the popular vote isn’t a great standard to go by either, it’s a product of the system as well

My area is such a strong republican district that my vote is functionally irrelevant aside from the president. Hell, they didn’t even bother with democrat candidates on a local level.

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Narrative-driven games give players the illusion of choice.

What do you mean by this? There’s a finite amount of possibilities coded into the game? You only get (number) of possible choices so choice is an illusion?

and more political just in general, actually

Yeah, that’s pretty much the only part of Lemmy I really don’t like. It feels drastically more political than Reddit did. I didn’t even know what the hell a tankie was before I joined Lemmy.

idk it certainly feels weird to me that videogames- even ones I don’t personally enjoy- are viewed as relevant enough to get this kind of political attention.

Realistically, if I take a step back from it I’m just stuck in 2008, but… yeah.

Besides, weird isn’t necessarily a requirement here. Just ‘it looks like satire but isn’t’.

Also: you have excellent taste in videogames. Noita is great.

Who knows?

This stuff just happens sometimes.

I remember Tokyo by Imagine Dragons wasn’t available on Spotify for a few years. No clue why, but it just reappeared one day.

I’m just looking at the PCGamer article- I don’t have a Statista account and I’m guessing the only source for that is the PCGamer article anyways because the numbers are the exact same.

There’s ~46,000 response that reported income there, and 22217 of them reported making less than $10,000. Another 9179 said less than $25000. I don’t think this is going to be indicative of gamers in general based off of just that.

Across the board the most common reasons were ‘demo game’, which would likely end up resulting in a sale anyways, and ‘can’t afford’ which would likely not result in a sale regardless of the ability to pirate.

But you’re right that I could absolutely see an exec reading that article, looking at a chart and losing his mind.

TIL. That’s actually really cool info!

1 third of PC gamers openly admit to pirating instead of buying.

Source? My sample size is small, but out of my entire group(maybe 11 people) exactly one pirates PC games. I’d be shocked if 1/3 of gamers in general were pirating stuff with any kind of regularity.

If you’re including pirating console games to play via emulation that number jumps drastically, though.

Double up. Assert dominance. Demand to be referred to as ‘Mister Doctor’. Hmm… ‘Doctor Mister’? I think I like Mr. Dr. better.

That would be entirely too easily bypassed. Also, afaik, it’s kinda what Denuvo does when it’s offline. You can take a file from a legitimate install- I don’t know how/which one- and put it in a pirated copy and Denuvo will work fine… for two days. Then the little certificate or w.e. expires, and you’ve gotta get another one.

I am so sorry to do this to you but it was 2010.

Boners are largely age dependent. I remember in high school I got random boners all the time and anything could trigger them.

100%. I remember sometimes they’d happen in church of all places. No clue why, but like clockwork the choir would start and bam. Tip for anyone with this problem currently: flex your legs hard and repeatedly. Always worked for me.

I didn’t see much of it except for one burst where Hexbear was getting rowdy with my instance- that was… annoying.

There was some drama I don’t recall the specifics of but it apparently angered Hexbear enough that I started seeing a lot of them in basically every comment section.

Technically, it’s a short story by Neil Gaiman. Practically, it’s definitely Narnia fanfiction except just legally distinct enough Neil Gaiman didn’t get sued for it.

It’s basically shorthand for, “it’s kinda fucked up that they left Susan Pevensie out of Narnia towards the end just because she liked lipstick and dudes now.”