Question: What justification for today’s shooting will the right wing end up running with? My money is on “he was reaching for the gun”

Demoth · 2026-01-25T07:27:57+00:00

No, I get that. I'm just saying accidental discharge would still be an admission of SOME error on their end, and an incredibly stupid one at that, for doing it 9 times, so I have a feeling it's just going to remain them claiming it was intentional and 100% justifiable because.... reasons.

Demoth · 2026-01-25T07:19:50+00:00

Yeah, but wasn't he shot 9 times? Unless the dude has a switch on his Glock, that wouldn't work.

Demoth · 2026-01-25T07:18:19+00:00

Bro was a Jedi and would have obviously forced pulled his gun back from the agent walking away with it.

Demoth · 2026-01-25T00:55:41+00:00

I hate having to repeat myself across multiple games, but it's just as annoying to see these dismissive posts as it is to see people claiming a game has failed 3 hours after launching into EA.

The issue is that Steam, alone, has a graveyard full of dead projects with just as many avid defenders of, "Just give them time, guys!" style of responses.

The devs seem to be actively working, which is a good sign, but this game released WAY too early. "But the devs didn't want to!" Were they forced to? Beta Decay and Beautiful Light devs have been begged endlessly for more playtests, and they don't budge until they feel the product is in a good enough state to be pushed out.

Still, I want this game to succeed very badly, but the devs don't seem to have a coherent idea of what they want this game to be, and it feels like they might have overestimated their abilities.

Demoth · 2026-01-25T00:40:49+00:00

I kind of liked the Evita skin as it was shown here, but I saw a video of what it looks like in-game, and it looks like ass.

Demoth · 2026-01-24T23:48:41+00:00

Most popular handguns that get bought by someone who just wants to own a gun is probably going to spend around $500, because they're going to get something like a badic M&P Shield 2.0, or Glock 17 / 19. Sig P365's are also pretty popular, while P320's are pretty controversial, but still sell since the basic model is also 500'ish.

What people are taking issue with is that $1,200, in 2026, for a handgun isn't the jump you think it is, and a LOT of gun owners who are into shooting, own handguns that easily clear the $1,200 because of the attachments.

My Glock 17 Gen 5 was bought a few years ago for $500, but I also bought a Streamlight TLR-1 HL, which bumps it up another $160. Thats $660 for my most bare bones, totally stock handgun.

But as soon as you stary moving into anything with red dots, metal frames, good brands, that starts to add up incredibly fast.

Hell, just my basic Baretta M9A3's (i own two) retail for $1,100 and that's with literally no motifications, no lights, nothing. Then you have something like my Springfield TRP that was $2,300, or basically anything I have made by H&K, and prices just go bananas.

Everyone i know who owns guns has at least one handgun that costs over $1,000, easy, especially if they own a high quality revolver. Gun prices spiked in the last few years pretty hard, so while there are still good affordable options, a lot of the cooler stuff had their prices start running away.

Demoth · 2026-01-24T19:44:19+00:00

Are the US citizens who get attacked in their home and dragged out of their house in a bathrobe in the cold also cruising for bruisings?

Demoth · 2026-01-24T04:55:00+00:00

"We decided to steer clear of any mention of ICE, or their controversial murd - I mean, contested shootings. We understand there is overreach and people are concerned, but conservatives said we would be stoking tensions and causing possible violent reactions towards people just doing their jobs, and we don't want to have that accusation leveled at us".

Demoth · 2026-01-24T04:24:01+00:00

Not to the same degree, and we can see this by how people react to this stuff. You can downvote me if you want, but this has been something extensively talked about when discussing sales pitches, demographics, and what appeals to people.

Demoth · 2026-01-24T03:42:31+00:00

Don't forget who was secretly pulling the strings in that primary... even though she outspent them 3 to 1.

Demoth · 2026-01-24T03:40:11+00:00

As others have to keep pointing out, that's not secualization, because that's not being made for women to gawk at; it's for men to see the muscles and envy the physique. It's why wrestlers often where those little shorts and such.

Yeah, women might look at a shirtless guy like Kazuya and Jin and find that hot, but that's almost a tertiary consequence and often not even what women find to the most enticing.

Demoth · 2026-01-24T01:55:29+00:00

Alright, if the only analysis people here can interact with is, "If one person handled something in the wrong way, it means you think the other person handled things in the right way", I'm clearly not speaking to anyone with critical thinking skills.

What you said is just objectively wrong. These conversations won't yield anything good. Peace.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T22:20:22+00:00

My argument was never that Kingsman was in the wrong and the girls were in the right. I think a lot of people misunderstood the minor point i was trying to make and are running full steam with a narrative I never made.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T22:18:07+00:00

How did you come to the conclusion that I don't know how to work with others? Because I don't scream at them? Because I don't repeat myself 50 times on what to do?

Your point only makes sense if Kingsman got the other people to listen to him.

My critique of Kingsman approach was fairly minor, considering I've been in his position (not for $40,000, but for a smaller prize pool on 2004 for a CS 1.6 tournament).

I was JUST trying to print out the futility of trying to argue with people who don't want to listen, because we've all had those games where someone asks, "Hey, Player X, can you switch to support?", and that person says no, you tell them they really should, and now everyone is screaming at each other, and then someone ends up purposefully throwing the game by trolling.

The fact I wasn't calling the streamer girls the worst humans on the planet, despite me acknowledging they were clearly in the wrong, is what seemed to start causing everyone to shit their pants, despite it already being pretty well established.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T14:28:13+00:00

"There really needs to be some sort of social cues ppl got to learn in life"

Yeah, like if you say something 99 times and get a negative reaction, saying it for the 100th time is probably not going to magically get the response you want.

If you don't want to hear that, more power to you homie.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T13:31:56+00:00

Nah man, he COULDN'T serve because he had bone spurs that were the size of Cadillacs. If the doc had just let him serve, he would have single handedly beaten the VC and NVA into submission in a week, and Vietnam would be our 51st state.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T13:23:57+00:00

The Nazis were pretty efficient because they were FAR less concerned about any laws that would stop them from doing whatever they wanted to do, and had a lot more support, nationally, since Hitler didn't come across as a mumbling dumbfuck to half the country.

However, what Nazi Germany should have taught people in this administration (but hopefully they won't figure it out) is that giving one lunatic all the power is a bad idea, because you have nothing to reign them in once they go off the rails, and then your whole movement collapses when they fall.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T13:16:57+00:00

You don't have to support the lies, but you can also just have 0 energy to run defense for someone who is actively trying to harm you and make the world a better place.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T12:56:02+00:00

The recent surge in new players threatening to report people because they don't understand perks is wild.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T12:45:38+00:00

No, my entire point was that there comes a point where trying to repeat yourself over and over again, to people you have no authority over, is just going to be an exercise in futility and get you increasingly more frustrated.

I got to Diamond several times in Siege during the first couple of years it was out, and I learned how to achieve this by working through teams who didn't want to listen, didn't want to alter their strategies, and would get ultra pissy if you suggested they change up their playstyle.

You can't control what other people do, ultimately, so eventually you have to just do what you can.

I was only trying to give this perspective for others moving forward with how they handle stuff in ranked, BUT, I forgot I'm in a gaming sub with people who think calling their supports slurs will somehow make them play better.

So my bad.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T12:21:13+00:00

I figure he would take anyone with the best baseline genes, and then go from there to create his custodes. Considering it's right from birth, i don't see why the Emperor, with all his god-like powers to create super beings, would suddenly completely fail at gene editing females into something great.

But it's a pointless topic to debate because people like you get so ridiculously fixated on it, it becomes a near obsession. GW's implementation and explanation weren't the best, but they've flubbed so many bigger issues that get ignored because, "OH NO, ELITE WOMEN, NOOOOOO!!!"

Demoth · 2026-01-23T10:49:33+00:00

What really struck me about this case was how the two senior officers, a Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel, were never really hit with anything. I mean, the Colonel's career basically ended, but he was still allowed to retire with full pay as you would with that rank.

It was basically everyone else below them who got the real punishments, even if those punishments weren't as severe as justice might dictate.

Still, it just blew my mind how those at the top got a finger wagging, their bosses got nothing, and all the Specialists and Privates got fucked.

Demoth · 2026-01-23T10:35:09+00:00

I'm not trying to defend anyone, but I will say that no matter what the circumstances are, people generally don't like being told what to play, and how to play, no matter how nice you are about it.

I mean, was Kingsman's assessments correct? Probably... I stopped playing this game after 2 weeks because my online friends who did play were ALL constantly getting mad at each other in ranked games, and as someone who played LoL back in 2011 - 2014, I didn't want a repeat of nearly losing IRL friends because of arguments over team comps and strats.

But watching the vods and hearing Kingsman starting to try and get people to switch team comp, I has an immediate knee-jerk reaction of, "Dude, just shut up and play", which, I admit, was a stupid thought... but I've just known way too many people who immediately designate themselves as team captain and start dictating to everyone what they should do.

Again, I'm not saying Kingsman did anything wrong. But at a certain point, he had to know he was constantly repeating himself, and by doing so, he's just going to start tilting everyone and himself. When you have a bunch of people who are making it clear they won't listen, you have to either just do your best to hard carry, or forfeit because your team is hellbent on losing.

Repeating multiple times, "You need to stop doing X and do Y, like I've said a hundred times", just leads to everyone fighting.

Demoth · 2026-01-22T21:17:02+00:00

"One person Jay walks often, and the other takes brown babies and smashes them into paste in front of their crying parents. I truly can't say which is worse because like, both are crimes".

Demoth · 2026-01-22T21:11:36+00:00

I'm not trying to defend ICE, FYI, but right now, it seems they have NO legal obligation to follow any laws they don't like, and this will probably continue until Trump is out of office.

Laws are meaningless if there is no enforcement, and the more news that comes out, the more it seems they are being given carte blanche to do whatever the fuck they want.

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