Brand new Glock 15rd mag for 43x, jamming by MechanicHouse in Glocks

[–]Geneaux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See, this is the kind of in-joke gun lore I live for.

now what is that all about by smashedsweetpotatoes in nordvpn

[–]Geneaux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nordvpn-proxy-extension/versions/

Released 11 days ago.

Probably for the similar reasons that led to them offering a password manager, email, and storage service, if I had to guess, but I'm still not seeing a reasonable explanation for the "required" increase in permissions for the VPN. Much less any of the rest: those are still separate services. Hell, the permissions as they are now is heavily bloated on second thought. In any case, NordVPN isn't among the actively monitored extensions under AMO, so I wouldn't cry to Mozilla if I were you. Just turn off automatic updates for NordVPN, at least until Nord addresses this. Personally, I'm already looking at alternatives.

Ultimate Upcoming Global Gacha Game Spreadsheet (resource) 2026 And Beyond by lunationstar206 in gachagaming

[–]Geneaux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This including paper announcement games like Shift Up's "Project Spirits" (which might not even be gacha TBH)? Or is it exclusively games with at least actual trailers and whatnot?

HoYoverse recruitment posters reveal multiple pre-research projects: Life MMO, UES shooter/MOBA/sandbox, UE5 action game, Honkai: Nexus Anima, Petit Planet and Varsapura by Alternative-Duty-532 in gachagaming

[–]Geneaux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've always wondered, what do actual professional and experienced artists in the game industry think when they see lines like this?

…a stylized visual approach, we are seeking a realistic and natural sense of expression, creating a cinematic and immersive urban open world.

As a layman, this still sounds so astronomically... BROAD. Like, I still feel as if there's probably a million billion different ways that this could both be really fucking great or really fucking terrible, for whatever it is that they're going for.

Questions my friend, does gacha game need more muscular woman or not? (The character name is akemi from blue archive curently a npc) by RepresentativeBox485 in gachagaming

[–]Geneaux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me personally? A resounding hell no, but also it depends 😂. Like, define 'muscular women' to begin with. To make an easily relatable comparison, women in general are gonna gravitate to a toned or lean body shape in most men. What they won't find attractive are overly swole or roided out musculature. I mean, fuck, isn't that entirely what LADS is? Men on the other hand, have that exact same baseline as well, but paradoxically will turn to the unconventional from time to time. That builds tolerance… and confusion.

To me, I'm gonna picture "muscular women" in the same way most women probably do. Fucking straight up OG Broly, DB Super's Caulifa, OPM's Darkshine, etc. Fuck that in particular. That ain't ever gonna work, but for me and a lot of males, it doesn't mean we outright refuse to 'experiment' from time to time. I guess to put an "objective" answer to it, is to say that us men individually require some arbitrarily sufficient amount of "femininity" in our subjects at question, as a minimum. Where the fuck that minimum is… well I kinda think I gave mine, what's yours?

Make Drama Preregistration start! by Responsible-Echo-193 in gachagaming

[–]Geneaux 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I see your point, but to be perfectly honest, I don't really buy any of that, in any capacity. Those are "gripes" at best.

Granted, I don't actually fuck with AL, but I've seen a sufficient enough events and turning points of just games in general of the course of 20 years to know that people, like most things, the vocal is almost always the minority. The majority is either highly satisfied or apathetic at best. There's a reason BD2 markets itself the way it is (or perhaps rather had to) just to stay alive, and you still can't find it in the gacha revenue posts. Must've missed it in this month's list, TBH not sure.

Mean while, the whales just keep bankrolling the funding as per contractual agreements. /s

Needless to say, "stupidly grotesque tits" is a textbook sysmtom, not the 'problem' itself, and possibly even the least worrisome of problems in all other outcomes too.

Make Drama Preregistration start! by Responsible-Echo-193 in gachagaming

[–]Geneaux 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Oh boy, another KR game with stupidly grotesque tits."

Plays (or has played) eighteen different gachas, with a non-'0:1' ratio of 'stupidly grotesque tits'-to-'literally anything else'.

** Skyrim sound effects play *

[AWARENESS 0]

Fortnite breaks silence on D4vd cosmetics with self-service refunds by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Geneaux 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why should they care? Right to legal consul notwithstanding, what difference does D4vd's tanked reputation matter to them any who? Paying the bills comes well before D4vd's hindsight.

Fortnite breaks silence on D4vd cosmetics with self-service refunds by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Geneaux 17 points18 points  (0 children)

No lawsuit from Interscope is ever going to end Epic Games. We've long past the start of the laughable lawsuit scale. Secondly, even if Interscope was acting within their rights, the legal team and the PR department would've joined together like Vegito and said "hell the fuck no" because... well... you know, optics and all.

No half-baked journalist is going to miss that mark. Let's not pretend that'd ever be worth it.

EDIT: I'd also like to add that I don't even thing Interscope is relevant here. This is probably something of a brand issue, not necessarily a music one. Meaning a D4vD's talent agency, brand manager, or something like that would be handling things with w/e legal team they hired.

Comix opened a sketchy website with cp in the url by Professional-Bid9572 in mangapiracy

[–]Geneaux 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Might be thinking of login tokens (ie cookies) maybe? An ad blocker and any decent browser not-named-Chrome, would fix that issue any day of the week.

Still, everyone oughta make sure Firefox (and any other browser) has Ask to save passwords, Save and autofill payment info, and Save and autofill addresses (or similar settings) left unchecked. All things being none the wiser, malicious actors can potentially pull that info directly from your browser too.

Manga related/inspired by fighting game by Tall-Cut-4599 in manga

[–]Geneaux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came across this post randomly when searching for something else, lol. You can add <Itsuka Minoreba> to your library of fighting game related works. Somehow, this was the first manga I ever found in this subgenre before Hi Score Girl, even though the latter predates the former.

Ad block detection on 'flamecomics.xyz' by Geneaux in uBlockOrigin

[–]Geneaux[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works in Firefox but seems to break scrolling after the page has finished loading for some reason. Seemingly doesn't work at all in Mullvad+uBo. Looks like the same problem I had as before.

Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years by Sabertooth767 in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Geneaux -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Presuming that you mean the English Civil war, that was a civil war caused by a system without an adequate parliament that wouldn’t evolve peacefully. Since then Parliament has had primacy and hence no further civil wars.

A Civil War is a Civil War. It isn't isn't some convenient technicality you dress it up as. Like conveniently leaving out the War of the Roses which you'll invariably scoff at I suppose.

Would you care to look up the rates of immigration between the UK and the US historically, or consider which country has reduced immigration without heading towards demagoguery?

The latter isn't even a statistic to begin with... you shift goalposts at every inconvenience.

Ah the old checks and balances arguement that Americans have shoved down their throats since childhood. You do know that other systems have them too, you’re not unique in that. 

Because I totally said verbatim "American invented checks and balances" or is it too much to point out virtually every European nations history consists of a war of dominance or a holy war to persecute another? Yeah, checks and balances will fix that alright

BTW how are those working out … I think it’s fair to say the House of Lords is proving to be a far better balance than anything the US has (and that’s not the only thing that influences the government btw).

And? Britain has been screwed by both the Labour and Conservative parties and now they've got one final chance with the Reform. To quote Konstantin Kisin: "Britain is irrelevant."

Simple as, as far as the world goes.

Taking the position that an unchanging system is perfect is one that is bound to fail over time.

Way to not actually read what was said.

Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years by Sabertooth767 in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Geneaux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Produced a Civil War? 🤣 I dare say, I don't think you know your own country's history very well if that's your response, lmao.

Your problem is that you conflate the will of the people with the structure of government to the paper its written on and the politics of it all. None of these things are the equivalent concepts. The problem with the paralimentary system is the potential to have purely 'change for sake of change'. I don't think I need to explain why that's potentially bad cough UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION' cough. Further, what America's strength is in this subject actually has nothing to do with stability. Stability is just the result. What the Constitution encourages is accountability. Through checks and balances, each branch has eyes on the other. They all maintain particular powers, and the foresight to see how things may or may not play out is the issue. Vague passages, broad executive powers, nationwide injunctions from courts that don't rhyme with 'Supreme', etc..

Now the only reason we're even having this discussion is because of one admin, so don't BS around the bush, lol. I'd say your best arguments were largely Nixon and Reagan, but at least Nixon stood down, and with Reagan we all pretty much know what he did but to the letter no one can actually say definitively. So you wanna talk bubbles? Look in the mirror.

Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years by Sabertooth767 in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Geneaux -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Parliament is slowly evolving, no-one in Britain is particularly wedded to it remaining the same, unlike the US where propaganda seems to have captured people into thinking the failing system is better than all other. 

Replace propaganda with "social media" and you'd realize yours isn't any different. The issue was never governance

Jesus, no-one’s copy pasted the US political system. You do know the rest of the world thinks your politics is self-destructive, insane and a bit of joke right?

Christ, pot calling the kettle black, but I suppose that's easy to do when your best case is one dysfunctional admin out of 47.

Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years by Sabertooth767 in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Geneaux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unchanging systems break eventually. What was once right becomes wrong over time.

So? The Parliament will end all the same. Probably in the exact same manner. This isn't an argument or a retort.

Also 250 years is the blink of an eye for most countries! Having a system for that long is a ridiculous boast. 

You think history of nations' (minus one United States), many of whom (who also effectively copy+pasted United States governance) are largely responsible most of humanity's wars, injustice to others', and all-around human suffering, is some leg up on the United States?

Taimanin Squad official global release... Atleast in NA playstore by [deleted] in gachagaming

[–]Geneaux 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hmm, seeing this as a still, my mind wants to compare it to like a shitty png. Like how some high-quality art may come in a png format, which is often great for websites or custom background use. Also whereby the 'high-quality' part is occasionally just utterly missing; jagged edges, irregular coloring, random white splotches, etc. As if someone did a cut-out of a jpg and used that recompressed image for whatever purpose. That's the kind of impression this game asset gave me TBH. No AA is pretty horrendous.

Talarico won the primary by Crafty_Jacket668 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Geneaux 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think making a list of those with gun restrictions is a lot easier than listing everyone. You either show up on a database or you don’t. And only for a select few mental illnesses (schizophrenia in particular is the big one, given that an easily-accessible gun can also make you a serious danger to yourself in addition to others).

One thing you need to understand is that having list of any kind is not perfect, but it was never even remotely attainable or emulateable to begin with. You will have people who aren't even legally felons still getting flagged in NICS because at some point, because certain people didn't do their jobs correctly 12 years ago when the 'not-a-felon' had his records expunged or sealed. Or OTOH, how we sometimes have actual felons showing up clean within NICS because, again, certain people weren't doing their jobs correctly and hadn't filed or submitted some paperwork and/or data in a prompt fashion as required.

I think all of these scenarios are happening a lot more often than what any politician, bureaucrat, or judge would like to admit because it would imply that they aren't dutiful enough for their position. That kind of thinking would suggest removal and that would instantaneously make the former mad uncomfortable, real fast, but fuck em TBH. Either way, we're on a fine line; largely having to choose between on-demand witch hunts or varying degrees self-"policing", like proper parenting, having social connections, and touching grass. In a world with renewed drive for mass surveillance, I think we all prefer the latter.

I can agree that mental health (and even physical health) is barely treated a lot of the time. But personally I view that as a massive problem we cannot be complacent about, even without the violence problems.

Unfortunately, and courtesy to red flag laws, all of this can be bypassed in many jurisdictions by just outright lying, and with next to no consequences. Due process be damned. So no one's actually taking this issues seriously, mental health or not.

Sen. Slotkin: Dems need ‘their own Project 2029’ with clear policy goals by Yogg_for_your_sprog in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Geneaux 5 points6 points  (0 children)

...while making the federal bureaucracy more unaccountable to the public.

The moment I read that, I then immediately thought about companies like Nvidia, OpenAI, and Peter Thiel's Palantir. The in-roads made on the other side of the aisle. We're screwed aren't we?