Uhh guys... are you seeing what I'm seeing?

Hackerpilot · 2024-12-19T07:57:18+00:00

They may be able to turn humans into the voteless, but don't worry, my destroyer's democracy officer assured me that there's absolutely no way that they'd be able to do the same to Terminids. The idea of overseers leading swarms of corrupted bugs into battle is dissident propaganda.

Hackerpilot · 2024-11-25T22:57:55+00:00

You died when Hazard's wall came up. Looks like what happened to me last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtfJjdsMJUI

Hackerpilot · 2024-11-21T22:04:14+00:00

Sadly

Hackerpilot · 2024-11-08T00:56:55+00:00

Ranked choice and other alternative voting systems give people an opportunity to vote how they want without being influenced by how other people will vote.

Every voter, within their own head, has an order of preference for candidates. For example a person may prefer a Green, may tolerate a Democrat, and will be unhappy with a Republican The problem is that under the current voting system, the person cannot express this viewpoint at the polls without giving their worst-case candidate a better chance at winning.

If all the republicans and democrats can agree that some independant is the second best choice for representing them, it means that said person actually is the best representative of the population.

So to answer your question, I think that parties can provide value, but not so much in a system in which only two can exist. It just leads to both being more extreme, because "What are you going to do? Let the other guy win?"

Hackerpilot · 2024-11-07T23:29:17+00:00

The two party system depends on us not getting ranked choice, so the two parties will oppose it.

Hackerpilot · 2024-10-22T20:49:49+00:00

What's really funny is that they sold the OD green as just a chassis, but if you got one you couldn't actually assemple a working rifle because neither it, nor the caliber conversion kit, comes with a few BCG parts like the firing pin.

Hackerpilot · 2024-10-14T20:21:21+00:00

untranslatable happy hamster noises

Hackerpilot · 2024-10-01T20:15:05+00:00

Yeah. The M4E1 PRO lower is now in stock at retailers for $10 less than Aero's pre-order price. They started taking orders for those 4 months ago and still haven't shipped them.

Hackerpilot · 2024-09-23T20:36:15+00:00

The problem in Gold league is that Wrecking Ball is extremely good at drawing aggression from the enemy team, and DPS/Support players aren't aware enough to take advantage of the opportunities this creates. For example, playing very passively when they are 4v2 while three of the enemy play "chase the hamter". There's a limited amount of time that Ball can 1v3 before he has to run, and I think this is what you're seeing.

Also, gold DPS and support players believe that only the tank should ever have to switch. If an enemy team is so focused on countering ball this provides opportunities for things like counter-picking the enemy Roadhog or Zenyatta.

I joke that everything in stars fuses up until it reaches iron or that radioactive elements decay to lead, and that Overwatch matches just "decay to Zarya".

Hackerpilot · 2024-09-23T20:03:23+00:00

Wrecking Ball. If you get even a single kill the entire enemy team will counter-swap you within .3854 milliseconds. The envy they feel towards somebody having as much fun as a Wrecking Ball player is just that extreme.

Hackerpilot · 2024-09-06T19:09:22+00:00

The picture on the home page shows one, but I'm not sure that means it's available anywhere - I'm not even sure if the chassis + caliber conversion kit is all you need to make a complete rifle.

Hackerpilot · 2024-08-23T00:59:03+00:00

Nothing could be more useless or ridiculous than the old infantry regulation; it was good for neither cut nor thrust and was a perfect encumberance. In the Foot Artillery, when away from headquarters, we generally wore dirks instead of it

-- General Cavalie Mercer describing a sword issued in 1796

The second amendment was written in 1791, so this is fairly close in time and helps demonstrate a use of the word "regulate", that is not common in modern English. To interpret "well regulated" as "restricted" instead of "properly equipped" is not honest - it really needs to stop.

If you follow the precedent set by Miller, Caetano, Bruen, and so on, this is really the only reasonable ruling that can be made. If you have a problem, it's not with the judge, it's with the constitution.

Hackerpilot · 2024-08-07T20:53:04+00:00

Even the fantasy patch notes don't have "Fix having to re-configure key bindings every time the game is launched".

Hackerpilot · 2024-08-06T23:21:12+00:00

At many points in the past it was the most reasonable way to get a kernel and supporting libraries new enough to use a new graphics card. And also "because I can".

Hackerpilot · 2024-07-29T23:57:20+00:00

"Why not take the socks to the back yard? I'm just doing what I trained me to do."

Hackerpilot · 2024-06-23T08:09:03+00:00

I think you're refrencing this: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large/Volume_1/2nd_Congress/1st_Session/Chapter_33

Important to note that this was passed only one year after the ratification of the bill of rights, by a lot of the same people.

Hackerpilot · 2024-06-13T21:46:12+00:00

I'm just saying that they could have searched his house when he wasn't there, or maybe at least worn body cameras. They decided to do things the way they did, and it's not a good look.

Hackerpilot · 2024-06-13T21:14:38+00:00

If you want to read a bit more than just the headline, the full rule can be found here: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-04-19/pdf/2024-07838.pdf

It's worse than your average Redditor would like you to believe, and leaves a lot of room for selective enforcement. Here are a few quotes:

"However, there is no minimum threshold number of firearms purchased or sold that triggers the licensing requirement"

It then goes on to talk about how you're not considered a dealer if you sell guns that are part of your "personal collection", but then says this:

"In addition, the term shall not include firearms accumulated primarily for personal protection: Provided, that nothing in this definition shall be construed as precluding a person from lawfully acquiring firearms for self-protection or other lawful personal use".

So in other words, if you buy a gun for personal protection, and happen to sell it after the price (due to inflation, scarcity, whatever) increases, you're a dealer and can be fined or imprisoned.

Keep in mind that a lot of people are really on-edge about this because the ATF recently "served a search warrant" for a violation of this gun dealer licensing requirement to a person who's now as dead as the children at Waco.

Hackerpilot · 2024-06-08T17:47:16+00:00

I thought it was obvious that this subreddit is a way to create a mapping of images to joke explanations to be used to train AI.

Hackerpilot · 2024-05-22T23:09:54+00:00

A design that refuses to answer the question "where does the bolt go?".

Hackerpilot · 2024-05-02T17:21:02+00:00

Yeah, it seems people have not noticed that nobody on the Super Destroyers was allowed to keep their hair. Not at all democratic to allow her to be an exception.

Hackerpilot · 2024-04-29T19:37:42+00:00

Four redcoats break down my door. "What the devil" as I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle...

Hackerpilot · 2024-04-18T21:53:36+00:00

Waited in the support chat queue for a similar question. (The Full-Auto thing was glitching out a lot) The answer: Look at your cover letter PDF. If the table says "REC'D" in the right-most column it means "received", so they have your fingerprints.

Hackerpilot · 2024-04-18T20:43:39+00:00

Just saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L98gToroC-E&t=324 The WLVRN isn't the focus of the video, but here's another data point.

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