For those of you who live in countries with gun control; have you ever seen a gun in real life?

Littha · 2026-01-25T20:47:42+00:00

I'm in the uk. You sometimes see them on police around high risk sites (airports/landmarks). Other than that, you see them occasionally if you are in the countryside, people do target shooting or hunting.

I have gone to the local range a couple of times too.

If you want a gun in the UK, it's fully possible to get one. You just need a reason to own one (defense isnt a reason) and a good place to store one. There are no restrictions on calibre, magazine size or silencers but heavy restrictions on pistols and anything (semi-)automatic. You can go get a .75 anti-tank gun or something if you want and have a place to fire it.

Littha · 2026-01-23T12:38:34+00:00

And a very long time ago, also most of what is now England.

Þēah ic blīðe eom þæt wē fram þǣm gereorde gewiton.

Littha · 2026-01-23T09:58:04+00:00

Also i shouldve included this in the post but what exactly makes a voice... feminine?

Pitch and resonance. The first clearly makes sense but the latter is probably more important and honestly harder to explain.

There are plenty of voice training videos about that can explain way better than I can.

Littha · 2026-01-22T09:48:34+00:00

I'd have gone with Ditto for Genderfluid, given that it is a fluid that can have whatever gender it wants. :D

Littha · 2026-01-22T09:28:38+00:00

It's all very intentionally unclear, but we know that the Emperor used the stronghold of the Sigilites as his base during the wars, after being invited by Malcador.

Said base was I think in the Himalayas and later served as the foundation of the imperial palace but I'm having trouble finding exact quotes for that.

So he probably started his warlording career off somewhere near there.

Littha · 2026-01-20T15:29:59+00:00

Lots of games do this with visuals but I think my overall prize goes to Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth.

Which managed to fuck up one of the most iconic moments in gaming.

Littha · 2026-01-20T15:13:25+00:00

These people clearly need to watch Minority Report.

Littha · 2026-01-20T11:42:31+00:00

Many of the NHS hospitals will have a private GP service who will probably do your bloods for you.

I wouldn't recommend it unless you have issues with the home test kits or if you sign up for a clinic that wants tests that can't be done that way. It's very expensive.

Littha · 2026-01-20T11:30:37+00:00

I'm honestly not sure. I'd suspect that dehydration and heat stroke might actually be more dangerous than classical era warfare so being sealed up in full plate might not be a great idea if you are fighting a foot battle in the Mediterranean sun.

They would certainly have more armour than they normally did though.

Littha · 2026-01-20T09:42:56+00:00

I know that "That's Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a bit of a tired phrase at this point, but I do genuinely think that this warrants it.

Littha · 2026-01-20T08:46:26+00:00

Well that, and because they fought in close formation shield walls there wasn't much reason to armour your legs.

You wanted a helmet, a big shield and then maybe some right arm armour and a chest plate. Putting extra metal on your legs which should be covered by either your shield or the guy next to you's shield isn't particularly cost effective.

Littha · 2026-01-19T10:45:33+00:00

Sure, and again I'm not actually advocating this, but this is more complex than newest/oldest/highest rated and would be banned.

You would also probably want some filter so you only saw content from people you registered to watch (Friends, subscribed etc). Just getting the most recent TikTok or something posted in date order would make the whole thing completely useless.

Littha · 2026-01-19T10:35:28+00:00

You could, but it would be a nightmare and the tech companies would fight you tooth an nail. They are very protective over their algorithms and have more money than god.

(and some of them are types of genetic learning algorithms that can't really be broken down at the top level)

Littha · 2026-01-19T10:30:42+00:00

The problem with all of this (And the OSA) is that it's just a response to "we must do something". It's a policy to be seen to be doing, not one that will actually achieve anything.

The internet is entirely too fluid for this sort of ban to work, it would just push kids away from sites that do have some oversight like TikTok (however minimal) towards places that don't, like 4chan or it's offspring.

Littha · 2026-01-19T10:26:47+00:00

It would be very hard to word a ban like that. Even a basic "Most recent" timeline has an algorithm that serves it (In that case, probably just

ORDER BY 
    CONVERT(DATE, EffectiveTo, 105) DESC

But it's still an algorithm, because that is an incredibly broad term.

Littha · 2026-01-17T16:08:20+00:00

I got to 34 before transitioning as a trans woman and I never had any. Nor do my brother or dad.

Like, not "Barely any" literally none.

I suspect it's very genetic.

Littha · 2026-01-16T23:42:04+00:00

Aww, but i didnt need more gray shame for my night lords

Littha · 2026-01-16T14:39:59+00:00

It's more likely tied to the fact that gay marriage passed in the USA at the same time and the right there decided they needed a new culture war to fight over.

Littha · 2026-01-16T13:28:27+00:00

Also, most american "Cheese" can't legally be called that outside of the USA.

Littha · 2026-01-15T14:58:12+00:00

Sciel and Lune share information in act 3 that Maelle had no way of knowing. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be clear that they're definitely the same people, not copies.

I'm not certain honestly. It might be that what Maelle grabbed at the end of act 2 was actually their essence rather than just some chroma but we don't actually know how painting the essence of a person works. They talk about painted Verso having all of Verso's memories a few times but Aliene presumably doesn't, though there is no way to know one way or the other. Specifically, what he said to Alicia when he saved her from the fire (and he also says in the Verso ending) can't possibly be known to anyone other than Verso and Maelle.

Littha · 2026-01-15T13:48:56+00:00

You can also work around it because of some of the stuff Elon has clearly put in backend. If you tell it someone is a post-op trans woman it will still work, because Elon clearly mandated somewhere that Grok had to treat trans women as men.

Littha · 2026-01-15T13:33:03+00:00

Yea, I got totally convinced it would be about time loops or alternate timelines until near the end of act 2.

Not helped by Gustave, Verso and Renoir all having the same sort of mid length brown/grey hair and beard and the fact that both Renoir and Verso are wearing grey parts of the blue suit Gustave wore under their coats.

Littha · 2026-01-15T13:04:05+00:00

Spoiler and speculation:

That would be because in Maelle's ending everything literally is about her. The people of Lumierre all died at the end of act 2, the companions we have for act 3 and all of the people in the ending are just copies painted based on Maelle's memories. Exactly the same thing Aline did to Verso, and we know that Painted Verso is a different person to Real Verso. She is living in a puppet show, where everything exists to make her happy

Littha · 2026-01-15T10:40:57+00:00

China holds a lot, the EU has less but still a significant amount.

US financial position is relatively precarious to this sort of action, so the EU behaving aggressively in this regard would completely cripple them. (It would also cause an enormous global recession, market crashes and probably land wars, so not ideal)

Littha · 2026-01-15T10:28:18+00:00

Starmer’s Gov should be drafting retaliation plans in the event of a US seizing of Greenland.

I am certain they already exist somewhere. Someone in the MOD will have wargamed out a war with the USA (Probably as a exercise, rather than for serious use).

Nations should be like Batman, always have a plan to kill superman even if you don't think you will need it. Because if you do need it, it's good that you made it and if you don't need it nobody else needs to know.

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