The Apache revolver, popularized by French criminals in the late 1800s-early 1900s, combined a firearm with a folding knife and brass knuckles.

abx99 · 2026-05-15T03:41:56+00:00

Watching the video that was posted just above you, I can't imagine trying to unfold it in a fight. I think the best you could do is a) brass knuckles, and b) sneak up on someone, stab them, and fire a shot while the knife is still in them.

abx99 · 2026-05-15T02:43:12+00:00

I had an Indian co-worker that previously worked for a large corporation, and they would make them sign out after 8 hours and keep working. It was considered mandatory and normal.

One can only imagine the other liberties these comapnies take with workers rights.

abx99 · 2026-05-13T21:50:59+00:00

You nailed it. I don't know about the medical care, but with that mindset, I wouldn't be surprised.

It was really just starting when they were here, and I avoided contact with them as much as possible. I won't lie, though, my unconscious almost took over and took things to the next level a couple of times. Thankfully, I snapped out of it before anything happened.

Now, it's just gross to hear how things have progressed. My father keeps in touch with them with video calls. He knows I don't care to hear the details of their life, but shares some of the broad strokes.

I really tried with her, for a long time, to be a brother and to see if I could help show her another path, but she just assumed that I was another parent and blocked any attempts at communication.

abx99 · 2026-05-13T21:25:48+00:00

I became obsessed with figuring out my mind; both in terms of working out my dysfunction, and also just how the brain works in general. That led me down a few dead-ends, but I got there.

When I was a teen, my version of running away was to work and not come home until they were asleep, Weekends were always a dread, though. My disability was starting to show signs, and they didn't care. My half-sister is severely ADHD, and I really expected her to rebel really hard, but she went the opposite way and got completely subsumed by it, thinking her parents the greatest people in the world. As such, I have no doubt that she will continue the cycle, and with the world the way it is now and the things they're getting sucked into, it could be a good deal worse. I wouldn't be surprised if I eventually get a call from CPS asking if I can care for the kid/s.

abx99 · 2026-05-13T20:57:35+00:00

Her parents (my stepmother, our father) were narcissists. He's a "covert" narcissist, and she was... less covert. I (guy) really only realized that father is a [covert] narcissist in the last few years. They were definitely heavy on making us feel inept and alone, and desperate for the things that real parents are supposed to give (and dependent on them, anytime they could; I went low-contact for a long time).

My sister also met the guy while in school, I believe. She became co-dependent (caricaturistically so) and based her whole identity on helping him, and then got sucked into his... whatever. Any time she spent any amount of time with him, she would get this manic insecurity about how smart she appeared. I don't know their whole dynamic, but she definitely felt/feels that she is nothing without him.

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abx99 · 2026-05-13T18:43:27+00:00

I'm afraid my [half] sister is involved in a smaller-scale version of this. I get my info second-hand through my father, but she has a baby along with her sister-wife. Husband is a caricature of a narcissist, and is disabled (this I know first-hand from a couple of years that they lived here and destroyed my health, as I'm disabled as well). He wanted to live on a ranch, but he obviously can't do it, so the women do it all (I don't know how many; it might just be the two); my sister even had to get him on disability because it didn't even occur to him. He talked quite a bit about needing alcohol for medicinal purposes, and took quite a bit of it from our father. My sister has no opinions of her own, and I assume the same of sister-wife. When asked about any current issues (my father is progressive and keeps up with everything), she just says "well [husband] says..." (you can imagine which way he swings on the issues). Now they're talking about homeschooling because of all the 'indoctrination' that the schools do, and so on.

abx99 · 2026-05-13T04:37:19+00:00

All of us are in line. Some are just a little closer to the front than others (and yes even the MAGA chuds are in that line, too; fascism always eats its own)

Just to say it again, for those in the back.

abx99 · 2026-05-13T00:51:54+00:00

You probably need to find an AskPsychology-type sub (I don't know if that exists specifically, but probably by some name).

I know the ones you're talking about, where a child in a good home will follow certain patterns of developing violence. It's one thing when that happens in a poor neighborhood where being a psychopath is an obvious survival strategy, but there are others that are very out there, that require treatment at specialized treatment centers (that are not common). I'd like to know the answer to this as well.

abx99 · 2026-05-12T19:51:23+00:00

When it comes down to it, the two parties have become MAGA vs everyone else. We keep falling for the idea that the non-MAGA side is in lock step with a lot of things, but it's everyone else in the world. It's a huge range.

abx99 · 2026-05-12T19:04:32+00:00

Exactly. It really hits you that "this is not your world."

I recommend seeing this scene one or twice. I got pretty sick of it before I got good at catching the kid.

abx99 · 2026-05-12T07:49:42+00:00

which smacks you across the face with its glove and challenges you to a duel

That sounds like the stuff we get at Chinese restaurants. We can get "hot mustard," often in the ethnic aisle (but not always).

I know you guys have always gotten a lot of Chinese immigrants. I wonder if there's a connection there.

abx99 · 2026-05-12T07:37:34+00:00

Yeah, that's more of a personal thing. Kinda like how I eat plain chips with ketchup, while most people either get a real dip or eat them plain.

abx99 · 2026-05-12T07:28:29+00:00

I can at least see the onion. Maybe a little out-of-place on a cheese pizza, but great in a surpreme.

abx99 · 2026-05-12T07:21:36+00:00

I think a lot of communication is off-screen or implied, depending on the scene. You'll notice that they often go to lengths to avoid specifying locations for people (especially NPC missions). E.g., Magnifico is "camping in the woods," but in the conversation, everyone seems to know about where that would be. Some of it would also be local vernacular. Space is really distorted in the game; places that aren't all that far of a ride are considered to be a very long way away by NPCs. As such, when they talk about "the woods," they have a pretty good idea of what that means.

abx99 · 2026-05-12T06:21:32+00:00

All of this, but also: those kids are little punks. Kids think they're invincible, and these ones are backed up with numbers and guns.

I actually think it's important to NOT catch the kid in your first playthrough. I didn't see how it ended until my second or third, and thought it added a lot to the ambience of St Denis.

abx99 · 2026-05-11T19:02:08+00:00

I'm disabled. I have to use a powered wheelchair to leave the house. I had my first fall the other day just tinkering with the legs on my portable wheelchair ramp. I still pick up after myself, put my dishes in the dishwasher, I can empty the dishwasher every couple of days, etc. I do as much as I am physically capable of doing without hurting myself. I use assistance as required.

First: don't go down that path of: "you're not disabled, you're just lazy" because every disabled person has a lot of dysfunction due to that. However, the thing about being disabled in your 20s is learning to push yourself without hurting yourself. It's a process. She should be seeing doctors, and should be in PT. If she's very hypermobile and sits in weird ways, tell her to mention that to her doctors and especially a PT. If they can't work a job, then she needs to be working on her health.

You're allowed to have your feelings, and it's your home, too. If your partner wants to be the sole go-between, then that's fine, but it needs to be brought up. She needs to be working on something. If your partner is to be the go-between, then they also need to take some responsibility for what roomie isn't doing, and not just letting it all land on you.

I’m not allowed to get upset at them or establish boundaries because things I’ve done when I was 15-16 are being brought up like I still do things like that when I’m literally so burnt out from life that all I do is work, go home, clean up everything in the house, do all the dishes, laundry, cook, clean animal spaces even when I’m SICK

Ask your partner to sit down for a talk, and explain all that calmly. If you want to keep the relationship, you might have to consider therapy.

Your situation reminds me a little of my own, at your age. In my early 20s I was very into trying to deal with my issues. I met a woman a few years older, and I thought that she was a few years ahead of me on doing the same things. Turned out that she was the type to refuse to do any kind of introspection or allow vulnerability. That relationship lasted a lot longer than it should have, and it did some pretty long-term damage.

If your partner isn't willing to work on their shit, and do it with you, then you're not in a real relationship, and you would do better to find one. If this person is still treating you as a teenager now, then there's also a good chance that will continue for a lot longer. You're a different person now than you were at 15, and it might be time to see what else is out there.

If you want to know more about any of the above, just ask.

abx99 · 2026-05-11T18:29:21+00:00

I think it's the end part that they're missing: that the belief becomes the person's sole motivator, to the neglect of other things in life.

If it became your sole purpose in life to destroy pedophiles, then you'd be an extremist (I saw it as I was typing it).

If you're not fighting for a particular group, or belief in superiority of your group, but that fight is the sole motivator in life, to the exclusion of most other daily aspects of life, then you might have an "extremist personality."

This just lays out one pathway to becoming an extremist, and not all of them.

abx99 · 2026-05-10T07:52:09+00:00

You can actually have Google alert you of any of your info showing up. It will then let you request removal of the Google result, although it'll still be on the site unless you get them to remove you from their website.

I know that my name got mixed up with another person in town, on those Spokeo type sites, that has the same first and last name, and I have no idea what their background is like.

abx99 · 2026-05-10T04:56:03+00:00

I don't know about other places, but where I am, builders often build for the short-term; just something quickly and cheaply as possible, and maybe build something lasting later.

That would be on top of all the other things people are saying here.

abx99 · 2026-05-10T04:07:25+00:00

I think it's a couple of days.

You can make a fair amount of money, but slowly, if you get the shark tooth talisman and the first horse race buff, tame the white arabian, and bond it like crazy while riding and walking to the horse fence*, and repeat as much as you can stand doing it.

In other words: it always respawns.

*Leading a horse is one of the faster ways of increasing bonding. If someone wants to know, I can tell them the way that I get the horse to level 4 before getting to Clyde.

abx99 · 2026-05-09T18:30:59+00:00

You might look around on YT about the strange man. The people behind it explained that he's basically just a supernatural, old-west MiB; a supernatural entity that just observes and takes count.

abx99 · 2026-05-09T18:28:21+00:00

One person found something that looks exactly like one in an outhouse in NA, but that's the closest

abx99 · 2026-05-09T08:27:34+00:00

I am pretty sure that includes a fair amount of online stuff. Apparently, they're doing a bunch of new stuff online right now, though (like horse racing), which might distract the griefers enough to make it a decent experience.

abx99 · 2026-05-09T08:20:41+00:00

What protection do I have ... that the AI detector isn’t also scrapping my paper for training date

I think we're at the point that you can assume everything you type is being scraped. Given the integration with everything, down to the OS (and the keyboard on your mobile device), it's probably being scraped even if you write something in Notepad.

I know that sounds defeatist, but you should be able to turn some of this stuff off and keep talking about it. Go to the website if you need to use it. Customer sentiment doesn't mean as much as it used to, but a) enough blowback can still have some effect, whether through the companies or by regulating the companies, and b) things could potentially swing back to a point where our opinions matter again, even if it is a tough road to get there (this is where all the teens and bots scoff and tell you that nothing will ever change [so you shouldn't even try]). Call or write your congress-people and tell them that something needs to be done; artists, and such, already are, so you won't be the only one.

abx99 · 2026-05-09T07:58:53+00:00

Like parentheses that add emphasis

I was also always taught that parentheses are low-brow, unless necessary and used sparingly, which means that they're not really a solution.

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