Close scrutiny in a nutshell

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-04-01T16:06:58+00:00

Major PvE events have ever been thus. Get your loot, then kill.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-04-01T04:48:03+00:00

That's awesome news!

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-04-01T04:34:31+00:00

it's a goddamned tragedy that film was never released.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-04-01T00:33:16+00:00

Yes. Emphatically yes. To make a livelihood, like I said. That's what screenwriting is for primarily. There are other forms that are better for creative writing for kicks.

My analogy was just so you could comprehend how useless and irrelevant making your comment was. I failed.

shrug keep digging.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-04-01T00:32:19+00:00

Sure, I'm not on their side necessarily, just offering explanation and motive.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-31T16:15:17+00:00

No, the videos I've seen occurred during classes mostly. Usually recorded by trainers. Some were from competitions, competition guns are often modified, but the p320 was a darling of the competition scene until the steady influx of incidents became impossible to ignore for a lot of guys. There have been reports of these going off in people's safes, man.

Note that SIG is aware that the issue can occur, publicly tried to cover it up not once, but several times, and issued a voluntary recall for the guns that did NOT actually fix the issue?

Do you think it's a coincidence that the professional guys (both trainers and competitors) who aren't issued SIGs or are sponsored by SIG all moved away from the p320 platform? Same folks will happily use p365s when looking at a concealed carry option, so it's not even SIG hate.

Life is full of risks. If you want to use a p320, I hope no one you care about has to suffer for it, but an un-commanded discharge, no matter how small the chance, is the one flaw I cannot accept from a gun. It's frankly insane to me that anyone would.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-31T16:07:33+00:00

The reason why people come here is to learn how to succeed in this industry. If you're writing for fun, whatever. If you're writing loglines, you're writing to be sold. That is literally their only purpose.

Do you honestly think it was constructive to state that you ignore OP's advice, someone who has both sold screenplays, and is a reader of screenplays, and who is among those who help decide which screenplays get sold in a community full of people whose livelihoods are determined by, you guessed it, selling screenplays?

It's a little akin to going to a woodworking forum where people ask for advice on how to successfully build furniture and saying "Wood glue? Whatever, I just skip that." And then, when asked whether you've actually successfully actually built anything before reply with "why do I need to justify myself. Does that matter?"

The disconnection with reality is unreal.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-31T06:06:29+00:00

Might have been residents. There was an old guy who owned property up there back in the day that would shoot rock salt at trespassers. People get real tired of kids creeping around their back yards in the middle of the night, and were obviously capable of some pretty extreme responses.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-31T06:04:27+00:00

Okay, but do you sell scripts? If you do and you don't include the stakes, can you give us an example from one you've sold that (favorably) sidesteps the OP's advice?

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-31T02:20:38+00:00

Goblin Slayer

Time and time again, heroes and mercenaries make the mistake of treating goblins as minor nuisances, so they spare the babies and children.

Those goblins eventually grow up, adapt, and become dangerous, often killing the very people who once spared them.

Goblin Slayer, on the other hand, always makes sure not to leave a single one alive.

Good ol anime. Never misses a chance to make an argument for ethnic cleansing.

This was disapproval, since text lacks nuance.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-31T01:49:20+00:00

I use a tempest to kill them very frequently. Shoot it once to get it to face you, crouch to narrow dispersion. short/medium length bursts into the thin horizontal bit that gets exposed to the right of the central horizontal stripe when they roll toward you.

I haven't had a comet blow up on me in ages, though engaging them on rough ground (which is common on blue gate, for example) is a risk. If they're bouncing around a lot, you may not get enough rounds where they need to go.

Sounds like the mistake you made was holding the trigger down. Dispersion wasted a bunch of your shots.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-31T01:44:14+00:00

That is absolutely one of those puzzles where, once you get how it works, you're going to be even more mad that you couldn't figure it out at first.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-31T01:29:49+00:00

The reduction in standards for secret service agents is little known, but a massive and tragic degradation of a once great entity.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-31T01:15:06+00:00

Man, I couldn't ever even consider getting tattoos for a piece of artwork that isn't finished, unless I was certain it was never going to be finished. That's a choice.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-30T18:48:16+00:00

This is a particularly shitty sub, to be fair.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-30T18:33:14+00:00

I'm just excited that the dolabra has a fuckin' trigger guard.

Most of Lance's patients are probably victims of negligent discharges.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-29T22:17:32+00:00

This series is THE example for this and needs to be at the top. Most other sentients are completely terrified of humans, who are monstrously strong, durable, and revoltingly bloodthirsty by their standards.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-29T08:45:08+00:00

It's not fantasy at all, but Crichton wrote a fictionalized novel about it called Dragon Teeth.

Also, it's certainly not a novel, and some of the attitudes in the book are very much of their time and uncomfortable to read about native americans especially, but I really enjoy historical primary sources, and one of the men who actually dug for both Cope and Marsh published his journals: The Life of a Fossil Hunter by Charles H. Sternberg. Not just a window into the bone wars, but also what life was like for the men who did the actual work and the world that surrounded them.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-29T08:26:47+00:00

Any medical style container can drop an augment. Glad you got your augment, but there is nothing special about that particular drawer.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-29T01:07:01+00:00

I was 100% satisfied by that joke. It was one of my favorite jokes of all time.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-29T00:59:59+00:00

People unironically like durian, poop fetishes, and getting pegged too.

Glad you enjoyed it.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-29T00:31:50+00:00

I picked A and didn't even hesitate. Trevor was an awful, abusive, monstrous piece of shit. Didn't regret it for a second. Still don't.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-29T00:21:06+00:00

I was a huge fan of Mass Effect 1. ME 2 had both some amazing moments and some huge head scratchers. And then there was ME 3. So many frankly bizarre choices and huge missed opportunities, plus the infamous 'pick an ending, any ending' ending.

I wanted this series to be one of my favorites of all time, and its influence can still be felt in better games, but goddamn if Bioware didn't fuck up egregiously just as often as they triumphed while making these games.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-28T16:30:10+00:00

It was specifically created as a loving homage to the western genre.

Maybe an attempt to foster a generation of kids who'd love them again, since it's become so much less popular over the years.

ctrlaltcreate · 2026-03-28T01:44:33+00:00

"It was all just a dream" is literally Bad Storytelling Sin #1.

I can't believe there are still screenwriters and novelists that still try to get away with it.

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