State of the Game
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You need a gun locker EVERYWHERE! And that includes your bathroom. And you should keep it unlocked for ease of access.
Won't it be called "gun unlocker" or sth then?
Sometime this week, UPS says. Then the obligatory days of migrating and testing, but soon. Real soon. And it's got a spanking new EVGA 3070 in it. (Don't ask me about the favors I had to perform. It's embarrassing).
Edit: And if that card and the 11th gen i5 I stuck into it won't help, then I officially give up. I'll just have to play something less demanding. like Cyberpunk 2077, Days Gone or Crysis.
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To be quite honest, I never quite understood the concept of "gun lockers". What's the point of having a gun if you have to fight six levels of security to get to it? It's only useful if it's on your person, locked and loaded.
I've just been looking up some of the leaked info on the great sandworms of Arrakis, and I'm a little disappointed to be honest...
Hmmm, is that a new SubWay sandwich?
It's probably just a fake name anyway,
invented to trick hoplophobes into thinking guns are kept in hard to reach places/containers.
Well, if it makes them sleep better.
On a serious note, I really don't have a problem with that. When open carry became legal in TX, I still didn't start to carry openly "just because I could."
For one thing, there's really no point in giving up a tactical advantage voluntarily and, for another, whether I understand it or not, I do realize that there are people who get nervous around firearms, and I respect that. So covering it up, considering it costs me nothing, is a very minor thing to me. I believe the expression we used for that back when I was growing up seemingly centuries ago was "common courtesy."
I know, it's an archaic term in today's hypersensitive, hysterical, #MeFirst society, but still.
If you've not seen Steve Hughes, take 2 minutes out for this...
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant! It's good to see that humor and comedy isn't completely dead yet! Until it gets outlawed, in which case I'll be in prison for longer than it'll take for Star Citizen't to get released.
I get it.Well, if it makes them sleep better.
On a serious note, I really don't have a problem with that. When open carry became legal in TX, I still didn't start to carry openly "just because I could."
For one thing, there's really no point in giving up a tactical advantage voluntarily and, for another, whether I understand it or not, I do realize that there are people who get nervous around firearms, and I respect that. So covering it up, considering it costs me nothing, is a very minor thing to me. I believe the expression we used for that back when I was growing up seemingly centuries ago was "common courtesy."
I know, it's an archaic term in today's hypersensitive, hysterical, #MeFirst society, but still.
There is a (funny) paradox behind this kind of attitude:
for some reason I tend and I remember having always respected other's phobias and oversensitivity in some topics from my own will, it was like "natural" for me.
I even used to be asked by friends several times why am I usually so "careful" and "polite" when it comes to interact with people from some minorities.
UNTIL
I started to be forced to act like this by laws and/or social pressure, making members of the same groups "holy cows", you can't use in context even of innocent, light hearted jokes.
This change of circumstances triggered something in my brain and it started to generate more bottompart-hole like content, I have to bite my tongue to not expel mischievous remarks pretty often - luckily not like "automatically", only if someone "deserves" it in some way (years ago I used to have "calm" and emptied mind even in such cases).
I guess this is just another broken/twisted part of my/human programming.
No, it's fairly normal, I think. Assuming that I'm in any way anything approaching "normal", which is certainly debatable.
If I'm asked, politely, with pretty much even the most basic of reasons for the request, I'm quite easy to convince.
If I'm being forced at gunpoint however, be it literal or proverbial, I'm a great deal harder to get to comply. You might say I get downright mischievous in those cases.
Agree! Worth having a look on the interwebz for some of his full shows - very funny Aussie (and a drummer in a metal band)
Another example of the same scheme:
It took me years to "teach" my wife that when she wants something from me, whether it's to do something or to stop doing it, even if it's annoying to her, she just CAN'T communicate with me on this subject in a way that will put me under pressure/intimidation.
I instantly "snap" in such cases and become absolutely uncooperative, even if I KNOW she is totally or partially right.
It's a lost case, I will fight to my death to NOT give even an inch of field in this argument.
It's one of few cases when something in my acting is kinda of "out of control" for me.
Or maybe I just don't want to change this, to not create a precedence. IDK.
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Something about Oz that always appealed to me. They should be Texans, the way they just don't give a... Then again, if you live to the age of majority on a continent whose only purpose is to murder you in horrendous ways, you've kind of earned to right to not give a wet fart about anything.
Even the Brits can be like that too, you'll be surprised to know...
Sorry to suggest another youtube, but I love Jonathan Pie - good comedian, his youtube is a spoof of a news reporter who loses it on stupid news articles... on the subject of the snowflake world we seemingly inhabit now, I fondly remember this excellent rant...
Reverse psychology at its finest. I'm the exact same way. It's the exact same thing as telling me that I can't do something makes me immediately want to do it, even if I hadn't the slightest interest in it prior to that.
Anyway, my bottom line is this: You can't legislate good manners. It's a stupid idea, it's never worked, anywhere. The only thing that works is shunning people who don't have them, which is a natural reaction and requires no legislation. But, of course, shunning people with poor manners would probably be "offensive" and therefore banned/illegal too since it "hurt somebody's feelings."
If you don't want to be shunned, then just don't irritate everybody around you with your inexcusable refusal to be a decent human being. And if that's too much to ask, then... Well, not my problem.
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Hey, where's Stimpy?
Not that surprised, really. I've always had a soft spot for British humor too (the way it used to be. Can you imagine Monty Python even being allowed to exist nowadays?).
And that fits too, considering that my ancestors are the ancestors of most of the British. The Great Heathen Invasion, followed by the Second Great Heathen Invasion of 1066 and all that
Oh, and I love Jonathan Pie. He's absolutely hilarious and on point at the same time!