skulblaka

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[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 20 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It's the golden age of indie games. I've got dozens of games on my steam library made by a team of between 1 and 12 people that I bought for $20 or less. Those guys are doing great, and doing great work. I rarely ever even give a second glance to big AAA releases anymore, with a couple specific exceptions.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Alright, fine, I concede my point. Movies do shit differently. I still think it's fucking stupid, and someone did literally die from it as evidenced by the very post we are arguing in the comments of. But I'm not an actor having dipshits point loaded guns at me so why do I care I guess. You win I'm stupid, because respecting the laws of firearm safety apparently makes me the dumbest motherfucker on the planet, and there is no point in time ever that someone hands me a supposedly safe gun and I'm not going to immediately double check it myself.

I am very salty about this still but I've made both of us angry enough over some stupid bullshit tonight. Sorry for wasting your time. This was not productive for either of us.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Fair enough. Never been on a film set before. But I'm very keenly aware of the rules of gun safety and that ain't it chief. Handing a firearm to someone with no knowledge of it is the #1 biggest fuck-up in the book alongside absent trigger discipline and muzzle sweep. You should know this if you are "fully aware of the rules" as you claim.

If what you're saying is true then nobody should ever have been shot on set, right? Oh wait..... Imagine that, when you have a single point of failure, things fail.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website -1 points 6 months ago (6 children)

You've never taken a gun safety class in your life and holy shit it shows

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

To expect every handler of a firearm to be knowledgeable enough about guns to safely unload, confirm what ammunition is in use, and then proceed accordingly when they also have to act and deal with what comes with that is insane.

Fuck that, absolutely not, every single handler of any firearm is required to know how to safely unload and confirm that it is unloaded. Period. End of story. If you don't know how to drop the mag and rack the slide then don't fucking touch that thing. Guns aren't toys, and they aren't props. The armorer is there for guidance and for double checking but there should never, ever, for any reason other than a survival emergency, be a gun in the hand of someone who does not know how it functions. Not for actors, not for cops, not for civilians. It takes less than a minute to confirm an unloading and it takes 15 minutes to teach someone how who has never seen a firearm before. There is no excuse whatsoever (BIG EDIT: assuming a competent armorer, that can actually teach this) for an actor not knowing how to confirm their own gun is ready for scene, and the armorer should check it themselves immediately before or after, before the scene starts.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

I'll be honest our trajectory isn't looking great

It's not impossible, but we're going to need some great big ground-up restructuring if we want that to be the case.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

It's entirely unnecessary, your car is already registered to your name and address via title and registration and already reports GPS data back to home on nearly every car made after 2016, and your phone is always where you are and reporting back unless you have all your data connections turned off. You don't need to sync them up at all. It's already happening.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Dont care what games or executables i wont be able to run

Between Wine and Proton that's basically a non issue anymore, go ahead and make the switch. The era of windows exclusive software is pretty much over.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Just collate them based on edit/deletion date... Each post will have a last-edited attribute that can be used for sorting. Even more so once the AI is bootstrapped enough to start recognizing the standard protest edit messages. At that point you hardly even need human oversight anymore, because the bot will be able to recognize "that's a fuck spez edit, ignore that; this post looks good; that's a Shreddit/PowerDelete edit, ignore that" and so on. Can even have it fetch the previous edit automatically when it comes across something like that, to a point where a comment removed by a PowerDelete tool is nothing more than a cover letter that states "there was once a real human-generated comment in this location".

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 19 points 6 months ago

That's an important distinction because an average person will not die from capsaicin intake.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 11 points 6 months ago

I have a feeling there is a very large number of people just waiting for the shoe to drop

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 50 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely yes, but also, choose your targets. Walmart ain't gonna miss it. The local bodega will.

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