ultimafan

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by ultimafan 2y ago
It's crazy to me that custom sprays existed at all in any capacity for so long. They were novel and sometimes funny but man, I really don't miss the days at all of playing a game and having your roommate/family ask why your c
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by ultimafan 2y ago
For fiction, came here to say the same about Gene Wolfe, the whole solar cycle series by him might honestly be the (for now at least) absolute pinnacle of both the sci-fi and fantasy genres. Great world design, great characters, great writi
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by ultimafan 2y ago
That's true. I suppose if you are a person who has an iron will and good discipline the potential for productivity is much higher at home where you can lock in and just grind for a few hours with no interruptions. I am not that person
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by ultimafan 2y ago
I feel the exact opposite- I didn't have the discipline to keep working when I work from home- my productivity plummeted during COVID and skyrocketed when RTO was mandated again. At home I'm too easily distracted by errands, hobby
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by ultimafan 2y ago
I get where you are coming from. The original poster could have phrased it better. But it's an issue that has both then and now predominantly affected mostly women. Sadly I reckon many men will not care about it, or even be aware of th
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by ultimafan 2y ago
>You can tell how few women are involved at the key stages of building new tech because of how rarely obvious harassment vectors are accounted for during development Interesting point to think about- it certainly would have helped. But I
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by ultimafan 2y ago
Actually nailing someone for revenge porn or sexual harassment seems like a borderline impossible task for police departments if the person doing it has even a minor degree of anonymity. Enlarging the potential pool of people who can do thi
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by ultimafan 2y ago
I agree. But the internet age feels like it unfortunately has made this much more difficult than it should be. People over share on social media and make themselves too visible because they aren't aware of the consequences- or don&#x27
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by ultimafan 2y ago
I think the problem is that people aren't necessarily logical or rational about such things. I know someone (family friend) who was the victim of similar harassment with (clearly) photoshopped images being sent anonymously to her work,
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by ultimafan 2y ago
Photoshopping something convincing has a much bigger bar to entry than (as far as I understand it) generation of deepfakes now. Lots of time/practice invested even for one convincing image. From what I can see the issue here is that th
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by ultimafan 2y ago
As someone who was that friend at one point when I was much younger I never got the fuss about it. Rented a house in a neighborhood that was none too happy about it and constantly got snide or passive aggressive remarks about it from neighb
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by ultimafan 2y ago
I don't think this is really true outside of YouTubers/influencers who may or may not be sponsored and this is coming from someone who both used to and still occasionally does go to car meetups in one of the most liberal parts of
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by ultimafan 2y ago
>Moreover, the leveling mechanics are such that the things you do to attain levels are only loosely correlated to the skills you obtain from those levels, e.g., why would killing a bunch of kobolds suddenly allow you to cast two fireball
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by ultimafan 2y ago
Glad to know I'm not the only one who opened this thinking there'd be some interesting discussion about the book or author. Threw me for a loop.
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by ultimafan 2y ago
I think both can be true and that seems to track with what you are saying- modern DMs being expected to do much more and overperform in some areas (theatrics, atmosphere, narrative, game/combat balance, make sure players are having &qu
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by ultimafan 2y ago
For those not aware of it, the Japanese PSX port of the original Wizardry in the late 90s(?) is also an incredible option to go back and replay these gems. Has options for quality of life features, new graphics or original, despite being a
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by ultimafan 2y ago
I agree, it's not, and people should be more careful. But at the same time it's just strange to me to see someone actually trying to clean up an online community and make it more ideal labeled as "pathetic" and a "s
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by ultimafan 2y ago
Some games this is still applicable. But as of a few years ago, there's been a LOT of multiplayer shooters coming out with a battle royale style of genre, where you load into a 30-40 minute match with a single life and are booted when
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by ultimafan 2y ago
I see, thanks for clarifying. I guess my frustration with that viewpoint comes from a personal bias- I can't share any sympathy for reports of that nature after seeing many of my friends and my own hours "wasted" when budgete
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by ultimafan 2y ago
It's hard for me to think of many equivalents of video game cheats to professional sports in the sense that most "cheats" for professional sports that I can think of don't "play" the sport for you. A normal eve
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by ultimafan 2y ago
Not him, but why? Cheaters in multiplayer games seek a gain for themselves at the expense of everyone else playing. They provide no benefit to a community and it's not something anyone should be even remotely proud of, even if they put
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by ultimafan 2y ago
>Ideally, all the way. If it turned out that your body had some kind of problem that would guarantee death within some margin of error around a known date, and there was no cure or solution available yet, would you want to know? Curiosit
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by ultimafan 2y ago
>I splurged on an absolute top end scope yes, because I wanted equipment I can count on I definitely feel that. My father in law is a bit of a precision nut, he has a Zeiss he let me use a few times, I don't know the exact model tho
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by ultimafan 2y ago
I don't doubt that you did, just said it's nothing short of a miracle because I don't think your experience is a common one. It also sounds like you did your research, made a large investment, had good equipment, and had know
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by ultimafan 2y ago
A consistent 4 cm at 100 meters your first time shooting, then a consistent 5 cm at 200 meters just a short time later is nothing short of a miracle. That's 1.3~ and 0.85~ MOA respectively. Hell, many commercial and surplus rifles you
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by ultimafan 2y ago
A former sniper would also have a few hundred to a few thousand hours more range time than a random member of the public. I wouldn't doubt that "easy" for someone like that would have a much different meaning than for everyon
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by ultimafan 2y ago
Anecdotally, it seems like many people seem to underestimate how difficult accurate shooting actually is. I genuinely can't count the number of times I've taken someone interested in shooting out to the range for their first time
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by ultimafan 3y ago
I'm not claiming alcohol is (physically) less dangerous than kratom. I'm well aware of how damaging alcohol is despite its prevalence. Brain altering chemicals do come with a risk but there's a big difference between being pr
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by ultimafan 3y ago
That's fair, I completely didn't take into account how much some people tend to drink and how much space it would take up if you're planning on brewing enough for daily drinking indefinitely. I guess it depends on how much th
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by ultimafan 3y ago
That's funny, you'd think they'd have figured out historically that this probably isn't going to work very well. It's easy to place a sin tax on tobacco because it's a pain in the ass for people to grow and pro

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