wizardbeard

In college I always named my router Skynet.

How am I supposed to find a cop to fuck on such short notice?

I don't know what to tell you beyond what I've already said.

I'm not denying that it's a serious goddamn problem. I have acknowledged that in every single comment I've made about this. Please stop insisting that I'm saying otherwise.

Once again, I am only saying that despite the high numbers, it is not just some ever present part of life over here to the degree that every American, or even a majority, has experienced gun violence. Everyone from the outside seems to think that's true, but it's insanely, laughably not. The quite overwhelming majority of Americans have not experienced gun violence, and won't within their lifetime.

Our population number is roughly equivalent to 3/4 of the entire European Union's combined population. Any of our numbers relating to people are going to look high unless you bear that in mind.

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Jesus. I don't think an adblocker would help if she couldn't manage the fucking volume buttons.

Lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink and all that.

I think they still have something like at least 3 more major builds/feature goals currently planned. One is actual human NPCs, which the animal AI is a beginning step towards. They also want to do a lot more psuedo-random storytelling with houses and NPCs. They already have some, but they want to expand it quite a lot.

They've said that the "official release" will only be when they've added everything they want out of the game, so don't wait to buy it as it is absolutely a complete game as is. Could be another decade before they're done, lol. They just want to add so much more that they aren't comfortable calling it done yet.

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But thanks for saving me a few keystrokes with that link!

Yeah, hence why I didn't say anything to counter anything else, or that it was a good place to visit anytime soon.

Got any other mindblowing facts for us?

Perfectly valid, and thanks for not just jumping on the US bad dogpile and instead citing some stuff.

I'm just speaking up because I've seen a lot of people online from outside the US running with this idea that gun violence is like, a daily occurence that every US citizen deals with regularly, when that's so fucking far from the reality.

Yeah, things are a powder keg over here lately and the accessibility of firearms doesn't help, but I've met only one person in my almost 35 years of life who's ever been held at gunpoint and they're the only person I know who has ever been through any form of gun violence.

There's plenty of reasons to avoid this place for a good long while unfortunately, but I feel like the gun danger has been overblown.

I have and do, likely more than you. Thanks for patronizing!

That doesn't change my point, that the danger of gun violence is a problem, but is considerably made out to be worse than the reality by the media.

Like, we have states larger than some European countries. If you took the reporting on all the bad shit happening over the equivalent space/population amount in Europe it would be pretty fucking harrowing as well.

I've known multiple people fall into a life of constant anxiety due to overexposing themselves to the media. Convinced that every city was a fucking gun violence warzone. That horrible things were happening all the time. They didn't know anyone who knew anyone who had experienced the things they were convinced were regular horrible occurences. And they knew more than one person (mutual friends) that worked and lived in the US city with the highest homicide rate at the time. None of those people had been even in the vicinity of gun violence.

I've been around for nearly 35 years, and I enjoy talking with people. I've met only one single person who had been a victim of gun violence, in that they were robbed at gunpoint while working nights at a gas station in a rough area.

There are fucking studies about this shit that are over 15 years old that show that exposure to news media back then caused people to ridiculously overestimate the frequency of crime (and especially violent crime). News has only become more emotionally charged since.

I'm not saying America is some amazing place. I'm just saying that the news would have you believe that almost everyone here has had a gun violence experience, or that visitng the US is unsafe because of gun violence, when that's not the case.

Depends on the officer you're dealing with. There's multiple stories, from before Trump ever took office, of people being detained for up to a day for saying this or refusing to grant access to their phone. I can only imagine it's worse now.