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Comment Re:From any leftist, "far right wing" = Nazi (Score 1) 257

Agree'd.. I'm sure Reginald Denny, the innocent random truck driver that got ripped out of his car, stomped, beat, and hit in the head several times with a simple brick might wish he had a way to protect himself rather than getting permanent brain damage from the incident. (this was back in the '90's during the LA riots from Rodney King). Bricks and rocks can kill and maim quite effectively. Look back to the dark ages, and they used slings, and catapults, and trebuchets to hurl big rocks around for war. It works as one of the most primitive forms of a deadly weapon.

Also from the Bible (since you mentioned it already), Cain killed Abel with a rock as well. Samson killed 100's with a club made from a donkey bone. Several examples of primitive weapons being deadly there.

Comment Re:From any leftist, "far right wing" = Nazi (Score 4, Informative) 257

Not advocating anything specific, but I don't remember seeing armed people guarding rallies (on a normal basis) until the likes of Antifa and other Anarchists started bringing Molotov cocktails, fireworks, explosives, bricks by the pallet full, helmets/body armor, batons/bats/skateboards, and guns and any other item they could use as a weapon or to cause damage, and actually did start causing damage and violence against random property and people.

What I find disturbing, is you mention to leave the guns at home when talking about "far right" groups, but you don't include all the other weapons (including guns) that the left is bringing to their "mostly peaceful protests".

Comment Re:Government app stores (Score 1) 207

I would love to see Epic call Apple on this, and pull all their Unreal engine development for apple. Lets see how Apple feels when an overwhelming majority of games can't use Unreal engine on the Apple platform, but can still use them on the Android platform? That would affect a lot of game makers and apps and would put more pressure on Apple I think. While it could hurt Epic as well, it would make this a bigger issue to Apple than just one game maker at that point. Suddenly apple games are stuck with an outdated version of Unreal engine, while Android versions of those games keep getting better with better animation/graphics due to using newer versions of the engine.

Comment Re:College education is not a right in the US (Score 3, Insightful) 105

I would also like to know how all these places requiring and pushing contact tracing are expecting to force users to report that they've tested positive? Every scheme I've heard relies on the user, to self-report that they've tested positive. How good could any tracing be if there is no guarantee they will do this. What student, who is 90% of the way through the semester, and only has finals to finish and get their grade, is going to self report, which would also cause the school to ban that person and force quarentine, which means they might miss finals or something important and blow their whole semester?

Not only that, but what happens if someone mingles around the campus all over, and then falsly reports that they've tested positive. No one has discussed the possible negative ramifications of someone falsely reporting that they've tested positive and sitting back and watching the chaos insue when half the school's students get alerted and have to then get tested themselves. This theoretical problem is not just a school campus issue, but could be a work or public issue as well. I'm fairly certain there are no laws preventing someone from self reporting they are positive when in fact they are not.

Comment Re:This need not happen (Score 1) 286

Because it can take days and more days for counters to "find" more votes for democrats. They seem to stream in from all over when they are loosing the count in that precinct. "oh looky here, another box full of ballots, that are coincidentally for dems". "Oh look, there is another". "These were just sitting in a back room and haven't been counted yet".

Comment Re:The best thing Facebook and Twitter could do (Score 1) 286

Except, that wouldn't be enough for them. I'm sure they would be happy to point you to the nearest polling place, while also displaying all the people you "should" vote for, so all the 'correct' candidates are fresh on your mind when you head over to the polling place. Nevermind that 'correct' candidates will all be leftists and Dems.

Comment Re:What far left? (Score 1) 286

We don't compare ourselves to other backwoods, do nothing, ride coat-tails, countries. In case you forgot, Europe sucked ass and was tyrannical, so we broke off and formed ourselves a new nation. Europe wanted to keep us, and we said 'hell no' and fought and whipped their asses. Now please, don't tell me how we compare, or should be more like, other nations. Europe is socially and economically left from our point of view. And most other countries are too. Sure, if you compare Communism, Socialism, and Socialism-Lite as the worlds frame of reference, then Socialism looks to be center, and Socialism-Lite is right. But the USA is an outlier in the world, and all 3 of those stand on our left, completely. And that's why millions of people came here, from those LEFTist countries, to seek a better life for themselves and family over the last 200 years.

Comment Re: Don't worry, not even close (Score 2) 286

They definitely lost the 2nd amendment voters. Biden had already made many anti-2A statements... But Harris did several big numbers on California gun owners when she was California AG. Including a big flip-flop stunt on a CCW case in the 9th Circuit court. She was AG when California turned hundreds of thousands of gun owners into felons overnight with the 8 anit-gun bills known collectively as 'guncopolypse'. She is vehemently anti-2A. Those voters do not forget who burned them in the past.

Comment Re:They need to filter what we might see for our g (Score 1) 286

Sounds like the social media guys are the ones that want to help "meddle in our elections". And they are leaning to one particular side. Who needs Russia or China to meddle when Facebook, Twitter, and the ohers will all chip in and help out silence the opposition and push for a particular winner.

Comment Re:Just November, actually (Score 0) 286

If he is low on Agreeableness, he's very likely to not accept an election result that doesn't go in his favour.

Oh, you mean like Hillary and all her base did in 2016. You guys still haven't come to terms with that one yet, it's been nearly 4 years later. Have those results been accepted by the left yet? Typical leftist behavior, accuse and blame the other side for the exact thing that you are doing (or have done).

Comment Re:Just November, actually (Score 1) 286

I'm sorry, the people being pulled out and arrested were NOT peaceful protesters. I'm not sure what your definition of peaceful is, but it sounds an awful like the same version that had MSM calling all the protesters "mostly peacefull" while the backgrounds of the reporters were literally burning buildings and cars, smashed windows, looting and rioting. And the reporters somehow kept a straight face. The damn scenes looked like they were lifted from a zombie outbreak movie or something, with everyone running around, destroying everything, chasing people who were not part of their group, attacking and scaring drivers until the drivers literally ran them over. Yeah, that sounds like a peacefull protest that we have protected rights to do. NOT.

Comment Re:oh wath a shock (Score 1) 42

There is definitely benefits to PC's for gaming, as a console user I can't deny that... but for PC gamers are often too pompus about their gaming and systems, that a lot of em don't get that there are benefits to consoles too. It's all in how you play, who you play with, and what the gaming experience is to you.

The consoles are more like an appliance, you don't have manage it, the updates are automatic, you don't have to fuss with drivers and updates breaking things. You know all the games that are for the platform will work fine, and you won't be in a continuous update cycle to keep up with the games (at least until another version of the console comes out).

Most PC gamers I've talked to play from a dedicated gaming location, where their PC is, which is usually a desk or some more formal workstation type setting. I like playing from my couch, with my feet up, on my big screen TV, with my surround sound system, and I'm usually playing 2 player with one of my kids (even up to 4 player on some games) in a more informal and fun time. I'm not trying to be drafted by some ESports team, I'm trying to have some fun, relax after work, and usually involve my kids. Most PC games are designed for a single player, if you want more than that, you need another PC (and place to put it) and game copy to network them together, or meetup online (even though you're sitting in the same room as each other). I've never heard of PC games working in split screen, not sure if that is even a thing on PC games, but it is on consoles, and I use it ALL THE TIME. Is it BETTER? Raw Quality wise no...but fun and family oriented YES.

Also, most PC gamers have their PC setup for themselves, their dedicated room(or corner), their chair, their mouse, their monitor, their desk, for their gaming experience. Consoles are more for the family, I can play on it, but I can also let my 5 yo and my 12yo play on it and not have to worry that they're not going to screw something up on it. I would hate the idea of letting a 5yo get on a full blown PC and poke around trying to startup and switch different games. Since it's NOT my PC they are playing on, I can also let them play games, and I can still have my PC to work on or do other things (as I work from home). If I don't want them playing in the living room, I can plug the console to a spare TV in a back room, and they can sit on the floor or the bed and play. Can you do that easily with a PC gaming system? Not much.

It's all about what you want from it. I've been console gaming since the Atari days when I grew up, I've own over my life, an Atari, NES, TurboGrafx16, PS1, PS2, PS3 (fat original), PS3 (fat 2nd gen), PS3 (slim), and PS4. I've always been a console gamer, and to me, even knowing there are some benefits to PC games, it just doesn't appeal to me...at all. Growing up with consoles, to me, working is the PC, and games are on consoles. I don't want to setup my PC for games, I don't want to sit in a computer chair for another couple hours after sitting it one for work all day. I don't want a big PC in my living room either, and I want to be able to turn it on, and play (with kids). To me, that is gaming from the time I was 5 until now, and that is what defines gaming to me. Not the PC experience.

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