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Comment Re:Listening to footsteps != wallhacking (Score 1) 183

Those who zoom in on and follow me while I'm behind a wall, only to shoot as soon as I get to a window/corner (wallhack)

I'm not familiar with the mechanics of Call of Duty series, but I did read an article long ago about people being wrongly accused of wallhacking because they tracked the opponent by listening for footsteps and then attacked as soon as the opponent stepped out of concealment. Does COD make a sound when opponents move?

Yes. Also, there is an aim assist feature turned on by default in some COD games (definitely in Black Ops) where the crosshairs will loosely track an enemy that appears in your line of sight, even if they then duck behind cover.

Comment Re:Disable player chat (Score 1) 704

He's talking about the messages baked into the game by the developer, not those from the interactions with other players. He's also not limiting his comments to multi player games.

How about we just play a bunch of movies and commercials from the good ol' days (1950's and before) where this sort of stuff was the norm.

look kids, a woman, and see how happy she is with a new vacuum cleaner!

Ok, but take commercials from today and compare (from UK TV):
(1) Oven Pride: "So easy a man could do it".
(2) Some greek-style yougurt (cant remember the name) ad featuring a woman and several semi-naked men (she even uses one as a footstool).
(3) Any Boots advert (showing women as hyper-organised and efficient while men are useless and lazy).

Flip the genders in those ads and there would be pitchfork-and-torch-wielding outcry. But because its directed against men, it's ok for daytime television.

I agree that ads like the ones you mention are wrong but the standard for what is wrong has to be the same for both genders.

Comment Re:This solves ? (Score 1) 558

Or if only there existed a large difficult to open with force box that firearms could be stored in some place nice and safe to store them. This large box would also help prevent firearm theft as it could be large and very bulky and possibly attached to a concrete floor. As an added bonus you could line the inside of the box with firebrick to provide fire protection and you could also put a box of silica pellets in it to keep the humidity down and prevent rust.

That wont work. Remember, the US is full of evil hobos, drug gangs and government agents who will burst through your front door AT ANY TIME to kill your loved ones!!! You need a loaded gun on your table, in your coffee cup and taped to the TV remote so you can Defend Your Family(TM) at a moments notice.

Comment Re:amendments ..... (Score 1) 551

It really has to burn a serf like yourself, our wonderful 2nd Amendment. After all, it was the fact that the average American took up arms and fought your evil empire, pushing over the dominoes of your empire's fall. Now you are a pathetic joke, dependent upon us lest your former subjects turn and rend you all into corpses. I can understand the resentment from a weakling as yourself.

I watched yesterday a video of one of your enemies, standing in your street, hands bloodied, his victim laying dead in the streets. The cows are indeed coming home, as we say here. You in your arrogance, in your superior thinking and ways, have become quite the fools. You have let in your country, in your neighborhoods, an enemy that will be your undoing.

So by all means, mock us, the last super power, the last free people. We shall snack on popcorn while we listen to your pathetic mewling, and spectate as you, the fallen empire, reaps the whirlwind of your own folly and at last crumble to dust.

So please, keep ranting, it's vastly amusing. By the way, you have a little spittle at the corner of your mouth. I thought I should point it out, you being so proper and all.

All your guns have failed to prevent the TSA, Guantanamo Bay, the military-prison-industrial complex or even warrant-less wire-tapping. Looks like your guns are a safety blanket you wave about while ranting that you "could" overthrow your evil TSA-loving overlords and bring about wonderful Freedom, you just choose not to right now.

Im sure you have to go. I expect there will be the weekly pile of dead school kids for you to bury.

Comment Re:Fairplay (Score 1) 587

It's not sexist, it's entirely based on behaviour. No matter if you're male or female, with an accident they have to pay for, your premium goes up. A year without any payment on their side, your premium goes down.

The nasty side effect is of course that a lot of people drive away from an accident if they think nobody saw them ramming that parked car...

It is sexist. The GP is referring to the scenario where a man and a woman start out with no previous driving experience and both get a quote on the same car. The man will have to pay more just because he is a man.

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