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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

but isn't the entire emulation community essentially "built on lies and copyright infringement"?

No way, it's totally for "archival purposes".

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was* banned for commenting an incomplete sentence.

You're on thin ice, mister!

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I really don't think it was that secret. Every modern Ubisoft game I've played has had multiple unskippable TOS checkboxes that you had to agree to before you can even pass the title screen, which state in no uncertain terms that they're going to datamine the shit out of your entire play session.

It is still nice to see this stuff being challenged, though, even though I'm doubtful that it'll bring about any meaningful change.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

OP's "karma"/reputation score, visible from Mbin instances, is at -1435. I think it's safe to assume that OP does not intend to be taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 171 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The fact that Patel feels the need to blur out the faces of the arresting officers should tell you exactly how confident they are in making the arrest to begin with. They're scared. As they should be.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Honestly, the new design fixes the one thing that's bothered me about the old player for years, which is the shading it applies to the bottom portion of the video when the UI is open. If I want to pause to read some text at the bottom of the video, I'm just out of luck because it's basically blacked out the bottom of the screen for no discernible reason. This new UI is a lot cleaner in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't understand why you'd ask that.

It's not that far-fetched, to me. $10 is a pretty weird price for a game, especially these days. Many games that launch at such a low price point tend to only keep that pricing temporarily; either as an early-access discount before the price goes up for the "final" build of the game, or it'll go the other way and go free-to-play as the devs put the game on life support. It also seems like an especially unusual one-time price for a game that still seems to be actively worked on. It's a very curious price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

When's the last time a school shooter (that made it to trial, obviously), got slapped with terrorism charges

When's the last time a school shooting fit the required legal definition for terrorism? They're completely different scenarios with different motives, you may as well be asking "When's the last time the Hamburglar was charged with terrorism?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What part of what I said was boot licking? Or are you just as braindead as the people that do interviews for CNN and just use that phrase for anything you don't understand?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (13 children)

Ugh, I hate that they put the stupidest arguments front and center in stories like this.

“They do not put this same effort behind, say, school shooters or people who shoot up concerts.”

Yeah no shit, because mass shooters generally don't survive their attacks. The similarities between a mass shooting and the shooting of one person are few and far between - the motive, execution, and follow-up investigations are wildly different in each scenario.

I get wanting to support Luigi, but disingenuous comparisons like that aren't doing him any favors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I know, it's just not often that I get to flex useless HVAC knowledge. :)

 
 
 

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I hope we're in agreement that Heilung falls under the metal genre.

 

Hey, was wondering if anybody might have any tips for me! I've been using a Worksharp Knife & Tool Sharpener MK2, and have this weird issue where my knives are coming out sharper on one side than the other.

I know that shouldn't really make any sense, but I've got a knife right now that I have no problem shaving hairs off my arm with, but only with one side. If I flip it over, no matter what angle I approach with, I can't knock away a single hair. The bevel is also significantly wider on one side, which I also can't figure out how to correct but I'm sure is related.

I can't tell if this has anything to do with the fact that the belt rubs against the steel in different directions when sharpening each side (up and into the blade on the left side, down and away from the blade on the right), or if perhaps this might be an error in technique on my part. As far as I can tell, I'm keeping the blade in line with the guides properly and not deviating significantly.

For what it's worth, I'm working with a hawkbill blade. Meaning that I have to lower the knife as I draw it through the sharpener, to keep contact with the belt. I know this allows for a lot of room for error; I've been making an effort to ensure that I'm keeping the alignment correct the whole time, but it's wholly possible that this may be where I'm messing something up.

Any ideas if I might be doing something wrong or something I could try to get a more even edge on both sides?

 

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This 16 year old video randomly showed up in my recommendations tonight. This is one of the coolest juggling routines I've ever seen.

 

Hey guys! I've just recently gotten into collecting pocket knives, and I wanna make sure I'm taking proper care of them. My last two purchases have been karambits, both with fairly steep recurved blades, whose edges I'd like to be able to maintain.

I know that normal sharpening stones aren't going to allow me enough contact with the blade to actually put an edge on it, so I've picked up a Smith's DRET sharpener and have been practicing on an old dull knife with a stiletto blade, just to try to get some basics down. I'm getting better with it, but I'm struggling to get an even, consistent edge. Even without any special optics, I can see with my own eyes that I've got wildly uneven angles.

Granted, I'm practicing with a very low-quality knife that was already in pretty rough shape. I've managed to get the edge from "literally unable to break the skin with 20 pounds of pressure and aggressive sawing motions on my forearm" to "can cut through paper with about half of the blade before bunching up", though it's come at a cost of scratching the absolute hell out of the rest of the blade (which is just me being sloppy).

I figure that once I'm able to get competent enough with sharpening a normal blade shape that I'll move on to testing with a donor karambit. I picked up a super cheap, mall-ninja-ass karambit on Amazon because the reviews were all poor and said that the knife arrived completely dull, so I figured this would be perfect to practice sharpening. Unfortunately, it arrived with a surprisingly sharp edge, so I'm gonna have to abuse this knife for a bit before I can even practice anything on it.

Just curious what sort of tools y'all recommend for dealing with recurved blades, or any techniques I could try to incorporate into my practicing. Thanks!

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