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- Comment on Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry' 6 days ago:
There’s just so much insane bloat in the industry. It feels like every game made by a AAA studio has a hundreds of millions of dollar budget, and hundreds of people working on it. A lot of people are just completely unfazed by the novelty of high production value anymore. Not a majority, but the number of people checking of AAA seems to grow constantly a little bit over time.
There’s obviously an audience for these massively produced games, but I just don’t understand how every AAA game is expected to be successful like this.
Meanwhile digital publishing, with Steam Early Access being the default example, has lowered the bar to entry in the market to basically nothing. Indie and “AA” games are on the front page of the storefront next to multimillion dollar AAA games.
Sure the vast majority of Early Access games never get finished enough to grab attention, but given the sheer volume, even a tiny fraction of those games releasing and getting traction dilutes the hold of AAA games.
People spending time playing Zomboid or Kenshi aren’t spending that time playing AAA next big thing.
I’m not deluded enough to think anything like a majority of gamers are playing mostly indie games, but a noticeable enough amount might be to reduce the needed profit margin of a bloated production.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
That’s how this goes every time a question like this is asked. I agree. There’s a lot of games I personally don’t enjoy at all, but I can understand the appeal to a certain audience.
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- Comment on What's with black superheroes and lightning powers? 1 week ago:
The fact that you’re getting so many replies about other characters should be a sign the premise of the question is faulty. You’re asking people to stop giving you examples that contradict your confirmation bias.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 week ago:
The intelligence to curate universes to ensure you’re the smartest person in them is like some sort of self sustaining Gary Stu feedback loop.
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 1 week ago:
Someone already linked it, and amazingly the horse electrolytes weren’t even the worst thing going on with that guy.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 week ago:
Yes, but my point is that his hyper-intelligence is to a point something we just have to believe in since he is being written by people who aren’t hyper-intelligent themselves.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 week ago:
Rick Sanchez.
He’s supposed to be the smartest person in the universe. The rub is that the writers aren’t as smart as they want him to be, so that leads to them writing his enemies to be dumber than him to preserve his superior intelligence.
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- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
OP really emphasized the full auto aspect of M16s, so in this case I think differentiating them from semi-auto AR-15 models is relevant when giving an answer.
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve heard (no confirmation- so take this as pure gossip) that somebody was starting to kick the ATF in the butt a bit for intentionally slow walking reviews, which could have potentially led to litigation they didn’t want.
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
Uh huh. So he bought his M16 from the Army?
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
While many hunters own an M16
Really?
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
Yep I know about hogs (some other comment somewhere I mentioned them) and the biggest stopping of 5.56 for hunting is usually a legal ban on them rather than practical with the right ammo. Honestly might be for the best because otherwise some Bubba with non-hollowpoint ammo and a crooked scope would be out there maiming deer.
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
When did it happen? I well know it used to take months and months, but in the last year or so 10 day turn arounds are the average.
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
I completely spaced on the use against coyotes. AR-15s seem about ideal for that.
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
The eform system is really streamlined these days. Cost is the way bigger hurdle now.
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
The AR-15 derivated guns in 5.56mm tend to be decently mechanically accurate (depending on the exactly setup and blahblahblah) and have a flat trajectory which makes them practically accurate.
The ability of 5.56mm to wound is velocity dependent. Within the range where the velocity is high enough (600 to 800 meters, again depending on specifics) they are quite damaging, at least to humans. 5.56mm was designed specifically with humans as targets in mind, and designed to kill with hit to the heart/lungs/head. It minimizes recoil to allow the maximum volume of aimed shots in the shortest time, to maximize the chance of hitting a vital.
For hunting something like deer, a lot of gun people have shown 5.56mm is capable of taking down a deer with a similar hit to the vitals, however many locations still regulate that 5.56mm is not legally allowed, so it’s sort of a moot point.
For home protection I would want a pump action 12 gauge.
Not my personal choice or recommendation, but I’ve had this conversation enough to know it is hard to change minds.
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
You absolutely can buy full auto M16s. Assuming you have enough extra money set aside to buy a car.
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
yes you can by those M16s in the US my brother got his for the marines.
He bought for the marines?
- Comment on Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge? 1 week ago:
Most people buying full auto M16s (assuming this is a U.S. centric question) are dong so because those are collectors items. They cost upwards of $10k and appreciate in value.
People buying non-NFA semiauto ARs do so for a multitude of reasons. If someone says it is for defense, then while the chance of using it as such is slim, if it does happen it is a lot more practical than using a bow and arrow.
For hunting, there are a lot of variables. For the most part intermediate cartridges aren’t ideal for hunting, and in a lot of places they are banned for that purpose. You’d have to use a full power cartridge much of the time. Bow and arrow hunting of deer is not something most people can pull off and it would lead to a lot more wounded deer running away. I do think it’s fairly common to use intermediate rounds on wild hogs, but at that point it’s more about culling masses of them much of the time.
- Comment on It's not like my budget is... [NVNCBL] 3 weeks ago:
Mark is the stupid one here.
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- Comment on All that time adventuring has made him... [INVINCIBLE] 3 weeks ago:
Spoilers etc for show only watchers. People get big mad over odd things.
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All that time adventuring has made him... [INVINCIBLE]
