southsamurai

I’ve been skeet missing lol

Which is an exaggeration, but not a huge one. Definitely fun anyway, but more because it’s outdoors and active for me. Haven’t done it in decades. Back in the nineties, I’d go with some of my family just for the joy of shooting with them, but was never into it on my own.

A decent scope on a lever action is a little slice of heaven though :). I’m not a hunter, nor was I ever a regular one; really only small game then. But lever action shooting is very engaging, once you get the hang of keeping a good sight picture while cycling the rounds.

Nothing wrong with that :)

A lot of my family shoot at some degree of regularity or another. I’ve got a cousin that flat out won’t shoot handguns, of any caliber. Says it isn’t worth the hassle, he just wants a relaxed shooting session, and that means a rifle to him. Just hunkered down and no need to deal with grip, stance, etc.

Me, it’s shotguns I’m not into. To me, they’re only for when you need a shotgun in specific, and I’ll only practice enough to hit what I intend to, never for the fun of it. But some folks love the skill set and practice.

Still the most fun handgun to shoot imo

Well, just glancing at it, it isn’t discord. It doesn’t connect to discord servers at all.

What it does is replicate discord, in a way that allows users to still make use of things that discord users are already into. Bots in particular.

So discord won’t have access to anything that goes on at all, unless you’re using something that also connects to discord.

Pop-ups and fake notifications would have more to do with the client you’re using than the back-end would, so if you use a client that does those things, I wouldn’t bet on that changing.

The caveat: I’m no dev of any kind, so I can’t say anything about the actual code, I’m basing this on their own description. I linked the page to my cousin that sometimes will give a quick scan for hinky shit for me, but there’s no telling if or when he’ll do so nd get back to me.

Damn. A little pricey for my wallet

I’m aware, just surprised.

Looking at it from the outside, but also as an old fart, the whole history of the star wars universe is broken up, fragmented. At any given point along the way, it didn’t feel like that. It’s only stepping back out of being a fan that it becomes evident (to me).

Like, there were a ton of problems in the original EU, and some of that got compounded after the prequels came out (and the books after that). But, reading the comics and books as they came out, it was easier to not notice those issues. It wasn’t like you could truly binge everything easily, the longer time passed. So you’d have blurry memories of the parts you watched/read previously.

But now, after the old canon has been discarded entirely, and you can dig up synopses easily, while those flaws were there, they mostly were stable. With all/most of that being disconnected now, but only the stuff disney wants disconnected, that stability is gone.

I think that even new fans without the baggage of a lifetime of immersion in the universe are going to end up disappointed by sloppy management of things. Great stories are awesome, even if they’re essentially “alternate universes”, but unless that’s up front, it’s just a little daunting to buy the books and try and be invested in them as part of star wars.

In other words, I think they’ll bank on short term sales and end up with a sloppy, mismanaged mess that fans will regret buying into, no matter how good individual books are.

Being real, I’m legit surprised they expect anyone to buy into this.

They’ve already dumped the extended universe once, which is fine by itself. But they’ve followed that up with dubious continuity and decision making for their movie universe.

So, why am I (or attentive anyone else) going to buy new books? Are they going to be up front and call all the books, comics, or other new EU material a “what if” that can go away at the whim of whatever CEO is in charge?

Again, that’s fine. I’m completely okay with a company deciding what is and isn’t canon for their products. I just want honesty

Whew, that’s a big price tag for what might essentially be a wall hanger. They’re too common to be an “investment”, too worn to be a reliable shooter (in the case of the mod1s), so all you can really do is appreciate them as history. I don’t think I could justify either version’s price even if I had infinite money.

Yeah, I know the mod1s are usable as firearms. But they’ll be showing their age and usage in little ways that make them less than ideal as something to shoot regularly. They’d be limited to casual target shooting at most, imo. You couldn’t expect great accuracy at all.

I dunno, maybe I’m just too picky, but if I want a range plinker, I can’t see paying that much.

Lawsy! We got some industry drama!

Jokes aside, I have a feeling this won’t go anywhere

They don’t consider it a right.

Seriously, that’s what it comes down to. You either believe that the right to keep and bear arms is a human right, or you don’t. A right can not, and should not, be restricted.

But who decides what is and isn’t a right? Well, in the case of the U.S., it was written into the primary source of law for the country not long after that source was put into action.

Anything since then is a series of arguments about what that document “means”. So far, the argument that the right to keep and bear arms being a human right rather than a right only of the state has been upheld. That’s called the individual mandate iirc, though there may be other terminology in play.

Now, I’m not getting into a debate here, I despise rehashing the same bullshit over and over again. There’s a shit ton of good arguments and bad arguments made by people on the two main sides of the issue (and there are actually more than two sides, but the loudest voices end up drowning out others), so you can find those if you really want.

Being real, most of the hot button issues come down to a group of people believing that something is a right, and others believing it isn’t. Abortion? It’s about the right to body autonomy vs the belief that body autonomy is not a human right that is inviolable. There is a section of those that don’t believe it is a right that believe so because they also believe that the little thing inside has rights that trump the rights of the parent; but there are those that aren’t part of that section that still don’t believe it’s a right and thus can be regulated accordingly.

I obviously do consider firearms to be essential to a human right, that being the right to defense, what with the whole comment starting with they. That being said, as soon as firearms cease to exist entirely, and/or everyone, including every police force and armed services are disarmed before citizens, I’d be willing to concede that firearms are no longer essential to that right. But the right to arms is a human right, regardless of what form of arms exist. If we went back to archery and swords, those would be the weapons essential to that core right. Which, to me, is the important part, that core right rather than the form that right takes.

Fwiw, idgaf about lib vs con bullshit. I’m so far left that the typical US liberal thinks I’m dangerous. I’m not far left, but I’m a damn sight further left than the usual people involved in this issue.

In the hopes that it will put me out of my misery.

This hurts me

Still better than my sporterized double trigger mauser.

Ehhh, gonna be a tough one.

Yeah, legit, I’ve messed around with this kind of thing before, and I wouldn’t attempt to run lemmy myself. Major pain in the ass.

I mean, android is fine I guess, but it’s being pushed to be less and less able to be separated from Google. I think for a lot of people interested in self hosting, there’s a low amount of interest in it because of that.

I’m confused.

Were you not aware that almost every app on the play store is a limited licence? Like, you can’t move over to Windows and expect the license to carry over by default. You don’t pay for an app on Google’s store and automatically get it on iOS as well.

What you wanted would have required rebuilding the app to not use play services to verify that it was paid for. While it would be nice if a developer does that, exhibition expecting it to be the default approaches absurdity when it is most definitely not the norm.

You making the decision to degoogle is great, but that’s your choice. Expecting a developer to bend over backwards and rewrite part of their app for that is just silly. It’s fine to ask, nothing wrong there, but calling someone greedy because they said no? That’s not cool at all.

What do you do this off-site backup?

This should not be allowed!

Making my tacticool mini 14 all inferior feeling lol.