TBH she wouldn’t have even needed big booba.

Just… even just an animated face mesh.

Like really, they fumbled that whole concept so hard… a competent marketing department could made Cortana in basically the professional version of Hatsune Miku.

Even clippy had fucking animations.

Look into MiniPCs!

I’m not sure what will have availability in your country, but MinisForum, GMKTec, AOOSTAR would be where I’d start looking.

If you go for a MiniPC with an OcuLink external port… well, then you can get a GPU cradle and a small PSU for it, plug that in to MiniPC when you need the graphical power.

Its hard to find exact numbers on this, but basically, OcuLink appears to perform better than Thunderbolt 4 as a kind of eGPU data transfer method… there is some efficiency loss as compared to directly slotting it into a MoBo, but in practice, its often 10% or less.

And, now that FSR 4 works on 7000 series AMD GPUs, you may be able to find such a GPU that is cheaper, yet still performs somewhere between a Steam Machine and a more powerful PC.

This kind of setup is about as spatially small as a Steam Machine, and allows you the ability to upgrade to either a new GPU or MiniPC when you want to.

The MiniPC will be the CPU and storage memory and RAM.

MiniPCs often use laptop style SODIMM RAM and M.2 SSDs… so… if prices for those remain high, you can at least take those out of your old MiniPC, and then get a new ‘barebones’ MiniPC based around a newer CPU, and slot them into it.

Could also be epigenetic effects that we currently do not well understand.

Turns out that you actually can and do sort of pass on the cumulative effects of what has happened to you before you reproduce. And this does seem to include testosterone production.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11010-025-05366-0

Now that’s paywalled, but the abstract seems to me to indicate that at least broadly… this is probably part of the puzzle.

Stress, your metabolic state due to your diet (of ultra processed foods), environmental pollutants, things like that… may significantly contribute to how much T your offspring are gonna be making.

jordanlund is only getting my ID and DNA if he finds me, shoots me and mugs me.

Ok, we need a moth porn comm, that’s just different lightbulbs rated by lux output and emission spectra range.

And then vintage moth porn for the particular connisuers of various filaments.

I mean, I, for one, have no problem ‘swordfighting’ with anybody sufficient equipped for the engagement.

Universal Gender Neutral Piss Troughs, NOW!

Which means the new paradigm will be ‘every piece of hardware is a supply chain attack.’

Flare guns tend to be a lot more… disposable, basically?

Like unironically the Pyro’s flare gun from TF2, made of plastic mostly.

I dunno, maybe there are much studier built flare guns, but I’ve not heard of em… unless you’re just talking about a grenade launcher firing a flare round or something?

Like I said elsewhere… I think that’s a 50 BMG round.

… there are reasons why you almost never see break action / top break revolvers and pistols these days.

Mainly, they do not tend to do well with high chamber pressure.

A break action 50 BMG pistol?

That’s an overly expensive hand grenade, with an unreliable arming mechanksm, imo

If this is a smooth bore barrel… then you’re loosing a fucking 50 cal that is not spin stabilized.

Oh god what a bad idea.

A 45 70 derringer?

I mean… that is basically pretty close to what this appears to be…

But why? Who dared you to do that? They’re an asshole!

Aw, don’t be shy…

Cortana just wants to get to know you!

We swear she hasn’t been locked in an airgapped cluster underneath Kirkland for about a decade now!

Pinky Promise!

A lot of people are more irresponsible than you can possibly imagine, and, if you point that out to them, you are harming them.

Is glock gonna release a carbine conversion kit with an underbarrel shot gun?

Just in case I need to do some door breaching, while I’m standing my ground?

Quite literally, such a weapon only exists for you to flex with, that you can fire it and remain in control of the weapon, maybe even hit the intended target as well!

Its… this thing only exists because of dares.

There are more practical weapons for every use case that might even possibly qualify as uses this thing could have.

… I guess unless you are an actual WH40K spacemarine.

Yeah, revolvers are the classic ‘deep in the woods - wildlife defense handgun’… but 10mm and 5.7x28 semi autos are gaining popularity there.

A long gun in the same caliber as this would be an anti-materiel rifle… as in, designed to disable jeeps, power transformers, parked helicopters.

You are not going to have a fun time hauling a 30 lb war crime machine with you, into the woods.

… That… looks like a break action ‘pistol’ that is firing 50 BMG.

If you fired one handed, or even two handed, while not being significantly yolked up…

This thing is flying out of your hand(s), probably into your face.

Or, just exploding.

… there is a small difference between ‘a mysterious bank’ and ‘a mysterious bank that you solely own and operate’.

Quite literally there was a Bank Of Jeffery Epstein.

A private bank in the typical sense is one thing… a private bank in the sense of a personal bank?

…Oh boy.

‘Perform a 216th Trimester Abortion on William’

Well… no.

Thats… Sony and MSFT raised prices on all of their hardware too, same with Nintendo.

We’re at the point where being a huge player… can only get you priority in the queue for chips and parts.

It can no longer secure bulk pricing discounts.

That’s how bad this is.

…Does hurling slurs and insults at Elon’s twitter account, right after he accidentally bought it, and then being banned from Twitter … mostly likely directly by Elon, because he’d fired or locked out all the moderators at that point… does that count as a ‘gamer moment’?

Its the actual only thing I’ve ever used Twitter for.

… Twitter is a really shitty MMO, right?