… If Stewart Rhodes is anywhere on Lemmy, we need to know his IP.

Fuck that guy, right in the ‘lifelong reminder of poor weapon handling’ hole.

Ah, so there’s so much evidence that denial is now impossible, and its time to start sacrificing people.

Oh please implode faster Microsoft, you are so immensely horrible in so many ways.

Yes, this is where the term ‘half-cocked’ comes from.

It varies with double action (DA) revolvers, but basically all single action (SA) revolvers work like:

You pull the hammer half way back, to half cocked, to revolve the cylinder.

You pull the hammer fully back, to fully cocked, for the trigger to be able to loose the hammer and thus fire the bullet.

So, if you are ‘walking around half cocked’, that means you are literally carrying around your weapon in a state where it is easier to fully cock and then fire it, (because you literally dont have to pull the hammer as far to get it to fully cocked), thus it implies you’re basically ready / looking for a fight.

To de cock a fully cocked SA revolver, you pull the hammer back even further than fully cocked, press lightly on the trigger, and then carefully lower the hammer to rest position.

This kind of action mechanism is also what allows ‘fanning’ to be possible:

You just pull the trigger slightly, (the trigger has multiple stages), and then fan the hammer / fully pull the trigger.

Each full ‘fan’ of the hammer will bring it to fully cocked, and because your finger is now fully pulling the trigger, the hammer will immediately fall and thus fire. The fanning also of course pulls the hammer past half cocked, so the cylinder is revolving one click each time as well.

(At least this is my understanding of how one does ‘fanning’, I may be slightly wrong in some way, I’ve never fanned a revolver myself as it is… basically just a kind of trick shooting that is very much not recommended for a typical shooter)

Now… with double action (DA) revolvers, this is different.

Because with a double action, a full pull of the trigger basically pulls the hammer back as well, instead of you having to do that with your thumb.

So as you are pulling the trigger, you get to half cocked, revolving the cylinder, then fully cocked, which also is the point where the hammer is let to fall and thus fire the weapon.

It can get even more complicated with SA/DA, where its kinda both at the same time… there are different variations with different specific procedures for de cocking different kinds and models of revolvers.

And, you can get even more complicated than that, with say the Chiappa Rhino, or the Mateba Semi Auto Revolver.

So basically, broadly, you’re not wrong / mostly generally right, but its even more complicated and depends on the specific kind of revolver you have.

God fucking damnit.

I get that this is a joke, and it is a good joke, but guns will fucking kill you if you are fucking stupid.

The actual original image, because I don’t want any of you goobers to blow your own balls off, or accidentally cap your friend or neighbor:

Fire a shotgun through the door.

Because those one are how Palantir makes money.

… do not go quietly into that good night.

Rage.

Rage against the dying of the light.

The Steam Deck and Steam Controller (2.0, but w/e) use Voice Coil Actuators spread throughout the device for both haptics snd rumble.

They’re both measured/set in decibels.

https://www.electricity-magnetism.org/voice-coil-actuator/

It could be that you’ve found something actually worth posting a bug report about on… well I’m not sure where lol.

It could be a Steam Input issue, it could be a Proton issue, it could be both.

It might be the case that the style of command the game sends is basically ‘formatted’ in such a way that its not being properly interpreted/translated the way it would be by the kinds of controllers the game was/is specifically designed to work with.

As far as I can tell, while the Steam Controller and PS5 Controllers use VCAs… the Xbox One Controller uses a more old school, ‘eccentric rotors’, unbalanced psuedo wheels that spin on an axis.

So… for a system like that, a straight pulse of linear input command would feel to get more instense, and then gradually taper off.

If you give that ssme input to a VCA, it … ‘interperets it literally’, if that makes any sense.

Its kinda like VCAs are digital, and ERs are analog… sorta.

So… there would have to be some kind of … additional emulation required, basically, to translate rumble ‘commands’ that were made to work with an ER system, to a VCA system.

Like uh, 2 seconds of ON would have to be translated into an accumulating VCA amplitude, that would then taper off after the ON input ceases, some kind of buffer.

You don’t know what to say?

Have you not seen the first two movies?

“There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.”

…god… god fucking damnit.

Oh I’m doing this thing called paraphrasing, to illustrate how what you’re saying sounds to people who are not you and may not think the same way as you do.

Had I intended to actually quote you, I would have used

actual quote formatting.

Do you agree or disagree that shaming of shorter men is a socially acceptable form of bigotry?

Can you see how you proposing an individualistic solution to that, where you likely would propose a social solution to other social problems… is something of a double standard?

(As an example, men openly shaming/insulting overweight women)

Finally: My paraphrasing of what you said is in fact accurate. You suggested that the solution to this problem is for men to just be confident in knowing that bigots are bad people.

Cool, but that doesn’t stop the bigotry.

Maybe you could think about what I say, then.

I mean… yeah.

IMO, those are the kind of people who should be on a list… not trans people who would like to be able to use a public bathroom.

But, we live in a world where apparently 40% of cops with access to camera networks that track liscense plate movement, use that to stalk their exes.

Yeah, my only quibble would be that for the violators, well, they do get off on power tripping, being able to fuck with other people in ways that they cannot prevent or stymie.

Its basically the rapist/groomer type of mindset.

So it does end up being sexual, but basically via extra steps.

But yes… its fucked up either way, also fucked up as a potential business model.

POV porn exists, you could just actually work out an agreement with a strip club to basically rent it out to do a shoot one day, if you wanted to end up with pretty much the same kind of video, except everyone involved actually signed up for it.

I don’t know if you’ve been to a American strip club.

Rules often tend to be more like ‘guidelines’, that don’t actually exist as long as you appear to be following them, appear to understand the concept of plausible deniability, and/or are throwing around enough money to make people look the other way.

Pay the cover, play it cool, don’t ask stupid questions, don’t get caught?

I can absolutely see this happening.

Grok, undress her, render this entire scene as if she had no clothes… or was only wearing cellophane, whatever.

… Its still wild to me that people will do something like that, when you can literally just go to a strip club and look, or look at the vast, uncountable amount of erotica or porn that people freely post of themselves.

… Oh dear god.

Somebody is going to wear these things into a strip club and sell it like a fucking virtu in cyberpunk 77.

Damn you for making the intro theme play in my head.

I got 5/7 of those, will be 6/7 in a few months, hopefully 7/7 by the end of the year.

Holy shit, I have never seen that before… that may be the best recovery I’ve ever seen in any fight.

Just… holy shit.

Potentially critical error -> I win.

In approximately one second.

Damn.

You can record a video of someone shopping, and then feed it to a visual AI.

Blamo presto, now they’re a shoplifter, or at least everyone on social media thinks they are.

The possibilities are endless.