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mircea_popescu: "well it DOES kill people, and it HASN'T killed me,
mircea_popescu: people seem to have taken the smoking kills adds the same way
mircea_popescu: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417217/quotes?item=qt0158941 << re this excellent pacino performance :
mircea_popescu: all those "guns are not toys" adds backfired i guess
mircea_popescu: i would guess this'd be because a gun is pretty much the coolest toy adults can afford.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in an extremely rare case a shot could ricochet of a rib or something, but srsly nao.
mircea_popescu: copper-nickel w/e
mircea_popescu: what is it, copper mostly
mircea_popescu: i just can't conceive how that'd happen. maybe if the round was hand filled with dust ?
mircea_popescu: a .45 round will go through an engine block, let alone some bloke
mircea_popescu: what is this, some martial arts fascination ?
mircea_popescu: or meant to do...
mircea_popescu: even taking a more historically accurate 200 km/h which is what i did...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most .45 fires at around 300km/h
mircea_popescu: 9kJ. srsly nao.
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 300**2 * .2 / 2
mircea_popescu: the round, even historical, is closely subsonic.
mircea_popescu: that's trollage.
mircea_popescu: what, and it failed to penetrate ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is true.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves double the chain with kevlar, he can shoot you till he gets bored.
mircea_popescu: nothing quite like the shit exploding in the cop's hands
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, you want to short it.
mircea_popescu: what's a taser cost, 2k ?
mircea_popescu: $100 dollars.
mircea_popescu: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/151067206670?lpid=82
mircea_popescu: also, tasers are stupid easy to counteract. no idea why anyone thinks they're effective or anything.
mircea_popescu: did they do that back in the gun days toio ?
mircea_popescu: what do you want, people are strange.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves people volunteer for women in heels to walk all over their ballsack.
mircea_popescu: http://www.insideworldfootball.com/world-football/europe/14238-popescu-jailed-as-romanian-judge-hammers-football-fraudsters
mircea_popescu: any topic they touch turns to shit
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what sort of reverse midas effect this is, but it's uncanny
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform journos must seriously be going to a special retardation school.
mircea_popescu: parents killed, paralyzed, enjoy your fambly estate.
mircea_popescu: gee it must suck for that 8yo.
mircea_popescu: one*
mircea_popescu: someone needs to explain this open
mircea_popescu: "The two went through a contentious divorce in 1999 but remained friends, business partners and housemates sharing the $3.7 million, six bedroom, eight bathroom home."
mircea_popescu: sounds like eulora.
mircea_popescu: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/teen-charged-killing-parents-california-mansion-article-1.1714754
mircea_popescu: i don't think i ever played an ios game
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform california is a big place you know
mircea_popescu: you can make his kid a vampire
mircea_popescu: well your druid will die anyway, and permadeath
mircea_popescu: why do you want to play anything other than your character anyway ? because inept game design introduced artificial barriers perhaps ?
mircea_popescu: for instance by removing the incentive to make one
mircea_popescu: california
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves alternatively, don't allow a second character at all.
mircea_popescu: cazalla thats the plan
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves will be a good skill ot have, get btc off smg too
mircea_popescu: imo the only games worth playing anymore are btc games, if well done.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves im pretty sure you'll be hooked once it's playable.
mircea_popescu: eulora
mircea_popescu: exacrtly what you were describing
mircea_popescu: with a strong crafting system
mircea_popescu: cazalla it's this company that's been working for half a year at making a bitcoin based mmo
mircea_popescu: cazalla you heard of s.mg ?
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 you can buy plat for it
mircea_popescu: derivative
mircea_popescu: so plenty of room for surprises.
mircea_popescu: there's legendary and i think 2 more rarities past that
mircea_popescu: there's no relics crafted yet, too expensive
mircea_popescu: well in fairness i craft epic items and moist everyone doesn't have them
mircea_popescu: thre are some bound to char/acct stuff you buy via the fiat shop
mircea_popescu: afaik nothing is bound unless you equip it
mircea_popescu: required in crafting
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there's raid-only materials
mircea_popescu: (it has like 50+ currency types, it's insane, tokens of this, tokens of that)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves rift is of the azn economic persuasion
mircea_popescu: with her oblong trucker stop face.
mircea_popescu: bind on pickup is offensive, i'd rather date leah.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 bind on equip.
mircea_popescu: it is an insult to everything i hold right proper and important.
mircea_popescu: see, this is fucktarded. i would never play a game where you can't buy everything
mircea_popescu: ew
mircea_popescu: cazalla why not just buy it
mircea_popescu: that's why governments which make a point of subjects' hapiness never end well.
mircea_popescu: no one is happy unless they are getting more than they estimated they're worth, and everyone's overestimating his own importance.
mircea_popescu: sounds legit.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what thery say if i asked them :D
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves did you scam them ?
mircea_popescu: "you gotta move the broom like so!"
mircea_popescu: yeah, middle management for mcdonalds.
mircea_popescu: cazalla didn't wow end up giving noobs max level just to prop their numbers for investors conference call ?
mircea_popescu: so then you suck at raiding.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 but it still consists of following a set procedure and talking to people on the phone.
mircea_popescu: at least to my taste.
mircea_popescu: raids are really too much like low level sales jobs.
mircea_popescu: i never do, i have 5-6 legatii milites to do it
mircea_popescu: i do not.
mircea_popescu: also dominate the ah, but that's usually the case with me
mircea_popescu: it has ~900 members, and i kick ass at it :D
mircea_popescu: i've been running a rift guild for what, 4 months ?
mircea_popescu: but why don't you start it ?
mircea_popescu: i never got into that,
mircea_popescu: why do scammers manage to retain so little of the btc they scam ? well... "We also believe candor benefits us as managers: the CEO who misleads others in public may eventually mislead himself in private."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla has it.
mircea_popescu: SIXTY BUX