If shocked was a shade it would be whatever shade the inside of my asshole is.

Gun violence in the USA increases every year. Buyback programs have been happening for how long, since the 60’s?

Tell me more about how effective they are.

Also, until the manufacturing of firearms is eliminated… yes, there is essentially an unlimited supply.

To further compound the issue; the programs we’ve had in the US are voluntary. In the USA, there are more guns than people and firearms ownership is both engrained into the culture and a part of the constitution. In the hypothetical scenario that firearms manufacture were to be ended, and buy back programs were to become mandatory; which group of people are you going to task with rounding up all of the guns?

It’s a complex problem; maybe you need a pedant to understand some of the complexities.

Well you got one because the tone that you use to speak with people lets them infer that you’re a complete asshole.

Gun buyback programs on their own are incredibly expensive with almost no correlation to decreasing violence or gun crimes.

Buyback programs were a piece of the Australian program; far from the whole thing. Requiring gun licenses and the creation of the firearms registry probably had more to do with it than the buyback programs.

guns.com has one for $599 right now - it’s brand new.

https://www.guns.com/firearms/p/century-arms-vska-tactical-blem?i=469321

You can find these substantially cheaper used.

I appreciate it; seeing more than a couple of people recommending protondb. I’ll have to investigate it on my next day off from work that’s not a weekend. Thank you.

Yea… you’re probably right. Maybe it’s just the games that I want to play. Those tend to not be Linux compatible (if they’re in steam), and for the games that aren’t even in Steam, I don’t bother trying to make them work in wine or anything like that. Just dual boot and call it a day.

I appreciate the info, and willingness to discuss this. I think you’ve been able to identify my point of reluctance around all of this now; it feels like work. When I’m done with work, I don’t want to do more work in order to get my games to play. Might explain why I bought a PS5 in May too.

Maybe I’ll give this some investigation on my next holiday / day off. That way it’ll feel only “kinda” like work.

Just thinking about this a bit more now; in the world we live in, and considering the number of guns in the USA… if Mexico allowed for this program to go on for a while the USA could potentially inadvertently bankrupt the Mexican economy in gun-buybacks. It’s kinda funny in a scary as fuck way.

Interesting… thanks for this. I’ll need to look into protondb more; had not heard of it prior to this.

I was a part of the pre-EA access group for Pantheon so my game isn’t a part of Steam. Is this a Steam specific thing?

Did you mean for this reply to go elsewhere in this thread? It doesn’t appear relevant to my comment beyond the first sentence.

Awesome. Salesforce has always been shitty. I wonder how much this will accelerate their decline.

Unfortunately, you have to be a citizen to take advantage of the deal. That’s a huge paycheck for an AK though.

Just use AI to fix them. 😂

According to traditional economic indicators, that’s a true statement. There is an issue with traditional economic indicators however.

A lot of the people that voted for Trump are fed “democrats bad” by Fox News, OAN and other far right news outlets that are unabashedly playing on the break-room TV.

Yea I did what Bernie did… vote for Democrats in the election because it was the opinion closer to my own beliefs. I’m a registered NPA at this point because I find the DNC embarrassing to be affiliated with.

For the most part I’m a democratic socialist. I’ll be supporting those types of candidates get elected as just regular Democrats, because (for the people in the back) THE USA CURRENTLY HAS A TWO PARTY SYSTEM!

Any reasonable person with a brain.

If a list were to be generated of a bunch of accounts that stopped posting as of November 5th, one could look at the post history of said accounts and reasonably infer if they were bots.

Being of Russian (specifically) origin would be a bit more difficult but also somewhat irrelevant at this point too.

Seems more like about 20% of games. It’s definitely improving but still a long way to go.

I have a Windows PC to play Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, and more recently Marvel Rivals. We’re still not quite there yet, although it was pretty cool that Baulders Gate worked on Linux.