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Ruvan22 posted...

Works in the rest of the industrialized world?

the rest of the "industrialized world" barely had any to begin with in many countries and in many cases have altered their definitions of crimes to keep numbers low. they have substantially lower populations (per capita has always meant bullshit) and have many social programs in place to cull violent out breaks.

and even then homicides =/= gun homicides. guns in most other countries tend to get replaced with other methods and increased frequency in other crimes that pick up the slack. youll hear about AU's gun ban taking mass shooting situations from 1 to 0, but you wont hear about their 50% uptick in arson death conveniently right after the ban went into effect for a number of years after.

yet? when have we stopped?

joe40001 posted...

am curious do you truly believe universal background checks as they are commonly defined as a policy would not be effective as a means of reducing mass shootings?

No. they are largely pointless and only really effect straw purchases of which it wouldnt effect individuals who already go through the background check system. the only way that a UBC would even work how it was intended is if you also forced registration of every firearm that could then be linked back to a seller (it would not stop the person who currently holds the firearm and did their deed with) which is blatantly unconstitutional. almost ALL mass shooters and suicides tend to already get their guns legally due to no prior criminal records, or they steel theirs (like from parents) or the system fucks up and lets them through (which isnt going to be solved by adding even more red tape that the system can get convoluted on). in terms of gang violence there was a study on prisoners and it turns out only something like 3% of them got their guns through straw purchases. most got theirs from stealing or sold by people who stole and would have never gone through the system anyway.

been a long time since i beat it, but 50ish hours seems right.

Alpha218 posted...

But yeah, is there a reason why she is the only protag from 1-3 who doesnt come back?

Claire is also in Code Veronica (can technically be considered the real RE3) and Revelations 2.

why are we put on this earth? just to suffer?

i thought that was just common sense.

so are you telling me if i bought another table for my living room my odds of tripping over it and cracking my skull increase?!

i have about ~10 months of preps stocked up so i might be alright.

3 has some of the best set pieces in the series, but a lot of it just feels disjointed. when i first played it i actually liked it more than 2, but after going back to them again a few years ago i really cant say that any more. 2 is just a better game.

Garioshi posted...

Please tell me the later games tone it down on the gunfights. It's really not fun getting into a gunfight every 2 steps I take.

for the most part they do (especially 4), but i will say that aspect of the game is probably the one big one that improves quite a bit over the series. 2 especially they really started to learn how to piece together a setpeice with the shooting so you have less traditional cover shooting and more reliance on movement and unique setups to go along with the shooting and more means to stealth and basically play how you want (to a small degree).

im generally not a huge fan of the series overall, but even i have to admit the quality jump from U1 to 2 is fucking massive across the board.

most guns used in crimes are stolen or used way after the fact and have already went through the steps to get one. think that wont happen with ammo? or that somehow a small box of 20 rounds isnt enough to kill 20 people? especially when theres billions of rounds out there compared to guns? and those that get by that you think they wont pass a background check for ammo if they pass it for a gun? If anything this can mean more people will buy MORE guns and MORE ammo and more of both will potentially be on the street if they have to the do the same thing for ammo anyway.

same shit happens with the NFA, whats the point in doing a check on one thing and waiting the time when its the same amount no matter how many things you sent in the paper work for that day so might as well buy 5 suppressors and register 3 SBR's at once. might as well buy 5000 rounds at once instead of having to go through the process 50 times.

this is another pointless law that will stop no one but potentially people who are less financially off which happens to be minorities more often than not and further put extra steps for people trying to exorcise their constitutional right, but then thats the point because california is a racist shit hole for everyone who lives in it that doesnt make 500k a year. and this is assuming theres no shitty loopholes like how long they can keep you from owning a gun because of the backround check system's "waiting period" who conveniently has to redo the process after a certain amount of time since it can expire and can theoretically keep you in NICS limbo.

and there is no "arms" without ammunition. a gun is not a gun without a bullet. this whole thing is just trying to punish gun owners and further disarm the population.

1's gameplay is very mediocre and the gunplay doesnt really get decent until 4 (which has its own problems). basically play it for the visuals and banter.

$160 for a citizen eco. and that was the half off price.

UnfairRepresent posted...

I'd actually say RE7 is better first time over but RE2make has much much more replay value

atmosphere was good and its VR was great, but it just didnt do much for me. the combat did not really feel good, the enemies were boring (and the second half goes into those parts which i dont care for), too many boss fights and events that strip control away trying to scare you, the second half goes down the drain in general, story was boring and not entertaining even in a bad way. its an alright game, but not much more. more power to you for enjoying it through.

xOmniCloudx posted...

You left out RE3 tho so guessing you're waiting for RE3Make then....

realy looking forward to RE3 remake and not saying Re3 isnt great, just that id put those other 3 above it, but then thats not saying much since i feel most games in the core series to rank from good to incredible. i dont consider any game in the core series to be bad, even 6.

UnfairRepresent posted...

RE7

which was meh :)

Remake 1, REmake 2 and Re4 are pretty much the trifecta of the series. and yeah if youre enjoying the base Re4 then the ada stuff is worth doing.

she seems to really like executive actions.

he must be real embarrassed over that one.

32. enough that i plan to retire by 45-50 if things keep going the way they are.

everything is terrible. everything is horrible.

its almost like gun control advocates dont know wtf they are doing when it comes to guns.

large cities would basically dictate everything and ways of life in a large city is quite a bit different from rural or even the suburbs. neither system is perfect, but otherwise the 51% can "rule" over the 49%.

anything over $8 and im walking.

old

can i just eat a bullet instead?

UnfairRepresent posted...

They want to take actions that save lives.

most of the actions they want to take wont save anyone and there is no study that shows it. "gun deaths go down!" while ignoring the uptick in stabbings, beatings, arson, home invasions, rape and robberies. this is statistically shown in every country that has had major gun control thats been pushed and any study in gun deaths is already largely pointless when most countries barely had any gun deaths to begin with. same thing with suicides which is what canada found out with their long gun registry experiment which had gun suicides being largely replaced through hangings.

nah

way ahead of ya buddy.

that shotgun better be a fucking Benelli M4 if youre also going to fork over $40k for a truck and not some $150 turkish knock off 20gauge. because the $10 cheap ass flag makes me believe the latter.

very good game...but no. wonky difficulty spikes and some atrocious backtracking instances hurt it.

yes i get where she is coming from and yes she still broke the law.

the guy needs to be evaluated and charged accordingly if she feels things are getting that bad cause if she feels he will kill her, taking away his guns isnt going to stop him. couples have died from beatings, strangulation or stabbings (especially in heat of the moments situations) just as much from firearms and if its a man giving violence to a women then its not going to be immensely difficult to do so.

this just in-

the media is fucking stupid.

YES. and while youre at it get Remake 1 too.

honestly i think a lot of it has to do with too much shit being thrown in peoples faces now and telling them how they should and shouldn't act. the progressive culture has been kicked into over drive in the last 3-4 years.

im also of the camp that HL1 aged better than 2 and have always proffered 1's build up, navigation and level progression over 2's. both games tho are still quality.

i also LOVED Day of Defeat back in the day, but i have no idea how populated they are now.

the entire thing is a clusterfuck filled with blatant violations (not just related to the 2nd amendment), pointless stop gaps and purposely vague wording to trap as many gun owners as possible.

dont rely on something like #8 or 9 birdshot. they dont over penetrate, but if someone is wearing heavier clothing they can still keep going after you if they are drugged up or something. if buckshot is overkill depending on where you live then id look to certain turkey loads. some of them are loaded really hot and will stop anyone dead in their tracks and wont completely obliterate your neighbors if you miss.

as far as ranges id personally contact all of them around you and ask. as mentioned some of them dont allow shotguns on them unless they have a trap range. as far as the procedure just go in and ask to use their range (or call them and ask how they do it). you may have to sign a waiver and they have to check to make sure you have all the safe items (glasses, hearing protection ect.). some ranges also only allow you to shoot THEIR ammo and targets making you have to spend extra. they also might have restrictions on certain types of ammo you can shoot and whether that means indoor or outdoor.

basically you need to personally contact whats around you and ask them personally cause things can be vastly different depending on where you are.

do you like japanese melodrama mixed with over the top military fetishism?

if so then gie them a try. they are unique even now.

just a mortgage which should be done within 7-8 years.

well..yeah.

A_A_Battery posted...

I think the bigger idiot is the leftist or person of a minority group going on about gun control when the country is on the verge of a civil war, and the right is gonna come for him and his family not with pitchforks and torches, but with assault rifles, and he will not take a single one of them with him before dying.

while i doubt it will get that bad, it is still fucked how so many on the left have such pussified defeatist attitudes towards any push back. so many people when asked what you would do during a war breaking out or some SHTF situation they almost always basically say they will roll over and die and that there is no point in going on if things got that bad. then you have them willing to disarm the population while also citing every cop, soldier and right leaning individual (whos tasked with largely protecting them) is a scumbag racist willing to kill you and all minorities or be complacent in others killing you. how there is literally hitler 2.0 in the whitehouse with concentration camps at the lower border, but they should still disarm themselves. the whole thing is insane.

Aressar posted...

What I don't get is that anyone needs several guns. What could you possibly need that many guns for?

Like tools there isnt an end all be all. small handguns are better to conceal in summer, mid size are easier to wear and unholster in winter. if you want to go hiking or camping and are worried about the wildlife a larger handgun like a .44 might be more ideal especially if you wont want to worry about the weight of a long gun.

for a home invasion situation that tends to come down to the individual. if their home has a lot of corners a full length shotgun might not be the best choice, maybe a handgun would make better sense and then you get into the caliber wars of what can overly penetrate and what cant, what is going to disorientate you more in and indoor setting and what isnt as much (a .45 for instance is naturally subsonic where as a shotgun is going to blow your ear drums out).

if someone is a farmer you arnt going to use a .45-70 to take down ground hogs nor are you going to use a .22 to kill a wild boar. it gets even more extreme if you are a hunter. you arnt going to use a rifle to shoot pheasants and chances are high you arnt going to use a shotgun beyond 50yards to kill a deer. then you also have the environment to account for. are you in heavy brush and wooded areas? then youre going to need a gun that fires a heavier bullet to punch through the brush. are you on the plains? then youll need a flatter shooting rounds like a 30-06 or 6.5creed.

and thats isnt even getting intot he whole 2nd amendment movement of which thats another hornets nest. point being its not crazy to think an individual might own half a dozen or more firearms.

it really depends on what you want out of the games. Morrowind bets on you wanting to actually explore the world (and its been designed as such with a MUCH more memorable setting) and read up on the lore and basically put you into its setting. there is no hand holding and you are completely free to make any character you want and play anyway you want and it offers more options to think outside the box and potentially break the game which really lends itself well to you actually making YOUR character (this also goes into the dice rolling combat, as you level up you will miss less which imo also adds to the feeling of your character actually improving). IMO its a better expereince IF you can get into it and especially if you can manage its dice roll combat which is most definitely not for everyone. If you can mod it, mod the combat and youre for the most part good to go.

Oblivion has a few things going for it that being better side quests, a more streamlined combat system which is easier to get into it and a substantially larger mod community to the point you can turn the game into what ever you want. outside of that imo it neutered a lot of the more interesting aspects of morrowind which made it a less memorable game.

also if you own skyrim on pc you absolutely need to try (if you havnt) Enderal. an absolutely amazing total conversion mod that pisses all over skyrim and oblivion combined.

its pacing at points has always been wonky which is a criticism even then. the shooting wasnt particularly great either. other aspects were a time and place type of deal like the emphasis on physics and non controlled storyteling and cutscenes. now those are in everything so the impact is lessened.

that said i still think the game holds up well in terms of gameplay diversity. the game always threw something interesting at the player. be it those boat or car sections(albeit they go on too long), the npc controlling, the gravity gun which completely takes over the last act to the ravenholm sequence which was almost horror movie esque. and just the ways it mixes those things up. it did it very well.

1. Remake of 1 is imo one of the best games ever made IF you are into those types of games. its a very slow paced game with technically archaic controls and perspective now (still easy yo get used to and the new control system can help). lots of item management, lots of backtracking, lots of exploration, lots of puzzle solving. still amazing atmosphere and sound design that holds up. its a slow burn type of game. the REmake on this/last gen consoles are basically an uprezed version of the original gamecube title (with the added control scheme and some costumes). basically the same things.

2. its like the original 3 with imo some extra annoying bullshit thrown in.

if you plan to play 2 id also recommend playing the original before going into the remake. they are pretty different while Re1 and REmake 1 still hold similar fundamentals.

if youre into those types of games then yes. i got sucked in it real hard.

still my favorite of the bunch.

ahahaha

no.

people are such fucking babies.