HelixDab2

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

You shouldn't need to. .300 Win mag is long action, so you're going to be using a bolt action rifle. There's not going to be too many contexts where you're going to want to swap out the scope for anything other than fairly long range.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Why would you us a bow? Range is poor, and lethality is also low, esp. with the access the the ultra-wealthy have to medicine. When you hunt deer with a bow, you can usually expect to have to follow a blood trail, as it's rarely an instant drop.

Use a .300 Winchester magnum from 1000 yards; at that distance, you still have about 850 foot-pounds of energy, which is roughly double a 9mm at point black range. With the right ammo, that's more than enough to get the job done. You probably want a combined mechanical and ammunition accuracy of about .5 MOA range though, so that you have deviation of less than 6" at that range. It's a challenging shot, but it's definitely doable if you know your holds and can call the wind.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well. technically he was an ape rather than a monkey.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

The guy in the front is one of the producers for Drumeo on YouTube, not a member of Sleep Token.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

The entire Ultima series for sure. I think those were the first CRPGs I played. I loved Ultima: Underworld I & II, but I was never able to get Ultima VII: Pagan to run properly on my computer. (And, holy fuck, that was 30 years ago.)

But also The Elder Scrolls: Arena, TES: Daggerfall, TES: Battlespire, TES: Redguard, and TES: Morrowind. The first two TES games would be challenging to make, given that many of the areas were randomly generated, rather than being designed.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Having seen the trailer for Gothic, it looks good. I really hope that it's actually good.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have, and I got stiffed out weeks of pay I was owed because it was with a fly-by-night contractor that had a nose-candy problem. ...Which is why I don't do that any more. (Plus, he insisted on doing shit in the most backassward, bullshit way. I'll be surprised if his shit doesn't kill someone some day.)

If you work for a reputable company--not as a 1099 contractor, which is self-employed--then you probably have to be paid overtime pay. If you get a W2, and you're not getting OT when you have to put in more than 40 hours in a week, then you need to consult with an employment attorney.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Disagree; most people that work outside are still working for a wage, and OT pay kicks in once you break 40 hours in a week. That limits most places to 8 hours, unless you're talking about undocumented immigrants that don't have any labor protections, or people that are self-employed in some way.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Doesn't bother me; it's 2 minutes to spray it on, and then re-apply every hour that I'm outside. As long as I'm wearing a hat to shade my face, I don't have to worry about putting any on my face, and then sweating it into my eyes.

Doing hard manual labor in the mid-day sun at the height of summer though? That's def. unpleasant as fuck. I can do 2-5 hours, and then I'm just done for the day. I don't know how some people can do that for eight hours a day, day in and day out.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 46 points 8 months ago (9 children)

I love WEARING SUNGLASSES.

I love WEARING A HAT.

I love DRINKING WATER.

I Love WEARING SUNBLOCK.

Jesus christ dude, if you get yourself into some kind of shape that isn't round, you aren't going to have these problems.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

If the customer base skews wealthier, you're going to have more people shopping there that are pulling in $500k+ annually, and probably a handful that are pulling in over $1M. If you only have one bottle in that price range, but you have 100 members at a given location that have enough income where that seems like a reasonable purchase, then you're probably going to be able to sell it.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's a bar in Chicago, Lady Gregory's, that has a whiskey bible. They will sell you 40yo Scottish single-malt whiskey--they have multiple choices, including from distilleries that have been out of business longer than I've been alive--by the dram, at up to about $250 per dram (as of the last time I was there, in 2016). Assuming that they're using the American standard dram measurement of 4ml/dram, that works out to up to $46,000 for an entire bottle.

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