Manticore

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[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

Ngl I suspect a smaller brand using sneaky bait and switch

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 week ago

Sure but that doesnt matter. The point is making insults they thing will hurt or humiliate you, because they feel humiliated. People do that by insulting presumed insecurities.

Women get called fat ugly sluts, men get called small dicked virgin losers. We're just calling each other failures at our gender roles.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago

Hung jury =/= jury nullification.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A hung jury is no verdict at all. Its just means another trial with a new jury until a verdict is reached.

Luigi will be paraded in his jumpsuit until he is formally jailed or dies. Anything else requires everybody to agree on Not Guilty, and that's astronomically unlikely given the volume of lobbying against him.

Whether or not he did it isn't even relevant anymore. It's whether the common folk of a jury think he did, and both supporters and detractors of 'The Adjustor' consider that to be Luigi. His identity is so entangled in the public consciousness that the only way out is nullification, and prosecution is unlikely to allow such a jury to form.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Jury null requires EVERYONE on the jury to agree Not Guilty, there are plenty of sleepwalker who believe the TV narrative about basically everything, Luigi included. Won't be hard to find at least one

Edit: jury nullification IS NOT the same thing as a hung jury. The former is final. The latter means a new trial with a new jury.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

You're right that you can't personally farm them, but you can still end up getting them from publics. The old relics are still operable. I have hundreds of old relics that I open as fodder, as do other regular players. And ofc trading. The surplus of old relics helps keep down trade prices because they're still trickling into the market, albeit slower.

A better example is prime accessories. These are real-money only, and can only be bought from Prime Access (when a Prime is released) or a Prime Resurgence (Prime temporarily back for sale a year or so later). Stuff like Octavia Prime's shawzin/sitar being $35 or gone for (effecively) forever.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago

The community is very open about warframe.market existing though. Like an auction house for player trading across all servers. So if your relics drop bad items. Sell them on the market until you can eventually buy the one you want.

Other games do thinks like soulbound/account bound stuff. Not everything in WF is tradable, but most things are

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

She's wearing shorts (or possibly leotard), you can see the hem between butt and thigh

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I figured it's an issue with hagglers that haggle for haggling sake, and not about the value of the item.

If I want to sell something on marketplace, I put the price up, because I know somebody will ask for a big discount for a quick sale. I'm happy to move this faded couch set for $100, then I'm listing it for $200... and selling it for $100 to a person who offers to pick it up, too.

It's that kind of reasoning and makes haggling pointless imo, because sellers either don't take your lowball or they knew you'd lowball and charged high to start with so they have room to negotiate.

But as that one JC Penny guy accidentally proved, people love the illusion of good deals more than they love good value.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm reminded of a story somebody shared on reddit years ago.

An arborist, working with his team. One of his crew had the chainsaw kick and come back and severely main him. He's bleeding so fucking fast. They need to get him to hospital, and they can't afford to wait for the ambulance to arrive.

The woman in front won't let them past. She's going slower and slower to make a point. They're honking at her, but she lines up with another lane to box them in. That car slows down too.

The guy is fading fast.theyre using his shirt to staunch the blood, but it's not enough. After several minutes, they finally have an opening they can take. They speed past her little car, throwing the bloodsoaked shirt out the window to slap wetly on her windshield.

They meet up with emergency services - first, a cop. The woman pulls over to talk to the cop about their reckless driving. While arguing, the ambulance arrives. The injured crew member, and the storyteller, are taken to hospital.

It's too late. He dies.

....don't fuck around man. You never know. It's no worth it. Do the safe thing and make space or pull over. Safety over spite.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I hear thats what European Truck Simulator 1, 2, and American truck simulator are excellent for. Driving around on long roads with meditative scenery.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe there's another half of an article behind a paywall somewhere, because it doesn't look like they're asking for anything at all. They just described the accident, and then emphatically described how hard the recovery process is. It's little more than a diary entry.

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