Sounds like incompetence to me. Cross platform networking code is tricky, but there are also copious libraries for this to the point where it’s a solved problem.

If you’re referring to the Kirk shooting, this was before that.

Something like that, yeah. Costco is more like 10 min, and I’ve done runs to both on my bike.

Idk, I’m not a psychologist, but I have looked at studies on video games and there hasn’t been a causal link between violent video games and IRL violence. You’d think that with so much focus on age ratings and whatnot that we would’ve found something, yet that’s not the case. My understanding is the largest contributing factors are childhood abuse, social groups (esp. anonymous online groups), and bullying. I suppose some of that could happen in video games (i.e. in-game chat), but then it’s not the game itself causing violence, but the interaction w/ other players.

So no, I haven’t seen any evidence that violent video games contribute to anything. The best argument is that people who have violent tendencies tend to play violent video games, but the reverse has little to no evidence.

How about this: release the files so we can know instead of speculating. If he’s in the files, let him explain himself in front of a judge.

And as the saying goes if 9 people sit at a table and a paedophile sits down and none of them say anything, there are 10 paedophiles at the table.

I really don’t like this argument. There’s a big difference between not reporting something and being complicit in that something.

For example, my neighbor smokes pot, and likely does so illegally. If I don’t report them, does that make me a pot smoker? No, that’s absurd! I personally don’t agree w/ the drug law despite having no desire to use marijuana, so there’s absolutely no reason for me to report them.

That said, if my neighbor was a pedophile, I would report them. Why? Because I want to protect kids, and getting the police involved is the best way to do that. So if there are 9 people at a table and a pedophile sits down and none says anything, there’s still one pedophile, but also 9 pedophile enablers. I don’t think those people should be guilty by association, but I do believe they are shirking their moral responsibility.

Because those are separate problems with separate solutions.

If people use guns to kill themselves, will they stop killing themselves if we take the guns away? Maybe some will, if the alternatives take so much more time, but the impact won’t be massive. Instead of making suicide harder, we should be treating the root cause of suicide, which is desperation (i.e. have a decent social safety net) and depression (make mental health resources widely available).

If people get hurt due to gun accidents, I highly doubt they’d be happy if we took their guns away, since that’s like solving traffic deaths by banning cars. The better solution is to improve safety features on guns and teach people gun safety so they can use them safely, or in the car example, we should be improving road design and driving education (and making cars less necessary, but that’s a separate point).

Suicides and gun accidents are certainly interesting statistics, but mixing them with homicides just makes it harder to see what’s going on and arrive at effective solutions.

Yeah, that’s just over $7/day, which is doable.

Get a week’s worth of rotisserie chicken. 😀

Absolutely. There have been so many studies trying to prove a connection and failed. It’s a completely debunked argument.

Sure, but how much do you save long term by having those in bulk vs doing multiple trips to the store to pick up one thing at a time?

I’ve bought 2 and have spent ~$13k on them. I still have the first after more than 10 years, and have had the second for almost 5. The first car was ~$10k, and it had 60k miles, and I’ve put on about 100k miles.

Buying used direct from the owner has worked well for me. My parents bought my first car for me for about $1500, though my siblings also drove it. I kept it for about 5 years before buying a replacement.

Yeah, nearest store to me is like 30 min walk each way. Nearest Costco is about the same time in the car as the grocery store.

To be fair, a lot of POC gun violence is gang related, not mental health related, because POC tend to be stuck in poorer areas and resort to gangs to make ends meet. There is certainly white gang violence as well, but there’s also a lot of mental health related crimes that happen to be committed by white people, probably because they have more ready access to guns that the average non-gang affiliated POC.

Games are unrelated to both cases.

It really doesn’t.

The only legitimate link between violence and video games is that violent people seem to like violent video games. I haven’t seen any compelling evidence of a video game causing someone to kill.

we have the most gun violence

If we look at “intentional homicide rate” (choice of weapon agnostic), the US is 66th and just above Greenland. I think this statistic is better than “gun deaths” since it excludes suicides and accidental deaths and looks at intentional murder.

The number is way higher than it should be, but probably way better than most assume given the news.

Hey, dude was a POS but I’ll never condone violence.

I played tons of first person shooters, GTA, etc, and I also have never thrown a punch at anyone.

I live in Utah and have a coworker that was supposed to be there for class tonight. Wild times…

We’ll get there, just give it time.