• Libra00@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Couple things…

    The nerd brigade is reporting for duty. They probably won’t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters.

    I’ve been a nerd since the 80s and I’ll have you know I’m a great shot even with my eyes being fucked. Fuck your stereotyping bullshit.

    Bosworth said Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg supported his decision to join the Reserve. “There’s a lot of patriotism that has been under the covers that I think is coming to light in the Valley,” he said.

    That’s not patriotism, that’s oligarchs who are utterly dependent upon deregulation to stay oligarchs eagerly kowtowing to the fascist regime in order to curry favor.

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      22 hours ago

      I’ve been a nerd since the 80s and I’ll have you know I’m a great shot even with my eyes being fucked. Fuck your stereotyping bullshit.

      They probably meant outside of CS and Battlefield.

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        21 hours ago

        So did I.

        I took a concealed carry class about 10 years ago with ~30 other people and all 4 instructors made a point of complimenting me on my shooting accuracy, and the guy who ran the class said I was the best shot he’d seen. I used to go shooting with my buddy and his dad out in the back woods, they had an old swing-set frame set up with some bowling pins hung with twine that they would shoot. I got bored shooting the pins so I started shooting the string where it tied around the neck instead. After 8 or 10 of those they got tired of stringing them back up, but what really frustrated them is when I told them I couldn’t even see the string, I was just shooting where the it ought to be based on how the pin was hanging. And I was still dropping a pin with every shot.

        The funny thing is I can’t shoot very well in video games at all, it’s just a different skillset and I never played much in the way of shooters (except early stuff like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, etc.)