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A blunderbuss is not a rifle.

The barrel is not rifled.

They were essentially early or proto-shotguns.

People do make reproduction flintlocks, and, given that the majority of these are basically custom order...

... you could probably pay for the barrel to be threaded, to allow for it to attach a supressor, or possibly just ask the gunsmith to make a custom, integrally suppressed barrel.

Problem with the threaded barrel is that most flintlocks fire very large caliber rounds, so... finding an actual compatible and attachable suppressor would be difficult.

... it would be a jokey gimmick gun, but you could do it.

Peter Thiel was also a major, early investor in the project.

That's another 'this one thing should let you know this is radioactive.'

Interesting. I haven't watched enough of his stuff to know what claims he's made.

As you seem to be an actual serious person who generally values their time:

Probably don't bother lol, unless you want to just watch multiple hours of youtubers going through his ... literal decades long history of hyping himself up, lying or manipulating the context of what he says and does.

I can best summarize it all as: He is a malignant narcissist sociopath, akin to a cult leader in terms of how charismatically skilled he is and how intricate his fabrications are.

Specifically as it refers to his coding abilities, now, a number of other coders on youtube have done exhaustive breakdowns of his sloppy code, and also shown that he often acts like a seasoned expert in specific technical concepts that he is at best only vaguely familiar with at the level of a sky high overview.

No pun intended:

Well fuck.

You're right, they literally did just do this, almost tagged everything NSFW/Adult no longer appears in itch.io's search, I just made a new account and specifically checked the 'show nsfw stuff' setting and.... yep.

Currently I am only seeing like uh... 3 games.

There used to be 100s, probably more like 1000s.

They have not taken down the actual urls for actual games, but you have to know them directly.

Kotaku seems to have an actually decent overview, very recent:

https://kotaku.com/itch-io-nsfw-porn-games-delisted-collective-shout-1851786841

Well uh... if itch actually sticks with this decision... either as you say, somebody is gonna have to figure out how to run a crypto based adult game platform of similar scale to itch, which will not be easy for all the reasons I've described, or create their own nsfw-friendly payment processor system, which would also not be easy.

So, that means that largely donation based nsfw game development is now effectively over, at a stand still, untill someone figures out how to at least semi-automate some kind of workaround via probably some kind of much, much sketchier 'sending money to a friend' type loophole in venmo/cashapp/chime, etc, which is also probably very legally dubious/iffy at a platform level.

The whole problem with all this (aside from the business/platform end costs and complexities) is that even if you do switch over to crypto, or make your own payment processor, or use some kind of loophole, its now much more difficult for an average person to go through all these steps.

I guess this is the -current year- version of back in the 90s and early 00s, the FCC and RIAA cracking down on 'explicit' music, the younger generations will now have to get clever and do something analagous to invented torrents, but that actually results in money moving around to support devs.

EDIT:

A quick search shows that there are indeed alternative, minor payment processors oriented toward or friendly to things like strip clubs / sex toy shops, who transact in USD.

https://www.merchantmaverick.com/adult-payment-processing-merchant-account/

Probably the most straightforward business solution for an adult game platform would be to use one of these, but uh, they'd likely have to make a whole new brand name, a new website/domain, a different company legally, to avoid what PayPal would otherwise possibly see as you violating their policies.

Again, you could use crypto, and wow hey, finally an actual compelling use case for it!, but uh, either route you go is gonna be complex and risky for platforms, creators, and users/consumers... tradeoffs.

It's also probably the most common type of breach. It's way easier to compromise tech support than find a vulnerability, so it makes a ton of sense for a company like Blizzard to have an auditing team to test the various attack vectors.

Yep, absolutely.

The uh, funniest one that sticks in my memory was the hack of basically an early build of GTA 6.

Somebody social engineered their way into someone at Rockstar who had some level of admin acces, I think via fake / intercepted and reformed 2FA auths to the target's phone, along with some spear phishing.

Then, they were proficient enough to exploit thier way throughout the intranet... but not smart enough to cover all their tracks.

A lot of roles like QA and cyber security sound glamorous, but that's because people like glamorous titles. If you've spent even a tiny amount of time working in a relevant industry (in this case, anything touching computers), you should be able to read between the lines.

You would think this, but everywhere I have worked in the industry... most people cannot infact read between the lines.

I've attended and even spoken at some tech conferences, and they're like 90% entry level stuff with a handful of interesting events and talks that actually break some new ground.

Impressive!

I've been to some, never spoken though... also, not DEFCON though.

I imagine cyber security conferences are similar. (mostly exist for networking)

I agree.

But yeah, streamers like to appear like they know their stuff because that's what gets people to watch.

Yeah, but Thor takes it to an uncommon point of basically being a conman, with his so much of his reputation built, by himself, on vastly overstated credentials.

Its like getting a 2 year nursing assistant degrer and then acting as if you can safely perform a brain surgery.

Welp, I guess sufficiently melanated Italians are back to being 'not white' in the US.

He did technically end up in cybersecurity, but basically yeah, a role that involves almost zero actual technical skill.

He did social engineering, aka, worming his way into people's emails and texts and social circles, sending fake 'your account has been comprimised, send me your user name and password to fix' type shit.

Ironically, social engineering is quite a fitting uh, subclass, for a low technical skill, high charisma narcissist to slot into.

He thought hacking and DEFCON was the coolest convention to go to, so him and some buddies... won the scavenger hunt badge, I believe thats more or less running around the Con with your network analyzer open on your phone, to find wifi/bluetooth enabled hidden scavenger hunt items, maybe with a couple extra steps.

Its literally a gimmick badge, its not really anything to do with actual pentesting, nothing like developing a totally novel exploit.

EDIT: Like, I am reasonably confident I know more about ethical hacking than he does, just having futzed around with tryhackme and some other free online sort of, 'basics of hacking' tutorials with simulated demonstrations on VMs, for a few years in my spare time.

Ask him what SYN, SYN-ACK and ACK are, and why they are important, and I'm guessing he would have to look it up, whilst making it look like he is not looking it up.

Not....webbed feet.

Webbed feet is when there is ... webbing, skin connecting between your toes, like a swimming flipper, as a duck does, though its usually not that pronounced when it occurs in humans.

Hers have been deformed by her wearing extremely poorly fitting shoes her whole life, and/or possibly just had fucked up toe alignment to some extent, to begin with.

More like foot bondage, but less extreme, and self imposed.

Think of how if your teeth grow in funny, you may need braces to better align them.

Well, this is sorta like that, but where the shoes are functionally the braces, and they're all fucked up and force the toes into an extreme configuration over time.

EDIT:

Basically, MTG is Cinderella's evil half or step sisters.

They kept jamming their feet into badly sized and badly formed fancy shoes, and at least in the original version, they actually cut off parts of their feet to try and literally fill Cinderella's shoes, but the Prince kept noticing the blood, and them walking awkwardly.

MTG has just been jamming her feet into, eh, likely needle point pumps of some kind, for so long, that they've smushed her pinky toes under and behind the adjacent toe, and the other toes have splayed out to compensate for the lack of balance that causes.

Shouldn't be hard for him, I'm sure he has a lot of prior experience with boot-licking, how hard of s lateral skill transfer can bootstrap based levitation be?

Yep.

Parts of Gen Z, and a lot of Gen A, will 100% seriously tell you that learning basically anything other than how to prompt ChatGPT is a stupid waste of time.

They'll all go feral when they can no longer afford it or the power goes out or the system crashes for a significant amount of time, as they've never learned how to think, nor anything useful to think about.

Fordor?