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Nah. They used to be Nreal but got a C&D from Epic.

The rounds used were high-velocity rifle, not handgun rounds. Were it a handgun round, it could be believable. The greater amount of kinetic velocity leads to much more devastating wounds, even with grazes. He may have been grazed by debris or indirectly by a fragment from a bullet that hit something else, but, that's not the claim.

Source: I've spent a significant amount of my life learning about firearms and I've been next to someone who was hit by a .45 ACP that ricocheted at a shooting range after hitting a rock about 15-20m away. He was hit solidly in the meaty bit of the shoulder at an almost straight-on, vertical angle. Not a graze. The round did not penetrate, fortunately. The wound had minor, superficial lacerations or tears radiating about 1.5x the round diameter and a bruise the size of an orange. Bleeding was easily stopped with a single gauze pad.

Why does that matter? Well, the wound experienced was similar, if not more significant and visible, considering it's a less vascular and bleed-y than an ear. A common .45 ACP FMJ round has about 1/4 the energy of a 5.56x45mm NATO round when it leaves the barrel. The reduction of velocity from the ricochet was extreme, likely below 200ft/s (60m/s), roughly 1/4 of initial velocity, but it still had enough energy to create a similar degree of wounding.

Kinetic energy (KE) is proportional to mass times the square of velocity, meaning that every time velocity doubles, KE quadruples. So, a .45 ACP round traveling at ~1/4 of its velocity posesses ~1/16 of its initial KE (supposing it didn't lose any mass, which it did). That makes it around 1/64th of the KE of the 5.56mm round. The likelihood of a 5.56mm round making little enough contact to transfer less than 1/64th of its energy into a ear, without the pressure wave impacting the surrounding tissue at all is not technically impossible but it is about on the scale of the chances of Ghandi not pulling out nukes in the original Civ.

Add to that the suppression of any medical evidence and it's a pretty clear picture.

When moving at supersonic velocities, barely nicking something is still enough to transfer enough energy into the ear to, at minimum, leave visible scarring, more likely, require reconstructive surgery.

This isn't Hollywood. A graze wound from a 5.56x45mm round at supersonic velocities doesn't leave a small, easily healed cut; it transfers a portion of the bullet's kinetic energy into the tissue, in a radiating pressure wave that tears, shatters, and emulsifies the surrounding tissue. Even the slightest amount of contact transfers enough energy to cause wounds that take a substantial amount of time to heal, even more so with an ear that is primarily cartilage, which doesn't, itself, heal.

A graze would have resulted in needing reconstructive surgery that would have taken months to heal and would have had visible bruising much longer than his ear bandage was worn. Graze from fragments or debris? Sure, that's a lot different than his claim. And it's at least equally likely that he cut his ear when tackled, which would be consistent with the seen wound as well as the lack of visible scarring or need for reconstructive surgery.

Kacsmaryk

Every fucking time it's this corrupt fucker.

Good looking out for people.

Epic signed a contract with the union stating that they would bargain (and then willfully violated it).

And the ACLU helped block the legislation to ban it in California.

Intentional misunderstanding for comedic purposes. "Sub" doesn't have meaning on Lemmy, any more than it would on an old school phpBB forum. It's a reddit naming convention.

I always find it fascinating that people get mad at those that couldn't stomach genocide, rather than getting mad at the people with the power, the money and the platform who chose genocide and money over fighting fascism.

Do you get mad at a mountain lion for killing an elk? Or ivy for strangling a tree? It's just what they do. Same with the corrupt elite and bourgeoisie. They're corrupt and feed their own selfish desires because they are fundamentally broken, antisocial people. When one claims to be an ally but refuses to act like one in the most important and meaningful ways, it feels like betrayal and that hits differently than known malignancies acting malicious.

I did vote against Trump, but I also voted against Harris. I did that because, unlike you, I didn't want genocide or fascism.

No, you did not. You engaged in a purely performative action with no statistical chance of a positive outcome against fascism or genocide, so that you could brag about your moral purity while offering up the rest of us to fascists, including your SO, apparently, to feed your ego.

You can lie to others and you can lie to yourself but, the math doesn't lie. FPTP system with established parties (one of them openly fascist, that already attempted a coup) meant that there were, mathematically, two options (not a false dichotomy but a real one): voting for a candidate with a statistical chance of winning against the fascists, or letting fascists win. You chose the latter and, if we survive this, that's something that you'll have to come to terms with and take responsibility for.

With the video game industry's history of unfair labor practices, the burden of proof for credibility that this did not violate contract is on Epic.

My argument is that the LLM is just a tool. It's up to the person that used that tool to check for copyright infringement. Not the maker of the tool.

Build an inkjet printer exclusively out of stolen parts from HP, Brother, and Epson and marketed as being so good that experts can't differentiate what they print from legal currency (except sometimes it adds cartoonish moustaches). Start selling it in retail stores alongside them. They would battery be announced, much less stocked on the shelves before C&D letters and/or arrest warrants arrived.

So glad that you held the country, and especially vulnerable populations like LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, immigrants, and disabled people, not to mention the Palestinian and Ukrainian people, hostage while demanding that Dems do things that have zero historical evidence of them agreeing to. I can't speak for all of us but, I bet the others are also glad that you were able to keep your moral high-ground and didn't feel at all betrayed and upset about it. /s

Some people online do that too. Arguing for a dopamine rush, whilst saying the same thing as the arguee.

TIL that the ancient Egyptian god of funerary rites, protector of tombs, and Weigher of Hearts has taken up web hosting.

If you stand still and pivot clockwise, what side of your body are you turning towards?

I remember reading an article from a few years ago a cop brought a handgun into the room after ignoring staff warnings... Then, hit the quench button.

EDIT: it was last year. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-officer-lost-gun-in-mri-machine-during-mistargeted-raid-report-says/

There's a comm on lemmynsfw, if you're interested in subs.

So... They're working on a plan to directly commit genocide, according to the definition under international law.