RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:
For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.
o7
May Theseus grant you new life.
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RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:
For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.
o7
May Theseus grant you new life.
May Theseus grant you new life.
Well said.
Oh my. I never thought of it that way. Decades of random component upgrades. New ram here. Upgraded (ram compatible, other compatible part) motherboard there. Changed video card. Replaced burnt harddrive/ssd.... Its always been the same PC, while being a completely replaced one.
"The only thing that can stop a bad dog with a gun is a good dog with a gun."
"Or a gaming pc, apparently."
This is happened twice now. What an utterly stupid country.
Twice recently.
The other time was not the first time
"I will never financially recover from this"
RAM was damaged how will she afford second one. She should use her body to shield RAM.
But how do Americans live with cardboard walls.
its useful as a body armor now.
Angelbabyzz now has the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget
So she'll be able to get some low budget 16GB machine, probably without a video card because 3500 dollars will only get you so far these days
Anyone who is picking up their pitch forks at the offender needs to read this thread first. Before you unload your rage, consider taking what the victim did as a learning opportunity.
It was 3:30am in the morning when the shot happened. The neighbor who discharged the firearms rushed downstairs to check on the woman who's PC was shot, thankfully finding that she was not hurt. She was distraught, frantic, and told the PC owner that she will never own a firearm again and pay for all damages. They talked, and the PC owner learned that her daughter just passed away. A police report was still filed, but the PC owner isn't pressing charges. They're getting margaritas later together.
Let me be clear that this absolutely does not excuse what this woman did. However, what the PC owner did likely saved her neighbor's life. You see, at 3:30am in morning, there is only typically one thing people would do with a fire arm, to themselves.
Anyone would be in their right to be angry at this woman after what she did. But the PC owner extended her compassion and became this woman's friend at a time when she had every reason not to.
What the headline could have been was 'woman commits suicide after negligent discharge', but it was not. Imagine if the PC owner was the last person who spoke to her in anger, and imagine if she had to live with that for the rest of their life knowing that she could have done something about it.
This sounds super sus. I couldn't find the comment where OP said the neighbor was upstairs, but the damage in the photos, to me, looks like the bullet came from the side. And it doesn't jive with OPs comment in the in the original post.
The police said that the PC changed the trajectory of the bullet, and it would have hit me while I was sleeping if the PC hadn’t been there.
If the shot came from upstairs, where would the PC case need to be to change the trajectory to keep it from hitting you in bed? Hypothetically it could be possible, but those are some weird ass angles to make that work. Unlikely.
With the photo of the bullet mostly intact (I would expect it to be more deformed than that), that was supposedly found underneath the OPs pillow?? That they were supposedly dead asleep on? I don't think this actually happened. This is a work of fiction.
She heard about the dog firing the shotgun in the truck.
Where I live, anyone who owns a firearm is required to keep it in a locked gun safe when not in use, and there are strict rules around transporting a firearm as well.
They cannot be left unattended in a vehicle, and they absolutely cannot, under any circumstances, be left loaded.
The fact that Americans have loaded firearms just kicking around in their house is utterly insane.
OMG!
I hope it missed the RAM, Graphics Card and SSDs.
PS: Update - judging by the pictures somebody posted, the bullet hit a DIMM module. TRAGEDY!!!
Looks like it got a ram bar. Also what would deflect the bullet if it missed everything?
Have you seen the price of DIMM modules nowadays?!
Jumping in front of the bullet would've hurt less!
Am I wrong or this article looks completely written by a LLM? The way it always repeats the redditor username is so weird.
Articles like this are a valid reason to choose an username like 'igargleexpiredcum'
I feel like that's not a valid thing to say. "My dog shot the gun".
I'm sure it won't hold up in court, but it also doesn't hold up anywhere else. Don't keep your guns loaded with the safety off where they are accessible.
You might as well just shoot your family and neighbors yourself if you're doing that shit.
Well, to be fair, it was ChatGPT that told the dog it was ok to shoot.
Might as well add another layer of unaccountability.
They're gonna have to sure that idiot neighbor for the $10,000 that RAM costs.
Its so strange for Europeans to read this because we don't let Weapons randomly lay around armorized and our Walls are not that thin, that this can happen such as easy as with US paperwalls
Europeans? More like most of the world really...
There are probably more "Man bites dog" stories in Europe than "Dog discharges gun" stories.
Lol. This loser graduated from "the dog ate my homework" to "the dog shot my gun and almost murdered my neighbor".
Saved the owner's life, but at what cost??
RAM, especially... Very high for sure
... the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget.
Uhhhh how much PC does that get a person these days? 2 Gigs of ddr3 ram?
Tell me you're american without telling me you're american.
If you leave a loaded firearm with a round chambered and the safety off out where "your dog" can set it off, that's still negligence!
Nooo, not the RAM! You know how expensive that is today? Should have just shot me, would be cheaper.
I don't own a gun. It's has nothing to do with politics. I'm a suicide risk; I don't need a ticket to the bullet train.
The problem is that many, maybe most people are like me. They shouldn't have a gun. If others were self-aware like me, shit like this would be much more rare. I think you shouldn't be able to buy a gun unless every member of the household can pass a gun safety test. Including the pets.
I own guns. I enjoy shooting paper targets at the range and clay disks flying through the air. I grew up around guns on a farm. I’m very comfortable handling them.
Me, and responsible people like me, are PARANOID about gun safety. Even if I KNOW it’s unloaded, I never point it in an unsafe direction. Like, not even towards the right because my neighbors house is that way 300 yards away through a concrete basement wall etc. I never point it at something I don’t intend to kill/destroy, and my finger never touches the trigger unless I intend to pull it. When the gun isn’t in my direct and immediate control - it’s locked up.
I HATE assholes like the person in this story. They deserve criminal negligence, their guns taken away forever, and some community penalty that’s severe. There is no way in hell “the dog did it”. Give me a break. At best, they were cleaning it in an unsafe manner and did some very negligent things (didn’t check the chamber, pointed it at their neighbor, pulled the god damn trigger), OR they were being a complete jackass and waving it around gangster style.
It baffles me that this person had to:
Yeah this is absolutely the type of person who should not be allowed to handle firearms.
Including the pets.
My cat encouraged me to buy guns. Something about overthrowing human bourgeois and installing a cat proletariat government,
Insurance infinite money hack: getting your computer shot during an AI-driven semiconductor drought. Rinse and repeat, just remember to cash out before the bubble pops!