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Lad with a broccoli cut at the mall: idk man, shits pretty crazy today.

Military recruiter who's been trying to convince him for the last 10 minutes that playing ranked in Warzone translates well to an infantry MOS: It might be, but consider this - you pull through a few years and you can land a talk spot. You like podcasts and interviews on the TikTok, right? You can make up any badass shit you want, just practice your pacing and use a lot of inside-baseball jargon. Pretty uh, 'based', right? Let's just set you up with the ASVAB, it won't take long.

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we can argue about what game mods are better, but one I refuse to debate is the one I just got for fallout 4 that replaces the main menu screen music with 'the beast' from sicario. having that looming music build as the game zooms in on power armor fucks so hard I feel like I need a cigarette

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I know that some suppressors are constructed of really exotic materials, like titanium and carbon fiber, and the manufacturers are sometimes still "boutique" in their production scale, but it's still just a machined tube with some threads and drop-in baffles with a powder coat, *maybe* some QD bearings on one end. so at some point I have to assume the prices they're asking for is just 'lol how bad do you want this.' like, if you're getting a totally legit registered can, you're willing to pay the stamp - which is 200 clams to some alphabet soup boys for nothing but adding your name in a database - so these manufacturers & vendors know you have some scratch you're more than willing to part ways from.

it's just super funny to me that these are priced above or similar to many of the rifles they'd go on. one of mine is a 'frankenstein' AR that I've assembled from used & spare parts, and it's super funny to me that the gun - the thing that actually goes *bang* - would be worth 1/8th of the accessory I'd attach to muffle said *bang* just so I don't honk off my neighbors too much. worth a laugh, I guess.

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it's always super funny seeing two patrol cars '69' parked. how on earth can 2 cops yap for that long? as if they have rich inner lives worth discussing. one of the main reasons they are cops is because they're dull enough to park ass in a car for a shift and not go insane. just two $75k vehicles idling for hours so a pair of meatheads can discuss their recent sports betting losses.

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listen, waking up - alive, against my better judgement - in america is hard enough. but the fact the federal government is being audited by a quasi- agency named after a fucking meme headed by arguably the biggest & richest dumbass alive, who needs more validation than a 4 year old after their first creative foray into fingerpainting, it's too much. it's too much. ive cultivated an incredible ironic distance to this spectacular world, but this is like wearing the lead vest for an x-ray while standing on the chernobyl elephants foot, it's just not enough. it's too fucking much.

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i love trans women so much

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that's unfortunate to hear about the QC issues, i guess it's expected at that volume from such a (relatively) new builder but I've seen nothing like that firsthand. hopefully they've rectified that? I guess time & testing will tell.

and the dumping I've seen is mostly that- shittin on people with cheaper rigs. whenever a guy with a daniel defense, sig mcx spear, or just straight up gucci build wants to laugh at PSAs, i take that with several tablespoons of salt. the gucci builds are the wildest: it's one gun still chambered in a NATO standard cartridge and you don't do match grade shooting, you're grossly overhandling that steak dude

I really don't understand the hate that PSA AR-15s get. they're cheap - so what? it's a proven platform. I've got several ARs (big surprise, right) and one is a PSA, and it just *works* dude. It goes bang every time, and it groups so closely with other, more expensive/ custom builds I've used that the late, great paul harrell would say "the difference is within the standard deviation, and not enough difference to make a difference."

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I really don't understand the hate that PSA AR-15s get. they're cheap - so what? it's a proven platform. I've got several ARs (big surprise, right) and one is a PSA, and it just *works* dude. It goes bang every time, and it groups so closely with other, more expensive/ custom builds I've used that the late, great paul harrell would say "the difference is within the standard deviation, and not enough difference to make a difference."

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id like to get a gun - something simple, easy to get, not expensive, easy for a newbie to use - just to keep in the house, i dont need to go hunting or whatever. im willing to go through training and get whatever licensure or whatever is required, i just have No Idea where to start even asking about like licenses or where to practice shooting or whats needed. i can (and will!) do some basic googling, but you seem like a good resource. i just want like - a recommendation for a good starter gun, and maybe some "heres some good places to go" and "heres what you need for a licensec. i live in the twin cities if this helps.

Okay so in the Twin Cities the first thing you should do is get your handgun purchase permit. You need this to purchase a "Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon" in MN (There's a clause that says weapons "generally recognized" to have sporting purpose are excluded, which should mean AR15s, but whatever). But the gun you end up with depends on many factors, chief among them being how much money and time you're willing to put into this.

If you're getting one gun, and you're only planning on keeping it around the house for defensive purposes, get an AR15. They're loud as fuck, so you need to keep electronic earpro like Walker Razors with the gun, but they're absurdly easy to use, are extremely lightweight, and have negligible recoil.

It's a bit of a faux pas to recommend them, but PSA really does seem to make the most dependable of the budget AR15s. I'd probably advise you get a 16" with a midlength gas system. A shorter barrel length may be attractive, 10.5" being the most common (and worst), but the concussive blast is even more pronounced on those and can be disorienting. It's something that you can absolutely train out, but requires commitment. Right now, ammunition is generally expensive so it'll cost more to get enough rounds downrange to overcome that aspect. You'll need to work on flinch in any case, and you can overcome it if you just focus, I overcame flinch really quickly because of that. But it's that much more of a hurdle. And you'll definitely feel your skull rattle a little bit with a short barreled 5.56.

That rifle should also have a red dot (Holosun 403 is about the best value out there), some kind of flashlight (Streamlight HL-X is fantastic value), a two-point quick-adjust sling (this will help you control recoil), and I'd say a minimum of 5 magazines (Pmags are cheap and the best design).

If you don't want to spend around $600 on putting that together, you could get a perfectly serviceable handgun for considerably less. But you'll need to practice a LOT more, and it won't be anywhere near as effective or easy to use. All things are tradeoffs.

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I have a short story I keep on the back burner which I only chip away at during lulls in this novel. in it there's a peripheral character who's a humanities professor & self professed philosopher who really only wants to analyze (and therefore justify) his own sexual proclivities. he's got massive overwrought screeds (mentioned only) about the inherent eroticism of alienation, which the main character has knowledge of correctly reduces to 'gloryholes are awesome, and my shame in saying that out loud is half the fun'

he might just be the funniest character I've ever created. I think he's going to get his own story when this one's done, there's just so much potential there.

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people will do/say the kindest thing you’ve ever witnessed then be like Sorry if that’s weird :(

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za/um sells a frittte plastic bag, like what harry can carry in game for collecting recyclables, for 160 euros.

is this a highly ironic joke? like, 'shell out 160 clams for a trash bag lol'. is this a message that the last anticapitalist elements of that collective are truly dead? just some exec trying to drum up merch in (possibly unintentionally) the funniest way possible?

i don't know, but it exists. there's also an option to get it with a faln logo, though I doubt it will help ones savoir faire

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I know arthur is a tragic figure amidst a disintegrating gang set against a fading wild west, but damn if I'm not going to make sure the scripted characters in camp are well fed and comfortable anyways

in my usual fashion of consuming media long after it's released, i recently started red dead redemption 2. and uh, holy shit. the story, characters, and action are great, but it's so good looking i don't even need them. I spend a week or more at a time just tromping around, camping under the stars.

if it's any indication of how enthralled I am with the environment, I've paid for all the camp upgrades with pelts, meat, fish, medicines you can make from flowers, and horses I find in the wild. this super outlaw camp apparently wanted in several states, and it's funded largely with honest money, that's funny

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in my usual fashion of consuming media long after it's released, i recently started red dead redemption 2. and uh, holy shit. the story, characters, and action are great, but it's so good looking i don't even need them. I spend a week or more at a time just tromping around, camping under the stars.

if it's any indication of how enthralled I am with the environment, I've paid for all the camp upgrades with pelts, meat, fish, medicines you can make from flowers, and horses I find in the wild. this super outlaw camp apparently wanted in several states, and it's funded largely with honest money, that's funny

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been going to the range more than usual lately - which is good - but the only guys whose schedules have lined up with mine are some older gents. these guys are friendly enough, but hot damn if they don't have some strong opinions on firearms that differ greatly from my own. and I was going to mention the term 'fudd' but then I realized that I've heard way too many differing interpretations of this.

I've heard it applied as:

knowledge level of firearms is largely informed by hollywood, so a loud idiot

knowledge level legit, but stopped evolving 20+ years ago, so loudly obsolete

hang ups, as in doesn't trust semiautomatics for EDC and thinks hunting is only legit if it's done with a bolt/ lever action old enough to sign up with AARP

weird resistance to any kind of gun modification beyond the necessary (e.g. a platform having an infamously temperamental extractor that needs the aftermarket upgrade to function reliably), as in hates red dots, ported barrels, lightened triggers, etc

overzealous self nominated RSO, as in a guy who thinks he's the only person in earshot competent enough to hold a firearm. this manifests in that he won't accept a weapon is clear until he's holding it, and hates any shooting with less than a 3 second gap between shots

velocity/ energy nerds, who argue that when you've got X, you should've gotten Y, irrespective of parts availability or ammo costs. 'oh, glock 9mm? i'd trade it for a .357 sig' 'a 1911 in .45? the 10mm is a better use of that model.' that brand of silliness

i've been exposed to all of the above, but which is particular to the term 'fudd'?