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The amount of detail and money poured into these games is incredible:
I still can’t get over how real digi-Kevin Spacey looks. I’m sure there are some really tedious and repetitive things that need to be done to add realism to these games, but working on such a project doesn’t seem like your “average” job.
Hopefully this game doesn’t disappoint you guys who are looking forward to it. A lot of skepticism seems to surround these releases now.
Thoughts?
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“Jerry and the duck commander” sounds like a hipster band name. This video isn’t hipster:
1:46 – You have 2 bullets left Phil? Cool shotgun bullets bro. *facepalm*
haha I love the magazine extension Jerry is running on that speed shotgun.
I hear the president signed a law which bans Jerry from hunting because his trigger finger could dead an entire species in an afternoon.
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The Ammo-BOSS Gunner’s Mate:
Terrible video, extremely painful to watch.
You can check out the IndieGOGO campaign here. Pre-ordering one of these starts at $40. For that price you’ll get one if the project ends up getting funded. This isn’t looking promising because he’s only at 8% of his $90,000 goal (LOL $90k). Looks like the product might be of some use to people. I’d probably buy one if it didn’t look like a bag of dicks, held more than 8 shells (or wasn’t so big at it’s current capacity), and worked with 3″ shells as well. It’s like “Bro do you even operate?”.
I’m skeptical on what exactly he feels is patentable here. “The Ambidextrous retention system? Trigga Please. Doesn’t look like it preforms any different than the function of a magazine to me, unless there is some complex proprietary weird stuff going on inside (in which case I find this product even less attractive). My guess is he got taken by the classic “yes sir!” type lawyer who would literally write up and file a patent application for anything at all as long as you’re paying them.
Thoughts?
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The German old guys of Lahner Academy are at it again:
It’s basically the high-speed version of the derpy bodyguard ballistic blanket I posted about last week.
The best part about these videos is watching the old guys demonstrate by beating the crap out of one another.
Are soft armor shield configurations like this used at all in the US?
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Check out how the Air Force fights fires more effectively:
Damn that’s really cool. Powerful enough to penetrate concrete block walls and steel up to 1/2″ thick!
Ban high pressure water! Ban granite abrasive material! :P
Pyrolance has a website you can check out with tons more videos, pictures, and info. If you ask me, that looks like a good system for every type of firefighter. *roll up on burning house, jam pyrolance against outside wall. Chill like a boss while you flood the house with water… hi-5 and go for beers*. Yea yea I know, there could be people and pets inside the house which need to be rescued. Firefighting is exhausting even talking about. If it were all about pumping iron, eating meals together, and calendar shoots I think It would have been a career path I would have liked.
Pyrolance needs picatinny rails, and keymod…. not to mention a high quality optic for long range fire extinguishing.
Thoughts?
Hat tip: Alan
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I was emailed a link to this rant by blog reader Kyle, a few days ago. I’ll cut and paste a few “interesting” excerpts below, but I urge you to go read the full article at SucksToBeSam.
Since the Newtown, Conn. shooting which left 20 children and six staff members dead, there have been 74 school shootings.
First off, the 74 school shootings in 18 months “fact” was bullshit… even CNN disproved it.
People are confusing a necessity with a hobby. Coming from the midwest and being raised by a man who wakes up at the crack of dawn every fall to hunt just like his father and the father before him did, one might argue that hunting and guns are a way of life. The belief that hunting is a lifestyle is as much bullshit as every hunter’s deers stand story that has ever been sold.
Oh word? Defending freedom is a hobby?
The most basic understanding of the 2nd Amendment is that it is the right to bear arms, which is sort of true, but you shouldn’t use the Cliff Notes version of a controversial portion of the Bill of Rights.
He goes on to demonstrate his tenuous grasp of the 2nd Amendment and declare why it’s not really needed any longer.
One of my least favorite arguments that pops up every time I try to have a conversation with someone is, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Fuck that. 100 times fuck that. The Sandy Hook shooter would have a harder time killing 26 people if he was running around an elementary school with a baseball bat.
I’ll give him that one, but guns aren’t going anywhere. The whole point of guns is that they do kill people… scumbags who want to hurt you, hurt someone you love, take away something that is yours etc… That whole paragraph of his basically made the case for fixing how mental health is dealt with, which I totally agree with. Crazy is the problem, not guns.
Would you be willing to give up a “right” so someone you never met could live their lives instead of being gunned down in a once-a-week school shooting? The answer should be a resounding yes, but as we’ve seen, it’s more complicated than that.
No, because the chance of getting killed in a school shooting is incredibly slim. What’s next, I give up vehicles? Electricity? Fatty foods? Swimming? Trampolines?
Thoughts?
Hat tip: Kyle