mctoasterson

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Edit: Rereading OPs post, it would probably be cheaper to buy both a Ares and a Novritsch SL8 and kludge the good internals into the accurate exterior furniture. Double the cost of one AEG but likely cheaper than my above suggestion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand. The parts to “convert” a G36 to a SL8 are basically the furniture, not functional gun parts. If the host airsoft G36 is accurately replicated from the real G36, the specs should be compatible or close to it. The main SL8 pieces:

  1. The front handguard furniture (basically a fiberglass/nylon shroud going over the barrel assembly)

  2. The SL8 buttstock (incorporated into the receiver on a real SL8, but a removed “real” stock could maybe be kit-bashed together with the host airsoft G36 receiver? This would be the hardest part of the build, might require JBweld and sanding and re-staining to match)

  3. The monolithic top rail with the sights. If the spacing is the same (or close to the same) on an airsoft G36 as a real G36, you should be able to affix the “real” rail to the airsoft gun. I believe it is a few screws in the rear and a nylon pin in the front where it attaches to the front handguard and barrel assembly.

  The choices are: get real SL8 parts, 3D print or manufacture your own replicas, or maybe get a garbage-tier airsoft SL8 (I think Cyma or another Chinese manufacturer used to make a very low quality SL8 AEG? Can’t remember) and harvest the parts from that, to kitbash onto the quality airsoft G36. I’m guessing that option would require almost as much custom modification as using real SL8 gun parts. So really the limiting factors are OPs budget and manufacturing skill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What is your budget and what country are you in?

  This may be a longshot but you could reach out to Tommybuilt Tactical.

  Since HK historically doesn’t sell semi-auto G36 rifles to the US civilian market, Tommybuilt takes civilian model SL8s and modifies them with HK parts and his own clone-correct replica parts to make “close enough” G36 copies for civilians in the US.

  All that to say, he might have a junk drawer of SL8 parts. It is worth asking if he would modify a quality airsoft G36 to meet your needs. It would be “externally accurate” because it would be real HK parts.

  Note: I’m not a lawyer and this isn’t legal advice. Check your national and local laws to see if it would be legal for you to import an airsoft gun that features some “real” gun parts such as the rails, furniture, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spookie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not like this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  100% this. In the US there is minimal actual use case for uberfast DC charging outside road trips. Along highway corridors you can argue that there should be stations like this.

  A more important implementation would actually be to have a normal AC plug at the curb in almost every public parking spot at residential, retail and office locations in the US. Slow-charge your car with a portable charger while you’re at work and overnight while you’re at home. This would cover 90% of use cases, and for those who it doesn’t, DC fast charging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will an ISP get on to you for downloading porn? Or will it just be a generic DMCA strike?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming you are referencing torrenting.

  I have seen US ISPs try to “blackmail” you by listing or verbally articulating the name of the offending content, but that was about a decade ago, and that is typically in situations where the torrent seeder was literally the copyright holder or an agent thereof, who then turns around and submits a DMCA complaint. To my knowledge ISPs aren’t doing deep packet inspection to see what kind of porno you’re pirating.

  If you are paranoid and want to avoid this-

  1. Join a reputable private tracker. This will keep bad actors out of the swarm (everyone gets vetted and has to be invited to the community, all browsing of torrents is encrypted, actual website is hosted somewhere that isn’t subject to DMCA, etc.)

  2. Get a seedbox hosted in a locale that isn’t subject to DMCA. Basically you pay a hosting fee, then all your torrents get downloaded and seeded “from elsewhere” and you only ever connect to that box over SSH or SFTP or somesuch, to transfer the content securely to your local computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally think these types of non-conventional batteries are going to be the future of storing energy for use at offset peak usage times.

  It would be great if every city could construct multi thousand megawatts of grid scale battery capacity but that probably isn’t feasible with traditional chemistry batteries. But, in some areas the same effect could be accomplished with something like “potential energy batteries”, for example, using massive solar arrays to pump water into an elevated reservoir during the day at peak solar generation, then releasing that water to drive turbines and generate on-demand electricity at other times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Source: Trust me, bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. Cops don’t want to start the “Best Girl” debate in the middle of traffic because they know how contentious that can get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tomb Raider: Catalyst Delayed to 2028⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TR franchise built-in benchmarks have been used as a YouTube-friendly hardware review datapoint since 2015.

  Maybe they’re worried that in the current market almost nobody is going to have the hardware to run a nextgen AAA game with acceptable performance.

  If they delay 2 years it’s possible conditions could improve (though I wouldn’t bet on it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I guess not really.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Freeza, it’s bullshit, I did not hit you.

  I did nahhht.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refer to the chart⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Muppet Apocalypse Now.

  Muppet Gangs of New York.

  Muppet Fight Club.

  There Will Be (Muppet) Blood.

  Muppet American History X.

  Muppet Eyes Wide Shut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nostalgic gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perfect Dark

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It has now been a quarter century since Penny Arcade proclaimed that "videogames suck now".⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just described Tycho/Jerry’s actual personality: “Thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ridiculousness of Film Compilations⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the fuck is buying Billy Jack on DVD in current year?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Karl Jobst has done some good investigative journalism on the auction fraud and the “fractional ownership” trading platform scams.

  Historically, auction houses and platforms are often using relationships with celebrities and influential people to artificially boost the prices. The platform provides the veneer of a neutral open-market sale. The celebrity provides the “credibility” of a rich buyer, justifying the record price on the game or collectable.

  I’d say don’t take any retro game prices at face value, and understand your own local market before buying anything. You can list things for any price you want on eBay. Doesn’t mean the product is routinely trading at that price. Wata can list and claim a “sale” at a ridiculous price on their own platform, and currently there is no way to credibly verify that sale was to a real buyer, and not pre-arranged or fraudulent in some way designed to inflate the precieved value of the item.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had completely memory holed The Specialists until just now.

  Love how they incorporated the peak Matrix fanboy culture into that mod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real and True⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More importantly, do you like doing the work of a fullstack developer but getting paid and treated like a barely-tier 2 support desk person?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except among Zoomers, with whom the most common password is 67

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the early 2000s there was seemingly infinite television studio budget to pick a random subculture or even individual sociopaths, and just give them a reality show. I just assumed as broadcast and cable viewership declined, these types of grifters also went away or were forced to get real jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (From a US perspective)

  I’d say most teens work jobs in order to have spending money for outings with friends, any maybe to save for a car or something. Maybe sock away a bit of money for college. Their real basic living expenses (shelter, food, clothes, school fees) are covered by their parents.

  So menial fast food, retail, and service industry jobs going away does impact their ability to earn some cash and learn responsibilities in a relatively low risk way. These jobs disappearing isn’t necessarily a bad thing, if reasonable alternatives emerge that accomplish the same thing.

  It can go one of two ways. Maybe teens and students will get entrepreneurial and start their own small businesses. I know some high school kids down the street who started a lawn care business when they were ~12, and they saved so much money throughout their teen years that they both own their own pickup trucks outright, they now have employees, and they just continued growing their business instead of going to college. They are actually providing a service to the economy that people want and need.

  The other way it can go is that all traditionally teen jobs go away and there becomes a whole generation of teens who exist solely on the patronage of their parents, which combined with the “keeping up” mentality prevalent in some areas, results in entitled little bitches. There are many kids who would be happy not to work while still expecting to be handed the keys to a late model car, and the newest iPhone. And let’s not forget the multithousand dollar production surrounding the “average” prom date experience or spring break trip. Or worse, these trends further exacerbate the rift between the haves and the have nots because naturally not everyone’s parents are going to be able to afford all this shit.

  More than likely we will always need some retail workers, ice cream scoopers, golf caddys, recreation league baseball umpires, and pool lifeguards. Not all first jobs need to be literally McDonalds. I would like more young people to innovate and offer new products and services people actually need and want, because it is better for society as a whole. Otherwise, in 10 years we will look up and find 90% of the US economy is AI, shitcoin speculation, vape and CBD shops, and OnlyFans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Blood on cs_siege” is still out there on YouTube to document the dangers of drunk APC driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CS 1.6 with War3 mod was peak. Classes, Skill Trees, leveling up based on kills and rounds won.

  Reviving teammates, insanely OP grenades, partial invisibility, and other ridiculous abilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your top games to emulate on a long trip?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d get some of the decomp/recomps working like Zelda 64 and Perfect Dark. It is really something to experience these titles again with 60 fps, widescreen etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse - Sociology

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No Mingus Dew or Bebop Cola?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People forget what a ridiculously large steaming market India is.

  The second biggest YT channel by subscriber base is T-Series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A criminal could buy an Ender3 or other extremely ubiquitous, non-internet-connected printer. Maybe used, in cash, on various marketplaces.

  Filament can be bought in cash as well from a bunch of retailers and the leftover stock (evidence) easily disposed by dumping or burning/melting after the “suspect objects” are created.

  Furthermore, nozzles are like $1 apiece in some cases. Printbed replacements or sheets of glass (also often used as printbed surfaces) are like $20 and can be changed often and easily. Changing these two components completely invalidates the “match” of the toolmarks.

  This type of forensics is only practical if the target suspect is dumb enough to use the same settings for everything, never change a nozzle or bed, keep all his empty filament spools and receipts, pay for everything with credit cards in his name, and have a bunch of cloud-saved bambu-sliced files called “super illegal weaponry.gcode” associated with his printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the question is how do you sanction other malign actors who intend to steal the data. We know China and others do not give a shit about (especially western) IP rights. Not sure if that really justifies us ignoring IP rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Is Doing So Well It’s Giving $27 Million to Its Staff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno if there is a subculture of printing the models at home. I would think resin printers would have more than enough resolution to make good miniatures. Is that frowned upon? There is no reason to buy overpriced licensed shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Kubrick did more compelling practical effects with matte backgrounds, invisible wires and dudes in monkey suits in 1968.

  Modern Hollywood would rather film everything in a greenscreen closet and then “fix” it in post. The result is uninspired garbage that doesn’t look good in any era.