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Brick Fight

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  1. So the ARES SCR. A ban on AR-15s results in what looks like a smaller, lighter rifle with an ugly stock.
  2. 110 page report on the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade's accused Involvement in the downing of MH17: https://www.bellingcat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/53rd-report-public.pdf The goal of the article is to try to identify those directly responsible to the launching of the BuK that shot down the airliner.
  3. If I had to pick what are the most promising developments in the culinary industry, here's some of the top ones that wouldn't be terribly obvious: Seasonal closings: There are several big reasons why businesses end up closing, and one is slow seasons. There's always this weird demand to keep a place open for a handful of customers a day for no real good reason. Lots of places now are just going "fuck it" and closing their doors for a few months. One place where we're friends with the chef pretty much just went "No work for a few months, but we'll give employees a stipend and a little bonus to come in and clean and help maintain the place during the closing." They're saving assloads by not operating at a loss and wasting money on energy, food waste, wearing down equipment, etc. Employees aren't run ragged like other restaurants and actually get time to set aside for family or personal lives, and they're even thinking about using the extra money to send employees to school/culinary internships. Vacuum Pack Machines: This has been a game-changer on our food truck, and for other vendors I've talked to as well. One of the big things is that it legitimizes freezing a lot. While freezing food got a lot of (deserved) shit in the industry over the past few years, it can still be a legitimate way of preserving food when done right. We can strike on certain foods when prices are low or make complicated things like mole negro when we have free time, then vac it and freeze it. We're neighbors with a guy who goes to Alaska to catch fish, and he has a large-scale vacuum-packing and flash-freezing setup on his boat. Since he does it right, it's the best fish I've had outside of a coastal area. It's so far saved us in the neighborhood of thousands in food cost for a business that only runs half the year. Immersion Cookers/Vape ovens: Back when these were rare, I hated them. They always broke and it was usually just another way of making boring steaks. Now, I can just set up a bunch of these in the pots, set a timer, and walk the hell away instead of having to nurse an oven so that the food doesn't get too dried out. Chicken is soft and juicy again, and there's less food waste from burning food/inconsistent cooking.
  4. I don't hate Chinese-American food. I like it as much as anybody. It's just different from the real stuff is all. Every country has the same deal. The big thing in Mexico now is Japanese food, and the combinations from the two are great, but I'm sure a few people miss the traditional forms of the Japanese food or want to at least try it there. I just want to try everything. If I don't like it, then that's just something I didn't like the taste of, big whoop. Maybe it's from being born in a neighborhood where my family were the only EFLs, but I'll never understand how guys think they're just the toughest fucking shit in the world, but throw an absolute fit if they're invited to someone's house and throw a hissy because things aren't what they eat every day of their lives. I don't want to sit around worrying what people think about what I eat, and I don't want to die being proud of all of the things I didn't do. I miss the raw, wriggling stuff I ate and learned how to make in Asia, and I get a craving for sesame chicken from the place by the Amish furniture shop. Loving both helped me expand what I know about flavors and combinations and dig into good food anywhere.
  5. Pretty much, yeah. I wouldn't refuse an extra useful thing that provides like no added weight. So I shot full auto for the second time in my life over the weekend. This time it was a KP-31. I'm assuming it was because the gun was big as shit, but I felt like no recoil from it.
  6. Everyone says this, but nobody ponies up. I'm gonna toss a few out there right now. We've got rifles that are to be accurate, fully-automatic, lightweight (ideally under 9 lbs.). They are general-issue for combat, security, patrol. They are carried by frontline soldiers, rear echolon security and service personnel, and by troops in non-combat zones like aid missions and the like. The new word should describe its features, its intended use, and capture its prevalence. -Service rifle: No nation is using Mosins and Garands as their main armament, and things like M14s and other EBRs are outnumbered by a large factor. I like to think that if we're talking about Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan, if someone says "service rifle." we've provided enough context for what we're talking about. So if some pedantic turd says "what do you mean service rifle? It doesn't narrow it down beyond Krag, Garand..." we'd have probable cause to slap them in the mouth. It also sounds proper and separates military from civilian, so the internet commentor crowd don't have to die on that fucking hill they've been camping on. Unfortunately would be hard to lump really early stuff like the Fedorov with the term. -Auto rifle: Simple and to the point. These rifles are just as accurate, if not more-so than their ancestors. Except now they all have fully automatic capabilities. Why not just acknowledge their distinctions? Also the distinct description bonus of "service rifle," but easier to grandfather in older rifles. Con: May cause confusion with semi-auto rifles.
  7. I'm really missing having single player campaigns, especially now that we're actually getting tank/plane/chopper games again.
  8. So, this is a game people here may enjoy: I have the Stalingrad Campaign versions, and I've been getting back into it after they've made some gameplay updates. The meta of the game is set around keeping units well-supplied. Basically, if units go two turns without receiving supplies, they can no longer perform offensive attacks, and by three turns, they can no longer defend themselves. The object, then, is to surround units or cut off supply lines as quickly as possible while still maintaining a frontline. This is harder to do than you'd think, because the AI is really smart. I've never seen it act the same way twice, and I've never seen it make a bad choice.
  9. My only other guesses would be an incorrect/poorly weighed rifle everybody just repeated, an airsoft reproduction weight, or an AR-18S. My guess is the first, as I've seen weights listed that pre-date the airsofts, and AR-18Ses are rare and seems an unlikely mixup.
  10. Did you clean the Cheeto dust off the grip and foregrip? It adds up. Kidding aside, I've seen it usually listed as high 6 to flat 7 unloaded. Which type did you weigh? Do you think there'd be any difference between AR-18s and AR-180/180b? I think the 180b got a different lower. It seems like it wouldn't matter a great deal, but who knows.
  11. Shame. Gametrailers had some good stuff, but it's kind of pointless to have a site like that when there's people doing the same/similar stuff on youtube.
  12. You have to be stupid to fuck up fried chicken. That's typically why Popeye's, Chick, or even KFC are more tolerable than any other fast food place by a mile.
  13. How the fuck are you supposed to read 9gag? Is it designed for mobile and nothing else?
  14. There was a stipulation that Korea can't bring up comfort women in any sort of international dialogue in there, and I'm guessing they found loopholes in the wording like everyone said they would at the time.
  15. We had an MP41 at the museum where I worked, but it was in a display case before I got to hold it. One of the bigger surprises was how compact the M1928 was there. It was obviously heavy, but I was expecting it to be larger based on what I'd seen in movies.
  16. If you don't over-analyze it like us, then to the average enthusiast they see it as "rare gun that I've only seen in pictures/games/movies can now be bought for <$2000 and I can use semi-affordable rounds in it." The hype from respectable writers over a repro is a weird thing, though.
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