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    As much of a know-it-all as I am, I can't figure their angle. I genuinely don't think that they're stupid enough to think that their Discovery consisting of a pocket Constitution with "We The People" vigorously underlined in pencil will get them out of a trial. Either they think there will be some kind of armed rescue attempt, they'll get some deal, or they're going to start their movement on the inside.
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    Tracked this family tree back to a guy named Henry Beach, the leader of Oregon's SIlver Shirt movement. Am now getting lots of names going off of him. It's Nazis all the way down, boys.
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    I think a lot of Americans are coming to terms with The Great Modern Crusade. The Rise of Evangelism in the past few decades has been built on the same grounds as the oldest media construct: Give someone an enemy. Tell them that Satanic or Gay influences will drag your children into Hell. Being able to point a finger provides a comfortable simplicity, which makes it easier to scare and exploit followers. The problem is that many movements have learned that you can't keep people at a certain level of angry for too long. It's hard to remember to wake up, work, come home, handle your home life/family and oh yeah make sure to be super angry about the possibility of X movement like you were. Maybe it'll pop into your head, but more often than not you'd rather just go drinking with the lesbian or atheist couple you know from work than try to pop a vein being mad about them being happy.
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    Thanks. The site looks fanastic and there aren't enough long-term reviews any product out there, so hurray for him. I've been looking on and off at AKs for years, now. Now that I'm out of the culinary industry and all of my money isn't going into rent and internet (was seriously working long shifts just so I could get two employee meals at one job), I actually have money and time for my hobbies. The JRA caught my eye because, well, it looks really nice, but also because I've heard a lot of good things about their work.
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    Very nice. I'd love another Enfield if I could get a relatively unfugged stock.
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    I've quickly learned my father's standards for marksmanship are different from a lot of peoples', too. The range we go to is paper only so it's 25-50 yards or nothing for open sights, and he gets fussy when every shot isn't direct center. As a result, he was even starting to hint the gun was a bad purchase based on that paper even after consideration that some of the shots were my very first with the gun before I did windage/elevation corrections. The standards probably go back a ways, too. Apparently grandpa used to win some extra spending cash betting people he could shoot trap with pistols and rifles. His 10+ years as an NCO probably had something to do with that, since he was a city kid. #humblebrag aside, I really like the rifle and the idea of having something I can cart around and be a little bit more harsh with (I get scared of letting the Mauser out of the bag too much). As a result, I think I've put my next C&R purchase on hold in hopes of getting an AK-74 (wood/bakelite only). I'd like to hear anyone's opinion on these if they have any info: https://www.atlanticfirearms.com/component/virtuemart/shipping-rifles/james-river-ak74-red-wood-detail.html?Itemid=0
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    It's actually softening me to the idea of getting some form of optic. I've only shot through scopes a handful of times on other peoples' guns.
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    Bushmaster AR-15 I bought earlier this week.
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    Took the new rifle out. The first few shots are on the left. After adjusting the windage, I became happier (standing, open sights, 50 yds).
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    A genuinely mentally ill person: http://www.dwmlc.com/
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    '98 Volvo V70 gun doesn't have the same ring.
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    I also feel a little less bad about dinging up a Mosin carbine than my 1917 Enfield.
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    I go hiking with my M44 Mosin. Not just because it's compact and I can shoot it reasonably well, but it's also loud enough that it tends to scare anything off with a warning shot or miss.
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    Suicide Squad is going to suck despite having a good premise for comics. One of the problems with DC's characters is that they are by nature one-dimensional and nearly impossible to write well. Hell, the Nolan Batman movies pretty much succeeded the same way other Batman media do: Focus on Batman as little as possible while keeping him in the story. It's not necessarily true for all of their heroes, but most of them. I feel like Harley Quinn could be a much better character if an actual good writer got their hands on a story for her.
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    Thanks for the tip. The rattle doesn't bother me as much as comfort does. This one digs right into my shoulder in a way I don't like. Also the mag that came with it feels like it was made from the rattliest old lunchboxes, but the rifle itself feels really nice. After handling nothing but antique militaria since I was like 8, I keep catching glimpses of it, thinking it's an airsoft or something. I'll probably take the gun to the range this weekend.
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    Bushmaster. $800, down from $1200. Not a big fan of the stock, but that'd be an easy fix.
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    I am now officially a 21st century Dingus:
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    So I've heard the whole "M60 is copied off of the MG42" bit for the last time before I actually read up on it. All that I can see after looking at them is maybe the top cover/feed system show similarities? I don't know.
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    I feel like Dark Souls should have chopped off some of the less interesting areas of the latter third or so of the game, but that's just me. I preferred when it was taking place in areas that were part of, or provided context to, the dead civilization, and places like Great Hollow just felt like padding to me. That's just my opinion though, as I enjoyed the game most when it felt like a medeival combat sim, and fighting beasts felt more like you were testing the limits of the collision detection. This gif shows off what I genuinely loved about Dark Souls 1:
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    It's weird how different the Churchill GC in WT is from WoT. I haven't died once in it in WT, then again I don't face-hug with it like the average ding-dong in WT.
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    I guess it's down to personal definitions, then. I think the game is varying degrees of hard and challenging depending on how well plays understand and work with the mechanics, but I'm definitely not gonna argue over someone's personal definitions.
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    Why are you posting Jojo screengrabs? Low effort posting imo.
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    I kind of don't understand the "it's not difficult thing." The games are difficult. They're not shit like I Wanna Be the Guy where there are cruel, unavoidable deaths for the sake of killing the player. The game has mechanics and obstacles that work with each other to create a challenge system that provides more rewards the more you learn and adapt, which is fine. But it's still a challenge, and that's not a bad thing. It's kind of the reason why it took me so long to get into the series. I bought Dark Souls, played for a few hours, and gave up because I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing at one point*. I looked up online and holy shit this series has probably the only fanbase that's worse than Silent Hill's. Just a constant seepage of smug in every thread and comment section to the point where I just kind of ignored information and discussion on it. I remember watching a blind Let's Play and people were offended, offended that the guy died to Capra Demon at all. It's just kind of a race to see who can forget their first playthrough more quickly than the other. *Turns out there was a path in the forest that I just couldn't see on my tiny low-res TV at the time.
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    There are some caveats. There's a patch coming Tuesday that increases quality drops from special enemies and de-emphasizes the crafting. There's also going to be special "loot drop" events in Dark Zone where a randomized drops will hit, and if you pick it up, it's yours (no extraction needed). I'm cautiously optimistic. My main problem is how the gameplay changes once you hit level cap and start doing The Hard Stuff. I think they had a lot of QA playing the game the way the devs wanted it to be played, because they seem completely unaware that Challenge Mode is now an easy pile of shit and most players are going in hip-fire circles through the Dark Zone to level up their DZ rank, which just results in lots of empty areas with no enemies. The Dark Zone as it stands right now mainly exists for players to get special blueprints and crafting tech in order to better grind the Dark Zone. I'm just twinked out enough that I'm not great at PvP, but PvE is a joke and I rarely use cover anymore, and it's become very unfun. When a challenge does present itself, it's usually in the form of grenadiers who are unfun purely because I spend most of the time somersaulting away from a grenade, pecking them, somersaulting away from a grenade...
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