Back in my day we had two Germanies and one Soviet Union, and that’s the way we liked it!

I do some quick math using my birth year, and when people ask how old I am I reference eastern european countries that no longer exist.

Yeah 9mm Luger, 9mm Parabellum, 9mm NATO, and 9x19mm are all names for the same common 9mm round everyone uses.

Also Speer is an American ammo company iirc.

An AAA battery is 1.5v. A 1S lipo battery is 3.7v and very tiny. Also very unstable if you want it to be. A small lipo and a little bit of explosive sounds about right.

I preordered Pokemon Yellow from Toys R Us as a kid for a $5 deposit, and it was such a good preorder that I don’t ever need to preorder anything again.

Same case here with many stores. Cops don’t want to deal with petty shoplifting, so they’ll wait until there is enough evidence to really ruin your day.

Laser tag rules though

Yeah this was me and my friends every high school summer. Camp gear, MREs, airsoft guns, and my friend’s racist veteran dad giving us “special forces” tactical advice. Would be fun to do again without that last one.

Airsoft bbs are also biodegradable (very slowly).

And yeah airsoft guns and the essentials (battery pack, charger, mask) are pretty affordable as an adult, and the bbs are very cheap, but don’t you also wanna wear sick camo and a chest rig with extra mags and a radio and maybe some grenades and shit? And maybe you want a gas pistol as a sidearm, so you need mags and gas for that too. And that sniper on the other team had a really cool ghillie suit, maybe you should try that some time…not to mention camping gear, since this is gonna be a weekend-long game.

Airsoft is much cheaper for the basics, but it’s so easy to get larpy with it.

Regulating AI like this is very cool and good.

Paintball is run around hahaha shoot friends good times.

Airsoft is larp as a badass soldier with realistic looking guns and gear and maybe some camping.

Both are a lot of fun but paintball is less cringe-coded.

The new set sucks. I don’t care about 80s horror and tvs and sneakers and cheerleaders. Give me more Redwall.

Got into Magic Arena and been playing Bloomburrow drafts almost every day. I will lose interest as soon as Bloomburrow drafts rotate out. It’s such a good set and I love adorable woodland critters and stories about cooperation.

I have been informed that Russia regularly attacks their own positions, shells their own soldiers, and destroys any territory that they intend to keep.

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-harris-election-09-15-24?

Basically everyone who is allowed to use a DJI will use one. They’re great drones and far cheaper than anything domestically produced. It’s not even a close competition.

This is being sold as a security measure, but it’s really a heavily-lobbied economic measure to benefit a single American drone company. Skydio, DJI’s largest American competitor, can’t compete with cheap Chinese drones used for commercial purposes like farming and surveying, so over the last two years they have spent over a million dollars on lobbying efforts to take out their rival. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2022&id=D000086902

Skydio drones are expensive, and the company has deep ties with American, British, and Israeli militaries. They have also completely pulled out of the consumer market, focusing purely on commercial and military drones, so a DJI ban will be a serious blow to drone hobbyists, independent professional pilots, and smaller companies that can’t afford to pay thousands of dollars for a drone that they used to be able to get for $400-$1000.

Based anti-trot word filter.

She is a trans woman but was not open about her trans status before.

She got outed during gamergate and people were throwing around old photos, deadname, etc. Idk if she ever acknowledged that though.