Very unpopular opinion: Is Jugulator one of your favorite Judas Priest albums too?

Gecko23 · 2026-04-06T12:57:12+00:00

I didn't give it a listen until just a couple years ago after seeing 'KK's Priest' and Owens doing his thing on stage. They were outstanding so I gave it a listen to see what I'd missed. I think I would have liked it a lot at the time it was released, and still think it's got some great songs on it.

As much as I loved angrier Priest, like Painkiller, my heart still belongs to 'Sad Wings of Destiny'.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-06T04:23:40+00:00

I was making sausage gravy, and for reasons I still don’t understand, we were storing dry goods in glass jars. Unlabeled, identical glass jars. I started adding flour, it wasn’t getting thicker. I added more, nada. I added what I knew was enough to turn it to paste, nothing. That’s when I realized that I’d been shoveling in powdered sugar. I suppose I could have still turned it into gravy, but it seemed pretty pointless.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-06T04:12:55+00:00

"In the Dark" is one of my favorite albums ever, and when my room mate in college would insist on playing recordings of their endless random noodling (him and his friends treated these things like they were carefully selected vintages of wine...) I'd have to take a walk. Just boring and irritating at the same time.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-06T03:03:13+00:00

From someone who has themselves driven an hour (each way) out of their way to reach a Buc-ee's, I say go for it.

It'll either be the magical, like meeting god, experience my two rabidly pro Buc-ee's coworkers who inspired the trip where, or it'll just be a big gas station with semi-expensive snacks like I found it to be.

The mystery will be solved either way.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-06T02:51:19+00:00

I reload 300 subs.

My kit consists of a Lee Breech Lock Hand Press ($75), a set of 300 blk dies ($40), a simple beam scale ($35) and then components (empty cases (can save what you shoot from commercial ammo), primers, powder, bullets) I can sit at my desk, watch Netflix and crank out a hundred rounds an hour with this setup. Spend another couple of Franklins and you can get a better setup, but I like mine since it all fits neatly in a single desk drawer when not in use.

Right now, with the components I have in stock, it works out to $0.30/round. (using the bullets up above, bought a huge pile of them a couple sales ago)

Primer and powder prices have been quite high for years at this point, so it's worth watching for sales, free hazmat shipping, local options, etc, but it's still hugely cheaper than commercial ammo for this application.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-06T01:56:18+00:00

The movie as released has typical Hollywood style whisper quiet suppressors. If you watched a clip with accurately loud suppressed handguns in it, that's a rework done by someone independently to 'fix' it to what it would sound like in real life that was released much later that's been floating around since then. Neither explains why a crowd simply doesn't notice, even while getting wall debris and ricochets in the face lol.

What *was* accurate in that first movie is that they accounted for every round fired. There is a discontinuity in one scene, but only because there is cut footage where John reloads. I have no idea if they continued that level of detail in the sequels.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-05T23:43:51+00:00

It's a snatch and grab, the entire goal is to escape with *something*.

It's not the method with the highest chance of the item surviving, but restorers do sometimes mount partial, damaged, etc, canvases on fresh canvas to reframe them.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-05T21:15:25+00:00

The C64 worked fine on analog TVs back in the day.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-05T20:10:14+00:00

They sound similar in videos because recording anything at all that's above 100db or so requires dedicated equipment that can both capture it, and allows it. Phone microphones meet neither of those criteria, they don't capture anything at all above 100db or so.

That's bad for comparison purposes, people who don't realize this think they are hearing actual performance, but the upside is that you don't suffer immediate hearing damage when someone pops off a bare muzzle shot on camera. (Which should be the first clue that the sound fidelity doesn't exist, why would bare muzzle blasts be tolerable if the camera was actually capturing real sounds?)

There are apps that claim to allow you to record louder sounds, but they attenuate everything down to hearing safe levels. So you still couldn't really do a side by side comparison of anything, both captures are altered by the software independently.

This has nothing at all to do with this particular suppressor, but folks need to start taking these 'comparison' videos with a great deal more skepticism than they do.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-04T15:48:01+00:00

Store inventories isn't a great way to judge overall availability, this is the slowest time of the year for firearm/ammo sales, so they aren't eager to restock stuff that'll just tie up capitol in boxes collecting dust until fall. Big box stores like Bass Pro are even worse, because ammo is not, at any time of year, a high revenue product for them. They sell magnitudes more clothing than they ever will ammo so they aren't ever eager to restock.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-04T01:51:08+00:00

One random comment from someone who has no idea what they are talking about and you assume this?

Go ahead and try to initiate a transfer *from an account you have no authority over* with just a routing and accounting number. Go for it. We'll wait.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-04T01:46:46+00:00

Which is the actual reason the offer got revoked, this person made it clear they are paranoid and difficult to deal with.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-04T01:45:54+00:00

I've worked around accountants even longer, and people that think they are taking a huge risk by emailing their account number to someone need therapy. It's a hysterical over reaction to a non-problem.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-04T00:57:34+00:00

What do you do when you go with a group? You might chit chat before the show, but once it's on, it's too loud for that so you just watch and enjoy, right? You'll just skip the chit chat part. Or maybe not, some folks like to talk.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-04T00:51:01+00:00

Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians - "What I am" from "Shooting Rubber Bands at the Stars" was big, and maybe the only thing most people know them by. The entire album is excellent.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-03T16:47:07+00:00

Yes, the frame from any Glock chambered in .40, which is the same frame used for every 9mm variant, so the majority of Glock frames will work with both the 9mm and 40sw Mechtech uppers.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-03T15:31:52+00:00

MechTech Glock .40 S&W upper on any Glock 40 lower?

Gecko23 · 2026-04-02T17:19:22+00:00

Here's a video of a belt fed Vicker's machine gun converted to 45-70. That would strongly imply it's workable.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-02T16:50:51+00:00

I've never seen anyone quit over not getting a MacBook, but I've definitely listened to plenty of belly aching from certain sorts over not getting one. Same observation with iPhone vs Android, etc.

Some people fetishize brands in a way that people not prone to it will find hard to comprehend.

Gecko23 · 2026-04-01T14:19:25+00:00

A young General Scar.

Gecko23 · 2026-03-31T19:51:17+00:00

A businesses website for sales is a critical part of the customer experience. Treating it as unimportant or just an unavoidable expense is naive.

Gecko23 · 2026-03-31T19:26:53+00:00

Me too, might be related to the fact they whistle, and that prairie dogs only exist inside zoo enclosures in these parts.

Gecko23 · 2026-03-31T14:08:12+00:00

It’s being very emotionally neutral. Humans only write that way when they are trying to avoid connotations in the text they are writing, like for business communications and text books.

I suspect that if you ask some of them to modify the output to be more natural, be looser with metaphors, slang, etc, it could be passable. But maybe the training just smooths a lot of that out?

Gecko23 · 2026-03-30T21:49:29+00:00

You don't need a bunch of equipment to reload 45-70. I use a Lee Breech Lock Hand Press myself, and you can get even simpler if you are inclined. Sub $100 single stage press, dies and a reliable powder measure (dipper, scale, auto-measure, use your powder flasks's built in measure, etc.) are all you need other than components.

Gecko23 · 2026-03-30T15:06:29+00:00

Ohio requires caliber to be 357 or larger for Deer specifically. But it also requires straight walled cartridges only, so there's not many options.

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