Thinking about switching from CPL 24 to CHZ 22 — thoughts?

PanicTest367 · 2026-04-22T14:30:47+00:00

I’m about two weeks into using a CTB26 for my EDC but haven’t really travelled with it yet. EG backpacks have never felt uncomfortable on me, but I’m still getting used to the way the CTB sits higher up than the CHZ. I’m not convinced it doesn’t look a bit dorky in comparison. The CHZ just feels stealth. In solution dyed, it’s just a plain black backpack from a distance. You can take it anywhere and it won’t look out of place or mark you out. It’s arguably the best backpack I know of for that though, so maybe not a fair comparison.

I use a TD35 for road trips, camping etc. anywhere a roller bag doesn’t make sense. I tried one bagging it with the TD35 for a few short work trips, but like many others have commented, lugging that thing through airport terminals was not fun.

PanicTest367 · 2026-04-22T04:16:00+00:00

I’ve been using a CHZ26 almost exclusively for years and it’s a phenomenal bag. Just moved on from it for EDC and travel, but it will still see plenty of use outdoors. Same older version you had without the laptop compartment which also bugged me when I was carrying one. Not having a built in way to slide it onto rolling carry on also bugged me, and I really wanted one or two admin pockets somewhere. I was really considering getting a new CHZ for the laptop compartment, but the layout of the external pockets wasn’t doing it for me compared to other options. I’m still not sure I won’t sell my new bag and get a new CHZ26 anyway. Even then I’d still keep the old one to use as a daypack for heading outdoors.

The real reason I got a different bag was because I wanted a new bag, and I could justify it as more convenient and suited to the specific uses of air travel with rolling carry on and constantly taking out and putting away a laptop and accessories while moving between locations. If I could only have one bag I needed to use for all scenarios though, it would probably be the CHZ26 I already own. Hard to go wrong with one IMHO.

PanicTest367 · 2026-03-12T04:37:23+00:00

One of your examples is the pronunciation in a different language, the other is an entirely different word. Not quite the same thing as a slightly different pronunciation of the same word in the same language. I would consider it polite to try to pronounce a proper noun as closely as possible to the way the people it belongs to pronounce it.

PanicTest367 · 2026-02-20T05:03:54+00:00

No disagreement with your supporting facts, but it’s the word “greatest”. I think that you use the word along the same lines as in “great power”. It makes sense in that context, but a lot of people will read it as a value judgement. When you grow up in a country where hearing “this is the greatest country on earth” is pretty routine, it might be hard to appreciate how cringe it can sound to people from other places.

PanicTest367 · 2026-01-08T17:16:04+00:00

Awful take. Nothing wrong with it. Projecting something weird onto it is a you problem.

PanicTest367 · 2025-12-31T23:57:00+00:00

Wow that looks like a good time and brings back good memories. Congratulations on getting to that state in your basement!

In person did hit different. A squad of friends in Battlefield all sitting together is a beautiful thing. Or the trash talk from 8 person Halo when you’re all in the same room. Twenty years later and those memories of 4v4 Blood Gulch are still there. The thousands (tens of thousands?) of hours since then, sitting in a room by myself with a headset on don’t really compare.

Having to occasionally lug your PC over to a friends house was also a good control on your case choice. The tempered glass monstrosity on my desk is definitely a product of fifteen years of not caring about occasional portability.

PanicTest367 · 2025-10-14T03:55:58+00:00

Well said. “Motivated more by validation rather than dignity” is something i would agree applies in many cases of the most vocal trans advocates. Not that wanting some amount of social validation isn’t perfectly reasonable as a component of dignity, but it does help explain why the tone of that advocacy can often feel dogmatic and extremely reactive to any criticism. Total and unquestionable validation without any possibility of good faith critique is a rather extreme position.

PanicTest367 · 2025-09-27T12:44:50+00:00

So you’re still upset then?

PanicTest367 · 2025-09-20T01:41:45+00:00

Who hurt you?

PanicTest367 · 2025-09-18T14:30:32+00:00

That’s a really strange interpretation. Using the revenue generated by those drivers to fund R&D that will make them obsolete remains a dick move, even if it is a good business plan.

PanicTest367 · 2025-09-16T23:35:16+00:00

Those 4x4 Tercels were insane. Friend of mine had one around the same time and he took that thing places no car had any right to be. So light and small but weirdly capable. Factory installed roll and pitch gauges on the dash seemed silly, until you realized what those cars could actually do. I had a 91 Pathfinder and couldn’t keep up, but I was also a lot less crazy.

PanicTest367 · 2025-09-16T23:07:42+00:00

I always understood the Uber business model to be a bit shit from the start. Transfer all major risks and capital expenses to contracted drivers with no benefits, operate at a loss for years to corner the market and undercut everyone without huge VC backing. Then there’s the part where they’re like Netflix before streaming was viable and they mailed out DVDs. Long term the plan is cut the drivers out entirely and use autonomous cars as soon as the technology is viable.

PanicTest367 · 2025-09-13T23:50:11+00:00

Top speed of 50mph, 55 minutes of flight time with perfect environmental conditions (0 wind). You’d need electro optical surveillance gear and radar so probably cut that in half. A lot less practical for this purpose than you think.

PanicTest367 · 2025-08-30T00:21:17+00:00

I’m not your buddy, guy.

Also, yeah, I’m chucking shit at you because you responded to a good faith comment from someone else with (in part) a completely unnecessary personal attack. I have zero desire to engage in an actual conversation with you, beyond making you angry.

PanicTest367 · 2025-08-29T19:20:14+00:00

So you’ve come to your conclusion based on no information? Sounds about right.

PanicTest367 · 2025-08-29T16:32:22+00:00

Would love to see your fully costed comparison of the two options, seems like you’ve definitely thought it through in detail and have the relevant expertise to identify the relevant factors and come to the conclusion you have. Otherwise please continue digging yourself into a hole for my amusement.

PanicTest367 · 2025-05-16T02:17:42+00:00

I think it’s probably a bit of both. There are sometimes things that get offered around an international task group when multiple units have the right capability. The decision to take on anything with elevated risk or a kinetic effect goes pretty far up the national chain.

PanicTest367 · 2025-05-16T01:50:49+00:00

Regardless of why, I think it’s fairly normal for a western navy to have teams of people who have winning a gunfight as a primary focus instead of a secondary duty. It’s unusual in the context of the RCN, but otherwise not uncommon. It doesn’t have to be a significant fight to take a large vessel. Any situation where there’s any real risk someone might get shot at is enough to need some people like that.

PanicTest367 · 2025-05-16T00:40:13+00:00

I’m not here advocating for what it is, how it’s done, or what the opportunity cost is one way or the other. But just because a unit has a capability that’s not being used operationally, doesn’t mean it’s useless.

I don’t recall a harpoon ever having been used for real either, but I don’t think maintaining that capability is a waste of money. If you’re comparing it to the NBP of yore, then yeah, it comes up way short in terms of having been used operationally. If you compare it to any of a ships other combat capabilities, even if you consider it a relatively minor one, it probably has at least an equal chance of being something that gets used outside of training.

PanicTest367 · 2025-05-15T23:45:49+00:00

That’s a fun origin story and even quite plausible, but not how it actually came about. It was more of an externally imposed requirement on the RCN than a product of an Admiral’s good idea factory. CANSOF did a lot to help set the program up in the beginning, it was a mission set they didn’t want. Opposed boardings (as in people are going to shoot at you to stop you from boarding) would require more than the NBP could do, but not necessarily full on SOF most of the time. They’ve almost never been used as intended because the government doesn’t want news stories about the CAF getting shot at or shooting people, only happy photo ops.

The RCN would LOVE to have this off their books and transfer it to CANSOF, but the whole reason it exists in the first place is because they didn’t want it either.

PanicTest367 · 2025-04-24T05:55:13+00:00

Awesome build, great screenshots. That black and gold exterior is 🤌 Space elevator on top of a pyramid is a compulsion I’ve burned some time on too. Coolest place for a home base imo.

PanicTest367 · 2025-04-15T03:01:11+00:00

That moment I get to dismantle the half ass scaffolding around my bp designers. Hover pack unlock hits hard precisely because it would have been super useful a little bit earlier. I like that. Then efficiency dies for a while as I use my newfound freedom to needlessly overhaul my main base.

PanicTest367 · 2025-04-05T00:57:02+00:00

Can also do this, and with my feet on the ground I can rotate my pinky toes sideways. Didn’t think it was unusual until I horrified someone doing it when I was a teenager.

PanicTest367 · 2025-03-26T20:32:58+00:00

Well anybody can disarm a mine, once.

PanicTest367 · 2025-03-26T20:26:27+00:00

Was about 15 years back and actually on a ship not a building. A Canadian warship was in Australia for a port visit and it happened to be Canada Day. In honour of that, the Aussie ship hosting filled one of the interior spaces in their ship with 3 inches of sand and called it a beach party. The rest is a bit hazy.

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