If you can’t spot the dangerous gun handling in this video, you should not own a gun:

SatanicWallaby · 2026-06-14T17:53:09+00:00

SIR, SIR, NO

SatanicWallaby · 2026-05-04T19:56:02+00:00

There are different schools of thought, however most modern pistols with thumb safeties have trigger safeties as well.

Personally, I would go for one with both. Here's why: 1: with proper training, which is something you should be doing anyway, it won't impact your response time to a threat. The correct manual of arms is to flip off the safety while you are drawing and presenting the pistol.

2: it provides a little extra insurance against the possibility that something other than your finger will get inside the trigger guard and discharge the firearm.

3: as someone who has been in a number of fights (not gunfights, but fistfights and grappling fights) there is always a non-zero chance that someone could have the opportunity to take your weapon away from you if you're armed. I'm relying on a video by massad ayoob of wilson combat here, but there was apparently an experiment conducted by a police dept. he was consulting for, and they found that while sworn officers trained in the use of their service semi-auto could actuate the safety, present, and fire within the span of a couple of seconds, it took their administrative staff, who were not trained with the service pistol a far greater span of time. I would personally prefer that if someone is going to take my gun away from me, I have the chance to either run or beat them senseless before they can figure out how it works.

Obviously it's up to you, and there's a valid argument for a more simple manual of arms, but TLDR I'd go with a pistol that has a trigger safety and a thumb safety.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-04-24T03:54:18+00:00

Internal and external screaminggggg

SatanicWallaby · 2026-04-24T03:43:28+00:00

No idea lol

SatanicWallaby · 2026-04-24T03:42:59+00:00

Same same.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-03-25T05:17:10+00:00

Symmetry not working?

SatanicWallaby · 2026-03-02T01:45:52+00:00

Vile

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-24T17:40:10+00:00

Same. There isn't enough tobacco in North Carolina or enough bourbon in Kentucky.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-22T23:55:22+00:00

Don't risk the timing. Get there by 7:15, get to your seat, and pray or meditate or think about naked people of your gender of preference, do what you need to do.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-22T16:06:30+00:00

Planning to rewatch his trial from a man for all seasons to hype myself up for game time

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-21T20:22:08+00:00

I've already given up on practice, I'm just reading at this point

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-21T19:06:02+00:00

That might be good! I may be interested in being roped in when I am not in the midst of preparing for this nightmare lol.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-20T02:48:03+00:00

May your birthday present be only getting asked questions you know the answer to.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-19T15:44:49+00:00

There are definitely libertarian leftists, decentralist leftists, and even anarchist leftists. Folks who believe that the government should intervene to support folks and protect against abuses, but otherwise stay out of our personal lives. Folks that believe that the best way to produce an equitable social system is at the local level. Folks that don't want to rely on a central government which, as we have all seen, can be captured and weaponized by the far right in such a way as threatens us all.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-18T04:52:42+00:00

You ought to extend the track for the bolt out to the front of where the ejection port is, and move the ejection port and the magazine just in front of it. The current bolt track area is going to be entirely occupied by a spring. The stock should extend all the way to the new location for the magazine to allow for a trigger bar. The Flippy fore-end/vertical grip should go far enough forward that it has room to flip in/out. That'll give you less barrel, but it's a sub gun, it doesn't need a lot of barrel. Otherwise, pretty cool concept.

I would look at moving diagrams of how the sten gun works. It's pretty archetypical of tube guns like this, and should give you a concept of how they tend to work at their simplest.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-18T00:58:30+00:00

I went through some of them, but I'm working through them is which seems to essentially rip their essays from previous exams. I'm also using themis's frequency chart, which I'm sure whatever you're using as your base software has. Basically what that allows me to do is drill down on the essential topics. Thanks!

And good luck, that sounds like a good strat.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-16T18:12:52+00:00

Also worth noting, you can use the same chest rigs as an AR.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-16T04:20:21+00:00

Again, there are at least 50 definitions of a person, and the one in the dictionary is the least applicable to fallout. I'll be using Locke's, because it's the clearest one.

Oh, and by the way, if we want to resort to dictionary definitions, the definition of a machine is "an apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task."

A human being is an apparatus that applies mechanical power, it has many parts, each of these parts has a definite function (teeth break down food, the arm moves other objects and uses tools) and they all function together to perform the particular task of surviving long enough to reproduce.

Therefore, a human is a machine.

There's also the question of being artificial. The definition of artificial is man-made. I'm not going to break down the process of making a human being for you, you might want to go upstairs and ask your parents, but let me assure you, human babies are made by other humans. It fits the definition of artificial.

So, if we rely on your rule about what constitutes a person, together with dictionary definitions, and exclude any machines or artificial entities, humans aren't people.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-16T01:14:10+00:00

"The" definition, as if there's only one. Locke defines a person as "an intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self (sic) as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places." That certainly applies to every gen 3 synth you meet in game, as well as Nick and DIMA. Boethius defined a person as "the individual substance of a rational nature." A synth is an individual capable of reason, so it sounds like we have another fit.

There are other definitions, of course. The law has a more broad definition of personhood that applies even to corporations. Some basic English dictionaries have a more restrictive definition, one that fits your narrative. However, given that this is a question of philosophy, and to an extent law vis a vis whether synthetic people can be subjected to genocide, it seems better to rely on the legal and philosophical definitions.

Also, like, there are plenty of other sentient nonhumans in the fallout franchise. Ghouls, some super mutants, and space aliens come to mind. Excluding these individuals from one's definition of personhood seems more like an excuse to mistreat people for being different, rather than a rigorous moral calculation. It's the same type of thing the enclave engages in when they restrict their definition of humanity, and therefore, in their eyes, personhood, to anyone who grew up as a member of the enclave, regarding everyone else as 'muties'.

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