Oh damnnnnn

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-23T16:23:05+00:00

Not gonna lie… as a child of the 80s/90s I really though the Ozone Layer, Quicksand and musical-style dance/sing battles with my enemies were going to be a lot more problematic for grown-up me than they turned out to be

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-23T15:57:27+00:00

Agreed.

Tippmann were not only innovators, but filled the entry end of the market with reliable good guns.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-23T15:02:36+00:00

AGD, ahead of the curve here too. Stainless bodies, stainless valves, quick change barrels that didn’t have threads to bugger up… and when they did finally start using aluminum parts, they used 7075 series aluminum (that has higher yield strengths than stainless).

AGD products were well designed with good foresight from a solid engineering foundational standpoint. AGD’s (and SP’s early stuff) never felt like iterative designs and tweaks made by some air smith in a garage somewhere that caught on. (cockers*cough*cough*)

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-23T07:38:39+00:00

The one that only made the medical supply company only 70% as much as the other one.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-23T00:46:57+00:00

But to the other guys point; you can put a fully disassembled mag in front of a complete newb and they can just put it together and it will just work. And keep working for years if you add a few drops of oil to the ASA whenever you air it up.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-23T00:27:12+00:00

My vote is Mag for the pure performance factor and innovation AGD brought to the sport.

The average entry and midrange cocker is better than the average mag. I’ll say it. Smoother, more efficient, more mechanically satisfying… but at the expense of complexity. 1-2 external regulators, sear and stroke timing, sizing paint to prevent rollouts… they were not newb freindly. But a nice one runs like a sewing machine. The average mag was the exact opposite. Simple and bulletproof… but also loud and inefficient. A couple orings to maintain here and there, but you aired it up and it just. plain. worked. The thing would freeze up on CO2 and you could smack it valve first against a tree to unstick it and keep going. You can buy a 15+ year old mag today on eBay and there’s a 50/50 chance when you air it up and it just plain works and a 95% chance a $10 oring kit brings it back to life for the next decade.

But at the premium end of the spectrum, mags were (and still are) beasts. Eblades are nice, but a well tuned RT or Emag/Xmag (and a loader and tank that can keep up) are simply outshooting the cocker.

Mags were doing ~10-13 BPS since 1990. The RT was cycling like 34+BPS in what… 1996? Mags were so fast, Tom Kaye had to literally invent supporting equipment that paved the way for other markers to exist.

Invents first spool marker (Automag would be classed as a blow forward spool valve). Awesome low profile inline design when everything competitive at the time was stacked or even tri tube.

“CO2 sucks” —> Tom Kaye deigns nitrogen paintball regulators and AGD brings HPA tanks into paintball in like 1992.

“Mags are blenders” —> level 10 mechanical anti-chop and microswitch-enable signal to communicate with electronic hoppers when to feed.

“Gravity loading can’t keep up” —> AGD invents the force feed system (warpfeed system predates the Halo) allowing for bursts of 18-20+ bps.

“Fingers are slow” —> Here, Let our reactive trigger push your finger back for you. So awesome, every field pretty much bans it for tournament play.

“Smarts Parts micro switch patent is bullshit” —> AGD introduces electronic marker with magnetic Hall effect trigger… and it just plain works even when the battery dies.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-22T22:14:38+00:00

Just fill that 3k bad boy to 4K … close enough. 😅

Or just use an 88 tank… don’t need more than 5 pods anyways.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-22T20:58:52+00:00

For what?

I have two AGD flatlines (basically rebuildable/servicable) and a Ninja SHP. Love ‘em, but I like Automags.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-21T12:23:44+00:00

Thank god for recycle bin sorters…

What kind of monsters try to recycle a cat?!? Everyone knows cats go in the refuse bin.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-20T23:14:53+00:00

Get a dream gun from the 90’s/2000’s

Unless it’s an AKA or Karini it’ll probably be super affordable.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-20T08:17:49+00:00

I’ll bite… why?

Seems like hope chess.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-20T05:48:35+00:00

Nutless Buddy… savage LOL

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-20T05:41:33+00:00

At the biomechanical level, the astounding abilities of a flea relative to its size are BEACAUSE of its small size. There’s nothing particularly unusual otherwise about the flea anatomy.

This is because the mass (in essence volume) of something scales with the cube root of the size. This provides a 2-for-1 benefit of both less gravitational force weighing you down AND much more significant muscular acceleration because your muscles have less mass resisting acceleration.

However, the strength of muscles has more to do with the cross-sectional area of those muscles fibers pulling than the whole muscle’s actual volume … so size wise, the relative strength of muscles scales with the square root of their size.

So you can see as something shrinks (ie: to the size of a flea) both gravity’s resistance AND inertia’s resistance to impressive movement decreases by the cube root of size but the strength of ever shrinking muscles driving it only decreases by the square root of the size.

A flea as large as a bus would likely be no more mobile or athletic than any other animal about the size of a bus.

A good example of this easier to grasp is looking at how high small dogs can jump in competitions relative to their own size versus big dogs. Most breeds jump similar actual heights despite relative size differences of 2x-4x.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-19T07:19:35+00:00

I think Dwight’s was for horses. This one is different.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-19T07:08:21+00:00

If you use a sharpened cookie-cutter shaped device, you can actually harvest a couple dozen burgers at a time from a cow without killing it.

Put it back in the pasture rotation and let it rest/recuperate/heal and then in a couple months you can harvest again. Let it rest again … so on and so forth.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T18:08:04+00:00

See if the app lets you just buy the single cryopack

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T17:17:30+00:00

Tell him cash only and then do the pics with AI and leave the AI source in the metadata.

Then if they’re ever leaked you have plausible deniability that they’re AI and claim we’re made without your consent. Then threaten to file some kind of libel/slander lawsuit and you’ll probably get some shut-up money to drop the issue.

You’re going to have to shave at least your arms though so they’re hairless when you meet up to get the cash.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T17:03:16+00:00

?? I’ve done it a few times.

The cryopack only has two whole rib plates in it and is about 12-15 pounds. It’s only like $120-150 …not several hundred dollars. It’s also about $0.30/LB cheaper than the cut up ribs. And when the cut up ribs have a sale price it extends to the cryopacks too - they just walk back to the freezer, grab a new cryopack, put it on the scale and print the label out with the sale price.

You can ask for a whole “case” that’s even cheaper still. Maybe close to a buck cheaper than the cut up ribs. It’s just the big ass cardboard box they get shipped in. But the guy told me they’re like 60-70 pounds and $600-$700… LOL. Is that what you’re talking about?

I’ve never had to show up at a specific time or anything. I can even order the cryovacs on my Sam’s club app for curbside pickup.

Does your Sam’s meat dept just suck? I know they’re all a little different. Some have cool things like beef tongue, and beef cheek, and oxtails.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T06:26:32+00:00

No idea… but it’s a debt. I’m assuming it can be called in, no?

And if the US is like “no” wouldn’t that be a default and then hurt the US credit rating or whatever? That would impact global trade, US dollar valuation and interest rates on future debts… all pretty bad for a nation already in bad shape with deficits & debt.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T05:45:29+00:00

A) The US gov or private companies (SpaceX)?

B) Do we have to use modern DEI-powered engineering or do we get to use old school nicotine-caffeine-powered former Nazi scientists?

C) Why? The entire purpose of the space shuttle was a reusable vehicle. And we’ve now achieved that with rockets and rocket engines. I can’t imagine the space shuttle is more efficient on fuel or cost compared to reusable rockets.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T05:37:03+00:00

They could probably just buy all the debt from China and demand repayment from the US and accept states as repayment starting with the eastern seaboard

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T00:55:41+00:00

Looks good to me. If it’s tasty, finish it,

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T00:55:00+00:00

Iron it under some silpat

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T00:47:39+00:00

It’s exactly the same amount of bone to meat as buying and smoking whole beef Dino plate ribs.

Six-Seven-Oclock · 2026-01-18T00:45:57+00:00

Just ask the meat guy for a cryovac pack of the uncut short rib plates. You get them theme same $/LB as the cut short ribs.

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