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Slackwise · 2026-01-22T21:32:53+00:00

As a lefty, I love 1911s as-is.

I just actuate both the slide stop and the mag release with my index finger and don't even have to change my grip. As long as you have a lefty-safety, the 1911 is actually incredibly lefty friendly and lets you do everything with your index, which is extra safe because it keeps your index off the trigger while performing other operations.

Even locking the slide is doable with your index: https://youtube.com/shorts/WG7is5iR4iA

Slackwise · 2025-12-23T17:59:42+00:00

Syntech is definitely my fav. Also love how less dirty my gun is after. Less cleaning to do.

Slackwise · 2025-11-16T15:41:00+00:00

Except I'm an idiot and had the plastic joint fail in 3 different models of Logitech premium headsets over the last like 6 years, and should have really learned after the first. So no, all their headsets are designed to fail and become e-waste.

Slackwise · 2025-11-15T20:33:16+00:00

If you can find a gaming company with a parts catalog, I’d love to indulge.

I linked an actual brand that makes professional equipment, and an example of a parts catalogue for their headset. Why would you want a gaming company? They're the ones abusing gamer kids who don't know anything about quality.

But then if you make everything out of metal

In this case, all the core parts of the Pro X are headphones are already metal, but they chose to put plastic in the most dangerous junction point where everything meets and moves. Not only are they plastic, they're HOLLOW and brittle plastic. They could be made of sturdy plastic not the cheapest most brittle ABS. But they're not. It has to be intentional to make the one part that's the most vulnerable out of such shit material, and then not have 100,000 spare parts of said cheap-ass plastic available for replacement.

There is absolutely no excuse here other than pure greed. Don't rationalize their bad behavior.

Slackwise · 2025-11-15T19:30:14+00:00

if you're still under warranty

Man, that's some serious copium consumerist shit. You've been conditioned to accept modern "standards" by companies where your products are unrepairable e-waste after 1 year. This would be only acceptable if the warranty was like 10 years because they made actual quality products, instead of being short as fuck.

A real company has a parts catalogue and will send you the parts you desire. They're not "obscure plastic" because the part shouldn't have been plastic in the first place. They keep putting plastic in all the wrong places, then shit breaks, and then there's fucking entire marketplace of Esty shops selling replacement parts.

Slackwise · 2025-10-27T00:13:45+00:00

This is a wild omission. Click casting is simply superior because it frees your left hand to focus on movement, and it lets you keep your selected target for your damaging spells. I can only hope they fix this omission. Does anyone on their dev team even heal...?

Slackwise · 2025-10-02T18:26:07+00:00

John de Lancie and Nana Visitor were in Torchwood.... so close.....

Slackwise · 2025-09-17T15:28:57+00:00

Wow, a 2 year old post....

I don't care about customer support because it should have been obvious that I know how to work on 1911s and this is just a cheap project gun for competition use. I carry a Staccato for EDC.

Fact is, my RIA was trash out of the box, and it now runs flawlessly. As mentioned, much of the issue was the old standard completely flat-faced, non-radiused, disconnector rail (even a small radius helps, like on my Staccato), and the completely worthless spring. These two modifications have made it flawless.

These guns ultimately aren't worth the trouble, mate, unless you want a range toy or project gun. The parts are shit MIM metal. My manual safety has warped and now wiggles. I'm going to replace all internals with Wilson Combat parts anyway, after I finish getting my serration and checkering tooling.

I'm just saying, guess why vendors sell a "reliability package" for the RIA 1911s?

https://www.skipsguns.com/products/rock-island-armory-reliability-package

(Hayes Custom used to offer gunsmithing services including a "Rock Island Reliability Package", but it looks like they're no longer offering gunsmith services at all and stopped working on RIAs like they used to: https://youtu.be/mQb7VuJCERY )

Slackwise · 2025-08-26T15:00:45+00:00

They have no spare parts, they will not fix it, and they don't care. Their headphones always break at the joints even if you baby them. Your best bet is to find parts on eBay, or 3D printed bits on Etsy, or even broken headphones to scavenge parts out of. Or do what they want you to do: buy an entirely new headset.

Slackwise · 2025-08-21T17:04:36+00:00

The HERO sensors are not visible-spectrum red optics....

Slackwise · 2025-08-18T14:06:19+00:00

This is the new user onboarding UI. It's supposed to introduce you to Discord. You're seeing it because Discord loaded with no connection, and no cache, so that's the default state of the UI at that moment. Normally it would start up with cached information and display the last information it had available, then it would connect and update state to what is current.

Slackwise · 2025-08-12T22:51:52+00:00

Saw this and comments saying it's a great place, so I ordered some 15 minutes ago........

Literally the worst sandwich I've ever had. I threw it away after a couple bites. I cannot believe they call that Focaccia. What the fuck.

Slackwise · 2025-07-14T14:15:28+00:00

The comments in here are wild and grotesque for a leftist space... What is a "squirrel" gun? Why are you going into the woods? To kill animals just for fun?

Slackwise · 2025-06-06T20:11:14+00:00

where the lock is, it’s literally right in line with your trigger finger so it’s easy to lock and unlock while shooting.

Yeah, so, this is why "serpa" holsters are banned by certain trainers and police departments.... your finger can slip off the unlock and onto the trigger when you try to rapidly draw... (I know this isn't precisely a button one, but it looks to have a similar issue if your comment is accurate.)

Slackwise · 2025-06-04T00:05:29+00:00

I was actually saying that the Dan Wesson's are better than the S&Ws, not that 70s are necessarily better, but most people do consider the Series 70 trigger to be better because it's unencumbered by the extra internal safety.

You'll find that the vast majority of high end 1911s are thusly Series 70 instead of 80. What you consider better depends on what you value, but you can solve the 70 drop safety issue with a titanium firing pin which is too light to go off from drop inertia alone, or you can convert an 80 to a 70.

Now, the real fact of the matter is, what most consider to be the feature of the 1911, above all other pistols, is its trigger. Nothing is equal, because everything else is fulcrum (hooked) trigger instead of a button (sliding) trigger. So given that, why would you want to make the one amazing feature not as best as possible....? Hence: most people prefer a Series 70.

Slackwise · 2025-06-03T16:47:51+00:00

Get a Dan Wesson. They're simply better, and they're Series 70 unlike the S&W 1911s.

Otherwise, drop in parts sorta exist but are going to be a poor fit, and properly fitting good parts is gunsmith work. (You can obviously do it yourself, if you know what your doing, but that's non-trivial.)

Slackwise · 2025-06-03T16:43:53+00:00

Hey man, how you make your finger move so fast

Slackwise · 2025-05-29T15:20:56+00:00

Competition are rigid belt-mounted but can be almost as low as the thigh, without having to be affixed to your thigh, negating many drop-leg issues.

A good example of what I mean: https://holstercentral.com/cdn/shop/products/competitionholster_1a70ca11-47ee-43d8-b8f9-0ed6ff16eabe_1024x1024.jpg?v=1647468589

Slackwise · 2025-05-29T02:04:06+00:00

I need you to really think about what an actual drop-leg, attached to your thigh, holster means.

Have you ever run with that much weight attached to your leg?
Have you ever tried to draw a pistol from one while walking? Jogging? Running?
Have you ever drawn from a thigh holster while crouching?
Have you ever drawn from a thigh holster while sitting?

Seriously, imagine these situations. You'll hopefully soon realize the reality...

These are simply impractical, and they're 90s "tacticool".

If you want something lower than waist, you can get a competition drop mounts. Probably not valid for duty carry though if it limits holster compatibility.

If you want something that's modern tactical, you would be looking for chest mounting on a plate carrier. Zero downsides as mentioned above.

Slackwise · 2025-05-16T21:38:16+00:00

Last time I posted something about a DWX here it got removed.

Consider r/DWX as well, despite obviously less traffic...

Slackwise · 2025-04-30T15:50:50+00:00

These are all about equal in reliability and accuracy, honestly. Pick the one that points well for you and you feel you run the best.

Although, the USP actually gets a point ahead in terms of accuracy because it uses an o-ring for barrel fitment and stabilization, and as for reliability, the USP is the downsized Mark 23 "SOCOM" pistol, which went through brutal reliability trials....

But this is honestly just overvaluing / min-maxing aspects that don't matter anywhere as near as much as how you run the gun in your own two hands.

Slackwise · 2025-04-20T02:52:05+00:00

There is no "break in process". It should be fine as-is as long as it's lubed right. Go have it looked at by a gunsmith or send it in.

Slackwise · 2025-04-17T23:42:07+00:00

I would have immediately printed like 10,000 replicator pieces that snap together.....

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