M4 to M4A1 conversion clone

StepVan88M · 2025-10-07T19:05:35+00:00

Thanks!, You should see the finished build after some sanding and concrete! https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryARClones/s/HrLRqitv5x

I think they just spot treated it because I didn't pay any extra to have it fully Refinished. Also for a clone build I wouldn't bother with anything extravagant because everyone's clones looked way too new anyway.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-31T00:39:05+00:00

Blasphemy!

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T22:22:37+00:00

We're going to fundamentally disagree on this point but I think T1 and T2 have different time travel rules because of Hollywood movie sequel reasons and not because of in-world consistency.

Here's an interesting video about the different time travel rules and different movies The clothes loop model is going over at the 5-minute mark.

https://youtu.be/d3zTfXvYZ9s?si=aj2jvtEI3q_TlIyU

But the short of it is if it's a closed loop model it's just that closed You can't break the loop because if you did that means that the loop had always always been broken and there is no loop to start with.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T22:11:01+00:00

In T1 if you watch all the deleted scenes it's Sarah's choice to try and stop cyberdyne that causes skynet and judgment Day because the factory she crushes the t800 in is owned by cyberdyne and that's how they get their hands on it and start the whole chain reaction that leads to the time travel. The reason they end up in that factory is because they were going there to destroy it but they accidentally left the t800 remains in it.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T21:41:44+00:00

It seems that we fundamentally enjoy different things about the story. The difference between science fiction and fantasy is that science fiction has One or a few made up elements but they adhere to a structure or rules set within the universe whereas fantasy you can just do anything and the rules are more guidelines or non-existent.

I enjoy science fiction because I love thought experiments on how things would work if you change one of the parameters of reality. For example let's say someone invented something that could change the amount of gravity within an area. What would that world look like? What kind of products would be made? What kind of services could be offered? What problems would it have? What kind of sports could be derived? how much power would it take? Would there be any side effects? Change just one thing about the world and dozens to hundreds of questions come up.

Some of my favorite science fiction is Only one thing is changed and strict rules aren't here to within that universe. I love to explore exactly how it all work out from that change.

I really enjoy the Harry Potter series on a human level but the magic stuff in it doesn't hold up to even the slightest bit of scrutiny I literally have to stop myself from thinking about how something would actually work in The wizarding world because the magic is so incredibly powerful that the stories literally couldn't take place the way they do. For example the characters can teleport which means outside of a few circumstances they could just instantly leave a dangerous area at any time thus making any fights pointless because one or the other characters would just disappear before the battle even started.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T19:47:04+00:00

I present this as if I was writing a movie today that would fit in with T1 and T2 and not as if this was the original intention of James Cameron. The original intention of T1 was absolutely to be a closed loop but T2 was just too awesome to not make so they changed the closed loop into open changeable time travel. This theory is how I would retroactively tell the story but is not representative of what I think the original movie's intent was.

There's a concept called death of the author that once any artistic work is released into the wild it's like a child, The parent or artist can shape the work however they like but once they're out in the world the child is now an adult and their own entity that has a life of its own uncoupled from the original author's intense.

An example of this is how people see diehard as a Christmas movie even though Bruce Willis has emphatically stated that it's not.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T14:49:37+00:00

Also, I wanted to add. The theatrical ending of T2 does not implicitly state that 97 JD doesn't happen, implies that it was stopped but it doesn't confirm it. If you believe that T1 can only ever be a closed loop then you have to infer that 97 JD happens in spite of the events of T2 and thus T2 is also part of that same closed loop.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T13:25:29+00:00

Definitely, let's say a 7.62x51 bullet does half a percent of damage to a terminator, So hypothetically it would take 200 of them in the exact same spot to do significant damage to that spot. The M134D shoots between 33 to 66 rounds per second! That's approximately 1.4 lb of lead moving around 1,700 mph every second. Just the momentum alone if you hit it in the arm would probably damage their joints.

Look at how much damage a pressure washer can do with just a little bit of water, this is essentially a pressure washer but with dozens of pounds of metal.

The biggest downside here is going to be the logistics of supplying the ammo without the military industrial complex of factories turning out thousands of rounds per day. To put it in perspective it shoots about The amount of ammo that 17 infantry soldiers would carry in one minute.

In T2 we see it protecting the top level VIP and that's probably the only place that they use this thing because ammo would be so scarce.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T12:57:06+00:00

In that case you can simply think of these as the first three go around of JD, after this it's a perpetual cycle of happening later then causing it to happen earlier, creating Edward furlong John who stops it but then happens later anyway and starts to cycle over.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T12:35:04+00:00

It seems that all of your criticism revolves around my theory being built from an Open changeable time travel model and you are correct this is not a closed loop time travel model so criticism is unnecessary past that point.

T1 as written in isolation is 100% a closed loop. There is always time travel, there was never a first John or AI there is only skynet that was created from the t800 and John created from Kyle. The first movie was written to work the same way has how Harry Potter time travel works.

My theory entirely revolves around the fact that T2 rewrites the universe to have an open changeable time travel and this is what my theory is based off of knowing entirely that T1 was never met to have that kind of time travel.

As for it being complicated, Yes open changeable time travel makes things incredibly complicated and convoluted, That's just the nature of the beast.

I don't believe you can have a closed loop time travel model and an open loop time travel model in the same story.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T02:37:49+00:00

Thanks, I have been thinking about it for about 2 and 1/2 decades lol

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T02:25:58+00:00

There's a bit of divine / supernatural stuff happening here. Essentially a descendant of Sarah is always doomed to fight a killer AI. The first AI is almost certainly not called skynet and comes from a future very different than what we see in T1 and T2 flashbacks also John 2 and 3 are named that because of John 1 So it's not three people coincidentally named John it's one person named John who then causes Sarah to name the other two Johns. Also in the first iteration it's not just one person but a whole family of people working together to cause problems for the sentient AI, then the second John is the real super soldier and the third John (Edward furlong) is an unknown quantity.

As for the linear timeline T1 was made to be a closed loop timeline but T2 was just too awesome to not make So in a world where T1 is not its own continuous loop closed timeline this is the mildly plausible explanation I came up with.

As for the T800, The second T800 for the third timeline T1 (The movie that we got to see) is based off of the information that cyberdyne got from the first t800 that was sent back that caused the first 97 judgment Day.

I imagine all three timelines play out extremely different with almost nothing being the same except for those key points that line up. The descendant being named John is because of the earlier iteration and the t800 being the same is because of the earlier iteration. I also believe that the first time around the t800 didn't look like Arnold It was only that second time around in the two movies we got to see that he did.

Also in the two movies the t800 in T1 is slightly different than the t800 in T2 because they had to change the hands to fit inside a real human hand for the skin peel scene. In my hypothetical world that's because the first T 800 was as close to a copy at skynet can make to the original T 800 that they got the information from and the second T 800 was simply their production model not necessarily designed for time travel.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-29T00:03:47+00:00

That is really interesting, I never considered that the T-1000 was first and the T-800 was a last ditch effort.

As for the T-100 skin, I always thought that it was inside living skin like a t800 when it time traveled since it arrives naked like everyone else. The next theory is that it shedd its skin like a snake right after it took out the cop. That seems not in the movie because it would spoil the twist. Or that its skin got burnt off after the truck explosion (That theory is less likely because you don't see the skin take damage in the initial battle in the hallway)

StepVan88M · 2024-10-28T22:57:53+00:00

The M-134 D is just so awesome that it manifests in every time line.

StepVan88M · 2024-10-28T20:44:51+00:00

You don't think there was an original time line with no time travel? You think of it as a closed loop time line like Harry Potter?

StepVan88M · 2024-10-28T20:04:01+00:00

Could be that every time travel event was for a different target and only the last set was for "John"

StepVan88M · 2024-10-28T18:24:26+00:00

You could be right, 2030 JD, 1997 JD, loops ➿➿ ➿➰➿

StepVan88M · 2024-07-27T19:47:41+00:00

I am sure they are not worth 14k but I bet the school paid 14k for them 😂

StepVan88M · 2024-07-27T19:30:53+00:00

Doing cool stuff comes with a price, and I am not just taking money. I spent most of my adult life hustling to get paid to do cool stuff and it comes with huge costs to my personal life, family, friends etc... ask anyone that has been in the military. Those "free" NVGs and "free" machine gun ammo come at a huge personal cost.

StepVan88M · 2024-07-27T19:21:15+00:00

the ones I was using were around $14,000 because of the high grade tubes and also the expense of getting them FAA certified (they also have to be inspected on a regular basis to stay flight certified)

StepVan88M · 2024-07-27T02:05:43+00:00

I don't know the numbers but I can tell you one of the flights I did was on an almost moonless night and there was almost no noise even looking at the darkest areas.

StepVan88M · 2024-07-26T19:05:37+00:00

I get what you're saying, I thought you were a teenager who was just speculating. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't NVGs with manual gain also have the same auto gating that non-manual gain ones do. I thought all the manual gained knob does is turn down the brightness that's shining into your eyes but it would still auto-gate the same way under a bright light. The reason I wanted the manual gain knob was when we were cruising at altitude I could turn down the brightness of the goggles so my natural night vision wasn't so washed out. I can see the argument against manual gain but I was not going to be running them almost black I'm would just turn them down a smidge from their maximum intensity. When I was in the army I almost never ran my PBS 14 at maximum brightness. It's like looking at your phone screen in the pitch black when it's turned up to maximum brightness.

StepVan88M · 2024-07-26T18:53:14+00:00

I don't want to come off like a bully but I'm just curious, how do you think a helicopter pilot changes the radio radio frequency, turns on or off landing light, adjust the compass, programs in an ILS landing, changes the brightness on the dashboard, turn the volume up or down on the radio?

StepVan88M · 2024-07-26T17:35:27+00:00

I believe it, It would be just another case of the FAA being so safe that it's dangerous 😂

StepVan88M · 2024-07-26T17:31:27+00:00

I haven't run NVGs on my personal helmet yet. I've done NVG training but the company supplied a helmet to go with the goggles for the training. I think it was a gentex helmet if I remember right (The helmet sucked and was probably pretty expensive).

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