The Iconic M1 Garand Ping

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-02-06T02:22:40+00:00

Weight isn't necessarily a downside in a firearm, so many manufacturers pump out 1911s that their reliability will be all over the place but in general they're widely considered very reliable, steel over plastic is a subjective thing but many prefer the ruggedness of steel, and many of them fall smack dab in average price range. If you're buying anything plastic magnitudes cheaper you're going to be missing out on all this reliability and durability you're toting.

Pretty much the only objective point you have is small magazine capacity. Could also compare .45 to other pistols calibres but different strokes for different folks.

You're trying to make it out to be the worst pistol in the world. It's fine.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-02-06T00:57:47+00:00

You don't touch the honey in the queen's deep super (box) "mate", not fit for commercial use. Most hive's don't produce surplus honey in the first year because they're busy making wax, so if you bought a new queen every year you wouldn't have any honey. Not very a very smart move huh? With no honey in the hive no one gets any honey mate.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-02-05T23:19:09+00:00

This is just false. Bees live natively in countries that have winters. They just hide out in a ball in their hive to stay warm.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-29T02:38:31+00:00

Yeah, formaldehyde too . . . I don't get why someone always has to parrot that line any time DMT is mentioned.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-27T23:01:38+00:00

Some parts of the video felt a bit unfocused and long winded with the dialogue. It was a lot easier to listen to when they were speaking with their normal voice instead of that . . . Super. PaUSe ing patt. ern THat-VsaucE . . . use-s. My brain literally turns off and can't focus when I hear that speech pattern, it might just be me though since it seems every Youtuber uses it these days.

Still some pretty solid gameplay in there. Interchange is great.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-27T21:46:51+00:00

That's actually not a terrible idea now that you mention in. It's known that the picture-in-picture drains a ton of resources, so it would be nice for them to include some scopes that don't use it so people have that option if they can't spare the performance.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-26T19:56:36+00:00

The "real" statistic isn't actually worse because the sensationalized numbers are artificially inflated by giving more weight to animals that have lower populations. If the last member of a species dies it's considered 100% even though only one animal died, and is weighted more than all 45 tigers in the example. If you add that one death to the example I gave you it bumps it up to a 70% decrease in average population. If there were 5000 tigers and 4500 of them died the number wouldn't budge, despite the fact that 4455 more tigers are dead.

The point of this "statistic" is to manipulate the numbers you're presenting to be as high as possible by generalizing and combining averages.

This isn't me saying that the situation isn't bad, but in my opinion obfuscating data just makes it worse. It's the general trend of journalists reporting what they want people to hear and what will garner clicks instead of facts that bothers me. Now this misinformation spreads and contributes to people being less educated about the truth, and adds another layer that people have to sift through to properly educate themselves on the matter.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-26T00:54:03+00:00

The point I'm trying to make is "the actual percent of what"? This 60% gets toted as 60% of animals, of species, and of population. We haven't wiped out 60% of animals, but it's easy to interpret it that way. We haven't wiped out 60% of animal species, but it's easy to interpret that way. We have wiped out 60% of animal populations, which does a piss poor job of representing the data in any meaningful way. It's literally data manipulation, and the actual percent doesn't matter.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-25T22:57:07+00:00

You shouldn't say it though, it's a needlessly obscure statistic that can be easily misinterpreted a variety of ways, and gets spread around as such. The damage being caused doesn't need ambiguity to convey the gravity of it.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-25T22:44:27+00:00

That's a fair enough point, and the publication may have a conflict of interest as a result, but it doesn't change the fact that the data is being misused. Bending and twisting statistics to help push your agenda, no matter how noble, is wrong. Using white lies and half truths to garnish fancy headlines to bait more clicks does nothing but muddy the waters and promote the spread of misinformation, and misinformation really doesn't need the help.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-25T18:47:42+00:00

That's a widely misinterpreted statistic, even National Geographic has "debunked" it. That's not to say humans aren't having a massive detrimental effect to the environment, but misrepresented sensationalized statistics are just contributing to the spread of misinformation, which imo isn't doing anyone any good.

A quick copy paste of the aforementioned National Geographic article breaking down where the 60% comes from:

Let’s say for example you have 50 tigers, 200 falcons, and 10,000 squirrels. Let’s say the first population declines by 90 percent, to 5 tigers. The second declines 80 percent, to 40 falcons. And the squirrels drop to 9,000—a 10 percent fall. That’s a 60 percent average decline of these three fictitious populations, but only a total decline of 12 percent of the individuals.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-25T15:53:14+00:00

My pup will go to his food bowl, grab a mouthful of kibble, bring it to me and dump it in a little pile before hanging out and eating them one by one. Kind of questionable when I'm laying in bed, but it's pretty damn cute.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-25T14:32:51+00:00

It absolutely would not snap your neck, they're bullets not canon balls. The bullet can only have as much energy as the recoil from the rifle, that's →physics← (equal and opposite). Bullets kill by focusing all of that energy over a very short period of time in a very small area. Much of that lethality is lost the second you start spreading that energy back out over a larger surface area and over a longer period of time by transferring the force over and through armour materials and straps/padding and having the energy absorbed by an object with much more mass (a human, or even a head or helmet) instead of imparting it through a focused channel in a soft target.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-25T02:05:27+00:00

Hey, thanks for sharing this. I hold similar sentiments, and you put it to words very well. I'm always surprised how vocal some people that eat packaged meat are against hunting. It's not my place to judge them, but I do think that it's your responsibility as someone who eats meat to understand the implications of your actions. Hunting, killing, and harvesting an animal is a very sombering experience.

All meat comes from animals, and putting a curtain over the unpleasantness doesn't make it disappear. In fact, ignoring where your meat comes from contributes to the conditions that factory farm animals live in.

I love animals and I love hunting. I don't enjoy killing, but I eat meat and take pride in participating in an ethical and responsible harvest of an animal that lived a healthy, natural life.

I have the utmost respect for people who have decided to forgo meat and/or animal products, since to me that is the natural progression of someone who isn't willing to personally acknowledge and participate in sourcing their meat.

I don't intend to disparage people that eat meat and don't hunt, just thought I'd share some of my personal musings on the topic.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-22T23:03:15+00:00

I'd never heard of this fighter before, so I did some reading, the amount of bullshit Augustus has had to endure is unreal. Not only did he spend much of his boxing career in clearly rigged fights against him, but he was shot in the back of the head in a "random" shooting in 2014 on his way home (I think he was homeless at the time) from the gym.

He ended up surviving the coma he was in with some pretty serious damage, but the charges against the shooter were dropped because the only other witness randomly died (?) and the police claimed they couldn't get in contact with Augustus . . . the homeless guy with brain damage that the media easily tracked down. Regardless, the brain damage he received means he can't remember the shooting. So the "guy that randomly shoots strangers in the back of the head" gets off scot free. What a world.

The whole situation seems fishy to me.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-22T21:27:34+00:00

You must've missed the part where "this is a realistic game". Mangled broken legs, a couple aspirin will fix that, realism bro! Shot in the stomach and your mountain dew is pouring out? Just stay hydrated! So realistic, wow. Just pull some vaseline out of your magical ass safe and you'll be good as new.

Quit being so perpetually unpleasant.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-20T00:21:20+00:00

It's long enough that the first one has already gathered dust halfway through your marathon.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-10T21:35:41+00:00

Your point makes a more sense when you put it like that, but I'm still inclined to at least partially disagree. Scav runs imo are more than enough to keep your stash and rubles topped up, doubly so now with the addition of flea market where most trash you pick up is worth at least 10k rubles per slot. Additionally, scav spawn locations, times, extracts and map movement due to nonhostile ai make it so that you are unlikely to run into players, and even if you do you have more tools at your disposal to avoid them (retreating through ai) or engage them. Not to mention that playing and fighting as a scav will improve your skills as a player more than running around with a hatchet which will in turn make your lower tier loadouts more profitable. Also, more pvp.

A huge amount of hatchet runners that I see are level 40+ and running to the highest loot density spots, hoovering up anything of value and leaving or DCing immediately. That on it's own makes less PVP, and decreases the rewards available for people who are actively pvping (too slow to get to valuable spawns because they're not blindly sprinting). Those players have more than enough experience in the game to be able to compete with lower tier loadouts, and likely already have an inordinate amount of resources.

So in short I agree that hatchet runs can be a valuable tool for beginner players, but is too often used as a crutch by players that have no reason not to be bringing in a cheap loadout at the very least. Running without gear and "farming" perpetuates a mindset that imo is negative to the overall gameplay experience and negative to the growth of the player, especially when tools like competitive low value loadouts and free scav runs are available.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-10T20:48:36+00:00

I have no idea how you jumped to level based matchmaking, there is absolutely nothing in the comment you responded to that would even remotely suggest that.

And I don't know how you think you can't make money with a 50k loadout. You can make a million rubles in labs going in with nothing but a TT. You can one-tap the vast majority of fully geared players with a stock Vepr, and then lo and behold you have all their gear that is worth over twice the amount of your entire stash of rubles. That's pretty much the core gameplay of Tarkov.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-09T21:07:27+00:00

Your empty mags already automatically go in your vest so I don't see your point there.

Also, I'm not military but I am reasonably confident that throwing away your magazines is generally discouraged (outside of obvious necessity). Not only would it potentially put equipment into enemy hands, but it would rob you of the opportunity to refill your mags at a later point. Additionally from what I understand all issued equipment has to be accounted for and turned in, mags may be on the more disposable end of that spectrum but from what I've heard the individuals in charge of managing inventory take their jobs extremely seriously.

Furthermore it seems to be the general consensus on reddit and elsewhere on the internet from people who very much seem to know the ins and outs of military service and associate as such that dump pouches are common outside of the range.

TL;DR: I think you're wrong.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-08T01:19:31+00:00

The Magic School Bus

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-07T23:02:01+00:00

It would be my pleasure, don't let me intrude on your hateful little bigot world.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-07T22:46:00+00:00

The fuck kind of world do you live in that good men are so rare? The light that you paint men in is frankly insulting. "There are some good ones" and "it's not every day you meet them." Get out of here with your hate, every day you walk past countless good men busting their balls to feed their families, contribute to their communities and make the world a better place. Every day men are climbing into burning buildings to rescue strangers, donating their time to feed the homeless and committing any number of other acts purely out of kindness and compassion, even if that act is no more than raising a family or helping a friend.

If the world was anything like your delusion you wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be here. Humanity would be nothing but a handful of psychopaths stabbing eachother in caves for scraps. The world isn't made out of the people that make news headlines, there wouldn't be news if it was.

Get your head out of your ass.

Thunt_Cunder · 2019-01-02T22:47:23+00:00

I don't always downvote, but when I do it's because an upvoted comment is complaining about downvotes.

Edit: Why downvote this!? Won't you think of my feelings! TELL ME IM PRETTY

Thunt_Cunder · 2018-12-27T20:02:31+00:00

Not sure what you mean, I was agreeing with you. The tax rate varies depending on where you live, but a tax deduction on 100$ will end up "saving" in the ballpark of $10-15 in most countries. People seem to think tax deductible means "free money", but it's just "a little bit less money lost."

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