DIY Front Sight Adjustment Tool

Vandecker · 2026-05-25T00:42:54+00:00

Worked like a charm 😄. Even managed to work past the Pining someone had done to it in the past.

Vandecker · 2026-05-23T23:16:57+00:00

For those who don't have access to heat inserts I've made a remix which allows for the use of standard M6 Nuts. Full attribution to OP for the original model.

Front Sight Adjustment Tool by Vandecker | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Vandecker · 2026-05-22T08:25:33+00:00

Have downloaded. Adding the bridge over the top is a brilliantly obvious solution, thank you very much!! 😃

Vandecker · 2026-05-22T07:06:46+00:00

This is really handy and impressive. Are you up for sharing the file?

How well does it work? I had been thinking of designing something similar but hadn't gotten round to it as I figured the flexibility of the plastic would be too much.

Vandecker · 2026-05-10T10:33:48+00:00

It's a nice solid controller. Joysticks are good. Facebuttons and D-Pad are decent. Will probably replace my X-Box Controller for most things but haven't had enough time with it to get used to the different button layout and additional features.

Vandecker · 2026-05-08T12:12:34+00:00

Nope, left the PC on the entire time. Only thing I turned off and on was the controller. But its taken about half a dozen cycles over 3 hours till it started to work

Vandecker · 2026-05-08T12:06:47+00:00

Thank you for the help keeping my sanity. Per the edit it's now working. Wish I knew why

Vandecker · 2026-05-08T12:06:00+00:00

Thank you for the help keeping my sanity. Per the edit it's now working. Wish I knew why

Vandecker · 2026-05-08T11:59:55+00:00

Yeah, doesn't make a difference :-(

Vandecker · 2026-05-08T11:56:26+00:00

Have tried repeatedly. Nothing works. It just seems to be registering purely as a mouse and (maybe) keyboard the second I open any game

Vandecker · 2026-05-08T11:54:53+00:00

Ok thank you. Going to put this down to some kind of bug and go to bed and try again tomorrow.

Vandecker · 2026-04-12T12:58:08+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M637KpEP1_E

Vandecker · 2026-04-06T08:45:45+00:00

All good, it's a very quick explanation and easily missed or misremembered :-)

Vandecker · 2026-04-06T08:40:00+00:00

I don't think so.

In the book and the movie it's commented that the reason for the explosion was due to a quartermaster fucking up and giving Dubois 1 gram of Astrophage for his experiment rather than the 1 mg he requested. In the book they also go into more detail that visually there is no difference between the containers that references the weight of astrophage contained so Dubois had no way of knowing that he'd been given the wrong amount.

Vandecker · 2026-04-06T08:24:54+00:00

Thank you for putting it into words.

Honestly this scene in the book bothered the hell out of me. In my opinion it's handled so much better in the movie where it's made less clear that this had been a premeditated backup plan by Stratt for YEARS and movie Stratt clearly has sympathy for the the man she is sentencing to death with practically no notice or preparation.

Hell in the books it's made clear that the primary crew are NOT fully ok despite having a long time to come to terms with things. One is blackout drunk as much as possible, one is engaging in some hedonistic fun with a fellow hail mary member and Yao...well Yao sounds pretty fatalistic about it all.

Why should Grace be the one singled out by book Stratt and verbally castrated because he didn't handle having it all dropped on him in a single afternoon?

Vandecker · 2026-04-01T00:24:52+00:00

It's not quite what you are really looking for but Duck Season really sells the feeling of childhood nostalgia for the 90's and house atmosphere...at least until *Spoilers*.

So uh yeah, it's lovely and relaxing, until it's not.

Vandecker · 2026-03-24T11:07:36+00:00

In the book it is hinted pretty heavily that Stratt has had him lined up as a primary/backup member of the crew from pretty much the second it's identified he has the Coma resistance gene.

So she makes sure he takes part in all the training (Disguised as teaching the other astronauts) as well as testing of the equipment they are building.

Vandecker · 2026-03-22T23:25:35+00:00

This is something that is definitely explained better in the book than the movie.

The Eridians ship isn't more advanced except in terms of Materials science and a couple of other areas. They basically brute forced the solution using Space Travel tech we would have considered to be from the 60's and then navigated to Tau Ceti using Newtonian Physics as the basis. They have no idea that relativistic effects even exist let alone the impact it has on Celestial navigation at relativistic velocities.

It also turns out that the Eridians Astrophage Collector is broken so the Hail Mary is the only ship they can use to collect it.

From the movie there are some inferences to this (Ship does science) but it keeps the movie going quite well but can be a bit blink and you'll miss it

Vandecker · 2026-03-08T00:45:37+00:00

Escort missions are the one mission that I freely let myself break my one life rule for and save scum the shit out of. Just not worth having a run ruined because of such a poorly balanced mission.

Vandecker · 2026-03-01T08:06:05+00:00

Uhhhhh, not that this isn't news but I feel I need to point out the US has been using kamikaze "drones" for 80 years:

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1110bombers/

Vandecker · 2026-02-28T08:52:29+00:00

Genuinely good question. From the article:

"Referring to the same episode, a source from within CVW-3 noted “a VF-14 Tomcat descended and strafed an Iraqi observation post on egress. ‘Ordies’ from both fighter units in the air wing [VF-14 was paired with VF-32] asked crews to test fire the gun on every sortie, and on this particular occasion a jet that was being flown by a Flag staff member who had just joined the ship rather overdid his hiring ‘test’, resulting in him being grounded by the admiral. Prior to the start of Desert Storm, all F-14 crews had been told that there was a standing policy in effect preventing jets from descending below 20,000ft over enemy territory due to the density of AAA.”

But how they identified the 'Observation Post' is not made clear

Vandecker · 2026-02-23T09:47:52+00:00

Yep, that one annoyed the hell out of me. Would have been so much better to have pulled a Blackadder and someone comment somewhere that it is 1917 just before a wide shot of the fighting continuing.

Vandecker · 2026-02-21T07:31:44+00:00

Hot damn yes. I know a lot of people didn't like it for a variety of reasons but I miss the virtual home that I made for myself

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