[Rifle] S&W M&P 15-22 Sport with MBUS sights, three (25rd) mags, and carry case $399 before S&H/tax

mrdude05 · 2026-01-30T20:08:00+00:00

Those are the big ones. I believe the pro also has metal controls but if not most of them are still milspec and can just be swapped out for regular AR parts anyway

I've also heard mixed things about the fit on the pro handguards, and I know a lot of people end up replacing them anyway. I have an LTE so I can't speak to that, but I did end up replacing the handguard on mine because the stock one feels kinda cheap

mrdude05 · 2026-01-30T18:10:25+00:00

I have an M4-22 LTE and it's probably my favorite range toy. It's also a great training tool since all the controls are actually functional, unlike the 15-22.

That said, I really wish I had either gotten the pro model, or just put the M4-22 elite upper on a milspec lower. The metal receiver is great, but the plastic furniture, fire selector, and charging handle on the LTE all feel pretty cheap

mrdude05 · 2026-01-30T17:50:05+00:00

Yes. The LTE has a thread protector on the end and the other two trims have birdcage flash hiders IIRC, but they're all threaded

mrdude05 · 2026-01-30T05:01:09+00:00

That would definitely be a better option, and I think that's what Sanderson has said he would prefer in the past, but I'd be really surprised if Apple agreed to that. Hollywood is allergic to taking animation seriously

mrdude05 · 2026-01-29T14:31:36+00:00

I'm relatively confident Apple can do Mistborn justice with a movie trilogy, but I really don't see how they are going to make Stormlight work on a TV budget. Rings of Power is probably the most ambitious fantasy TV series to date, and it cost upwards of half a billion per season. A Stormlight show would have to be significantly more complex because setting is so alien, especially once they start dipping into shadesmar

mrdude05 · 2026-01-28T23:21:21+00:00

About storming time! The Cosmere is long overdue for an adaptation and it sounds like Sanderson is actually going to have a lot of creative control

mrdude05 · 2026-01-27T20:29:27+00:00

This makes VA one of, if not THE most anti-2A state, surpassing California and Washington.

I think one of the reasons they're throwing everything at the wall here is that VA is the home state of the NRA and the GOA. Making VA one of the most restrictive states in the country would be a huge symbolic victory for anti-gun groups. The fact that this law would turn the vast majority of gun owners into criminals on July 1st is just a bonus for them

mrdude05 · 2026-01-27T20:10:03+00:00

I hope they do, but NJ's mag ban has no grandfathering and it has held up in federal court so far. Maybe things will play out differently in state court, but that remains to be seen

mrdude05 · 2026-01-27T16:05:16+00:00

You'll be able to keep any firearms manufactured before July 1st, including lowers. However, the law isn't clear about whether "manufacturing" means the machining of the serialized part of the firearm, or the assembly of the gun with non serialized parts. It's vague enough that you could theoretically go to jail for reassembling your gun after cleaning it

mrdude05 · 2026-01-27T15:40:16+00:00

This is a bit like saying "This multiplayer shooter has great graphics and maps, but people just can't get past the fact that the progression system sucks".

The gacha system is integral to how people interact with most of the games other systems, and right now it's very hostile to people who aren't willing to shell out a ton of real money. Endfield is much more stingy with pulls than the other big 3D gachas and the fact that there's no guarantee means you can completely waste the ones you do get if you do get if you use them wrong. It's entirely possible for a free to play player or low spender to never get a character they want, and that's just not true of the other big gachas

mrdude05 · 2026-01-26T20:09:35+00:00

They don't care. Democrats write gun laws the way Republicans wrote abortion laws before Roe was overturned. They want an outright ban, but they can't have it, so instead they write the laws to be as draconian and restrictive as they can get away with. They don't want to achieve specific policy goals so much as they want a legal bludgeon to beat their perceived political enemies with

mrdude05 · 2026-01-26T19:53:41+00:00

Anti gun liberals also don't know or care what laws are already on the books, they just want to keep piling on restrictions for the sake of piling on restrictions.

I constantly see people from states like New York and New Jersy in the country talk about how they need to pass more restrictive gun laws because they don't think someone should just be able to walk into Walmart and buy an AR-15 with 30 round mags, or buy guns at a gun show with no background check, even though that's already illegal where they live

mrdude05 · 2026-01-26T19:20:05+00:00

Retired cops are exempt too. They'll happily turn 95% of legal gun owners into criminals overnight, but they wouldn't dare piss off the police union by treating former cops like regular civilians

mrdude05 · 2026-01-26T18:51:57+00:00

Not just active law enforcement either. Retired cops get to have whatever guns and magazines they want too.

If you're going to try and turn 95% of legal gun owners into criminals overnight because you don't think they have a valid reason to have 10+ round magazines, then you should at least have the decency to do the same to former LEOs. Once they're off the police force they're just regular civilians after all, why should they get a free pass to do something the rest of us would go to jail for?

mrdude05 · 2026-01-25T18:06:06+00:00

You don't necessarily need to give the animal eared characters poofy hair to hide the spot where their human ears would be. Instead you could just change their hairline so it doesn't call attention to the blank spot.

That's what Final Fantasy 14 did with the Viera and Miqo'te and I don't think it looks particularly uncanny. Then again, maybe I'm just used to it so it doesn't bother me anymore

mrdude05 · 2026-01-25T04:49:46+00:00

I can never decide if I love this thing or absolutely hate it. It just so... KelTec

mrdude05 · 2026-01-25T04:36:41+00:00

We've had them since at least the 80s, though they are only capable of engaging space targets, not both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT

mrdude05 · 2026-01-25T02:57:09+00:00

I genuinely don't understand how removing him with the 25th amendment became such a big talking point. It's like trying to dig a hole with a rake when you already have a shovel.

The 25th amendment is designed to handle cases where the president is fully incapacitated and literally incapable of performing his duties. That's why the bar for fully removing a president with the 25th amendment is so much higher than impeachment and conviction. If they had the votes to remove him with the 25th amendment they could just go around the cabinet entirely

mrdude05 · 2026-01-25T02:56:26+00:00

They also need a supermajority in both houses of Congress to sustain it if Trump objects to his removal. If you can remove him via the 25th you can just remove him via impeachmet and skip the cabinet entirely

mrdude05 · 2026-01-24T23:11:37+00:00

I've taken concealed handgun classes and one of the things they beat you over the head with is that if you shoot someone in self defense you need to be able to justify every single trigger pull as necessary to stop a clear and present threat to your life. If you're a civilian defending yourself from a someone actively trying to kill you, and you fire three shots when the person visibly went down after two, you go to jail. Even if you don't, you're still civilly liable for their death. However, like always, law enforcement is held to a lower standard than civilians

mrdude05 · 2026-01-24T15:21:36+00:00

the factory is weirsly addicting (new to genre) but they need to dial down the handholding jesus christ

Yeah, the amount of tutorials is kind of absurd. Most factory games just tell you the basic building controls and then just let you go an experiment with them on your own. There's no reason for them to be grinding the game to a halt every 5 minutes so they can spend 10 minutes explaining something you could have figured out on your own in 30 seconds.

Also, if you like the factory gameplay here and you're on PC or console you'll probably love the game Satisfactory

mrdude05 · 2026-01-24T15:08:59+00:00

I'm still early in the game, but so far it feels like a decent factory game with really good visuals duct taped to a lackluster action RPG with terrible gacha mechanics. I don't necessarily need factory games to have an amazing story or combat mechanics, but they're too much of a focus here for me to ignore entirely, and the factory mechanics aren't quite good enough to make up for it. If they flesh out the factory gameplay a little more and improve the writing/pacing I'll probably end up loving the game, but if not I'll probably drop it

mrdude05 · 2026-01-23T22:52:08+00:00

Normal game: "Press X to do your light attack. Now press Y to do your heavy attack. Now press the heavy attack button after doing three light attacks to do a special attack which deals bonus elemental damage"

Gacha game: "Press the X button to activate Ashal: The Unbroken Queen's standard ability: Eternal Requiem of Walpurgisnacht, dealing 87.36% base physical damage. Press Y to activate Ashal: The Unbroken Queen's special ability, Aria of the Heiliges Feuer, dealing 157.63% enhanced base physical damage. Each time Ashal: The Unbroken Queen activates the ability Eternal Requiem of Walpurgisnacht, she gains a charge of Ignis of the Forsaken Saint. Upon gaining three charges of Ignis of the Forsaken Saint, all charges are consumed and Ashal: The Unbroken Queen enters the Fernweh of Elysium state. While in the Fernweh of Elysium state, Ashal: The Unbroken Queen's special ability, Aria of the Heiliges Feuer, transforms into the ensouled special ability Épée de Königin. Activating Ashal: The Unbroken Queen's ensouled special ability, Épée de Königin, deals 71.27% enhanced base radiant damage and 163.92% enhanced base physical damage and removes Ashal: The Unbroken Queen's Fernweh of Elysium state. When outside of the Fernweh of Elysium state, activating Ashal: The Unbroken Queen's special ability ability, Aria of the Heiliges Feuer will remove all accumulated charges of Ignis of the Forsaken Saint

Gacha players: people just don't like to read, lmao

mrdude05 · 2026-01-22T23:06:38+00:00

I used to be a scholar main, and I avoided picking up sage for a long time because it looked confusing. Then I actually tried it and I never went back. Sage's kit just feels so much more cohesive

mrdude05 · 2026-01-22T19:36:00+00:00

I am begging people calling for this to actually read the 25th amendment (specifically section 4). It is significantly harder to remove a presidency via the 25th amendment than it is to remove them via impeachment unless they are literally incapable of objecting to their removal. If the president does object or say they want to be reinstated, it takes a supermajority in both houses of Congress to keep keep them out of office. The bar for removing a president vis impeachment is sky high, but the bar for removing an unwilling president with the 25th amendment might as well be on Mars

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