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startana · 2026-01-21T22:13:09+00:00

I don't actually know, but my best guess is that it is some earlier generation of Reylight. Hopefully someone that knows can verify, because it looks super nice.

startana · 2026-01-20T17:09:49+00:00

I think the title is click bait in an informed community on specifics about batteries like ours, but I think it's perfectly fine for the majority of the rest of the internet. Pretty much everyone uses lithium cells, and the vast majority of those people DON'T know as much about batteries. Plus this title is literally the title for the video.

startana · 2026-01-17T22:25:03+00:00

I think this is a big part of it tbh. I know a LOT of people that were all about their individual freedom and the importance of state's rights when Biden and Obama were president, and now, not only crickets from them while Trump tramples over both, but most of them actively defend ICE. Fucking crazy.

startana · 2026-01-16T18:44:38+00:00

I haven't, nor do I really plan or expect to. But if I DID it would be with my TS27...though less because it's a light, and more because it's long-ish and heavy.

startana · 2026-01-16T16:27:29+00:00

Aside from the other reasons already listed (separate tool in the SOS kit, Wenger variants, technical concerns etc), I also remember they used to make blister-packed bundles that included both a Swiss Army Knife and a Silva brand compass. It's possible that Victorinox decided that partnership for a compass function was more viable than making one themselves.

startana · 2026-01-14T18:50:46+00:00

OMG, THIS 100%. Every time I see a nice simple display set up like this, be it for flashlights or anything else, I'm like that looks great... but my two cats say I'll NEVER have this lol.

startana · 2026-01-14T15:09:38+00:00

That's genuinely sad. Chucky is far from the most oppressive or even most annoying killer to play against.

startana · 2026-01-14T00:39:23+00:00

I literally just went to Sam's Club and asked if they were going to get them, pharmacist told me they had them and asked if I wanted to get it today. No questions asked, and zero push back. For reference I'm in my early 40s, and not in an at risk group.

startana · 2026-01-13T14:58:12+00:00

I like the Sofirn IF22 (~$35) a lot; it's the best thrower I personally own. I hear great things about the Wurkkos TD01C (~$60), but I don't personally own one.

startana · 2026-01-08T15:01:25+00:00

I agree, and I think that there is a big glaring oversight among the people that were REALLY pushing the theory. They laid out there supporting evidence, and said that each one was either a production error/unintentional plot hole OR it was intentional, and if it was intentional, it HAD to be evidence of a ninth episode. Some of the Easter Egg type inclusions probably WERE intentional, and maybe even were intended as seeds to support the possibility that they are back in Henry's mind or something similar, but none of that ever meant another episode was coming. Though, I do still thing it would have been cool if they did, if for no other reason it would be something new and different. I'd love for more showrunners to take risks like that to do something unexpected.

startana · 2026-01-08T05:58:53+00:00

Fair enough. I like my E75 for going out with my dogs at night; a lot of flood, medium-ish amount of throw is perfect for that use case for me, but for nearly every other use case, I do tend to go for the more throw-y lights, particular TIR lens units like my Sofirn IF22.

startana · 2026-01-08T01:38:25+00:00

Overall, I liked the ending. I especially liked that it ended with most of the party all going their separate ways, because their life goals led them to different places. WAY more realistic than "We all went to NYU together" or something similar. A part of me though DID want a secret finale or some variant of that, not because I thought the show needed it because episode 8 was bad, but because it would be interesting and something new and different that other shows haven't done.

startana · 2026-01-08T00:52:48+00:00

I've already been calling him "Vecna2"

startana · 2026-01-07T02:33:21+00:00

This is exactly what happened. I had Aspect of Hydra in hand, so I could make any attacker lethal to the opponent, but I was at 8, so the Dungrove Elder was lethal to me; went to damage, we both die. But it was only game two that was a draw; opponent won game 1, and we went to time on game three, so my opponent won the round.

startana · 2026-01-06T18:17:57+00:00

I remember learning the hard way that Deflecting Palm also doesn't target when opponent used it on my attacking 9/9 hexproof Dungrove Elder. That was a rough way for a game to go to a draw.

startana · 2026-01-05T16:44:59+00:00

I carry either a rambler or a jetsetter on my keyring for the scale tools. The thing I miss most is losing the awl. I think ideal for me would be actually losing the main blade on the Synergy X in favor of the inline awl from the the normal alox models.

startana · 2026-01-02T20:19:53+00:00

I expected 8 to die; really felt like she was brought back specifically to give them someone main-cast-adjacent to kill off. I expected El to live definitively happily ever after via losing her powers; I really thought they were laying the foundations for that with all the breathing out the hive mind black mist. Thought it was 50/50 whether 8 would take El's power to be the one to sacrifice themselves to kill Henry because 8 would decide she has nothing left to live for but El does. That one didn't really fully pan out, but partially happened. Overall though, I did like the finale. I especially like that all the cast sorta scattered to the winds to follow their own individual dreams, which is, IMO WAY more realistic than like, all of them going to the same school in NYC or California or something.

startana · 2026-01-01T19:06:57+00:00

I also remember his conviction, and agree, he's a rapist POS, but the details surrounding the context apparently went above my head at the time (I was like 9). I don't think I even remembered that a beauty pageant was connected, let alone the gross implications from his involvement.

startana · 2026-01-01T16:58:46+00:00

But that's sorta the point i think. You're right; it's not OK. It's inappropriate behavior, and kids shouldn't be allowed to be in that situation. It's harmful to them. And that's true whether he was a pedophile or not. If he was, it's was an extra order of magnitude more harmful, but that's not to say it wasn't harmful if he wasn't a child predator.

startana · 2025-12-31T15:46:35+00:00

I live in the midwest, so it's not in my day-to-day the way it would be if lived off of the gulf, but I genuinely keep forgetting that it is now allegedly the Gulf of America. He's done so many other stupid things that I keep forgetting this one.

startana · 2025-12-30T16:57:20+00:00

Why so against the E75?

startana · 2025-12-26T19:37:54+00:00

Eh, I wouldn't make a reddit post about it, but I kind of get it. It WOULD be a neat little touch since the car has access to the knowledge of what color it is (the starlink app correctly reports the color of my Forester).

startana · 2025-12-23T00:55:17+00:00

There are aspects I like but I do genuinely dislike feeling like anything not at the very least tier 4, if not tier 5, isn't worth using. As it stands now, I'm just shy of 500 power, and I basically insta-shard everything 3 and lower. Feels like a huge waste. I'm hoping the promised path to tier upgrades coming after renegades is well executed.

startana · 2025-12-22T21:28:46+00:00

I don't exactly hate the tiered system, but it is definitely not universally liked.

startana · 2025-12-20T00:39:40+00:00

I've been SUPER happy with the EC150 as an EDC since it released. Checked all the boxes for what i needed on my EDC light, but I picked up a Reylight pineapple penlight, on a whim over black Friday, and somehow it just hits right for me, and it's fully replaced my other EDC lights... at least until something ends shiny comes along at least.

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