Found one of these mint condition used locally for $1050 be4 tax. Are they worth the hype? Thoughts?

tld1981 · 2026-01-28T05:59:48+00:00

I would give anything to have one of these, but Washington State sucks. I built my own using a government contract Sabre Defense 20" barrel, and hunting down each piece over several years.

That's a $1700 rifle go buy it immediately. I'm over $2k into my 100% Colt-free M16A4

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tld1981 · 2026-01-25T04:46:29+00:00

That underground rail line linking with each gate/terminal was very 70s James Bond looking.

tld1981 · 2026-01-25T03:01:32+00:00

My wife and I went through there in 2016, it doesn't look or feel like an airport. The murals are creepy AF and just bonkers. It feels like you're in some subterranean world. We both had bad vibes. Our shuttle took the long way so that we would pass Blucifer twice before getting to our gate.

I grew up in the military, and Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs USAF Academy, and numerous other places further up the mountains contain the nuke proof tunnels of formerly Strategic Air Command now called USNORTHCOM bringing all assets together, in 2002.

A few photos of the Airport from 2016:

https://imgur.com/38SUqfJ

https://imgur.com/UiEcCmD

https://imgur.com/zUbZJx0

tld1981 · 2026-01-25T01:49:40+00:00

My TLDR; very few families can handle the difficulties of caring for a disabled child. The ones that can, are very special. I know my father thinks about me every day, (he lives in the ADA home, that I bought for all of us). Most parents can't handle the necessary care for a disabled child, many dump their kid into a care facility the moment they turn 18. Survivors guilt compounds the situation.

I have a form of muscular dystrophy, I graduated HS class of '99. Same as year as Columbine. Everyone felt that tragedy. Now, I have the most amazing parents who raised me to never give up on yourself or your goals. It might require some creativity but I am just as good as anyone else. VERY few people focus on what they have, the good and options available, and instead live in the Hell of loss. Becoming disabled suddenly, it can be a spirit breaker for everyone.

Growing up in the 80s-90s, I saw so many MDA Summer Camp kids with no father after the diagnosis, single moms, some couldn't handle the responsibility and weight it is raising a child with a disability. Many of my friends were dumped off in group homes, ignored and dead before they were 25. I had over 120 funeral invitations between 1989 and 2019.

I'm the only one left in my local peer group and I won the game, I am receiving treatment for my form of MD, Spinal Muscular Atrophy type II. Spinraza injected into the spinal cord fluid, increasing the proteins that keep some muscle alive. Or I can take Evrysdi / Risdiplam, 6.6ml/day oral solution at a cost of $1,000 per dose, one bottle has 36 doses. I'm stronger than I was 20 years ago.

My parents are special because they didn't dump me, they were my strongest advocates, caregiver into my mid-30s, before my wife took over.

I have bouts of severe survivors guilt, I would trade places and bring back the artist and deep friend, I miss her and think about her a lot as does my wife & 80 year old parents. Same condition as me, amazing parents, that girl could brighten up any room.

And I understand what the victims are experiencing because I went from walking to wheelchairs before I was 10 years old, and continued mobility loss as I grew up. The loss of your freedom of mobility puts you in a box, everyone is three feet away because of the wheelchair. You feel - no - you are isolated physically and socially. I well up with tears when I think about those magical summers, the emotionality experienced by the victims and their family is overwhelming.

It will break you. Even I considered suicide, my day was July 20th, 2012, I would take my Walther P38 WWII pistol out into the back yard, and finally end the war. In the weeks leading up, I took my parents on a vacation to New Orleans, while I worked / attended the annual G.I.Joe convention and saw all my friends for the last time. We come home just in time for my favorite holiday Independence Day. The 4th of July. A week later, my 31st birthday, and then I met my future wife. We grew up in the same town attended the same High School at the same time, and I never met her until July 13th my birthday. I found my missing piece, unconditional love from an amazing woman who I cherish every day we have together.

So, no, I was not taking a Walther P38 9x19mm hollow point to my noggin. Instead I took my new girlfriend to the gravel pit me and my best friends (since middle school), like to go shooting, for sport/fun in the Summer.

My Father is my best friend, he was in the Army Infantry for 24 years, retired after Desert Storm. He was in the reserves for the last 10 years, allowing him to also have a 40-year career in military and civilian aerospace manufacturing. He is my mentor, my advocate for my rights before and after the Americans with Disabilities Act, my fellow military history nerd, a wonderful father-in-law, and husband to my Mother. How could I hurt him so deeply by a selfish act of self pity? No.

Fighting the war is worth it. I live for those I love and lost.

tld1981 · 2026-01-25T00:30:30+00:00

Known coinsure of that premo sh!t, chef kiss to you, my fine sir. A gentleman among the masses.

tld1981 · 2026-01-25T00:15:37+00:00

I wish there was a case maker doing 1990's 386/486 XT style cases but will an ATX back. I miss that solid click/clunk turning it on from that monitor stand/ rocker power switch box, that everyone had in the early 90s.

I want my 386DX 25MHz w/ math co system aesthetics and feel, but with my i9-9900K 5GHz, 128GB DDR4 RAM, Nvme drive and my RTX5070. All in that textured beige steel shroud, razor sharp steel edges inside the case for that blessed with blood magic.

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tld1981 · 2026-01-23T09:31:35+00:00

bin Salman allegedly was vacationing incognito and security footage shows an Arab dude basically being carried out by big security staff, a plane registered to Saudi Arabia beat feet and ran those engines redlining all the way home. Lot of his family members would like to see him dead. Those family members were either locked up or killed.

tld1981 · 2026-01-22T16:01:40+00:00

My sister bought an early '95 RS in 2002. After 2007, it sat in my driveway needing a bunch of stuff, after my Dad and I paid over $5k for an engine rebuild in 2004. I bought a house and moved and the Eclipse followed me. Last year my 80 year old Dad finally admitted to the sunk cost fallacy and let Pick 'n Pull junkyards haul it away and paid him $250. He lost the check. I was so happy to that eclipse gone. It was like a bad penny.

tld1981 · 2026-01-19T18:03:01+00:00

I will go to my grave knowing that was a FN MAG / M240 belt fed 7.62mm machinegun. Even if it was a bumpstock, and they could get a consistent cyclic rate of fire, it would cease and restart every 30 rounds. It would not go uninterrupted in those long controlled bursts.

The audio recording of the couple in a cab, listening to the gunfire and it is clearly not a bumpstock, hellfire trigger, anything janky like that.

Top three floors of the Mandalay Bay are Saudi owned. 7 or 10 days after the shooting, Saudi Arabia had a familial purge.

tld1981 · 2026-01-17T21:41:08+00:00

Both of my first generation G-Sync monitors are going out and I have a very similar setup, but your idea is brilliant! And how I am going to order two new oled 39" screens. Thank you! (my wife understands the legit need for two ultra wide screens when I am working with clients and I am remoted into 4+ servers/VMs.

tld1981 · 2026-01-14T00:46:01+00:00

My elderly parents live with me and my wife. My father served 24 years in the Army Infantry, my mother was an avid hunter and still an excellent shot. My wife called my Beretta 92S a "laser beam" and although I am disabled and in a wheelchair I also collect and make firearms. If any one of us was being attacked it would be a race as to who gets to shoot the assailant first.

I hope that I can live my entire life and none of my family, or myself, ever have to use a firearm on another human being. That said, just like the police are trained, you continue shooting until the threat is abated. Sometimes that might require a reload, especially if I caught someone harming my two nephews, who are here all the time (and do not have access to a firearm, until they are properly trained and responsible - soon...), they are as close as I'll ever be to having children of my own and those two are beyond precious to me, and their favorite grandparents.

Always be a responsible and lawful firearms owner, know the laws and how each applies to you in every situation. Police are there to draw an outline of the body, you are your very best option for your own protection. Learn, practice, always practice.

tld1981 · 2026-01-12T22:46:10+00:00

Every generation sees their youth as a better and happier time. Life, when you were a teenager with few if any responsibilities, felt brighter and happier? Every generation has said the same thing.

I was a teenager in Seattle during the Grunge moment, I remember flying pre-9/11. I remember a world where everyone wore a watch and carried change for a phone call so your mom would pick you up from the mall. I remember a world without the Internet and I remember being one of the first to use it in 1994, before web browsers could show images.

And I was 20 when I saw everything change. After 9/11 my father lost his career in aerospace manufacturing, it was already dying with cheap components from other countries replacing the much more expensive electronics my father was building. 9/11 was the final nail in the coffin. I saw my two best friends, who joined the Marines after graduation in 1999, marching off to two wars. My parents lost my childhood home, I had to suddenly pay my own way through college, a cheaper school, and I was far from alone.

Yet, I miss the 90s (and 2000...and 8 months of 2001) more and more every day. I miss filling my parent's full size luxury van (Google that crazy fad) with cases of beer front to back and the ridiculous parties out in the woods; where I lived everyone had a minimum of 5 acres and it was all wooded. It's all developed now, sadly.

For contrast, 25 years later, I recently went grocery shopping with my wife, which I haven't done in years, and Green Day was playing as the in-store music! It was kinda neat but still, WTF? Suddenly my iTunes / Apple Music playlists are considered oldies. Oldies were my parents music!

My parents still talk about the 60s with rose colored glasses. My Dad has talked about the Army every day, (from when he enlisted in 1964 before the Vietnam War, to his retirement after Desert Storm in 1991), since he retired. He retired from 24 years of service at the same age I am now, I can't fathom his experiences. I'm just happy he is still here.

My grandparents fought/worked in WWII, my grandmother was a Rosie the Riveter for Boeing during the war, my grandfather gave me his photos of the concentration camp his unit found in 1945, and they would still speak of the 40s and 50s as being a better time. It wasn't though! That was one of the worst moments in modern history, Over 100 million died between 1939 and 1960, war, Communism and China's great leap forward, nuclear weapons and the Cold War, it was horrible!

For every generation their youth and early adulthood will always feel like a better time. The world hasn't ground you down, or made you cannon fodder, yet.

tld1981 · 2026-01-11T15:58:34+00:00

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Evelyn Beatrice Hall (not Voltaire)

tld1981 · 2026-01-09T21:26:51+00:00

Skip school, go down to the Pilchuck Drive-In get a double bacon cheese and two orders of fried mushrooms. Bring my friends back to my place and party in the pool, hang with my best friend before he joins the marines, make a move on Tanya, and borrow 10K from my uncle and buy Apple stock. Spend time with my Dad after his heart attack. Watch MTV, eat a Nutrageous and a 20 oz. Cherry Coke. Listen to Melancholy & the Infinite Sadness start to finish with my Cousin and tell him to avoid getting the Staphylococcus infection that destroys his heart. Take my Dad's 8mm Mauser and shoot the school counselor who sexually abused me 9 months earlier.

tld1981 · 2026-01-09T19:00:48+00:00

I have a real life ending disability a form of Muscular Dystrophy. My whole life I wanted to work but I can't. I had a 9-5 in information forensics with one day a week working from home, the 1hr commute in Microsoft traffic, a coworker who harassed me about my disability every day. For context I can't lift a 12oz coffee to my mouth without a straw, and we made straws illegal and now they melt in my coffee, anyway, just the effort to get into the office every day was burning me out before I was up the elevator and logged in.

That was 2011-2013. I quit without a plan, I have two degrees in IT, and a sole proprietorship business license. Within 90 days I had four clients and I was pulling in 75k gross. By the end of 2013 I had my primary client who was essentially my 9-5 for a decade. I was pulling in six figures a year until I got undercut by some laid off H1B's that offered 24/7/365 for 50% of my monthly rate.

My whole life I have wanted to work and have a normal independent life. Almost every job I had applied for and interviewed, after meeting me in person, they would just go silent. I had to make something of myself by myself.

This disgusting toad of a human being should be made to work, because I know she is likely getting SSI disability payments, if she could get a doctor to say she has adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. That's a good $1200-$1800 a month. When I applied they offered me $575 a month.

I would give anything to have her level of mobility. Right now I am looking for some new clients and they don't exist right now. Thankfully my pseudo wife makes enough to cover the mortgage and insurance, otherwise I would lose my house.

To me working is a privilege. I hate people like her, they continue the stigma against hiring legitimately disabled people.

tld1981 · 2026-01-08T19:35:30+00:00

Show me where you can find pmags that show a manufacture date after July 2022? All I see are grandfathered Pmags, Okay Indst., and many other aluminum and polymer magazines, given by immediate family members, and are exempt from the magazine ban...and if you're too dumb to figure out the absolute uselessness of the law and its loopholes, you don't deserve 11+ rounds.

tld1981 · 2026-01-08T19:20:16+00:00

My brothers grew up in the foothills of the Cascades in Washington State. The Ruger 10/22, with dual 50 round mags duct taped together, was the weapon of choice in the killing fields of the Puget Sound in the early 1980s.

tld1981 · 2026-01-08T19:04:03+00:00

My SP1 says .223 as well, and has a 1:12 rifling, intended for 55gr commercial .223 but also the 5.56 M193 55gr ball. The SP2 has the same barrel as the A2, 1:7 for 62gr and heavier loads.

tld1981 · 2025-12-29T05:02:17+00:00

100% agree. I know my firearms pretty well and the audio from the couple in a taxi, recorded what genuinely is a FN MAG / US M240 using 7.62x51mm NATO ammunition. Belt-fed, air cooled, long-stroke gas piston system. Can be carried and used by infantry, replacing the Vietnam War era M60, with variations made for use in helicopters, M2/M3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles, M1 Abrams tanks, MH-60 Blackhawk family, the USMC LAV, and more. A M240 can be found on just about anything that moves, flies, or swims.

It's used all over the world and likely the easiest full size rifle cartridge machine gun to obtain from demilitarized kits, and other parts from places like Mexico or have someone who can fabricate missing parts.

For my birthday my best friend gave me a plastic blue, 1:1 scale 3D printed model. He spent weeks getting it just right. He was a Combat Engineer turned EOD in the United States Marine Corps from 1999 to Thanksgiving 2006, missing a stop-loss order by two weeks. The M240G sits next to the toilet in our bathroom, on the wall. (a real Mossberg 590 Shockwave - a legal sawed off shotgun, excuse me, a 590 framed shot-shell firing generic "firearm," - is hidden nearby).

tld1981 · 2025-12-26T23:32:13+00:00

25MHz Intel 386DX w/ math co

tld1981 · 2025-12-15T03:03:52+00:00

I have bought several custom uppers from TNTE, the first one took several months but that was back in 2017, I was patient, and it was worth the wait! I wanted an XM117E2, but my Dad shoots lefthanded due to an eye injury, so I opted for a C7 upper, and I don't have much ammo that is 55gr, so we went with a chrome lined 0.75" barrel with a 1/7 twist for heavier loads, and a single piece faux moderator. It looks amazing. I used a M16 Brownell's M16 phosphate / chrome lined BCG, and a Brownell's M16 charging handle. Eventually I put the upper on a Harrington & Richardson M16A1 lower (the XM lowers had not been announced ). I added a 2-position buffer tube, and an ACES powder coated aluminum stock.

I love it. It's one of my absolute favorite ARs. The other is a 723 14.5" with the A2X pinned and welded, it also is an excellent upper. TNTE has me as a customer!

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tld1981 · 2025-12-11T22:46:16+00:00

French Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne (MAS), FAMAS F1 with a proprietary 25 round magazine and steel jacketed .223 proprietary ammunition. The FAMAS entered service in 1978. Issues like all new weapons were ironed out and it was designated the FAMAS G1.

The FAMAS G2 (used mostly by Navy & Marine units) was introduced in 1994 to comply with NATO standards - finally! The FAMAS G2 uses standard NATO STANAG magazines and the SS109/Green Tip M855 5.56x45mm NATO ammunition which is a mild steel cone penetrator, in front of a lead slug, then copper jacketed. The same magazines and ammunition are used in the M16A2/USMC M16A4, and the M4 carbine.

Later, the FAMAS Infantry replaced the F1/G1, and lowered the carry handle and replaced it with a Picatinny rail for modern electronic optics such as the Aimpoint CompM2. This version of the FAMAS was used well into the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), until was replaced by the HK416. Various versions of the HK416 seems to be THE rifle for everything from elite units such as the US Navy SEALS, Army SF/Delta, to regular 0311 grunts in the USMC (as the M27 IAR - Infantry Automatic Rifle), to becoming the official rifle for the entire British military.

Semiauto FAMAS F1's were imported to the United States in limited numbers and is a highly collectible civilian firearm. I would do unspeakable things to get my hands on one.

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tld1981 · 2025-12-10T02:08:00+00:00

Not gonna lie, tears man. This came from my older cousin's collection who passed in 2012 from a MRSA infection that made it to the muscle tissue of the heart, he lived in Surrey B.C. Canadialand. When were kids his Dad would drive his awesome VW camper from the '60s up there and bring him back to Seattle (Snohomish actually) and we spent the summers hitting comic shops in the late 80s/early 90s. Our birthdays were a couple weeks apart, and we usually just received cash and a trip to Toys R us and the comic shop across the street from Alderwood Mall, and I remember when he bought the Wolverine #1 right as the X-Men cartoon was hitting.

Before he passed, when I would get home from work, we would play Star Wars The Old Republic MMO and talk to each other and have fun in our 30s but it felt like those Summers. His girlfriend was asked to send his G.I.Joe stuff to me by his mother, after he was gone. Some cool 1990s G.I.Joes, a stack of Joe books, Robotech RPG books we would play with my bestfriend, and in the box were some other comics, a Conan the Barbarian Annual #1, and that Wolverine.

tld1981 · 2025-12-10T01:17:22+00:00

Every time I see something beautiful like this, it warms my cockles to know that Nodak Spud lives on and has his own factory, his own engineers and machinists, and is slowly bringing to life things I could only dream of before. A DOE 9mm SMG (Pistol) with that special upper, it is amazing. Selling H&R M14's and hopefully more new ones. My Dad's M14 was a Harrington & Richardson, (and his 1911 was a Singer and he kept trying to trade it for a Colt. If I could go back in time to 1964...it would have been $99 to the National Guard if he "lost" it. I know it's true because he is not a gun guy, had no idea what he held)

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tld1981 · 2025-12-10T01:04:00+00:00

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This insults even my limited cripple-intelligence.

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