The Abode of McThag

While thinking about Twilight: 2000, I came up with a really good campaign idea for once things return stateside. Now I cannot recall what I...

Lego Mineral collection. Top row, L to R: Pyrite, Amethyst, Flourite. Bottom row, L to R: Watermelon Tourmaline, Rhodochrosite, Tangerine Qu...

Modular weapons are a pain to express clearly in GURPS. A flat top AR has no rear sight. What's the Acc of a rifle without a rear sight?...

I would have mentioned the anniversary end of Prohibition 92 years ago on Friday, but I was busy drinking.

Today is Pearl Harbor Day. 84 years since The Empire of Japan opened hostilities against the US and touched the boats. NEVER. TOUCH. THE. BO...

It's an OK summation of the entire InRange saga.  

In one of my nexus worlds I had a barbeque place called The Tall Hog. It was popular with the Orc and Goblinoid crowd. Because of this, it w...

108 years ago Finland decided to stop being part of Russia and declined it's first invitation to be part of the Soviet Union.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has passed to the actors home in the sky. His career had some surprising turns for me.

The G41 was a program that West Germany launched when the G11 program was showing all the signs of being an epic failure. It's basically...

I'm having trouble finding the introduction dates for the folding backup iron sights the military issues. I am thinking I will have to r...

Who offers the M16EZ to local governments? I think the original game got it upside down. But it depends on who controls the depots and the ...

You find yourself in Poland, near Kalisz, in the year 2000 and your commander has just said, "Good luck, you're on your own," ...

Canada, when they changed to 5.56 NATO from 7.62 NATO in 1984 followed the US' lead and went with an M16 variant. The C7 is very much li...

While the M4 carbine is the official service rifle for the US Army in Twilight: 2000 as well as the real world... The M4 RAS doesn't hap...

   Grady Judd gives the best press conferences.

I went to vote for the Gundie Awards and encountered a problem: To vote you have to accept their spam. Fuck that. I already delete about 200...

 

Since I've made him a character in my scribbles, I've been reading about George Crook. In particular the battle of the Rosebud. This...

Since I have T2K on the brain, I was wondering if it was better to take an M4 or and M16A4. Both guns are different from the present day...

The M16A4 normally has a vertical grip. I don't care for it, but... It's not clone correct, but I'm OK with a representative exa...

How can you tell someone is a bigot about straight white shit? The word "cisnormative" comes up a lot.  Said with all the tone and...

How can you tell someone is a bigot about LGBT shit? The word "degenerate" comes up a lot. Morally corrupt and given to vice. That...

Andre Norton wrote a book, "Star Rangers." I read it in junior high. I recognize the cover of the copy I got from ebay. I remember...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is over. It's been effectively over for some time as the weather cooperated and didn't spin up th...

Still thinking about the world of Twilight: 2000 and things that I never considered back in 1985 when I first got the game and started playi...

Holdout  is the GURPS skill that allows you to conceal things on your person. A medieval crossbow is a -6 penalty to your holdout skill. Bei...

I wanted to post a picture to Facebook, but my phone doesn't have the login. How do I get it to my laptop?  The phone, which took the pi...

Thanksgiving post at ¡No Pasarán! My research has led to some awkward conversations with my Blackfoot wife, Harvey . Nobody wants their ance...

Thinking about sidearms reminded me of something that has failed in many game rule sets. The encumbrance rules almost always just track the ...

A thread about swords on Arfcom got me thinking... Swords are sidearms, not primary weapons most of the time.  It's the weapon you pull ...

Flickr adds a lot of extraneous stuff onto the end of the image links. The full size photo link is: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535...

It's recently come to my attention that Pam Bondi's office thinks that SBRs are just for criminals. What a waste of $600 on tax stam...

There's a local gun shop that's doing door-buster Black Friday deals. Among them are $99 Glocks. Besides not being willing to engage...

The Lovely Harvey makes deviled eggs for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Far more often she makes egg salad. She put the halves of the whites i...

The entire world was on the gold standard in the 16th and 17th centuries. One of the reasons for the golden age of piracy was the massive de...

Got a link to this video in the comments. It's 22 minutes of, basically, repeating the same thing over and over about each of the bad br...

Something else that encourages bigger houses in my area is the impact fee. This is a charge on new-build houses that's supposed to go to...

Accidentally stumbled upon something interesting... 2011 to 2013 Caprice PPV fuel recommendation is 87 octane. 2014 to 2017 Caprice PPV fuel...

If something is too expensive you have two choices to make it cheaper:  Increase the supply or reduce the demand. Considering that an increa...