The Abode of McThag

I cannot find any news that the government appealed the ruling in Texas to the 5th circuit, so the as applied ruling stands? Next we get to ...

The best way to be virtuous is to simply be so. Live it. If someone notices, great! If someone praises you for it, fine. The problem with vi...

DSArms aka DSA should sue the Democratic Socialists of America also aka DSA for use of their trademark. I think they are due substantial fin...

A Better Way 2A asks, "If gun rights are for everyone, why do you get upset when everyone shows up?" They go on to explain what cl...

First Champions/Hero then GURPS share a problem. They are point based systems with near-zero guidance for where you should put your points. ...

Marv and I went through his Twilight character and we made enough changes that I think it's fair we re-do the fight in Złoczew. The reas...

 

Jim Geraghty wants someone to publish how many rounds we have in our critical munitions stockpiles. During a shooting confrontation. Somethi...

A friend of mine home-brews. Because he likes to try new stuff he's always asking what style we want him to make. I keep saying "sc...

It only took a year and a half, but I have finally moved my Thunderbird profile from Crispy IV to DerpyPuter. I guess it was time to admit t...

81 years ago, Fat Man was released from Bock's Car over the Imperial Japanese city of Nagasaki.

Just in case you wanted to see, graphically, how complicated separate charge rounds can get in GURPS with Gun Stats... This is just changing...

  Would Mr Fleetwood, who was actually there, like to comment on this video? 

The Boy  failed to advance to the state level at Special Olympics bowling. We kind of expected this. His scores were the highest he'd ev...

The Hiroshima post has been time corrected for the moment of detonation, which is actually on the 5th of August at 1915 hours EDT. This happ...

The more DSA candidates win in the primaries, the more I think we shouldn't have let Germany reunite. We should have kept East Germany a...

As an armchair historian and a degreed psychologist...  (What an odd thing to say). I keep watching people trying to change the word being u...

4eR has a page on their virtuousness. Of note:  Learn it, use it? Perhaps we should take the time to learn suffixes on Greek derived words. ...

 GOA got a great ruling from a Federal Court in Texas that appears to nuke the NFA for items where the stamp was dropped to $0 for a large s...

81 years ago, Little Boy was released from Enola Gay over the Imperial Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Got my pdf copy of GURPS 4e Revised, 4eR from now on, today. The biggest change is the Basic Set is now a single volume.  This isn't too...

This is the 666th post of this year!  Have some Maiden!  

Took a... something to the left front on Moxie. The 'T' part was encased in rubber that fell apart while I was pulling it out of the...

Having a discussion on a GURPS forum where someone asked how we'd stat out the Santa-Barbara Sistemas 106mm M-DN11 high explosive anti-p...

The 90mm M67 Recoilless Rifle is ST 15B†. If you forget to apply the Rcl 1 for being recoilless it's ST 36B† and Rcl 29. That's pret...

While calculating the stats for the rounds for the M67 90mm reckless ryetuful, I found an oddity. The M591 HE round is an 81mm mortar round ...

 

What kind of round is a 106mm M-DN11 HEAP for the M40 family of recoilless rifles in GURPS terms? The 106 mm HEAP M-DN 11 is a fixed round w...

Ubuntu has three "Power Modes." Performance, Balanced and Power Saver. Performance notes, "High performance and power usage....

Japan decided that full up 7.62 NATO was too powerful for its purposes, but also wanted to remain ammo compatible with US forces. So they ma...

There's no iTunes for Ubuntu. There was iTunes on my Win7 and OSX 10.6.8 installs on the dead Mac Pro. This has led to a discovery of ju...

Harvey  found a oscillating fan to replace the dying Lasko on the back porch for half-off at $10. While it wasn't the sturdiest design, ...

I noticed that I didn't have a song I wanted to listen to on my phone. Then I discovered that I did have the file on my phone, but it wa...

Canada is moving to have FN's 6.5x43mm LICC NATO standardized.  The UK is also interested. 120gr copper OTM bullet at 2,800 fps from a 1...

Swapped the Vortex SPARC AR red-dot for a Vortex Spitfire AR.  Ditched the fixed A2 rear sight for a Magpul MBUS3; it's interesting that...

First, since the Department of War gets substantial exemptions from the evironmental bullshit laws... Let's build some nuclear power pla...

  Just because things are going well now, it doesn't mean you're not fucked in the end.

Did some math. Being a long term hot-rodder it bothers me that the rear gear ratio in  The Beast  starts with a 2. 2.92:1 to be exact. I thi...

If the entire point of the NFA process is about taxes and proving the tax is paid; why is it the only tax that requires fingerprints?  And p...