Battle Of The Geeks

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-personnel round.

I posted the description of the round here. 

I gave two ways of doing it.

First is to just treat it like it's an HE round and let it do 6dx7(0.5) pi++, linked 6dx3[5d+1] cr ex.

Second is to come up with a new round combining shrapnel and HE which has 1,000 1d-1 pi+ balls expanding from the detonation point with a linked 6dx3 cr ex.

Them: But what about X?

Me: I accounted for X.  You forgot a lot of things figuring out the weight of the projectile and your reply to that tells me you have a reading comprehension problem.

Them: But I don't like how you did it!

Me: OK, do it how you like it.  I don't think that matches the description of the round and I explained why when I gave stats for the new shrapnel HE round.

Them: But I don't like that way of doing it, what about Y?  This makes new rules that do a better job of describing the shape of the pattern that I'm getting wrong because I'm not accounting for the fact that the round is traveling down range at the same time it explodes.  Plus, let me compare it to a round I rejected as a model for this earlier.

Me: Don't care.  I've figured it out to my liking and it even "will it GURPS" OK with Argentinian and Chilean usage.

Them: But you didn't answer about Y!

Me: Not going to.  I explained my reasoning, said I was happy with what I came up with, and didn't need to write new rules.  There's no need for Y now that I'm done.

The thing that ticks me off the most about this is Chile and Argentina appear to be the only customers for this Spanish designed and made, German type designated round.  It's just not going to come up in anything I'm going to be playing.

The whole rest of the world is using clones of the US designs. 

Living?

MSN, you just keep being you...

20 Firearms that are living off their names. 

Basically, every gun fails to be the author's favorite example of whatever type of gun they're talking about.

They're impractical.

They're too expensive.

I think that Josh Clark subscribes to the "only brutal practicality" school of owning guns that misses 70% of the experience and all of the fun parts of shooting. 

Oh That's Why

There's so many creative people I've stopped watching since 2016...  November 2016 come to think of it.

Europeans really don't get us.

The more I see them explain my motives for things without asking me, I also understand why they don't understand.  They don't want to.

They think we're like them and when we, repeatedly, demonstrate different they get petulant.

Scandinavia vs the World is the first place it really hit home for me.

Lazer Pig is the most recent.

He really supports Ukraine.  Everything side tracks to how the US isn't doing our part to support what he wants.

Our part?  Why the fuck is any of this our problem?  And if it's our problem, then you're blaming the wrong president and political party, fucktard.

And if you don't support Ukraine he has a huge video that explains why you're wrong and evil and fell for propaganda...  But if you look hard at what he's saying and how he's saying it, then if you DO support Ukraine then you're wrong, and evil and fell for propaganda but it's OK this time because it's HIS propaganda.  FuzzyGeff was unable to finish the video.

I took a break from him, and History of Everything, about here. 

And he gets around to blaming the wrong president and political party by name in what is supposedly a video about the Challenger II tank.

The asides about Russia getting Trump elected by a supposed historian...  then I realized something.  Lazer Pig is a gay man.

Trump is literally Hitler to the LGBTQSS.

Click.

Got it.

Unsafe Storage

A Florida woman is in trouble because her kid showed up at school with her Lorcin L-25.

Her five year old kid.

The child doesn't seem to have had much nefarious intent, no ammunition was found with the gun.

She's being charged with violating the safe storage laws and child neglect.

Oops!

I've got mixed feelings about the laws about safe storage.  I think you should make every reasonable attempt to keep the kids and guns separated while there's no adult present as a matter of being a responsible parent.

I don't like making it illegal to fail in that effort.  At least not criminal.

I guess the neglect charge is a, "well if you'd been paying attention the child would never have gotten to the poorly stored gun."

I really hate blanket charges like that.  Vague laws make for bad arrests.

Actions

There's some who're not getting this gun ownership is a right thing about carrying and protesting.

It's not owning a gun that's a problem.

It's not carrying a gun that's a problem.

It's what is done with that gun that could be a problem.

If someone is screaming about their grievances while their gun stays in its holster, no problem.

Waving that gun around while screaming...  Problem.

In fact, let's put an etiquette tag on it:  If you're protesting or at a rally with a firearm, keep your hands completely off the gun.  If you cannot carry it without touching it, don't bring it!

That's just manners. 

Immutable Characteristics

There's a faction of people who are wanting others to stop discriminating against them for their "immutable characteristics," but are more than happy to condemn "cisgender white men."

You know, discriminating against straight white guy's for their immutable characteristics.

I guess the best thing about being a liberal is getting twice as many standards as everyone else.

No Tire Tracks

Two things about the theory that the yutes hit the manhole casement with their car.

1. To hit it at the angle of the drag marks, they would have had to start inside the fenced-in yard of the house to the south of the empty lot AND gone through a telephone pole.

2. There are no tire tracks in the grass around the casement.

Thank you for your time. 

WHY?

Last night I heard a lot of thumping outside.

It sounded like repeated slamming of car doors and that got me wondering which of my neighbors was having a domestic.

Peeking out the window of the front door I could see two cars parked straight across from my house, but no obvious activity.

So I went around to the side of the house and looked out my gate for a wider view and saw four teens moving the manhole cover casement from the sewer.

They fled before I was even done giving my information to the 911 operator.

What I saw after they left:

When the deputies arrived they both did a, "What the Hell?"

I have no idea WHY they'd do this at all.

They got it back over the hole for the sewer and I expect the county to have someone out Monday to fix it for reals.
 

A ≠ R

First off...  It was hyperbole and a joke.

I keep forgetting how stupid some of my readers are.

The joke was to yank the chains of the bigots.

Apparently, the bigots are smarter than a fair number of you because they had the good sense to not open their pie-holes.

They, unlike you, did not remove all doubt.

What makes the snarky joke is that the Jews are not actually in charge of the place despite the constant screeching of the Antisemites.

But missing the joke and then inserting different group for "The Jews!" didn't make you look clever.  It made you look stupid.

I regret not publishing the comment now.  Though, so many of you missed the joke it's better if it's deleted.  Some of you did better than others, I will admit, but...

Y'all are some dumbasses.

Fucking stupid.

Without redeeming features.

Mouth breathing morons.

I look upon thee and despair!

I weep that you might have reproduced and passed this ailment down to your children.

But I do get some satisfaction from deleting the comments and reporting them as abuse to Blogger, you moral degenerates.

So, go away, don't come back and eat a bag of dicks while you do.

What Do I Know I'm Brainwashed

I am sure he's a nice guy, but I'm fucking over him.

When he accused all us American veterans of being brainwashed all y'all said, "well, he's Russian..." as if that actually explained something.

Well, I've been reading his thoughts on Facebook about economics and I can definitively say that he's an excellent photographer.

But, hey!  He's Russian!  I guess it's fine they're not only economically illiterate, but repeating stuff that's just not true because it makes a good TDS soundbite. 

PS: He's been here long enough that he'd better stop being Russian and start being American.  Just sayin'.

PPS: If you say that he IS an American, then you cannot use the "but he's Russian" as a defense of his slandering anyone.  A uneducated foreigner gets some slack, but he should know better by now.  It's not that hard to say, "I'm sorry," but all y'all defended him so he didn't have to either apologize or learn.

I Would Want A Jetson's Soundtrack

Automakers are talking about adding fake engine sounds to their electric vehicles.

Ugh.

The Beast sounds too much like a Tesla already with it's massive mufflers.

It's ironic that I've got something in common with a Tesla owner and that's a desire to hear some rumble and burble.

At least mine will come from the engine.

They've Never Driven It

Facebook Marketplace has the same search engine as Amazon for giving you results that are only tangentially related to what you're looking for.

A search for Caprice PPV yielded a hit on a 1958 Chevy Biscayne.

In decent shape with a bog standard 235 ci Stovebolt Six.

 

The ad said it had an automatic transmission.

The picture showed too many pedals for that.

 

I'm guessing that the three-on-the-tree is throwing them and they've never even started the motor.

Tree shifters look like column shifters to someone raised on automatics only.

It looked to be in decent shape for a good price.

A Light Dawns

If this is how most people that the cops deal with are, I totally understand their attitude towards the rest of us. 

WARNING: This is 16 minutes and 50 seconds of your life that will be gone and won't ever come back.

Holy shit.

At least three times with mom I'd have been, "fine, she's going to jail; buh bye!"

You Have To Admit

While something belt fed and water cooled is the most appropriate tool to deal with protesting bigots...

The traditional weapon for use in campus protests is the Garand.

Whether or not using troops on students is appropriate or legal, I will leave up to scholars and historians to debate.

What you have to admit is there's no newsworthy Hamas support protests at Kent State.

Almost as if the lesson stuck.

Just sayin'.

The September That Never Ends

I find myself having the same arguments again and again in the few places outside the choir I still go.

There's a song lyric to go with it!

For the life of me, I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise
And we'd never compromise?

Though the song isn't about being generally ignorant when you're young, it does touch on the idea that wisdom only comes with experience. 

Every year we get a new crop of people who've just been taught THE TRUTH™ in college and are on their first long break from college and are spreading THE TRUTH™ on social media...

Where they encounter us ancient grognards of the gun control debate where they get told that not only is THE TRUTH™ a lie, but we have references that prove it.

Things like the prefatory clause being essentially meaningless to the effect the 2nd Amendment is supposed to have on Government.

That no study has ever been made on the association of gun ownership and the size of male genitalia.  I looked that one up!

That gun ownership is a proxy for racism and genocide.

And so on.

I'm coming to believe that civics is no longer taught at any level and that English is being taught in such a way that even a lawyer is demanding clearer language to be able to say what they mean.

Spending a week on the meaning of 'is' probably warps your perspective.

Still the best part of these little fights is when they get exasperated and tell you that you're never going to change their mind and I get to reply, "I'm not trying to change YOUR mind.  I'm showing the people who are reading us debate what a fool you are and convincing THEM to change THEIR minds."

Evolution In Action

Try to force your way into someone else's car in Florida, you learn you're not in New York anymore.

Darwin does not sleep even if He takes breaks.

Another way to look at it is there's one fewer stupid New Yorker sucking on my oxygen.

This is something of a open letter for people who live where you don't see much conceal carry.

The laws "back home" will be different once you cross the line from blue state to red state, or even purple state.  Especially about guns.

We're constantly seeing the results of people not absorbing that, while all the states are broadly similar with regards to their laws, the specifics matter a great deal.

Canadians are, by far, the worst offenders about not making this absorption and they're actually traveling to a different country; it should be more obvious to them.

But I have the same sympathy for the deceased as I do for the WNBA moron rotting in a Russian prison.

They did not bother to internalize that the legal situation had changed because they chose to travel to a different jurisdiction and discovered that there are consequences.

For one of them, final consequences.

PS: I suspect that no charges will be brought on the shooter because we don't have a name yet.  The shooter being named is often a clue about prosecution in the Hillsborough/Pasco/Pinellas area.

This Is A Thing?

Apparently there's a Facebook group of people who are pointing loaded guns at their junk with their fingers on the trigger.

Link to Vice about the phenomenon.  Note: Author hates all gun owners, not just the idiots breaking the first three of four rules.  He does call gun owners like me "responsible" so there's that.

Why is this a thing?

I've only one real response to these people threatening their family jewels:

DARWIN!  DARWIN!  DARWIN!  DARWIN!  DARWIN!  DARWIN! 

Only One Thing For It

If your dog jumps in to a hot spring in Yellowstone:

Better look up recipes for bosintang because your pup is dead already and you will be too if you jump in after it.

They Make That Model Already

The Glock 45 is essentially a Glock 19 slide on a Glock 17 frame.

I like mine.

There's a thread on Arfcom where someone is describing all the changes he'd be making to his Glock 45...

The list is standard, popular, Glock upgrades; except:  Cutting the grip down to Glock 19 length.

Ummmm.

That's called a Glock 19.  They still make those.  You don't have to modify a 45 to get a 19 because you can just BUY a 19 all ready to go.

It's not even like he bought the 45 and decided it was too long.  He's stated he intends to buy a 45 and then begin modding.

Thag not Grok.

Good Riddance

The suspect in the Portland murder of a Pro-Trump citizen has been killed by the police.

I sure hope that they had body cameras and got it from about a thousand angles.

Not just to make sure they're exonerated for killing this piece of garbage.