Exploding Kittens

Exploding Kittens is a delightful card game that 3+ players can enjoy.

We use the Imploding Kittens expansion set and are having great fun!

73 Plus 5

The Korean War has, officially, been raging for 73 years (and five days) today.

That's got to be some sort of record.

Gun Cleaning

I know that with modern primers and powders coupled with modern materials passivation that cleaning after every range trip is not necessary.

But I clean Harvey's carry gun every time so that it doesn't make the inside of her rig dirty.

I also tend to clean the guns that don't have modern passivation right away so that they get a light sheen of oil on them to block the air.  This also holds for the occasional use guns that get stored way more than shot.

I am sure there's some drill sergeant shaped scars influencing my decision, but I am also not near as aggressive about getting the guns clean as when I was in the military.

Perfect being the mortal enemy of good-enough, I stop before I add wear from cleaning.

Proper solvents makes the job so much easier than using Break-Free CLP for everything.

Suboptimal Day

Shooting was very irksome today.

Because it's, unbeknownst to us, it's "Frat-Boy with Daddy's Credit Card Day" at the range.

Five hyper brahs rented three lanes and crowded into the lane adjacent to ours and did... Brah stuff.

Harvey did not get to try some of the shooting things she wanted to try because they were being...  Brahs.

She did get to shoot her first Luger!  Thanks Willard!  Shot it well too.

The Colt New Service shoots really well too!  Better than a 111 year old revolver should, to be honest.  Nearly recoilless with cowboy action loads.  $1.20 each cowboy action loads!

Harvey did try shooting with non-prescription glasses and her groups centered up.  She says that she can actually see the front sight naked-eye where she cannot see it clearly with her normal glasses.  Decently tight groups too!  She's learning and finding the things she didn't know she didn't know every trip.

We even got Willard to come out of his curmudgeonly lair and shoot a couple of new pistols.

Crybullies Lose

CADA violates the 1st Amendment.

6-3 decision along party lines.

The Obama/Biden judges taking their normal position of free speech only matters when it's THEIR speech. 

This, by the say, is the same law that tried to force a baker to make wedding cakes for gay marriages.

It's the second time the Supreme Court has ruled on it.

It's also a situation we gun owners are familiar with.

Narrow rulings that chip away at the violations of our rights that force the victims to keep going through the process over and over until it's finally done away with.

The CADA law is also a shining example of how you cannot legislate people into liking you.

Discrimination from bigotry is real.  How do you stop it?

Laws forbidding discrimination fuel the bigotry, and are readily weaponized by the crybullies.

See the recent rulings on Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina on how that worked.  Also a loss for the crybullies!

Diet And Exercise

Only a highly educated person like an MD could come up with this.

My handicapped parking permit application was not signed by my doc because, when she told me to exercise, I said I was going to try riding a bike.

Not that I was successfully riding a bike, that I was going to try.

Apparently, if you can ride a bicycle, it doesn't matter how far you can walk.

I'm going take a picture of her face when I ask, "So I should ditch the cane and use the bike to get around?"

Because if the bike counts as my mobility now, I'm getting a tax-payer funded van to haul it around in... which will come with a handicapped license plate.

Bullshit like this infuriates me to no end.

Especially sitting here at the bottom of the service-connected food chain with a 10% rating.  A rating that needs to be increased, but the government is EXCELLENT at avoiding their own rules for doing.

If I had a 100% rating for something psychological I could get a "Disabled Veteran" license plate for every car and it's a handicapped permit.  Oh, and I wouldn't have to get my eligibility checked every three years.  That disabled veteran plate is for life.

So in the twisted world of government, PTSD can park in the handicapped spot of the gym; but someone with busted up legs can walk a mile because they can ride a bike.

Off Site Storage

There's a couple of guns here that don't belong to me, but I've grown rather fond of.

One of them is Willard's Mauser-made Luger.

That gun bears the marks of East German police from the same district as Checkpoint Charlie.

Unlike Willard, I passed through Checkpoint Charlie before The Wall came down.

It captures my nostalgia.

I was likely in this pistol's presence in 1989 when I noticed the holsters had to be Luger holsters and even nudged my buddy, Fred about it.

The nostalgia is enhanced by Fred getting murdered before I could really reconnect with him post-service.

It's not my pistol.  It's Willard's.  But I like hanging on to it for him because I miss my other friend.

Emotions and shit, I know.

Disconnect

There was a day when I stopped calling my dad.

I realized that I was the one doing all the work staying in contact.

Since then he has only initiated contact one time.

He called me to tell me his mom had died... a month after the funeral.

He figured that I wouldn't show up, so didn't think I needed to be informed BEFORE the funeral.

That's the last time we've communicated.

That was 15 years ago.

I did send him a birthday card for his 80th birthday.

No reply.

I feel like I was the one written off in this "relationship" and not me writing him off.

Pity.

But it's odd that the moment I stopped putting in any effort, communication stopped.  It's not like he didn't know my phone number.

But I'm familiar with this.

My sister doesn't speak to me anymore either.  She's got more justification.  I was not a good brother and she got to hear all the horror stories from Mom when I was trying to process my PTSD.

Mom didn't get to live long enough to see me on the other side of that.

I don't wonder about my sister at all, and I hope she is happy and successful without me.  She would have been far happier if I'd never been in her life, to be honest.

C'est la vie.

No Condemnation

The guy who drove his sub to destruction isn't going to get much condemnation from me.

Although the flaws in his idea are obvious... So were the flaws in everything associated with flight.

How many people died trying to figure out powered flight?

How many people died trying to figure out helicopters?

How many people died trying to figure out tilt-rotors?

Fewer each time.

Figuring shit out will kill people.

Advancing new things kills people while breaking the obvious rules.

Yes, most of the time, the obvious rules are absolutely correct.

Occasionally, the rules are wrong.

Lots of people die trying to find those occasional instances.

It's the price of advancing the state of the art.

Deal with it or stay in your cocoon.

Sully

I am curious if the passengers of Flight 1549 ever got their luggage back.

I'm Cured

The VA mailed back my application to renew my disabled parking permit.

Florida does it strange.

"Permanent" means 3 years.  This is their solution to relatives using forever permits of dead people.  Gods forbid you just send a cop to compare the number on the placard to the ID of everyone in the car from time to time.

So every three years you have to get your doctor to sign the form saying "permanent."

Three years ago, I had a different doc than now.

As with most doctors, the default answer is no.

So I drove down to remind them that this is my second renewal and if I've gotten better in the past nine years, they need to show me some proof.

Because I don't fucking feel any better.

Skated

The Lovely Harvey's schedule at work suddenly cleared and she could take The Boy to the county level Special Olympics!

That relieves me of the job.

I can easily handle practices, but events are triple stupid endurance events for me.

They make five minute tasks last an hour and stretch other things to hours just because they can't organize themselves.

I'm on-call to come watch his actual performance.

Did You Know?

Apparently, if you clean your windshield, you can see better.

Marv shamed me into finally applying some window cleaner to the glass.

He was, of course, correct, and I can see where I'm going again.

Philosophy

A strong analogy, I've found, in trying to express my philosophical positions is a lot like using an allen head screw to put something back together instead of the Torx head that came out.

It does not matter that the something is back together and working just fine.

I used the wrong screw and we're going to fucking obsess over that until the end of time.

Even if, perhaps especially if, I admit that I knew it was the wrong screw, but didn't worry because interchangeable.

But these things aren't interchangeable if the original was a different drive than what I used and is working fine.  Apparently.

Run Do Not Walk

Harvey and I watched "Sisu" last night.

It.  Is.  Hilariously fun!

Rent, buy or steal a copy; shut off your brain, enjoy.

Yes It Is A Tank

The M10 Booker is not a main battle tank.

It's a light tank.

We stopped making tanks of differing weights as The Cold War got into full swing.

Unless we were dropping it with the 82nd, all tanks were main battle tanks which is really a niche between medium and heavy tanks.

The M551 Sheridan, M8 Buford and M10 Booker aren't main battle tanks, are a bit too beefy to be light tanks...  Too light to be medium tanks...  Armed like heavier tanks, but...

So the Army isn't calling it a light tank, they've got a new term for this light tank with a too-big gun.

Mobile Protected Firepower.  This replaces the previous light tank with a too-big gun term, "Armored Gun System" used on the Buford.

They've been stressing that light tanks were primarily recon vehicles when avoiding the term.

The non-recon role is precisely why the gun is too-big.

It amuses me a lot that its protection and firepower sure looks like a "Gun Motor Carriage" also known as a "Tank Destroyer".

Gun Motor Carriages are emphatically NOT tanks...

No Explanation Forthcoming

There's going to be times when you read my rants and wonder what the fuck has set me off.

The purpose of the rants is to keep me sane, not to inform you to the cause.

Sorry if that's unsatisfying.

But explaining the rant reverses the beneficial effects.

Thanks!

Maybe It's The Science Fiction

I sometimes wonder if the friction I have with so many people is because science-fiction taught me that someone could be radically different from me and still be a person.

It really stems from Traveller.

Vargr are people.

Droyne are people.

Aslan are people.

Hiver are people.

Even fucking K'Kree are people.

But it started earlier.

Kzinti and Pierson's Puppeteers are people.

They don't look like me, they don't act like me, but they are still people.

It makes it easy to consider someone is a person when they look a lot like me, but only differ in skin color, hair color, what they wear or who they wanna fuck.

I don't even care Who they call God.

As long as what they do doesn't hurt anyone, I'm content.

Especially if it doesn't hurt me or mine.

There's a list of things that DO hurt others that I'm opposed to and would be perfectly willing to mete out punishments for.

Like wanting to fuck kids.  Like convincing kids that it's OK for people to fuck them.

But I just can't get upset about someone wearing the "wrong" clothes using the "wrong" shitter if all they're doing is shitting.  Let he who has never used the single hole women's room at a gas station when the men's was occupied cast the first stone.

If they're up to something else, I will buy the gas for the wood-chipper.

But you've got to prove it was nefarious first.

Causitive?

I'm noticing a strong correlation between someone rejecting LGBT as a psychosis they will not indulge in and having an invisible friend that we must all indulge in...

Believing in invisible beings and pretending these imaginary entities can write books is every bit as delusional as what you're refusing to "indulge in."

Except with less proof it's happening.

Look how upset you get when I tell you that God is an imaginary friend and I won't participate in your delusion.

Notice how you try to explain to me how I'm going to Hell for not believing as you believe.

I'm glad I noticed this correlation and can now treat you like the mental patient you patently are!

You showed me the way to handle people with delusions!

Happy?

PS: The people whom I'm lashing out at here decided they NEEDED to be dicks about it and simply refuse to be polite about it at all.

If you're religious and haven't been a dick about it to me, then you're not included in the lashing.

Looking It Up

My insanely brief "career" at Electric Boat...

I looked up the dates for the boats and was surprised to see that they'd actually made #3.

USS Jimmy Carter.

He did wear the dolphins, so I guess it's fair.  Bad luck to be named after a living person, though...

But the dates.

When there were going to be 29 Seawolfs the production schedule had 3-year intervals.

SSN-23 should have been laid down 1995, launched 2000 and commissioned 2001; not 1998, 2004 and 2005.

SSN-24 should have been laid down 1998 and I would have been in the yard and gone on sea trials documenting where parts had actually been installed instead of just where they'd planned on them being.  The job should have run until 2004...  Hey!  That's exactly when Jimmah! got made.

Going from three years to six upended a lot of lives.

It's All About How You Get There

If you walk to the battle and fight on foot, you're infantry.

Infantry that lobs grenades are grenadiers.

Infantry with smooth-bores are musketeers.

Infantry with rifles are fusiliers.

If you ride to the battle and fight on food, you're dragoons.

If you ride to the battle and fight from your mount, you're cavalry.

Cavalry that uses a long, pointy stick are lancers.

Cavalry that wears armor are cuirassiers.

This is all so very confused in US history.

During the Indian Wars, both the infantry and the cavalry rode to the battle and dismounted to fight.  Making both dragoons.

Infantry rode donkeys or mules.  Cavalry rode horses.

Both eagerly chowed down on their mounts when supply didn't keep up with the march.

Kind Of An Expert

Something I did, once upon a time, was drawing tank designs for a company that made water treatment equipment.

One product line was super high pressure tanks.

I remember when the idea of using carbon fiber or fiberglass came up.

Fine for HOLDING pressure inside, not so great for keeping pressure OUT.

At the time, the steel tanks were viable and making carbon fiber tanks that big wasn't possible.  It's been 30 years...

The main issue was how to make the ends.  There simply wasn't anything that'd hold a metal end on the cylindrical carbon fiber body.

That might not be true today, but it was a complicated issue that kept steel in production as long as we could keep the three guys who knew how to weld happy enough to not head back to Electric Boat and return to making submarines.

Which is where I become "kinda" an expert.  From talking to the engineers and welders.

The welders, when asked if our pressure vessels would do as a submarine hull, all indicated that it would not.  The structures were different and what will hold in, doesn't really hold out.

It's interesting stuff.

My "expertise" sure as shit doesn't mean my opinion is worth anything, but it's been interesting seeing that keeping carbon fiber from collapsing is still something.

PS: I was actually hired by Electric Boat and fired before I even managed to find a place to live in Connecticut.  I was going to do as-built drawings on SSN-24 Scorpion...  The fourth Seawolf boat...  You might notice that there is no fourth Seawolf.  The loss of this job indirectly leads to the suicide run to Florida...  A suicide that The Lovely Harvey stopped.

I Think It Applies To Russians Too

Rule one, page one, book one of the Book of War says, "Do not march on Moscow, it is no good."

Just because Prigozhin is Russian doesn't change that.

As much as I'd like to see Putin removed and someone less Staliny take over...

I don't think Wagner Group is going to do it, and it appears they've already made a deal to not.

This Thing IS Still On

I've been busy.

Said goodbye to a favorite restaurant.  They say they're relocating, but how much will change is still getting conflicting information.

Helped JT fix his car and didn't even spend any time in the hospital after he decided to body-slam the ladder from the top of the lift.  You'd have to ask him why he thought that was a good idea, but nothing seems broken.

Getting the differential out of a 2008 CTS is super simple and easy.  He reports that it's much smoother driving when both the ring and pinon gears have all their teeth.

Hello Nightmares

Having nightmares again.

I don't care for them even a whit.

Even more fun is being exhausted and dealing with the joys of anxiety while I contemplate sleeping.

Most of the time I can fake being normal...  Then there's weeks like this.

Insurance Racket

I have insured the same three cars to the same level for a year.

$2,100 for the first six months.

$3,000 for the next six months.

$3,500 for the six months starting in a month.

No tickets.

No claims.

But a 2/3 increase in premiums.

And I am required, by law, to pay for this shit.

That's not precisely true.  I am pay for more coverage than is required, but the minimum requirement is useless to replace anything.

I am starting to think that if I just paid the premium to a savings account I could replace a Ferrari in cash based on how often I make a claim on the insurance.

Coincidentally, the full coverage I'd paid on The Precious did not replace Her.

Paying the premiums into a savings account would have.

Hey, Mr Elected Official, why am I required to pay someone to profit off me and not make me whole?

No Sir I Don't Like It

Despite enjoying "Quartered Safe Out Here" I am not a Flashman fan.

I have attempted "Flashman's Lady" and "Flashman and the Redskins" and have found myself, both times, screaming, "GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT!"

These books are 200 pages crammed into over 500, each.

So I never finished "Flashman and the Fine Points of Cricket" or "Flashman Has Sex with A New Orleans Whore." because I kept wondering when The Lady or Redskins would actually fucking appear.

That he wrote 12 books to this pattern and people enjoyed them baffles me.

That's It Then

The news reports they've found fresh debris at the Titanic wreck site.

This points to the loss of Titan being an implosion rather than one of several other, slower, deaths.

The worst scenario being to suffocate in the dark after four days.

An implosion happens so fast you don't even know it happened until you're standing in front of Osiris thinking, "I thought the Jews were right!"

Too Bad So Sad

Attorney claims gun owners are making it hard to file murder charges.

Nothing to add.  Mr Edwards wrote a good one.

Summer Summer Summer

Today sure seems like a LOOOOONG day.

This is the exact moment of the solstice if you see this the instant it posts.

Is This Something

This guy posts so often I wonder if he just likes hearing his own voice, but...

Finding the 4473 unconstitutional would be epic!

Especially since there's nothing in the actual law requiring it.

Dwarfs

According to the Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play 1st Edition main rule book...

Dwarfs are noteworthy miners, but no notes about being technologically superior to any of the other four player races other than mentioning they're experts at metalworking.

Here's the racial description:

Dwarfs are short, burly creatures, immediately recognisable by their long hair and thick beards. They have a natural affinity with the mountains, where they live in caverns and mines hewn from the rock. Dwarfs are expert stone-workers, and generally adept at all manner of industrial crafts, such as ironworking, the making of fine swords and the manufacture of superb jewellery. Some Dwarfs live amongst Humans as metal-workers or craftsmen of some kind, and their work is highly prized. Physically they are resilient, quite strong and rather ugly. They are somewhat greedy, gruff, unfriendly, short-tempered and antisocial. They tolerate Humans because they have so many business dealings with them, but dislike Elves, who they find arrogant and irritating, and with whom they have little in common. They favour axes as weapons of war, and make very sturdy Warriors. They are not very magical, however, and their disposition tends to make them rather poor Academics.

West Pondish spellings in the original.

I get that they do more industrial stuff and are on the cutting edge, but nothing that says they're ahead of the other races.

Lastday

Tomorrow, in 2018, fully accredited scientist uneducated teenager Greta Thunberg said that the world would end in five years if we didn't stop using fossil fuels.

Well, it's been five years.

Gentlebeings.  It has been a pleasure being daring with all y'all!

Unless, of course, she's wrong.

Like all these climate alarmists have been since the mid 1970's; from Mann to Gore.

Although

The two firearms listed in Warhammer are a pistol and a blunderbuss.

The illustrations and presence of fencing weapons makes me think that it's TL4 from 1550 to 1650 for tech.

Blunderbusses don't happen until flintlocks become available, and that doesn't really happen until the late 17th century and the blunderbuss wasn't a separate gun until the 18th century...

A fantasy setting that doesn't adhere to history?  What's next, elves?  Oh... right!

I'm going to pick 1650 for my benchmark technology date.  It feels right.

Technomad, chime in if you think otherwise!

This date allows for the fusil de chasse which is a lot lighter and handier than a Elizabethan musket; 6.5 lb. vs 21 lb and a rest!

It does a lot less damage, 2d+2 pi+ but at about the same sucky ranges.  DR 9 is actually proof against its average hit too!

The more martial fusil ordinaire is larger caliber and does 3d pi++.  DR 11 is needed to stop the average hit, but that's a lot more attainable than DR 16!

Update:

Heavy plate corselet with full Lighten and 2 castings of Fortify: DR 11, $23,000, 16 lb.

Heavy plate duplex and fluted with full Lighten and 1 casing of Fortify: DR 11, $68,525, 12.8 lb.

Medium plate with full Lighten and 5 castings of Fortify: DR 11, $150,200, 10 lb.

Medium plate duplex and fluted with full Lighten and 4 castings of Fortify: DR 11, $97,700, 8 lb.

Proof

The disappearance of body armor from the battlefield was from guns getting ever better and causing protection to get ungainly.

WFRP has guns in it, so I decided to see what I could get...

An Elizabethan musket is a BIG gun.  TL4 .80 Caliber smoothbore.

It'll do 4d+2 pi++.  Out to what we think of as pistol ranges today.

That will score an average hit of 16 and anything that penetrates gets doubled.

You need DR 26 to be immune.

Let's start with a TL4 heavy plate corselet with DR 9.  $4,000 and 32 lb.

The average hit penetrates.

But we can upgrade!

For $36,000 we can get our corselet to DR 10 and reduce it's weight to just 29.7 lb! using the duplex armor rules.  Fluting drops the weight to a mere 25.6 lb. for $52,000.

We can get to DR16 just by making the normal plate thicker.  $18,000 and 56.5 lb.  Using duplex armoring we can get to DR 16 for $162,000 and a "mere" 50.9 lb.  Fluting it as well drops the weight to 45.2 lb. but cranks the price to $234,000!

And that's just proof against average die roll.

DR 26 will weigh 272 lb. and cost $38,000.  Duplex and fluting to get the weight down is $494,000 but only gets it to 217.6 lb.

BUT!

WFRP is a fantasy setting and that means magic!

For a "mere" $131,200 we can cast Fortify on it five times for +5 to the DR.  That's DR 15 for our duplex and fluted heavy plate corselet.  DR 15, $183,200, 25.6 lb.  Starting with a thicker DR 10 corselet gets us DR 16 with enchantment, duplex and fluting for $209,200 and 38.4 lb.

For an extra $16,500 we can cut the weight of the armor in half with Lighten.

DR 15, $199,700, 12.8 lb.

DR 16, $225,700, 19.2 lb.

DR 26, $485,700, 83.2 lb.

Notice that enchantment is most cost effective than more steel!

Be cautious, that enchanted stuff doesn't work in low or no mana areas.

Getting the to work in low mana ups the prices to $240,012; $266,012 and $526,012 respectively.  Well worth it if you stumble into low mana areas.

But It's Just You

YouTube has been very flakey lately.

Lots of long loading circles...

There's a little pop up asking if I'm experiencing slow load times and interruptions.

I click on it.

Google, patiently, explains that it's my provider experiencing higher demand this time of day.

Except.

Amazon Prime streams smoothly.

Sling streams smoothly.

Roku streams smoothly.

Playeur streams smoothly.

Gee, Google, it sure doesn't seem like it's my provider.

Or my operating system, because that's where you're heading next.  Win7, Win11 and Ubuntu all behave the same.

Or my browser.

All three Chromium browsers, (Chrome, Chromium and Edge) and Firefox all do it too.

Just Another Paid Day Off

The day we should be celebrating is December 6.

June 19, 1865 was simply when the news of the January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation finally reached the ears of slaves in Texas.

A proclamation with no legal teeth at the time it was given.

December 6, 1865 is the real red-letter date.

But there's already a bunch of holidays around that time of year, and a long gap between Memorial Day and Independence Day...

So Juneteenth it is!

Value

FuzzyGeff has begun to sort out the magic items from WFRP and noticed that they don't have any monetary value assigned.

He's confident he can create the GURPS effects of the item from using the advantages and disadvantages lists...

But this leaves us someplace I loathe in GURPS.

I didn't care for it in Champions either.

It reared its ugly head in GURPS: Cyberpunk most loudly.

When I go to get my meat arm lopped off and replaced with a shiny metal one, do I pay with money or points?

If I paid with money, do I change the point values on my character sheet to reflect the change?

If I paid with points, do I have to pay the money too?

I made a command decision with cyberwear to charge points only during character generation and cash after play had begun.  If you paid cash, you changed the points on your sheet.  It also required that I paid attention to the clever players and made sure they didn't take a gob of wealth just to spend on cyberwear after play began because wealth was cheaper.

It took a lot of subjective effort to referee.

WFRP items have no cash value.  That can't be true, such things will have a cash value, there's no OFFICIAL value.

So, we're going to have to go with...  Found is found.  Change your points to reflect ownership, or the disposal of such things.

It will mean that someone can start a campaign with a magic item by blowing the points.  But it also allows for the generation of more experienced characters and NPCs in a format that readily shows the relative power levels.

That might just reduce the surprise when you total-party-kill because you didn't realize what that staff did to your bad-guy's efficiency.

Then Why Do You Trust This Survey

If you don't trust John Lott, then why do you trust the National Firearms Survey?

Surveys depend on extrapolation from a small population and applying that to a larger population.

485 million guns still seems critically low, especially when 25 million guns are added every year.

Our dear, departed, Weaponsman came up with 412-660 million guns back in 2016!

So it's prolly 587 to 935 million by now.

The 48% have owned a 10 round or bigger magazine seems sus too.

I'm a collector of old guns, they're the ones what have the smaller magazines.

New guns with smaller magazines are the exception, not the rule.

The percentage of AR ownership seems unlikely too.

According to MY observation, every gun owner has a 10+ magazine.  90% of rifle shooters have an AR.

That's just looking at what the lanes around me at the range have.

I think that the survey respondents are skewing the numbers FUDDwise because we're very reluctant to reply to "anonymous" surveys when there's a political movement to ban normal capacity magazines and modern sporting rifles still being taken seriously.

How many times have you gotten an ad for something you'd been chatting about, but had never entered into your computer?

It's kind of tinfoil hat territory, but I don't think the actual cross section of gun ownership has been or can be polled honestly.

Especially not when formerly pro-gun states like Colorado, Oregon and Washington collapsed into anti-gun states in a shockingly short span of time.

Admission of ownership now could lead to arrest and confiscation tomorrow.

Not all of us are willing to post photos on their blog and be the chirping canary.

Garbage Tier

Facebook keeps showing me this link.

It's a ACOG clone for the princely sum of $140.

It's got one thing going for it that the real deal doesn't: Adjustable diopter.

That means you don't need to have 20/15 vision to use it.

Who wants to get me one for testing?