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Creativity / Re: The new and improved 3D model topic!

« on: August 30, 2011, 10:37:36 AM »

The bolt has too many triangles, at 132.

You hold it with immense difficulty, with one hand over what remains of the stock, and the other floating around the magazine.

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Creativity / Re: The new and improved 3D model topic!

« on: August 30, 2011, 10:32:45 AM »

No other pistol can both set your foes on fire, and allow you to engage the enemy at two kilometers. I could not resist the rogueish charm of the obrez.

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Off Topic / Re: Hardon Potter

« on: August 17, 2011, 07:45:00 PM »

The russian dub is even better, because you know what they're saying whilst not knowing what they're saying!

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Off Topic / Re: I'm in the Air Force

« on: August 17, 2011, 09:37:39 AM »

Fun fact: Unexplain missing testicles or undescenced testicles are grounds for medical concern and/or discharge in US armed forces!

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Off Topic / Re: London Riots

« on: August 11, 2011, 03:33:04 PM »

My mum only found out about this yesterday when SKY was advertising a special report. We live south west of London in Reading. How the forget didn't we notice?

Because rioting is a usual tuesday night in Reading. I do my best not to be there after 9pm.

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Off Topic / Re: London Riots

« on: August 10, 2011, 05:23:48 PM »

When my buddy comes back from a humanitarian trip to Nicaragua, we'll probably go be boppers in London, dealing out vigilante justice to looters. As horribly dangerous as it sounds, being intimidating is the most major part, rather than actual bopping.

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Off Topic / Re: Computer Viruses Thread

« on: August 10, 2011, 05:00:31 PM »

The 'Burn' virus is still about in the middle east, it's one of the first. Surprising it can still function, considering the storage format it was designed to save itself to declined in use nearly two decades ago.

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Off Topic / Re: Worst day in afghan war.

« on: August 07, 2011, 11:18:27 AM »

After the USSR invaded Afghanistan, a stuffton of surplus arms and munitions ended up there. It happens every time there's a war in a far-off country, stuff gets left behind. Besides, the police and army of middle-eastern countries will sometimes sell their weapons and ammunition for a little extra money.

Besides, not many people actually own true-blood AK-47s, they're mostly just garage reproductions or chinese Type-56s (developed when the USSR switched over to the AKM in 1956).

The afghanistanis don't really liked being walked all over by NATO, insurgency is bound to happen when NATO forces keep stirring things up.

The AK47 gained fame and was used by the USSR due to the fact that it was DURABLE and easy to operate.  If it truly jammed a lot and broke down frequently it wouldn't be in use at all because it's a drain of money.

(The Korobov TKB-517 was actually cheaper to produce and more reliable than the AK-47, yet the design was turned down because the Red Army was more familiar with the AK. Derp USSR.)

Also what's all this nonsense about surplus 7.62x39mm being awful, it's copper-washed steel cases and lacquered bullets, it's not going to cause stoppages more frequently than expensive PRVI rounds with brass cases. The priming substance is corrosive and will leave salts in the bore which will encourage rusting if you don't clean them out, but you should clean your rifle after firing it anyway.

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Off Topic / Re: Outrageous Builders Club

« on: August 07, 2011, 11:04:07 AM »

The 'better' Builder's Club plans exist pretty much to make the cheaper ones seem better deals. It's a fairly effective ploy.

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Creativity / Re: Abandoned building photography. EVEN MORE PICTURES page 3

« on: August 06, 2011, 01:28:03 PM »

Be careful exploring industrial setups, the older they are, the poorer condition they are in comparison to how they appear. I'm not the first person to nearly fall through a wooden floor into a flooded basement full of stagnant water full of industrial wastes, seepages and animal remains. There's generally no way out of these flooded chambers. Mines are the worst, flooded chambers form a metal mud crust on top which appears solid, but gives way underfoot. That, and whilst security folk and hobos can be reasoned with if you're just taking pictures, anarchists/satanists/skinheads/etc are best avoided.

By no means stop exploring though, it's incredibly rewarding. I'd like to go to the states and check out the less populated abandoned areas of detroit.

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Creativity / Re: Monowheel Stabilization

« on: August 06, 2011, 12:33:53 PM »

You're better off with a heavy flywheel rotating in the opposite direction to counter the torque rather than countering the outer wheel's torque by rotating the entire inner wheel, but that presents it's own problems.

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Off Topic / Re: Post what happened today

« on: August 05, 2011, 12:45:01 PM »

No, still got another three or four weeks.

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Off Topic / Re: national socialists

« on: August 05, 2011, 08:50:12 AM »

The funny thing is, the USSR got away with far greater atrocities.

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Off Topic / Re: Movies that you must watch before death

« on: July 31, 2011, 02:57:18 PM »

Sunshine, and 9th Company.

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Off Topic / Re: Sorry family men!

« on: July 31, 2011, 09:22:23 AM »

Incidentally, it's only during the last half century - century that buggery became legal, beforehand, gays would've been executed for their largely unnatural acts. People are a lot more tolerant of homoloveuality nowadays.