i daily carry a glock 19, but your favorite pistol is like your favorite anime; it fucking sucks

the muh mechanical safety vs muh no mechanical safety debate rages eternal

see also: muh caliber, muh mag size, muh stoppin powa

my xmas present to myself is going to be a chiappa rhino and a boot holster

shot my buddy's at the range this summer and fell in love

and if you do want a home defense shotgun, get a remington 870 home defense, no sense in reinventing the wheel for your first go boom

np, i still recommend a pistol over a shotgun for home defense, like any tool, you gotta practice to be good with it, and you arent going to be going to indoor ranges and shooting your defense length shotgun

best thing there is go to cabelas or bass pro or whatever you have up there on a weekday and talk with the guy at the gun counter

he'll let you handle guns so you can get an idea for what is comfortable in your hands

and i mean a shotgun isnt some terrible bad thing to not buy, its just really easy to go to an indoor range and shoot your pistol, its a giant pain in most places to be able to run a box of shells through your scattergun

its like working out, if you have to drive an hour to your gym, how often are you going to make excuses not to go

like anything else bad for you, realize that its bad for you and dont make excuses in regards to the outcome

fight the urge to swallow every flat earth style conspiracy that gets puked onto pol, breathing smoke is bad for you, cigarettes shorten your lifespan

i dipped for years, took up cigarettes after that, quit in my late 20s, my teeth are garbage from dipping, and if i end up with lung cancer down the road, then hey, its not exactly a mystery as to why

anything is fine in moderation

if you're smoking a couple of cigars at the elks lodge once a month you're not doing any harm that will build up

imo the worst thing you can do to yourself is make choices based on what you think other people will think, thats mental damage that builds up and becomes the worst habit

the caveat here is less about a particular substance or activity, and more about how hard a thing is to do in moderation

i do agree, however

I've lost a few friends to opiates over the past decade

the question comes down to banning things and banning behaviors, and im not in favor of either

ive met dudes that could go hard for a week straight on shore leave, then shake that shit off and ship back for 60d on a rig, ive also met guys that were literally ruining their lives with video games

the punishment is double secret probation right?

whats the punishment for masturbating to power fantasy in discord chat?

has to be double secret probation

refreshing

remember friends, larping feels good, but it feels better when you're 100% sorted out personally and financially with a nest egg ready to move to white paradise

also, if you are already 100% sorted out, i could use a small loan, of say 1m dollars

god i love your chewable vitamins

they're fun guns to shoot, though i never shot a FA one

definitely not shtf guns though, they're fiddly

depends on the manner of shtf, like nork nukes or what

if i have to go live in the woods again forever, probably a tried and true AK

less finnicky in dirty environs

anything else, my ar

i bought a cute little carbine a while back that takes my pistol mags, kel-tec sub2000, i like it as a backpack gun, it folds up

i wouldnt want to hunt with it, for numerous reasons, but its sweet for larping at the range

yeah thats it

(it wont shoot at a 90 degree angle ofc)

its super light and takes my glock mags, of which i have basically an infinite number

at least take it to offtopic

mm, looks like hurricane o'clock is nearly here

yeah, its fucking nothing though

me and mine rode out ivan and katrina here

though i had to turn in my man card after katrina, i caved and bought a generator

did ~15 days of no power with ivan, but the weather was mild enough to sweat it out

20+ after katrina, and i did two nights before i was waiting outside the home despot at open

slept in the bathtub the second night

it was misery

granted during ivan i was mostly doing gencon stuff, so the work was varied, i was mostly doing tree work after katrina and its a different kind of backbreaking

spend 14 hours in saw chaps clearing roads then come home to a house thats somehow hotter and more humid inside than out

negative ghost rider

power up the credit card

night broski

snow's one thing we dont get, and while it's novel, i have to imagine it gets real old after a few months

im beginning to think i wont even lose power on this little storm

i love 'the cold' but for me the cold is like 3 weeks of 30F weather so

this is where i point out that cs:go is literally a M rated game

dont ask the government to take over parenting

(pls)

interestingly enough, the japanese government has set forth some pretty hefty regulations on games that do the random roll loot box/gacha style systems

im curious as to how familiar you are with exactly how gambling happens in csgo

ok

so the enabling factor on valve's end is literally the simple ability to trade skins with other players

you can trade/gift cool jpegs with other steam users

every other piece of this vile evil you want to regulate is 3rd party and valve has no control over it

though i am assuming you're bandwagoning against things like csgodiamonds/ebets and not just loot crates in general

if my assumption is bad, i apollogise

of course you arent

you found a witch, and its time to light a pyre

so, you arent promoting the petition?

you dont find it at all disingenuous to promote government action on a topic you admittedly are ill informed on?

its not the content itself that bothers me

its hard to put into words

idk man, you do you

it feels like you're saying 'i dont see whats so bad about blacks' and you live in the hamptons, you dont have a dog in the fight that you're promoting

the regulation you're stumping doesnt effect you personally, and your information is from youtube videos

examples?

like im trying to get a fix on what you consider gambling

are loot boxes gambling?

ok

see, i was misunderstanding you

in csgo there are actual 3rd party odds based vegas styled gambling sites

i would support the banning of loot box style play in games not rated M/PEGI 18

yes, there i agree

granted i am of the belief that targeting children through marketing is fairly slimy

god only knows how much of my college fund was spent on gi joes and mutant turtles

games have gotten p. bad

i still find it hard to support more regulation of any kind

you're never getting that power back

thank god, i need financial advice

i feel like before i could do more than dabble in the invisible fake money as opposed to the paper fake money, i would need to see proof of someone taking paper money, investing in crypto, then ending up with a paper money profit

with bitcoin raw, at a dealship?

yeah

if you dont mind my asking a personal question, what is the most btc you've ever converted back into physical currency, be it usd/euro/yen/whatever

im satisfied with the answers, ty dunkle

why?

you can literally buy an american made, billet milled receiver akm made by century for under a grand

there arent any 'cheap ak vars' anymore, you'll pay 5-600 for a wasr 10 or some bulg variant

the comedy option is to buy blanks, a press, and the dies to make your own stamped receivers, telling yourself that in the long run you'll save money cause you want to make like 10 aks