Miles O'Brien

A moderator with no sense of humor probably just stubbed his toe before reading it.

I’ve always wondered what it’s like.

Turns out, (according to the US government) I was experiencing it all along.

/uj You know, I’ve known someone who plays violin for decades, I’ve helped her practice, attended concerts, she even tried to teach me a few things on it here and there…

I have never seen that piece.

Neat!

/j Always acquire/make a suppressor, it’s not just about your own hearing, it’s about being a good quiet neighbor. Really you’re just doing everyone else a public service.

Ah yes, the classic Grand Ship of Sissyphus Problem.

This has stumped philosophers since the dawn of the cretaceous.

There’s also one where the child is intersex and collapses during their basketball game.

An important feature that shouldn’t be overlooked.

5 is alive.

NO DISASSEMBLE!

Lol hasn’t had a job since she popped out of religious college in the early 80s.

My mother in law is absolutely convinced that democrats are going to go marching around with guns to drag her and her family out into the street to be executed.

If she realized there was still space to the left of “Democrat” on the politician field she’d have an aneurism.

That’s less of a ship and more of a “it’s stated in the story itself”

I mean, personally I don’t love any of my bros like I would my wife… That’s just me, but you do you.

dark patterns

“Well if the game is too dark, then we would notice in the video and besides small children being afraid of the dark, you can just turn up the screen brightness”

-Some old as fuck asshole who doesn’t really know much about the tech world anymore, assuming they ever did.

The text: “men make other men feel like shit for having emotions”

This guy: “Wow it’s still clearly the women’s fault, stop blaming other people”

The jokes just write themselves here.

The most reliable one I have uses an AR style fire control group, and large metal pieces for the bolt, and pre-hardened hydraulic tubing for the barrel.

There’s plenty of metal in it, all held together via 3d printed parts and frame

The only things I needed to buy that I would consider “from a firearm” or “from a gun store” would be the fire control group. Everything else was bought from McMaster Carr or local hardware stores.

Spot on with the woodworking. I’ve made a couple stocks for my grandfather’s old broken long rifles. It’s just more time consuming. (also my 3d printer isn’t that long)

The ones I have use 3d printed frames, the fire control group and barrels are metal with 3d printed pieces for making the rifling.

All the parts that take repeated heavy abuse are reinforced with extra thickness or different infil, but by weight I’d say it’s about 50/50 metal/plastic.

The 3d printed lowers are quite basic, and since they aren’t designed to take a ton of stress anyway, it’s not really hard to find a decent design.

All my parts are printed in pla+, and I do minimal work afterwards to make things perfect, only what is necessary for the mechanical parts to cycle properly.

I actually haven’t been keeping up the last few years, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are even better methods than the ones I’ve used.

Important to note: 3D PRINTED FIREARMS DO NOT BREAK WITH A FEW USES

Firsthand knowledge.

200-250 rounds and still going strong, inspected before and after firing every time

No damage so far.

Beyond that point, I agree with everything posted.

I read it more as “saying this will contribute to” rather than “proof of”

shitty game devs couldn’t cater to their paying customers

Oh look, OP caught one!

Easy to say from the comfort of your armchair.

The very first meme I saw was “You think killing CEOs of large corporations is funny? I do and I’m tired of pretending it’s not”

Some of us just never bothered pretending. That shit’s hilarious.

Every time my family brings up some character they believe “didn’t need to be gay”, I start bringing up movies I know they like that have unnecessarily ham-fisted romances that make no sense.

To all the people who think Pacific Rim would have been improved by Raleigh and Mako kissing at the end, you are wrong. There was 0 need for romance in a movie about giant robots beating the shit out of giant alien monsters.

Most action movies don’t need their little romance subplots, yet they’re everywhere.

Most movies would be mostly unchanged if you took out any romantic entanglement at all.

9/10 times, they’re all unnecessary.

But if they’re going to be crammed in, they should be representative. Lgbtq+ exist. They deserve representation.

My family has mostly stopped mentioning it around me.