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My brother and friend had been wanting to take me to the gun range for months now after having done it a few times themselves. With nothing to do today and feeling adventurous I decided why not, I'll be an American™ for a few hours. The men running the range were nice enough fellows, although I got to admit the armed officer hanging around the side of the building looked sheisty as hell, and I didn't approve of the "terrorist" target at all, but I'm not about to make a scene in front of a bunch of armed dudes.I register, watch the safety video, sign up, give them my ID, and we buy the gear- guns, ammo, targets, eye and ear protection. We spent time working on the ear plugs; I was warned that improperly plugging your ears could result in painful tinnitus. Even then that doesn't prepare you for the first time you hear a gun being fired at close range. The moment you open the safety door and someone fires, it's simultaneously like having a balloon popped in your face and having your body shoved in the stereo of an EDM concert. You feel it reverberating through your body as much as you hear it. It's jarring and induced a lizard-brain desire to run, but I merely cinched up before calming down and making my way to my lane.The guns of choice were a .45 and .9 pistol, a FN SCAR 17 rifle, and a classic six-chamber revolver (yes, we all said "It's High Noon;" fight us.) I was given an overview on the safeties, chambers, and proper handling and posture for each, and immediately understood I would never be able to load these in time during a live fight. Loading magazines sucks. It's like a PEZ dispenser with an attitude.Shooting was equally intense. The .45's recoil fought back and I was unable to keep the gun steady; got one shot on the edge of the target. The .9 was comparatively a breeze and something I could handle one-handed. The revolver's recoil wasn't bad, but the trigger is five miles long and the anticipation throws you off. Better to just forego squeezing after a point.The SCAR was the highlight. My brother fired it first while me and my friends were talking. We thought we had become desensitized to the gunfire around us and were hosting conversation. My brother pulled the trigger once and we scattered into the corner. Even from a meter and a half away you can feel the air rushing from the gun as it fires. That thing rocks your bones. I worked up the nerve to fire it a couple of times, and would have done more if the damn rifle wasn't so heavy. That's another thing they don't tell you in the movies: guns are really heavy! Even the pistols feel like sad lumps of lead.I say all of this to say this: I have done what gun fans have asked of their opponents. I learned proper safety and handling. I have come to better understand the mechanical and etymological differences between different guns. I learned how to properly use the sights. I shot them with an average degree of accuracy.The experience only cemented my stance to never own one.I never felt comfortable firing, and I think part of that is because I didn't want to allow myself to become so. The power somehow manages to only become more indescribable and kind of horrible when you actually use one, because then you start contextualizing how it must feel to actually be hit by a bullet rocketing from something that is that heavy, that loud, that explosive. I couldn't imagine. I don't really want to, and it weirds me out to think that there are individuals out there obsessed with owning these things.So yeah, a bit of abyss staring. I don't begrudge going to the range. It was fun in a daredevil way, particularly with how chickenshit me and my friend were, and I am not ruling out going to there again. But gun ownership? Not for this American. Again, I can barely load magazines. x.x
maybe if amazon paid him a reasonable amount of money he wouldn't feel tempted to steal things
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-fired-real-guns-for-the-first-time-today.158027/Quote from: Nepenthe, post: 27191092, member: 1995My brother and friend had been wanting to take me to the gun range for months now after having done it a few times themselves. With nothing to do today and feeling adventurous I decided why not, I'll be an American™ for a few hours. The men running the range were nice enough fellows, although I got to admit the armed officer hanging around the side of the building looked sheisty as hell, and I didn't approve of the "terrorist" target at all, but I'm not about to make a scene in front of a bunch of armed dudes.I register, watch the safety video, sign up, give them my ID, and we buy the gear- guns, ammo, targets, eye and ear protection. We spent time working on the ear plugs; I was warned that improperly plugging your ears could result in painful tinnitus. Even then that doesn't prepare you for the first time you hear a gun being fired at close range. The moment you open the safety door and someone fires, it's simultaneously like having a balloon popped in your face and having your body shoved in the stereo of an EDM concert. You feel it reverberating through your body as much as you hear it. It's jarring and induced a lizard-brain desire to run, but I merely cinched up before calming down and making my way to my lane.The guns of choice were a .45 and .9 pistol, a FN SCAR 17 rifle, and a classic six-chamber revolver (yes, we all said "It's High Noon;" fight us.) I was given an overview on the safeties, chambers, and proper handling and posture for each, and immediately understood I would never be able to load these in time during a live fight. Loading magazines sucks. It's like a PEZ dispenser with an attitude.Shooting was equally intense. The .45's recoil fought back and I was unable to keep the gun steady; got one shot on the edge of the target. The .9 was comparatively a breeze and something I could handle one-handed. The revolver's recoil wasn't bad, but the trigger is five miles long and the anticipation throws you off. Better to just forego squeezing after a point.The SCAR was the highlight. My brother fired it first while me and my friends were talking. We thought we had become desensitized to the gunfire around us and were hosting conversation. My brother pulled the trigger once and we scattered into the corner. Even from a meter and a half away you can feel the air rushing from the gun as it fires. That thing rocks your bones. I worked up the nerve to fire it a couple of times, and would have done more if the damn rifle wasn't so heavy. That's another thing they don't tell you in the movies: guns are really heavy! Even the pistols feel like sad lumps of lead.I say all of this to say this: I have done what gun fans have asked of their opponents. I learned proper safety and handling. I have come to better understand the mechanical and etymological differences between different guns. I learned how to properly use the sights. I shot them with an average degree of accuracy.The experience only cemented my stance to never own one.I never felt comfortable firing, and I think part of that is because I didn't want to allow myself to become so. The power somehow manages to only become more indescribable and kind of horrible when you actually use one, because then you start contextualizing how it must feel to actually be hit by a bullet rocketing from something that is that heavy, that loud, that explosive. I couldn't imagine. I don't really want to, and it weirds me out to think that there are individuals out there obsessed with owning these things.So yeah, a bit of abyss staring. I don't begrudge going to the range. It was fun in a daredevil way, particularly with how chickenshit me and my friend were, and I am not ruling out going to there again. But gun ownership? Not for this American. Again, I can barely load magazines. x.xCan’t wait for the “I just bought an AR-15 with 30% interest over 10 years” thread.
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'showing their ass' is such a weird turn of phrase, hilarious in it's inability to articulate what it means without having context of where and how it's used.
Every time they get their pitchforks for ScarJoe or whomever someone should just start spamming the Daisy Ridley thread where they contort themselves in mental gymnastics for ethics in Star Wars journalism.
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Quote from: Momo on December 09, 2019, 01:26:22 AM(Image removed from quote.) Completely naked ScarJo in that movie. I was not prepared.
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A ghoul is a mythical creature that keeps itself alive by feeding off of the dead.
QuoteWhats ironic is so many of these posters want to call out criticism of star wars as being littered with sexism, discrimination, etc (which there is a lot of) but then here do everything they can to defend a white privilege response and saying that asking about privilege is somehow an unfair and trap question, completely tuning out a legitimate question regarding an incredibly important issue in society by a female journalist of color. Theyre showing their asses for the hypocrites they are. They only care about these issues so much as in they can use them to shield star wars from criticism.https://www.resetera.com/threads/daisy-ridley-denies-that-her-privilege-made-her-more-confident-to-navigate-her-celebrity-compares-her-experience-to-co-star-john-boyega.157846/post-27183021Giving the asexuals power should have happened in RE a long time ago if it meant all the Rey avatars get their shit bombed out like this
Whats ironic is so many of these posters want to call out criticism of star wars as being littered with sexism, discrimination, etc (which there is a lot of) but then here do everything they can to defend a white privilege response and saying that asking about privilege is somehow an unfair and trap question, completely tuning out a legitimate question regarding an incredibly important issue in society by a female journalist of color. Theyre showing their asses for the hypocrites they are. They only care about these issues so much as in they can use them to shield star wars from criticism.
QuoteI don't really think anyone in the casting department cared about what school she went to so it's kind of a "gotcha" question.If there was privilege in her getting the role and even Boyega and Issac getting their roles, it's because they're relatively good looking people to begin with. Which goes for about 95% of actors. She ain't getting cast if she looked like this, I don't care how many private schools she went to or how posh of an upbringing she had.*photo*Any reason you chose to use the photo of a woman who happens to write about intersectional feminism in order to make your point? A photo that is only found in one particular article on the entire internet and nowhere else?
I don't really think anyone in the casting department cared about what school she went to so it's kind of a "gotcha" question.If there was privilege in her getting the role and even Boyega and Issac getting their roles, it's because they're relatively good looking people to begin with. Which goes for about 95% of actors. She ain't getting cast if she looked like this, I don't care how many private schools she went to or how posh of an upbringing she had.*photo*
Privilidge isn't just personal wealth
Not only I was never a fan of the "angry review thing" but I am still bitter about the ghostbuster thing
Why? He (rightly) didn't see the point of reviewing an unnecessary movie and addressed it in video-form instead of him being bombarded with spam (probably didn't work out the way he anticipated). That's all it was but people made it about something else.
His reasons were bullshit. He is a fan of the franchise, he reviewed other "unnecessary" movies, he reviewed worst stuff from the franchise.Hell, calling the movie unnecessary and not others is already something for me to be bitter about.I bet he will review the new one and it is as unnecessary as the women one
legacyzero , what's it like always being the smartest, funniest, most righteous alpha Übermensch in the room?
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/anybody-whos-arguing-trump-is-losing-or-in-trouble-theyre-lying-to-you-man-tim-pool-finally-goes-alt-right.1514476/#post-256150324Quote from: Evilorelegacyzero , what's it like always being the smartest, funniest, most righteous alpha Übermensch in the room?
I don’t understand this ban? He’s sharing his opinion on the same topic as everyone else in this thread. Was he warned? Why just him. I’m condused...
https://www.resetera.com/threads/daisy-ridley-denies-that-her-privilege-made-her-more-confident-to-navigate-her-celebrity-compares-her-experience-to-co-star-john-boyega.157846/post-27199237QuoteI don’t understand this ban? He’s sharing his opinion on the same topic as everyone else in this thread. Was he warned? Why just him. I’m condused...
User banned (1 day): driving thread derail over multiple posts
I don't understand this. How did Obama allow this colossal waste of financial and human resources (not to mention the deliberate fudging of metrics to make it seem like U.S. was winning the war? That's just...villain behavior. It's evil. Was all of Obama's image a lie? Is he the gigantic asshole these facts suggest?I mean, I get Bush and Trump doing this, but Obama's invovlement shocks me to my core. I thought of him as a good guy.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thoughts-on-cinemassacre-avgn.158064/Quote from: Platy, post: 27197256, member: 1376Not only I was never a fan of the "angry review thing" but I am still bitter about the ghostbuster thingQuote from: eXistor, post: 27197289, member: 15651Why? He (rightly) didn't see the point of reviewing an unnecessary movie and addressed it in video-form instead of him being bombarded with spam (probably didn't work out the way he anticipated). That's all it was but people made it about something else.Quote from: Platy, post: 27197345, member: 1376His reasons were bullshit. He is a fan of the franchise, he reviewed other "unnecessary" movies, he reviewed worst stuff from the franchise.Hell, calling the movie unnecessary and not others is already something for me to be bitter about.I bet he will review the new one and it is as unnecessary as the women one
James' voice changed drastically and it wasn't as good.
Just listen between a current episode and like a 100th something episode from 2013. Around 2013 was the voice changing started to happen. He just sounds like a 40 year old man yelling.
“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”
Obama is a black face for white supremacy and maintenance of the status quo, this Flint debacle was typical of the man. He was never an ally to the people in Flint, or to black America as a whole.
Quote Obama is a black face for white supremacy and maintenance of the status quo, this Flint debacle was typical of the man. He was never an ally to the people in Flint, or to black America as a whole. User Banned (3 Months): Racismhttps://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-fans-how-do-you-feel-about-obama-drinking-the-flint-water.158111/#post-27204521
Got a feeling there will be an update on this where it turns out the poster was black
I am black. And my father's family is from Flint. Some of them still live there. Obama doesn't get a pass on this. It was unacceptable.
Quote from: Boredfrom on December 09, 2019, 01:52:51 PMQuote Obama is a black face for white supremacy and maintenance of the status quo, this Flint debacle was typical of the man. He was never an ally to the people in Flint, or to black America as a whole. User Banned (3 Months): Racismhttps://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-fans-how-do-you-feel-about-obama-drinking-the-flint-water.158111/#post-27204521Got a feeling there will be an update on this where it turns out the poster was black
When are the Asian and Autism summits? As an anime fan, I feel like I have a lot to add to both.
Quote“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”You protected the poppy frens
He is probably as black as Enzom. He sounds like a obnoxious prick but I don’t find his post particularly racist.
Quote from: Nintex on December 09, 2019, 01:47:03 PMQuote“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”You protected the poppy frens war against an abstract noun is inherently lacking a victory condition?
