Half Life Masks:

Ah, yep, you're completely right, its the ShMS masks that are much closer to the Civil Protection design, though in the game they're ... somewhere between hard plastic and metal, not squishy rubber, going by the texture/reflectance/normalmap/phongmap.

History of military gas masks:

Sounds entirely on point to me, significant detail and it all logically follows, and comports with what I know of military history/tactics/equipment.

MSA Millenium Mask:

Welp, stylistically at least, I totally agree, that thing looks incredible.

Also makes sense that it would basically only be used in some kind of terrorism response situation, ala Tom Clancy's proverbial Rainbow Six team, but not for... general military use in an admittedly unconventional situation... given its seemingly fairly extreme cost.

Submissive Mask Grovelling:

Well, hah, I could play the dom a bit as well... if you ask nicely.

You have more than proven your aptitude as a suitable servant, but... compliance has not yet really been established, muchless tested.

...

Ahem.

So yeah I normally feel a lot more comfortable playing a dom in person... kind of a bad idea to just default to that in general, in a pseudonymous, mostly text based format, especially where consent has not yet been established explicitly.

That and... the micro expressions.

The little pants and sighs and intonations.

The posture shifts.

The... twitches.

Sometimes... even the smell.

Its much more... present, visceral, in person, really hard to capture that digitally, even with modern VR stuff.

Selfishly, its more rewarding, and beyond that, just more informative, lets me be able to gauge how good of a job I'm actually doing.

... you could maybe wear your mask if you beg for it.

... Ahem.

But yes, tariffs very bad, actually.

I guess I would politely appreciate a suggestion toward something... reasonably useful and reasonable wearable and reasonably affordable?

You are after all an actual connissuer of gas masks, I'd be an idiot to not recognize your actual expertise here.

M65? Ok, I can start there.

And you say... no beard?

As in totally clean shaven?

Or, as in, ~ a quarter inch worth of moderately groomed 5 o clock would be... annoying, but manageable?

... the dexterity for fitting should not be a problem, nor should the required persistence.

I managed to survive ~2 years of homelessness with an entirely crippled dominant... hand, wrist, shoulder, entire side, leg, ankle...

I managed to teach myself how to cook entirely left handed, also taking account my near total inability to stand or walk... I think I can handle a gas mask, can't be much worse than jerry rigging my own slings and splints and such, again, entirely weak handed.

Especially after a year of daily PT.

... clocked with a baton round?

I've taken a good number of blows in my life, last one I really remember was more or less an unarmed tomahawk chop from a guy with at least 2 inches of height and 40 lbs of muscle over me...

I just tanked it with my skull, didn't even try to block it.

... I was a karateka for around a decade.

A good basic stance can go a long way.

Many vs me situation, I was prioritizing delaying and intimidating them.

... This did work, toward those ends.

But... a baton roundel... is a lot more dense, a lot smaller surface area, and easier to get a lot more leverage with.

... I probably would have eventually died from a brain bleed, fractured cranium, if I tried that tactic against that same guy, but with a baton.

You are only impressing me more and more.

I very rarely encounter people so... varied in lived experiences, yet also of similar mindset, and interests.

Hopefully you are familiar with Cowboy Bebop, and understand when I say:

"I like the kind of woman who will just actually kill me."