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FN-49 battle rifle (hexbear.net)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I recently watched Designated Survivor: 60 Days which I felt was decent on this topic. Spoilers for the first couple of episodes:

spoilerThe current president was working on a peace treaty with North Korea, but the National Assembly gets bombed along with most of the government. Our protagonist is the remaining designated survivor and becomes the acting president, and the first couple of episodes tackle him and the remaining survivors of the previous president's staff trying to prevent the psychos in the military from starting a war - especially since during a state of war, control goes over to the Americans, which I wasn't expecting the show to actually bring up.

The American commander even shows up demanding South Korea goes over to a more severe DEFCON level (and thus hand over control to the country), and rather un-diplomatically, openly declares "Your actions are in direct defiance of the will of Washington!" once they refuse.

The North Koreans initially refuse to communicate via the hotline between the two governments, which of course the military psychos use to support their intention for war, but it's pointed out that it's really the US and Japan (which sent a ship into Korean territorial waters) that are escalating tensions - why should North Korea be the one to de-escalate (and, given what was pointed out earlier, how can they even trust negotiations if it's possible the Americans are actually in charge)?


But this was 2019, during the Moon Jae-In presidency and the attempts at reconciliation then, so maybe this was just reflective of the political climate at the time.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

damn, when did I manage to post that much oooaaaaaaauhhh

I wonder who has the highest posts-to-comments ratio, a true posting warrior who cultivated Inner Post while everyone else was commenting in the megathreads xi-reactionary-spotted

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

one of my favorite bits in Freeman's Mind is him rationalizing the batshit level design as Black Mesa making sure to fully spend its budget

"If we don't spend a billion dollars one year, then we don't get a billion dollars the next year. And if we don't get a billion dollars the next year, then we have to go and spend more money on lobbyists to get the laws changed so that we get our billion dollars the year after that! ... in the long run it's probably faster and cheaper just to build a giant nutcracker, write it off and be done with it."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

yeah, I think the idea was to achieve ambidextrous controls without having to double the controls on both sides of the gun (as you would need to with a more typical thumb safety/selector), but it doesn't seem to have caught on outside of these two specific FN guns

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Love the Half-Life games, although I definitely prefer 2 over 1. I dunno, I've never really got the takes that the games are outdated, I really wish I lived in the world where they were because I'd fucking love to have more games like this, but I really don't see anything that has surpassed HL2 (I can see it to some extent with HL1), there's just something about it. Even with the whole boomer shooter trend, most games seem to be taking inspiration from the earlier generation of shooters, few true HL2-style games around.

Black Mesa's alright, but I really don't like a lot of the changes that were made. Never understood the On A Rail hate (especially when, like, Residue Processing exists, no way On A Rail is worse than endless fucking conveyor belts), I actually genuinely love all the vehicle segments and wish more games had that "road-trip where you occasionally stop to explore a little or deal with something blocking the path" vibe, Metro: Last Light had its own On A Rail style section and it was pretty good. So that getting cut down was kind of annoying, and Xen I just really don't like - it drags way worse than the original ever did, that one cable puzzle just comes up again and again, and aesthetically, while the whole space jungle thing is kind of neat (and the "Sauron-eye tower as landmark to indicate how close you are to the end" is really cool, although of course HL2 did that with the Citadel too to some extent, but I just love shit like that, give me less minimaps with objective markers and more massive towers for me to inch towards), the barren wasteland (or really, little pockets of floating mini-wastelands) of the original Xen makes it feel so much more unique, and, well, alien. I've had several Black Mesa playthroughs which just fizzle out at that point - maybe the final section is better, but I've played through it so few times because my spirit was drained by cable puzzles that I can't really comment on what happens there.

How about other mods? There's just so much amazing stuff, HL1 in particular basically has several extra expansion packs thanks to mods - Echoes, Field Intensity and Delta Particles are all amazing and I would pretty much consider them on the level of the actual expansions (maybe even better than Blue Shift, tbh), maybe short of voice acting but that's understandable for free mods. Plenty of great stuff for HL2 as well.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

far better military protection for the people of Canada

PROTECTION FROM WHO, DONALD just-one-small-problem

I love the random capitalization too, Lumber a-little-trolling folks, we're going to have so much Lumber a-little-trolling, more Lumber a-little-trolling than you've ever seen before

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"I see... so that's what the signal is" is still my favorite bit from this video, I chuckle every time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yep! They've really got everything there (not sure if many SMGs have made it to Yemen though, there might not be much interest in smaller weapons if basically everyone can get an AK... you can get a PPSh though)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Belgium and Portugal have adopted it as their service rifles, plus lots of smaller contracts here and there for various special forces and police units: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_SCAR#Users. The SCAR-H also seems some use, mainly in its DMR variants - the French for example adopted it to replace their Cold War-era sniper rifles.

But in the US civilian market, yes, it's not that popular (but that's generally the case for anything that's not an AR-15 - import restrictions mean stuff costs a lot more that it's supposed to, so a lot of European manufacturers' rifles that were designed as cheap mass-adoption items instead end up as essentially boutique products, at which point the price isn't really justifiable for anyone who's not a collector)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There seems to be a 1950 marking on the receiver, which would preclude it from being a non-Soviet AK.

Chinese AKs also have a fully-hooded front sight, as opposed to the semi-hooded one on most other AKs, that's one of the main ways to tell them apart since it's pretty unique feature

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

the peak in STALKER

the '80s-90s really were such a good time for gun aesthetics, it's been all downhill since the quad-rail was invented doggirl-gloom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's a compact variant of the QSZ-92, which would be the full-length USP in this analogy. It's pretty neat, it's also got a relatively unique rotating barrel setup, rather than the Browning tilting barrel seen on the vast majority of modern pistols.

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