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Cake day: July 26th, 2024

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  • Tbf even the gau-8 used by the A-10 warthog only has 18 seconds of brrrrrrt. So if anything carryable could last 5 seconds, you’d basically be out of ammo anyways. It’s a way of making it “realistic” without limiting you to the point of making it worthless. Which in reality, in any extended engagement, a ground mini-gun is absolutely worthless. No one person by themselves could use that gun effectively against more than ~10-15 people and only in VERY specific situations. Only in a kamikaze rush would it be of any value. I’d take 3 marksmen with bolt action rifles and iron sights over one dude on foot with a mini-gun all day, every day.

    Mini-guns are very, very good in specific applications, but absolutely worthless in others. But it’s fun in a video game to weird. It’d be unrealistic and OP to carry with enough ammo to make it useful outside of fallout power armor, or a full mech.







  • I have 2 cars in a rural “city” cars are absolutely required here. We used to have a trolley, but it got killed in the GM/Firestone conspiracy. Things could have been so much better and as much as I love my MX-5, overall I totally get fuck cars. I wish I had the option to opt out of ownership. But since I don’t have that option, I chose to maximize the fun, and minimize the damage. It’s honestly the best I can do in the Midwest. If the winters continue to get warmer I can get rid of the Wrangler entirely, which … Fuck that’s not good either. It’d be nice to live in a world without cars, and I want that. I’d absolutely give up both for a bus pass or light rail but logistically, I can’t. And it’s bullshit that that was once an option, but our lives were made worse by capitalism and forces outside of our control.