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    Forum updates, feedback system and new versions

    By Arnie

    Firstly I'm going to try to document forum updates and other work completed to the site here in my forum blog. This will keep all the forum related updates in one place.   I've completed several updates to the forums today. We're now running the latest IPS versions for Gallery and Blog. There should be several bug fixes and feature adjustments with these new versions; I don't get a list I'm afraid or I'd publish it.   I've also taken comments on the trading system on board and we now have a
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Snowman's Blog

'Living' in America II

Still here in Cincinnati OH.   I visited TargetWorld, one of the local shooting ranges and gunshops, but wasn't able to use the range.   It seems it is possible for non-US citizens to rent and shoot at ranges, but only if you go with a US Citizen (or legal resident with a hunting permit - at least, that was the story from TargetWorld here in Cincinnati), which was a shame, but just looking around their store was interesting - Tanaka's S&W 500 is stunningly realistic, but the real H&
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

If something's worth Doing it's worth OverDoing.

That's been my philosophy for years now, and is the reason I have a bit of a drink problem. Happily, though, this also continues into airsoft and is the reason for my quite sizeable collection.   You gotta take the rough with the smooth, eh?   It all started with the clubbing scene; got into that at the age of about quite-some-years-younger-than-I-should-have-been and ended up with a fondness for all kinds of things-that-I-shouldn't-have-been-allowed (although I am the first to admit it
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Hardcore's blog

Home again....

Back in Glasgow now after going home for the panto, which was great fun I didn't manage to get any baking done this weekend, however, which was upsetting because we were going to make chilli shaped gingerbread biscuits for hanging on our Mexican themed christmas tree. I can always get round to it later, I suppose, as well as making my (now famous) chocolate chip cookies, and a chocolate christmas cake.   I'm about half way through my last archaeology essay of the season, so I can look forwa
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

Too many guns?

Sometimes I think about my collection and think "Oh dear god, I really cannot be bothered to like these things any more" Really, I do. It almost becomes an effort to give a damn about it all and, if I'm being perfectly honest, the forums here are the only thing that keeps me going in the world of airsoft sometimes.   Now maybe, just perhaps-maybe-ish, my interest is renewed mostly out of a sense of greed, one-upmanship and arrogance. Just maybe.   I won't deny that I look at the boards
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Hardcore's blog

a little better than last time

Well, after a day in bed yesterday I'm feeling a lot better than when I made my last blog entry. I may still take evilhippy's advice and go see my doctor about a seratonin imbalance, but for now I'm just going to be hopeful and see how I feel for the next few days.   Today, I'm going home for the weekend. My dear brother Caboose is acting in the local pantomime, so I'm going to see him. I love panto, it gets me all excited for christmas I've got to do some pre-christmas baking at some point
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Snowman's Blog

'Living' in America...

Well, here I am stuck in the USA for 9 days.   Now, I've been to the US before. I've skiied in Vermont (Quite nice, but a little run down on the whole) and visited California (LA - YUCK!! - and San Francisco, which is lovely) a few times on business and pleasure trips, but at the moment I'm in Cincinnati on the banks of the O-Hio (and it's business again... ).   It's a funny old place, but, I suspect, more like the real America than SF or LA. People seem to be blimp huge or skeleton thin,
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

Education Education Edu..Whatnow?!

A mention here for my father and all people like him: he was a devoted teacher for 37 years. Now, there is a widespread belief out there in the public domain that teachers are some alien breed of sadists or are simply inept, at best, purposefully and maliciously intent on disrupting people's youths, at worst.   The sad fact is that, in my reasonable experience and knowledge, there is slight justification for even the most negative extremes, and a fair bit of evidence that seems to corrobor
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Death and Vengeance...

FOR THE GLORY OF KHORNE!

Ok, so I went to London for a job interview for a DJ gig out in Greece. I have apparently got the job, but I'm not counting my chickens till I have something in writing. Keep your fingers crossed for me.   Electrowerkz was fun, despite a minor incident where I got shot in the throat - wierd angle and it got past my neoprene, and my throat went into spasms. I couldn't breath in enough air through my neoprene mask to stop the spasms and ended up in a corner quietly hyperventilating until Janno
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Hardcore's blog

Tum tee tum....

....and the twiddling of thumbs ensued. It's amazing how much time can pass when nothing really happens.   Ghost went to London. Then he came back today. My past few days were basically spent waiting for him to come home, whilst feeling tired, stressed, ill and hungry.   There's not really a lot of content to this entry, just wanting to let anyone who regularly reads it to know that I'm still alive. Also to let off a bit of a moan about the above feelings of ickiness. I seriously need to
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

Grand Theft Auto: Hampshire

Well, it certainly would provide me some good few hours of entertainment; marching through West Quay shopping centre blowing up all the virtual `Claire's Accesories`-style boutiques, wasting hundreds of digitally recreated So'ton chavs, and finally obliterating that goddamned misery-peddling McDonalds on the top floor.   Not ever going to happen, sadly, yet despite this apparent rage towards humanity I would only ever take pleasure in doing it `pretend`; in a simulated computer generated env
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

Battery Shenanigans

One thing I really get wound up about are my poxy bloody batteries. I thought that ithe situation of cr*ppy charges would be resolved when I got my shiny new TLP charger, but nooo, that's just made me genuinely annoyed about it, because before I could lay all the blame at the feet of the fact that I didn't have an automatic, or `smart`, charger.   I'm going back to a plug & wire jobby, I swear.   The damn thing failed completely (failed I tell you failed!!! Ahem.) failed, I say, to ev
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

I'm so happeee! Oh so happeee! *murders bunny*

On the plus side: I now have a Classic Army M249. Also on the plus side I got Dog Soldiers last night and watched that again, rather a good film and I always do like Sean Pertwee's sarcastic and amusingly vulgar roles.   On the down side, I broke my 3-day abstainance from booze to celebrate the arrival of the Minimi, and ended up with a head full of swirly C2H6OH brain-stabbing vengeance upon waking this morning.   Hangovers do not a happy worker bunny make; send in the poachers and take t
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HaVoC's Blog

Sold gear, Kimber inbound!

Well that was fun.   The ALICE kit below arrived, I set it up, I hated it, I sold it.   I also sold my Hi-Capa.   Now on the way is tom fahey's WA Kimber MARSOC, with 4 mags total and a Gemtech TRL lanyard. Quite a sweet deal for £140 all told!   In the future, I plan a full-metal Prime slide and frame set, and a Surefire Classic light.
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

Honour bound to kill you.

It is a truly great thing when you are genuinely happy to die. It means you are content with your acheivements, satisfied of your life's efforts, and have a succesor you are proud to have as your descendant and protege. You have come to terms with your mortality and the cessation of your own brief existence can be reconciled by the knowledge of other's flourishing timelines that move forward in your wake. The acceptance that one can only acheive so much in one lifetime is, hopefully, a comfort
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

Is there an echo in here, or was it that grenade?

I'm echoing Ghost_Rider's feelings about blanks here as I was subjected to a similar treat yesterday. (woohoo)   After a great skirmish, a mate playfully chucked a grenade at my feet, thinking - in my elated post-skirmish state - that he was chucking it over to check it out I stooped down to pick it up. Barely were my fingers within 12 inches from it and it went off, a 12-bore blank delicately traced my earlobes and soothingly ruptured my very eardrum, nervous system, brain and underwear, in
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Death and Vengeance...

OH MY GOD, MY EARS!

Note to self;   Unloading tripwire mines is hazardous. It is easier and better just to set the bastards off before you come home from a skirmish.   I cannot hear out of my left ear and I can *fruitcage*-ing taste cordite.  
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

I'm not sure, but it could be the Black Velvet.

Guiness and champagne. Why not, eh? Lets take two great drinks and mash them up together, guaranteed to make us throw up all over the nearest parked car, ho-ho!! That's what I call a good saturday night!!!!   One thing: It's actually friday. Another thing: it only bloody works, y'know.   The glories of both create a substance that truly is greater than the sum of it's parts. How often do you actually find something like that? Not very, is the answer.   Try it now for the sake of y
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Death and Vengeance...

Back once again like a renegade master....

Well, thanks to a necessary trip to london for an interview for a DJ gig out in Greece, I shall once again be paying a visit to Electrowerkz.   I'm doubly glad cos Situpking and HKChick are gonna be there - I was happy going on my own and hooking up with a few of the guys I played with last time I was down, but having the two of them there will mean it's even more fun.   You know, I never really talked about how good it was last time - the after action report didn't really cover stuff li
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

Am I on my freakin' own here or what?

I just noticed the `latest entries` on the main blogs page are all the same damned entries as they were several days ago - c'mon people! Who cares if you've got work, or uni, or family or friends or pets or girlfriends/boyfriends; the world needs to hear you!   That part of it that both lives on Arnies and also gives a flying fruitcage what a bunch of bloggers think   There are so many things to natter about - look, I'm even nattering about the fact that you lot ain't!!   Writer'
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

Spoiling people's fun.

The way the government works *almost* amuses me, it's like they're serially ruining good things for enterprising people.   I work for a company that sells a lot of railway sleepers, This may seem extraneous at the present time, but bear with me. Railway sleepers were, by and large, coated in coal tar creosote when they were first manufactured, because it's a damn good preservative. It has preserved and maintained most nations garden fences for the last 100 years, for one thing.   We used
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

8mm goodness. For a given value of `good` - ?

I love 8mm. I really, really love it, seriously. I do not get geeky about guns that much and I don't care about the technical stats and abilities of them as much as I should I suppose, but I must say I am smitten by the things: I really am an 8mm fanboy.   It started small, as these things often do, with just about the smallest gun you can get in airsoft (if not the whole world) and that was a Derringer.   It's laughable now, but even then I loved it; loading the double breech with 2 rou
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

Oh, memory lane... (and a cautionary tale)

Thanks to Hardcore Mitsuko's blog entry on talent I am reminded of a similar feeling, and a little story all of my own to tell; Settle down kids, and gather round the fire with uncle Evil ....   "'Twas a dark and stormy night, and..." Bullsh*t alert, no, that's not right. Nope it's not that melodramatic, but it is quite sad (I think so anyway) - I used to draw all the time, I was well known for it; in the social circles I moved in when I was 16 to 20 or thereabouts (and there were quite a f
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EvilHippy's Blog of Joy

I had 8 squillion pints, I did.

I know I've got a bit of an alcohol problem - I don't own a pub yet!! Haha!!! - yeah that's bloody hilarious until you realise that you drink on your own so much more than you do with other people that you now start to hide the bottles from your family.   I know the signs.   I try to put the beers on show now a bit, just in case, y'know, the old man says something; like he did last week and I defended it: I defended it!! The signs, people. That's one of them.   *sips beer*   And I'
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