Mike_West

Well, lads, I went on a shopping spree, got myself one of those APS NotGlocks (by the way, what internals are they based on, TM/WE?) and some extra gubbins (that underbarrel greeble styled after Kriss Vector and a top rail) for a cyberpunk-themed project. Good thing that the gun has an internal 11mm thread in the barrel, so I can use the short can and adapter I got back when I bought my P228. Now I'm considering a red-dot for it. I intend to bash the Vector greeble and the top rail together for more style and functionality, but AliExpress has those flip-up dot sights with Glock mounts for slightly less than the RIS version and I'm torn between style (at the risk of rocking the sight to *suitcase* with CO2-powered full auto of death) and functionality (that involves a lot of elbow grease, as I'll need extra supports bolted under the side rails to hold the Vector greeble and the top rail together). Also, I'm doing pretty fine in COD: Blackout. Once again I found a good Battle Royale game for me (after those dipweeds from Hi-Rez ruined Realm Royale by removing character classes).

So I was looking for Glock compensators. The one I like costs $75, mounts on the spring guide... and it's for real steel. Reminds me of that time when I was considering sourcing that Kel-Tec folding rifle stock (SU-16 was it?) for a WE PLR-16 related project (because admit it, a suppressed SU-16 SBR build would look hella cool). I mean, I managed to source a RS cylinder axis screw and nut for my Tanaka SAA, and it works, but there's a difference between "some screw" and "half a gun" to the jobsworths at customs office.

Now if you excuse me, I will scream and flail incoherently all the same.

Nothing new, same thing happened in the original RDR.

Does anyone play the COD Black Ops 4 battle royale mode? I find it pretty decent.

Yep, it seems that the local importers lost all interest in those.

I can't find a GBB Glock 18 for sale anywhere, and since it's supposed to be a video prop first and foremost I will consider anything else (like AEP) a last-ditch alternative.

Well, I just earned $20. As a "consultancy fee". It's a story. I'm in a Facebook group for designers and other people looking for help with fonts. Since I know a lot of that stuff, and what I don't know I can look up with some black belt Google-Fu, I'm usually the first one responding when it comes to horror, fantasy, sci-fi and general old commercial fonts. Now, this guy turned up yesterday and asked about fonts used by "Tom Hammonds Enterprises" logo - a terrible thing hammered together in a vector editor in the previous century. One font is Windows' Lucida Handwriting, which should give you a hint how bad it was. Another one's Slipstream, a ridiculously old design used for racing-themed logos and bundled with CorelDraw long ago. Then, there's the third one. A weird, angular, old sci-fi kinda thing. Itched my brain something fierce, so I told him, it's probably something I saw on Dafont (a massively popular free font site) sometime, but I'll look it up later as I should have it stashed somewhere. Now, since I do have a stash of old fonts I copied from my old bootleg CorelDraw 7 disc, I went through it after my evening Twitch stream and there it was: Dex Gothic. I give the guy the name and link to Myfonts where he can purchase it, and he says I deserve $20 for that. I'm all like "Dude, you serious?", and it turns out he is. The thing is, "Tom Hammonds" is his client, THE Tom Hammonds, NBA star, drag racer, auto salon owner, which suddenly explained why the logo used Slipstream in the first place. All for what, five minutes of searching and knowing some things outright? I can work with that.

They cut mine down, and I keep the same number for almost 20 years now, with the same SIM to boot. A guy from a phone stall at a mall did it for me, the card works. Also, yes, they can transfer your number and account to a new SIM card without problems.

Wait, so the funds on your Paypal accounts aren't transferred to your bank accounts immediately? You could just use bank transfer and call it a day then...

So my neighbor helped me shoot some greenscreen sequences for my new stream intro, and now all that's left are location shoots that I planned for the upcoming Sunday.

Well, Company 2 is, as it turned out, Subcompany 1. They're also taking orders of their own, but demand unreasonable things (I mean, c'mon, why be so anal-retentive as to demand serial number of the fridge and refuse to take an order otherwise, when orders sent from Company 1 don't require those, just the model number?), and their contact person was apparently confused while calling me as not only she confused Friday and Monday, but also fridge and washing machine. During the same call. When I asked her if she's sure that's what she means. Also, I would like to remind you, some people here, particularly the higher-ups in various companies and, particularly, government offices, tend to create procedures that are heavy on bureaucrazy. Those procedures may contradict other procedures, laws and common sense, but none of that is a reason to change them.

Correction: after having the company REFUSE with a particularly BS excuse, then pick up the request from a middleman without the excuse, then having them a mistake about the arrangement (because they called me on Thursday and asked if the Friday date was OK, so I asked "what Friday date?" and they said they had it scheduled on Friday - when they didn't, causing me to waste a day off), and finally asking Ł35 for a fifteen-minute fix (on top of a Ł35 replacement part). Also, my friend is turning into a bible-thumping kook.

My fridge has been repaired at last. Sure, it cost me 70 quid and half of that was one spare part that gave out (an electric motor for air circulation), but now I can enjoy a cold one. Also, I found more than enough songs to use as my Shadow Warrior 2 stream intro.

Also, I noticed that AliExpress has a lot of cheap Devtac helmet knockoffs. When I know how much repairing the fridge will cost me, I might consider.