General GunTuber thread

[HelpingNoone]

I would think desperately wanting to be a woman but seeing nothing but a grotesque parody of femininity staring back at you every time you look in the mirror does a number on your psyche.
Like I said though, while I might lob bitchy remarks about the unconvincing presentation (watching TGF’s shooting videos the male morphology of the upper body is pretty obvious too) my REAL gripe with TGF is that they would probably happily send me to a gulag or just pull a Katyn Forest job on me if they had their way.

contrast this with another trans individual who has appeared in a video with Karl, and on Primary and Secondary - Erin Smith/Erin Sith. Like TGF, Erin is, to be frank, not at all passable, but seems to be a hardcore anti-communist, antifa critic, pro-Liberty, and is someone I would consider to be broadly on “my side”. Because of that I’m more than happy to use her preferred pronouns when talking about her as an expression of respect.

The ideology is definitely more frightening than the theatrics.

You can do you for all I care, but to keep up the charade of "being a woman" while also sharing pictures of your Estrogen shots is counterintuitive.

 

[White Devil]

I don't care if these pronoun monsters share an interest with me, at the end of the day they're insane deviants that need to be in an aslyum or in a grave.

 

[aZk]

I don't care if these pronoun monsters share an interest with me, at the end of the day they're insane deviants that need to be in an aslyum or in a grave.

I don’t dispute the mental illness component. I just have become enough of a nihilist that I don’t really care enough about what Male-to-Female trannies do to have much of an opinion beyond critiquing the quality of their “girl costume” presentation. As far as Female-to-Male trannies go, I care even less. I think having a bit of an artistic background and being something of a detail-oriented connoisseur of the aesthetics of the female form is why I’m so harsh on Male-to-Female trannies.
it’s only when we start getting into language-policing and other aspects of Leftist/Statist authoritarianism that I start REALLY taking legit offense.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

*Sad trumpet music*

 

[White Devil]

it’s only when we start getting into language-policing and other aspects of Leftist/Statist authoritarianism that I start REALLY taking legit offense.

That's all of them. I have yet to see a troon not try to tell others how to think or talk.

 

[aZk]

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*Sad trumpet music*

He will be “repealing” that inexplicable action?

God, Karl is just the crown prince of malapropisms. The degree to which he misspeaks in his videos is comical but actually mis-writing something is a new one.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

If only there was another alternative.

 

[HelpingNoone]

He will be “repealing” that inexplicable action?

God, Karl is just the crown prince of malapropisms. The degree to which he misspeaks in his videos is comical but actually mis-writing something is a new one.

You would think after decades of discussion about "repealing" the 2nd Amendment he might have picked up a thing or two.
I make mistakes when I write stuff. But then again I don't speak to an audience of thousands of people.

Karl comes off as a guy desperately trying to sound intelligent. Contrast that with Ian who is generally precise with his speech.

I can't imagine how those two communicated. And if the rumors are true, it makes sense they are parting ways.

 

[aZk]

You would think after decades of discussion about "repealing" the 2nd Amendment he might have picked up a thing or two.
I make mistakes when I write stuff. But then again I don't speak to an audience of thousands of people.

Karl comes off as a guy desperately trying to sound intelligent. Contrast that with Ian who is generally precise with his speech.

I can't imagine how those two communicated. And if the rumors are true, it makes sense they are parting ways.

I could understand making a mistake when quickly typing out some BS Facebook comment or forum post, because everyone does that, but Karl is releasing a public statement here essentially. Proofreading is a thing.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if when off-camera Karl comes across as less of a tryhard psuedo-intellectual, and might be an okay guy. I think part of what makes him grating is the “forced” quality of his screen presence. In my opinion he actually got worse over time....perhaps as his confidence grew but his aptitude as a presenter in front of the camera remained stunted. Talented shooter, not a good showman at all.

 

[Fools Idol]

I think there are lot of good ideas in the WWSD rifle. The lack of a forward assist and the choice of BCG make a lot of sense and a lot of the small components like the ambi controls and charging handle are nice to have but the carbon fibre handguard, plastic lower and captured buffer spring all seem like solutions to problems that just don't exist. The pencil barrel is fine for a competition gun but is absolutely unsuited for the military and the same can said for the lack of iron sights. You can throw a M-Lok handguard on a mill spec rifle with a mid length gas system and have something that is just as good or better for less.

As much of a fag Karl can be, he's nothing compared to the rest of the gun Tuber community.

 

[Trig.Point]

I think there are lot of good ideas in the WWSD rifle. The lack of a forward assist and the choice of BCG make a lot of sense and a lot of the small components like the ambi controls and charging handle are nice to have but the carbon fibre handguard, plastic lower and captured buffer spring all seem like solutions to problems that just don't exist.

The forward assist is something that Ian and Karl don't get because they never served in the Military.

They take their weapons out of the rack when they intend to fire them. That's not the case in the military. Take a mechanic in the Army, he deploys on a 3 week exercise, his rifle gets wet, muddy, immersed in all sorts of shit, gets knocked as the guy does his job. The Rifle is really just a hinderance to him.

Yeah it gets cleaned every day, but the only time it gets fired may be a short range package towards the end of the exercise. Which may involve him getting thrashed on a 8 mile tab before he even gets to the range.

Rifles malfunction all the time after that. It takes 2 seconds to forward assist, and you can do it without manipulating the rifle or taking your eyes off the sights.

When the rifle (usually) still fails to fire then you can begin the process of clearing the malfunction. (Also forward assisting indicates to the Range Staff that you've got a stoppage)

Militaries aren't entirely fucking stupid, particularly with regards to small arms doctrine which has been developed at a low level over decades.

But Eugene Stoner didn't want a forward assist, so that's the equivalent of a pronouncement from mount Olympus for Ian and Karl.

 

[Fools Idol]

The forward assist is something that Ian and Karl don't get because they never served in the Military.

They take their weapons out of the rack when they intend to fire them. That's not the case in the military. Take a mechanic in the Army, he deploys on a 3 week exercise, his rifle gets wet, muddy, immersed in all sorts of shit, gets knocked as the guy does his job. The Rifle is really just a hinderance to him.

Yeah it gets cleaned every day, but the only time it gets fired may be a short range package towards the end of the exercise. Which may involve him getting thrashed on a 8 mile tab before he even gets to the range.

Rifles malfunction all the time after that. It takes 2 seconds to forward assist, and you can do it without manipulating the rifle or taking your eyes off the sights.

When the rifle (usually) still fails to fire then you can begin the process of clearing the malfunction. (Also forward assisting indicates to the Range Staff that you've got a stoppage)

Militaries aren't entirely fucking stupid, particularly with regards to small arms doctrine which has been developed at a low level over decades.

But Eugene Stoner didn't want a forward assist, so that's the equivalent of a pronouncement from mount Olympus for Ian and Karl.

Many military rifles lack the ability to manipulate the action outside of just pulling to charging handle backwards. I personally don't think it makes that much of a difference whether you have one or not as there is nothing inherently wrong with it. My point was that their justification for not having it is fine, the justification the carbon fibre handguard, plastic lower, captured buffer spring and pencil barrel is an different matter entirely. And considering that these components are what make the WWSD rifle unique, it makes the whole project seem pointless and over priced.

This is a minor point, but militaries can make some colossal fuck ups in regards to small arms. The development of M-14, SA80 and of course the early M16 come to mind.

 

[HelpingNoone]

FYI, Karl is on Amazon video.

Are they trying to reach the elderly audience that watches obscure firearm DVDs; who don't know how to use The YouTube, but can use Amazon?

 

[millais]

FYI, Karl is on Amazon video.
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Are they trying to reach the elderly audience that watches obscure firearm DVDs; who don't know how to use The YouTube, but can use Amazon?

Maybe Amazon has some kind of pajeet or algorithm assigned to auto-generate shitty thumbnails. Can't imagine why he would not just use the original ones

 

[HelpingNoone]

Maybe Amazon has some kind of pajeet or algorithm assigned to auto-generate shitty thumbnails. Can't imagine why he would not just use the original ones

Theres an actual production company attached. And someone added the shitty royalty free "rock" music to the intros of each video. Definitely reminds me of a DVD you find at a gunshow.

I wasn't bothered to see if there was additional footage vs YouTube.

 

[Trig.Point]

Many military rifles lack the ability to manipulate the action outside of just pulling to charging handle backwards. I personally don't think it makes that much of a difference whether you have one or not as there is nothing inherently wrong with it. My point was that their justification for not having it is fine, the justification the carbon fibre handguard, plastic lower, captured buffer spring and pencil barrel is an different matter entirely. And considering that these components are what make the WWSD rifle unique, it makes the whole project seem pointless and over priced.

This is a minor point, but militaries can make some colossal fuck ups in regards to small arms. The development of M-14, SA80 and of course the early M16 come to mind.

I agree with a lot of that but I would say that the manual of arms for a weapon system is typically developed seperately from the weapons itself.

I went through basic training using an SA80 A1. It was the very first rifle I ever fired, and to my untrained self it seemed fine. In my 13 week basic training there were about 6 actual live fire ranges, and we were just taught that rifles regularly "fail to fire" and it was up to us to sort it.

The forward assist on the load, and the stoppage drill just became muscle memory.

You could also argue that checking that the bolt was fully forward, gives you confidence before doing anything else. In my own limited experience most malfunctions happened on the load, and could be rectified before even firing. If you don't forward assist you can't tell if the bolt has gone forward.

A good manual of Arms can make up for a shit rifle. The infantry made the SA80 work by simply tasking the LSW gunner to carry spare parts for the sections rifles. The fact that the British Army small Arms school made the SA80 function, makes me think they might know what they're talking about when they specify that a forward assist is a neccessity in a weapons system.

FYI, Karl is on Amazon video.
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Are they trying to reach the elderly audience that watches obscure firearm DVDs; who don't know how to use The YouTube, but can use Amazon?

Ian spoke about this on a Q and A a while back. Some guy approached him asking for the Amazon rights to his videos, all he had to do was agree, and the guy did the rest. Taking the Youtube videos and making a half arsed attempt to edit them into coherent long form content.

I actually didnt' realise he did the same thing with Inrange videos.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

FYI, Karl is on Amazon video.
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Are they trying to reach the elderly audience that watches obscure firearm DVDs; who don't know how to use The YouTube, but can use Amazon?

Ian has some videos on there as well, likely for the same unknown reason. They don't even advertise them at all so it reeks of black-spine VHS tapes that make them feel like some sort of obscure backyard movie producers.

 

[Borax Bozo]

Spotted on Twitter - Ian has acquired a 3D printed hot pink gun for shooting, which as far as I can tell appears to be an FGC-9 model.
It apparently has a barrel directly made by Ivan the Troll too:

https://twitter.com/Ivan_Is_Back/status/1353211062678597632

 

[TerminalTryHard]

People are getting mad Rob Ski because during the drop test of the Riley Defense the dust cover clearly comes loose and he didn't mention it.

 

[White Devil]

Riley Defense AKs have always been shit, news at 11.