nah dude Minecraft is great. sandbox game that allows creativity and problem solving and whatnot.

now, the microsoft-approved and promoted servers and ad content, fuck all that shit with bedrock. but basic Minecraft is great. just gotta get your kid onto basic java and away from bedrock where they serve you ads and shit

Microsoft enshittified the fuck out of it

base Minecraft is still there (except in bedrock, bedrock is super enshittified with official servers and ads and stuff and they make it difficult to connect to your own self hosted server, it’s fucked)

but java, you can still play just like old times, for the most part. shittier launcher. more login annoyances. but that’s about it in my experience.

yep, do what you want, but don’t fuck things up for other people

see, a reasonable person just leaves a gap. but some people think that if they cram the belt full, the cashier will somehow process everything more quickly.

same people who glare at you when you don’t start loading items when the instant free space appears on the belt. like mf I got a cart full of stuff, and I know how to unpack onto the belt so they get packed back into the cart neatly, I need two feet to start laying out the big things. mfs want you to start the belt out with bananas and shit

I think you should treat others with respect

except like always treat them how you’d like to be treated, not just when it’s convenient for you. which seems to be the boomer way. example: boomers loooove bright ass LED headlights when they’re driving behind them, but complain when they’re blinded by the exact same car facing them.

so the solution is don’t use those fucking headlights, right? but all these motherfuckers out here are just buying that shit up and don’t see a problem with it. I nearly hit somebody last week because they were crossing 100 m before the intersection in a spot that pedestrians typically do not cross and I couldn’t see shit because of the oncoming car right behind them.

these aren’t mutually exclusive. you prefer communicating verbally, but don’t like being intruded upon. that’s fair.

now if you go and call people without warning… yeah there’s some irony lol

your first two points apply to a lot of new vehicles nowadays, I think

I also hate pretty much everything about modern cars

yet another clear sign to not go to that shithole

that one way becomes a no-eay real quick when they meet somebody who calls their bluff

so the cashier knows where your items end and can start the payment portion of checking out, getting you out the door more quickly

I don’t put the divider up for the benefit of the person behind. I put it up for me. well, and also to be nice. but it benefits me

this isn’t like somebody left a cart blocking the sidewalk in front of the store lol

carbon fiber filament just has tiny chobbed fibers in it to stabilize the material. it’s not really a strength additive, definitely not in the way an actual woven sheet is. and you can’t always tell if a printed part is CF filament or not, though you often can have a good idea

ohhhhh shit that’s fucked. seller should face real consequences for that shit

well, somebody needed to watch more superfastmatt before using printed parts on a vehicle

specifically one in the fucking air

two five shot groups for each rifle, X20 on the left and A30 on the right. same 11 yards as always.

X20 shots are on rails, even makes me feel like a decent shooter. A30 has twang still, and I think some parallax issues with the adjustable scope and the user looking through it. It’s been tough to find the proper focal setting, but I’m starting to figure out the setback I need to use to avoid parallax issues (back up to juuust where scope shadow starts to show on the edges).

Still, THIS is the performance I expected out of a new purchase. Much better than before. I don’t think I included it in updates, but I did end up swapping scopes around to eliminate variables, and determined that yes the adjustable results in less consistent shots, but it didn’t account for all of it.

Now to sort out the crappy scope mount on the X20 (it puts the scope noticeably to the right of the center line, so zeroing over different distances will have significant lateral change), and probably print a new top hat for the A30 to guide that spring better, lighten the piston, and reduce the twang of metal on metal. Then to work on the triggers with the bushing mod, but that’s secondary, I’m already very pleased with the massive improvement on the X20.

Behold — the final update!

Okay, so, don’t really remember what I wrote in the last few updates.

But in the past few days what I’ve done is take apart both the X20 & A30 and give them a clean and lube on the powerplant internals and pivot, and just a tad bit of grease on the safety pin notches because that was annoyingly catchy. I did also buy a cheap bore snake and use that on the A30 and lube the barrel with some silicone treadmill lube on the end of the bore snake.

The X20 had a broken top hat. Stoeger service/warranty support refuses to just send me a replacement top hat. They refuse to do anything without me shipping it to them, even though the part is clearly broken and I offered to have them null my warranty if they just send the part. I didn’t want to put the thing back together just to then pay to ship the entire thing to them to wait for a few weeks and then get it back plus the one part, so instead I printed a drop-in replacement top hat out of PETG-CF, put it back together with some moly paste (turns out you can get this for a decent price at the local fastener store, however the only data sheets I can find for it don’t say the MoS2 content although product pages from several suppliers do say 60-80% — this is Lloyd’s 62625 anti seize compound) following TinBumTuning’s general practices.

And, well, it’s fine now? Shot cycle twang is basically all eliminated, previously it was verrry twangy. Feels like it kicks less, too. And where previously it would take me dozens of pellets to get to a point where I thought it was sighted in, only to then have zero shift on me or just get a bunch of inconsistency, I managed to get both the fixed sights and scope sighted in only 21 pellets.

I then took two more five shot groups, which only had one shot that was maybe a random flyer. Every other pellet was either on rails to the crosshairs, or where I called it if I was moving too much while taking the shot.

It actually feels nice to shoot the X20 now.

Oh, and the X20 is now shooting Gamo Tomahawk Pointed pellets (all shots since rebuild some using those) straight, whereas previously it did not like any pointed pellets. And I haven’t even cleaned the X20 barrel yet.

The A30 is also shooting the Tomahawks straight now whereas previously it would only shoot consistently with flat heads, but I need to do a bit more testing to see how much of that is just reduced parallax error with the adjustable scope and how much is actually the rifle consistency.

I will note that the grease from the factory is terrible for actually using the rifle. On the A30, a bunch of it was dried up, but there was also excessive amounts in some areas. And on the X20, there was barely anything left, and I have lots of wear marks on the side of the piston. These are definitely not high quality products, but if you rebuild them after they’ve been sitting on the shelf for who knows how long in Crappy Tire, it seems like they are okay. Also the top hat is very undersized within the piston and spring, I’m going to print another one with a bit of preload to thicken the load bearing section, and decrease those clearances on both the piston and spring.

nooooo you have to blame the carbon tax!1!1!1 you’re not allowed to criticize capitalist welfare!1!1

ohhh, so Microsoft is bad at design, I was trying to pinpoint exactly what was so fucked up with their shit

because seriously how the fuck does nothing Microsoft just work anymore

even notepad was enshittified, I just learned there’s fucking copilot in notepad. I’m trying to hold out on Win10 at work, but they’re also making OneDrive trigger BSODs a few times a day now…

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well it would scroll like the rest of the tickers