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Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II)
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"How'd I get here? Ah, it's a long story. I graduated from UMSOT (Undergrad MS Operator training) and test pilot school in '77, back when it was on side 6. Oh, yeah, back then it was something different, we didn't have mobile suits back then, it was MWOTC... Anyways, when the war started, I was a ball pilot for a few weeks, flew three sorties and scored a lucky kill on a Zaku I, and 'cause I was the only one with a kill under my belt, I got chosen to fly with some secret squirrel things on the White Base (back then they just called it the Pegasus). Turns out in order to work on that top secret, feddie zaku ripoff, we couldn't be active EFSF personnel. We got discharged from the service so we could fly for some private shell company. Yeah, we lost MIL benefits, but the pay was so good we figured we'd go for it. We had three weeks to study the manuals and get trained on the simulators while we flew out to our assignment. They put me on the RX-78(a3/4) , but when we were en route to rendezvous to Side 7, the EFSF gave me my walking papers. Turns out, get...get THIS shit: They didn't "need my services any more." Can you believe that? One of the only guys trained on their new, crazy invincible MS, and they fired me.They tossed me, an ace, a qualified TEST PILOT out on my ASS. FOR A G/D FOURTEEN YEAR OLD. Yeah, you know who?! It was the doctor's kid, right? Remember that Tamm Ray guy from the training videos? Yeah, he got HIS kid to be the gundam pilot. Oh, no they tossed all of us. The entire team of mobile suit pilots, gone. Didn't even reassign us. So we're sittin' there, just lookin out the window, watching the stars go by, just angry as all hell, y'know? Fuming. I get an idea, right? So I says to the other guys, who cares? The zeeks need us more than the feddies do, so I went up front, showed the captain our discharge papers, and turned that sum'bitch around. Anyways, long story short, boy do those GM's explode easy! Oh man, jokes on them, the feddies drafted a LOT of stupid 14 year olds to drive those death traps.....so uh, what brings you to Axis?"

She was too into him, he could tell it’s a trap

(never seen the show actually)

So it turns robot enemies into an IRL bullet sponge video game boss? We just have to distract it and dump fire onto it for ten minutes?

Come to think of it I heard there was some Women’s Advice thing on tiktok about how girls should put a gym sock on a baseball bat, not sure how that works but cool

Then you’re in lethal territory, since it’s designed to break the skin. Death and maiming is incidental to the paintball crap

“y’see, it’s technically a 4th wall break, because araragi is in a show, so he HAS to perv on the ghost girl, or else his reality will cease to exist when he fails to fulfill his duties as the protagonist”

“hmmmm….good point, that’s why he makes that quip about “another day in the incest mines“ when in Tsukihi Phoenix”

That’s what’s so funny, all that fancy, gay shit totally disappeared before the stark, affordable, weapon-like functionality of the tippmann system. Their whole system using recycled gas to impinge on the loader was great, took a page from real arms. Meanwhile, the “good” brands were putting out things with 15 diff. pressure nipples to snag on things and leak everywhere as if looking complex was a virtue in combat.

That’s why the only real shortcoming of the A5 I could think about today would be the furniture system, but the aftermarket already has so many options it’s probably not worth it. Doing a new model that takes advantage of AR mounting systems for grips/stocks/forends/optics is about the only improvement I can think of

Always been so amused by this product. The whole idea of lobbing your rounds UP is interesting

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Pepper balls weed out the uncommitted

Why though? Everyone always says that, but the tooling’s paid for and there isn’t really much to improve now that you have all these parts addressing the furniture attachment. You could add some nifty stuff like pic rails for stock attachments, or jam as many standardized mounts into it as you can, but…..why? I nailed the feed system right off the bat

This sent me down the “self defense paintball” shopping hole. Still, hard to beat the A5, I knew from the second I looked it up the good cop stuff would be using them. Has a great feed system, super cheap, durable, been around 20 years

https://poa.st/objects/d359c502-cf6a-4b03-a4d0-d5c54bd5c918

It’s a stock model, she’s never touched a wrench, they just told her to put the wrench “in there” and they too were so insulated from mechanicry they didn’t know better

standard .68 paintball, so you can use all that stuff no problem. Limited range but pretty good when you consider the ecosystem of stuff, fire rate, legality

I love it when the cute bunny breaks out the fan.

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https://i.poastcdn.org/b98842d8e1069119754aad7a32cfa14be82750075855b37643d6132d8b0afad6.mp4

I want more eyes on it. I know everyone will say it’s fudd shit but I see promise. This is like… the first iphone, where it didn’t have apps and had to have cheesy websites to have basic functionality. The industry evolves over time, and the idea of an injected payload delivery is interesting. If nothing else, they’re a fun thing to buy to have on the shelf and show to friends.

But stuff like their camera rounds have promise for the future, additional refinement could make them a nifty tool

https://roborounds.com/