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Fridge Mini fridge

Cooper Mini cooper

Gun

Fucking. “Mini” gun

That's the M-61 Vulcan, the 20mm full-size hydraulic/electric Gatling gun that has been the "too close for missiles, switching to guns" weapon on US warplanes since the 1960s.

At about 6' long and 400 pounds not including an additional 500-1000 pounds of ammunition, it's a bit much to stick on the back of your F150 and prefers to nestle up inside F-16s and the like:

Thus the "mini" 7.62mm version. (Which TIL, is also not really 1-man portable due to the weight of the ammo and electrical supply. But you can easily mount it on a truck.)

TLDR:

20mm rifled Gatling = "gun."

7.62mm rifled Gatling = "mini gun."

WILL SOMEONE GET THOSE CIVILIANS AWAY FROM THE FUCKING HARDWARE WHO THE FUCK DECIDED IT WAS TAKE THEIR KID TO WORK DAY JESUS MARY & JOSEPH

Aaanyway. Yea no, like, full disclosure mi amigo I did in fact know of the m61 Vulcan it’s just. Like.

This is a Gun:

These are Guns:

I guess my particular flavor of pedantry expresses itself as such: I know that the “gun” that the “minigun” is a miniature version of is the M61 Vulcan. However, I would say, upon perusal of the original, that it is neither a “Gun” nor a “cannon” but rather a “Terrible Device”

That’s a Death Ray. I’m sorry. Comparing a Mosin to a Vulcan is like comparing Acetic Acid to CRISPR. Who needs this. Why does this exist. Have we not elevated this game to ludicrous enough heights yet. How much lead must we spit before satiety. Manmade horrors very much within comprehension etc et al you get my gist.

Yes, AU where we-have-reinvented-pouring-molten-lead-from-the-castle-battlements-but-in-continuous-feed-format does not exist, and "gun" is one of those lovely rifles, and mini-gun is a miniature version.

But you're not taking it to its logical conclusion:

that's the A-10 Thunderbolt's (aka the "Warthog") 30mm GAU-8 Avenger autocannon, a hydraulically driven seven-barrel rotary cannon designed to melt Soviet tanks by blasting out 3900 depleted-uranium rounds per minute - 6000 pounds (2700kg) of metal that transform into blazing plasma as they evaporate their target

here's the size of this Damned Thing, and how the plane looks when belching fire. firing that gun actually slows the plane significantly

in fact, veterans from the 1960s onward who've been in action around this thing (it's beloved by soldiers for its close air-support role, having saved countless asses) simply call the A-10 Warthog by the sound of its gun:

BRRRRT

excellent point, @hug-your-face - I'd forgotten about the AC-130's massive 105mm M102 howitzer:

that's in addition to the A-10's 30mm autocannon (previous iterations used 20mm or 25mm gatling guns)! here it is executing its full terrifying air-support role:

there's a reason this horrifying gunship was called "Spooky" in the Vietnam War

Then we have the

(standard) gun

mini gun

TOY gun

(you thought it meant "Nerf" or "squirt" or "I am brandishing a dead stick I found" but actually it means "good for lap warming and skritches")

and the

TEACUP size

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

This is because topless equality has been a basic push from feminists for literally decades, until Radfems and NeoCons bonded over wanting a trans genocide less than a decade ago.

It's literally why the "no tits on tumblr" and other lesser SESTA/FOSTA consequences* like it were so jarring. It set back FORTY. YEARS. OF PROGRESS in the rights of people with breasts or perceived as women to wear the same clothes as people without.

Do not let conservatives lie to you about this. The majority of people in the us and the VAST majority of States recognize the right of people to not wear a damn shirt. It isn't obscenity, it isn't even nudity, it's just something pericis men are allowed that everyone else isn't.

Y'know.

Basic sexual discrimination.

that is a fucking insane amount of donuts, theres like 6 people in this room

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Yeah lmao like in the trailer the main woman judges her friend for going to bed with a guy she met in line for the bathroom and it’s like girl this is the one night she can have sex and brag about it. let her be. You had the whole year to find a guy if you wanted it to be special.