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[–] [email protected] 345 points 3 months ago (5 children)

in-built, automatic tactile feedback that you need to reload because you feel 2 shots instead of 3

better than the british solution of "count in your head how many bullets you've used and reload when you hit 30"

[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

My thoughts exactly. More guns need better UX design. The Garand had its ping, this gun has its dud-dud, the barret 50 cal blows a lil hiss of gas out the bottom of the mag when its empty like an exasperated sigh, the P90 you can literally just see the last round get sucked into its witchcraft mechanism.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I once saw a funny P90 review on youtube. But i can never find it now. Some P90 fan please hook me up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Well we all know immediately what you mean by this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Probably because YouTube banned all firearm videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I rented one at a range once. It was extra neat.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

witchcraft mechanism

lmfao, monkeys when they see a funky spiral leading into a fancy piston

https://youtu.be/Bf5Q7dJcZsI?si=7W0VT3d56I134TDg

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There are no monkeys in that video. I am very disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

The P-90 is a magical lil nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The ideal would be a dustbuster-shaped thing that you'd operate by pushing buttons with your thumb.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (2 children)

why can’t they just look at their ammo counter on the hud like everyone else

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I personally use the screen on the rifle that shows how many bullets are left in the magazine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Real pogchamps turn HUD off

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago

Yep, it's just good design

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A proper tactile, audible and visual feedback with practical application is called a bolt hold open and it even speeds up a reload.

Wondering if you felt x-1 rounds leave the rifle to determine if a reload is needed is the kind of engineering that made even the french abandon this for a german made HK416

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Shadow Moses Island wasn’t liberated from terrorists with a HK416. No thanks.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If we're going by that logic, every house needs two things: a USP .45 and a NIKITA Remote Control rocket launcher.

You have my vote.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

And my axe!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

and a cardboard box

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Strictly speaking wasn't it FOXDIE?

[–] [email protected] 125 points 3 months ago (5 children)

As much as I love shitting on the French for being terrible with numbers (seriously, how the fuck is the word for '99' 'four-twenties, a ten, and a nine'?!?) this one seems intentional so you can feel when you run out.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The funny thing is that in Switzerland they commonly say nonante neuf. So it's not like there is no word for 90

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone tried to improve the French language and predictably the French were having none of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

not in my jardin !

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Because way back when, before sensible systems, they used base-20, and despite now running base-10, the base-20 is stuck in the language.

Edit it's sort of in most languages actually, not just to that extent. I mean, English has "twenty-one", but no "onety-one". 1-20 have their own numbers in most languages I think, and after twenty you just repeat the first 10 and add whatever tens you like, whereas the French sometimes repeat the first 20 and add an amount of twenties

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

English has "twenty-one", but no "onety-one".

But you have teens? Thirteen, fourteen etc? It's just that a dozen was kind of special, so eleven and twelve are kind of irregular, but afterwards it's just ordinary base 10, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

But the endian switches for the teens


twenty three is "tens place ones place," but thirteen is "ones place tens place."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Well, English does. Not my native language.

Yes, my point exactly. No "onety-one", because "eleven".

Same with other languages.

But "thirteen", "fourteen" etc, you think are as regular as "twenty one", "thirty three" "forty five"?

It is base-10 all the way through, but I'm just pointing out that probably at one point in history, even other languages, for some reason, counted 1-20 differently than 20+ numbers and they sort of stuck.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Danish are similarly bad with numbers as the French

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

We're not bad with numbers, just at naming them. 😉 But that's why we pretty much always use abbreviations.

Abbreviations. Of numbers. Don't think about it. 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

My ass will know I ran out when the panic fire stops working and not one second before. And probably several after.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wait til you find out how Abraham Lincoln counted the passage of time in the Gettysburg Address...

[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago

Later on they made a variant that accepts 30 round STANAG magazines, but the Army decided not to adopt it. Classic French behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: IRL burst firing modes don't fire 3 bullets with a single presse of the trigger, you have to keep it down for all 3 bullets.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Wouldn't be shoots?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But, that's still a single press of the trigger. Perhaps it is more accurate to say a single trigger squeeze, rather than press, but it remains true that it will fire all three rounds with you depressing the trigger once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I would in fact consider that to be half a trigger press. Next I'll talk about the topic of multiple dimensions!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why does the barrel look like a shower hose

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

It's ribbed for her pleasure

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Adapter for rifle grenades.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

They're to increase surface area on the barrel to radiate heat more effectively.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What's the real mag capacity in these? Is it truly 25, as most video games make it? Obviously I have not handled a real FAMAS.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What? It’s the FAMAS…and certainly not the only military rifle with 3 round burst. It also has single fire and full auto. Many magazines are in multiples of 5, so unless the user only carries 30 round magazines there will always be an odd one left if burst fire is the only mode used.

Anon really didn’t think about this too hard.