This hobby did fall off a cliff around COVID... right?I cannot be the only one that thinks this. It just feels... worse. Or did I just get older? I don't know anymore.
>>64620934Anon, the world is an entirely different place now compared to 2019 and earlier.Unironically two different eras of America.
covid made buying guns kind of a pain in the ass for less than a year, the real nails in the coffin have been no more cheap russian ammo, shortages in domestic production, and manufacturers giving priority to filling government contracts.
>>64620934I think the demand is higher now, but in general the industry is way fucking gayer.
no you are just a generic 4chan user and cant enjoy something if you know someone you don't like also enjoys it. covid made gun ownership popular and you are resentful of that for feels > reals reasons.
Why do you think there are so many disenfranchised young men as of late? They feel the same as you do in a post COVID world. It's a clown world and now everyone knows it. People are tired. You see it in their eyes and hear it in their voice. I still shoot, but it's all a cumulative negative effect. I get paid about the same as I did 5 years ago but everything has gone up, so naturally I shoot more 22lr and 9mm to stretch my supply. I can't afford oddball calibers or buy a used gun every month like I used to.
>>64620934Why cant OP stop sucking dick? Lock up during COVID with his roomate?
>>64620954This. I miss fucking around in Walmart at 2am with my friends.
>>64620934it's because women & nons got into gunsthey ruin everything they touch (((by design)))
>>64620934We are the new boomer fudds is all
>>64620934>This hobbyWell, there's your problem right there. "This" isn't a hobby ,frendolini, "this" is a lifestyle. You're just a tourist not a traveller.
Out of all my hobbies and interests shooting is the one that waxes and wanes the most
>>64621057What kind of homeless tweeker crap is this? Get better friends, get a job and get a schedule. Fucking losers.
Because practically overnight your money was worth like 60% less AND ammo prices shot up 2-5x
>>64621636Umm not that anon but teenager stuff? Hell even college-age. Did Walmart ever block alcohol sales after 10?
>>64620934Just picked a up a brand new CZ Bren 2 and I’m going to go shooting tomorrow with my pops. I finally have a job I don’t hate and money to buy the things love, plus I get to enjoy them with my best friends. Shooting, gunsuming, doing innawoods shit and LARPing have literally never been better for me bro.
>>64620934the tacticool shit got boring. Like ARs are already peak performance and optics are good enough there isn't much difference. they haven't made any new >no you sneed this handgunin a few years. it's why like tfbtv keeps shilling tacticool lever guns and tacticool semi auto shotguns. the market's in a lul.
>>64621636Sorry you lived a boring life
>>64621614I hate streamers for the most part, aside from a few niche ones that play shit like Dwarf Fortress, but I would commit war crimes just to bury my face into Emiru's tummy
>>64621944Interesting. Now please turn around and face the wall
>>64621030And a few posts later look what someone else is saying kek>>64621614>it's because women & nons got into guns
>>64621947You can't make me fagboy
>>64621636Posts like this are sad because you realize how much of losers some people are and how much they missed out on dumb teen stuff like this due to their bad social skills.
I feel this way. I certainly don't like the broader gun culture let alone this place. You guys are wired differently and are oddly soulless and joyless. Probably beause a lot of you are middle class and middle aged or more specifically Military or LEO but also nerdy in a joyless mirthless way that is very pedantic and underscored by a very real clinical sociopathy and not because le 4chan but in that faggot yuppie way.In retrospect I realize that outside of practicality and the more zany eccentric aspects of 80's-90's gun culture and an appreciation for american civics/frontier history I don't really like it and that I really only ever had an appreciation for milsurp and early polymer stuff.
>>64622186by which i mean to me guns and gun culture was about>civic history and americana>an appreciation for mechanical craftsmanship>a love of WW1/WW2/Cold War >self aware eccentricity for the sake of it>rule of cool that you admitted was a larp over obsessing over larp shit and insisting it wasn't>the practical concerns of everyday people not being dismissed by faggot retards who insist that there is only one right way to do something>Just generally a cool relaxed vibe not this aggressive dickhead shit and severe autism/materialism>no sick faggots gloating about depraved shitJust aint the same man. There's nobody left who will take a mosin nagant to look for skinwalkers or people who unapologetically only get guns that are fun/cool etc. Instagram/Guntuber culture and guns being seen as a proxy for unrelated social issues etc. Gun owners aging out into senile boomers and unironic feds who are no fun allowed henpecking faggots with their "acktually" faggot shit 24/7 etc.
>>64622205I'd also add that all the actual otaku leaving this place and the only anime aspect of this place being ironic weebery as a form of passive aggressiveness or clout chasing play a role too. This place isn't for gun otaku anymore it's for people conditioned to pretend to like asuka because they've consciousily or unconsciousily learned it drives engagement
>>64622186Fair. /k/ humor is and was always repackaged mil humor, and ever since there was that big push against "dying for zog" around the time of the goonsquad instagram memes (2018ish?), all the mil guys got driven out; and there's been nothing to replace it. But even with that taken into account, I don't really know how to rationalize how bitter and sulky the tone of the board has been for several years now. My guess is that there are very few young people posting here (image boards as a whole are very millennial/genX, the whole format is too slow for the youth) and so the aging userbase who remain are those who never moved on from their idle early-20s late night shitposting from their collage dorm, and are truly here forever; and they dont like it.
>>64622223>I don't really know how to rationalize how bitter and sulky the tone of the board has been for several years nowThe board was flooded by a bunch of faggot europeans that hate guns and are just here to post about Ukraine.
>>64620934The hobby is fine.I was here long before coof and the only real change was all the /pol/troons (in both meanings) who discovered /k/ when Jewkraine kicked off.Now /k/ has more expendable drones than the Donetsk border.
>>64621614This. It became their new Funko pop. Now it's the og boomers and min/max social media clout retards with zero followers fighting over who has a better Funko pop collection and driving up prices along with inflation.
>>64622223those who never moved on from their idle early-20s late night shitposting from their collage dorm, and are truly here forever; and they dont like it.>they dont like itI enjoy calling everybody a nigger faggot.
Start making your own.
>>64620934The first few years when I discovered Paul (2017ish, before everyone went totally insane) was like finding a diamond in the rough. I miss him. It's all downhill from here boys.
>>64622222I don’t pretend to like worst girl.
>>64621048I've been dating or had sexual partners since covid. So not really.
>>64625091My romantic life is identical to how it was in 2010 (nothing) and everything inbetween, and I can say everything is indeed shittier so we can disregard the bear pussy market as the direct cause of this phenomenon of late modernity.
>>64620934Correct. Covid, ie. the democrats, ie. you know who, made everything worse then.
>>64620934It's the troons who took over this board and spammed it with Ukraine bullshit. They'll still ban people just for saying this.
>>64620954yes, the world changed just like it changed after 9.11
>>64625447That was just the US and the countries we fucked up, burgerbro. No one else cared. COVID was a testbed for nwo shit.
