Simpler times, funner times
>>64723205Yeah something was definitely lost when this place went from sks's and nugs to everything being an AR. Im still glad I managed to catch the tail end of the old days.
>>64723238cheap surp just doesn't exist any more. it's neat that you can get an AR for almost nothing these days, but they lack the charm of milsurp.
>>64723273Not to mention there isn't anyone stuffing beans into the action of their cheap shit PSA for the memes.
Take me back bros...
>>64723205>i miss "x" timesdont do this OP, this is only gonna get worse as you realize there is are more of these times that wil lnever come back, try to find some meaning in the time going foward instead of being a faggot stuck in the past
I miss it, but I wish I wouldn't have bought so much milsurp back then.
>>64723205It is what got me into firearms. I don't think I would have stuck around as long as I have if the Nuggets weren't a thing. I hope all the old /k/ommandos are well.
>>64723205I 'member>Around early 2010s>California wasn't as awful as it currently is.>You could still cash/carry buy/sell long guns between private parties so long as they were C&R.>Big 5 sold M91/30s for $99 all day every day.>Could buy ammo online and spam cans cost ~$80 for 440rds of light ball.>Calguns and Cali /k/ groups would group buy crates of M91/30s, M44s and PU snipers.>Anon living in SF posts about having a schitzo downstairs neighbor who is constantly having episodes.>Threatening him, trying to break in, trying to start fires.>Just the type of shitstain that needs to be strapped down to a bed with a pillow over his face till he stops twitching.>Anon can't wait 10 days for a background check, this guy is getting significantly more violent every day.>Gets directed to M44 group buy.>Acquired M44 and a few paper packs of surplus ball.>Downstairs neighbor finally has mother of all episodes and finally tried to break into anons house. Ripping his way through a window on his door.>Anon holds his ground with M44, bayonet deployed at the top of his stairs.>Schitzo sees this and suddenly gets a lot more sane because he knows he's about to get shot and shishkebabed.>Fucks off.>Cops show up, LOL about it and continue to do nothing because nobody is dead yet.>Anon becomes a true /k/ommando, attends meets and gets a C&R license.>Eventually moved to a better state.I probably got some deets wrong but that's about how I remember it. He also had a lot of pet bunnies.Bunnyanon if you are still around let me know what parts of this story I got wrong. Hopefully you still have the M44 as well.
Vietnam fucking shits
>>64723273The 4chan userbase has also aged up from being broke college kids to highly paid STEM autists.
>>64723205We never recovered from the brownie incident
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/k/ was so much better back then, fun instead of super serious Ukraine this and AR that
now if you post anything besides an AR>ur pooor and not tactical!!!1despite ARs being the cheapest they've ever been, and in the AR golden age, these fad chasing retard are still spending $3000 on their AR that isn't any better than a $500 AR
>>64723461I just miss when /k/ was an actual community, the steam groups, the movie streams and threads lasting for months long
>>64723893I miss /k/ radio
>>64723751>2014 was 12 years agoSomeone hold me.
>>64723904BOOTS BOOTS BOOTSMOVING UP AND DOWN AGAIN
>>64724135>ps3 was released almost 20 years ago(2006 november)
>>64723205I nose man. But hey, it's a new year and every day you wake up is a new beginning. I miss my $99 sks and regret not getting $100 nugget. The market is shit. Protip: C&R license can get you some neat shit.
>>64723904Would you like some brownies?
>>64724231>>64724280take me back
>>64723681I bought two Nugget carbines at Big 5 for under $100 each and a $125 Russian SKS. Shit was so cash.Nowadays shit sucks, although the open carry ban getting overturned by the 9th circus of all places still gives me hope.
>>64724277Filtered. In good spirit of the thread, all attention-seeking trips get put away.
>>64723205Gone are the days where you could buy a nugget and a few cans of nugget food for the price of a few blowjobs.
>>64724252PSOne / PSX was released in 1995.Women born that year who are still single now are 30+ year old roasties.Makes you think.
>>64724729Yeah, the blowjob market's ruined.
I miss people just enjoying guns. Too many people talk about "viability" like they expect to get into a gunfight where small arm choice matters.
>>64723764Do you have any more of these
>>64723483The only thing I regret not getting was the Vepr 12 for 600$ brand new. Since I shoot metal targets and have found keeping all the different kind of ammo in my reserves to be annoying I'm glad I didn't buy more surp. Ammo for everything but 9mm and 556 has gone up a lot and those big boy rounds fuck steel targets up.
>>64723771The concept of general threads killed the site.
>>64723681>big 5I remember buying my sig 522 there and a moist nugget. Nowadays, my local big 5s don't even sell guns.
>>64725400I remember walking into Cabela's at the tail-end of the era and seeing racks of mosins for ~$225I'd heard so many stories of cheap rifles up to that point that I didn't even bother until it was too late
>>64725373Just 2 more
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I miss cheap Nagant revolvers the most.
Does anyone remember Evil Death Nightmare?
>>64723764>>64725436>>64725444These are jokes, right? I remember hearing a lot of shit about the Brady campaign but never looked into it.
>>64723764i ain't seen that particular series of images. I got a few of these;
I only became /hasguns/ in 2019 but lurked around for years, There was lots of OC back then.>>64725452This one?
>>64723205I'm thankful for those days, as >>64723597old /k/ was a renaissance of gun ownership.
>>64725459oh shit barrel shroud mentioned
>>64725461Yep, that’s it.
>>64725466these are a little on the nose but what can be said? still pretty funny
>>64725454If I remember right, It was satire that was posted to a few anti-gun Facebook pages.They started making their rounds as ignorant liberal housewives would repost them in other places.
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>>64723205cheaper guns, better foreign surp back then (when I bought all mine fuck you)
I wonder if this was the final iteration of this image
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>>64725487>Wolfenstein weeb HitlerFucking kek
>>64723764>>64725436>>64725444does anyone have the VZ58 one? i know i have it saved on my desktop and i was going to post it before i remembered i was across the country :(
>>64723764I did a bunch of porno screen shots of O face and put the Moms Demand Action logo on that, they fucking went ballistic especially with Corey Chase. I'd have to find them.
>>64724252I was internet famous in 007 Nightfire multiplayer.And never again.
>i miss when we were all 18-24 and stupid
>>64725541I may have been stupid, but I was happy, and in those days I thought I would shitpost and live foreverNow I barely post at all and I am quite certain of my own death
>>64725549DEATH SIGHTED OVER HIGHWAY 1! DEATH JUST FLEW RIGHT OVER MY HOUSE!
>>64723205was a bunch of poor kids having fun, being retarded, and making a community>>64723597Hi owl fren, miss you on the brg thread
I've been away for years because of this "adult life" thing and thought I'd pop by to see the reactions to Maduro's abduction.Do you guts still do the /k/lass photos? I loved these.
>>64724325>Nugget carbines at Big 5 for under $100 eachThese were the M44s at ~$88/ea?
>>64725560>miss you on the brg threadHe's just a plushie avatar fag, no guns poser now, isn't he?
>>64723699Why hasn't he invented a final solution to the gook menace?
>>64723597I hope you are doing well owl anon
>>64723711x2We once complained about summerfags.Now we're shilled by multiple nations' governments to influence public opinion. Because out retarded back alley of free speech got gentrified and we somehow became the nexus of modern philosophy.I can only hope that the history books are written by a victor who cares about the truth, but in my heart I know that the general public of the future is not going to have any more an accurate idea of this place than it does today.Any frens still here for the lulz, you are my nigga and I'm happy to share this board with you.
>>64725657there's always been kommandos
>>64725657Godspeed, sideways anon.
remember when we thought sandy vag was gonna be the death of the board?look at us now
>>64723238From one commie rifle to another. Fuck off.
>>64723205Be the change you want to see anon. Nothings stopping you from posting threads about stabbing cans of chef boyardee with your Carcano carbine or filling it with spaghetti and meatballs./msg/ might be the last holdout of what you're wanting though, in between the investment-fags.
>>64725771it wasn't that unreasonable to think considering how unsuable the board got at the time
>>64725452I remember, I actually played it quite a bit.
>>64725777Why so upset? We're just reminiscing about the good old days.
>>64723699>>64723717>>64723717>>64723720>>64723727>>64723727These are awesome
>>64723711>highly paid STEM autists.If there's one thing that hasn't changed, it's that most everyone here is still a poorfag.>>64725657>it is 2009>you are underageb& browsing the daily 870 vs 590 thread>captcha does not exist and your biggest concern is another gore raid by /b/ or dos spam by newgrounds>next year you will buy an SGL21 for $800Been downhill ever since tbqfh.
>Moan as loudly as possible, “YOUR MOVE, MR. LAW-MAN!”
>>64725823realit fucking sucked but at least /k/ slightly recovered for a couple years before 2016 hit the entirety of the site, now its just grim
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>>64726180Not as bad as the fall of /b from Boxxy to... this porn sewer.
>you now remember anons doing absolutely horrible Ivan Chesnokov impressions
>>64725892Eh, the fact /gq/, /arg/ and derivatives, and /nvg/ are around and kicking shows there is two populations, the poorfags and the upper middle classfags who managed to weaponize their autism enough to get paid
>>64723205I bet a significant amount of the faggots from that era got red flagged around 2019.
>>64725586I haven't seen one since maybe 2018, most newfags are nogunz
>>64725586Sadly no, newfags are deathly afraid of showing their face because of feds (they don't want to be negatively judged)
>>64723205there's just something about the nugget that i can't help but admire. old /k/ was the best /k/.
Anybody remember /k/ radio?There were a couple songs I haven't heard since. One had someone putting a hamster in a microwave and another was about an F16 pilot.
>>64725541>>64725549>>64725560it is the duty of all fags who use this board (especially oldfags who witnessed the higher quality tomfuckery that once went on here) to produce some variety of OC and breathe life into the /k/ommunitydo something novel, do something funny, do something interesting or even just something downright retarded, anything is better than doing nothing and passively letting the catalog be enshittified with low-effort troll poststhings will never be the same as they were, the current market at minimum proves that, but it doesn't mean you cannot have fun anymore, because once you give up entirely, you surrender this place to the banal userbase that will continue to plague it until the site dies
>>64723711College kids? Shit man half of us were still in highschool. One of the lolcow tripfags here back in the 2000's (Seabass) was this dork who sat in the same lunchroom as me in sophomore and junior years. Pudgy-faced retard who thought he knew stuff. I hated it whenever he and his low IQ dork friends would stumble into our high IQ autist group and try to talk to us about videogames and guns on equal footing.Or that one 4chan banner>Class is for menThe fat kid with the trilby in that photo was yet another dork who went to my highschool and I was briefly friends with. I don't know how or why Mesquite High School in Gilbert produced notable channers but it happened.
>>64726198/b/ died when the Christmas seman collection guy stopped posting.
>>64726473Agreed actually.
>>64726198/b/'s death is very much intentional. It was too dangerous so they started spamming porn and infiltrated moderation team. There's a reason any thread calling for a porn ban on /b/ is pruned. There's a reason porn isn't just straight up banned form /b/.
>>64726655/b WAS effective. If this is so it's because of the Greek banking crisis and international hacker response... everyone ran some script kiddies chain program for epic HOIC and LOIC attacks. I did. Then it was just Andy Sixxx and logs and porn.
>>64726466>it is the duty of all fagsMake me.
>>64726466I mean it's a filter and font... but I made it 4 u.
I swear 4chan in general was far better before /r/thedonald retards decide to flock over here. The 2016 election and its consequences have been disastrous for chankind.
>>64726420>/k/ radioHoly shit. Memory unlocked. I used to have it saved and would listen to it in college. Is web radio even still a thing?>>64726473>Christmas seman collection guyI don't want to ruin the magic, but he came out and admitted it was all just ginger beer he was fermenting.>>64726466>produce some variety of OCI made this earlier today. I make OC for /msg/ all the time but it never seems to hit.
>>64726420BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS MARCHING UP AND DOWN AGAIN
>>64723597We are still here, some of us. I remember. I was there. And I was glad to be there for such /k/omfy times.
>>64725423I paid 600 bucks for my polish nugget. I way overpaid and basically never shoot it now. It was a retarded move but it made me feel like I belonged for two seconds. This was only a few years ago though, I've grown up now
>>64726063took me a while but I found it
I miss the good greentexts, especially about kommandos shooting skinwalkers with nuggets :(
>>64723205Slightly better Nugget.
>>64727735One of my other Nuggies.
>>64726930Try gaymurrg8. That was the beginning of the modern culture wars. Back then, everyone thought that if muh vidya gaems were to end civilization, it would be because people were too distracted playing them to do anything else. Nobody could have expected them to lead to a mass scale spergout still ongoing in the present.
>>64727740Love nugget revolvers. Wish they were still easy to get, or at least someone made affordable clones of them>>64727757We just wanted to play video games...
>>64727740My Dad woke me up on a Saturday, a week after my 18th birthday and graduating High School (1999), and says, "I have a gift for you. Get cleaned up and meet me at the Jeep Wagoneer."We drive out of our heavily wooded property, and head to the mall. We park at Big5 Sporting Goods. We go in and he says to go to the barrels in the back. Big yellow sign, "Everything in this barrel is $99.99"So many Moist Nuggets, Yugo 8mm Mausers M48s, and sporterized 1903's. My Dad recently retired from the Army after 24 years (11C 60mm, 81mm, 120mm Mortars / M1911A1 / M16A1 all exper quals), I grabbed this 91/30, made in Tula, came with sling, bayonet and cleaning rod.We go fill out my first 4473, Big5 calls the NICS number, no computers, and 45 minutes later I have my first rifle. Unknown to me, my Dad bought a M44 Carbine w/ side folding bayonet and four spam cans for $25 ea. We go home, pop in some Army earplugs from the 80s that don't work, fall in love with Soviet trash rod.Dad's M44 about blinds me with the fuckin' firball coming out of the damn thing. Happy memory with a good man and father. Vietnam vet, Iraq #1 vet.
It was easier to be hasguns back then. Now /k/ is just a refuge for euro redditors interested only in geopolitics, Russians spreading retarded shit, and Indians spreading retarded shit.I occasionally wonder if I'm the only actual person here
>>64727823need willis to come back to do a remake of this one with day /k/ being plebbits and euros and night /k/ being completely empty
>>64727802He had a stroke in 2016, but he was doing great, and I like getting him something for Veterans Day and I got one of the first Sig Sauer M17's for him, with the cherry wood display box and challenge coin - purchased separately. And I got myself one, and then the M18 Caliber X-Change kit and it's been my carry gun for about seven years.I got him a WASR-10 a couple years earlier.
I also feel like a big part of it was that ammo was absolutely dirt cheap (entire crate of surplus 7.62x39 for like $200) and surplus gear was also cheap as fuck (remember the $20 flecktarn parka days?).You could realistically be a "/k/ommando" with just a tiny bit of side money, get an SKS and 1400 rounds of ammo for $400 total, put together a retarded but fun kit consisting of some cold war era German camo and a chicom chestrig/ALICE gear for under $100, have fun because no one really judged you for being a "poorfag" back then. The barrier to entry was pretty much nothing.Now most people see guntubers shilling like $10,000 kits as the entry level and immediately get scared off if they don't see ammo prices first.
>>64725587I got a Bulgarian M44 for like $50 and a WWII Izhvesk M38 for around $70. Shit was CHEAP.
>>64727082I'd discharge in her war, if you catch my drift.
>>64724729TAKE ME BACK LOOOORD!
>>64728390You wanna fuck a fat brown dude in a Shrek mask?
>>64728396Yes, imagine his moist and tender shrek hole
>>64727880Night /k/ is when it's filled with yuroniggers, day /k/ is when it's filled with plebbitors. Shoved into the corners(generals) are the last remaining /k/ommandos
>>64729506>Shoved into the corners(generals) are the last remaining /k/ommandos/msg/ is absolutely NOT even recognizable to what it was before the fucking wu flu. They're mainly redditors that have proclaimed themselves to be the experts/father figures of the general. Used to be my favorite general, fuck, /arg/ is better than /msg/ now.Fuck I'm unhappy with what's happened around here, I frankly don't know where else to go; reddit is absolutely off the table, and I don't want to join some weird old guy forum where it'll be just as bad but in a different way.
>>64728393I remember when Aimsurplus sold K31s for $79, and a mint Yugo 98k was $160.
>>64729900I wish they'd make a war board so yuroniggers could go there and spam about military geopolitics. So tired of this board not being about goofy gun owners and getting drowned in faggot /pol/ threads skating by on the thinnest of margins under the guise of theoretically being about weapons, weapons that nobody knows shit about any are very obviously just trying to use it to talk about war /pol/. I remember when the most political this board got was when talking about gun rights and niggers.Also the generals have been getting substantially worse as well. I don't hate generals but they do make it a little harder to justify making good OC and incentives people to just make low quality troll posts as time goes on because they know people will lay eyes on it due to the nature of a general
>>64729933>drowned in faggot /pol/ threads skating by on the thinnest of margins under the guise of theoretically being about weaponsI wish the jannies could discern this shit and relocate every fucking one of those threads, including all the fucking twitter based threads.They know damned fucking well that shouldn't pass muster, but in-fucking-stead they just issue bans for being le heckin' racist. Fuck the jannies, they're meant to prevent this shit. Hell, I'll probably be banned for posting this completely valid serious concern. It just fucking sucks. I think with /k/ gone to shit, I really don't know where else to talk about guns online anymore, this is still somehow the closest thing even approaching vaguely tolerable.I agree, there should be a board for geopolitics, well, there is /pol/ but they're obviously too pussy to hang out there where they fucking belong
>>64723205The end of the war on terror also contributed to the decline of fun. There used to be a lot more regulars with actual combat experience who posted. I feel like the pivot of discussion away from guns towards vehicles, ships, missiles, etc, and geopolitics is due to the fact that a higher proportion of users went to college than war.
>>64728317Elitist attitudes have been detrimental. People would rather punch down than just have fun.
>>64730037Redditors are elitists, they've flooded the board. "Stop being poor" used to just be a joke, now it's completely unironic. I'm pretty sure those fags are up to their eyeballs in debt doing that shit, I am unable to believe every one of them works some romper room adult daycare office jobs that pay a lot of money for pretending to work on spreadsheets
>>64728317>have fun because no one really judged you for being a "poorfag" back then. The barrier to entry was pretty much nothing.This also happened to /o/, back in the day it was all about wrenching on your shitboxes and now you have faggots simping for or gloating with their new luxobarge trucks/ electric piece of shits
>>64730175So, not to sound schizo, but it would seem that 4chan in general is "under attack" from outside elements.Maybe it's just chance, but to know multiple boards have been ruined, what other conclusion is there really?
>>64729992Anon it's literally just yuros, Ukrainian propagandists, and jeets spamming those threads. /K/ommandos who went to college just have a deeper understanding of how guns work now and don't shit up the board
2008-2014 were some of the worst years of my life- but some of the best here
>tfw I was 19, buying a mosin for 80 fucking dollars and scoffing at the idea of buying a crate of them for 500-600 bucks.I had the money, but I was a fool. I don't even own the nugget anymore. Sometimes I wonder why I so actively sabotage myself.
>>64730252>Sometimes I wonder why I so actively sabotage myself.Not projecting, but maybe you also imagined no end to the good times like I did.
>>64730224/dbt/ has either one or more persons from Discord who just shits up the thread. I've not been back in a while so hopefully that's done but it used to that you'd post your bike, or try to have a discussion, and one particular anon would just be the rudest, shitiest shithead. He(?) would intentionally just shit talk and try to disrupt any real conversation. I've seen this exact thing in other threads around the board. It's not just normal shit talk that you'd see here. It's an intentional attempt to dissuade and disrupt any natural conversation.
>>64730283>It's an intentional attempt to dissuade and disrupt any natural conversation.It's got to be either people who are essentially saboteurs, or especially scorned and angry anons. Post covid, I've noticed people have zero patience for each other, online and offline. Shit really fucking ruined the world
>be k>shoot garbage rods and wear milsurp>smell like cat piss and mold>people who actually train and are knowledgeable about the subject matter start to emigrate>reality intrudes>k finds out>grab sks go into woods >is a slow painful death sentence>milsurp is milsurp for a reason>combloc gear is trash>illusions are shattered>feelings are hurt
>>64730330Go back, you ARE the problem.
>>64730317>Post covid, I've noticed people have zero patience for each other, online and offlineI think you hit the nail on the head. Everything has changed since then. Both out in public and in online spaces. It shows in all aspects of the world right now.
>>64730358I think it was the extended period where most people's only human interactions were online inundated with people's unhinged thoughts gaining traction, and masks allowed us to totally dehumanize each other as something like a autonomous drone.I fully believe it was completely systematically planned, too many elementary ass psych principles utilized to be a fucking coincidence.
>>64730358Not sure how true it is, but apparently statistically loke 30% of the population between 18-30 now are virgins, it has never been even close to being that high for as long as we've had statistics about this.It's kinda nuts when you think about it.
>>64730358Not much changed here in philadelphia, is it really like that in say, suburbia, US? I remember the suburb I fled wasn't too aggro.
>>647302372014 was a noticeably fun year on /k/>the clankening>Crimean invasion>rise of ISIS all of these happened without the board devolving into shitflinging and was a fun place to follow the events unfoldingplus it was the last year I remember milsurp rifles/gear being cheap
>>64726420I miss /k/radio, went looking for all of the old links and they're all dead or defunct. >>64727735I should've bought one of these when I had the chance. Sadj
>>64730468It was also recovering from Sandy Vag at the time, which made the board feel better in comparison to the last couple years. I remember you could still get decent advice on ARs based on features and not just price tag. I think the overall average /k/ommando was less of a poorfag than before, but still had a sense for trying to get a good value out of stuff and remembered how to have fun. I still wish I'd gotten a Mega receiver set before they got bought out.
>>64727880Night /k/ is why I kept coming back as a poor noguns college kid, vibes like no other studying all night, listening to /k/ radio, and shitposting. Those were simpler times
>>64730431Not him, but yes. Interesting (I think) anecdote I have, is one time I was at a driver's training center for a job; there was one guy there who was a bus driver who told us he noticed a huge increase in aggressive and reckless driving since covid.I think a lot of people got out of lockdown with a new case of Main Character Syndrome; all other humans besides them are just part of the scenery
>>64730431Im in philly too. This place never changes greatly or suddenly, it just slowly gets worse. Meaner, stupider, more corrupt, slowly year after year.
>>64723205nobody believed me back in 2013-2014 that generals would slowly kill /k/
>>64730693What is your reason?
>>64725476Are these on the flesh table?
>>64730712generals kill genuine discussion, create personality cults like social media (massive increase of tripfags during the first few years) and get smaller non general threads bumped off the catalog immediately, as people only lurk in the same generals where the same shit and drama is being recycled. The only board that kept its identity the longest was /a/ and there starting a general is a bannable offence. To be fair the reddit and /pol/ refugees would've killed /k/ all the same even without generals, so I'm probably just salty the /k/ that got my euro ass into guns isn't here anymore.
>>64729900I used to regularly post in /msg/. But I quit /k/ for 3 years during peak slav civil war posting. I had a shit load of filters (pic related) just to make the board browsable. Many tripfags filtered but mostly key words related to the conflict.I suspect many core /k/ users also found that time to quit. Probably timed with personal life stuff too like getting married, having kids, etc. >>64729969I got several bans for going into those threads and calling out the shills on both sides for shitting up the board. Jannies also did nothing when there's literal gore being posted. Despite reporting. I escaped to other boards like /o/ or /wsg/ to shitpost about my other hobbies and interests.>>64730693I would have agreed with you, it's done it to all the boards to varying extents.
>>64730752Excuse me, it's natural canvas.
>>64730712Instead of browsing the catalog for interesting threads, experiencing the entirety of the board, getting your interest piqued by things you didn't know you wanted to learn about or were amused by some meme irrelevant to your hyperfocus, resulting in having an overall board culture and every thread having a mix of people from all the various subtopics covered by the broad board's theme as well as the personal benefit of getting to learn about coolshit that like minded people thought was cool enough to bother to post, generals mean that people filter the catalog for their not!Discord, engage with only the same people, and quickly exhaust the topic of discussion because there's nothing that needs 24/7 365 coverage which means it devolves into blogposting and drama between the identifiable members of the thread as well as providing a breeding ground for schizos. Generals are fucking dogshit, and I watched them kill /tg/ at the same time the mods banished questing to it's own board and the same thing has happened here.
>>64730237>galaxyI hope she's doing alright bros. she's probably in college now
>>64730822Putting on the old name for old times sake. I've lurked for the last 5 years. Classic threads like camo general, patch boi threads, /msg/.... all the old faces now gone. Every now and then you recognize an anon as an old tripfag by his pictures. You give them a nod and go your separate ways.
>>64730886Fuck me forgot to attach the image
>>64730712Nta,Generals stagnated the rest of the board which was quickly filled in with garbage. Not to mention the different sub-cultures cultivating in each general.>>64730804This thread is a perfect example.>>64707651But "/pol/ refugees" isn't exactly accurate. The whole website had a influx of migrants and shills, especially as the rest of the earth gained internet access. The threads that are ill-recieved on /pol/ are often reposted here to make an impact and drive internet opinion/culture. Falseflag threads and posts to drive obvious reactions. It explains why the 2022 invasion was such a massive shift in board culture, compared to the 2014 invasion which was hardly anything more than a thread here or there.
Lol. One of my filters did it's job.
>>64730956Yeah, it's a newcancer trying to pass off as an oldfag, pretty pathetic.
>>64730965It's the cringiest shit ever, he's literally trying to larp like he's a Reddit/discord mod sad that the most cancerous aspects of /k/ like namefags, avatarfags and tripfags he knew aren't here anymore.
>>64730226It's not. There are noticeably fewer combat veterans on /k/ since Iraq ended. I myself mostly effortpost in nuclear threads, because that's what I studied in undergrad. More rarely, I'll take a more active part in discussions of quantum technologies, optics, semiconductors, and sensors, since what I study now is more adjacent to those.
>>64730582only been here since '14. I figured the aggro was a proximity issue. was it a nicer place way back when?
>>64731142I'm still here but I mostly lurk. I go through spurts of browsing /k/ daily and not visiting for years. I wouldn't exactly call myself an oldfag though.
>>64731157I've been here, mostly in the northwest area, my whole life. Theres always been mean shitty people but the stupid part of the equation has ramped up 10x since around 2008-2010 with the opioid epidemic I feel. And even though people were always mean here you used to find redeeming qualities in them. They would care about their neighborhoods and the other people around them a little. People have lost that and just become stupid and selfish. The endemic corruption in the local government certainly hasn't helped things get better either. Im hoping to escape soon and head out farther west, Bethlehem maybe.
>>64731185Godspeed, dude.
>>64725815problem is sourcing ammo on the cheap
I miss when there weren't faggot feds lurking here
>>64730224>So, not to sound schizo, but it would seem that 4chan in general is "under attack" from outside elements.>Maybe it's just chance, but to know multiple boards have been ruined, what other conclusion is there really?Nah, i think it's quite plausible, however those schizos you and >>64730283 mentionedare only a symptom of a site wide dropThe tipping point was probably when /pol/ overtook /b/ as the main gateway the site, which meant that instead of all sorts of entertaining schizos, we got depressed, maladjusted onesThis also resulted that /pol/ started being flooded with shills and bots over time, and those sad schizos started to emulate them in order to fit in, so when they spill over to other boards they start to lash out when it turns out anons aren't interested in their views on trannys in a ford escort gearbox thread
>>64731449*this also resulted in /pol/ being flooded
>>64730886>I've lurked for the last 5 years.You aren't even a newfag or cancer.Newfags have been here for 10+ years now. I honestly don't think the quality has gone down much. The generals people cry about contain the people that everyone likes to suck off in remember when posting threads get made. If the website sucks it's because YOU don't have anything useful to contribute. Meanwhile many of the tripfags in generals post new content about guns all the time.
Does anybody still have the "The debated terms are: SHALL NOT and INFRINGED" second amendment questionnaire image?It's the funniest shit to me, but I lost it in a HD crash.
>>64723711I'm pretty sure 4chan userbase is just paid shills now....
>>64731580I'm also missing some good maymays from back when. My favorite one was from a gray man thread, where one anon's load out was literally just a gray Confederate army uniform
>>64724135No. I don't like touching old people.
>>64731585Where's my fucking money? I've wasted portions of the last 10 years and I demand my rightful compensation
>>64731449>turns out anons aren't interested in their views on trannys in a ford escort gearbox threadWait, people go to transmission threads and don't want to hear about transmissions?
>>64731595I was here when the traffic cone fell.......
>>64731608>/o/ was the true culprit behind 4chan's demise
>>64731664This but unironically. It is still the most unusable board and I resent nearly all of the shitheads that ruined it.
>>64726298>most newfags are nogunzIIRC the rule for klass photo was that you had to have some form of weapon in the photo, or it was just post a photo and request to be in it since it was one guy that behind stitching all the images together in a nice shape.
>>64731803
>>64731815This is the 2013 klass photo
>>64731803crazy how in 5 years of the 2015 klass photo theres only half that in the 2020
>>64731612I miss when Bloke on the Range and Mike B. hung out here. I'm 95% certain that /k/ put Bloke on the map to where he was eventually noticed by normies and his channel grew
>>64727802>18 in 1999Respect oji-san
>>64730518poorfags becoming less poor around that time was definitely noticeable, hell it was when I finally had enough for a ptr91 and a wasr in the same year while working just above minimum wage. I even had money to blow on cool stuff from kommandostore when they would have their STALKER salesalso that same year was gaymergate which wrecked pol so it was fun sitting back and watching it happen to them and not /k/
>>64731803Not even sure how many I was in>>64731827Pretty sure this is older, 2010/2011. The first one done in response to the arabs with improvised helmets.
>>64729969>including all the fucking twitter based threads.That’s an issue site wide. Worst part is that people reply en masse to them even if they contain blatant ragebait. It’s like people want to make themselves more angry or it’s just newfags, but I’ve only been here a few years but have always hated Twitter so I ignore those
>>64730175So I’m not the only one who notices this? Most threads are people shit flinging and benchracing or posting bait about bloated trucks
>>64731842Jesus, how things have fallen.>>64731939Yeah I found the real 2013 one. Kinda sad klass photo stopped being a thing in these recent years.
>>64728317what we need to do is brainwash people into thinking that .22lr and cheap shit pcc's or something are the new tacticool meta but also fun.
>>64723205imo 2017 and the boogtard shit was the last gasp of air before that /k/ culture was lost sure the boogshit was dumb as all hell and people took it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fucking seriously but after that I dont think it was long until ukraine which just cemented this board into being only for geopolitics and generalsI could be wrong though memory is fickle. I just miss when being a poorfag in this hobby wasn't some derided thing, when it was all about fascinating little pieces of gear on not 100% prepper shit all the time
>>64731967>>64731842>>64731827>>64731815>>64731803does anyone happen to have the 2021 klass photo? I think that's the last one /k/ has done
>>64731967Kind of wonder what happened to Pap.
>>64730844Easily. That thread was from 2012, I think.
>>64731827>That dude in the Captain Rex helmetKEK
>>64731803>>64731815>>64731827>>64731967Man, what a time it was here. Do you have the summer 2014 one? I'm in that one.
>>64732004You got it sir.
I used to troll /k/ by starting threads with pictures of wooden boxes in the woods and saying I could see rifles in them. 2010
>>64732006What a good year. Thanks Anon.
>>64723205I wish i wouldve bought a k31 for $350
>>64725771
>>64731990I dont think 2021 klass photo got finished.
>>64731983Ukraine 2022 was the final curb stomp for this board. Fucking board should just be called /geo/, nothing but fucking twitter threads from retards wanting to talk about muh Trump or muh Putin.If Trump or Putin even so much as fart, 30 new fucking threads made by Euros. They don't understand personal ownership of weapons, they think weapons = military only.
>>64732196Yuros must be waking up, already starting to notice an influx of war/pol/ threads. It's hilarious how I will prune all the war threads for the day and be left with nothing but gun threads, maybe a few autistic special interests threads here and there, then when I go to sleep and wake up the catalogue is re-enshitified with yuro spam. We need to add flags or at least IDs to this board just so we can keep track of these rodents
>>64727909Man strokes really screw up your face
>>64732333I so badly wanted to make that joke
>>64732301I get that the Ukraine shit is closer to home for them, but the threads get so damned repetitive after awhile. I think people just impulsively create threads depending on what's on their mind>/k/ is serious, you must be serious all the time No, not so much that, I just want to see a little more mindfulness on the part of potential OPs to make sure they're not making the broken record even worse.
I wish I had bought the crate…
>>64732431Yeah. One of those things where you only remember or can recognize the good times once they're gone
>>64732144ahh that makes sense, I remember submitting my pic but not seeing the final productthanks for the work in progress pic though
>>64732196>>64732301>>64732412This. /k/ needs to stop being so harsh to russia as it's not fair. /pol/ is much kinder and more humane in their views.
>>64732499Do not include me in this, I do not hold those views
>>64728396The Kalashnikov not the wielder, you mongoloid!
>>64723205I simply have no interests in a mosin rifle/carbine/revolver for under 80$ like they used to be, and even then I never wanted one of the ugly fucking things. I just shot them whenever somebody else allowed me too, and people would offer it all the time.
>>64723778dam man
>>64727735425 - $475 I still regret buying the post war nagant sniper over a PSL : (
>>64723205Was it that fun? It was go to big5 go get a clapped out counterbored surplus gun from Russia that you have to spend 5+ hours cleaning the cosmoline off of Save up some money maybe buy a makarov, and the “elite” had SKS rifles purchased from pawn shops that tried to fleece them Everyone else on k only had benchmade pocket knives, spider o pocket knives or that rat cutlery fixed blade thing wrapped in paracord Every month there was some mass shooting and everyone speculated on which gun control laws were going to pass and Obama this Obama that (spoiler it was no new laws)
>>64732778>SiegFat
>>64727802my old man couldn't even legally buy guns he was a burn out cokehead and always tried to manipulate me. I didn't even realize it until I was in my 20s
>>64732761Same they were fun to shoot in that the recoil felt nice and the cycling of the bolt and the sounds it made was cool But they were t very good guns I think most people suffer from too much nolstagia , cod mw2 on x360 was t a very good game either replay it without the hype
>>64732196Trump said he was thinking about maybe potentially kicking Putin in the balls!
>>64732499NTA, and I’m not saying “be kind to Russia”, but maybe stop being so damn obsessed with them? It gets tiring to see the same damn threads over and over and over again with no interesting information to offer.
>>64732778only a fatty like Sieg would be this miserable
>>64731449>when /pol/ overtook /b/ as the main gateway the site, which meant that instead of all sorts of entertaining schizos, we got depressed, maladjusted onesbasically this
>>64732777Checked. Sorry for your loss.
>>64732801I do not understand peoples personal investment in this war. I just want it to stop because I'm sick of seeing white people killing each other in wars. We should not be our own enemies and whatever this petty squabble is about (I'm still not clear on that and I don't care) isn't worth it.
>>64732499fuck off tim pool
There just aren't any beater rifles anymore. The closest thing is like $500 PA-15 ar pistols. I want my $300 SKS back :(
>>64726930I still think that the ownership of 4chan switching from Moot to HiroshiMoot was the beginning of the end for the site.>>64730836God, /tg/ really got fucked by the exiling of quests to another board. It really gave the assholes on the board at the time good ammo to wind up dragging the other creatives like drawfags, actual tabletop game makers and writefags to either be stuffed into generals or get kicked out entirely. Wound quitting /tg/ entirely by 2020 and it was mostly generals by then with shitposts filling up most of the rest of the board by then. God I miss the Riddle of Steel fight threads of long ago.
>>64734304I think that a lot of the problems that killed /tg/ came from the narrowing down of the nerd base to fewer and fewer ever more commercial games. and I say that as someone who's ever only played d&d and warhammer.it sucked so much of the creativity out of it, got people to identify way to much with the one or two systems they played and finally set it up to be taken over by shits in those few games fanbases.God I mis old /tg/
>>64723205Unfortunately was never meant to last. Once WWII and early postwar surplus dried up, we never got waves of dirt cheap Cold War surplus select fire rifles because of import bans and gun control. If not for that, poorfags would be rocking $400 full auto milsurp M16s, AK/Type 56s, FALs, etc. and various rare and collectible foreign firearms would be in greater supply in the US. Recent events haven't helped the ammo market either, surplus and new, and even if people have cheap surplus guns in rare calibers it's becoming prohibitively expensive to frequently shoot them. >>64732778fatass
>>64734226i feel the same way. I have a beater rifle, an old bushmaster but it feels weird to call an ar-15 a 'beater'. it ain't even got wood on it.
>>64732196
>>64734337Pretty much yeah, doesn't help that a good chunk of the companies in the /tg/ scene in general dying due to mismanagement or stupidity. /His/ being made around the same time as /qst/ and stuffing humanities into it did not do anyone favors. Though I think it would help revitalize more boards in the site if the occasional forced temporary mergings happen more. Last years April Fools, while annoying at least made it so that people here actually talk to each other rather than just stagnate instead.
>>64734360Actually interesting. Where'd you find that?
>>64731763>This but unironically. It is still the most unusable board and I resent nearly all of the shitheads that ruined it.>>64731956>So I’m not the only one who notices this? Most threads are people shit flinging and benchracing or posting bait about bloated trucks[sad twingo noises intensify]Especially sad for me since it was the board that got me into this forsaken website>>64734413>/His/ being made around the same time as /qst/ and stuffing humanities into it did not do anyone favorsIf there's a board that's worse off than /o/ it has to be /his/, it went to shit faster than a subaru head gasket
>>64734468The numbers are taken from desuarchive.org, the plot is courtesy of LibreOffice Calc.
>>64730224the real problem is that 4chan is the last bastion of free speech on the internet so we get every antisocial doucebag shit poster in the entire world, instead of when we would just get 'our' antisocial doucebag shit postersit really fucked with the site culture
>>64734557>it went to shit faster than a subaru head gasketI've been personally victimized by a Subaru head gasket before. I loved that 05 Forester until that shit happened.Weirdly, it wouldn't overheat in park or if I drove it slowly enough on back roads. Mechanics said head gasket but there a part of me that doesn't believe it was a head gasket because of the unusual behavior
>>64734579This is normal for a small HG leak. The bad part is the coolant leeching into the oil and fucking up the internals. The whole HG problem wouldn't happen if Subaru just used the 2.0 in the states.>t. multiple Subaru victim, recovered addict
It is quite literally euro’s that have single handedly ruined this board. They do not mix with american internet culture in general and especially american gun culture. Not to mention this is the only place on the internet you can call someone a nigger and a faggot and not get banned (Not anymore though).
>>64734622>not anymoreI've been banned no less than 5 times for those words since the start of the ukraine war. Not once before the war
>>64734740Yup, same here. Sad isn’t it? Jannies are genuinely troons, no difference from Reddit at this point.
>>64732196>Muh yurrooos>they think weapons = military onlyNo, that is what Americans think we think. Firearms are widely available in most of Europe. Americans continuously show their own lack of knowledge on this topic by repeating nonsense like this.Also you're pretending Americans didn't fuck up /k/ back in 2016 with the influx of redditors from Trump. Most of whom saw guns not as a hobby but as a political vessel and consequently know nothing about guns. I will agree though that all the Ukraine threads and almost all non-gun threads are garbage, but they're just an extension of what was an existing problem.>>64731449Also this was a direct result of 2016.>>64734622There were Euros on this board long before most American /pol/ tourists turned up. Most of these tourists now insist because they are American and Americans have better gun laws that they simply must be better educated on the matter.
>>64734817This is the most yurotroon post I've seen in awhile lmao. You aren't welcome here faggot, and not because we have always been intolerant of yuros, we actually used to find them fun to talk to, its because you niggers came here and started smearing shit on the walls and claiming that you belong for it. No amount of gaslighting us will get us to think you belong here, go back to /pol/ where you belong
>>64734817The quintessential euro wall of text. Your entire continent is insufferable shut the fuck up euro nigger
>>64734873I was here for decades fuck off lol. Your obsession with troons already marks you as the exact kind of tourist I was talking about which is why you are jumping off the walls seething about my post.
>>64734887amerilard can't read more than a single sentence, many such cases. No wonder thread quality is so shit with such fine specimens.
>>64734817
>>64723461Based and wise takeLive in the moment. Appreciate what you have.
>>64734895You are quite literally seething. The euro cannot help but out himself when he is called out for the rat he is.
>>64734927Yeah I'm so angry right now lmao:>>64734873>>64734887
>>64734776I've been constantly eating 3 day vacations and warnings for utter bullshit lately. I never used to get banned for anything, I was wondering if maybe they added a new, particularly zealous one to the payroll.
>>64734873I've been here since 2009 you'd not pick me out from any "superior American poster" or any euro old fags.you'd struggle to pick the newfags apart aswell.the poison that's killing this board are the shills that keep stirring shit and the fags that fall for it
>>64734938Im glad we can agree you are an angry euro rat. Now please get off my board and contain yourself to /pol/. Thanks <3
>>64734971I've never been on /pol/ or reddit yet strangely the Mutts in this thread seem so familiar with it?
>>64732196it's not genuine users starting the constant "twitter said X" treads, it's shills.note that wherever something embarrassing enough happens for the russians you don't get a constant flood of "X said Y" treads for a day or two.that being said bewfags need to stop taking the bait
>>64734941100% this site has been infiltrated and infested with discord trannies and feds. That includes the jannies
All you have to do to fix the board (and the whole site in general) is to ban the following users- Indians- Russians, and any western vatniks especially.- Nogunz and people from noguns countries.- Latams- Anyone who ever was a user/poster of /r/thedonald- 2016 election tourists in general- Anyone who wasn't a 4chan user before 2015 at latest.Would do wonders to heal this place.
>>64735062The best filter would be a legal quiz on a users given national gun law. If they don't know it well enough for a quick quiz they probably don't have a genuine interest in the first place. This handily filters 99% of the groups you mention.
>>64735120that sounds like work, jannies don't like work
>>64735062There would be like 5 people left on the whole site
>>64734817>>Muh yurrooos>>they think weapons = military only>No, that is what Americans think we think. Firearms are widely available in most of Europe. Americans continuously show their own lack of knowledge on this topic by repeating nonsense like this.I independently came to this conclusion from observing that you guys pretty infrequently post about civilian firearms, and much more leaning towards military threads and threads about military weapons. So I concluded that there must be an association of guns with the military, and less association of guns with civilian ownership.I am open to being proven wrong
Remember when /k/ cyberbullied a Future US Marine?https://youtu.be/FKeGMt4GB_g?si=BLmIJAybx5gXhMTp
>>64734975Leave muhammad. You’re shitting up my board with every awful post you make euro rat nigger.
>>64735196Amongst tourists who only came here to talk about Ukraine? I imagine that association does exist. The same way a lot of the "muh euros" types who think guns are some kind of forbidden mystery in Europe come from 2016 election tourism.Personally, I stated in my post "Americans have better gun laws" and I bought my first gun the same week I turned 18 so I think that clarifies my views. There used to be much more posting about European civilian ownership, I remember there being France and Britain general threads and participating in these. I don't know where these have gone now because honestly I haven't been on this board much since the Ukraine war started due to the amount of essentially offtopic threads.tl;dr The problem isn't Eurotrash or mutts inherently, the problem is /pol/ tourists. Which is what I was really trying to say.
>>64735196there's a lower rate of civilian gun ownership here so less people are familiar with them out of a military context.most civilian owners also don't like to advertise that they own guns and are on average older as well. so we are less likely to go and post here.most of that own guns just blend in better because we've been here longer.that's the point of "being" a annon, you shouldn't stand out as being a European or an American
>>64735285>There used to be much more posting about European civilian ownership, I remember there being France and Britain general threads and participating in these.Those were cool threads. There was this one Belgian guy who had quite an arsenal. No doubt he fought through a lot of red tape to get them, but it was a really impressive collection anyway.
>>64734895>>64734927Shut up niggers
>>64735309
>>64735319He's right. Both you fags need to get a room
>>64735319Classic euro rat response nigga are you twelve?>>64735329Euro’s are all faggots especially germs and fr*nch, so he would probably like that
>>64735307>a lot of red tapeprobably less than you'd think assuming he's got his shotguns and bolt actions on an old hunting license and the rest on a sport license.if he had enough he might have even had a grandfathered in collectors license. now those have become a bitch to gett-belgian hasfuns legalfag
>>64735355>assuming he's got his shotguns and bolt actionsHe has those along with a FAL and I believe another FN military gun, think there was more.
>>64735378if it's a British L1A1 you can get those on a sport shooters license but a belgian one you'd need to get on a dealer or collectors.it's down to if the gun had a fully automatic option when it was made.a lot of older guys had their converted rifle "grandfathered" in because they where a lot less strict in handing out collectors licenses when the gun laws changed.I saw a British L1A1 for sale not to long ago. but I've only got a hunting license that I use for trap shooting
>>64735256Kek, this guy's like chrischan with a gun
>>64734941My first ever 3day was for calling the T-55 Slavshit around about 2008ish, it was an autoban on the phrase and I got caught out like the newfag that I was, so I deserved it.I'd be vindicated much later, howeverMy second would be for stuffing a .50 BMG round projectile first into a Hi-Power magazine and posting "my deagle bullet won't fit in my clip :("I deserved that one too
>>64726180this one is better
>>64725490haha god dammit
>>64734889>>64734959You claim to be one of the"good yuros" yet start smearing shit on the walls as soon as people make a stink about yuroniggers. If you arent supposedly apart of the problem why are you so mad? The influx of war/pol/ yuros has made all of you insufferable. If you don't like what I post you are welcome to go to your local range to beg them to unlock the gun safe so you can get "your" gun and come and kill me with it kek
>>64723205sometimes you gotta work with what you got
I miss Nutnfancy
>>64735714I remember the first time I heard terms/tropes that got popular on /k/ making their way into mainstream gun culture. It was odd.
>>64735714He's still around, and I actually like him for what he is. He's a sperg, but he's an authentic sperg, and he's remained true throughout all these years. He's basically a less charismatic Paul Harrell (peace be upon him).
>>64735812>Paul HarrellI'm actually glad that I for the most part watched his new material as it rolled off the line after I found him like 7 years ago, so I basically have a backlog of like 2 years that's still new to me
>>64735540You still have the pic?
>>64735812>He's basically a less charismatic Paul Harrell (peace be upon him)And his videos are three times the length.
>>64723238>Yeah something was definitely lost when this place went from sks's and nugs to everything being an AR.SKS and nuggets don't really lend themselves to ludicrous accessorization fetish shit, it's obviously not physically impossible to slap rail and gucci whatever on it but that era definitely prioritized doing stuff with guns and money going to ammo and the like vs getting the fanciest shit for safe queen social media pictures. Like a lot of things really, I think it's 100% natural and human to yearn to be unlimited, yet in reality it seems that a lot of creativity and fun and basic aspects of ourselves work best when we're tightly limited on resources and forced to be creative and make the most of what we've got. Ever more power hasn't made computer software endlessly better and more creative, or childhood for that matter. I'm glad I grew up in an era with minimal electronics and a lot of our summer days was biking to swimming holes or going out with buddies and making forts in the woods or taking a bb or 22 and blapping squirrels or cans.
