I don’t think it is so much that they are “hung up” on hydrogen as it is that everyone else is hung up on battery electric. While EVs sound nice in theory, there are still absolutely monumental hurdles to them replacing ICE cars for every use case. At the end of the day batteries simply only have a fraction of the energy density as gasoline. A chemical reaction that makes a few volts per cell and needs thousands of them is just going to have issues scaling beyond casual use. An EV works great in a city for short trips, but for people that live in places like America’s “flyover” states, I’ve done 4 hour road trips where I have fuel range anxiety in a gasoline powered car and I had a friend from Colorado who wanted to drive down and visit but couldn’t because she has an EV and there simply wasn’t a reasonable route for the drive. Personally, I think hydrogen is a better solution; everyone got wrapped up on battery EVs and went all in on them, but even with advances in batteries and charging speeds, they still can’t replace a very large percentage of cars out there today and the technology required for them to do so requires fundamental changes in known electrochemistry. >5000 lb compact cars really aren’t sustainable.

Old school Half Life is still my favorite for immersive story telling. I really wish Valve had finished it.

Cod 4 is probably the absolute best FPS as a general shooter.

Titanfall is the closest thing since Cod 4 since it’s the same dev team, just more limited since they were a startup with limited funding.

And just 2 or 3 channels away is Comedy central with either South Park or the Office on repeat.

How’dya guess?

Yup, CMP M1D with a Hi-Lux repro scope, also from the CMP.

I want to say $2k back in the day as a package from the CMP. Don’t remember, it was years ago.

Yes and no, it’s usually operator error and this one isn’t abused or extensively modified. The NA ones have headgaskets and the turbo ones either blow ring lands from improper shifts or something else when too many bolt ons are added without a proper tune. Either way we were a bit surprised but at least we get the chance to learn how to pull the motor.

Which other M1? The shorter one, the .45 one, the one that requires a parking space? They’ve recycled “M1” quite a bit…

How do I save an image from a post to my phone?

This is it, one of the downsides of a decentralized network like the fediverse here is that there is no current way to prevent brigading. It seems like this is mainly just one super MAGA dude ranting and a bunch of brigaders responding. I was going to give it some time and see if it mellowed out as it developed.