Yeah, can’t even look this show up without adding “australia” in each search. Apparently it was distributed as “Dreamland” in the US, except that doesn’t get you anything either since there’s some other unrelated show named Dreamland! They really didn’t have any luck with the naming.

I’m not sure, it might just be the particular lighting and camera which makes it look kind of uncanny

Gunsmith Cats!

Shame it was just a 3-episode OVA

it was actually in Austin Powers:

apparently in Never Say Never Again as well, although I can’t find any screenshots of the actual henchmen with it

I got it from this post, which labeled it as Danish, so not sure, maybe that writer was mistaken. It could also be that Brøndby was Norwegian but was working for a Danish company at the time - for example, Hungarian designer Pál Király worked for SIG in Switzerland and BSA in Britain and designed some guns for both, before eventually moving back to Hungary (and after the war he ended up in the Dominican Republic and designed another gun)

the solo pics absolutely don’t do justice to how massive those pistols are

They’re so fucking big, I have no idea what Browning/Colt were doing here. I guess the .38 ACP cartridge they were using at the start was a bit spicier (not to be confused with .380 ACP, which is actually relatively weak), but still, the length is ridiculous

But I guess the C93 is even more massive, and the revolvers that came before could get pretty chonky too - so apparently pistols in this period were either massive enough to beat someone with them when you run out of ammo, or tiny little derringers you could hide in your sleeve à la Django Unchained, no in-between

I think the ejection port blocking is avoided by virtue of these pistols being fucking massive - the slide is long enough that even when fully back your hand will still be some distance away from the port.

It still seems awkward though, and I also would feel a bit worried about having my hand right at the muzzle like that. But to be fair, this line of pistols (starting with the M1900, and going through a bunch of models until the M1911 eventually arrives in its final form) is literally among the first to use a slide design, so they were still figuring out how it’s supposed to work. Some models had the serrations in the back, others in the front

a lot of Soviet/Russian optics for the AK in general are pretty solidly-built, I assume the Cubans were going by similar design principles

(although as @Shaleesh@hexbear.net says it might be based on an AimPoint, the lens color and placement of the battery compartment do give it that vibe, but it’s still clearly more beefed up compared to the AimPoint)

Gunpoint’s a neat stealth/puzzle game about hacking stuff and jumping through windows (very little actual holding people at gunpoint though). Being of that genre, playtime could vary a lot, especially if you try to be perfectionist, but it should be doable in a day. Great jazzy soundtrack too.

Jazzpunk is a weird comedy game, essentially FPS exploration levels with various comedic gags peppered throughout. Again, playtime can vary depending on how thorough you are about checking every single corner for something, but it probably wouldn’t take more than say 3-4 hours. Obviously your enjoyment will depend on your sense of humor, but I found it pretty hilarious

Linear FPS campaigns are a good candidate in general, older games could be decently long but there was a period where 5-6 hours (and sometimes shorter) became a pretty common length.

The trigger being right behind the magazine probably gives it more of a Thompson vibe, in contrast to most other submachine guns of the period which have a big gap between the two.

But the stock makes it pretty distinctive, to me at least, the Thompson looks very different from the pistol grip backwards

Heh, that’s the same torrent I watched today (although I didn’t listen to the commentary, I just found this video afterwards). It’s a pretty cool spy thriller, and a great Kilmer role

:kazuhira-miller: Boss, we’ve established our base of operations on the island of Socotra, off the coast of Yemen. Its location in the Indian ocean is ideal, allowing us to support operations in both Afghanistan and Africa

Ah yes, “universal sockets”, the type of socket which can allegedly accept a number of different plug types. We have dismissed that claim

The film consists of two plot lines, one focusing on a teenage couple having sex for the first time, and the other on Simen the Semen and his friends in quest for the Egg

I… uh… I’m not sure what the Norwegians were thinking with this one

I think this is from the Erma company re-formed in West Germany (since their original factories fell in the Soviet Occupation Zone and were seized), but East Germany itself also made some Lugers (technically, assembled from existing parts they inherited)

it rotates the revolver drum on pulling the trigger: https://youtu.be/yXB_s6mPV8A?t=94

I recently watched Designated Survivor: 60 Days which I felt was decent on this topic. Spoilers for the first couple of episodes:

But this was 2019, during the Moon Jae-In presidency and the attempts at reconciliation then, so maybe this was just reflective of the political climate at the time.

damn, when did I manage to post that much

I wonder who has the highest posts-to-comments ratio, a true posting warrior who cultivated Inner Post while everyone else was commenting in the megathreads

one of my favorite bits in Freeman’s Mind is him rationalizing the batshit level design as Black Mesa making sure to fully spend its budget

“If we don’t spend a billion dollars one year, then we don’t get a billion dollars the next year. And if we don’t get a billion dollars the next year, then we have to go and spend more money on lobbyists to get the laws changed so that we get our billion dollars the year after that! … in the long run it’s probably faster and cheaper just to build a giant nutcracker, write it off and be done with it.”

yeah, I think the idea was to achieve ambidextrous controls without having to double the controls on both sides of the gun (as you would need to with a more typical thumb safety/selector), but it doesn’t seem to have caught on outside of these two specific FN guns