A SMALL REMINDER OF GOOD PURPOSE
Added 2024-07-03 00:49:29 +0000 UTC
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CMP is a good option. Fulton Armory also makes a good M1 and also do a helluva refurbish job on beater M1’s if you send one to them in need of TLC or buy a remanufactured one from them directly.
MrToBeNamedLater
2024-07-10 05:17:01 +0000 UTCHey Tex. Always a pleasure to hear from you. No dissertation from me this week. I’m just along for the ride and the glory of knowing I helped, that I had a hand in providing the means for the magic. Joy of the day to you and the team, and Northwind Forever.
Bolo Unit BRL of the Line
2024-07-09 18:29:40 +0000 UTCLol, Tex, I wasn't saying what I said in general, I meant you specifically. You are a being with value lol. Now, an actual question that I'm curious what a film guy thinks: I've been rewatching some 90s movies and thinking back to that time, and I've come to a belief that those older movies often feel more... solid than what we have now ironically because of the increased fidelity of recording technologies. It seems to me that that increased fidelity has begun to blur the lines between real life and movies and such, and in doing so it devalues both. What do you think? Thanks for yet another interesting update! Take it easy!
Elipses...
2024-07-09 14:50:41 +0000 UTCBPL Movie night I can't wait.. I hope the firewater I sent helped in some small way! :D
Chuck
2024-07-08 16:56:30 +0000 UTCI'm considering doing 2 things. 1) starting my own patreon (with a free tier and potentially an associated discord server). 2) doing a biweekly online ttrpg game with my patreon members to optest my homebrew rules in a campaign that is scifi colony meets planet mystara for a VERY badly described setting.
ShellBack Beau
2024-07-07 15:49:11 +0000 UTCThat's definitely a way to look at things. Here's to big breakthroughs on cancer health in the near future.
Walt_Man
2024-07-07 05:15:56 +0000 UTCI find Discord overwhelming at times, so many sub groups.. maybe as I can absorb information easily and in many forms, so on a tired day I just check a few things. Look to the right and see "work hours busy no respond" XD and log out. Speaking of bitcoin, I did some real research once into just what IS a bitcoin. And I have never met a bitcoiner who actually knows what a bitcoin is! Fractional dollar transaction harvesting, via GPU processors. *ahem* Question for Tex? Ever watch Robot Jox?* * I think I asked this question years ago.. there's a Tex in the film too, but he's not good like you.
Walt_Man
2024-07-07 05:13:16 +0000 UTCWe don't always get things done in time for those we want to do them for, but I'm sure where ever your friend is, as he was your friend, which would come with it's own type of of mentality, he'll be grinning down saying about damn time. You are right, you are a weird content creator, but you've gathered about through the that weirdness people who appreciate and find joy in what you and your team create, and we'll be here shoving it down any gullet we can find when this thing drops. Hold fast, and let's make them take notice, whether they like it or not!
Brooks
2024-07-06 01:32:32 +0000 UTCG'day Tex. Hope July is treating you well so far. Super pumped for the new vid. My body is ready!!! Do you think you will ever do a video on Tanks in Battletech? I'm an absolute feen for the Challenger, Ontos and Behemoth.
Matthew H
2024-07-05 03:40:19 +0000 UTCHi Tex, Thanks for all you and the team do. Sorry to hear about your friend - My own Grandmother also lost her life to cancer. Fuck cancer. Unsure if you have answered this before, but I was wondering if you had ever thought to either pay someone to have an Indy game made, or make a storyboard and pay someone in the BPL to program and illustrate it for you? Just curious, as it might be a good source of ongoing funds for future projects.
Zetam
2024-07-05 00:15:34 +0000 UTCSave the soothing voice if it pleases. Never apologize for being emotional, especially for such a subject. Said good-bye to several important people to include my grandfather and dad of different blood in a span of three years because of cancer. It is not easy watching people wilt. Doubly so when it was do to personal life choices. The films you and your team produced during that time helped me get through many work days and nights by staving off a sadden stupor. Question time as I take a step out of the lurking shadows. I sometimes feel awkward about just contributing monetarily to this cause when I have enjoyed it so much. Is it enough to just help fund, or should one present their voice and interact with those inside the community? I do share the videos unsolicited from time to time. Beyond that however I don't contribute. P.S. An addition to my small imaginary framing of finding a coffee table BPL leather bound book in a dusty home library (still wishing this to happen). I would like to edit my "In dedication to the people of Van Zandt, to those that always look up but never forgot to look down" I would like to add in small print "Mostly because Clanner shit doesn't fully burn up in atmosphere and that shit is the spirit of vengeful Legos" or something to that affect, been meaning to add that for some years now. Thank you again for all YOU and your team do.
Brandon Kruchin AKA Kru
2024-07-04 22:26:58 +0000 UTCHrrm weird, I didn't get a email from Patreon that you put this up. Is Patreon going the way of Youtube and just deciding willy nilly who gets pushed and who doesn't? I am really looking forward to this vid and will yell about it on the few Twitch shows I watch and the Roguetech discord. You keep doing crazy ass shit and I'll keep throwing the money I'd give Hollywood to you instead. You make a superior product. And when I tell people this and they scoff I point to the charger vid, the Christmas vid, Hunchback vid and the Urbie derby vid. I mean, who can hate on the Urbanmech? WHO? Jackass's that's who! Meanies! Bad people! Urbanmech forever! (unless you give me a Marauder, then the Urbanmech can suck it. Love my Officer's Pod! Nom nom nom). Anyway keep on keeping on Tex. High fives to you and your crew of chucklefucks. Shitpost or die! Hawkmen!!!!! D...wait for it...waiiiiit..... DIIIIIIVE!
WarRocketAjax
2024-07-04 21:49:22 +0000 UTCI feel so much emotion when people talk about cancer. My brother passed away from cancer, hit me so hard I ended up in therapy for two years. I ended up writing a song about it, "F Cancer" is it's title. You hold strong, all of you out there who have it, and those of you who know someone who has it or died from it. My heart goes out to you. Tex, I think we all apologize too much for being emotional, lets normalize it. We feel what we feel, because we feel. No wrong or right, it's how we feel at the time. You are an inspiration to a great number of people. That says a lot for only being a voice in the quire! Thanks for all you and your team do! Pistol6699
Pistol6699
2024-07-04 16:11:47 +0000 UTCHow bad is it that when you said Red Alert, Hell March came on in my head immediately? 😄
Weirdfish
2024-07-04 05:49:15 +0000 UTCTex, while listening to your weekly update from July 2nd and your comments about your friend and the film which you and your team will soon bless us with, I realized what a privilege it is to be a small part of what you release. It could be the Battle of Tukayyid, or the Star League Civil War, or the History of Doctor Christmas, it doesn't matter. Because with each and every one of those feature length films which you and your team labor to bring to fruition, there has never been any doubt in my mind (and dare I say the minds of everyone else) that it was done with the highest quality and attention to detail that even the best Hollywood film company could create...probably better. THAT is why I believe so many of us don't hesitate when it comes to the end of the month and our Patreon support for BPL. The humility you show and the gratitude for the support we give for this worthwhile endeavor, is more than justified by what you and your team create and I say thank YOU for what you and the team do. There is no doubt, when Twycross hits YouTube, if I'm not at work, I'll stop what I'm doing and make time to enjoy the entire film from beginning to end, even the post credits goodies. I think you can rest easy knowing that your friend, wherever he is, will see what was created and smile with a nod of approval. Hail Cargonia!
MarauderTDL
2024-07-04 01:44:10 +0000 UTCI mean, u took the words right out my brain hole. I completely agree with that.
MaezHughes
2024-07-03 18:45:05 +0000 UTCI'm sorry to hear you lost someone and I agree that it's great how you turn a loss into a motivation to help. You and your team do excellent work and I wish there was a way I could help. I did heed your warning about pushing too much too fast, and I took a long break between my last video and this next one. I feel the urge to consistently post but I'm also doing my best to balance that with my mental health.
Caboose
2024-07-03 17:58:58 +0000 UTCAs it was June 30th, I remembered good friends who were killed in a wildfire 11 years ago, sometimes it's ok to look at an old scar and remember the pain of their loss, to look at the void and remember who filled it. It is the definition of "Never Forget" So, Never Forget, and Keep the Faith.
Opie74
2024-07-03 17:53:04 +0000 UTCI've said this about Canopus Catgirls over and over!
Jay McIntyre
2024-07-03 17:38:10 +0000 UTCPlease feel free to read silently. You constantly have helped those who have needed it. Either by providing a much needed escape from reality with stories of the Star League and it's death in the fires of hell called Amaris, or by legitimately saving people financially as you've stated before. You have every right to be emotional over the loss of a friend and to do something in their memory. So take the upgrade in membership and use it to tell cancer to fuck off. Everyone has the potential to change the lives or others. Few try to actually take the risk of it. Fewer still make it happen. And only handfuls of that do it repeatedly. I am glad to know that you are of those few handfuls. So go forth, show the film industry what good research, sleepless nights, fantastic editing and storytelling can do from a group of individuals who shit post. May you have a wonderful day when you go through the comments, and I eagerly await to see the next film.
Fireonfriendly
2024-07-03 16:34:10 +0000 UTCTex. You're more than allowed to be emotional. You never need to apologize for letting those out. My therapist likes to say "it's ok to have big feelings". I'm sure I speak fore everyone here when I say that while we probably can't understand, we all appreciate the struggles you endure. Idk about the rest of them but I'm just proud I can help in the little ways we can. Even if that's just a dollar a month or hanging out in the Aux.
GraniteElephant
2024-07-03 15:41:03 +0000 UTCTo be fair Tex, if both sides in a battle die then it's considered a draw... Your friend didn't lose to cancer...He took that bastard cancer down with him.
KeK StrayHALO_MAN
2024-07-03 15:10:46 +0000 UTCDon't forget to take of yourself as well, you sound tired. Not a little tired, the sleep for a day and a half, but properly tired the spend two weeks reading books, playing games and eating chocolate biscuits kind of tired when you keep going because you don't know how to stop. I hope I'm wrong
Dan Pettersson
2024-07-03 15:01:24 +0000 UTCHappy belated Independence Day. Long post, feel free to either read aloud or to yourself. My late father had a saying: family, for better or worse, are standard issue. You have no choice or influence in what you got. Friends, they are what you make of them. As an aside, cancer took him as well. Fuck cancer. 🖕 Your friend, I didn’t know them at all nor do I know you all that well either, but I can say this much: they knew you loved them and vice versa. You wouldn’t box the stars and put in this kind of effort and sheer sacrifice to make this happen for someone you didn’t love and care for deeply. Maybe they didn’t get to see the final product but they saw the sheer sacrifice and know the quality of work you do and the lives you touch doing them. They knew it was a labor of love. Over many of our objections, you’ve cut yourself to the bone to make this happen, unnecessarily so, we the faithful Patreon supporters would argue. Echoing my message from last week, I’m just going to restate and urge caution about doing that too much. I know you have a vision and a drive to work hard, but if something happens to you because of reasons, this whole thing you’ve created falls apart and all those lives you helped lose that support. Put your own mask on before helping others if you will. How many times will I keep repeating that point? :: loudly sips bourbon :: Fuck it, as much as it takes. I’m reminded of the story of the B-29 “Kee Bird” and the chief engineer for what would’ve been the final flight Rick Kriege who literally worked himself to death to make it happen as a labor of love, God rest his soul. For all the effort a good man died and the plane burned to the ground as a puddle of twisted aluminum anyways. It ended up being all for nothing in the end. I know Twycross will have a happier final result than what happened to “Kee Bird” but the similarities are there for the future. Caution, brother. Caution.
MrToBeNamedLater
2024-07-03 12:32:19 +0000 UTCThanks for the info!
Santo
2024-07-03 12:26:00 +0000 UTCNo need to read aloud. I don’t think you should feel the need to apologize for showing emotion. As you stated, this movie means a lot to you personally and a part of reason of it’s creation and completion is rooted in loss. To paraphrase a legend of decades past I am sure you are familiar with: It's OK for Macho Men to show every emotion available. Just take the standing eight count, get back up and fight again. Ain’t any need to apologize for it, especially since you seem to answer the bell since I’ve been following your work. Take care and I am looking forward to the premier.
swiftdraw
2024-07-03 11:17:37 +0000 UTCI will simply say this: the BPL has, to my knowledge, to date, produced exceptional quality with uncompromising integrity. So long as they continue to do so, i will fund this endeavor, and gratefully so. Your creativity, integrity and humility is an inspiration that i can only hope others take to heart.
Ironguard
2024-07-03 10:45:48 +0000 UTCThe building of the BPL Bunker would end up being Dwarf Fortress in real life
David Grunt
2024-07-03 09:57:26 +0000 UTC*and as much ammo as your vehicle suspension can handle...
Sons of Lorgar
2024-07-03 09:19:12 +0000 UTCYeah, I'd expect catgirls to be about 0.5<1% of the Magistracys permanent residents, and up to 5% of it's working tourists (Ie as retainers/employed escorts of visiting nobles and corporate elites of other factions)
Sons of Lorgar
2024-07-03 09:18:00 +0000 UTCI'm definitely in the "why did x do y" preference of history priority, because without that context, it isn't historiography, it's historiaccountancy, and accountancy only gets interesting if you insert dragons and magic weasels. (Prof Hon Terry Pratchet ref.)
Sons of Lorgar
2024-07-03 08:59:53 +0000 UTCYou sir, have the magnificent gift of turning grief into motive force. I'd refer to myself as an emotional stump but I found this deeply moving. Thank you for the nudge, for I too have been busy. Here's hoping that I can make something worthwhile for my friends before life happens. And of course show them the mad beauty of Battletech
Lubomír Bednář
2024-07-03 07:48:54 +0000 UTCHey Tex, so sorry to hear about your friend. (voice saving mode) Around me it's heart attacks, dementia and cancer (but the good outcome, discovered at the right moment and it's all OK now, aside from the road to recovery being long and arduous).
Nonkel Bob
2024-07-03 07:24:16 +0000 UTCI'm sorry for your loss Tex. No need to apologize for being emotional. Expressing feelings keeps us human and bonds us together in common experience. I joke about how feelings are dumb, but honestly they are what keep me going. Despite some ridiculous bills that came out of nowhere, I'm sure I'll have some pennies for charity. Fuck cancer indeed. Also, I've come up with a saying to go with "comparison is the thief of joy." Comparison is, also, the thief of self.
Ginger_Bitters
2024-07-03 05:58:31 +0000 UTCCMP used to be the place to pick one up, all the super nice ones are mostly gone unless some old stock is sent back to the US. You can still get a "good enough" field grade or even rack grade that is in good shape for a decent price and will last with good proper care
Nonkel Bob
2024-07-03 05:54:47 +0000 UTCMy sympathy for you friend passing. RIP and GNU for them.
Mathieu Martineau
2024-07-03 03:47:36 +0000 UTCLove you all and what you do or reach for the stars to accomplish. I know it’s not much but you are one of so very few I contribute to.
Charles A. Inserra
2024-07-03 02:55:44 +0000 UTCRIP your friend, and I remember you speaking about it before As for not doing it with a fully functional mind, permit me to quote the television version of I, Claudius. "At least I have survived to middle age with half my wits, while THOUSANDS have died with all of theirs intact! Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity!" Is there nobody you've helped that appreciated it? SoupCan: My roomie had 2 stones, passed both, my sympathies. Edit: watching the most recent Russian Admirals episode, and I asked the question there and will repeat it here: So what would you say about a military defending *it's own* borders, Tex?
Jay McIntyre
2024-07-03 02:54:29 +0000 UTCGood evening Mr. Tex. Do not apologize for feeling emotional when thinking of those who are no longer with us. I have met people who haven't. Who looked me in the eye and told me they just lost someone they claimed was precious to them. And wasn't that just so very annoying, it had ruined their whole schedule. And no, they were not working to distract themselves from grief. I know what that looks like. I've done it often enough. They were just so 'busy' that they 'didn't have the time to care.' I will say, in all honesty, those are people I cannot find it in me to truly respect. Never apologize for being overwhelmed to the point that stoicism cracks. It is the proof that they meant something. As for the premier. Not gonna lie, every single time prior. SOMETHING always comes up. The family needs something, work rears its ugly head. The lights go out. I will try to be there, but at this point the Norns seem determined to stop me. I cannot spare much, but five of my dollars will be one of the snowflakes making up this particular avalanche. Fuck Cancer. Though, if you actually happen to be dying, do please take more money. I'd love to live vicariously through you as you spend the hookers and cocaine fund. Joking aside. I am not a religious man. I don't have it in me, not anymore. I do not seek to disparage anyone's faith, I do not agree with what I call the 'militant atheists'. We have a difference of opinion, and that's fine. But if I am wrong in my own belief. And I sincerely hope I am. Then I hope your friend will watch this upcoming release beside you, and he'll be ready to give you shit over some minor mistake you made, when next you meet. I hope for the same, when my own time comes. Who knows, the people I've lost may be waiting to tell me how much of an idiot I was my whole life for doubting them. May we we all be so lucky. On a lighter note. My own dream machinegun is an M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. Unfortunately, by the time I achieved citizenship, the possibility for realistically owning one had long vanished. This used to be a proper country. If you happen to see an M1 Garand for sale at some point at a price point that would not leave an average working asshole in poverty, let me know. I'd love to have one. There's something about older rifles that calls to me. My other dream gun is still an AKM. I'd love to unload a few magazines into trash for no good reason. Keep on keeping on. And stay safe. Fuck cancer.
Santo
2024-07-03 02:23:09 +0000 UTC*conciliatory sheep-noise followed by traditional headbutt-of-affectionate-greeting* Recreational attack-sheep offers their condolences. Feel free to save your voice for the incoming suck. As someone who came from a generation where a distressing number of us were raised not on but BY syndicated TV and later basic cable and has seen the damage that's caused I weep for the younger generation being raised by Instagram and TikTok. We saw how things got worse with the last generational shift on the chan-boards, when new people who weren't in on the joke made LuLz 'Srs Bznz' and completely lost the plot. Now we have kids growing up who have no concept of a distinction between an online persona and an offline core self that's just for them. They don't know how to be 'Off', they're always performing, and they're performing on a stage where 'Everybody I don't like is Hitler' and 'Hitler did Nothing Wrong' are both equally valid means of earning the currency of Engagement. But, as bad as Syndicated TV and Basic Cable were back in those days, they at least gave us Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact, the Edison Twins, The Electric Company and many more I've long forgotten the names of. That's one of the reasons why I support this mess. In a sea of 'These are the things you should be angry about' there's content creators like you bringing us something that's a little bit Electric Company, a little bit NOVA, and a little bit "You can't do that on television." ======= And now for something completely different: On the one hand, Canopus Catgirls are canon. On the other hand, Catgirls are not actually that big a deal on Canopus and we're fools if we assume Canopians are just tripping over the things. On the Gripping hand, Tourism makes up a big part of the Canopian economy. Canopus's tourism trade is an inter-stellar industry. This means that Catgirls have enough of a cultural footprint within the Inner Sphere and Greater Periphery to be something that'll sell tickets to Canopian burlesque theatre. Catgirls are not restricted just to Canopus, they could be Anywhere and Everywhere in the Btech universe.
Molly McAllister
2024-07-03 02:13:21 +0000 UTCHey Tex (And team). My deepest sympathies for the loss of a dear friend. My own family has been fighting that particular dragon for a while now, so I will state loudly with you: Fuck cancer. That said, I wanted to reach out and say thank you and the rest of the team for doing what you guys do and being such a welcoming and inviting member of the BattleTech community. I moved on from floundering solo with GW's games and embraced BattleTech as a setting and premise I could get into. Now I have found a lively local community that plays all kinds of Battletech, runs full campaigns, talks lore and shop, and looks out for each other. Couldn't have done it without the welcome mat you have laid out with your content. Glory to Marik!
Virixiss
2024-07-03 02:08:41 +0000 UTCNo question this week Tex i'm ready to light the beacons at your word see you next time
russell marsh
2024-07-03 01:27:16 +0000 UTCHeart emoji. Smileyface.
Korehammer
2024-07-03 01:25:19 +0000 UTCTo paraphrase a cycling truism: the correct number of machine guns to possess is one more than you currently have.
Adrian
2024-07-03 01:22:51 +0000 UTCThe people we lose along the way are the memories we keep and the deeds we do for those memories. Cancer has been a fucker in my family, the biological and the one I chose. Loss has been a constant. But I try to mind their memories, and let it propel me to kindnesses, to moving to the places I never thought I could be. I raise a glass to the ones we lost, and a cheer for those we find new.
Big Mac
2024-07-03 01:19:17 +0000 UTCI had just fired off an intensely stressful email about a professional change, when an email notification almost made me shit myself hard enough to reach orbit. You have no idea how relieving it was see it was from the BPL, and not from a corpobot informing me that my concerns are appreciated and that my services are no longer required.
Dudeosaurus Rex
2024-07-03 01:11:45 +0000 UTCYou never need to apologize for getting emotional. I shall raise my glass to your friend.
Gera5915
2024-07-03 01:09:06 +0000 UTCFuck cancer. I will share this video with my daughter she has gotten into Battletech and loves your content. Thank you and your team Tex glad you are getting this video done. I know your friend would love it
Dragon Blade
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THE BLACK PANTS LEGION
2024-07-03 00:49:58 +0000 UTC
