If you're familiar with firearms you know what I mean. Maybe even if the entirety of your familiarity is from Call of Duty.

The cycle rate. The recoil is extremely slow. Every pistol except the Militech M-76e. They fire slow. They cycle slow. Follow up shots are slow. And that has bothered me since launch.

Where's the Beretta 92 or Glock or 1911 with the quick follow up shots? Every pistol has the same weight to its action as a Deagle. Which I guess makes sense if they're all made extra large to deal with the chromed out monsters of Night City. But it still bothers me. But it also doesn't because many of those pistols are basically miniature rail guns. Especially tech pistols.

What are your thoughts?

North Africa at least. And I think that because of Higg's obsession with Egypt. Dude loved him some ancient Egypt. Pharohs and whatnot. It's all over his house in DS1. He modeled his Homo Demen's outfits on Egyptian iconography. And in 2 he's covered himself in Chiral Heirogliphics.

It's the only thing he was almost as obsessed with as Sam.

And speaking of Sam. I wonder if he took all those spy shots of Sam himself or if he had a secret team of DOOMs powered shadow ninjas shadowing Sam's every step in the first game...

Pick a border. Whichever you're closest to. North or South. Look into making a plan. Crossing the border illegally is an option. Probably a better option if a draft is called. A charge and claiming asylum is preferable to being caught on the wrong side of a checkpoint. Fleeing war is a valid asylum claim pretty much anywhere on the planet.

Military recruitment has been all time low year over year for a decade or more. And Iran isn't Iraq. That is a modern professional military armed and trained just as well as our guys. This won't be a professional military vs an insurgency armed with homemade bombs and soviet era relics. If you want a peek at the attrition rates this war will have go look at the numbers coming out of the Ukraine war. On both sides.

Back when Bush's War on Peace kicked off my dad made plans to get me out. He looked up an old war buddy he was in Vietnam with who lived in Canada. They planned to smuggle me across the woodlands. Not through an official crossing. Thankfully that plan never needed to be used. But he was serious. And I remember how serious he was.