u/CurrentDog3300

I recently wanted to go backpacking, but didn't want to splurge on a tent that I might not use again, so I decided to build one from the stuff I could find in a hardware store. The pictured tent is made of:

A 8x6 heavy duty tarp

250 ish feet of paracord

2 2ft pvc pipes (with a coupler just in case)

10 tent stakes

And I think I did pretty well for a first try, however its time for improvement.

The main things I'm worried about the dip down the middle, the way the walls droop even though the ridgeline is taut (when I put the middle stakes in tight the middle dips even more), and the overall weatherproofing of it.

Does anyone have solutions to these problems, or advice to make it better (besides "buy a actual tent")? Thanks!

Edit: Sorry, forgot to add context. Ill be camping in New England in the summer/ early fall.

Edit: Thanks for all the advice! I will see what cheap tents I can find bc this is apparently the worst tent possible

Pt. 3 of my Muldraugh Crusade posts.

Finally got my car back! It only took 15 hours of straight gunfire.

Sorry the video is so long, but i wanted to show off the carnage I have done in the past few days here at Muldraugh. Just today I killed 1012, either with an SMG or a shotgun (Britas Guns). I used just about 400 shells and probably 900 9mm rounds. Hopefully thats the brunt of it, just gotta sweep up the residential hopefully. Total kills is 6534, 43 days in.

Jesus why does Muldraugh have this many zeds? I'm continuing my crusade from my previous post and needed a saw for planks. I saw the warehouse at the far end of Muldraugh and thought "oh I have a car, how hard can it be?" Well turns out its actually pretty hard. Hopefully one of the other cars works till I can get to safety. Ignore the shout I fat fingered it taking the screenshot.

Quick question: I normally just drive through Muldraugh and forget about it; does the main road have the bulk of the zeds? Or is the entire town packed like this? I am at a normal (1.0) population multiplier.

Edit: Sorry I should've clarified, I'm an outlier bc this playthrough is still B41. Sorry for the confusion!

Was trying to clear out Muldraugh a bit and was having trouble with the zeds, idk how to describe it, bleeding? out of the woods to the south. Was preparing to fortify the police station when I realized what a mess I've made trying to clear out this town. This is a cleaner section too. So far I've leveled up 3 times in Spear, 2 times in Short Blunt, and once in Long Blunt.

I recently hit Level 100, and I just gotta say this game is great. Decided to celebrate by sharing my loadouts and some of my favorite weapons.

Vietnam Era: He's got my best attempt at M1967/ ALICE webbing, and runs either the M24 or the M16A2 (Mostly the M24, I can't stand the M16 rear sight).

SAW Gunner: He was my original Militia loadout, so a bit more casual than your average soldier. He brings 400 rounds of ammo, and he WILL solve any problem that can get fixed by shooting something. He runs, you guessed it, the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon.

German: This was honestly just an excuse to use Flecktarn (I love flecktarn, its so cool looking), I'll probably update it if Gnar ever adds a G3 to the game. He runs either the G36, G36k, HK416, and the MP5.

GWOT Multicam: I wanted to see what the cag thing was all about, and I think I did well. He either runs the M16A4, SCAR-L, SCAR-H SAW, or M110.

Militia: Now this is my main Civ build that I run. You know those like Vietnam spec ops units that used AKs and stuff (I think they're called MACVSOG)? I imagine he's like an ex-member of that. Uses either the AK-103, AKSU-74, Groza, or MK18.

Civilian: This was kind of a joke tbh, he's the stereotypical fudd, who says things like "if it was good enough for my grandpa its good enough for me." He runs all stock weapons, either the M16, Python, or M1911.

This is getting long so a speedrun through my favorite weapons from each class:

Assault Rifles: SIG 550, AK 103

Carbines: M4 Carbine/ AR variant, Groza

PDW: P90

SMG: MP5

Shotgun: M1014

Battle Rifle: SA 58

DMR: M110

Sniper: M24

LMG: SAW M249

My top 5 overall are

1. The SAW
2. The M4A1
3. SA58
4. AK 103
5. AUG

If you read to the bottom of this, I hope you enjoyed! I've been playing this game since last August, and I doubt I have less than 300 hours in it. Its not the best all the time (my laptop sucks so I play at pretty much rock bottom settings) but its the best Milsim I have every played. Here's to 100 levels, and hopefully 100 more!

I always say tap firing is better than full auto; almost the same fire rate for way less recoil. Sorry about the audio, its kinda quiet.

Finally soloed naval for the mission. Don't ask me how many tries it took.

And honestly, those 5 guys up at the AA gave me more trouble than everything else combined. If I broke stealth, 999/1000 it was because those guys got hit once and just started blasting.

The Groza is fire tho. I typically don't use AK type rifles (SAW goes brrrr) but if you slap the 40 round mag on it its like a oversized PDW. Obviously not that much range, but you can shred through enemies at close range.

I feel like I dont carry much, but my pockets always bulge from everything in them. In my left pocket I have:

My wallet

Car Keys

Earbuds

Something like a pager? Its hard to explain

And in my right pocket is my phone. Not pictured is my folding knife I keep in my back right pocket.

I almost always wear jeans, and my fit makes my pockets either look full or bulging from my pants. Any advice? Thanks yall!

Edit: Thanks for the advice! I should get new pants, they were just higher quality Lucky Brand jeans so I wanted to keep them for as long as possible.

I get the point that they are too small/ skinny jeans, so the "take off the kid/girl jeans and put them back in the closet" comments aren't helping......

Edit to my edit: What jean brands would yall recommend for a broke college kid trying to get a new wardrobe of jeans? (All of my current jeans fit like the ones in the picture)

So I just unlocked the M320 and wanted to try it out. I decided (since the grenades are kinda heavy) that I wanted a lighter, shorter range loadout and.....

God dammit I'm a demo man

Also Idk what yall are complaining about, the grenade launcher is sick

Edit: So Ive played a bit more... and yeah it kinda sucks. Theres not that much AOE damage, its mostly been just single kills. Still cool tho

I play on a 7 year old laptop, and it gets to the point where I switch to manual graphics and crank it up to 7 just to see terrain, and when I land put it on auto graphics, where I assume from the render distance its like at a 2 or 3. I can't wait to get a pc....

I love these old type of ads for military products, whether it be planes, grenade launchers or firearms. However I was wondering if there was a database/website where I could find a bunch of them to make posters out of for myself. Does anyone know of this sort of thing? Thanks yall!

Edit: Thanks for all the feedback! I'll start looking on Ebay for old magazines and I'll see what I get. Have a good day yall!

Something I realized while watching the movies:

In the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Snow uses a G3 rifle as his Peacekeeper firearm, while in Mockingjay Pt. 2 Peeta is using a G36, a gun made by the same company (Heckler & Koch) a few decades later.

This would make sense in a country like Germany, but would be weird in the US where neither were adopted/used by the US military at any point. Maybe the writers wanted to be consistent in their gun choices? It was just something interesting I noticed.

The title basically.

I have a really bad laptop that can't run Fortnite, let alone RDR2. However I see the games I like go on sale from time to time, so I was just wondering about yall. Do you buy games before you can actually play them and have them sit in your library? Or do you wait until you have a better machine to get them?

Edit: Thanks for the feedback! I'm broke rn anyways, but it was nice to hear what others do. Have a good day!