u/The_Greyscale

I’m pretty much new to hunting, especially hunting out west. That said, I’ve ended up with a bull elk otc tag for third rifle season in Colorado, and want to do it the right way.

I’m mainly looking for recommendations for guides and equipment to make this a successful and fun, if challenging, experience. I’m in good enough shape and with enough military outdoors experience that roughing it in the woods and packing out heavy weight myself wouldnt be an issue (and is actually part of the appeal) so I’m not looking for a full service hunt. I’d just appreciate someone to show me the ropes for tracking, and make sure I’m taking ethical shots at only what I should be shooting at.

Any advice would be appreciated.

As I enter the ranks of the Unreal, I find myself reflecting on the 1 week journey it took to get here.

The highs, the lows, the victories and defeats…

The hardest part was, of course, realizing that Epic does not reward having fun. Do you enjoy landing in a POI, looting, and fighting from the start? Forget all of that. Epic wants you to understand that this is competitive hide and seek. Land in a bush, scroll reddit, and forget the game exists for 15 minutes. Until it hits 25 players or less, the only reason you should be moving is because you are literally about to die.

After 25 players remaining, thats your chance to loot up. Look for the puddles of blue and purple loot leftover from the poor fools who thought that playing the game was…. sorry, got distracted deleting someone who walked into my bush… anyway, the poor fools that thought playing the game before this point was in any way worth doing.

In fortnite ranked, the game before 25 players remaining might as well not exist. Your job is to be either the most AFK player in the match, or at least the slipperiest. I’m currently ranking up to unreal while drunk off my ass and typing this.

Some may be annoyed, some may be amused. Some may wonder wtf Epic is doing writing an advancement algorithm that only really incentivizes engagement when the game is 75% complete. To these I can now say… sounds like a skill issue. The game is bush. Bush is the game. I am the reason people fear to open a door or pause near vegetation for heals. I dont care if you’re a top #150 player. No one likes 3 barrels from a drunk timmy in a bush unloaded in their face.

Thanks for the mediocre pickaxe, motherfuckers.

I’m looking to get into competing more, whether it’s bullseye type shooting with CMP, or more active type shooting in the style of IDPA or USPSA.

The only problem is that I dont like spending hours at a time at the range, especially when the majority of that time is waiting on your turn to shoot a stage and watching other people shoot. I’d prefer competitions or organizations where you can show up, shoot, and leave, all within a reasonable (under 2 hour) time frame.

Is there anything like this out there, or is the solution to just set up my own stages on privately owned land, and give up on the external competition aspect?

I’m looking to get into competing more, whether it’s bullseye type shooting with CMP, or more active type shooting in the style of IDPA or USPSA.

The only problem is that I dont like spending hours at a time at the range, especially when the majority of that time is waiting on your turn to shoot a stage and watching other people shoot. I’d prefer competitions or organizations where you can show up, shoot, and leave, all within a reasonable (under 2 hour) time frame.

Is there anything like this out there, or is the solution to just set up my own stages on privately owned land, and give up on the external competition aspect?

Overheard a first sausage today saying that with the new guidance, they may require Soldiers with currently approved religious accommodations for facial hair to shave while their reapplications are pending. I doubt they’re the only one who is going to get stupid with this.

I’ll take a coke and popcorn. Need something to munch on while keeping up with the inevitable congressional complaints and lawsuits.

As the title says, this game has managed to make itself a bad choice for playing with IRL friends of widely different skill levels.

I used to play pretty regularly in a group that is mostly casual, with one pretty hard core friend who meets the definition of a no-lifer. Unemployed, lives with parents in his late 20’s, watches fortnite strategy videos all day, etc. We used to play Fortnite with him pretty regularly to keep him included and give him an actual social outlet, and have dropped a pretty good chunk on skins and battle passes over the years between us. That has changed over the past season or so.

Playing with him has become genuinely not fun due to the lobbies the game is throwing us in. The 3 of us generally die on drop, and then end up watching him run around for 10-15 minutes trying to intermittently rez us while we gradually all mentally check out and scroll social media. Then we end up either calling it an earlier night after only 1-2 matches or hop to another game entirely. Unfortunately, he’s hooked on Fortnite only and then ends up playing by himself. We’ve all stopped spending money on the game.

I’m genuinely curious if they’ve looked at how these changes to the game have actively disincentivized playing with friends who arent all at the same skill level. I’m not saying that they are responsible for my friends social isolation, but I am saying that it is a good case study of how SBMM reduces casual player engagement, and is antithetical to casual group game play for those who arent all at the same level.

I dont really know what the solution is here. I just know that in old lobbies like Halo or early COD, this didnt seem like a problem. Lobbies were wildly random then, and while you might get an occasional cracked out player who dominated the lobby, the game didnt seem like it was actively trying to throw Rec league or pickup game enjoyers into a semi-pro league every time you started a match.

I genuinely wish games would offer no SBMM lobbies based entirely on ping or first in queue for casual play. It seems like Epic (and most other game companies) are catering pretty exclusively to an audience and hyper competitive gaming culture which doesnt lend itself to relaxed sessions with friends.

Posting this concept here for consideration and critique. I pretty much came up with this to mentally justify an Alpha Legion descended loyalist chapter using Deathwatch equipment and rules in Kill Team.

As a contingency against the failure of other Alpha Legion initiatives, Alpharius established the Dragon’s Teeth prior to the events of the Dropsite Massacre.

Operating under what was termed the “Lethe” protocol, Captain Cadmus was charged with a stock of gene seed and selected Alpha Legionnaires held in deep space stasis. These Legionaries, termed “Spartoi“, awakened to find their Primarch dead or missing, the rebellion crushed, and a galaxy in flames. Throughout their early existence, the Dragon’s Teeth systematically tracked down surviving members of the Cabal, following instructions to eliminate those xenos who could reveal Alpha Legion’s original motives for joining Horus. Coming to a head roughly concurrent with the war of the Beast, carefully managed disinformation operations are alleged to have resulted in a Farseer of the Eldar deeming the Cabal a threat, and eliminating its remaining members.

With their primary objective notionally complete, the Dragon’s Teeth shifted focus to secondary objective Orpheus. Utilizing knowledge and connections made during the hunt for the Cabal, as well as the chaos and massive casualties experienced by the Imperium during the War of the Beast, the Dragon’s Teeth seized the opportunity to posture themselves as a loyalist chapter integral to the founding and initial support of the Deathwatch. This connection has masked their motives and methods for millennia since, as they utilized their expertise with infiltrating and fighting Xenos in order to damage Chaos. In the current age, they are thought to operate more or less exclusively under the aegis of the Ordo Xenos and Deathwatch.

Deathwatch service is considered a prerequisite for any legionary of the Dragon’s Teeth to attain a leadership role in the chapter. This serves the purposes of perpetuating the Chapter’s outward xeno focus, maintaining the Chapter’s priority access to equipment, training, and support networks, and avoiding the possibility of the Deathwatch’s notoriously stringent hypnotherapy from detecting members with knowledge of the Chapter’s origins or questionable methodology. This service period also serves as a useful finishing tool for promising neophytes and veterans to gain experience in small unit deniable operations far from the possibility of rescue. The Dragon’s Teeth Legionnaires are always welcomed to the Watch, with their similar tactical structure and utilitarian culture perpetuating a noted reputation for being reliable members of fire teams alongside practically any chapter. Due to the numbers they historically send, they have occasionally been fielded in complete Chapter teams, a rarity for the Deathwatch.

The Chapter ruthlessly leverages its expertise to pit xenos against Chaos at every opportunity, utilizing false flag operations, tactical retreats luring belligerent xenos towards Chaos territory, and even captured genestealers or mulched Ork carcasses transplanted onto or near Chaos controlled worlds in order to bring Xenos and Chaos into conflict at every possible opportunity. They have also utilized intelligence networks cultivated through their favorable relationship with the Deathwatch and Inquisition to selectively (and deniably) enable certain Alpha Legion factions who perpetuate infighting against other Chaos groups.

To all appearances for the Imperium, and even Alpha Legion war bands they have crossed paths with, the Dragon’s Teeth are a ferociously loyal (if secretive) Chapter with a proud history of service to the Inquisition and Deathwatch. Their origin Primarch is officially unknown, with knowledge of their chapters founding thought to have been lost to the ravages of time and the Warp. However, the Dragon’s Teeth tradition of scaled armor modifications and adornments has led to uninformed speculation of them being the survivors of a a 18th legion origin cursed founding chapter.