Completely off topic, just a momentary diversion, but has anybody noticed just how dead The Firing Line has become???
Holy shit, was just checking there while waiting for food on the stove to simmer and there were NO registered members signed in as of 9:30PM EST. The most popular boards, General Discussion, Tactics and Training, and Handguns, had 0 registered members and around 60-80 guests viewing. And looking at the main page of the boards, only 1-3 new posts per day on each of these boards. Just wow...
From 2001 to around 2006 or so, TFL was ROWDY AF. On some afternoons and weekends it even paralleled ARF and GlockTalk. Passing through there earlier I felt exactly how Conn Maxwell felt in
The Cosmic Computer (H. Beam Piper, 1963), when he finally got off the long starship voyage from Earth to his own home planet of Poictesme, one of the most bustling commerce and trade centers of the System States Alliance before the bankruptcy caused by the defeat of the System States in the Federation War turned it into a dusty, arid, mostly abandoned, and bandit ridden backwater world. Just deserts and ghost towns with smatterings of settlements still trying to get some industries running... Just sad all through...
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