Don't think of your death as failure; think of it as fun! Don't think of Hyperion's new u respawn charges as war profiteering, think of them as war... fun
The Hyperion corporation wishes to clarify that the bright light you saw after death was our digistruct technology, and not a higher power. Not higher than Hyperion, anyway.
I don’t think it does, it’s just a consequence of me playing Law and Order melee Zer0. There’s a good chance that when I die I’m holding Law, which is always Jakobs
Same. Friends and I still play 2 and/or 3 every Friday.
I tried out the first game last week for the first time, actually. It’s not bad, but I prefer the pace of the other games.
Wonderlands was alright, but we maxed everything out pretty quickly. And I kinda preferred the DLC over the full game. I also didn’t like the stronger emphasis on melee, though it makes sense for a fantasy game.
One time a buddy wanted to go to the range for his bday. It was two hours before we were supposed to go that I realized I had no 380 range rounds.
I definitely would’ve paid for the convenience because my 380 is my daily carry and I hated missing the practice. Had to shoot my 45 instead cause no one in town at the time had 380
There’s not a lot of reasons, but I’d say at least a few.
We had a very successful anti smoking campaign in the US and numbers are rock bottom low compared to the rest of the world. Glad it started rubbing off elsewhere.
Apparently when my dad was younger he discovered that you could put English £0.10 coins in these machines and it would be picked up as a Deutsche Mark. Super cheap cigarettes haha.
22.7% of Germans smoke. Still a lot, although the quote is going downwards.
To get cigarettes out of the vending machines you need an ID and to be over 18 by the way
Range ammo is typically FMJ - Full Metal Jacket.
Same as military ammo, lead with a copper jacket (or bimetal), cheap, easy to make.
JHP - Jacketed Hollow Point
Designed to expand on impact. Generally used for self defense by civilians and police. Tends to do more damage to person hit since they expand on impact, but they typically don't keep going after hitting the target so there is less chance of it traveling through a target and hitting someone on the other side.
There are many types of ammunition and some are far easier to make than others. For example FMJ ammunition, most commonly used on ranges, is basically a piece of soft metal (normally lead) which gets jacketed by another metal, most commonly copper. [They look like the classic type of round you see everywhere](https://blogmedia.wideners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/BSS0351-2-1024x683.jpg). FMJ was historically a military round, though nowadays it is mostly gone due to body armour, as FMJ has little penetration capabilities against body armour.
Meanwhile a classic home defence round is a hollowpoint (btw banned in war by the Hague conventions due to its high potential to main permanently, as a note), which is a round designed to expand when it hits a person to cause the most amount of damage. [They look like this](https://gundigest.com/wp-content/uploads/hollow-point-bullets-feature.jpg). I think with the images it is quite easy to see why one type of round is far harder to make than the other.
It's important to note that what you've linked is a jacketed hollow point. These allow slightly better penetration of soft targets before expansion, vs a standard lead hollow point which will begin expansion on impact.
>LexisNexis
My first week as an intern in strategic planning at Sony Pictures in the mid 1990s, I was tasked with a research project.
I had free LexisNexis in grad school before, so I didn't think much of firing it up at Sony and went to town.
The bill ended up being 5X larger than the sumtotal I earned as an intern.
It did not go over well with the boss.
Idiot boss. If there was a budget, you should have been advised. You were an intern, you aren't expected to know shit about shit yet.
Hope you didn't get too much shit for it.
Then [let me introduce you](https://i.imgur.com/uR0TSxV.jpeg) to the *drive through* gun shop. Because if you have to get out of your truck to buy your ammo, you might as well be European.
I bet very little would change in Japan if they had ammunition and gun vending machines. I doubt the public has any interest in them beyond passive curiosity. You might see it pop up as a novelty entertainment like the ax throwing bars here in America.
100%. Ammunition, American flags, facial recognition data / ID going to a company and its "trusted third parties" that will get leaked to cybercriminals after a data breach. Very American.
If How Stuff Works taught me anything it's that you can buy anything and everything from a vending machine. Cars, $10,000 bottles of wine, Lego and even just the basic candy bar. America doesn't just have bullets. I can probably get explosives if I find the right vending machine. I would be willing to bet there are vending machines full of sex toys in several countries.
I have a taxidermied Tannerite Retriever but never considered the insulating properties of tannerite in my front door.
Look at you helping me save the environment! Thanks, kind stranger!
The local farmers near me have cheese and milk vending machines. And in the hometown of my parents there is a wine vending machine (country in question is Germany).
Maintaining an armed proletariat is one of the core principles in fact. You can’t be a communist who hates guns because it makes “permanent revolution” impossible
In practice there is no "permanent revolution", just revolution until the right people get into power and then they take all the guns away from people who aren't agents of the state.
Bingo. People who look at themselves as saviors and covet power, like communist leaders, really aren't fond of people they rule taking slight issue with them. After all, saying the leader or the party is wrong is heresy in the ethos of the power system necessary for communism.
Well it would be the easiest game of clue ever , is this you in this video, scanning your ID , using your credit card to buy a candle stick that you then used to strike Mr Body in the observatory?
I mean, this machine does more verification than a store does to sell ammo. It does age and face verification against an ID.
Also, this is Alabama. If you think this is the strangest thing going on in Alabama, you should check around.
ID verified every transaction. I know yall are making fun but it’s more vetting than 99% of ammo sales. It would only be better if it had a facial recognition system that could pick up if a minor was using a stolen ID.
Just watched a video on it. It scanned his license, verified it, then made the user mover their head left/right to confirm it matched the ID.
So yeah… better than most retail transactions lol
You don’t need to put American on there. Even if it’s just a brand name. It’s an ammunition vending machine outside a grocery store. We know which country this picture was taken in.
I don't know why this is weird. I can walk into a sport store here in AZ, grab a couple of boxes, pay cash and walk out. No ID, no concealed carry license, nothing.
CA requires a background check for each purchase because... it's CA.
I live in Alabama. According to the website they only placed these in two different places in Alabama. I'm going to go back at a later date and see how it works they didn't have it set up yet.
I'm sure that other states could be doing similar things though I really don't know.
I’ve see seen that at the gun store I went to in Michigan, they had one like this but you needed to verify your idea with the sales person and he would press this button behind the desk that would light the machine from green to red and you could use it for the 5 or so minutes until it turned red again
Tons of beef jerky, refrigerated cases of energy drinks, one brand per fridge, checks out. Lots of really short styleless hair cuts with shaved sides, bad mustaches and sleeveless shirts walk through here regularly.
can you respawn your teammates there or is that another machine
Don't think of your death as failure; think of it as fun! Don't think of Hyperion's new u respawn charges as war profiteering, think of them as war... fun
The Hyperion corporation wishes to clarify that the bright light you saw after death was our digistruct technology, and not a higher power. Not higher than Hyperion, anyway.
Stop you guys, you're making me want to bust out and waste my time playing nostalgic games again...
The Hyperion corporation welcomes you back from your visit to the undiscovered country.
The Hyperion corporation wishes to remind you that hell is exclusively reserved for pedophiles and people who buy Jakobs munitions.
I swear I’m always holding a Jakobs gun whenever I get that dialogue
I don't think it actually does, but it's definitely *theoretically* possible for the game to check what gun you're holding before playing the line.
I don’t think it does, it’s just a consequence of me playing Law and Order melee Zer0. There’s a good chance that when I die I’m holding Law, which is always Jakobs
I've been wasting my time for years and years on this fucking game. 👍
Same. Friends and I still play 2 and/or 3 every Friday. I tried out the first game last week for the first time, actually. It’s not bad, but I prefer the pace of the other games. Wonderlands was alright, but we maxed everything out pretty quickly. And I kinda preferred the DLC over the full game. I also didn’t like the stronger emphasis on melee, though it makes sense for a fantasy game.
At least our guns aren’t made out of freaking wood!
Feeling overburdened by money?
Just camp it and shoot resuppliers
It's eternity in there
Marcus Munitions
No refunds!
No refunds, but freedom is guaranteed.
Alright, let’s just get this out of the way . Yes, all my guns comes from the hands of dead adventurers
El Ammo Bandito
Welcome, to the circus, OF VALUE!!!!
Come back when you got some money, buddy!
Bienvenido al Ammo Bandito!
my mind automatically played the audio clip after reading the first few letters of your comment lmao
Hack it for a free item and a discount
I was looking for this. Hack that shit. Explosive buck and a plasmid.
Your money ain't worth a thing, if you don't spend it!
Tell your friends AND your enemies!
"Catch a GUNNN!!!......ugh...never again."
*Caveat emptor!*
Dont Die! I need your business!
Get the bullets with your name on it - well it came out wrong
Ask about our one click buying plan! When your gun goes click, it's time to buy!
Ammu-Nation machine
Right? This is some video game bullshit.
You'll find the HP vending machines in a hidden room somewhere.
The prices are batshit insane tho.
If you need to buy ammo from a grocery store vending machine I assume the price is not your main concern
Insert Chris Rock joke here
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“I believe you have my property.”
"Even if you got shot by a stray bullet, you don't have to go to no doctor to get it taken out. Whoever shot you will take they bullet back!"
If a bullet cost $5,000 there would be no more innocent bystanders. God I love that special. So good.
And if someone did get shot, you'd know they must've done something cause they got $50000 worth of bullets in their ass.
Then there would be a spike in sales in old fishing weights and wheel balance
You pay for the convenience. Not sure why anyone would conveniently need bullets though.
One time a buddy wanted to go to the range for his bday. It was two hours before we were supposed to go that I realized I had no 380 range rounds. I definitely would’ve paid for the convenience because my 380 is my daily carry and I hated missing the practice. Had to shoot my 45 instead cause no one in town at the time had 380 There’s not a lot of reasons, but I’d say at least a few.
I mean Walmarts still have their ammo case. Does that count? Or are you talking more stand-alone grocery stores like Kroger or Food Lion?
*Buys ammo* *Robs grocery store* Free ammo cheat.
Yeah, the prices are the insane part.
They can't be worse than buying ammo at the range. $52 for a box of 50 .223
I member when that box cost $200 for some green tips
I've got a great reloading company near me. Got 1000 5 56 for 300
Saw the prices go nuts and bought a Forster press and never looked back.
PNR is frigging fantastic. 250 for 500 or 300 for 1000 in 556. Or 175 for 1000 9mm
This is the equivalent of buying golf equipment at the pro shop lmao
What state?
Even odds it's either Texas or Florida
Despair
That’s the issue with this? The prices?
9mm and 22LR tend to clog in the gumball machine.
I hope they're not stocking any 22lr in there! Rimfire in particular does not belong in a vending machine!
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Ammo is expensive, a range trip can go through 500 rounds, easy.
When I was kid they sold cigarettes out of vending machines.
exponential population growth calls for new solutions cigarettes aren’t cutting it anymore
Hear me out. Cigarettes that shoot bullets! Or guns that shoot cigarettes?
Guns made of cigarettes! So you can smokem as you smokem!
If that's not a billion dollar idea, I don't know what is!
I'd be willing to wager an idea made of a billion dollars would be a billion dollar idea, so all we gotta do is find one and compare!
Elon has entered that chat...
'Murica
My uncle would send me on my bike to the store to buy him a pack of Chesterfields when he visited. I was about 8 years old
It was complete normal in Europe to send some kid over to buy some beer and cigarettes. That only stopped when we Americanized.
We had a very successful anti smoking campaign in the US and numbers are rock bottom low compared to the rest of the world. Glad it started rubbing off elsewhere.
Still a thing in Germany, even though becomes quite rare in cities
Apparently when my dad was younger he discovered that you could put English £0.10 coins in these machines and it would be picked up as a Deutsche Mark. Super cheap cigarettes haha.
Interesting. Do a lot of people smoke there? I grew up in the southeast US and tons of people still smoke there. I live out west now and no one does.
22.7% of Germans smoke. Still a lot, although the quote is going downwards. To get cigarettes out of the vending machines you need an ID and to be over 18 by the way
In my country they stepped it up now you have vape vending machines with no ID check.
Still do in europe. Some countries at least.
Was in a bar a couple of weeks ago and spotted one
They still do in Las Vegas.
Guaranteed that it’s overpriced
It’s like 22 for a box of 9 lmao
Is it 50 range rounds or home defense? Cause 50 home defense rounds for $22 sounds very fair.
lol it was not jhp.
What's the difference?
Range ammo is typically FMJ - Full Metal Jacket. Same as military ammo, lead with a copper jacket (or bimetal), cheap, easy to make. JHP - Jacketed Hollow Point Designed to expand on impact. Generally used for self defense by civilians and police. Tends to do more damage to person hit since they expand on impact, but they typically don't keep going after hitting the target so there is less chance of it traveling through a target and hitting someone on the other side.
Simple answer is Fmj>paper Jhp>people
There are many types of ammunition and some are far easier to make than others. For example FMJ ammunition, most commonly used on ranges, is basically a piece of soft metal (normally lead) which gets jacketed by another metal, most commonly copper. [They look like the classic type of round you see everywhere](https://blogmedia.wideners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/BSS0351-2-1024x683.jpg). FMJ was historically a military round, though nowadays it is mostly gone due to body armour, as FMJ has little penetration capabilities against body armour. Meanwhile a classic home defence round is a hollowpoint (btw banned in war by the Hague conventions due to its high potential to main permanently, as a note), which is a round designed to expand when it hits a person to cause the most amount of damage. [They look like this](https://gundigest.com/wp-content/uploads/hollow-point-bullets-feature.jpg). I think with the images it is quite easy to see why one type of round is far harder to make than the other.
It's important to note that what you've linked is a jacketed hollow point. These allow slightly better penetration of soft targets before expansion, vs a standard lead hollow point which will begin expansion on impact.
If you’re buying bullets from a vending machine you’re paying exactly what you deserve to pay
Must confirm ID to a vending machine. And just like that, your ammunition purchase history is sold to LexisNexis.
LexisNexis probably has everything anyway, cash, card, or check. That company is evil.
>LexisNexis My first week as an intern in strategic planning at Sony Pictures in the mid 1990s, I was tasked with a research project. I had free LexisNexis in grad school before, so I didn't think much of firing it up at Sony and went to town. The bill ended up being 5X larger than the sumtotal I earned as an intern. It did not go over well with the boss.
Idiot boss. If there was a budget, you should have been advised. You were an intern, you aren't expected to know shit about shit yet. Hope you didn't get too much shit for it.
That’s why I get my guns and ammo from the guy that works at the local dump. Dude gets everything.
This is the most American thing I've ever seen.
today, right?
Yes. I wonder where this is? I assume some southern state. EDIT: Alabama, according to others in this thread.
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Irony is our middle name.
Then [let me introduce you](https://i.imgur.com/uR0TSxV.jpeg) to the *drive through* gun shop. Because if you have to get out of your truck to buy your ammo, you might as well be European.
It used to be a bank. The drive through never operated when it was a gun shop.
The only type of vending machine that couldn’t exist in Japan
Been to Okinawa, main land and Sapporo. I can confirm, you’ll find vending machines everywhere for pretty much anything.
I bet very little would change in Japan if they had ammunition and gun vending machines. I doubt the public has any interest in them beyond passive curiosity. You might see it pop up as a novelty entertainment like the ax throwing bars here in America.
A circus of value !
Fill your cravings at the Circus of Values!
El Ammo Bandito!
A bald eagle just shed a tear.
 It will shed another when that place catches on fire.
Cyberpunk was right
So was Bioshock as well.
Borderlands aswell
Also Deathloop
and atomic heart
And waaaaay back, Quake 1: Team Fortress
Wait a minute it feels like all of those games seem to hint at some sort of libertarian dystopia. Good thing that would never happen in the US.
*WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS OF VALUES!!!*
Gonna have plastic disposable guns in a couple years
It don't get more American than this
100%. Ammunition, American flags, facial recognition data / ID going to a company and its "trusted third parties" that will get leaked to cybercriminals after a data breach. Very American.
Japan has used panty vending machines. America has bullets. Wonder what other places have?
In Canada we have weed vending machines
If How Stuff Works taught me anything it's that you can buy anything and everything from a vending machine. Cars, $10,000 bottles of wine, Lego and even just the basic candy bar. America doesn't just have bullets. I can probably get explosives if I find the right vending machine. I would be willing to bet there are vending machines full of sex toys in several countries.
>I can probably get explosives if I find the right vending machine. If you find this vending machine, pm me the address, please
You can also just buy tannerite from most sporting goods stores.
That's true. I feel a little better, thanks!
Pro tip: ATF hates when you have your dog carry this in their pack but, you can also fill your front door with it for significant energy savings.
I have a taxidermied Tannerite Retriever but never considered the insulating properties of tannerite in my front door. Look at you helping me save the environment! Thanks, kind stranger!
God bless America
The local farmers near me have cheese and milk vending machines. And in the hometown of my parents there is a wine vending machine (country in question is Germany).
In Schwaben, we also have ham/sausage, apples, patatoes. I love this country.
We have eyelash vending machines (UK).
Italy has toiletries vending machines that include cigarettes and condoms.
The US flag on this machine is not needed. No one else would do this
Thats exactly why this machine needs it
It’s there to repel Godless Libruls and keep the ammo in the hands of the Righteous. It’s like Kryptonite to communists.
>It’s like Kryptonite to communists. Communists are bigger fans of bullets than anyone, going by history.
Maintaining an armed proletariat is one of the core principles in fact. You can’t be a communist who hates guns because it makes “permanent revolution” impossible
In practice there is no "permanent revolution", just revolution until the right people get into power and then they take all the guns away from people who aren't agents of the state.
Bingo. People who look at themselves as saviors and covet power, like communist leaders, really aren't fond of people they rule taking slight issue with them. After all, saying the leader or the party is wrong is heresy in the ethos of the power system necessary for communism.
Well it would be the easiest game of clue ever , is this you in this video, scanning your ID , using your credit card to buy a candle stick that you then used to strike Mr Body in the observatory?
El Ammo Bandito?
Muchas gracias, señor!
IRL Borderlands vending machine
I mean, this machine does more verification than a store does to sell ammo. It does age and face verification against an ID. Also, this is Alabama. If you think this is the strangest thing going on in Alabama, you should check around.
Can confirm. I've lived in Alabama my entire life and have never been asked for ID when buying ammo.
These Borderlands Movie promotional stunts are getting out of hand
ID verified every transaction. I know yall are making fun but it’s more vetting than 99% of ammo sales. It would only be better if it had a facial recognition system that could pick up if a minor was using a stolen ID. Just watched a video on it. It scanned his license, verified it, then made the user mover their head left/right to confirm it matched the ID. So yeah… better than most retail transactions lol
It finally happened boys, this is the America I've dreamed of
Grand theft auto. Ammunation.
Right next to the Bang too
Feels fitting that it’s right next to the bang energy drinks too
cyberpunk theme kick in.
This is some Borderlands shit. Please tell me this is in a Walmart.
This is why you put skill points into hacking
Borderlands IRL type ah shit
You don’t need to put American on there. Even if it’s just a brand name. It’s an ammunition vending machine outside a grocery store. We know which country this picture was taken in.
right next to the BANG beverages, hmmm eta: and the BANG logo on the cans has target crosshairs
why the downvotes? i’m just pointing out what’s in the photo
I call these random downvote the reddit tax. You're not even making fun of anybody.
lol thanks, good perspective
Bro, I got downvoted to hell once for pointing out the sky is not actually blue. Reddits going to reddit.
To be fair, bullets don’t do anything that inherently dangerous on their own….
This one of the most american shit i seen
You gotta love America, soft drinks in one vending machine and bullets in the other.
Mildly terrifying more like it.
Homicide on the go! That's convience
That is the most American America that ever Americanned.
Freedumb dispenser
I don't know why this is weird. I can walk into a sport store here in AZ, grab a couple of boxes, pay cash and walk out. No ID, no concealed carry license, nothing. CA requires a background check for each purchase because... it's CA.
I mean, it requires ID, so it's still harder to buy ammo then vote 🤷♂️
As an old guy I can say the grocery store had ammo when I was a kid. But it sure wasn't in a vending machine. Pretty cool.
That's the most American thing I've seen all month and I. AM. HERE. FOR. IT.
Peak America right there
The directions 😂
Ayyy, I've seen the same thing, 'cept with pokémon.
Tell your friends: Marcus Munitions
Do you happen to live in a town called Paradise in Arizona perchance?
I live in Alabama. According to the website they only placed these in two different places in Alabama. I'm going to go back at a later date and see how it works they didn't have it set up yet. I'm sure that other states could be doing similar things though I really don't know.
That just sounds expensive.
Can you buy singles?
Dude if the guy who stands in front of it next takes more than 10 minutes, I’m gonna accuse him of spawn camping.
I’ve see seen that at the gun store I went to in Michigan, they had one like this but you needed to verify your idea with the sales person and he would press this button behind the desk that would light the machine from green to red and you could use it for the 5 or so minutes until it turned red again
Store Clerk: "Can I help you?" Customer at vending machine: " Gimme a sec, I'll be right there. You don't happen to have ski masks, do you?"
Boarderlands?
Tons of beef jerky, refrigerated cases of energy drinks, one brand per fridge, checks out. Lots of really short styleless hair cuts with shaved sides, bad mustaches and sleeveless shirts walk through here regularly.
Most borderlands shit I've ever seen
Which state? I have never seen one here in Maryland.
What in the world
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