This is just one step away from a literal Budget Arms Slaught-O-Matic dispenser. Mike Pondsmith wrote Cyberpunk as satire, not as a rough guide to the future.
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For what it's worth, the ID check means this makes it harder to buy ammo than it would be from a store with a person in it.
"At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus."
This is so unrealistic. No American would say 40 meters.
67.3 burger radius
Thankfully without confinement in a barrel cooked off ammo is a lot less dangerous than you might think.
Though you'd still not want to stand near it.
1 by itself sure, but I ain't gonna test a pile of 1000+ rounds in a fire lol
Please pardon the reddit link but it's a video of an ammo depot going up.
That vending machine anime is about to get a lot less lighthearted.
I hate to put the joke into the cruel light of reality but ammunition does not shoot when burned, the whole first name for brass cased ammo was "safety rounds" due to the design of the round being crimped means the brass will break open and nothing will shoot out when set off outside of a chamber. A round needs a to be chambered to "shoot" the projectile. When you hear about ammunition "cooking off" what is actually happening is the container the ammo in is acts like a pressure vessel and becoming a bomb. When people are hit with things in an ammo cook off its actually shrapnel (the container) doing most of the damage.
So in this case it would be the vending machine parts flying into people not the .50 cal rounds "blasting people". And the funny (and very american) thing is that the big old freedom box would be deadly but the racks and racks of unsecured ammo on shelves in cardboard boxes would not be. In fact the more heavy duty and secure you built the vending machine the worst it would be. But who knows maybe they have blast panels on this thing, making it the most over engineered solution to a problem no one should have.
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You have to show ID to buy ammo? The terrorists have won...
That is so fucked up. What if someone needs ammo for school?
Is this real or parody ?
Apparently a real thing:
Though it looks like none of them are in Target (I had a hard time believing that anyway, they had a 'no firearms' policy for a long time).
It looks like there are 7 of them throughout the US; a few in Kansas, 1 in Texas, one in Colorado, and 1 in Alabama.
So I was looking at their little bit on security and I think its a riot that they do not even seem to hint at the issue of a cook off. In fact they seem to think security of live ammunition is just about theft and ID checking.
"Every transaction is powered by advanced card scanning and facial recognition technology to verify ID and age, ensuring every sale is secure, compliant, and backed by the highest standards of responsibility."
That is it, nothing else. Even looking at drink vending machines they have info on the mechanics of their machine (how it keeps things cold, how it stores and vends etc.).
For comparison every place I have seen ammo sold its ether just on a shelf, locked behind glass (not able to hold much pressure), or in a locked metal cage.
There is so much about this vending machine thats odd, definitely.
Not the least of which being, you know, fucking ammo in a vending machine.
Eh, everything vends in the end. That is not the weird part to me, its the blatant disregard of explosive storage safety that has me fascinated. Like this is from a company that makes ammo as well, and this makes me wonder if there is any design for a blow out or if they are also storing ammo like this in their facilities.
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Thanks for looking it up ! so it's rare. It's kind of a relief. I find it disturbing that weapons are so normalized over there. Of course there are legitimate reasons to own a weapon but still
Yo I have 4 firearms and I find it disturbing too. It's a huge cultural problem we have that, in my opinion, is one of the reasons we have so many more gun deaths than other nations around the world.
I'm going to lovingly cradle my SKS and try to not think about it.
The vending machines are rare, but it's very normal for stores to stock boxes of ammo on their shelves as there's no paperwork or restrictions on it's purchase like with the firearms themselves. I live like a mile from the downtown of ultraliberal Portland Oregon and there are like a dozen stores within a ten minute drive where I can buy a box of rounds.
Regular family dude several years ago got shot to death by cops at a walmart while carrying a stocked pellet gun around to checkout bc a white person called the cops and described him as angry on the phone. In an open carry state.
Access is a funny thing. acab.
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It's America
The real Borderlands
But when I ask for a vending machine that serves hot chicken meals, I just get blank faces
Ew gross, a vending machine that dispenses faces!?
Hey man, they're blanks. They never belonged to nobody yet!
I mean, as long as they're properly cooked. Raw face is just gross.
As long as they're cooked it's fine, the uncooked ones are just floppy and gross
Lamas with hats reference
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Well, I guess we'll never need to ask "why's there ammo everywhere in video games?" Because we put it there. Have you not seen the vending machines?!
America really is the perfect setting for a survival shooter
I get mad at the lack of ammo in places when playing games, even here in Canada do you have any idea how many rounds are in say a Canadian Tire?
Don't Americans dare say, that Japan has weird vending machines.
Japanese bending machines you say?
edit: they fixed it. nvm, TIL that bending machines are a thing. In Japan.
Bender?
Nah, he was manufactured in Mexico.
Has family all over the place though.
Please insert girder.
There are multiple types, but that looks like a press brake. If you haven't seen one in action, you might enjoy searching up a video of someone using one to make something.
FYI, you put in "bending machines."
otoh, Japan does have some bizarre adult devices so maybe you were correct?
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People should be buying their ammo online in bulk anyways, it's much cheaper.
Then it turns the mail van into the IED.
(But yes, I do the same)
Satire is dead.
borderlands real
That's not really what bullets do without a chamber or barrel. Also that is pretty clearly a fireproof safe.
when they did this in borderlands it was a joke about how gun obsessed their insanely murderous culture was
now the colonizers are the joke irl
I thought ammo vending machines were just a video game trope.
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