Is there any use for these other than larping? I've got the money, they seem cool, but I can't justify it. What can you do with these other than make youtube videos and take pictures for Instagram?
Who actually owns NVGs?
Is there any use for these other than larping? I've got the money, they seem cool, but I can't justify it. What can you do with these other than make youtube videos and take pictures for Instagram?
Airsofters and doomsday preppers. If you're not in either of those groups then it's not worth it. If you are in those groups then it probably still isn't worth it, but at least you have an excuse.
They're cool, you fricking dweeb.
>No don't ask questions that make me think about my financial decisions!
Calm down dude.
Okay, hold up. When you said
>I've got the money
I assumed you meant that you were established with enough disposable income for the purchase not to be a pain point. If you don't already own a house and a car with, idk, >$10k sitting in the bank, then you probably shouldn't buy night vision.
10k isn't making you money if it's in the bank anon. They are tools useful for facilitating purchases but they are otherwise con men you should never allow to hold your money for you.
>10k isn't making you money if it's in the bank anon.
I have 30k sitting in my savings, which is almost 3/4 of my salary, and I'm not even 30. What the frick do I do with it? I live incredibly within my means, I don't smoke cigarettes or drink booze, I don't go out to eat or pay for porn or any of that kind of shit that whittles down zoomer and millenial savings. I pay cheap rent to a family friend and won't be moving out any time soon because I don't give a shit about women or status, my vehicle is a company car so I don't pay for gas or insurance or maintenance. I've been stuck in a rut since before the pandemic but have just been hoarding money since.
>I have 30k sitting in my savings, which is almost 3/4 of my salary, and I'm not even 30.
You need to to 3 quick, safe things to divide up your money and make it start working for you:
1) Easiest step. Figure out what amount of $ you want on hand for emergencies. If you're single, don't own a home, and maybe have a car and live in the US where medical bills can be an issue set aside around $5000-$10000 in your local bank's savings account. This is your easy-access always ready emergency fund.
2) Start a Roth IRA with someone like Fidelity. There's no startup fees. Go ahead and max out your 2023 contribution. That's $6,500. Distribute it amongst various Fidelity-managed mutual funds. I suggest FNCMX, FXAIX, FLGEX, and FXNAX if you want bonds. You manage your own risk, so invest in which funds you feel most comfortable with. For example, if you don't trust big tech, then don't invest in the FNCMX Nasdaq fund. If you trust big tech, invest more into it than others, etc.
3) Put the rest of your money in a high-yield savings account. Look into Lending Club, SoFi, Ally. These accounts are going to have an APY around 4.5% or better vs the .001% you'll earn in your local Wells Fargo savings account.
Ideally you'll do something like this:
>$7500 emergency fund
>$6500 into 2023 ROTH IRA
>$16000 into High yield savings
From there just let your money begin to grow. Every year from now on, max out your Roth contribution, and continue to deposit into your high yield savings. You'll be so far ahead by the time you reach 30 you'll have friends coming to you for investment advice.
Diversifying a shit, put it all in one stock
this is generally good advice except instead of making the funds complicated just literally do a basic S&P Index with lowest fees possible, anything else is just chasing alpha which you will not achieve as a smoothbrain investor.
Put 10k into a CD And you’ll earn on it
Not enough to outpace inflation.
>I live in someone else's house.
>I don't own a car.
This is why you have $30k in the bank and having a enough cash liquidity to take advantage of an opportunity when it comes along is very smart. Keep saving, at least until you have enough to pay cash for your first house. You'll be miles ahead of everyone by the time you're 35. Just don't forget to enjoy life.
>worrying about the potential returns of a measly 10k
kek, NGMI
Night hunting? Dont know why you would but it's a thing apparently.
You'd be better served with a digital thermal scope for a few hundred dollars.
>a digital thermal scope for a few hundred dollars
No, anything really useful for night hunting is going to set you back at least $1500.
difficult to run and shoot w/those finicky pieces of shit, they always lose zero
Those are only good for hunting coyotes from a blind.
Farmers are basically the only ones to get their use out of them.
NODs are the best thing you can do with your clothes on.
I use mine when driving and night hiking more than I do shooting tbh. But yes, it’s basically just for fun
>fricks with clothes off
Fricking psycho
You drive around the desert at night, it's fun
Also watch shooting stars, also spot security cameras, also be able to detect when people are within a 10 mile radius of you when you couldn't see anything with your bare eye, also watch wildlife, also shooting
It sounds fun but if you don't live in the desert or anywhere with large tracts if public land it seems like you wouldn't even get a tenth of that.
>IPA
Gag me
This is absolutely true, I'm not sure why you would even bother owning nods east of the rockies
Also, I drink any beer, I was drinking a Hamms right before that one but I wanted that 9% hit to get more fricked up
>I'm not sure why you would even bother owning nods east of the rockies
It's not hard to find places, alongside railroad tracks it gets plenty dark. anons just need to think outside the box.
>I'm not sure why you would even bother owning nods east of the rockies
Country roaaads, take me hoooome, to the plaaaace, I belooooong.
There are places, but they're not the sort of place for most folks.
Be honest, you use them to frick dogs where nobody can see you and report you to the police.
No?
Stay nodless poorgay
I don't have any desire to purchase nods, dogfricker.
Good, leaves more for me
Are the nods more expensive than your fursuit? Have you ever tried to make the two work together? Genuine question
Yes
>verification not required
Confirmed dogfricker
Anon saying the same line over and over doesnt do anything. You are being annoying
Yes what?
I don't have a fursuit by my friend wore both together
Fursuit is around 4k dual white phos nods is around 10k
But my friend*
Have you fricked him while he wears the suit?
No?
Other way around?
No?
Wtf is the point in wearing fetish stuff if you aren't fricking in it? I don't get it. If I wear my Link costume I plan to do sexual things in it.
Of course not, dogfricker only fricks dogs.
No?
Doubt.
You frick little boy dogs like your bodypillow
>confirmed dog fricker is also a homosexual IPA drinker and iToddler
Why am I not surprised?
>iPhone file name
Uhh we can see what phone you own
>Is there any use for these other than larping?
I thought I'd be able to spot landing places when flying at night. turns out not really, or not in a way that's useful with fixed wing stuff. I'm sure they work better for helicopters.
What do you fly? I can't really think of any reason why a FW would use nods to land unless you're like a private pilot in Alaska
>What do you fly?
sometimes my single, sometimes my twin. the concern is single engine at night. if your engine goes out you are rolling the dice when you reach the ground. landing in trees is pretty much a death sentence, so I was hoping to be able to spot clearings easy enough to find somewhere to stuff my plane if the engine died. helicopters that do night-ops (like EMS) have integrated illumination and can obviously move more gingerly towards the dirt. the twin isn't a major concern because I can just limp to an airfield somewhere.
I've heard that they're very useful for medivac flights, flying a helicopter with purpose at a low altitude over a city can be extremely dangerous
oh look, it's that one tall ass dude who talks funny. I like that guy, he talks funny
It's an incredibly expensive toy. If you're like me and like watching nocturnal animals and/or stars then it's a solid investment
Yeah
Ash, maybe a better investment would be a treadmill?
I like the pristine, safe queen tier finish you have on all your expensive unused gear.
If you had to choose between more of the same toys or a new toy, which would you choose? Do you already have all the guns you want but want more gun stuff?
Do you go camping or innawoods at night?
Do you want to sneak around your house in the dark?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may have a reason to buy night vision. Otherwise, don't.
They've almost universally replaced dogs for night hunting coons and possum in the midwest. They are going traction for night angling as well., plus any type of hunting you don't want the wardens knowing about.
I mostly use them for walking my dog at night and not because my car is being fixed
I love playing with my friends’ NVGs but I don’t have the stomach to actually pay for them myself when they’d get maybe two weekends of use every year.
So just like most people's guns on here
You WILL buy the cool $5,000 goggles and accesories, use them 3 times then throw them in the closet.
Post nods
The first time you do a night shoot with your NVGs, You'll be immediately happy you got them. With that said, for most people, it's really not a need. I'd recommend finding a place where you can do night shoots before getting them.
I got mine because I read Jurassic Park as a kid and decided at some point I WOULD possess them. The ability to shoot at night is just a bonus, though surgically reducing the feral cat population in my neighborhood was nice too.
>NVG owning chud
>killing animals for fun
Lines up.
>"chud"
>not understanding that overpopulated animals (especially feral) can do damage to surrounding ecosystems
you sound like a gay
Cause they're cool you goober.
I own like 30 north vietnamese asiatics, they're super cheap and make good sweaters
>what can you do with them?
shoot someone in pitch darkness.
Except you can't, because you won't be wearing nods in any remotely realistic scenario where you might shoot someone.
hop why does your voice sound higher in your older videos
you can see in the dark you idiot, it's the cheapest superpower you can buy, boohoo, what am I gonna do? you can see in the dark AAAAAAAAAA
I can see in the dark with a $100 Streamlight
But then everyone can see you too
What is a cd?
You can shitpost on /arg/ and pretend like you're not going to immediately die on day 1 of the Goobaloo from a self inflicted gunshot wound like 90% of them would. Some of them are fat enough that they will make it a week before seppuku because they have to eat all their stockpiled snacks though.
I throw on my nods when I gotta pee at night and don't wanna wake wifey. it's a nerd modulus but still nods.
Have and not need than need and not have.
They're a fun toy. Simple as. I mostly use mine for hiking in the woods/desert at night with friends. Would a flashlight also technically work for this? Yes but a flashlight isn't anywhere close to as cool.
is this what they actually look like with the naked eye? Looks like ass tbh. Please tell me they look much better irl
They look better with your actual eye. I'm
and the shittyness of the image is due to my ass photography skills rather than the quality of my tube.
Somebody organized a nvg night hike in Phoenix last week. Like 20 people showed up. There are also night matches where theres decent turn out
Ok but who has encrypted comms for their group?
Not yet. Would like to get a 14 even just for the "cool toy" aspect to go frick around at night on camping/hunting trips. Plus i'm genuinely curious to see how much better a gen3 WP 14 would look compared to the beat-to-shit 7s I was issued back in the day.
This guy gets it
>how much better a gen3 WP 14 would look compared to the beat-to-shit 7s I was issued back in the day.
it's a pretty big diff, WP 14 is pretty much top of the line for now until they figure out how to make digital work better.
How to acquire without spending a gazillion dollars?
Learn to DIY, buy second hand.
There are more and more affordable (chink) digital radios that support 256-bit coming to market, but I do not trust those in terms of algo implementation and overal durability and quality. A good radio (Motorola, Hytera, Kenwood, Icom) just costs a couple hundred dollars (or more). Chink shit like Ailunce, TYT and Anytone are mediocre at best. If you must, get an 878 as a first radio/beater + it supports dual band and something called promiscuous mode, which few others do. Then get the good stuff. You’ll see what I mean.
hunting hogs @ night is nye impossible w/o optics such as picrel...well you could spotlight them but they scatter too quickly. if we don't kill hogs they will eat all of the milo/maze, so they are even tax deductible and sales tax free as they are a farming tool technically.
Nods are fun that is all
You are humiliating yourself.
Civilians owning NODS is grotesquely stupid. It says to everyone that you have daddy issues, power fantasies, are a virgin, and got bullied. You would be embarrassed to show them in front of a real hasserved, you know you would, just like if a real NFL team saw your XXXXL football setup.
>projection
Prior service here. Nods are fricking rad.
>fetish
Uhh this isn't a leather pup hood, it's just a fursuit
>power fantasies
Got me there
Amateur astronomers are the largest base of nod purchasers/enjoyers thats right little nerds boys and girls that like to look at stars. You are a fricking frail homosexual shit brained room temperature iq monkey who is threatened by too many things. Frick you.
Can any of you NOD owning chads tell me if wool is NIR compliant?
I want to get pic related and turn it into a ghilli poncho.
A group called Leviathan can't possibly be evil, right? Consume more products, little pay piggy.
What will happen if you get NODs:
>you will be able to see at night
>you will be able to shoot at night
>see IR shit you previously didn't notice
What will not happen if you get NODs:
>you won't get laid
>you won't lonewolf dab on everyone in SHTF just because you can still see so-so at night
>your dad won't come back
>Buys NODS
>Dad still doesn't come back
>Softly Cries from behind my PVS-31a
>have nods
>still a virgin
At least I have some pussy, right?
No amount of advice will help you, you are a boring sad helpless person if you cant think of anything you just cant think of anything. Youre just not smart or creative thats fine.
Are NVGs depreciating assets?
no? maybe? the tubes have a theoretical life limit, but it's less a practical problem because nobody recreationally really uses them all that much. their price is far more impacted by fads and the market than anything.
it's like asking how much an AR is worth, but then comparing it to 2020 July prices.
technically yes, but similar to guns they normally hold their value and would definitely increase in value during hard times. I would say similar to gold.
why do larpers get so mad lol. Is it because of buyers remorse?
Move to my treestand before the sun comes up without using white light so I can be in position before deer start to move.
You can buy camo shit on amazon and test NIR compliance before returning it.
protips
slaughtering mammals in the dark