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Episode: 104
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Title: HPR0104: Not about Airsoft
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0104/hpr0104.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 11:32:12
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MUSIC
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Welcome to Hacker Public Radio. This is Drupes and today's episode is entitled
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Not About Airsoft. The video that we're going to be referencing in this little
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talk is a tiny URL slash five kilo Yankee Bravo six tango. Alright here we go.
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Now a few years ago some friends and I made a video of us modifying an L
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cheapo airsoft gun. Now for those unfamiliar with airsoft it's a game similar to
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paintball but instead of paint it shoots six millimeter plastic BBs. Now with
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this small ammunition it allows for more realistic guns. For example I own a
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full-sized Glock nine millimeter pistol. I also own an airsoft pistol that
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looks and eerily functions exactly like my real one. It uses a gas called
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Green Gas to propel the plastic BBs and operate the slide. The gas and BBs
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are contained in the magazine and when the magazine is empty you simply drop it
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and change it out with a new magazine and you have fresh BBs and gas to
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continue to shoot your friends with. It's pretty cool but this one was not
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nearly as cheap as the one we used in the video. Just like paintball the guns,
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markers, whatever you want to call them come in all price ranges. We took a
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$20 semi-automatic clear plastic airsoft gun and modified it to be fully
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automatic and have a faster rate of fire. But this episode again not really about
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airsoft or modifications of home electronics. It's instead about feedback in the
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internet age. Page two. We submitted our footage to HACTV Underground which is
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another BenRef project and released it to the world. Now much like Hacker
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Public Radio we mainly received feedback when something was negative. Now
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unlike HPR we had no formal method of comments but instead we relied on the
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BenRef forums for people to contact us. Now we could see the number of downloads
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from our site and as most internet media there are a few content producers but
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there are many consumers and yes leaving a comment is providing content. Now
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for those who have not seen this video or you saw it some time ago let me
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let me describe it for you. It starts out with a BenRef-Centered intro with of
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course a zero song playing and then it shows the steps of shooting the unmodified
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gun, modifying the gun and finally testing the modified gun. Now as with the
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proper video it has credits and everyone's names, the required web pages and
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the artist of the theme music all contained at the end. Now it was used in the
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episode excuse me it was used in a episode of some Canadian tech TV show and
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finally it was put on YouTube by someone we don't know. Now YouTube has a
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comments feature but it does not allow you to take the video around with you
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which is inconvenient for some of us with portable media players but it's
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really awesome for content producers as it shows just how many views you know
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the video have gone on not just downloads and it has that aforementioned
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comment system. Now I wish YouTube also displayed how people found that page
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other videos, the viewers have watched where people were located, how much of
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the video they watched but I guess on second thought maybe they do if you
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upload the video yourself. Maybe they need a link for hey I made this video I
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want to see the stats too. Someone that knows something about this should
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probably post the correct thing on the hacker public radio page. All right so on
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to these numbers of all this internet feedback we're talking about. For this
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video and when I did this research there were 429,803 views. Just pretty good
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that's just on YouTube and there were 1,393 comments. Now like I stated
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earlier people are consumers of content not creators and for the percent as
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that helps me out it's 0.3241% of the viewers on YouTube made a comment. Now
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what a bounty of intelligence and wit that these comments provide us. Well
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excuse me at least they tried. It seems that some people thought our $20
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gun was not as good as their more expensive guns. Some guy apparently had
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modified several 300 to $500 you know range guns and he was not impressed. Well
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okay apparently Tokyo Marui maybe guns really really fancy airsoft guns are
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much better than our mod. Hell yeah they are and go look at them I want some of
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those. But then again they're a bit out of the $20 range according to the
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comments someone's $700 $500 or maybe a thousand dollar gun so much better than
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our $20 gun. I hope so. Smoking will kill you. Awesome there are medical
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doctors who not only use YouTube and like airsoft but they also care about my
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health. 33 find and helpful people gave out wrong information and actuality the
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plastic gears did not burn out first or instantly and the problem the first
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problem that we have with the gun was a nine volt battery exploded in my
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living room while teaching one of our dogs to hunt. So that nine volt battery was
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the first point of failure. Now this dog is not a dog that I like. Now I was
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instructing this dog the fine points of using a blind and hunting. So I'm using
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the blind or hiding behind the couch while waiting on the game him to try and
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eat the corn a dog biscuit on the carpet. The nine volt battery exploded I was
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scared dog got the biscuit months of preparation down the drain. It's a good
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thing I didn't cover myself in deer urine first. Two gentlemen plugged the gun
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into a wall outlet with expected results and for the record feet per second is
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not the same as radifier and uzies were actually not designed for sniping. Now
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as with the most popular question for Ben River Radio our most popular
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question was what is the theme song? Well it's a song song by Zerl 45 out of
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1393 people actually were asking that and yes Zerl is the man. Now if we take
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the term geek or nerd negatively like it was used geeks nerds then over a
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hundred of the comments for people calling us names including crackhead and
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poofter. Now if being called a Jew was a bad thing then add three to that total.
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Four people thought we were all versions while 53 thought we were all gay. Now
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there was an Easter egg of a link to lemon party hidden in the intro but only 43
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people caught that. It even fooled a couple people and seriously if lemon party
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fools you you shouldn't be allowed to comment on the internet for at least a
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year. Several people made fun of our names as we used our internet pseudonyms
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in the video. Most of them are assuming some of them had fun names also. One's
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guy he was like Bob 412 maybe that was his name but I'm assuming that some
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parents didn't get together and name people crass drinks and mother man
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spud merchant pink pig cheesy eboy gangster or master fish. Most of them made
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fun of night lord but then again most of us do also. So what is what is the
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point of all this discussion that I'm going on here? Well let's make up some
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numbers. With the YouTube Canadian TV downloads we know about and downloads we
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don't know about I'm gonna estimate holding my hand up to my head that a million
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people have seen this video. We have received less than a hundred relevant
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comments and that's including comments from people that we saw at cons and we're
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like hey or just friends that calls on the phone were like hey cool video or you
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could have done this better. Now that's a there's a metric shit ton of free
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content available right now for anybody that wants it and we all consume this
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stuff. Now we should all give back a little even if it is just a comment on
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some web page. Some kids were watching us test this modified gun while we're
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filming this video and they came over and talked to us and they shot it more
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than we did and those kids feedback was worth much more than all of the
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YouTube comments and it also took less bandwidth. You know YouTube uses 10% of
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the internet's bandwidth. Maybe that's a made-up statistic I read it somewhere
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though. Now hopefully these kids will be taking their toys apart pretty soon
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just like we all do and I learned another thing. Paintball is better than
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Airsoft. No it isn't Airsoft is the best. No it isn't. Paintball. Paintball is the
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best. Oh shut up. Vim is better than E-Max.
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Thank you for listening to H.P.R. sponsored by Pharaoh.net.
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