• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        Yeah.

        Materiel is like… equipment.

        To the two people who’ve downvoted you so far… its not a meaningless nitpick.

        The iconic M82 50 BMG Anti-Materiel rifle was at least initially invented for doing things like disabling a car from a distance, for doing damage to a radio transmitter, fucking up a parked helicopter or jet, intentionally detonating an IED, something like that.

        Yes, you can use it as an anti-personnel rifle, but it is heavier, less accurate, and has a lower effective range, as well as a good deal more recoil, than actual sniper rifles designed to kill people or roughly human sized hunting game animals at an extreme range.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-materiel_rifle

        Basically, an Anti-Materiel Rifle is somewhere between an old school Anti Tank Rifle, and a Sniper Rifle.

        So… contextually, unless you are a Vertibird, or in Power Armor… you are probably not ‘made of materiel’.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Hey OP observe the Grammar Nazi in its purist form. They can’t get past the mistake. Their comprehension stalls and the only thing they can see is the mistake. Kinda sad really. You can imagine them being a step from safety in some easily avoidable disaster and because the instructions contain a mistake in grammar they just stand there until the danger destroys them.