The Psychology of a /k/ommando

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Let me clarify that I know that the gun culture exists outside of this board, its just that our spin on it has evolved into something else entirely

>>33426830
>What got us into weapons to the point that we've essentially create a culture revolving around it on this board?

Wait, are you shocked that we talk about guns on a gun related board?

>>33426830
Probably some sort of mental illness.

Most likely gender dysphoria.

>>33426927
I'm talking about what is it that got us here in the first place

You and I both know that the culture that grew from this board is pretty unique, it fascinates me how we've managed to cultivate it

>>33426830
The Warrior Gene. Humans have always fought and in the society we live in nowadays where we no longer fight it is only natural that men will find a way to discuss martial matters in the way our ancestors discussed war stories around fires.

I guess there are a few types. Plenty of overlap.

>/pol/acks - got into guns because that's what the alt right says is good or some shit. Will get triggered if you say nazis or racism is bad.
>/v/irgins - grew up playing cowadoody, fallout, resident evil, mgs, or whatever the fuck else, and got into guns because of vidya.
>weeaboos - got into guns because of their favorite chinese cartoons and/or mangas. Most likely to own dragon dildos.
>good ol' boy - literal oldfag who's way too old to be here and should probably be paying more attention to his wife and children. Grew up with guns. Most likely to be a fudd. I have no idea how or why they're on /k/.
>noguns - australians, europoors, and others from noguns countries who are here to argue about guns they've never seen in person and try to be epic trollz. Most likely to start threads asking which stick is best for personal defense.

Stick all these misfits and weirdos into a blender and you got yourself a /k/ommando. Defining characteristics are:
>hubris
>abrasiveness
>yellow fever
>alcoholism
>mild racism
>repressed homosexuality
>poor life choices
>high functioning undiagnosed autism

>>33427008
>repressed homosexuality

>/k/ommandos
>repressed

>>33426830
>What got us into weapons to the point that we've essentially create a culture revolving around it on this board?

I can't speak for /k/ as a collective, but for me it was video games, specifically starting with Goldeneye 007 on the N64. From there, Halo took over and furthered it. STALKER took it further, and my friend introducing me to airsoft and my uncle introducing me to actual firearms are what finalized it.

>>33427008
>>/v/irgins - grew up playing cowadoody, fallout, resident evil, mgs, or whatever the fuck else, and got into guns because of vidya.
THis is pretty much me.

>>33426830
I'm an amoral, sociopath, egotistical nihilist

No I'm not being intentionally disparaging or edgy, that's truly my nature.

>>33426830
One could argue that the board "culture" here really only tangentially relates to weaponry.

>>33427008
You forgot the MilFags, even then they fall into their own categories

>POGs
>Grunts
>Treadheads
>Combat Veterans
>Stolen Valors
>Actual Operators

The last one is extremely rare

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>>33427124
Don't forget the bitter washouts.

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>>33427008
What about guys who have just always been into weapons? I grew up on books not vidya. This list is far from complete.

>>33427224
Add to it then. I dunno. What would you call yourself?

>>33427224
>>33427257
Autists, literally pure and true - guns scratch an itch nothing else can.

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>>33427008
Kek. Well summarized.

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>>33426883
>didn't use a real gun
did i make the murder /k/ube proud guise???

what a fag

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>>33427342
>>33427257
True enough. I do have high-functioning autism so....

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>>33426883
Is this what kids do for fun?

>>33427497

how do you know you have autism?

Serious question, that word gets thrown around here liberally but I don't think I've ever met an autist in my life

>inb4 you're the autist

>>33427079
That is me too. And quite a lot of people for that matter.
We just like not giving a fuck

>>33427517
autists have little or no social skills and they have obsessive personality. thats why im here, obsessed with weapons

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>>33427517
I'm diagnosed and medicated.

The really funny part is I am more functional than large chunk of this board. Even off the meds.

It is kinda irritating that "autism" is through around as a catch-all term without anybody actually knowing what they are talking about. But I've gown desensitized to it.

>>33427598
I almost got labelled as autistic by a psych, and they even had me go in for a bunch of testing. But I definitely think they're throwing around the autism label too much these days.

>>33427342
Autists are the creamy center of /k/.

There aren't a lot of them, but the community wouldn't work without them.

>>33427598
Well as long as you're functional I guess, my only problem is that I tend to sperg out a bit whenever I met someone who remotely shares my interest, besides that I can fake the funk pretty well, enough that I have a circle of friends

My intense interest in firearms, all things operator throw people off though, I don't know why but this hobby has become a real big part of my life

>>33427517
I'm the guy who made the initial autism comment.

I know I have a form of it because:

>sensitive to light
>sensitive to sound
>sensitive to textures
>need even numbers
>need wholeness
>love to problem solve
>love symmetry
>confused by human emotion
>don't accept any of our shit reasoning
>terrified of everything not in my control
>demand control of every part of my life
>guns are literally my grounding element
>universe is infinitely expanding, hu8manity is a plague and I'm a passenger watching apes wreck the pale blue dot
>totally hyper empathetic to everyone's problems but hate them regardless

you really don't want me to go on.

>>33427673
Jesus, really put it in perspective

>>33427008

> oldfag
> I have no idea how or why they're on /k/.

Because what's the alternative? Arfcom? Fuck that.

>>33427673
>universe is infinitely expanding, hu8manity is a plague and I'm a passenger watching apes wreck the pale blue dot
Is this trait unique to autistic people, or...

>>33428256
Knocking on the door of 40, and I can confirm. I've got nothing in common with the arfcom crowd. Plus its more fun here, and ya'll have some insight that I find valuable.

>>33428258
Modern society is full of so many fucking stupid people man.

SO fucking many.

>>33428256
>>33428293

Holy shit you guys I thought I was the only "gun internet hobo"

ARFcom and everywhere else is a shithole, /k/ is my home for the last 8 years because despite it whipping my ass like a bitch it's the only love I've ever had.

between boy scouts, vidya and hunting it was probably inevitable

My psych profile

>greedy
>materialistic
>paranoid
>apathetic
>misanthropic
>sociopathic
>prefer impractical, snowflake guns
>wishaniggawould

>>33426830
speakin for myself, I've had an intense interest in firearms and how the mechanics of them functioned since I was like 11, that came about from reading way too many cross-sectional books on fighter jets and tanks. Then later on reading Tom clancy books and Red Alert 2 got me into the miitary aspect of things.
I'm still mainly into guns though, something about controlled explosions and clockwork happeing all at once, inches from your face turns me on
always liked archery too, used to do pretty well at boy scout competitions, fancied myself a native american ranger with all the little shit i learned there

>>33427673
Oh boy, here we go.
>sensitive to light - yes
>sensitive to sound - yes
>sensitive to textures - yes
>need even numbers - yes
>need wholeness - yes?
>love to problem solve - Absolutely
>love symmetry - yes
The sensory issues aren't that bad anymore though.
>confused by human emotion - Not really, but confused about how much influence it has
>don't accept any of our shit reasoning - Only if it's truly shit reasoning
Those two go hand-in-hand
>terrified of everything not in my control - yes
>demand control of every part of my life - yes
Incidentally, I think this is why I'm into dominant/submissive stuff.
>guns are literally my grounding element
I tend to use firearm metaphors for fucking everything.
>universe is infinitely expanding, hu8manity is a plague and I'm a passenger watching apes wreck the pale blue dot
Not so much
>totally hyper empathetic to everyone's problems but hate them regardless
Fucking Christ, this.

>>33426979
>>33426927
To many war movies on AMC and military documentaries on the history channel when I was little, forever got me interested into guns and the militarry

>>33427124
Wait, have there actually been operators that come on here and post?? I wouldn't be surprised if they lurked but FUCKING OPERATORS???

>>33426830
Not gonna lie. It started with airshit.

But now I do rifle and pistol matches, and I have real gear, so I feel okay.

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>>33429478
Are you me?

>dad always had an interest in guns and war
>legally immigrated and embraced the 2nd Amendment wholeheartedly
>first gun I shot was a .22 rifle that I used to shoot coyotes and rabbits with
>lots of vets lived in the glorious high desert, grew up listing to a WWII latino Marines war stories
>he was like the grandpa I never had
>got more and more into history and guns, ended up enlisting
>put together my first AR and my first gun ever
>now I have 3 guns and Im saving up for my 4th and shitpost daily on /k/

Its like you're the only guys who understand me

>>33429524
hahaha, pretty much, only difference is My parents were a bit antigun so I only got to shoot with my grandpa and some uncles.
>tfw you went to college instead of joining the military like how you wanted to your whole life
>tfw college didnt work out and you had to go online
>tfw if you enlist now youd be at the same rank youd be at if you joined at 18

Decisions, decisions, I don't want to regret it if I don't join, but I also dont know how Enlisted life in the army would be for a 35f or 12y

>>33429560
Forgot to add parents dont want me to sign up, dont know senpai

>>33426941
There are a surprising number of trans/trap individuals on /k/ for some reason.

>>33426830
Unlike the others, I come here to CONTAIN the stupid shit I say and do.

I used to be autistic 100% of the time (in the sense it's usually used in here, not literally, at least probably)
Then I came to /k/ and I became noticeably more sociable and happy all around.

As for what got me into guns, I was a skittish kid growing up combined with a fascination with machines and history.

It kinda overlapped all three and when my cousin showed me how to field strip an AR, I knew guns were my hobby.

As for the rest, I got sick one year and decided to check out 4chan to pass the time.
/b/ was shit, and I didn't like most of the animu on /a/, and the other boards were a bit too slow for me.
If /o/ and /diy/ were a bit more active I'd post there more.
>>33427673
I meet none of the sensory shit except the textures.
The numbers are meh.
Shit reasoning truly needs to be shot to be shit.

That last one hits home.
I don't like it. But I do have it.
I guess I'm not autistic, or at least not very badly autistic.
>>33429524
Am I the ONLY fucker here whose father was absolute dogshit and had to have their mother teach them/help feed their hobby when they were young?

It seems like everyone here either loved their father or didn't have one because their mother was shit.

>>33429506
We had an odd amount of rangers post pretty sure there was one tripfagging for a while and definitely a seal who posted proof once. You can definitely find them on here but it's a crapshoot finding out about them.

>>33427598
Wtf kind of meds are you on? My understanding is you don't medicate the various flavors of autism, you teach coping skills.

>>33429506
there was a Neptune PMC dude a long time ago who was former SFOD or something.

>>33429506
>>33429642
there have been ex SF current merc guys who have showed up here occasionally

>>33429694
Wasn't there an ex soviet soldier here as well?

And various LEOs show up here from time to time.
That one Brazilian guy shows up and posts every once in a while.

>>33429713
going off operators there's also the occasional fighter/bomber pilots (i swear once last year, i think around August, i was talking to some guy who was either working on spooky secret stealth jets or just didn't want to say he flew the B-2), and strategists and so on like OPpenheimer. and field specific autists like dragon029

>>33428293
>Plus its more fun here, and ya'll have some insight that I find valuable.

Word. I'm coming up on 60 in a couple of years. This place never fails to amaze.

>>33429848
>coming up 60

How'd you find out about this site?

>>33430120
most people found 4chan looking for porn
gunporn is basically the same thing

>>33427447
Well he cheeki his gfs breeki so I'm not so sure on the fag part.

>>33426830
>What got us into weapons
What got everybody, the power of cartridge, the smell of powder. Power makes any person fall for it

Always been interested in guns, went shooting for the first time three weeks ago.
All of it felt so right, loading bullets into the magazine, sliding it into the gun, that reassuring click.
God all of it felt right, shooting was cool but just loading the thing up and sliding the rack, doing a chamber check...
I'm in love.

>>33427008
Let's see
>hubris
Yup.

>abrasiveness
Yup.

>yellow fever
Nope.

>alcoholism
Nope.

>mild racism
Yup.

>repressed homosexuality
It's not really repressed.

>poor life choices
Yup.

>high functioning undiagnosed autism
Pretty sure, yup.

>>33427008
>>/pol/acks
buy guns for the same fucking reason we all do, only they are honest about the racial issue instead of pretending they don't see it.

"look at this based black guy with a gun, fucking based" - t. libertarian fag

>weeaboo
yeah spot on, but dragon dildos are a furry thing which isn't getting discussed

>>33429626
My dad was a noguns urbanite. I got him into guns and had to teach myself how to do all of the outdoor things I enjoy. He was always putting me in sports when all I wanted to do was shoot guns, cut down trees, and kill/eat animals Scouts was a lifesaver. Fuck sports.

>>33430250
>The smell of the black powder smoke

I think it's my autism surfacing into a new obsession.

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>>33427040
>I can't speak for /k/ as a collective, but for me it was video games, specifically starting with Goldeneye 007 on the N64. From there, Halo took over and furthered it. STALKER took it further, and my friend introducing me to airsoft and my uncle introducing me to actual firearms are what finalized it.

Well, that's obviously a lot of it for me, since I didn't grow up around guns. I DID grow up playing paramedic and soldier and maybe cop and had toy weapons -- as in, all figurines and toy creatures had little toy weapons. This kind of thing wasn't encouraged or discouraged in my household.

You know why? Because it's natural, for males to be into these things and to play in this way. I loved learning about history and weaponry and the like and the only real influence there came from my grandfather (collector, hoarder, metal detector enthusiast) and vidya. This is just normal for the male brain, beyond that.

Now /k/ board culture? IDK.. I stay away from most of that but this board did get me into firearms and other than /k/, I didn't keep going on 4chan very long. But I browse this board daily

>>33427008
We occasionally get actual military, law enforcement, and private security guys here. So I guess they could be considered having semi /k/ommando jobs.

But
>hubris
>abrasiveness
>yellow fever
>alcoholism
>mild racism
>repressed homosexuality
>poor life choices
>high functioning undiagnosed autism
It's almost too true.

>>33427008
>>hubris
>>abrasiveness
>>yellow fever
>>alcoholism
>>mild racism
>>repressed homosexuality
>>poor life choices
>>high functioning undiagnosed autism

Yes too all but the homosex

>>33427008
this.....this is me
fucking ell m8

>>33430372
/pol/ack detected

Parents were nogunz, but both grandfathers fought in WW2 and once I started playing video games I really thought they were cool. Was antigunz faggot for a while becasue I grew up in Connecticut. Browsed /k/ for a while and started to get into them more and one day said "fuck it, I'm 25 and can do whatever the fuck I want. I'm going to start shooting and buying these things" now I have 4

As for why I'm lowkey obsessed with them, I think they are cool. They are fun to shot and take apart and clean afterwards. I like having things that have a history connected to them, that are used in real life events, and most guns do have that.

I don't much care for socializing and people that much, I don't like the idea that some fuckhead can break into my house and I have to do what they want because some richfag politician said so. I spend most of my money and time on guns at this point.

>>33427003
SO YOU SAYIN

>>33427008
Somehow, you just described me perfectly.

>>33431646
*Lip smack* Dat We Wuz Woyyaz n shieeeeet *teeth suck*

>>33427008
>hubris
>abrasiveness
>yellow fever
>alcoholism
>mild racism
>repressed homosexuality
>poor life choices
>high functioning undiagnosed autism

My homosexuality isn't repressed but goddamm you nailed me

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How I got to /k/
>Friend shows me /b/ freshman year
>Have no social media, but this is awesome
>Shitpost and learn how to 4chan constantly
>Always been into knives
>Check out /k/
>Boring, stay on /b/
>Coming up on my first handgun purchase
>Watch lots of YT but still want help
>Antisocial, no desire to talk to gunship employees
>Come back to /k/
>Learn a lot and begin to appreciate board culture
>Get more into weapons and stay
>Only go back to /b/ for an occasional fap
No regrets famm.

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>>33429626
I don't even know my father sooo...

My everyone I know is pro-gun though, including my mother.
Western Canada is pretty based if we remover Hong-couver.
>>33429660
Quetiapine and an antidepressant I forget the name of. I've pretty sure most autism is medicated. I also have adhd and anxiety-based depression to though.

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>>33426941
INTERESTING THEORY

Firearms helping me justify that I'm different, that I do not fit into the main society and my generation...

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>>33427673
>sensitive to textures
>need even numbers
>need wholeness
>love to problem solve
>love symmetry
>don't accept any of our shit reasoning
>terrified of everything not in my control
>demand control of every part of my life
>guns are literally my grounding element
me desu senpai im receiving treatment though
>mfw i had a meltdown over my parents freezing lunchmeat i bought because it ruins the meat

>>33427650
Pls don't become a school shooter anon

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>>33426830
My father is retired Special Forces here in the US, and so I grew up with a lot of Green Beret "uncles" and it almost just became expected of me to join when I got older too. Now I find myself finishing up my degree, then going Army right after I graduate uni.

That in combination with the fact that I grew up
>hunting
>skeet shooting (competitively)
>sporting clays
>trap shooting
>rifle and handgun shooting for fun
>going inna woods and getting in loves with scouts
I almost feel like I've been groomed to go SF my whole life. Papa Anon always had a strong emphasis on leadership (particularly servant leadership), language skills, and working with others. I found /k/ because I too like guns, and a lot of people here either are currently or are considering joining the service to go play GI Joe for a bit too.

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>>33427504
>implying you wouldn't
George, pls.

Firearms get the same reaction from me as a piece of art. Now take a piece of art and make it a fashion statement, a tool, a weapon of war, a political talk piece, a sport, and a collectors item

Each one of those has a culture attached to it, now imagine how inevitable a culture for guns is when it's all combined

>>33427079
you truly are an edgelord to end all edgelords

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>>33427639
no, friendly shrink shlomo always has your best interests in mind.

>>33431950
quetiapine is a fucking anti psychotic drug
did your parents tell you taking meds for your 'aspergers' was normal as a kid wtf

>>33430120
Saw some screencaps on acid squirrel. Originally landed at /b/, which lasted until I got tired of the kids squabbling. Spent a few weeks on /an/, arguing incessantly with that insane gay Brit who thinks he owns that board. Then /k/ dropped by to celebrate Galaxy's birthday, and I followed them back here. That was about 4 years ago, I believe.

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>>33427008
I'm somehow all five of these categories

>>33426830
My interest in guns stemmed from vidiya and SHALL politics. I'm the son of a liberal and a conservative, and have fostered interests in aviation, rocketry, and building shit from the beginning. My interests led me rapidly up against an everything-I-want-to-do-is-illegal corner, and parental influence offered a broad platform from which to develop my own philosophies. They ended up, perhaps predictably, libertarian, with various periods of more traditional conservatism while I was growing up spurred in part by 9/11. There are a few landmarks.

>~7 years old, get a model rocket for Christmas. I'm hyped as fuck, and before even opening the rest of my presents insist we go off somewhere to launch it. We attempt this in an empty stadium parking lot and I'm seconds from launching when we get run off by a cop. For the first time in my life I felt real, directed anger.
>Further research would discover that model rocketry was actually almost completely illegal in Commiefornia
>Devastated, express animosity towards the government for the first time in my life.
>Between this and firework laws fucking with 4th of July, government gets placed firmly in my "them" pile before ten years old. I start to consider it predatory.
> ~10, Share a long road trip with father, discuss politics. Start to develop specific opinions
>13, Obama is elected. Father has never really been interested in guns before, but panic buys after a few trips to the range. Mother does not care for this. Father and I bond over the 2008 panic buy between gun stores and the range. Politicly spooky at the time, but I was 13 and didn't really remember the last election, especially since it was a reelection. Those years were comfy as fuck in retrospect. Mom later warms up to the idea, drifts low center on the spectrum.
>Go to an indoor range for awhile. A nugget on the wall catches my interest
Literally not even memeing. Had never heard of /k/ or considered that there might be fun culture online
>Cont

>>33435097
>Fall in love with nugget, father eventually acquires.
>Have weird political opinions backed by far too little understanding throughout middle school
>Figure myself out in high school, things stabilize.
>Start seriously writefaging
>Event in high school where we had to investigate colleges from some database
>Kill time for awhile, eventually decide to check Alaska because muh frontier and muh liberty
>mfw the university system there specializes in aviation and writing
>Been exposed to 4chan for ages by then via oldfag internet friend, finally start browsing Freshman year
>Start on /k/ because of a /k/ommando friend
>Drift to /b/
>Drift back to /k/
>Back to /b/
>Back to /k/ and stay, deciding /b/ is only good for occasional keks and very rarely does anything interesting happen there
>Read a lot of skinwalker shit that first semester, which was great because dorm window was oriented innawoods
>Generally have a good time on /k/ for awhile, working on not being a poorfag so can riafu beyond nugget
>Get up today, have to take a shit
>Take shit, whip out phone
>Find this thread
>Shit a bit, write reply
>Finish reply, shit a little more
And here I am

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>>33435255
Forgot my face apparently

Side note, also became fairly /sci/ but I only browse occasionally. Both my parents maintained some scientific interest, so I guess it followed. Watched a lot of documentaries both historical and scientific. Basically moved into watching exclusively documentaries as soon as I was through with the early childhood shit. Skipped the cartoon phase, though I regret missing Avatar when it was first out.

Still close to both parents. Distance kind of sucks, but w/e. Enjoying doing airplane shit and writefaggotry inna arctic. Strange set of social skills though. I have no trouble getting along with people A) on the internet, or B)much older than me. Not really sure how to deal with people my age. Still have some good friends though, just no gf.