Graham Sassed the Owl || Mail Time



This Mail Time was recorded in December 2021.

Bionic Trousers Media
ATTN: Mail TIme
PO Box 8132 STN Central
Victoria, BC
V8W 3R8
CANADA

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40 thoughts on “Graham Sassed the Owl || Mail Time”

  1. that nerf gun is cool and would definitely get you banned from nerf war groups around here for being too realistic. no urban games group wants to cause an active shooter scare like my uni's did.

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  2. I am so jealous of you guys getting prickly pear jam, and I didn't even know about chocolate bars with prickly pear in the middle! Had to pause the video to find and order some.

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  3. Sorry, that box was sent before Desert Bus, and would have arrived around or after DB. And sorry the book molded. It didn't seem like it had when I sent it.

    EDIT: Glad you had a fun S'mores day for boxing day at the studio.

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  4. QUESTION: Have we gotten to the point where any unmarked box of board games automatically gets associated with PM Avers? (NOTE: Please don't send anything posing as PM Avers… UNLESS you can guarantee that PM Avers will think it's funny and not be offended by it.)

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  5. Oh hey, VtM: Rivals! I'm a playtester for that game, and I think any Vampire fans in the crew would love how thematically tied to the lore it is. Also, it has trans representation, including a forthcoming card in the Heart of Europe expansion who is the first nonbinary/trans-masculine character in the game and is named after my partner!

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  6. Okay, hearing HAWS being talked about on Mail Time made the world seem much smaller! My wife and I got our second cat from there! It was a close contest between a few candidates until she got back in her cage, tried to roll over on a shelf, and then face planted because she rolled too much! Tried to play it off as intentional.

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  7. Since comments boost engagement anyway…

    So those five decks you got at the start for Arkham (Nathaniel Cho, Harvey Walters, Winifred Habbomock, Jacqueline Fine, and Stella Clark) are the "Investigator Starter Decks", and feature five ready-to-play decks for their respective investigators, plus a whole slew of potential upgrades.

    Bonus fun trivia: Stella is the first (openly) transgender investigator in the Arkham Files, and the upcoming Scarlet Keys expansion will have the first (openly) non-binary investigator in the Arkham Files.

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  8. Linus being mentioned in this video reminds me how much I love that the two big internet media groups in BC are called LTT and LRR, which is just kind of an amazing coincidence.

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  9. I haven't even clicked play on this yet, but as someone who fell into the rabbit hole of Nerf modification in the past few years, I'm very much looking forward to finding out if whoever it is that sent you that pair of modded Nerf Hammershots that you're displaying in the thumbnail explained precisely how they modified them or not (I can see one of the many 3d-printed body kits and a BlasterParts metal trigger/hammer set in the one on the left, for instance).

    Edit, after reaching that point in the video: Graham's surprise at the priming mechanism notwithstanding, that's entirely normal and not the result of any custom modification – the Hammershot is named that due to being hammer primed (it's the first of what have been many subsequent iterations on that same template from Nerf).

    When you pull the hammer down you're rotating a larger section of it internally within the shell, that's connected to two "arms" that are on hinges, one that compresses the main spring (situated inside the grip) and one that pulls back the plunger head (situated behind the cylinder where you load the darts), and a section of that larger internal geometry "knocks" the section of the trigger that you can't see forwards a bit (pulling it, in other words) before its return spring shifts it back to the neutral position as you finish the prime; as you were doing that, another spring loaded component gets pulled backwards (via a cylinder projecting from one side of the hammer's internal geometry) and that makes the cylinder advance to the next chamber.

    The main spring then can't simply shove everything in front of it on those hinges back forwards again – firing the blaster – until you pull the trigger, because the top of the trigger and a flat section of the hammer's geometry are butting up against each other, with the direction of the force that the spring is imparting trying to "push" the trigger out of the way in a direction that it cannot move (that being "straight down"). Pulling the trigger tips it out of the way.

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