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[prying-pandora666]

The Hobbit - Best Film Version

I am begging anyone who loves the cast from the Jackson films but couldn’t stand all the filler and excess CGI and pacing problems to please please PLEASE check out the M4 edit of The Hobbit.

It cuts all three films down into one far more coherent 4 hour movie (with an intermission if you’d rather watch it as two 2 hour movies) and even rescores, color corrects, and does CGI corrections of its own! It’s really a feat of a fan work!

It took me from not being able to stand those films to including this edit in my annual LOTR marathons!

It’s great if you like:

*Martin Freeman as Bilbo, Richard Armitage as Thorin, Ian McKellan as Gandalf etc

*If you want to see Elrond’s warmer and more playful side he didn’t get to show in LOTR

*Lee Pace tearing it up as Thranduil! As elegant as he is a sassy jerk.

*A more book accurate pacing without sacrificing the character moments between Bilbo and the people he meets

*The soundtrack!

And even better if you dislike:

*The love triangle with Legolas/Tauriel/Kili

*Weird references to Aragorn when he’s only suppose to be like 10 at this point

*The way the White Council stuff hurts the pacing and distracts from the central story

*The cartoony Legolas CGI scenes that look like a video game

*How dirty they did Radagast the brown

���and more! Whether you’re a book purist, or a rabid Bagginshield shipper, or just someone looking for a shorter, more coherent version of the tale - this is the one.

EDIT: There is now an Internet archive link.

[strangledwires]

Swinging with Grim. Unfortunately, something that can only be done in the prototype for the Sims 2 Console, not the retail version!

Video demonstration below!

[boredtechnologist]

Enigma M4 - Naval Edition

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Update PulledPoses ! change of CC

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[ 📹 Footage from on the night of February 29th, when the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on thousands of starving Palestinians gathered for humanitarian aid on Al-Rashid street in Gaza City. 118 Palestinian civilians were killed in the massacre and more than 700 others were wounded in the attack.]

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INVESTIGATION OF ISRAEL'S "FLOUR MASSACRE" CONFIRMS ZIONIST FORCES RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING HUNDREDS OF STARVING PALESTINIANS

An investigation by Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (EURO-MED) into the "Flour massacre", which saw 118 starving Palestinian civilians killed and nearly 800 wounded in what the Israeli occupation tried to blame on a "stampede," says it has produced evidence that the majority of casualties were actually caused by the firing of live Israeli bullets.

The Flour massacre occured on February 29th, 2024 near the Nabulsi roundabout on Al-Rashid street in Gaza City, where thousands of hungry Palestinian families gathered for the arrival of a humanitarian aid convoy carrying food to starving crowds that desperately needed sustenance.

Soon after the trucks arrived, gunfire erupted, including tracer rounds which could be seen in video evidence taken at the time, causing thousands of civilians to panic, running off in different directions in search for shelter.

The Israeli occupation authorities used heavily edited clips of night vision drone video to argue that nearly a thousand Palestinian casualties were a result of a stampede after Israeli forces fired rifles into the air to defend themselves from defenseless civilians desperate for food, whom they claim were looting the free food being distributed to the crowds.

So senseless was Israel's explanations for the atrocity, that even CNN's Christiane Amanpour, a normally deferential TV commentator who rarely resists the official narratives of the Israeli occupation, had to push back against Israeli officials on U.S. national television.

But a newly published report by the Geneva-based human rights organization, Euro-Med Monitor, says that many of casualties were in fact the result of the firing of live bullets that have been forensically analyzed and found to match those used by Israeli soldiers.

According to Euro-Med Monitor, "Many victims of the massacre" actually suffered injuries from "5.56x45mm NATO bullets," adding that, "this is a type of bullet fired from Israeli army weapons."

"A sample of 200 dead and injured victims revealed that they were indeed hit by this type of bullet, and that the bullets were discovered and examined at the massacre site along with shrapnel found in the bodies of the wounded and dead," Euro-Med said in its report.

After carrying out a forensic analysis of the type of bullets used, Euro-Med says it "discovered that [this type of bullet] is discharged from assault rifles like the M4 and Tavor, along with machine guns," specifically "light machine gun[s] or LMG" such as the "IWI Negev."

Euro-Med says its research "revealed that 5.56×45mm ammunition is a basic FMJ bullet used by the Israeli army."

"This type of bullet is imported from the United Kingdom on occasion, produced in 2020/2022, and licensed for use by the Israeli Ministry of Defense," the human rights organization said of its analysis.

Euro-Med added that the bullet "is also manufactured in Israel by IMI SYSTEMS," an Israeli company which manufactures weapons, ammunition and other military technologies, and "regularly supplies them to the Israeli security forces, including the Israeli army."

Citing testimony by Muhammad Yasser Washah, a local 17-year-old resident of Gaza City's Al-Sabra neighborhood who was present for the Flour massacre, along with its own analysis, Euro-Med said it retrieved a bullet lodged in the youths jacket after going through the bag of flour he had been carrying on the night of the atrocity.

After analyzing the bullet pulled from Washah's jacket, Euro-Med discovered that its "form and dimensions were identical" to the bullets mentioned previously, though this particular bullet is designed to penetrate several millimeters of solid steel.

Euro-Med recorded testimony from several witnesses to the horrific massacre, putting together a timeline for the events of that night.

According to witnesses, the Zionist army began "directly shooting at civilians" as they waited for food aid at "approximately 4:10am" on Thursday, February 29th.

By 5:30am, the Israeli occupation forces "raided the entire gathering, where many people were lying injured, killed or were attempting to flee."

Euro-Med says that many people were taken into custody by the occupation's soldiers, others were forced to flee south, while some "Israeli forces directly executed others and left their bodies on a nearby beach."

According to testimony given by a witness who asked for anonymity, Euro-Med quoted the witness as saying, "We were shocked when Israeli soldiers showed up and took a group of young men from Gaza [City]."

The witness added that “While the majority of them were fleeing to the beach, some were at the Nabulsi roundabout, others were evacuated to the south, and still others were killed and left on the beach.”

The witness also detailed the fate of a doctor named Muhammad Awad who had been detained by Israeli soldiers but was released soon thereafter, “he moved several steps away, they opened fire on him and wounded him in the shoulder…We were under siege until 6:30 am, and the injured were pleading with us not to leave them…The food and flour were covered in blood when I left."

A second witness who works as volunteer paramedic also asked for anonymity fearing retaliation. That witness told Euro-Med “In the hopes of receiving assistance, I went to the Nabulsi roundabout. As a precaution, I brought a first aid bag with me because I knew that similar incidents had resulted in shootings.”

The witness explained how shortly before 4:30am, the humanitarian aid trucks "passed the checkpoint and the Israeli army started firing, throwing stun grenades and smoke bombs" as an Israeli tank advanced towards the crowd.

“I treated several injured people with first aid. I discovered that some had suffered injuries to their chests, while others had suffered injuries to their limbs," the witness recounted, adding that, "while I was trying to pull out one of the injured people, the tank came forward, and I was forced to flee the scene." The witness concluded by saying, “there was a large number of dead and injured people.”

Euro-Med Monitor goes on to lay out four "key pieces of evidence confirming the Israeli army's involvement in the killing and wounding of starving civilians," including signs of injuries on the bodies of the dead and wounded, footage released by the Israeli occupation authorities themselves, as well as "audible evidence of gunfire emenating from Israeli tanks positioned near the coast."

The Human Rights organization also pointed to video evidence published by the Zionist occupation, which despite being heavily edited, shows the "sheer panic and intimidation that struck all of the civilians present - including those relatively far away from the aid trucks - and pushed them to flee in all directions in order to seek shelter."

Euro-Med also warned that Israeli shootings of starving Palestinian civilians attempting to receive humanitarian aid has "become a regular practice."

The organization stated that over the last few weeks, "Israeli forces have directly attacked and killed dozens of people in Gaza City, including on Salah al-Din Street and in the vicinity of the Kuwait roundabout, where it has occurred no less than twice since the Flour Massacre."

The most recent example of this kind of attack came just last night when, according to Euro-Med Monitor, "many civilians were injured by Israeli violence near the Kuwait roundabout."

The Euro-Med report goes on to slam the Israeli occupation for "starving the people of Gaza, killing the starving people, and obstructing the entry and distribution of humanitarian supplies, especially in Gaza City and the northern Strip, demonstrat[ing] Israel’s aim of forcibly displacing the Palestinian people there as part of its genocide, ongoing since 7 October 2023."

The investigation goes on emphasize that the Zionist army's "extrajudicial executions and intentional killings of Palestinian civilians" who have not taken part in the hostilities, "amounts to serious violations of International humanitarian law," and are considered "war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court."

"These crimes, which Israel has been committing against the Gaza Strip’s people since 7 October, violate the right of Palestinians to life in accordance with international human rights law, and constitute acts of genocide," the Human Rights group added.

Euro-Med concludes it's report by urging the international community to take action to "force Israel to halt its starvation campaign" against civilians in the Gaza Strip, "in order to prevent the impending catastrophe of mass famine there, and to hold Israel accountable for its crimes and grave violations against the Strip and all of its Palestinian residents."

The Geneva-based human rights organization also issued a call for a "more effective and decisive" international intervention to "ensure the safe, complete, and reliable delivery of humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip without any hindrance," and "thus guarantee the provision of and access to" basic goods and services desperately needed by the starving population in the Palestinian enclave.

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[thethirdromana]

The reason for my Hobbitposting earlier, by the way, is that I decided to watch the M4 fan edit of the Hobbit. They did an excellent job of cutting three overlong movies into two reasonably zippy ones. (OK, it's presented as one four-and-a-bit hour movie with an intermission, but honestly it works just as well as two).

IN with all the shots of beautiful New Zealand scenery plus dramatic music. IN with the actual story of the Hobbit. OUT with all the overtly daft bits and most of the subplots that made the original films feel like they went on forever.

Fully recommend if you, like me, watched the Hobbit films once in the cinema and then never again. There are some bits that can't be rescued even with editing but overall it's just so. much. better.

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Guidelines // NSFW Prompts // Pinned Post

Kyle Week 2024 is a character appreciation event that will run from May 20th - May 26th. Each day has two prompts to choose from, of which you can do anything: write, draw, edit, make a playlist, whatever you like!

La Kyle Week 2024 es un evento creado para mostrar nuestro cariño y apreciacion por el personaje, y se desarrolla desde el día 20 de Mayo hasta el 26 del mismo mes. ¡Cada día encontrarás dos temáticas entre las que elegir, que puedes usar para crear cualquier contenido que gustes; como escribir, dibujar, editar, crear playlists, etc!

SFW PROMPTS – TEMÁTICA SFW

Day 1: Family, Sports – Día 1: Familia, Deportes

Day 2: Animals, Fairy Tale – Día 2: Animales, Cuentos de hadas

Day 3: Yandere, Genderbend – Día 3: Yandere, Genderbend

Day 4: Favorite Kyle Ship, Favorite Kyle Costume/Outfit – Día 4: Tu ship favorita con Kyle, Tu disfraz/atuendo favorito de Kyle.

Day 5: School Photo, Clothes Swap – Día 5: Foto escolar, Cambio de atuendo

Day 6: Free Day – Día 6: Día libre

Day 7: Birthday, Adult/Post Covid – Día 7: Cumpleaños, Adulto/Post covid

Further explanation and suggestions for themes are listed below. – Puedes encontrar explicaciones y sugerencias para los temas aquí abajo.

Day 1 / Día 1:

Family: The Broflovskis (parents, brother, cousin Kyle, your own headcanons) Kyle’s children (fanon, canon), etc.

Familia: Los Broflovskis (padres, hermano, el primo Kyle, tus propios headcanons), Los hijos de Kyle (tanto canon como fanon), etc.

Sports: Whether he’s a spectator, a player, or a hater, there’s something for him!

Deportes: Tanto si es espectador, o jugador, o hater, ¡cualquier cosa que puedas imaginar!

Day 2 / Día 2:

Animals: Pets, his elephant, Willzyx, Kyle as an animal (or animal traits!), animals you associate with him, ones that he doesn’t like?

Animales: Mascotas, su elefante, Willzyx, Kyle como un animal (¡o con rasgos de animales!), animales que asocies con él, ¿o quizá animales que no le gustan?

Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Kyle, his favorite story, or your own spin on fantasy!

Cuentos de hadas: Kyle caperucita roja, su fábula favorita, ¡o tu propia historia o mundo de fantasía!

Day 3 / Día 3:

Yandere: Maybe Kyle is a closet freak, or maybe someone else lurks within the darkness. ;)

Yandere: Quizá Kyle está un poquito loco… o quizá hay alguien en las sombras que está loquito por él.

Genderbend: Panderverse, your own fem Kyle design, Kyle is the only one who stays the same? You choose!

Genderbend: Panderverse, tu diseño femenino favorito de Kyle, Kyle siendo él único que es un chico entre sus amigos… ¡Tú decides!

Day 4 / Día 4:

Favorite Kyle Ship: Any and all ships are welcome, including OCxCanon!

Tu ship favorita de Kyle: Todas las ships son bienvenidas, ¡incluidas OCxCanon!

Favorite Kyle Outfit: His favorite, your favorite, his partner’s favorite!

Tu atuendo de Kyle favorito: bueno, tu favorito, o el de Kyle, ¡o el de su pareja!

Day 5 / Día 5:

School Photo: Will we finally get a smile?

Foto escolar: ¿Conseguiremos que finalmente sonría?

Clothes Swap: Kyle in M4’s clothes, Kyle in Asuka’s (NGE) clothes, whatever!

Cambio de atuendo: Kyle con la ropa de los otros M4, Kyle con el outfit de Asuka de Evangelion… ¡lo que sea!

Day 6 / Día 6:

Free Day: Anything that your heart desires!

Día libre: ¡Lo que sea que tu corazón desee!

Day 7 / Día 7:

Birthday: Party time!

Cumpleaños: ¡De fiesta!

Adult/Post Covid: Age Kyle up like a Sim. PC designs or your own takes are more than welcome! Stick him in an office, take him on a vacation!

Adulto/Post Covid: Cambialé la edad a Kyle como a un Sim. Cualquier versión, tanto su canon Post Covid, como tus propios headcanons, ¡son bienvenidas! Métele a chambear en una oficina, o llevátelo de vacaciones!

[merrysithmas]

just watched The Hobbit 4-hour M4 re-Edit and it healed my soul.

re-colored, OCs totally cut out, Legolas & Frodo cameos barely 5 seconds as they should be. music better, WAY more focus on the Dwarves so you actually get to know them and get invested in their story, and edited so the story focuses on BILBO!!!

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First Anime Tie-In Announced!

KEIKO’s first physical single Yūyami no uta will be released on January 24, 2024, it has been chosen as the ending theme for the upcoming three-cour Sengoku Youko anime adaptation which will begin airing in Japan on January 10.

Comment: Oh wow, I‘m hyped for this. An anime tie-in for Keiko composed by Yuki Kajiura, I‘d say that‘s pretty much a guaranteed hit. Wonder what that will do for Keiko’s solo career. The snippet sounds ultra promising.

Watch a trailer for the first part of the anime HERE! It features short snippets of the OP and ED.

【Release Information】

KEIKO NEW single “夕闇のうた / Yūyami no Uta”(Song of Dusk)

Release: January 24, 2024

Lyrics, composition, arrangement: Yuki Kajiura

■CD+DVD AVCD-61395/B ¥2,000+tax

M1. Yūyami no Uta

M2. TBA

M3. Yūyami no Uta (Instrumental)

M4. TBA (Instrumental)

<DVD>

“Yūyami no Uta” Music Video

“Yūyami no Uta” Making Video

■CD+Blu-ray AVCD-61396/B ¥2,200+tax

M1. Yūyami no Uta

M2. TBA

M3. Yūyami no Uta (Instrumental)

M4. TBA (Instrumental)

<Blu-ray>

“Yūyami no Uta” Music Video

“Yūyami no Uta” Making Video

■CD ONLY AVCD-61397 ¥1,400+tax

M1. Yūyami no Uta

M2. TBA

M3. Yūyami no Uta (Instrumental)

M4. TBA (Instrumental)

M5. Yūyami no Uta (TV size ver.)

M6. Yūyami no Uta (Special Edit ver.)

【Live Information】

KEIKO Billboard Live 2024 "Yūyami no Uta K015-018"

■March 11, 2024 Billboard Live Tokyo 1st stage 17:00 / 18:00 2nd stage 20:00 / 21:00

■March 19, 2024 Billboard Live Osaka 1st stage 17:00 / 18:00 2nd stage 20:00 / 21:00

■Price: Service area ¥9,000/Casual area ¥8,500

■Tickets: December 11, 2023 KEIKO Official FC advanced ticket lottery (→ https://tristone.co.jp/niku-chocolate/) January 10, 2024 Club BBL members advance January 17, 2024 General Sale

[this-shit-is-zucchini-baby]

Gun companies and their reputations

hello murder drones fans! here's a random idea i wanted to post. as we know, people love making fankids. especially with Uzi, and with uzi, people are going to want to name their fankids after guns. ive already seen it, and I understand it. its sick as hell!

however, these are gun companies were talking about, and the gun industry does actually have loads and loads of drama. some of these companies also do not have your best interests in mind. I personally, would not name my son after a gun company with a systemic sexual harassment lawsuit against it, or from a company that fucks over its customers.

Im gonna be compiling a list of gun companies with names that could be used as names for a person, and giving some background on the company and their standing in the market. I'll try to make it alphabetical, and if you see any other company names you want me to add and give insight on, I'll add it with an edit.

Lemme know if i get anything wrong as well! I'm writing most of this down from memory over my experiences with these guns and companies

Armalite - I suppose you could use this as a name?? They used to be owned by Fairchild Corp, and made the first versions of the Ar-15 for the US military, before selling the design to Colt for mass production. The AR-15 was originally designed as full auto btw. the M16 is an Ar15, not every Ar15 is an M16. They make guns still, but they're a far cry from the original Armalite. I haven't heard of anything bad about them particularly.

Beretta - The oldest still standing gun company on the planet, they are almost 500 years old now. They've made derivatives of the Walther P38 for about a century now, also known as the Beretta 92 or M9, and they make sporting and combat shotguns, as well as some newer stuff like the APX striker fired pistols and CX4 carbines. When NFTs were all the rage, they tried to cash in on it with some virtual photos of guns that were worth fake money. It didn't go well, and Beretta support isn't known for responding to customer support emails. Their 92 series of pistols are dead reliable though, just chunky.

Brugger & Thomet - They make good guns, but they're all so ridiculously expensive that it's not worth it at all. They make a lot of popular suppressors, and as a company is reported to pay very well.

Colt - Recently bought out by CZ, Colt is one of oldest American gun companies. They were known for producing the 1911 designed by John Browning, and the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner and Jim Sullivan. Colt did not design the Ar-15, that was Stoner and Sullivan at Armalite when the Airforce requested a new rifle because the M14 was dogshit. Colt made AR-15s for a long time before FN Herstal made a better version (The M16A4, and later the M4) that met the military's needs. Colt has very little drama that's notable, but in the 80s-90s they made the All American 2000, which was called a bad gun in retrospect by every youtuber on the planet. The gun worked perfectly fine, it was reliable, it just has a very long and heavy trigger.

CZ - Mentioned because of its clones and their names. Originally owned by the Czechoslovakian government, before being split off into a private company, they make some modern looking pistols, the CZ-75 and modern sporting derivatives, as well as assault rifles, sporting shotguns, and some bolt action rifles. There's nothing much of note, other than that CZ fans will absolutely have to let you know they're a CZ fan. They're guns are pretty fine, and ive never heard of any reliability issues. the CZ-75 is also a gun thats been used as a base for other companies guns such as IWI's Jericho 941 and Baby Desert Eagle, Tanfoglio's clones, SAR's clones, B&T's Mark 2, the Armalite AR-24, the Springfield P9, the Sphinx SDP- Actually, here's a chart of how many CZ-75 clones there are, its MASSIVE. People love copying this gun. Dont buy a clone, just get a CZ-75.

Https://weaponsman.com/so-how-many-cz-clones-are-there/

Franchi - A long time ago they made the LF-57 SMG, and they made the SPAS-12 shotgun. They were bought by Beretta and Beretta discontinued the SPAS-12 so that Beretta could sell their combat shotguns to police and military instead. Franch makes hunting and sporting shotguns now. The Spas-12 was never a good shotgun because it was ridiculously heavy and chunky, and loading it was a pain in the ass compared to other shotguns that dont need locked loading gates.

Glock - They make exactly one gun in over 31 different configurations. These things are used by everyone and the only reason one is going to malfunction is if you stick aftermarket parts in it. This is the safest gun you could possibly buy, but they fit some people's hands badly. This is like the default price for a gun at 550 USD

Heckler and Koch (HK) - They make the MP5, UMP, G36, HK416, USP, and VP9. They're kinda overpriced and over hyped. The MP7 is a bad gun btw

Kel-tec - (I suppose you could use "Kel") Someone take the crack away from their engineers. They make cheaper guns that are sometimes the absolute best thing on the market (CP33), and other times just a very weird product that doesn't make sense to exist (PR57).

IWI/IMI - The gun company sorta owned by the state of Isreal, their one claim to fame is the Uzi, made by Uziel Gal, who was supposedly kind of an asshole. Every gun they made afterwards was licensed, they just make stuff for the isreali military, and sell stuff to the US too. They make an Ar-15 clone called the "ZION-15". Let that sit in your mind before you buy something from them. They also make the Uzi Pro, which is a micro uzi pistol, with a plastic receiver to make it cheaper to manufacture than the original Uzi's. Its really ugly, overpriced, and you're better off buying a Mac 10 from Masterpiece Arms. IWI used to make the Desert Eagle, before Magnum research started making everything in the USA instead of licensing it to Isreal. Magnum Research is owned by Khar Arms now.

2025-01-26: I forgot, but I was intending to mention IWI because of their gun names, the Uzi, the Galil, and Jericho

Khar Arms - There is nothing to say about this company, I believe they only stay in business because of the Desert Eagle. They make some basic pistols that actually look unique, but there's nothing else, I would assume their guns are reliable at least.

Kimber - A company that was so dogshit at making the 1911, that everyone from Boomers to Zoomers knew not to buy their products. Supposedly they're starting to get out of their rut, and they make some pretty looking 1911 pistols.

Sturm Ruger - American gun company where the owner was actually a bit of a dick and liked to comply with gun restrictions, and supported magazine capacity restrictions. Its likely why the Ruger 10/22 and Mark pistols only held 10 rounds until Ruger as a company started making 25 round stick mags for the 10/22. They also made the Mini-14 which is a smaller version of the M14. Its not that good, but its used frequently against the Ar15 in bad legality arguments. All of their current products are pretty reliable and affordable, besides the previous CEO's opinions, they're a decent company.

Sig Sauer - DO NOT BUY ANY PRODUCTS FROM THIS COMPANY. This is not even about the moral issues like with IWI, SIG SAUER USA GUNS ARE NOT SAFE. Sig Sauer USA is a completely seperate company from the old German Sig Sauer, and the Swiss SIG. Sig now makes containers, Sig Sauer Germany was closed down because they kept trafficking arms, and Sig Sauer USA is now owned by Ron Cohen, who has not been able to answer why their P320s keep shooting randomly. Their products are notoriously unreliable, of poor quality, using parts usually made in 3rd world countries in order to be cheaper, and they had a lawsuit against them for an old women who was constantly sexually harassed by her supervisor at the USA factories. Their MCX rifles and SMGs are known to break randomly, the Cross had a safety issue where the gun could fire upon closing the bolt, the SPEAR has barrel mounting issues where with only your bare hands, could BEND the barrel mount side to side. They are an awful company and have nothing to do with the old Sig 550 rifles and P226 or P210 pistols that were actually decent, if a bit outdated. Bad company, bad to mediocre guns. There are huge rumors that Sig Sauer USA is in bed with some higher ups in the US Military, as Sig won the contract for the military's new service pistol, new service rifle, new service beltfed machine gun and for service ammunition production. Fudd Blasters and Protraband on youtube have made videos on them, explaining in detail what is bad about them. Their guns aren't even that revolutionary or anything, they're just cheap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSlleZOxy9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RIvHsZZ9ho

Smith & Wesson - Based in the US, they chase police contracts mainly. Their guns are actually pretty dang good, priced decently, although they mainly chase whatever other companies are doing. I personally wouldn't buy from them because they support the police so much.

Springfield - The Springfield armory that exists now is not that same Springfield armory that the US Government owned for producing guns. Springfield now is known for importing guns of dubious quality and function from Croatia. They used to import/make clones of HK G3 rifles, poorly. They paid a bunch of shills a while back when they brought in the VHS-2 rifle into the US to call the gun a really good product, but the gun was found out to be very mediocre and the shills were selling their guns after making reviews to bank on the artificial market.

Taurus - Before they started making their own G2 and G3 pistols, they got their entire name for copying Beretta pistols and S&W revolvers, cheaply. The G2 and G3 are affordable pistols that are actually very reliable, and thus are usually owned by people in poor situations. There's not much wrong about them as a company, besides making the Taurus Judge.

Walther - German company who made uhm, various, guns for a certain... Political party during the first half of the 1900s (Similar to BMW), they almost exclusively make sporting and defense pistols now. The Walther P99 and PDP pistols are very good, and they make various Olympic style pistols and rifles for professional shooting like the GSP Expert. 100 years ago, we would be calling them the enemy, but currently they make guns for civilians and while they do sell the PDP towards police, I can't think of any notable use it has. The Walther P99 was extremely popular with police in the 90s though, and it's silloette is used on "No guns allowed" signs frequently.