Don't be fucking lazy. Do things properly or don't do them at all.
No you wouldn't (unless the charging handle reciprocates, which I doubt), and I've no idea where you got that idea. I've got to wonder at the design though, since Bungie seem to have thrown common sense out the window when designing that abomination. Who the living fuck puts the cocking handle so far back that it's where your cheekweld is on the stock? Once again, Bungie have gone from actually paying at least some notice to practicality and decent aesthetics to taking the usual sci-fi easy way out of sticking shit in weird places and bevel-and-extrude spamming to try and make something look futuristic. Fuck that.
You can get the tri count without converting it to editable mesh.
Also, Advancebo is more or less a talentless hack, Hunter, but by the same token I've never seen you do anything but reverse-engineer existing works and then replicate them. Just because you can copy every Halo 3 asset perfectly, it doesn't mean you have talent.
What'd be nice would be for Advancebo to spend less time shitposting and more time actually working on something decent (this means something that ISN'T a shitty screenshot-to-texture job or half-arsed model), and it'd be nice to see you make something that's actually original. How's that for some crit?
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