This prize supplied by Noblex and is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.
RULES
NO PURCHASE OR DONATION IS NECESSARY TO ENTER. YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING DO NOT INCREASE WITH A PURCHASE. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. Eligibility
Void where prohibited by law. Must be legal resident in the USA. Moondog Industries employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies, employees’ immediate family members, are ineligible to participate in the contest/giveaway.
Entrants must be willing and able to appear on YouTube to discuss the contest and post images of the prize on their social feed should they win the contest.
2. Sponsors and Platforms
Noblex (known as the SPONSOR) and Moondog Industries (known as the CO-SPONSOR) is a video Edutainment producer and game promoter based in San Francisco, CA. YouTube, TikTok, Rumble, X and online video platforms (known as PLATFORMS) are not SPONSORS or in any way affiliated with the contest or content.
3. Agreement to Rules
By entering the contest, participants agree to abide by the SPONSOR’s Official Rules and decisions. The SPONSOR retains the right to refuse, withdraw, or disqualify entries at their sole discretion. By submitting an entry, the participant agrees to accept the decision of the SPONSOR as final and binding.
4. Entry Period
Contest email entries must be received between: 12:00pm EST 1 Nov 2025 and 12:00pm EST 30 Nov 2025
5. How to Enter
This contest requires your skill in navigating your phone or computer controls to screen capture an image of the following YouTube channels/Social Media accounts. Subscribe or Follow and make a screen capture of those pages showing a greyed out Subscribe button or indicator that your account is Following that page. If the page is not functioning, please contact contest@moondogindustries.com . One entry per person or per Social Media account. Fraudulent methods of entry, photo retouched, or other methods of circumvention of the rules may result in the SPONSOR invalidating a participant’s entries.
6. Prizes
The winner must be able to receive the prize by e-mail or by physical mail. Prize may be substituted at the sole discretion of the SPONSOR. Acceptance of the prize grants SPONSOR permission to use the winner’s entry, name, and likeness for advertising, promotion, and trade without further compensation or remuneration unless prohibited by law.
7. Odds
The odds of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.
8. Selection and Notification of the Winner
The winner will be chosen at random by the SPONSOR from among the entrants who demonstrated the skill to navigate the electronic entry and have met the minimum requirements. Winners will be contacted via the email used to enter the contest. Winner must have a legal address within the US to ship the prize.
SPONSOR is not liable for the winner’s failure to receive notification of winning if he or she provided the wrong email address or if their email security settings caused your prize notification to go into the spam or junk folder. If a winner does not respond within 24hrs of sending a notification, the SPONSOR will select an alternate winner. Receipt of the prize is upon the condition of compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
9. Rights Granted by the Entrant
The SPONSOR, upon submission of an entry into the giveaway or contest, has the right to use the participant’s submission, voice, likeness, image, statements about the contest, etc., for publicity, news, advertising, promotional purposes, trade, and so forth, without any further notice, review, consent, compensation or remuneration.
Participants shall defend or settle against such claims at their sole expense, and shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the SPONSOR from any suit due to damage of or by the prize.
10. Terms & Conditions
The SPONSOR reserves the right to modify, suspend, cancel or terminate in the event that non-authorized human intervention, a bug or virus, fraud, or other causes beyond your control impact or corrupt the security, fairness, proper conduct, or administration of the contest/giveaway.
11. Limitation of Liability
Entry into this contest constitutes the participant’s agreement to release and hold harmless the SPONSOR and PLATFORMS, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, etc., against all claims liability, illness, injury, death, loss, etc., that occurs directly or indirectly from participation in the contest or use/misuse of the awarded prize.
12. Disputes
As a condition of participating in the promotion, the participant agrees to resolve all disputes with an arbitrator designated by the SPONSOR in the state of California, without resorting to any form of class action. Entrants waive all rights to punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, and waive all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
13. Privacy Policy
Participants agree to abide by all privacy and NDA laws in the State of California and any federal laws of the United State of America.
14. Winners List
Participants may request a list of winners by submitting a request in writing to Moondog Industries for up to 30 days after the contest ends.
15. Social Media Platform Rules
Winners will agree to post a photo of the prize on their social media channels in such a way as does not violate any rules of that platform. The winners also agree to appear for an interview where they will discuss the prize and its performance. If there are functional problems with the prize, the winner agrees to make a good-faith effort to resolve all issues with the SPONSOR prior to posting reviews or opinions about the prize.
16. Affirmation of Acceptance of and Agreement to All of the Official Rules
By entering the contest, the entrant has affirmatively reviewed, accepted, and agreed to all of them.
This prize supplied by Klarus and is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.
RULES
NO PURCHASE OR DONATION IS NECESSARY TO ENTER. YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING DO NOT INCREASE WITH A PURCHASE. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. Eligibility
Void where prohibited by law. Must be legal resident in the USA. Moondog Industries employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies, employees’ immediate family members, are ineligible to participate in the contest/giveaway.
Entrants must be willing and able to appear on YouTube to discuss the contest and post images of the prize on their social feed should they win the contest.
2. Sponsors and Platforms
Noblex (known as the SPONSOR) and Moondog Industries (known as the CO-SPONSOR) is a video Edutainment producer and game promoter based in San Francisco, CA. YouTube, TikTok, Rumble, X and online video platforms (known as PLATFORMS) are not SPONSORS or in any way affiliated with the contest or content.
3. Agreement to Rules
By entering the contest, participants agree to abide by the SPONSOR’s Official Rules and decisions. The SPONSOR retains the right to refuse, withdraw, or disqualify entries at their sole discretion. By submitting an entry, the participant agrees to accept the decision of the SPONSOR as final and binding.
4. Entry Period
Contest email entries must be received between: 12:00pm EST 1 Nov 2025 and 12:00pm EST 30 Nov 2025
5. How to Enter
This contest requires your skill in navigating your phone or computer controls to screen capture an image of the following YouTube channels/Social Media accounts. Subscribe or Follow and make a screen capture of those pages showing a greyed out Subscribe button or indicator that your account is Following that page. If the page is not functioning, please contact contest@moondogindustries.com . One entry per person or per Social Media account. Fraudulent methods of entry, photo retouched, or other methods of circumvention of the rules may result in the SPONSOR invalidating a participant’s entries.
6. Prizes
The winner must be able to receive the prize by e-mail or by physical mail. Prize may be substituted at the sole discretion of the SPONSOR. Acceptance of the prize grants SPONSOR permission to use the winner’s entry, name, and likeness for advertising, promotion, and trade without further compensation or remuneration unless prohibited by law.
7. Odds
The odds of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.
8. Selection and Notification of the Winner
The winner will be chosen at random by the SPONSOR from among the entrants who demonstrated the skill to navigate the electronic entry and have met the minimum requirements. Winners will be contacted via the email used to enter the contest. Winner must have a legal address within the US to ship the prize.
SPONSOR is not liable for the winner’s failure to receive notification of winning if he or she provided the wrong email address or if their email security settings caused your prize notification to go into the spam or junk folder. If a winner does not respond within 24hrs of sending a notification, the SPONSOR will select an alternate winner. Receipt of the prize is upon the condition of compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
9. Rights Granted by the Entrant
The SPONSOR, upon submission of an entry into the giveaway or contest, has the right to use the participant’s submission, voice, likeness, image, statements about the contest, etc., for publicity, news, advertising, promotional purposes, trade, and so forth, without any further notice, review, consent, compensation, or remuneration.
Participants shall defend or settle against such claims at their sole expense, and shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the SPONSOR from any suit due to damage of or by the prize.
10. Terms & Conditions
The SPONSOR reserves the right to modify, suspend, cancel, or terminate if unauthorized human intervention, a bug or virus, fraud, or other causes beyond your control impact or corrupt the security, fairness, proper conduct, or administration of the contest/giveaway.
11. Limitation of Liability
Entry into this contest constitutes the participant’s agreement to release and hold harmless the SPONSOR and PLATFORMS, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, etc., against all claims, liability, illness, injury, death, loss, etc., that occurs directly or indirectly from participation in the contest or use/misuse of the awarded prize.
12. Disputes
As a condition of participating in the promotion, the participant agrees to resolve all disputes with an arbitrator designated by the SPONSOR in the state of California, without resorting to any form of class action. Entrants waive all rights to punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, and waive all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
13. Privacy Policy
Participants agree to abide by all privacy and NDA laws in the State of California and any federal laws of the United State of America.
14. Winners List
Participants may request a list of winners by submitting a request in writing to Moondog Industries for up to 30 days after the contest ends.
15. Social Media Platform Rules
Winners will agree to post a photo of the prize on their social media channels in such a way as does not violate any rules of that platform. The winners also agree to appear for an interview where they will discuss the prize and its performance. If there are functional problems with the prize, the winner agrees to make a good-faith effort to resolve all issues with the SPONSOR prior to posting reviews or opinions about the prize.
16. Affirmation of Acceptance of and Agreement to All of the Official Rules
By entering the contest, the entrant has affirmatively reviewed, accepted, and agreed to all of them.
Too Much Information live chat show. Today, we’re going to talk about Halloween, costumes, and cosplay. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
This brand is the largest retailer of Halloween props and costumes. It was founded in 1983 in the San Francisco East Bay Area, California. It is currently owned by Spencer Gifts.
This seasonal Halloween brand popularized the pop-up retailer business model. It places its temporary stores in large retail spaces that are empty or have recently gone out of business.
Athlon Midas G2 UHD 10×25 are Athlon’s smallest and lightest folding travel binoculars. But unlike other compact folding bino’s this has a decent eyebox and exit pupil which doesn’t look like you’re looking through a straw. And it features a decent sized 25mm objectives for good light gathering from its UHD glass.
It has a magnesium tube and frame which is light weight. Save for some plastic panels along the bridge, it is almost entirely metal. It comes with a nice padded case and neck strap but for maximum portability, it can fold compact enough that can fit into a shirt or pants pocket. This is practically an EDC kind bino that can be an excellent backup optic but with enough performance that it can substitute for a larger bino in a pinch.
The Viper PST Gen 2 is Vortex’s mid-tier LPVO (priced between the Venom and the Razor) and lowest-priced LPVO that offers true daylight bright illumination. You have a choice of an MOA or MILRAD crosshair reticle with calibrated hash marks for long-distance shots. The fiber optic embedded in the reticle provides a red dot bright dot at the center with 10 levels of intensity, powered by a CR2032 battery.
Design-wise, the Viper appears very similar to Vortex’s premium LPVO the Razor HD. Its illumination knob features 10 steps of brightness with an off in between. The indexing of the illumination knob felt a tad bit loose and sloppy. Optically it is a bright, clear, and relatively flat sight picture with only a little fish-eye effect.
The Viper’s only drawbacks are its illumination turret and weight (22.7oz). The Viper was one of the first LPVOs to utilize fiber optic in its reticle but is a bit more expensive than fiber optic offerings from Monstrum and Primary Arms. The Viper is still a strong performer and matched with the famous Vortex warranty, still a viable LPVO option today.
Too Much Information live chat show. Today, we’re goign to delve into dashcams, why they’re cool, useful, and sometimes suck. My guest is Jessie of the Korean dashcam maker Vueroid https://moondogindustries.com/tmi-251022-dashcams
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This brand is a Japanese multinational mass media conglomerate is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. In the 1950’s their TR-63 transisiter radio cracked open the U.S. market to Japanese consumer microelectronics. In the 1980’s, their Walkman created the portable music device category.
Dashcams are widespread in Russia[4] as a guard against police corruption and insurance fraud, where they provide additional evidence.[5] They have been called “ubiquitous” and “an on-line obsession”, and are so prevalent that dashcam recordings were the most common videos of the February 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor
In 1991 this Japanese electronics brand launched the PlayStation, which dominated and expanded the video game console market, taking the crown from Nintendo and Sega.
Athlon means “Prize” or “Medal” and Midas was the legendary king who’s touch turned everything to gold. I was hoping adding a Midas red dot to my pistol could add a little gold medal performance to my accuracy. Athlon sent me a Midas Flash micro red dot to test. Midas has a LOT of Midas red dots in their product line, so I’m finding identifying them challenging (though nowhere near as confusing as Holosun or EOTech’s nomenclature). The Midas Flash, a low-profile 3MOA red dot with a RMR footprint.
The Flash has a underside battery compartment for its CR2032 battery requiring the Midas Flash to be removed from it’s base or slide to replace. While this could requires checking and perhaps adjusting your zero, in reality the unit as a 50,000 run time with a fresh battery, so battery replacement would be roughly every 5-6 years! The Flash has motion activation so when you draw it or move your pistol, it will automatically turn on and be ready for action. After a few minutes in storage the unit will automatically go into sleep mode conserving battery life.
Having an underside battery compartment allows the unit to be very low profile compared to other micro red dots (even others in the Midas product line). The low profile base allows the red dot window to sit low to the bore line of your pistol improving accuracy. Though not quite low enough to utilize my factory Glock 17 iron sights.
The Flash will fit a pistol with an RMR cut slide or mounting. It comes with a number of packets of screws labeled for various popular pistol models. My after market Glock slide best fit the packet marked Smith & Wessen 2.0. It comes with a gasket spacer to give the unit a weatherproof seal to your exposed battery compartment. Unlike some red dots which only offer a limited time warranty (because micro electronics are notoriously susceptible to damage from vibration), Athlon offers a Lifetime Warranty.
I ran through a box of ammo and found the 3MOA not too small to find and aim. I’m relatively new to using red dots on a pistol so it helped me to find the dot by increasing the dot brightness to the point of blooming for faster target acquisition. For more precision, I tone the brightness to get a finer point. Running through alternating target drills I was generally able to get most of my shots within an 8″ target in rapid fire. I don’t think this is gold medal performance but for me the Midas Flash aims like a winner.
While in Los Angeles, I stopped by the Evike.com superstore to try out their new interactive shooting experience: Level Up. It’s an airsoft shooting gallery game for up to 5 players. Game graphics are projected onto its walls, which contain impact sensors.
You choose from a selection of game modes, including a zombie attack. Your score is automatically recorded. You’re issued everything you need to play, including eye-protection, a full-auto airsoft rifle with a red dot optic, and glow-in-the-dark tracer BBs so you can see your shots.
The S1 4K Infinite is the first dashcam who’s footage impressed me. The best budget dashcams I’ve tested up till now produce footage that looks as good as the best home security cams. Granted, these cams I’ve tested typically cost anywhere between $75-$125. The S1 produces footage that looks as good as that of a 4K GoPro or DJI action cam.
Part of the reason for its superior footage is that the S1 comes with a Circular Polarizing Filter (CPL) which can reduce glare and reflections in the windscreen and improve readability and contrast. In addition, the S1’s native 4K resolution really looks like 4K and not just upscaled 1080p as with some budget 4K dashcams.
The S1 has a somewhat hidden Image Enhancement Mode that is only accessible when reconfiguring the camera settings from its default 4K@60fps to 30fps. An HDR + Infinite Plate Capture option becomes available at 30fps. This setting produces enhanced readability of characters in license plates, especially at night.
There were two minor issues that I experienced with the S1. When starting the car, the S1 took about 5-10 seconds longer to boot up than other dashcams I’ve tested. After a firmware upgrade that I downloaded from the Vueroid website, the boot up shortened noticeably. One other minor annoyance is that if you choose to change the camera’s Resolution, the S1 forces a full SD-Card format, erasing any files previously on that card.
The S1 also offers GPS and speed logging, WiFi connectivity to a downloadable phone App to copy files and modify menu settings. And the option to wire the S1 directly to your car battery to enable continuous recording when the car is parked and the engine is off.
For its premium performance, the S1 does come with a premium price. The S1’s build quality and its fit-and-finish, feels like a premium electronic device. Not the cheap plastic toy-like quality of many cheaper dashcams. But at the end of the day, having footage of a license plate could mean the difference between identifying a car or not.
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This comic book company was founded in 1937 and gets its name from what was its most popular series, at the time: Detective Comics
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L.A. Comic Con is a three-day convention in downtown Los Angeles, California. It encompasses several categories, including comics, horror, sci-fi, anime, gaming, and pop culture. It was founded as Comikaze Expo in 2011.
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Brothers Richard and Maurice founded this hamburger chain in San Bernardino, California, in 1940. Roy Croc joined the company in 1955 and launched its franchising, which would grow into the largest hamburger brand in the world.
