Isnāt that enough on topic talk?
dude, please give it a rest and donāt try to antagonize people
Yes we do have some on topic talk, yay!
Another on topic question;
Can anyone explain why you would need more then 1 Q8?
I was thinking to subscribe for another one, just because it will be such a great and good light (just because it is possible!), but i have only 2 hands, so what are people with more then 2 going to do with it?
Give as a present for friends or relatives?
Hoping for some additional information!
give them away as gifts.
Once in awhile, the Miller! OK, we had it, now how do we pass the time? How about we just glare at each other through the silence? 
ROTFL! I loved the levity Blinker but not everyone will.
Stop smiling! Youāre not here to enjoy yourselves! (according to that POM supervisor written of above somewhere, BTW, thatās almost a direct quote from her)
Hey, I know! We bought an Amazon Fire TV stick yesterday. I was told āBuy the stick and there are all sorts of shows and movies available, you can probably drop Netflix.ā. Well, yes and no, mostly no. There are shows available, but itās one show of a 3 season tv show. I didnāt see any free movies of any worth. But Netflix is costing me $30+ every month and the good movies mostly donāt stream but are only on DVD. Iām testing a 30 day trial of Amazon Prime for $11/month and the streaming movies look to be good ones. Plus the smart TV was the pits with Netflix. The movies would take forever to load. If paused they might never resume. I had no love affair with it. The stick makes Netflix operate as good with streaming movies as they run on my computer. So keep Amazon Prime or Netflix, the stick makes our āsmartā TV finally fulfill itās promise. Oh, YouTube! That would be the thousands of free movies (videos). I saw no others. It is nice to see youtube videos on the big screen though.
Did I miss something? Or not?
Iām considering getting a Roku for local TV stations when the atmosphere doesnāt cooperate. Anyone with any Roku experience? I have a few more HDMI ports that I can use if Roku will get my wife her game shows and us our local news and weather when we want it instead of when the atmosphere tells us we can have it. No I wonāt pay for cable; they want far too many $ monthly for junk channels that Iāll never watch.
Gifts, and different mods or emitters, most likely.
Well, I want one to use, one as a spare or in case the wife wants one, and one for a brother who I want to give one to as a sort of payment for something he says he intends to do. But heāll get cells and a charger as well.
Iām also doubting in getting a 2nd one just for modding and leave 1 as stock. But another $40 + extra cells is pushing it for my budget. I guess Iāll wait until I have one in my hands and then decide if itās useful to get a 2nd one.
Roku - I donāt have one, but a friend of mine has had one since they first came out and has upgraded to newer versions as they became available. He loves the Roku and recommends it to everyone. I just donāt watch TV, so a bit of Netflix and a movie rental place down the street keep me covered. Occasionally, I go to the local cinema to see something āon the big screenā.
Iām signed up for 3, one because I have to, one to mod and one for my daughter/son-in-law as Iāve already sort of created the bug in their household. As far at the āmodā one goes, it might just get put away for a while and see what shakes with technology in the near future, upgrade it possibly as things progress. I donāt really have a soup can light. I know, right? But I bought an SRK clone as well as an M6 from Tom and gave them to my son-in-law and bro-in-law. I have an M6 I modified way back when, and I have a small Fandyfire Rook which has the appearance of a SRK but smaller, itās got an SBT-70 in it now with Narsil so thatās about as close as I am to this light. Hoping I will have money for it when that time comes, might not actually be able to buy all 3, what with everything else going on these days. (Iāve gotten a $930 hospital bill over the past 2 months for my arm/neck mess and havenāt even had surgery yet!)
So much going on lately in BLF, so little monies to spread aroundā¦
Some of you have noticed Iām not around much anymore. However I was in this from the beginning so Iām honored to have been sent a sample.
First impressions are very good. I donāt own a lot of āpremiumā brand lights, but I have had my hands on a few for review purposes, and this feels and looks just as high quality as any of them. You really are getting superb value for the money in this groupbuy.
The things I like most:
1. The anodization is very consistent all over my sample. Even inside the driver compartment it looks great.
2. The driver bay is finished better than most ābudgetā lights. We are getting a thick brass battery contact ring, plus retaining screws (which I like better than a retaining ring). I especially like that my āQ8ā vias made it into the final driver.
3. Narsil. It may be too much programming for a mainline manufacturer to release, but for an enthusiastās light itās perfect. Ramping mode is easy to pick up for a beginner and provides all the function a muggle could ever want, but if you want to spend the time you can go in and change almost everything to however you want it.
Although I have not been directly involved in one before, we all know there have been hiccups with groupbuys in the past. That said, I have been very impressed with Thorfireās attentiveness and consistency in this long process. I may not log in here much, but I read emails between the team several times per week. I think everyone on the giant list of buyers will be thrilled when they finally have these lights in hand.
Iāll try to pay attention and answer any questions yāall have for me about my sample, though this thread really does move fast.
Finally here is the Q8 with one of the big reasons for my inactivity, Winston.
One stock
Yeah that is all one needs lighting anything till +/- 200 meters, yet I want a second, maybe for modding, idk but I am heavily invested here so not the right person to ask 
One stock
Yeah that is all one needs lighting anything till +/- 200 meters, yet I want a second, maybe for modding, idk but I am heavily invested here so not the right person to ask
Love what you wrote about the Q8 Pilotdog68. You need to love Winston. Carry on. They arenāt pups forever. Dogs are some of the very best āpeopleā and they depart far too soon.
In general Iāve found that, any time I find something really good, particularly for a good price, itās probably a good idea to get more than one because these things tend to never be available again.
Are you familiar with Sturgeonās Law? In his career of science fiction, people would often complain that 90% of sci-fi was crapā¦ and why is sci-fi so bad, theyād ask? Sturgeon made the observation that, while this is true, science fiction is not unusual ā because 90% of everything is crap.
The reason to get a Q8 is because, as far as we can tell, it will be an exception to that rule. Itās the good stuff, and the good stuff doesnāt happen often.
Good post TK. How true.
Great post PD!
It is indeed very cool to see that nice driver with Q8 on it!
BTW Winston is cute!
Use oneā¦. Have a spare to do with whatever is determined at a later date. The price is right, for what promises to be a fantastic light.
So get, while the getting is good.
āNeedā has nothing to do with it in my case.
+1 on the PD post. I'm the only one having all 3 generations of prototypes, and the quality improvements from the 1st to 2nd/3rd generation was huge: the square threading, interior finish, anodizing, stainless steel bezel, button improvements - that's just what you can notice.