I’ll never understand people telling people they don’t need gear or even worse not to buy gear but to focus on fitness. Do fucking both, you can be fat, ask for advice on what products to buy, and then buy them as you work on yourself and getting in shape.

The amount of plate carrier size questions that are met with “you should get in shape first then figure out your size” aggravates me. You’re a medium. Most people are a medium. Disregard width, the measurement is meaningless because armors don’t come in “long but wide” or “wide but short.” Even if armies did come in more varying sizes, “nipple to nipple” is for thin people, if you are bigger, in shape or not, that measurement will be thrown off. Plates come come in three or four sizes depending on manufacturer which are only marginally smaller or larger. Measure for length, you’re probably a medium. Be ready to buy an extra cummerbund for girth if you want to train in it to get fit.

Don’t wait the three years it takes you to get in shape become a great shot and learn how to knife fight or whatever else to buy equipment because some idiot on Reddit told you to run instead.

If you’ve got money and you want gucci gear buy it, you earned that money, it’s yours, you do what you want with it.