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Cat Terrist posted:I'll agree with the Thrawn trilogy and it certainly kick started Star Wars popularity once again quite rightly - but Jedi Search? gently caress NO, that was awful! You have to admit, Darksaber was so bad it was entertaining in its own way. "We want you to build us a Death Star, but we don't have very much money..."
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Cat Terrist posted:I'll agree with the Thrawn trilogy and it certainly kick started Star Wars popularity once again quite rightly - but Jedi Search? gently caress NO, that was awful! Was that the author who loved the Death Star and all of the super weapons? It was okay the first time he did it but two or three books later it got old.
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Apr 17, 2015 11:57
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I read literally every book in the Star Wars EU and the only good series were the Thrawn Trilogy, most of the Red Squadron books, Back to Bakura, and the Yuuzhang Vong series (only because it changed my views on the Force and how it affects the user) I read a bunch of the Star Wars Galaxy of Fear mini novels too because I was young and in hindsight I guess those were pretty good for kids books
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Apr 17, 2015 11:59
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Tusen Takk posted:Back to Bakura, and the Yuuzhang Vong series Them's be fighting words laddie, those honestly induce brain damage they are so bad. ALtho not as the book with Callista I think it was? The sad misguided attempt for a loving Jedi ghost to bang Luke? Dear Lord, that was utterly rage inducing bad. Sad truth is the Hand of Thrawn books were done by Zahn to put an end to a lot of that Eye of Palpatine / Luke falls for Jedi woman of hte week that just infested the gently caress out of the EU. It really is so pathetic Zahn was bought back to fix so many fuckups, his original trilogy really bought in some amazing characters - Thrawn and Mara Jade in particular. Plus Coruscant was named by Zahn and a lot of the whole planet city that we saw in the prequels was his idea.
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meatpimp posted:HDMI is a fickle bitch even with proper cables. I couldn't get poo poo to happen with an extender going ~25' from my electronics closet to the projector. Even cables gave me fits. After a couple years of putting up with bullshit, weird connection issues, I finally found a good cable a few years back and it's been working great since. This. I've had HDMI cables go bad for unexplainable reasons. I've had HDMI cables that for no good reason won't work with some components.
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Holy poo poo you guys. Someone made Automotive Insanity: The Video Game. You like Mechanic Simulator? Get the gently caress out of here with your lovely bent dick. Does Mechanic Simulator let you adjust the carb? Does it let you pour coolant on the ground if you're not good at aiming? Does it make you return to your toolkit to pick out the right size of wrench? Can you run down the battery while sitting in your driveway listening to funky tunes out of your blown-out single speaker audio system? Can you drink and drive lovely Finnish beer? Is the in-dash cigarette lighter fully simulated? Does it motherfucking let you drive around with a backfiring carb and a missing valve cover? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IZ_TEzg7M "What should we do before we drive off.. ahhh I know, fender flares! [...] They are pretty loving ugly, but they are, they are part of the hobby." http://boingboing.net/2015/04/17/i-cant-wait-for-this-finnish.html http://www.johannesrojola.com/msc/ Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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Apr 17, 2015 14:32
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 You could have committed suicide by vodka because they closed down Nokia and still be less Finnish than that narrator.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Holy poo poo you guys. Contest proposal if that thing is released: A speed run to build the car and get to the sauna with beer
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Apr 17, 2015 15:41
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CharlesM posted:Don't redo the jacks you've done already! As long as you use the same on both ends it doesn't matter! They are 100% the same. And most relatively new switches are auto MDI/MDIX anyway, so even if you swap standards on each end it will still work. Raluek posted:Or just rotate the ears 90 degrees and screw them down. Yes. Motronic_Barn_Cross_Connect.png 
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Apr 17, 2015 15:43
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Jesus christ this star wars discussion... the autism is coming from inside the thread 
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kastein posted:Jesus christ this star wars discussion... the autism is coming from inside the thread Star Wars is for nerds and the second one is the only good film in the series. 
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kastein posted:Jesus christ this star wars discussion... the autism is coming from inside the thread to be fair these threads are usually pretty terrible star wars or not
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Star trek is better anway.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Holy poo poo you guys. I need this in my life but holy poo poo watching that video is painful.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I need this in my life but holy poo poo watching that video is painful. No, watching that video is amazing, skip to 22m25s and watch him prepare for a drive
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Apr 17, 2015 17:29
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Holy poo poo you guys. Operation Flashpoint has come a long way.
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On the way to work, I passed a girl standing on the sidewalk. She was wearing noise-proof headphones, playing an invisible piccolo, and dancing. I don't know how to feel.
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I need to know how you identified the instrument as a piccolo.
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Hand placement. God, how loving dumb can you be? 
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CommieGIR posted:Operation Flashpoint has come a long way. In the next iteration, you play as a soldier that is preparing for battle. Choose your weapon and load all 7 magazines with realistic ammunition. Clean your rifle with our 9 new cleaning kit skins. Don't forget to head to the PX to buy inserts for your gas mask. Realistic saluting motions will allow the base commander to barely bring his hand to his head 37 times just walking from his car.
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Goober Peas posted:On the way to work, I passed a girl standing on the sidewalk. She was wearing noise-proof headphones, playing an invisible piccolo, and dancing. I don't know how to feel. Maybe it was a flute and she was jamming out to some Tull. If that was the case Itd make me feel like asking for her hand in marriage right then and there.
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I need to stop buying cheap tools. It did manage to last 8 years.
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I think i am staying as manager of the garage. Some of you guys asked how they could gently caress us over to protect a busdriver, the entire management of the bus line consists of former drivers and they run it on a very "old-buddy" level where the old guard is protected from everything so that they can retire at 62 with a killer pension. But i am not the kinda guy that will let that poo poo fly. We had a meeting yesterday where day had put "deciding the level of reimbursment necessary from (my company) to busline" as the only point on the agenda. I decided to hire a lawyer who specialises in contract law, this was way overkill, because in the instruction for bus drivers that the bus line have written, they are instructed to wait outside for the bus to be delivered, and they are forbidden to drive buses inside the shop or washing area. On our health and safety protocol, anyone other then a tech with internal training are forbidden to move a bus that is indoors. The lawyer explained this to them, and told them that the way the 43page contract where they hire us for maintenance and repair is written, the action of their employee was a breach of contract, giving me the option to actually fire them as clients. I am also obliged to report them to the norwegian version of OSHA(.jpg) this made them very silent, and they agreed to take full resonsibility for the incident, paying us for the damages to our infrastructure, paying for any overtime that is due to one lift being offline, report them selves to the correct goverment body and writing a letter of apology to my tech. today, i called a meeting with them, telling that i cant work like this. and offered a peace. i even had cake for them. they seem more friendly now. i have also been able to ride my bike several afternoons this week, its loving great. hurts like motherfucker but it clears the head. this weekend i get to be super selfish and spend both saturday and sunday racing my rc cars. i just wish i could celebrate with a beer
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You need to post that in the schadenfreude thread, bror 
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The peace offering with cake was probably a nice touch. You made it plain you weren't going to take their poo poo, but you'd much rather work together and have a nice working relationship. Or something. Also, florida's weather can go to hell. All I wanna do is work on my dumb plastic truck, quit pissing on my head.
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Honestly, the cake was just because i wanted cake. i like cake.
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Did you hear the chainsaw in the background when the player went outside? fjelltorsk posted:I think i am staying as manager of the garage. Some of you guys asked how they could gently caress us over to protect a busdriver, the entire management of the bus line consists of former drivers and they run it on a very "old-buddy" level where the old guard is protected from everything so that they can retire at 62 with a killer pension. But i am not the kinda guy that will let that poo poo fly. We had a meeting yesterday where day had put "deciding the level of reimbursment necessary from (my company) to busline" as the only point on the agenda. I decided to hire a lawyer who specialises in contract law, this was way overkill, because in the instruction for bus drivers that the bus line have written, they are instructed to wait outside for the bus to be delivered, and they are forbidden to drive buses inside the shop or washing area. On our health and safety protocol, anyone other then a tech with internal training are forbidden to move a bus that is indoors. Shame you had to get a lawyer involved, but it seems like that was the right decision. sometimes it takes that knowledgeable third party to get them to see the facts of the matter. And snacks always help.
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some texas redneck posted:Wasn't planning on it, I just want to keep everything completely identical. If nothing else, for future troubleshooting. Send me your address fd3sengineering@gmail.com and I've got a switch you can have.
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CUV update: I got some feedback from the wife about what she is looking for in a CUV. She basically wants a taller version of her previous cars. Something which she describes "let's me go "Shoom!" past everyone else". Here is every car she's owned: - Mini Cooper S - Honda Civic Type R - Mercedes SLK 200 Kompressor - My MKV VW GTI (what she drives now) So I guess my options are to either get one of the previous gen Forester XT's, or mod the poo poo out of say a Tiguan, or a CRV or something. I'm pretty happy about this.
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El Jebus posted:In the next iteration, you play as a soldier that is preparing for battle. Choose your weapon and load all 7 magazines with realistic ammunition. Clean your rifle with our 9 new cleaning kit skins. Don't forget to head to the PX to buy inserts for your gas mask. Realistic saluting motions will allow the base commander to barely bring his hand to his head 37 times just walking from his car. The forms, don't forget the forms! I'm gonna have a fun weekend: 
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fjelltorsk posted:I think i am staying as manager of the garage. Some of you guys asked how they could gently caress us over to protect a busdriver, the entire management of the bus line consists of former drivers and they run it on a very "old-buddy" level where the old guard is protected from everything so that they can retire at 62 with a killer pension. But i am not the kinda guy that will let that poo poo fly. We had a meeting yesterday where day had put "deciding the level of reimbursment necessary from (my company) to busline" as the only point on the agenda. I decided to hire a lawyer who specialises in contract law, this was way overkill, because in the instruction for bus drivers that the bus line have written, they are instructed to wait outside for the bus to be delivered, and they are forbidden to drive buses inside the shop or washing area. On our health and safety protocol, anyone other then a tech with internal training are forbidden to move a bus that is indoors. You're good people. There needs to be more of you.
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Pham Nuwen posted:No, watching that video is amazing, skip to 22m25s and watch him prepare for a drive Oh, god, the beer bottles clinking around when the car hits bumps. If he can balance the gameplay versus spergey details, this could be silly fun.
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I was driving downtown the other day, and I stopped at a red light in a piece of road that seemed like a right turn lane. To my left was an AMTRAK cop. I made a right turn when the light turned green, and the AMTRAK cop followed me. I joked with my friend about being pulled over by the train police. Then he flipped his lights on. Traffic was lovely, so I paused for a few seconds, waiting for a chance to pull over. Before I could, he passed me on the right and rushed to a genuine TRAIN EMERGENCY at the station down the street. My friend and I got a kick out of that.
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Sometimes I hate being right. 928 is not charging but I drove it in this morning anyway. Barely started after work then died as I rolled into the hospital parking lot for blood work. ETA on tow truck is at least 1.5 hours. gently caress
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As If I didn't already have enough reasons not to go to work anymore, I'm downloading GTA V now. Just 5 more hours! 'Course, I have work tonight and have to be back at 8AM, so I don't even get to play it tonight. 
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MustardFacial posted:CUV update: Tremek opened my eyes to early model porsche cayennes... I mean, if you want to go bonkers insane. I was sorely tempted until I started thinking about regular $300 oil changes.
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ssjonizuka posted:Tremek opened my eyes to early model porsche cayennes... I mean, if you want to go bonkers insane. I was sorely tempted until I started thinking about regular $300 oil changes. I thought about them as well until I googled them and looked at common issues. Pocket full of goddamn nopes.
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iwentdoodie posted:I thought about them as well until I googled them and looked at common issues. At this point, most of them should have happened/been resolved. Coolant pipes (plastic replaced with aluminum IIRC). Coil Packs being essentially a wear item. not "terrible" but, you're buying a drat porsche. Edit: In my case, it would be an occasional kid runner and not exactly a DD. The minivan would be the normal kid runner. So it's a bit easier for me to stomach if I'm only doing oil changes at max 2x a year.
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ssjonizuka posted:Tremek opened my eyes to early model porsche cayennes... I mean, if you want to go bonkers insane. I was sorely tempted until I started thinking about regular $300 oil changes. A used Tiguan is kind of the upper limit of what I can afford. Besides I'm familiar with VW's, and a simple chip will put a Tiguan up to 230ish hp. Add in some suspension stuff, and I bet I could make it handle close to the GTI. I mean it'll never be exact because it's bigger and taller, but there are improvements to be made. MustardFacial fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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