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Super Aggro Crag posted:My mechanic said my wiring harness is melted to poo poo. You may want to think about an insurance claim in that case. If you have comprehensive, owner-induced damage, like putting a battery in backwards and melting the harness, is covered in a lot of policies.
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MustardFacial posted:Umm these have reverse gear lockouts. You can only shift as far as neutral while the car is in motion. Reverse and Park are locked out until you stop. Pretty much this. Its not brilliant design, but its far from the worst thing I've seen in modern cars. The shift lever on the console has always looked dumb to me so I have to give Chrysler some points for not just doing another lazy derivative of one. I'll never understand why the column shifter on automatics fell out of fashion. You have a huge part of the console filled with something you rarely touch while driving and then try and cram everything onto stalks on the steering wheel.
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Jun 11, 2015 18:32
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MustardFacial posted:No offense, but people like you are the reason why I left the games industry. But take that with a grain of salt because I'm also one of those fags that thinks games are art. I think certain games are art as well. I love games - I learned to read and write from King's Quest 3. If you're upset because certain games make a ton of money I'm not sure what to tell you. It's a business too.
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Jun 11, 2015 18:35
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1500quidporsche posted:Pretty much this. Its not brilliant design, but its far from the worst thing I've seen in modern cars. The shift lever on the console has always looked dumb to me so I have to give Chrysler some points for not just doing another lazy derivative of one. I'll never understand why push button shifters went out of style. I mean look at how cool this is:  Comrade Flynn posted:I think certain games are art as well. I love games - I learned to read and write from King's Quest 3. If you're upset because certain games make a ton of money I'm not sure what to tell you. It's a business too. I'm upset that mobile games have created a trend of very parasitic design practices that permeate throughout the industry. I've got no problems with games making shitloads of money, I understand that it's a business as well. It's how they do it that I have a problem with, you can still make money with a game without resorting to making it a glorified slot machine or progression lockout. It may not be the easy way to make games, but doing things the easy way never pushed anything forward. I'm not saying that you're the devil, or that your games are anything like that. I don't know what games you make. This is just one former designer's opinion who failed to create change in the environment he was in, so he left.
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Jun 11, 2015 18:48
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MustardFacial posted:I'll never understand why push button shifters went out of style. I mean look at how cool this is: Wow. That's so cool.
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Jun 11, 2015 18:57
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Hot drat, just found out a few minutes ago Christeene is playing a local show in 8 days!
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MustardFacial posted:I'm upset that mobile games have created a trend of very parasitic design practices that permeate throughout the industry. I've got no problems with games making shitloads of money, I understand that it's a business as well. It's how they do it that I have a problem with, you can still make money with a game without resorting to making it a glorified slot machine or progression lockout. It may not be the easy way to make games, but doing things the easy way never pushed anything forward. I've always told my clients it's easy to make a mobile game make money - it's much more difficult to have one make money AND be fun. Given what my business does (we work with Apple and Google to help our clients get featured) it usually requires the game be fun first and foremost.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:03
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MustardFacial posted:I'll never understand why push button shifters went out of style. I mean look at how cool this is: I really wish I was in a position where I could work on designing automotive interiors and bring back stuff like this. There is a lot of cool poo poo you can do with switches and displays in car interiors and across the board now automakers are using the same cookie cutter setup. Its a god drat shame because you'll end up spending way more time inside a car then you ever will looking at the exterior and its an easy way to set yourself apart from the competition. I'm currently enamored with my 86 GMC Safari just because of its dumb instrument cluster and switches.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:19
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Tusen Takk posted:I think you may have misread that. It's not like we went through their pictures and stumbled across them, they left them open and in the foreground when they knew that they were coming in to have their computer looked at, then they got mad when they unlocked their computer and only then remembered about their picture they were editing. My bad. The devil's drink interferes with reading comprehension.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:38
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MustardFacial posted:I'll never understand why push button shifters went out of style. I mean look at how cool this is: I know why they went out of style, it's because Chrysler implemented them first and they never worked.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:39
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Noise Complaint posted:If you need a hand or a ride to a junkyard to try to pull some harness or anything let me know. That really blows man. Thanks man. I am fed up with working on this poo poo box so it is in my mechanic's hands now. Gonna fill out a loan application with my credit union when I get home and try and get something else and then sell this gently caress box when it is driveable.
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1500quidporsche posted:I really wish I was in a position where I could work on designing automotive interiors and bring back stuff like this. There is a lot of cool poo poo you can do with switches and displays in car interiors and across the board now automakers are using the same cookie cutter setup. Real knobs, real switches, no loving touchscreens. That's a start. There should be a secret switch under the dash or whatever that turns your gauges into "real" mode, so the temp gauge actually varies instead of just holding steady in the center for instance. Or maybe just a panel in the center console that slides open when you speak the code phrase "suck squeeze bang blow" to reveal a real oil pressure gauge, temp gauge, boost gauge, all the poo poo that moves around and tends to freak the squares. Instead of a collision detection system, make a texting detection system that starts flashing the headlights and honking the horn whenever it sees you texting while driving.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:50
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wallaka posted:I know why they went out of style, it's because Chrysler implemented them first and they never worked. Also, leaning forward and placing yourself out of a normal driving position to change gears is dumb. I drove a push-button shift car in my youth, and it was uncomfortable and stupid then, and it would be uncomfortable and stupid now, unless the buttons were placed where they were naturally within reach while remaining in your normal driving position.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:52
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Pham Nuwen posted:Instead of a collision detection system, make a texting detection system that starts flashing the headlights and honking the horn whenever it sees you texting while driving. Use gaze tracking to kill the engine if the driver looks away from the road for longer than it takes the vehicle to travel, say, 50 ft .
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Welp. Won't crank. Cab electrics function. Fuses looked fine. Jump start did nothing. No clicks. Alternators tell ghost stories around campfires about me. Hope it's just a relay or summat simple, though. e: phone-posted the first time and didn't notice I used the original size image. Arriviste fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Jun 11, 2015 19:59
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1500quidporsche posted:I'm currently enamored with my 86 GMC Safari just because of its dumb instrument cluster and switches. Does yours have the vacuum florescent displays with the animated warning lights? Our 90 Astro had them - they were as neat as they were gaudy.
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Just gonna leave this right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY
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Jun 11, 2015 20:32
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Goober Peas posted:Does yours have the vacuum florescent displays with the animated warning lights? No mine has the speedometer that was basically a curve and optimistically went up to 140kph. Also it is a bright blue despite the whole interior of the van being a dark red. GM really were firing on all cylinders in the 80s.
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Jun 11, 2015 20:39
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Comrade Flynn posted:career stuffs Its nice to see that I am not as far behind the game as I thought I might be. Turned 30 this year on about the same salary track as you, about to buy my moms house in Ballard right by salmon bay park(needs a lot of love, but can't beat the price for the area), now I just gotta find somewhere to get in the ground floor at. Thinking about doing sales engineering since HP has burned me out of DevOps bullshit. Worked for a bit in games, but that startup burned out pretty quick, almost went to work for popcap but their recruiter tried to pull some bullshit on me and after the startup I was not really looking to stay in the game industry(people hanging out at the office late having fun playing games gets really annoying when your working 16+ hour days to get poo poo out the door). The IT world can be awesome at times, but a lot of the other people drive me loving crazy. Some days I think I should go back to working in alaska like I grew up doing. slurry_curry fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jun 11, 2015 |
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Jun 11, 2015 20:45
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I wish I could make a million pounds.
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Bape Culture posted:I wish I could make a million pounds. Better start eating!
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So despite all the dental pain, I was delightfully suprised to find out that my surgery is 80% covered by our new dental insurance. Nice. 
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CommieGIR posted:So despite all the dental pain, I was delightfully suprised to find out that my surgery is 80% covered by our new dental insurance. Nice. Is it like Canada where you have dental fee guides and you have "100%" but really its more like 95% at the final bill?
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Jun 11, 2015 20:56
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Everyone should watch the cute baby moose  http://www.nrk.no/ho/elgkalven-som-ble-reddet-og-sjarmerer-alle-1.12405265
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1500quidporsche posted:Is it like Canada where you have dental fee guides and you have "100%" but really its more like 95% at the final bill? Either way, its working out to me being maybe $250 out of pocket. Which is not bad at all.
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Tusen Takk posted:Everyone should watch the cute baby moose A moose once bit my sister...
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Comrade Flynn posted:I'm actually very conservative with my money. -noted lambo owner. 
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Comrade Flynn posted:I'm not sure I've been successful for as long as you think. I only started earning 6 figures 4 years ago (I just turned 33 in March) and it's only in the past year after starting my own company that my income has gone truly bonkers. I'm making more now than I ever dreamed was possible, so this wasn't exactly part of my careful plan. In theory it could all go away tomorrow, so I'm trying to bolster my income now with other investments like real estate. Very cool insight, thanks for the tip. It is weird because at ~27 I kind of got the "big break" by someone hunting me down and offering me a pretty incredible position and they are extremely generous. I have been able to produce good results. That truthfully was originally my fear was that I couldn't produce enough to justify me on the roster. What is weird is that there are some things originally a challenge that are now easy and you find yourself taking on bigger challenges. I'll stop there because that sounds a ton like a humblebrag. I am just finding that you start to learn how little you know about things and the best way to learn is by learning from those who have mastered certain things. That video clip is pretty awesome, and is pretty accurate of what I would like to achieve in life. Next big hurdle for me will be getting the house paid off. I'd like to do that by 40, and if things don't change that will be pretty easy, but if things go even remotely like last year then it is going to be much sooner than that. nm posted:-noted lambo owner. 
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nm posted:-noted lambo owner. Gotta have hobbies. Fun cars are a pretty drat good hobby. Hell I'm a cheap bastard but splurge on the cars and racing.
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 Having trouble getting motivated to work on (one of) my project cars, so made a roadkilll style list so I could cross stuff off. Think I'm gonna need another bit of cardboard! Day off tomorrow My big break at age 28 (in 2008) got scuppered by the global financial crisis and then subsequent decisions by the government in the UK that wiped out most of our UK work overnight 
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Im a cheap bastard too and dislike spending money on my car but I do it anyway. Feels a little better when its fun stuff and not forced buying though.
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Negromancer posted:Its nice to see that I am not as far behind the game as I thought I might be. Turned 30 this year on about the same salary track as you, about to buy my moms house in Ballard right by salmon bay park(needs a lot of love, but can't beat the price for the area), now I just gotta find somewhere to get in the ground floor at. Thinking about doing sales engineering since HP has burned me out of DevOps bullshit. Worked for a bit in games, but that startup burned out pretty quick, almost went to work for popcap but their recruiter tried to pull some bullshit on me and after the startup I was not really looking to stay in the game industry(people hanging out at the office late having fun playing games gets really annoying when your working 16+ hour days to get poo poo out the door). The IT world can be awesome at times, but a lot of the other people drive me loving crazy. Some days I think I should go back to working in alaska like I grew up doing. Weird. I live in Ballard. Own on North Beach; I'm trying to buy a lot in Magnolia now to develop. PM me if you want to chat about local game companies sometimes; I know them all (popcap sucks). nm posted:-noted lambo owner. I'd be willing to bet (I guess I kind of did) my car goes up in value at a pretty fast rate. Cage posted:Im a cheap bastard too and dislike spending money on my car but I do it anyway. Feels a little better when its fun stuff and not forced buying though. I spent over 6 months shopping for the best deals to build a gaming PC. I probably earn in an hour what it cost me to build the thing. Comrade Flynn fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Jun 11, 2015 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:Real knobs, real switches, no loving touchscreens. That's a start. The temp gauge on my Crown Vic actual works. Sadly, the oil pressure gauge is a disguised idiot light. The instant there's any pressure at all, it goes to half-way and stays there. Ford recognized this in the year after mine and used the real estate to put in a tach instead. I like my RX-7 and the Jeep Cherokee I had. Temp gauge actually starts out at the bottom and moves up, and the oil pressure gauge varies with RPM and temp. Real information.
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Comrade Flynn posted:I spent over 6 months shopping for the best deals to build a gaming PC. I probably earn in an hour what it cost me to build the thing.
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Holy crap today is an onslaught of loving morons and touchy feely people. Don't loving touch me.  Highlights include a guy not knowing his own name, a woman touching all over me, and a separate woman trying to hard to make witty remarks about every little thing.
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Darchangel posted:The temp gauge on my Crown Vic actual works. Sadly, the oil pressure gauge is a disguised idiot light. The instant there's any pressure at all, it goes to half-way and stays there. Ford recognized this in the year after mine and used the real estate to put in a tach instead. The extra gauges they added to the Focus ST appear to work too - Oil temp creeps up pretty slowly after starting the car, and oil pressure moves based on temperature and engine rpm, and of course obviously the boost gauge does a great job showing fuel economy (inverse ratio to gauge position).
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I had a really good shot at becoming a writer when I was 18 (I got offers from a few schools) but I hosed it all up for a girl who ruined my life. These days I don't even want to pick up a pencil so it was probably for the best. My "career" in retail may not be glamorous but I make more money than most high school teachers in this state, met my amazing girlfriend and I get access to events and "celebrities" without having to pay for tickets or a fan-tax of any type. I get upset with myself sometimes but I've started prepping for my future and I'm not really too worried about our financial state 20 years from now as my Dad has started helping me follow his investments.
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Comrade Flynn posted:Weird. I live in Ballard. Own on North Beach; I'm trying to buy a lot in Magnolia now to develop. PM me if you want to chat about local game companies sometimes; I know them all (popcap sucks). I remember you posting pictures of your lambo in your driveway and immediately recognized the neighborhood. My mom has lived in the same house in ballard that I am trying to buy pretty much my entire life. Not the same place I grew up, but better than the other options around the city. I really like magnolia, my dad had a house there for a while growing up and my brother owns a house over there now. Not sure if I feel like going back into games, the "culture" bullshit tended to piss me off. I slightly edited my post, but I am talking with a very well known open source web server company(not apache) about sales engineering work, which sounds like its exactly what I would enjoy doing. Might still reach out and talk shop just in case you know anyone who needs good linux systems engineers.
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I used to dream that one day I'd be a prolific writer, and then I spent a year interning at a local newspaper writing a column during highschool. I loving hated it and now I don't even write for fun. Honestly for the best, it was a great hobby but horrible to do on a deadline.
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The Locator posted:The extra gauges they added to the Focus ST appear to work too - Oil temp creeps up pretty slowly after starting the car, and oil pressure moves based on temperature and engine rpm, and of course obviously the boost gauge does a great job showing fuel economy (inverse ratio to gauge position). Additionally it functions directly as a fun meter  I had half of an update about the little 'Yota and the motor refresh I'm doing written up but I think I'm just going to go and start a project thread instead of cramming yet MORE crap into the chat thread. I'll just leave these   The good news is that while it's scattered in several bits all over the garage (I know where everything is, I swear), the shortblock and the head are at the machinists for a refresh (valve stem seals, valve job, cleaning) and an evaluation of the shortblock. There's some poo poo going on with Cyl 3 & 4 that I want to get checked out. Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jun 11, 2015 |
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