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Galler
Jan 28, 2008


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Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


You just know this dude is putting on a brave face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KM4y_JsvPc

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011

Galler posted:

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No one should be subjected to YouTube comments.

Chrome or Firefox plugin called shutup does it better, is toggleable, and works on many sites, including any embedded Facebook comments.

Frinkahedron
Jul 26, 2006

Gobble Gobble

SneakyFrog posted:

eh..... it depends on whether its a line scanner or a full 3d one, but eh ballpark around 130k-ish in pricing depending on who you work for. Why you wanna let me sell you one? Tell me you got an airplane so i can sell you millions worth of stuff.

That is way more than I was expecting, you can get a Velodyne 64 for like 65k and that's a lot of overkill for us. (The new 16 plane one that they just came out with for like 6k is looking mighty good, SICK better watch out) I don't have an airplane, but I do have a garage of self driving cars.

Shrapnig
Jan 21, 2005

Just in case you were curious about the alleged HP in a Camaro RS...

Mat_Drinks
Nov 18, 2002

mmm this nitromethane gets my supercharger runnin'

Bape Culture posted:

I'm glad they crushed that gay Porsche. The bubble is due to burst and all these weirdos will forget they ever cared. God is dead.

I know you were just being our beloved BC and semi trolling and all, but real talk I can't believe that targas with all of their chassis flex issues (like you put them on a lift and the doors can't open/close) and the 70s 911s with the mag head issues cost so much. In 08 I was considering buying an '82-85 hardtop and you could grab them for $10k all day long, and I remember thinking "gently caress targas". I was hunting, but then I decided that I'd play it safe, save my extra money and just get an STI daily driver instead because of the lovely economy and all.

Now those same cars that I was looking at are worth 3-4 times as much and it's evident I would have been way better off buying the Porsche both from an enjoyment AND an investment standpoint.

And it's super easy to say it's a bubble, and maybe it partially is, but prices are never going to get back to 08 levels, not even if interest rates finally go up and people decide to put more money in banks instead of into cars.

So I'll rage against the rag and bone machine because gently caress those guys for me being dumb and not buying an air cooled Porsche when I should have and I'd have probably hated it anyway! :)

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odd8Zdhuj9o&t=105s

I am kicking myself for not getting a photo of a Saturn Sky parked near my office the other day. Someone decided that not only did it need horrible stripes, and gaudy chrome rimz, but it needed a full-size spare mounted on the back like a goddamn Wrangler.

PCOS Bill
May 12, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

IOwnCalculus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odd8Zdhuj9o&t=105s

I am kicking myself for not getting a photo of a Saturn Sky parked near my office the other day. Someone decided that not only did it need horrible stripes, and gaudy chrome rimz, but it needed a full-size spare mounted on the back like a goddamn Wrangler.

Stupid stuff stupid stuff BACK TO AWESOME

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

What's a BC?
I seriously do think it's a bubble. I'm just annoyed I didn't get in on it!

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Rhyno posted:

I like how they're reacting as if R&B stole the car or something. If you buy a car you're allowed to do whatever you want with it or did that change recently?

if you bought a Monet pastel you're allowed to tear it from its frame and jack off with it, but it doesn't mean you should, or that it's the best use of the thing you've bought, and if you're looking specifically for something to jack off with you probably shouldn't go buying a Monet pastel

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches

Frinkahedron posted:

That is way more than I was expecting, you can get a Velodyne 64 for like 65k and that's a lot of overkill for us. (The new 16 plane one that they just came out with for like 6k is looking mighty good, SICK better watch out) I don't have an airplane, but I do have a garage of self driving cars.

ah Velodyne :)

Yeah We do have about the highest price point in the industry, and really if you don't need sub-millimeter accuracy, its definitely overkill.

I have been pushing R&D to do perhaps a lower cost OEM unit for Autonomous vehicle applications... But eh...

Do we have a LiDAR thread? dont want to keep derailing :)

TehRedWheelbarrow fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Jul 31, 2015

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

atomicthumbs posted:

if you bought a Monet pastel you're allowed to tear it from its frame and jack off with it, but it doesn't mean you should, or that it's the best use of the thing you've bought, and if you're looking specifically for something to jack off with you probably shouldn't go buying a Monet pastel

If I had that kind of gently caress YOU money I'd be wiping my rear end with rare paintings every day.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Rhyno posted:

If I had that kind of gently caress YOU money I'd be wiping my rear end with rare paintings every day.

Hitler's paintings, for sure.

Octopus Magic
Dec 19, 2003

I HATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU LIKE* AND I NEED TO BE SURE YOU ALL KNOW THAT EVERY TIME I POST

*unless it's a DSM in which case we cool ^_^

atomicthumbs posted:

if you bought a Monet pastel you're allowed to tear it from its frame and jack off with it, but it doesn't mean you should, or that it's the best use of the thing you've bought, and if you're looking specifically for something to jack off with you probably shouldn't go buying a Monet pastel

a mass produced car is exactly the same as a pastel work by a dead famous painter. got it.

Octopus Magic
Dec 19, 2003

I HATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU LIKE* AND I NEED TO BE SURE YOU ALL KNOW THAT EVERY TIME I POST

*unless it's a DSM in which case we cool ^_^
The Master's cup is broken

The Zen master's last lesson
There was a great Zen master who had a favourite cup that he used to drink from. It appeared to some of his students that he was rather attached to it.

One day, after the master had just used his cup, and had placed the finished vessel onto a nearby table, one of the students picked it up, and throwing it onto the hard ground outside of the temple, he said to the master,

"Your cup is broken. For everything, there is a time to live and to die. This was the time for your cup to die."

The master replied,

"If your mind is broken too, you will only see a broken cup, but when you see not with your mind, but from the togetherness of oneness, all you see is oneness. There was no cup to see. Everything is passing. Structure is here one day and gone the next. Only oneness remains the same."

The master went on talking to his student. He thought that he would teach him another lesson too.

"What is death anyway?" he said. "It is merely oneness emptying itself from itself."

"Can you hold death in your hand?" he continued. "Tell me what death really is?"

The student was now the focus of attention. All of the other students waited for his reply.

He finally answered the master like this.

"Death is like the pieces of your cup. It merely rearranges things. Oneness remains fundamentally unchanged as you have just said."

The old master got up. He walked over to the student. He grabbed him by the throat. He squeezed very hard. The student became fearful. It appeared to him that the master was indeed very upset about the loss of his favourite drinking cup.

"Your hurting me master," he finally said.

The master winked with his left eye, and let him go at last. He went back to his chair, and he sat down again.

"Death will one day open your eyes," he said, and he smiled very lovingly at his student, as he said this to him.

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

I'm not reading that

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

Bape Culture posted:

I'm not reading that

Good choice

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

railroad graffiti
Boy that sure is some terrible car stuff

davebo
Nov 15, 2006

Parallel lines do meet, but they do it incognito
College Slice
I'll put these in the terrible stuff thread because it's just a bunch of decals, but mainly its just funny i saw two GM pace car editions in the same week. Anytime I wonder what could I do to my '98 Corvette to make it absolutely hideous, I can just reference this. Paint it purple, yellow wheels, yellow interior.

And I recall there being a blue HotWheels Camaro but didn't realize it was also the pace car that year?

Aurune
Jun 17, 2006

davebo posted:

And I recall there being a blue HotWheels Camaro but didn't realize it was also the pace car that year?


Does anyone else think that logo is kind of flipping you off?

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Aurune posted:

Does anyone else think that logo is kind of flipping you off?

Well yeah, now.

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



Octopus Magic posted:

The Master's cup is broken

The Zen master's last lesson
There was a great Zen master who had a favourite cup that he used to drink from. It appeared to some of his students that he was rather attached to it.

One day, after the master had just used his cup, and had placed the finished vessel onto a nearby table, one of the students picked it up, and throwing it onto the hard ground outside of the temple, he said to the master,

"Your cup is broken. For everything, there is a time to live and to die. This was the time for your cup to die."

The master replied,

"If your mind is broken too, you will only see a broken cup, but when you see not with your mind, but from the togetherness of oneness, all you see is oneness. There was no cup to see. Everything is passing. Structure is here one day and gone the next. Only oneness remains the same."

The master went on talking to his student. He thought that he would teach him another lesson too.

"What is death anyway?" he said. "It is merely oneness emptying itself from itself."

"Can you hold death in your hand?" he continued. "Tell me what death really is?"

The student was now the focus of attention. All of the other students waited for his reply.

He finally answered the master like this.

"Death is like the pieces of your cup. It merely rearranges things. Oneness remains fundamentally unchanged as you have just said."

The old master got up. He walked over to the student. He grabbed him by the throat. He squeezed very hard. The student became fearful. It appeared to him that the master was indeed very upset about the loss of his favourite drinking cup.

"Your hurting me master," he finally said.

The master winked with his left eye, and let him go at last. He went back to his chair, and he sat down again.

"Death will one day open your eyes," he said, and he smiled very lovingly at his student, as he said this to him.

Moral: Zen masters get really pissy when you break their favorite cup.

bennyfactor
Nov 21, 2008

davebo posted:

And I recall there being a blue HotWheels Camaro but didn't realize it was also the pace car that year?


"Official Vehicle", not pace car. They have Tahoe/Suburbans and pickups at the track done up like that as well most years; not sure if it's available at the dealer as an option or not.

streetlamp
May 7, 2007

Danny likes his party hat
He does not like his banana hat
local mall parking lot



Disgruntled Bovine
Jul 5, 2010

streetlamp posted:

local mall parking lot





:stonk:

That's it.

It's over.

Close the thread.

It cannot get more fast, or more furious.

T1g4h
Aug 6, 2008

I AM THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, CONDUCTOR OF THE CHOIR OF DEATH!

streetlamp posted:

local mall parking lot





Did you scan the giant QR code? Please tell me you did :allears:

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof
did you scan the qr code? I'll bet he's a hyper-miler.

e;fb

Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

FRIED CHICKEN
Slippery Tilde
yeah that has to be a hyper-miler. He should work on his metal fab, all those rough edges and panel gaps are gonna seriously gently caress up his gains. :v:

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Just in case you forget what kind of car you drive



(probably need to view the larger version to actually read the plate)



I'd love to know what the gently caress they hit to do THAT... and how drunk they were. The front right clip was about as mangled as you would expect. The FR wheel even looks to be cracked.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011


No pictures, but a couple of months ago I sold my 1990 Beretta GT with 116,000 km on it on Craigslist. No mechanical issues whatsoever.

Yesterday, I'm flipping through car ads on Craigslist for a laugh, and lo and behold, what do I see? My Beretta, for $800, with another 6000 km on it. Stripped cylinder from a cross-threaded spark plug. You DO NOT service the spark plugs on a Chevy 60-degree MPFI V6 yourself. You literally need a special tool to tilt the engine thirty degrees forward and replace the rear cylinders' spark plugs without, you guessed it, cross-threading the loving things.

My poor, poor Beretta. You were too good for this world. I'm sorry I didn't have the money to keep you.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Terrible Robot posted:

yeah that has to be a hyper-miler. He should work on his metal fab, all those rough edges and panel gaps are gonna seriously gently caress up his gains. :v:

Needs more speed holes

GutBomb
Jun 15, 2005

Dude?

Kazinsal posted:

My poor, poor Beretta. You were too good for this world. I'm sorry I didn't have the money to keep you.

It sucks seeing your old car in a state of disrepair but that engine design is truly the terrible car stuff in this case.

jaegerx
Sep 10, 2012

Maybe this post will get me on your ignore list!


streetlamp posted:

local mall parking lot





That looks like some poo poo from the leepu and pitbull show. Every car they make is just loving god awful.

Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002

Panty Saluter posted:

I just paid 80 USD for a used replacement window switch because a new one is 200+. This is on a car that is known to have fragile switches. Hopefully the "new" one isn't just as broken as the old one. gently caress you Honda for not using the same switches across eight different models, like you do with literally loving everything else.

This is a common issue with AW11 MR2s. The window switches are made out of thin, fragile plastic and snap easily, and new ones are no longer available from Toyota. GLHF finding a replacement that works!

Seat Safety Switch
May 27, 2008

MY RELIGION IS THE SMALL BLOCK V8 AND COMMANDMENTS ONE THROUGH TEN ARE NEVER LIFT.

Pillbug

HotCanadianChick posted:

This is a common issue with AW11 MR2s. The window switches are made out of thin, fragile plastic and snap easily, and new ones are no longer available from Toyota. GLHF finding a replacement that works!

Fill out the form on Dorman's "suggest a part" website. With enough other weirdos emailing in, eventually they're bound to listen to something I bitch about.

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

HotCanadianChick posted:

This is a common issue with AW11 MR2s. The window switches are made out of thin, fragile plastic and snap easily, and new ones are no longer available from Toyota. GLHF finding a replacement that works!

Or just convert to manual windows. Did it to my Miata because I got tired of the lovely power windows all NAs have.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


HotCanadianChick posted:

This is a common issue with AW11 MR2s. The window switches are made out of thin, fragile plastic and snap easily, and new ones are no longer available from Toyota. GLHF finding a replacement that works!

Glass for a Toyota Sera is rare and expensive (and so are the door struts). I was the terrible for owning one, then turbocharging it and trying to get as many horses out of the lovely 5EFHE by strapping parts from a 4EFTE and spending silly money on ECUs and things I knew nothing about when I was at that 'I live at home and my income is 100% used on nothing but poo poo I don't need'.

Copper Vein
Mar 14, 2007

...and we liked it that way.
BRB, goin' for a cruise.

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

Copper Vein posted:

BRB, goin' for a cruise.



The door is mostly closed. Just don't get hit on the passenger side again.

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Beach Bum
Jan 13, 2010

Copper Vein posted:

BRB, goin' for a cruise.



Huh, that looks familiar :haw:



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