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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

ElGroucho posted:

Thank god, but also

Dear god!

Right?

They don't need to be 6'4 bipedal Austrians to gently caress you up

Stay away from flat surfaces, imo

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Croccers
Jun 15, 2012

syscall girl posted:

They're autonomous.
Depends.
They have radio controlled and autonomous fights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6fPGwGJ0ls&t=520s

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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I feel like those side wings aren't in keeping with good sportsmanship.

Queen-Of-Hearts
Mar 17, 2009

"I want to break your heart💔 and give you mine🫀"




SpacePig posted:

I wonder what the feeling is here. Are you still terrified that you just recently had a gun to your head, or are you cracking up because the guy is as bad as he is at that. Like, I've never driven a stick shift before, but I've seen people do it. I could probably do enough to get out of the loving driveway, rather than just surge back and forth like this idiot.

When i was 15 my dad taught me to drive stick on a back road in the middle of nowhere. I got behind the wheel and he asked "You know what to do, right?" "Yep, give it gas, let out the clutch." So i gave it (too much) gas and just let the clutch go. That little 91 nissan pickup did the sickest burn out of it's life until i freaked out and stalled it.
Moral of the story... Pretend its a racecar and you'll probably make it down the block at least. In a noisy fashion.

captainOrbital
Jan 23, 2003

Wrathchild!
💢🧒
That's how I'm going to teach my son to ride a motorcycle.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

captainOrbital posted:

That's how I'm going to teach my son to ride a motorcycle.

Electric starter or kick-start?

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

captainOrbital posted:

That's how I'm going to teach my son to ride a motorcycle.

I've seen people learn this way on dirt bikes

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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My dad taught me how to drive stick in our little town's neighborhood streets. Then he took me to like 31st and Halsted in Chicago, got out, and told me to make it to the highway and pull over. Stalling a car at a stop sign on the southside of Chicago is not something a 15 year old was ready for, but it sure as hell taught me quick. I learned more in those 12 blocks than I did in the two weeks driving around the suburbs.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


hawowanlawow posted:

I've seen people learn this way on dirt bikes

Basically how I learned. Fortunately that was the 90s and there's no video

and it was a dual sport instead of a proper dirt bike

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://i.imgur.com/xGJnLJQ.mp4

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
http://i.imgur.com/W1gbs1W.gifv

http://i.imgur.com/hPj0Rcx.gifv
OH DEER (that's a good way to buck up your track)

http://i.imgur.com/3SlBYMR.gifv
Here's a guy doing two different kinds of fire dances

http://i.imgur.com/IFC2YnU.gifv
OCEAN SELFIE

And a double, idiots sliding down things
http://i.imgur.com/d8KJeb4.gifv
http://i.imgur.com/U3Hkjho.gifv

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

http://i.imgur.com/EsNCLab.gifv

:3::respek::catstare::respek::science:

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

:madmax:

Parts Kit
Jun 9, 2006

durr
i have a hole in my head
durr
"We get it, you vape"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojti7LOjEKU

BovineFury
Oct 28, 2007
I moo for great justice!
Sometimes the best prank to play on your dog is the hardest to pull off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-VosRQT0do

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLYMD6R6PvU

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



whiteyfats posted:

poo poo, two on one, better use whatever is handy.

Yeah, I'd say he was a bitch if it was one on one but there's a reason it's called an equalizer.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

ranbo das posted:

Is there something surprising about high schoolers assembling robotics kits?

I love seeing this, because it's like a shop class that combines electronics knowledge with building cool poo poo. Which makes me wonder...with some of the newer hybrid style cars and full electric, have any schools adopted auto programs that work on newer tech like that? I took regular auto shop back in the late 90s during my junior hear of high school but it was primarily basic tinkering and learning how everything worked. It'd be pretty badass to see more advanced tech, although it'd undoubtedly cost a bit to do.

E: also those dogs reuniting with their owners always hit me in the feels :3: I love how they hesitate a little bit, then once they get close and get a sniff they go absolutely crazy

BOOTY-ADE has a new favorite as of 01:38 on Jun 21, 2017

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

BOOTY-ADE posted:

I love seeing this, because it's like a shop class that combines electronics knowledge with building cool poo poo. Which makes me wonder...with some of the newer hybrid style cars and full electric, have any schools adopted auto programs that work on newer tech like that? I took regular auto shop back in the late 90s during my junior hear of high school but it was primarily basic tinkering and learning how everything worked. It'd be pretty badass to see more advanced tech, although it'd undoubtedly cost a bit to do.

I think they'd have to get into a partnership with a manufacturer. Which, if it hasn't happened yet I would imagine it would soon. Car tech is so proprietary now. Kinda sad.

Same with tractors

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

High schools don't have auto shops any more.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Sagebrush posted:

High schools don't have auto shops any more.

Did you check all of them?

What about charter schools?

Double Punctuation
Dec 30, 2009

Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!

Sagebrush posted:

High schools don't have auto shops any more.

Some vo-techs are partnered with public high schools. You trade in all your electives and spend half the day there instead of at the high school.

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
https://i.imgur.com/yUTf1yG.gifv

timefly
Apr 29, 2008

My old regular public high school still has auto shop

nerdz
Oct 12, 2004


Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Grimey Drawer

loving Mario

nerdz has a new favorite as of 02:39 on Jun 21, 2017

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Did someone say nut shots?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwIz0Diu0kY

Grem
Mar 29, 2004

It's how her species communicates

Ruptured testicle, Jesus.

The Sicilian
Sep 3, 2006

by Smythe

Solice Kirsk posted:

My dad taught me how to drive stick in our little town's neighborhood streets. Then he took me to like 31st and Halsted in Chicago, got out, and told me to make it to the highway and pull over. Stalling a car at a stop sign on the southside of Chicago is not something a 15 year old was ready for, but it sure as hell taught me quick. I learned more in those 12 blocks than I did in the two weeks driving around the suburbs.

Hahaha pussy, that is like an upper class black enclave. Try going down to the roaring 100's. Lol dude is scared of Bronzeville.

trickybiscuits
Jan 13, 2008

yospos

Ludicro posted:

My girlfriend and I have no end of arguments over why I'm so against leaving anything that looks vaguely valuable on display. I fear it will take a smashed window to drive the point home.
That is how my brother learned to hide/cover up valuable items in his car :(

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




syscall girl posted:

Right?

They don't need to be 6'4 bipedal Austrians to gently caress you up

Stay away from flat surfaces, imo

They can't climb stairs.

OMG they are literally pusher bots. :aaa:

snergle
Aug 3, 2013

A kind little mouse!

I saw this in my back yard but i didnt have my phone on my and he got down after i got back. That looks similar to my back yard to. I know it isnt because theres no dogs going loving ape barking at the turtle.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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The Sicilian posted:

Hahaha pussy, that is like an upper class black enclave. Try going down to the roaring 100's. Lol dude is scared of Bronzeville.

I wasn't scared you dork. I was stalling a car and getting honked at in Chicago traffic when I was used to driving with no one else around. It was a huge leap.

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002
I taught myself manual when I drove my DORIFUTOOOO Silvia off the used car lot (and around Kadena AB) on Okinawa :cool: I thought I was hot poo poo because I only stalled it once, on the second day, and didn't have a lot of the herky-jerky. Sometimes I was slow to accelerate from a stop but that's because I was moving the clutch carefully as I got used to the rhythm.

Several months later I got the clutch replaced and learned/realized that no, the friction point isn't supposed to be multiple inches wide (in my defense(?) it was that way when I bought it)

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
I replaced the clutch on a Mazda 121 many years ago where it was so bad, you could put it in gear, let the clutch out and it would just sit there. Then if you accelerated, the clutch would bite a little and the car would slowly take off.

Turns out, that's what the owner thought was normal, and he stalled it about 20 times driving it out of the workshop. He got out and started yelling at my manager about how we broke his car and he wanted his money and old clutch back. They both went inside the office and after the owner had calmed down, my manager took him for a drive around the block a few times and basically taught him how to drive a manual.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

The Sicilian
Sep 3, 2006

by Smythe

Solice Kirsk posted:

I wasn't scared you dork. I was stalling a car and getting honked at in Chicago traffic when I was used to driving with no one else around. It was a huge leap.


Why even bring up, "Stalling a car at a stop sign on the southside of Chicago..." then?

I'm loving the mental image of a goon as he drives through a middle class black enclave, full of beautiful brownstones, white knuckle gripping the steering wheel in fear as he locks the doors.


Your dad was awesome.

The Sicilian has a new favorite as of 04:27 on Jun 21, 2017

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
http://i.imgur.com/EeX6o7g.gifv

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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The Sicilian posted:

Why even bring up, "Stalling a car at a stop sign on the southside of Chicago..." then?

I'm loving the mental image of a goon as he drives through a middle class black enclave, full of beautiful brownstones, white knuckle gripping the steering wheel in fear as he locks the doors.


Your dad was awesome.

Because it was a lot more traffic and bigger streets than I was used to driving on and that's where he took me because we were going to my uncle's house. I know you're desperately trying to play a race thing up here and everything, but he could have stuck me anywhere in Chicago and it would have been the same because I was 15, had been driving for two weeks, and didn't think I was ready to drive in "traffic."

You're right though, my dad is awesome.

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007

I have an automatic, so I turn the key to start my car, and then put it in drive and then I scoot along until I get where I'm going then I stop.

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trickybiscuits
Jan 13, 2008

yospos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__slwO-cHQ&t=110s

This guy is kind of annoying for a couple of minutes. Then the animal costumes come out.

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