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MomJeans420
Mar 19, 2007



dee eight posted:

Yeah, if you break it down and remount it needs re balanced. Maybe get it on a lift and spin each one and see if it's something not contact related. Only other ideas that presents atm is improperly torqued lugnuts or maybe a slightly warped disc? I dunno. It's been decades since I worked in a tire shop.

Yeah the car was at the mechanic the next day for shocks and they didn't see anything, and I'm assuming they had to remove and reinstall the wheels for the shocks. Guess it's off to the tire store for me.

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OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002
racist but only ~by experience~ :smuggo:

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

BraveUlysses posted:

racist but only ~by experience~ :smuggo:

Everyone has viewed based on experience.

The difference between you and I, for example, is that I would take the time to find out why someone thinks the way they do rather than go in guns blazing shouting them down.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
If you treat a race or group differently based on "experience" then you are still a racist.

If you treat someone as an idiot based on experience because they are an idiot.... thats quite different.

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002

Tide posted:

Everyone has viewed based on experience.

The difference between you and I, for example, is that I would take the time to find out why someone thinks the way they do rather than go in guns blazing shouting them down.

lmao

yeah you're right i dont want to find out why you hold racist views

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
I just hate all people.


Edit: BECAUSE JOKES

Rhyno fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Mar 28, 2018

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

Tide posted:

Everyone has viewed based on experience.

The difference between you and I, for example, is that I would take the time to find out why someone thinks the way they do rather than go in guns blazing shouting them down.

That's still racist. Like...it doesn't matter WHY, if you view someone differently immediately because of their skin tone then you're racist. Period. That's literally what the word prejudice means. Pre judge.

Anyway, in happier news.

Bought the piece of poo poo Civic! Interior is going to give me hantavirus, and it needs 2 wheels and tires (as it's rolling 14s in front, 13s in back and one is corded) but it runs like a goddamn dream. Pretty sure motor/trans are new, or at the very least very recently rebuilt.





Probably hit the JY this weekend for wheels, get some tires, and in the meantime pull the nasty rear end poo poo out of the interior and clean it. Seats are newer, but carpet is thrashed. It's also an EX, not a DX. Sunroof and power windows all work.

It's def a piece of poo poo, but it should be a cockroach.

Edit: oh, and a head unit. Also need to check if it even has door speakers. It had a system in it at one point, but the HU is so lovely old and cracked that you can't read it.

iwentdoodie fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Mar 28, 2018

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I’m glad that racists can’t help but out themselves lol

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

:) EVERYWHERE :)
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:

So... That Kirsten Bell is really something.

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002
lol did someone paint those sideskirts...purple? other than that and the bad rear tint it looks like a good buy for 600

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

BraveUlysses posted:

lol did someone paint those sideskirts...purple? other than that and the bad rear tint it looks like a good buy for 600

They're like navy blue, just super loving dirty. And yeah the tint is horrific. Ended up at 520, all said and done.

I'm at that sad point where I can absolutely afford a nice car, but were trying to buy a house so I just can't justify it.

If it lasts me a year, I'll be more than happy. Then it becomes a hornet car for dirt track.

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

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

I’m glad that racists can’t help but out themselves lol

It's more like self loathing.


Seminal Flu posted:

So... That Kirsten Bell is really something.

Have I mention that I've hugged her?

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica

Darchangel posted:

Are your dogs named after Ghostbusters actors?

Maybe.

My cat's named Egon.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

Fermented Tinal posted:

Maybe.

My cat's named Egon.

I have one named Bowie and one named Ziggy. Don't feel bad.

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica
Why I feel bad about the most awesome dog and cat naming scheme?

KakerMix
Apr 8, 2004

8.2 M.P.G.
:byetankie:

Tide posted:

I don't know about this. Forums participation as a whole is down. Most of the traditionally busy sites have suffered as a result of groups moving to facebook. It's easy to produce 'content'. Ad blockers hurt many sources of revenue for these forums as well as others. Forums used to be a place that you went to for very specific things. Now? There's a facebook group for it.

The other aspect is that a couple or three years ago (hell, maybe longer) this place got so toxic and so much of an echo chamber that Lowtax had to step in and remove moderators and put new ones in place that didn't automatically ban people for contrary to popular opinion posts. There was a good 6 months that if you weren't lock step with the hive mind, you caught a ban. You still can't make an off color joke in most subs without someone getting their panties in a twist and a moderator at least prob'ing you for a bit; AI being an exception. The whole somethingawful vs somethingserious (or somethingsensitive, I can't remember) hurt as well. Thing is, all forums end up leaning one way or the other. Whoever shouts the loudest usually runs off the opposition (and moderates because gotdang, they just want them to shut up.) The exception is probably reddit simply because there's something there for everyone and somehow they don't often intermix. Each retreats to their own echo chamber.

The thing about an echo chamber is it's hard to acknowledge you're on the side of one unless you have a decent amount of self awareness.

Surely, shortly, someone will come along and say "YOU'RE JUST MAD BRO CUZ YOU CAN'T SAY RACIST THING". That's not it at all. That said, I'll admit I probably have some what could be racist views colored (no pun intended) by experience, but I don't know if it's any different than my feelings of obese cottage cheese looking motherfuckers disgusting me to my core or worst, Notre Dame football fans. But we all have our biases.

And to be sure, people have just moved on. There's not been that 'thing' to bring people here.

That said, I can't imagine the hosting for this place is that expensive.

Yeah and after Lowtax came in and made it a ~safe space~ participation continued to ramp down, even if this change was really only in GBS. Something sensitive is the polar opposite of 'self aware' and didn't hurt anything except a bunch of chump's egos, I'd bring up the 4chan incident if you wanted to point out big splits that 'hurt' SA.
Something Awful Dot Com's slow slide into obscurity has nothing to do with punctuation being required and your "opinions" being "different" than the establishment and has everything to do with recognition being easier to get elsewhere. Twitter is the biggest drain of content generation since if you are Mr. Funny Man you can connect with people that like you directly instead of working through the relative bureaucracy of Something Awful and work up a bunch of CYOA threads or cool photoshops or whatever it is you can get forums famous for. Add in YouTube and Twitch and Patreon and boy why do you need any platform besides those to be a personality on the internet that drives participation? This is why Lowtax does the gaming garbage thing, it's the modern way to do Doom House poo poo.
I'd work on your self-awareness too 'cause goddamn do you broadcast an awful lot about yourself with unaware posts like these, lmao.

Galler
Jan 28, 2008


Tide posted:

That said, I can't imagine the hosting for this place is that expensive.

It certainly shouldn't be but I think it actually is due to some terrible architecture decisions made a long time ago. AFAIK that's a big part of why lowtax has had issues keeping this place going. It's either spend a bunch of money to migrate everything to a reasonable platform or keep spending a bunch (but lesser amount) of money to keep the current abomination running.

Galler fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Mar 28, 2018

Ether Frenzy
Dec 22, 2006




Nap Ghost
Me, to a 7 year old: Why did you poo poo on the rug?
7 year old: Because my experience shows tha-
Me: Stop making GBS threads on the rug, it's unacceptable
7 year old: This is why the forums are dying, moderates aren't allowed to express their opinions

Somewhat Heroic
Oct 11, 2007

(Insert Mad Max related text)



Rhyno posted:

Have I mention that I've hugged her?

Does she smell like fresh baked cookies? She seems so pleasant I like to think she would.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗
Not commenting on the above because calling out racists is now political and somehow frowned upon in here now.

Just pulled out the entire trunk carpet of the civic and burned it. There's some really nice RCA and amplifier cables going back fhere, but that trunk smelled like dead hookers had a scat party. So the carpet got repurposed to keeping a stump burning.

The Door Frame
Dec 5, 2011

I don't know man everytime I go to the gym here there are like two huge dudes with raging high and tights snorting Nitro-tech off of each other's rock hard abs.
I'm only prejudiced against middle aged white women, because they sit at a table yapping away for 3 hours and only order one drink
:colbert:

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011


Galler posted:

It certainly shouldn't be but I think it actually is due to some terrible architecture decisions made a long time ago. AFAIK that's a big part of why lowtax has had issues keeping this place going. It's either spend a bunch of money to migrate everything to a reasonable platform or keep spending a bunch (but lesser amount) of money to keep the current abomination running.

Radium's ghost will haunt this place until it and/or Lowtax dies.

Actually thinking about that, I'm curious as to what the "in case of Lowtax's untimely end" plan for SA is. Does ZDR get the keys and then promptly fake his own death? Or does the place literally just disappear after two months of unpaid hosting bills?

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

iwentdoodie posted:

Not commenting on the above because calling out racists is now political and somehow frowned upon in here now.

Just pulled out the entire trunk carpet of the civic and burned it. There's some really nice RCA and amplifier cables going back fhere, but that trunk smelled like dead hookers had a scat party. So the carpet got repurposed to keeping a stump burning.

Imo the initial calling out isn't the issue, it's the arguing for page after page, nothing against you I don't like racists either man.

Anyway, nice score on the Civic, if you don't need the cables I'll take them off your hands I can always use good quality cables.

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

Somewhat Heroic posted:

Does she smell like fresh baked cookies? She seems so pleasant I like to think she would.

Like banana cream pie scented candles.

Ether Frenzy
Dec 22, 2006




Nap Ghost

Rhyno posted:

Like banana cream pie scented candles.

Her bodyguard: "Yeah, that guy we had to escort away smelled like floor sex... scented candles"

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Real talk they did escort a dude out of the line because he had a "Dakota Fanning countdown to legality" shirt on and he kept making lewd faces at her.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Today we chilled in Manhattan beach and Venice beach


Someone please share the secret to uprooting your life and moving 2000mi away to sunshine and happiness

LloydDobler
Oct 15, 2005

You shared it with a dick.

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

Today we chilled in Manhattan beach and Venice beach


Someone please share the secret to uprooting your life and moving 2000mi away to sunshine and happiness

Be rich.

KakerMix
Apr 8, 2004

8.2 M.P.G.
:byetankie:

Alternatively, just do it?
I'm saying this totally outside of knowing anything at all about you but like, if you really want to move then you totally should move. If the end result is happiness then no matter what you do to get there would have been worth it.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009



Or homeless.


Looooooooooootsa homeless people there.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



KakerMix posted:

Alternatively, just do it?
I'm saying this totally outside of knowing anything at all about you but like, if you really want to move then you totally should move. If the end result is happiness then no matter what you do to get there would have been worth it.

It’s more of convincing the missus it’s worth it, she’s happy most of the year in Michigan except for when it’s cold and she has to go outside, and since her family is nearby it’s a win for her. Most of my family is not nearby and I don’t really care about them as much so it’s easier for me to split.

It’s never very sunny no matter what season it is and it gets to be quite depressing. My only concern is making sure our quality of life would be the same, which means we would need to make roughly $250k/yr in CA, and I think we would best case make around $200k which means we’d live in a closet or 2hr from work :rip:

Seat Safety Switch
May 27, 2008

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

Pillbug

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

I don’t really care about them as much so it’s easier for me to split.

It gets harder as your parents get older.

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

Powershift posted:

Or homeless.


Looooooooooootsa homeless people there.

This is true. Like you're not even prepared for it.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

Seat Safety Switch posted:

It gets harder as your parents get older.

I left when I was 17 and have no desire to be near family. We all speak once a year maybe.

The Royal Nonesuch
Nov 1, 2005

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

Today we chilled in Manhattan beach and Venice beach


Someone please share the secret to uprooting your life and moving 2000mi away to sunshine and happiness

Well yeah those places are neato, get the nice beach temps, and this is literally going to be the most ideal couple weeks of beautiful weather all year. I'm going camping in the middle of a SoCal desert this week because it will be incredible, even out there. Figure out where you could realistically afford to live inland (SFV or Anaheim or whatever), and come back in august and spend a week there, driving the commute you'd be driving. Be sure to not run A/C for a couple of days to simulate peak-demand power outages!

Glad you're having fun, how much longer are you in town? Doing any more touristy stuff?

also obligatory gently caress off, we're full mate

KakerMix
Apr 8, 2004

8.2 M.P.G.
:byetankie:

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

It’s more of convincing the missus it’s worth it, she’s happy most of the year in Michigan except for when it’s cold and she has to go outside, and since her family is nearby it’s a win for her. Most of my family is not nearby and I don’t really care about them as much so it’s easier for me to split.

It’s never very sunny no matter what season it is and it gets to be quite depressing. My only concern is making sure our quality of life would be the same, which means we would need to make roughly $250k/yr in CA, and I think we would best case make around $200k which means we’d live in a closet or 2hr from work :rip:

I grew up in Muskegon so I know all about Michigan and winters and is the number one reason I now live in Florida. Sure it's lol Florida lol but so what, Michigan has it's own (horrible, terrible) issues, it's just that down here I don't have 'bleak' in my vocabulary between the months of October - April. If it's California or Texas or Florida or Georgia or whatever you should live somewhere that isn't weatherly-depressing.

Fender Anarchist
May 20, 2009

Fender Anarchist

KakerMix posted:

I grew up in Muskegon so I know all about Michigan and winters and is the number one reason I now live in Florida. Sure it's lol Florida lol but so what, Michigan has it's own (horrible, terrible) issues, it's just that down here I don't have 'bleak' in my vocabulary between the months of October - April. If it's California or Texas or Florida or Georgia or whatever you should live somewhere that isn't weatherly-depressing.

You say that as if the 6 months of summer between April and October isn't its own flavor of depressing.

Adiabatic
Nov 18, 2007

What have you assholes done now?

KakerMix posted:

I grew up in Muskegon so I know all about Michigan and winters and is the number one reason I now live in Florida. Sure it's lol Florida lol but so what, Michigan has it's own (horrible, terrible) issues, it's just that down here I don't have 'bleak' in my vocabulary between the months of October - April. If it's California or Texas or Florida or Georgia or whatever you should live somewhere that isn't weatherly-depressing.

You poor soul. I lived in GR and Flint for seven years and would not wish such a fate on my worst enemy.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

It’s more of convincing the missus it’s worth it, she’s happy most of the year in Michigan except for when it’s cold and she has to go outside, and since her family is nearby it’s a win for her. Most of my family is not nearby and I don’t really care about them as much so it’s easier for me to split.

It’s never very sunny no matter what season it is and it gets to be quite depressing. My only concern is making sure our quality of life would be the same, which means we would need to make roughly $250k/yr in CA, and I think we would best case make around $200k which means we’d live in a closet or 2hr from work :rip:

I loved living in Long Beach, but I rented a tiny room ten years ago (that jamal rented after sup buddy :coal: ). LA area is peppered with nice spots and awful spots blocks away. Orange County has nice spots that are also awful for other reasons, like the entirety of Irvine/Tustin. Pro option is to find a good job near Ventura/Camarillo/Moorpark/Simi Valley. Its affordable-ish, and still if you really need quality meth, the San Fernando Valley is minutes away. The magical Malibu roads are close, the traffic is less bad, and you might actually be able to buy a house for less than a million dollars.

DJ Commie fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Mar 28, 2018

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angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

What does AI think about this?

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