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Fermented Tinal posted:TOYOTA TuRD RACING!!!
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OZYMANDICKASS posted:TuRD RACING!!! I just paid hundreds of dollars for two pieces of plastic. Please help me.
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Fermented Tinal posted:I just paid hundreds of dollars for two pieces of plastic. Please help me. Did you buy a Warlord Titan too?
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The Door Frame posted:Did you buy a Warlord Titan too? No, I broke a 40 year old grille badge.
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Fermented Tinal posted:I just paid hundreds of dollars for two pieces of plastic. Please help me. I know the feeling very well. Although at least availability isn't something I have to worry too much about. Are there many NLA parts on yours or is Toyota pretty good about having NOS parts on hand?
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The Door Frame posted:I wish that everything around the Warhammer 40k tabletop game didn't suck. It's so much fun to play and the universe has so much to work with, but it's like Games Workshop doesn't want people to play it Have you tried it lately? They fired their CEO, and in the last year it's gotten a hell of a lot more approachable. 8th Ed rules are a lot less terrible and punishing of trying to play, and they're reviving the small games like Necromunda and Kill Team so you don't have to invest six hours and the price of a used car to play.
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Bajaha posted:I know the feeling very well. It seems to vary wildly by region. Any part that is common across every year seems to be common enough, various year-range specific poo poo gets a little more finicky. I've only ordered a handful of things through a dealership and there are a lot of NOS OEM parts on ebay.
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Liquid Communism posted:Have you tried it lately? They fired their CEO, and in the last year it's gotten a hell of a lot more approachable. 8th Ed rules are a lot less terrible and punishing of trying to play, and they're reviving the small games like Necromunda and Kill Team so you don't have to invest six hours and the price of a used car to play. Whut?? I haven't played since ~2014, I was just watching an old LP of Dawn of War 2. I found myself wishing that I could play a game or two without ![]()
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The Door Frame posted:Whut?? I haven't played since ~2014, I was just watching an old LP of Dawn of War 2. I found myself wishing that I could play a game or two without C'mon over to TG. It's night and day better, got me back in after like 15 years away and I've had fun. Still expensive, but at least the models are fun to play with, and they're doing new stuff. Even promised plastic Sisters of Battle next year or so. ![]() The actual rules part of the rules is about 10 pages long now, and most of the individual unit rules are available through something like battlescribe that builds lists and will print the rules with them. Biggest changes since 7e are no more templates, and no more formations. They're about halfway through re-releasing all the codexes for 8e now, doing about 1 a month. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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So, I clench my jaw when I'm "idle." Always have. When sleeping, grind my teeth. When awake, have to constantly (constantly!) remind myself to let my jaw loosen up. Like, just had to right now. Woke up day before yesterday with the worst headache I've ever had. Okay, maybe second worst. Worst was a migraine that came on right as I finished Xenosaga Episode II on the PS2 in my parent's basement. (Hurt so bad it didn't feel like pain anymore, and I threw up, and laid on the concrete floor and thought "this is how I die," but then it resolved a few minutes later and I literally had a "life moment" about how bad it was and how quickly it passed, but I digress). I thought, much like that first migraine, "this is how I die," and I prepared for the worst. The entire left half of my face was swollen a bit (and, still kind of is, even 1.5 days later), and I thought that I honestly had hodgkin's lymphoma or something, because it felt like one lymph node was swollen. It hurt so bad I just stayed in bed all day, which is something I never really do, even if I'm actually ill. I kept checking my temperature, but was a cool 36.6, so no fever or anything. I did a hydrogen peroxide and white vinegar flush of my ears, just in case it was an ear infection (I had those all the time as a kid). Apparently it's just a chance that I essentially got a charley horse (muscle spasm/cramp) in my neck/head. Just like a charley horse, it can take a few days for the pain to go away. I can't open my mouth all the way without extreme (an honest 8/10) pain, and life sucks. Gotta stay hydrated, folks.
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Xenosaga II wasn't that bad.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Xenosaga II wasn't that bad. It was, friend. It was. (though I still cry at "kokoro," everytim")
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Bummer incoming: On Monday I drove past the scene of a pretty brutal accident. I was on a two lane state highway, 55 mile an hour speed limit. Completely unrecognizable blue pickup truck off the ditch in the opposite lane, and a long set of dually tire marks off into the ditch on my side where a dump truck was overturned. As soon as I saw what had happened I had that sinking feeling that it was a fatality so I checked our state police page today and yup ![]() Be safe out there guys.
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Liquid Communism posted:and they're reviving the small games like Necromunda and Kill Team so you don't have to invest six hours and the price of a used car to play.
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Liquid Communism posted:C'mon over to TG. It's night and day better, got me back in after like 15 years away and I've had fun. Still expensive, but at least the models are fun to play with, and they're doing new stuff. Even promised plastic Sisters of Battle next year or so. Oh man, I might have to pull my Tau out of storage and finish painting the rest of my Kroot. I need another expensive hobby like I need another hole in the head, but I really miss games with my brother Especially since back then I had Old School Necrons to throw against his Catachan Imps, so I got to stomp his entire army every game
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Previa_fun posted:Bummer incoming: I didn't see it happen, and for some reason it didn't make the news, but I was wondering why both the Dallas North Tollway (DNT) and the access road were closed for about a mile the other day for several hours. Came out of a parking lot a few hundred feet past the closed off area at one point, and was pretty sure I saw a body bag. Someone posted in Reddit's /r/Dallas asking about it, someone else mentioned they watched a motorcyclist miss the curve and whack the barrier, beginning a very short lived interest in flying lessons. DNT is elevated above the access road in that area (probably a ~16 ft drop). It... went about how you'd expect a motorcycle accident on an elevated road to go during rush hour. splat. It barely warranted a short blurb in the local news. ![]() I've gotten to where I actively avoid DNT unless I have to use it. Partly because I hate using toll roads, mostly because people drive like loving maniacs on it. Speed limit is 55-70 on it (depending where you are), but you can be doing 90+ in the right lane and have someone crawling so far up your rear end that you can't see anything except their roof in your mirror. I've been banging the speed limiter in the middle lane (108 on the Saturd) and still had people blowing past me on both sides (this is generally really late at night). The portions in Dallas and Addison are only patrolled by state troopers, think it may be that way in Plano too; once you get (much) further north (Frisco), city cops will occasionally patrol if they're bored and need to rack up 50 tickets in a few hours. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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'If it bleeds it leads' does not apply to commuter carnage anymore. There's usually more and better violence and blood for the Headline God on any given day ![]() Car death is on pp 3 in the local rag.
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Liquid Communism posted:they're reviving the small games like Necromunda Yessssss I wonder if I still have my Orlock gang somewhere. Considering when I painted them, they probably look like utter poo poo by my current standards. I'll have to make a new gang, I suppose.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Xenosaga II wasn't that bad. Good God yes it was
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You Am I posted:Wait, what? They are? Does this mean my Goliaths gang can be pulled out of the shed? Get 'em out. Goliaths and Eschers were the starting gangs, Orlocks were just released, as well as the rules for Genestealer Cults and Chaos Cultists. The rest are coming out over the next year or so. All new plastics for all the gangs, at a ~$40 price point for a gang. The base box is one each of Eschers and Goliaths with rules, tiles, and tokens. Here's the studio paint on the new Goliaths: ![]() Necromundachat is going strong in the Specialist Games thread. I'm wishing for a revamped Gorkamorka myself, because it's an excuse to build absurd orky model cars. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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The best GW game is not even under their control anymore so ![]() I am of course talking about Blood Bowl. I never forgave GW for killing Gorkamorka off so soon.
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BigPaddy posted:The best GW game is not even under their control anymore so Blood Bowl is very much still GW. it was the first of the boxed games to get a refresh, actually, and they're still rolling out teams for it.
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It still feels so weird to enjoy coming to work. Oh god I've become brainwashed.
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Liquid Communism posted:Blood Bowl is very much still GW. it was the first of the boxed games to get a refresh, actually, and they're still rolling out teams for it. Weird so that whole thing with the rights being signed over to some outside group was cancelled?
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BigPaddy posted:Weird so that whole thing with the rights being signed over to some outside group was cancelled? Dunno, I've never even heard of that. Far as I knew it was pretty much defunct and running on houserules from 2005 or so until 2016 when the new version released.
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BigPaddy posted:The best GW game is not even under their control anymore so Oh, hey, I have that video game! ![]() (really! like, 1994 or something?) edit: close. 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Bowl_(1995_video_game) Oh, they have a new one for the current gen consoles and PC! http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/ Released in 2015. Wow, I missed that, along with the earlier PC and console versions from the same studio. I'll bet the video game is cheaper than the tabletop, all in.
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Fermented Tinal posted:It seems to vary wildly by region. Any part that is common across every year seems to be common enough, various year-range specific poo poo gets a little more finicky. I've only ordered a handful of things through a dealership and there are a lot of NOS OEM parts on ebay. May I also suggest https://www.megazip.net They have parts diagrams and source parts from JP and the UAE. I haven't actually bought any parts from them yet, but they have a bunch of bits that Toyota USA doesn't have. Shipping from JP to US is a bit of change, though. $30 worth of parts, $30 shipping... but they actually have the temperature control cable from my AE86, a common failure point, and some interior trim clips/brackets and bits. Toyota USA does still have a surprising amount of stuff from a 30 year old car. Not sure about other countries, of course.
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Hey for Toyota stuff it is worth a phone call to Toyota shops that have been around FOREVER, the only one I know is Fox Toyota in Clinton, TN but they’ve been there 40 years you never know what might be sitting on a shelf.
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everdave posted:Hey for Toyota stuff it is worth a phone call to Toyota shops that have been around FOREVER, the only one I know is Fox Toyota in Clinton, TN but they’ve been there 40 years you never know what might be sitting on a shelf. Puppy tax, Finn at 5 weeks ![]()
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More puppy (well, small dog) tax:![]() My wife let Hazel pick her toys at work. Turns out she has a thing for bones.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Well that's loving weird to see the Toyota shop I lived ~10 minutes from mentioned in thread. In 2001-03 at least they would have parts in stock for my 70’s HiLux
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BigPaddy posted:Weird so that whole thing with the rights being signed over to some outside group was cancelled? I believe that fell apart because the company that wanted to rights couldn't muster the money or something.
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Rhyno posted:I believe that fell apart because the company that wanted to rights couldn't muster the money or something. Probably Tom Kirby, the CEO who was running the company into the ground to pad his bonuses being forced out of control made them decide to keep it in-house and produce more games and less "jewel-like objects of wonder". Kevin Roundree, the former COO, took over in 2015, and under the direction of 'hey, let's maybe make some games so people want to buy models to play them with' GW's profits have soared. They also fired most of their social media team and replaced them with the guys who had been running Black Library, and as a result we get great stuff like The Regimental Standard, which is ads and previews written as in-game world Imperial Guard notifications. Very tongue in cheek in a good way. On the 'making games' side, 40k now gets yearly printed rules updates and bi-yearly rules FAQs rather than terrible rules being the ones in play until the next edition codex overcompensates, so GW can address game balance issues vastly faster. The story is advancing, Primarchs are showing back up, and the fact that the Imperium are not the good guys is being made more obvious to ward off the fascist fanboys. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Man, I do not miss dealing with GW reps. They came into the old store one day and started shoving other products aside so all the GW stuff would be front faced. They're the worst.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:So, I clench my jaw when I'm "idle." Always have. When sleeping, grind my teeth. When awake, have to constantly (constantly!) remind myself to let my jaw loosen up. Like, just had to right now. Go get a Kois Deprogrammer. Its like a night guard, but instead of just giving you a barrier between your upper and lower teeth, it makes it impossible for you to grind your teeth. I grind my teeth and would routinely wake up with killer headaches and teeth hurting, not to mention waking my wife up because the grinding was that loud. My wife has one as well, and before we got them it was a race to see who could fall asleep first so you wouldn't be kept awake by the other persons snoring and teeth grinding. The biggest downside to them is once you get used to using it, you *need* it to sleep.
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Fermented Tinal posted:I just paid hundreds of dollars for two pieces of plastic. Please help me.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Someone posted in Reddit's /r/Dallas asking about it, someone else mentioned they watched a motorcyclist miss the curve and whack the barrier, beginning a very short lived interest in flying lessons. DNT is elevated above the access road in that area (probably a ~16 ft drop). It... went about how you'd expect a motorcycle accident on an elevated road to go during rush hour. splat. I ride this freeway transition all the time, and the height plus low barrier still makes me go a fair amount slower than I would if it wasn't elevated. Although at this height it's not even being hit by a car that's going to kill you, I'm pretty sure the fall alone will do that. It's a gentle turn too, nothing too bad, but I have come across poo poo in the road like sand/gravel before. ![]() ![]()
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So Geico feels the claim is satisfied and doesn't want to take the car now that the check has been issued. Kinda figured as much. Best options to get the most money for a scrap car? Pick n Pull only offered $230. I'd prefer to get closer to $400.
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# ? May 23, 2024 12:45 |
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Why not just drive it?chrisgt posted:Why does it matter if the panel gap is off on the saturn? Throw a new fender on the stupid thing and just drive it to the grave. It still goes and stops, right? So it's fine, take the insurance money and send it.
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