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Safety Dance posted:Whoops, you made me search for Jimnys on Craigslist. I found a JDM mini-truck importer in Patterson, NJ and rediscovered my love for these things It might not be that big of a deal to get it registered, usually if it passes federal then states only worry about their inspections and whatever that entails. That's a good price for a Jimny but it doesn't mean it's a good Jimny. It really does seem like 80%~ of other importers doing exactly like what we're doing have lower standards than I'd accept. Suppose ours might be pretty high but dang if you are going to spend so much money to transport something across an ocean you might as well make sure it's worth the effort!
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Darchangel posted:0/10 Pan right  This car is the cause of a lot of heartbreak for me, I bought it in 2013 after my supercharged '04 GT got totaled, for $6000, on an impulse, drunk, sight-unseen of off Ebay. I lived in upstate NY at the time, drove downstate to get it, got hit by a thunderstorm on the way home, where I soon realised the weather stripping had never been replaced, and the electrical systems started failing, I wad forced to abandon it for the night at a highway rest stop. Planned to fix it up over the winter, but ended up snowboarding with %100 of my free time, the next spring my garage flooded, and the cars interior mildewed. 2014 I dragged the car with me to CT, and parked it in a storage unit, until I got a place with a garage. That never happened, and with 80+ hour workweeks I never would have worked on it anyways. Last year I dragged it out of storage, the faithful old Ford I6 fired right up with a new battery, and I had it shipped cross-country to my new house. Which doesn't have a garage. So there it sits, under a cover, unloved and unregistered, until I build a garage.
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Donate to the fourms/Lowtax's spine y'all. It's easy and it makes you feel good!.
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ExplodingSims posted:Donate to the fourms/Lowtax's spine y'all. should make a sticky for this. I have my head up my rear end 24/7 and I only noticed the whole thing and ventured into the AI chat thread because of a post in BFC
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ExplodingSims posted:Donate to the fourms/Lowtax's spine y'all. BlackMK4 posted:should make a sticky for this. I have my head up my rear end 24/7 and I only noticed the whole thing and ventured into the AI chat thread because of a post in BFC Yeah no one really had any idea because Lowtax has catholic guilt or something. I actually signed up for patreon to help the man out, lord knows I've cost my weight in bandwidth or whatever.
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BlackMK4 posted:should make a sticky for this. I have my head up my rear end 24/7 and I only noticed the whole thing and ventured into the AI chat thread because of a post in BFC Adiabatic do the needful. Until then, here's a link to the Patreon for interested parties: https://www.patreon.com/GamingGarbage/overview You can also still donate to the forums for fun titles and such.
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Yeah it's right at the top of every page, but in case people need a link: https://secure.somethingawful.com/products/donate.php Lowtax promised himself he'd never do a recurring subscription so for those of us willing, either remember to do it or sign up for the Patreon. The donate link goes 100% to the site though, I think Patreon takes a cut of what goes through there. Saving these forums is one more thing I'll do if I win the lottery. I spend more money on my Amazon Prime membership than I do here and lord knows Lowtax deserves it more than Bezos does.
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Mar 13, 2019 07:38
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Excluding Abe's one-time donation via Patreon for $2420.69 (nice) the SA patreon has almost hit $6k. God drat, goons. We did a good.
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Agreed, this place is amazing. Would definitely pay a yearly subscription in a heartbeat.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Yeah no one really had any idea because Lowtax has catholic guilt or something. I actually signed up for patreon to help the man out, lord knows I've cost my weight in bandwidth or whatever. Dude's depressed as gently caress and his spine keeps exploding, I can totally see him not feeling right about speaking up. Glad he said something though, as this place isn't a bunch of angry 20 year olds in their parents' basements anymore, and people are willing to throw a couple bucks a month into keeping the lights on.
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Liquid Communism posted:\ as this place isn't a bunch of angry 20 year olds in their parents' basements anymore, Citation needed.
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Mar 13, 2019 10:31
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Rhyno posted:Citation needed. We're getting old, man. 1999 was 20 years ago.
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Liquid Communism posted:We're getting old, man. 1999 was 20 years ago. You got sources for that?
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here's a sourcemath posted:
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Math is so subjective though. In my opinion 1990 was 10 years ago, and the original viper is closer in age to modern day cars than it is to the 68 charger. e: also, fun fact, GTA Vice City came out in 2002, set in 1986. IF it came out today with the same gap to the time period, it would be set in 2003! Powershift fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Siochain posted:You got sources for that? Yeah, the horrible noises my knees make in the morning and all this grey hair. 
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I'd definitely pay a monthly fee for this place, I don't even do that for Binky.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I'd definitely pay a monthly fee for this place, I don't even do that for Binky. Same. I get more entertainment and enjoyment from this place than any other on the entire internet. Got home from the er. 4 liters of fluid and I couldn't even fill a shot glass with piss. So dehydrated that the nurse, the doctor, and the pcs all yelled at me. Woo. E: med goons : potassium was 2.9 and my anion gap was 15.3. Woooooo. SeaGoatSupreme fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Liquid Communism posted:Yeah, the horrible noises my knees make in the morning and all this grey hair. poo poo, explains how I feel every goddamned day. gently caress.
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Liquid Communism posted:glad he said something though, as this place isn't a bunch of angry 20 year olds in their parents' basements anymore Its now a bunch of cranky 30-40 year olds in their parents' basements.
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You Am I posted:drat, George Pell only got 3 year and 8 months non-parole sentence (6 years otherwise) for two counts of child sexual assault Now here's a definite candidate for the doughnut on the end of a shotgun thing...
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Now here's a definite candidate for the doughnut on the end of a shotgun thing... That rear end in a top hat doesn't deserve the doughnut.
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Powershift posted:Math is so subjective though. This statesmen is true, I’ve been dealing with my kids common core hellscape for too many years to think otherwise now. Math is now about feeling good about the number. tetrapyloctomy posted:That rear end in a top hat doesn't deserve the doughnut. Absolutely, I’m also inclined to say a shotgun is too luxurious for him. He needs to be winged a few times with a .22 so he can feel it. Lowtax chat: does anybody know what the actual operating costs of the forums are? Obviously bandwidth/server(s)/power, but how much is monthly cost for that poo poo to keep this place floating on? The Patreon hit 9300, if operating cost + $2250 a month for anthem blue cross PPO package with $100 max deductible per year per family member including delta dental and VSP insurance is met, I don’t see the issue with having to turn the lights off unless forums cost now exceed $7,050 a month. keykey fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Powershift posted:Math is so subjective though. In my opinion 1990 was 10 years ago, and the original viper is closer in age to modern day cars than it is to the 68 charger. I feel personally attacked by every aspect of this.
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Progress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_8cCT0n1k
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The Door Frame posted:I found out my oil pressure gauge is just for show, since I watch my gauges religiously. I just added 2qt to my 3.6qt capacity engine to get it back to normal levels The oil pressure gauge on my Crown Vic *looks* like a gauge, but it's actually an idiot light. It springs to the half-way "ok" point if there is any pressure at all. I have an earlier CV gauge that can be made to be a real pressure gauge - they just use a biasing resistor to make it do the idiot light thing. So does my gauge, but on mine it's built in to the gauge itself, whereas on the earlier one it's on the circuit board on the back of the cluster. I have the sending unit, I just need to get around to pulling the cluster out. Elviscat posted:Pan right Better. If it makes you feel any better, I've had my '70 Cutlass for 25-30 years, and it currently sits on the street under a cover, with no battery, a leaky fuel pump, and won't shift into any gear past first. It was a daily driver when I got it. It got hit in the rear quarter on my commute. I got another car to drive, and it's been parked ever since. It was occasionally driven (still with the quarter damage) until the trans quit shifting a decade or so ago. I moved it from the driveway to the street in 2018 when I sold the RX-7 that was in the garage to get said RX-7 out of said garage. It started up fairly easily after adding gas to the carb, but was pissing fuel from the fuel pump - split in the diaphragm most likely. Right now my '79 RX-7 is occupying the driveway (the garage is sorta full of stuff, even after getting the other RX-7 out of there) while I rebuild parts of it (see my thread, then despair because nothing's been done since it got cold and wet.) Goal is to have that running and driving this year, then I'll take a look at the Olds' transmission. ExplodingSims posted:Adiabatic do the needful. Thanks for that - I was going to ask if someone didn't post it up. I'm already a patron of several less-worthy (though still worthy) sites/projects, so why not? As several of you have noted, I've gotten quite a lot of value out of SA. Telyra posted:Excluding Abe's one-time donation via Patreon for $2420.69 (nice) the SA patreon has almost hit $6k. Over $10K when I just pledged. Liquid Communism posted:Yeah, the horrible noises my knees make in the morning and all this grey hair. THIS.
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I have water and a sink back in my master bathroom now!  Still other stuff to take care of, but it's functional now. 
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I bumped my Patreon pledge a little bit last night. It’s great to see goons doing yet another good thing. These forums, in general.. 
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Darchangel posted:I have water and a sink back in my master bathroom now! 3/10 does not appeal to 
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Darchangel posted:I have water and a sink back in my master bathroom now! Nice! Our first floor bathroom is the oe with the small leak so I decided that when I cut open the wall I'm gonna put a utility sink in the garage.
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glyph posted:Seriously. Quoting myself from the bottom of page 10. In on the patreon. If I can justify pledging money on there to something that hasn't been a daily part of my life for the last dozen years, surely I can justify it something that has.
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Rhyno posted:Good thing the forums got funded because Facebook is fuckin imploding. Every day I miss facebook less.
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toplitzin posted:Every day I miss facebook less. The AI group has been our fallback when the forums break. Maybe we need to seriously think about something else incase it does break for good.
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Rhyno posted:The AI group has been our fallback when the forums break. At this point we may as well clone AI on a self hosted box somewhere.
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Rhyno posted:The AI group has been our fallback when the forums break. use Discord since that isn't going anywhere and we have written tools that verify that someone has a forums account and keeps a blacklist that bans the SA discord nazis that try to stomp around FAT32 SHAMER fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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