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snugglz posted:isn’t there finally a smaller (V6 or I4) powerstroke offering for the F150 now? I passed a Transit (full-sized, not Connect) this morning that claimed to have a PowerStroke on the side. T-Square posted:The dog starts whining when she knows its about time for me to come home, and both cats sit in the window and when they see me walking up all three run to the door to say hi and it's the best I love it when I hear my dog barking (my wife encourages this) when I get home and open the garage door. Half the time I open the door to the house and hide in the garage until he comes to find me. He's a good dog. everdave posted:THANKFULLY whoever sold it hooked me up, and the control panel for all the fun stuff was wrapped up and carefully hidden away. Quick plug in and I had siren and fun lights. They removed the bulbs for the red and cleanly disconnected the wires but didn't cut anything. I unplugged the red light again as I don't know but more than likely in my town the fire/cops would just think it is cool. It is all easily "unpluggable" for when I sell it and ship it eventually but I will include info on how to plug everything back in. Well, that was nice of them. Generally speaking, you can have the lights and siren, but can't use them except in shows and displays. Possibly parades. YMMV, but that's how it works in TX. Some states want you to at least cover the light when it's on the road.
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So to the thread title, anyone know of any good milwaukee tool BF deals? I need more tools in my life
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Seat Safety Switch posted:My understanding of the statute is that you can have a red bubblegum light here but you can't use it. Basically, any flashing lights are across the board prohibited and exemption regs for emergency vehicles. Likewise it's spelled out in 24(2) they're the only ones allowed to have them even when turned off. Of course, other jurisdictions, YMMV. e: link for cite http://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2009_122.pdf slidebite fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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Darchangel posted:I love it when I hear my dog barking (my wife encourages this) when I get home and open the garage door. Half the time I open the door to the house and hide in the garage until he comes to find me. He's a good dog. My parents house is situated as such that it's at the front edge of their subdivision backed up against a two-lane county highway, but when you turn in you have to take the subdivision entrance road down a bit and go past their house, turn right and go down a bit, and then turn right again to get to their street, which they're all the way at the end of so you kind of have to make a big upside-down U and double back to get there. Back when I still lived there, our old dog used to recognize the sound of my old Glorious BMW Straight Six  decelerating to turn off the highway and would prance and bark at the door for the few minutes it would take me to snake through the subdivision until I got home and greet me 
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Isn’t kaker in Florida? The same place where Cleetus and Jeremy have full blown ex cop drag cars complete with full police lights?
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Ferremit posted:Isn’t kaker in Florida? The same place where Cleetus and Jeremy have full blown ex cop drag cars complete with full police lights? Krakkles posted:I’m pretty sure he lives in Tennessee, where the “frigus manus a mortuis” legal precedent holds true. Edit: Worth saying, but most states, the rules only apply if you register and drive on public roads. Even in California, which is notably opposite states like FL and TN, you can have offroad-only vehicles with lights, sirens, whatever. Krakkles fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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T-Square posted:Back when I still lived there, our old dog used to recognize the sound of my old Glorious BMW Straight Six My old GSD recognized my 350Z from far away at my old house because it was a slow and curvy road that took a while, and my current pit mix can identify my Daytona 675 versus the Aprilia down the street and of course the various Harleys in the area. Pretty nuts when you think about it.
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everdave posted:THANKFULLY whoever sold it hooked me up, and the control panel for all the fun stuff was wrapped up and carefully hidden away. Quick plug in and I had siren and fun lights. They removed the bulbs for the red and cleanly disconnected the wires but didn't cut anything. I unplugged the red light again as I don't know but more than likely in my town the fire/cops would just think it is cool. It is all easily "unpluggable" for when I sell it and ship it eventually but I will include info on how to plug everything back in. slidebite posted:That would make too much sense, but unfortunately Section 24(3) of the Vehicle equipment regs under the Alberta Traffic Safety Act, it's prohibited and pretty specific that the light itself has to be removed from any vehicle that is no longer performing official duties. A couple years ago, I lived in a building with a gentleman who was USCG-Retired. Along with a Model T pickup he drove daily-ish, he had a little mini tugboat docked in the marina adjacent.  Word was he'd had it stickered up just like an actual Coast Guard vessel, but someone tattled on him & he was forced to peel most of it off. I guess with boats, you're always "on the road" whenever you're in a navigable body of water.
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Video game chat: DOOM 2016 rules. It's one of the few games that feels completely "fair;" when I die I immediately realize what I did wrong and want to jump back in instead of going bullshit and quitting to desktop. Very fast and fun gameplay too - no juggling inventory or even reloading, just run and gun and send demons back to hell. 
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The soundtrack is also just loving owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm932Sqwf5E
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Previa_fun posted:Video game chat: It does indeed rule but I played it after playing Titanfall 2 which is pure poetry in terms of movement and so when I got into Doom I was mildly disappointed by the movement options being limited in comparison. That said, I love the atmosphere, the music, the incredibly solid framerate despite the mayhem onscreen at times and I loved that it's so unashamedly oldschool; kill demons, larger demons appear, kill larger demons in a couple of waves etc etc etc oh hi, a boss... And it took me a while to stop pressing reload BECAUSE gently caress RELOADING.
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Darchangel posted:I'd walk if a paycheck was more than a couple days late, or at the very least not come in to work until they caught up. This is the rule I set when I worked in foodservice, where sudden insolvency is common. Never, ever work for free. If your pay is late, you're no longer an employee, you're a volunteer. gently caress off to another job.
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Doom VR on PS4 was also kinda good for what it was. But nothing like the full proper game
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Galler posted:The soundtrack is also just loving owns It also makes for amazing backing tracks https://youtu.be/GNoZ6R_XjiU
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Rhyno posted:40-50mph winds tomorrow. Yuck. I still have leaves to clean up. But you won't after today  . Also, yes on DOOM 2016. I'm all set to rip and tear some more with DOOM Eternal.
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DOOM was great, hope the new one will be similar. Just a half day of work today then spending a few days with the in-laws. They're good folk mostly so it should be a decent holiday and finally we'll have some adults around that can watch our kids for 5 minutes here and there. Kids are tiring.
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Previa_fun posted:Video game chat: Yeah, I got it last year sometime after liking the new Wolfenstein. I *never* expected to enjoy playing a Doom game again, but here we are. It also got me onto a vintage shooter gaming kick which I'm still on - but I don't have plans for any old ID games. Why? They all make me really motion sick for some reason. Over in the retro games subforum, somebody linked me to this guy, who seems to love old shooters the same way some people love old heavy metal: even the flaws are seen as virtues. His stuff is good, but he started playing some ludicrous final doom wad and I had to turn the video off after less than ten minutes as it was making me ill.
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Trip report - Caffeine & Machine is pretty cool. There's plenty of room to park, though apparently it gets very crowded on sunny summer weekends. They even have these plinth type things in the green area out back that you can drive your car onto for photoshoots, though I didn't bother with that. Most people there are enthusiasts, pretty much as soon as I parked people walked up and started asking questions/chatting, which was nice for me as I don't really have many car people among my friends outside the two guys I went with, so it was cool to be able to just talk cars for a while. There was an interesting selection of motors, including a Smart Brabus roadster and a mint mk1 GTi.  The place itself is quite a nice gastropub with automotive decor, and the food is tasty, mostly comfort good like burgers, mac n cheese etc but with some salads etc mixed in.   Definitely a good spot for a UKAI meetup which is something we should do.  Car did it's first 350 miles in a decade and I'm really happy with it, no big problems other than a clunky bushing somewhere in the front left. The little 1.4 only makes (made) 72hp but it likes being revved and it's plenty in the 900kg car, the manual steering and the massive hydropneumatic body roll make it really fun to throw around. Gets loads of thumbs up on the motorway as well
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What a great start to my weekend  Not even my fuckin tree.
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Welp. Sold off the integra. It needed to go, I hadn't put any real work into it in months and it was just developing more problems as it sat. Still sucks though. I'll get another when the time is right.
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Grakkus posted:Definitely a good spot for a UKAI meetup which is something we should do. Mate, that sounds like an excellent Sunday drive! I have the most 90s normcore car as a winter hack. If i'm going to bring it then it needs proper giffer accessories... i'm thinking "Radio 2" sticker, straw boater hat for the parcel shelf... more ideas? meltie fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:It does indeed rule but I played it after playing Titanfall 2 which is pure poetry in terms of movement and so when I got into Doom I was mildly disappointed by the movement options being limited in comparison. That said, I love the atmosphere, the music, the incredibly solid framerate despite the mayhem onscreen at times and I loved that it's so unashamedly oldschool; kill demons, larger demons appear, kill larger demons in a couple of waves etc etc etc oh hi, a boss... All of this, but of course I haven't finished the game because the final (I think) boss keeps p0wning me. I have the high-res fan textures for the original Doom 3D, and need to get back to it eventually. Also, I'm looking forward to Black Mesa being finished eventually. They're almost there. You can play most of Half-Life (1) now, it's just the final chapter (Xen) incomplete, I think. While looking into what folks were thinking of Half-Life: Alyx coming out rather than, you know, MOTHER loving HALF-LIFE 3 YOU ASSHOLES (you may be able to infer my opinion on the subject...) I discovered the existence of the Prospekt mod as well, and just bought it on the Steam Sale for all of $3.39. And jumped from there to Portal Stories: Mel for Portal 2. So, I've got stuff to play over the holidays (like I had a shortage to begin with...) And then I discovered Project Borealis, a fan project using the thinly disguised HL3 script published by one of the writers Mark Laidlaw on his blog in 2017, which I'm happy about. https://www.projectborealis.com/ To clarify on HL: Alyx: I like what I see in terms of the game itself. It looks like they're using VR the way I've been hoping someone would for some time. My gripe is that VR is still expensive and relatively rare in terms of market penetration, so they're limiting the audience significantly. Read: I don't want to spend $1K on VR gear, plus a new beefy PC for this. I would like Microsoft to get their shiot together and produce a VR setup for the Xbox (probably the One X, due to horsepower needs.) I don't PC game due to the constant upgrade/bug stomping treadmill. Buy an Xbox/PS for a couple hundred dollars, play games on it for years without worrying about compatibility. The problem with Valve is that they have no management. They have a "flat" structure. What they produce is literally based on the whims of the developers, and who they can rally to their cause internally. It can produce some great stuff, but it makes the company largely aimless. Gabe Newell could presumably exert some influence, but he doesn't really seem to be interested in that, or at least making 3rd chapters...
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Rhyno posted:What a great start to my weekend Hey, you got to play with a chainsaw! Manly!
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Darchangel posted:Hey, you got to play with a chainsaw! Manly! I've been chainsawing poo poo all year! Came home, saw this down the street blocking the way. Called the city, three fuckin hours til they could get out here so I said gently caress it I'll do it myself. Just as I finished chopping it up a neighbor rolled up and asked if I needed help. But whatever! I'm a good neighbor!
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No idea what this is aside from odd and French but I love it
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Nebakenezzer posted:No idea what this is aside from odd and French but I love it You're in for a treat! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3867261
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUjo14Ck_c This was recommended to me and thought you guys might enjoy it too.
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Can't say I've ever been a fan of the current generation, but man, all the others... 
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Here is the Z video https://youtu.be/tQQtc6_mTRk
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Also some material in there, but I don't like how any of them past the Z32 look.
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mariooncrack posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUjo14Ck_c Mate of mine at work just acquired a 600hp R32. I have yet to have a go in it. 
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bolind posted:
As BMW Fanboy #1 I would totally take a mint 510 over a 2002. Fight me nerds I am just coming out of my hole in the ground to take a look around. We started our Thanksgiving sale last Friday so this whole week has been a blur and I am starting to have a hard time concentrating but looking forward to the next four days off. I am so close to freedom!
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Good luck finding a mint 510. If you happen across a 510 wagon along the way, let me know.
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Who was the guy with an amazing 510 wagon here? If I'm recalling correctly, he built a sequential controller for the manual gearbox and had some pretty amazing poo poo going on with it. I think it was here, anyway.
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2009 Impreza hatch, stick. 100k miles, looks to be in pretty good condition. $5500, would offer 4750ish. Yay or nay as a ride for our teen?
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ilkhan posted:2009 Impreza hatch, stick. 100k miles, looks to be in pretty good condition. $5500, would offer 4750ish. Yay or nay as a ride for our teen? I have an 06 wagon that by all rights I should sell but can't because I love it. It might have a bit more power than a teen should start out with -- it's only 170 HP, but it's enough to get into trouble fast enough -- but otherwise I think it's not only a great learner's car but a fantastic daily driver. Get some winter tires on spare wheels if your climate could use them, and you can feel comfortable about your kid in any weather. Just make sure the airbag recall has happened, I haven’t done it yet since I've heard they've cracked some people's dashes.
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Krakkles posted:Who was the guy with an amazing 510 wagon here? If I'm recalling correctly, he built a sequential controller for the manual gearbox and had some pretty amazing poo poo going on with it. I remember that car, pretty sure it was here and also in the Seattle area. I remember meeting him at a autox event in 2001ish? At least I assume its the same guy. Not sure how many 510 wagons with a crazy pneumatic sequential system are out there.
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