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Endless Mike posted:he's not even renting the cybertruck out, he's driving people around in it for money if it's the guy i'm thinking of, he's doing it for like $150/half hour, too.
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im still thinking about my robot palanquin idea
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Endless Mike posted:he's not even renting the cybertruck out, he's driving people around in it for money drat imagine how much money he could make if the truck drove itself... Someone should look into this
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May 17, 2024 20:59
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his increasing desperation shows how much he thoroughly could not afford the thing and probably won’t be able to make payments without being able to rent it out
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May 17, 2024 21:12
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Endless Mike posted:he's not even renting the cybertruck out, he's driving people around in it for money lmao quadpus posted:his increasing desperation shows how much he thoroughly could not afford the thing and probably won’t be able to make payments without being able to rent it out yeah i didn't realize the above. it's gotta be this practically anyone else would be like "gently caress you and gently caress this thing, see you in court motherfuckers", especially if they had the means
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May 17, 2024 21:17
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quadpus posted:his increasing desperation shows how much he thoroughly could not afford the thing and probably won’t be able to make payments without being able to rent it out I'm shocked that gimmick would ever pay enough to help cover the payments tbh, it's a wankermobile not the weinermobile
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May 17, 2024 21:18
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adam something's "you're $!00k in debt for a meme and you feel nothing" but it's "you're $100k in debt for a meme and you hear the debt collectors warming up the shin breakers"
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May 17, 2024 21:18
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the real question is would he be even more mad if he had a working cybertruck but nobody was willing to pay $150/hour to ride in it?
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May 17, 2024 21:18
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and fuckin nobody ever said "I'm gonna hire the wankermobile for my kid's birthday" when you could literally rent a bobcat for an afternoon and be way cooler to your kid
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May 17, 2024 21:20
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qirex posted:there was that brief period when sbf was on trial and it seemed like people were just about to figure out that pretty much all the attributes we ascribe to “mercurial” leaders align exactly with the symptoms of chronic stimulant abuse every time he would lose at something, he would say the game was stupid and too simple and not worthy of his time. every time he got a bad grade it was because the material was stupid and it wasnt worth his time to engage. him playing video games during pitch meetings wasnt a sign that his giant brain was so far ahead of everyone, it was a sign that he was an easily distracted manchild with zero self control, but everyone treated that like it was a sign of unfettered brilliance. his deep thoughts (like how shakespeare was actually bad because of [spurious math argument]) were puddle-shallow and easily dismissable. i grew up with and went to school with people like sbf, he was the exact kind of know-it-all blowhard who would get run out of the campus warhammer club because he wouldnt stop whining every time he didnt get his way he was just a dumb nerd who thought he was a genius because he was told that by his parents and teachers from a very early age, but the great and the good fell for it and handed him $40bn to play with. its an incredible story, and the book doesnt tell that story (except inadvertently) because the author fell for it too
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May 17, 2024 21:21
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I would pay that much money to say ride in a mclaren around laguna seca driven by a retired f1 driver but not to ride in a shame cube around a north carolina suburb
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May 17, 2024 21:22
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FAUXTON posted:I'm shocked that gimmick would ever pay enough to help cover the payments tbh, it's a wankermobile not the weinermobile yeah. it never would have worked, but now he has something external to be mad at
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May 17, 2024 21:23
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rotor posted:im still thinking about my robot palanquin idea here's a dude rollin around town inside a robots giant nutsack 
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quadpus posted:yeah. it never would have worked, but now he has something external to be mad at I mean maybe he drove it into water because even with a cybertruck nobody wants him at their party
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qirex posted:I would pay that much money to say ride in a mclaren around laguna seca driven by a retired f1 driver but not to ride in a shame cube around a north carolina suburb this is an excellent way of putting it lol
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FMguru posted:he was just a dumb nerd who thought he was a genius because he was told that by his parents and teachers from a very early age, but the great and the good fell for it and handed him $40bn to play with. its an incredible story, and the book doesnt tell that story (except inadvertently) because the author fell for it too
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May 17, 2024 21:31
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FMguru posted:im listening to the if books could kill podcast episode about the sbf book by michael lewis and the hosts are summarizing and it is hilarious that book was kind of an extreme letdown because of michael lewis' previous reporting/books, but yeah we all had a big laugh about it in the buttcoin thread while i haven't read the whole thing myself i've read a few chapters, and yeah your/their read of it is pretty dead on. one thing they may not have mentioned though: sbf was not only on adhd meds (adderall, and a fairly hefty dose too, which he claimed would be insufficient for him to focus during his trial) but also emsam (selegiline), which is a MAOI that gets metabolized into methamphetamine
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qirex posted:I would pay that much money to say ride in a mclaren around laguna seca driven by a retired f1 driver but not to ride in a shame cube around a north carolina suburb good news, you can pay $150 to ride along in a supercar for 3 laps or do it yourself, $450 gets you five laps in a mclaren 570 gt4
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Zamujasa posted:good news, you can pay $150 to ride along in a supercar for 3 laps is there a place i can go to pay $X an hour to play with excavators and bulldozers and poo poo? Just like a half acre sandbox with some heavy equipment in there. If there is, why isnt there one closer to me?
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rotor posted:is there a place i can go to pay $X an hour to play with excavators and bulldozers and poo poo? Just like a half acre sandbox with some heavy equipment in there. If there is, why isnt there one closer to me? iirc they had one of those in vegas for a while when some new casino build got put on hold
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lil warehouse simulator filled with pallets of like foam-filled boxes where you can play on a forklift, load and unload a few bundles of 2x4s from a truck, poo poo like that
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qirex posted:if you don't get humbled when you're young you will probably turn into a monster luckily i was an underachiever that graduated high school with a 1.9 gpa so i kind of self-humbled myself that resulted in perhaps just slight monsterism, a la 
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qirex posted:yeah all boy geniuses are fake, I fortunately only developed mild GATE poisoning because my single parent had no time for the one million extracurriculars or to do all my projects for me. I still remember the shock when I started to meet people genuinely much smarter than me , like sophomore year all "why isn't caitlin with us in honors geometry?" "you didn't hear? she's taking calc at the community college." if you don't get humbled when you're young you will probably turn into a monster
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rotor posted:lil warehouse simulator filled with pallets of like foam-filled boxes where you can play on a forklift, load and unload a few bundles of 2x4s from a truck, poo poo like that that's called shenmue and it was released on dreamcast in 1999
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does it come with a snack time package? like the worker goes around and takes burrito orders or something
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Eeyo posted:does it come with a snack time package? shenmue? it's basically a 1986 japan simulator, you can buy food, drinks or capsule toys from vending machines
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no the construction equipment petting zoo. like they give you a high-viz vest and a hardhat, and have a lil water cooler where you can shoot the poo poo with other customers. then you can have a meal break on the back of a pickup.
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Beeftweeter posted:shenmue? it's basically a 1986 japan simulator, you can buy food, drinks or capsule toys from vending machines yakuza zero is a better japan 1986 simulator because you can swing a park bench at drunk businessmen and money flies out of them
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Eeyo posted:no the construction equipment petting zoo. Girls love a forklift certified professional.
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Neito posted:if it's the guy i'm thinking of, he's doing it for like $150/half hour, too. bold of you to assume people are actually taking him up on that offer
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rotor posted:is there a place i can go to pay $X an hour to play with excavators and bulldozers and poo poo? Just like a half acre sandbox with some heavy equipment in there. If there is, why isnt there one closer to me? yes https://www.extremesandbox.com/
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rotor posted:im still thinking about my robot palanquin idea me too rotor posted:here's a dude rollin around town inside a robots giant nutsack honestly, it's hard to believe the sun set on the british empire infernal machines fucked around with this message at 22:13 on May 17, 2024 |
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qirex posted:yakuza zero is a better japan 1986 simulator because you can swing a park bench at drunk businessmen and money flies out of them yeah, the yakuza series as a whole is way more of a coherent game than shenmue is, though like, for a 1999 release, shenmue has an absolutely mindblowing amount of detail, but it's almost too realistic — e.g. for the forklift simulator you need to first get hired for the job, then show up on time, do it correctly, go back home, etc. all while possibly having to fight off the, uh, not-yakuza. on your way home you might pass an arcade where it's possible to play hang-on or space harrier, but the clock still keeps ticking and you need to get to bed! etc. it's an incredible game, one of my all-time favorites. i personally love replaying it from time to time, but a 2024 audience would absolutely not have the attention span required to even 50% it
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we also have https://www.driveatank.com/ if crushing cars with tanks is more your thing
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quadpus posted:yeah. it never would have worked, but now he has something external to be mad at Something in my gut tells me that his wife is the breadwinner and he's gotta give her something to be mad at as his 5th vanity business explodes before it gets out of the hanger.
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rotor posted:here's a dude rollin around town inside a robots giant nutsack riding around in a robot's nutsack while it jerks its stiffy 
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Beeftweeter posted:yeah, the yakuza series as a whole is way more of a coherent game than shenmue is, though thankfully, tvs had picture-in-picture back then, so you could watch something else while standing in the street for 15 realtime minutes waiting for a store to open shenmue was also the reason why every game for the next decade or so was infected with qte bullshit
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Expo70 posted:sure, it was absoloutely mean and in poor taste, maybe even a bit cruel no such thing as being mean/cruel to a billionaire
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killing a billionaire is euthanasia. it's putting them out of our misery
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https://archive.is/0fQkBquote:At the start of the year, after Hertz announced it was selling off its fleet of Teslas — backtracking on a plan to buy up 100,000 of the electric vehicles — the news sounded good for Bijay Pandey, a 34-year-old self-employed data worker in Irving, Texas. “I have another vehicle, and I was trying to add one for my wife because gas prices were too high,” he said. When he found out that it came with a $4,000 tax credit — even better. “That’s what attracted me,” he added. So, the day after Valentine’s Day, he bought a red 2022 Long Range Model 3 with 70,000 miles on it. It ended up costing just about $25,000, not a bad deal for a car that can sell for about $47,000 new.
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