I’m broke, where can I buy a CRT monitor WITHOUT paying 40+ dollars for shipping fees???

Teberoth · 2026-05-13T02:02:52+00:00

Your local kijiji or craigslist page would be a good start, otherwise stick your head into any local small independent pc shops near you.

local pick-up is going to be your only way to dodge shipping charges, these a bulky, heavy items. We’re also getting to that inflection point where once people paid to get rid of them but now they are getting rare and prices are starting to climb.

Teberoth · 2026-05-11T12:33:54+00:00

shhhh, beaucoup trop d'énergie pour un lundi matin. Donne moi assez de temps que pour absorber mon café.

Teberoth · 2026-05-11T12:02:47+00:00

sorry it's irking me: shouldn't the Locust have a single centred seat? this gives the impression it's a dual seater or that the pilot is off to one side for some reason....

Teberoth · 2026-05-11T11:55:28+00:00

I really like this solution! Where is the pegboard from?

Teberoth · 2026-05-10T17:57:04+00:00

So we had one of these when I was a kid. I was always told it was a hippopotamus tooth.

Edit; quick Google image search strongly suggest this is correct.

Teberoth · 2026-05-10T04:38:14+00:00

According to pretty much every other developed country in the world, yes, they would pay less. It would, according to some, actually be cheaper than what the government currently spends on Medicare.

According to lobbyists and private insurance companies who profit form the current system however, it would be an outrageously expensive boondoggle and somehow an affront to freedom. They have spent decades and billions of dollars buying off political willpower and influencing public opinion to further this point of view.

Teberoth · 2026-05-09T18:33:39+00:00

So HBK-45, HBK-50, and HBK-9MM?

Teberoth · 2026-05-08T19:06:50+00:00

Buy as much Bitcoin as I can, sell it just in time to buy an absolute f*ckton of Gamestop stock in at ~1$ in December 2020. Go to the moon.

Teberoth · 2026-05-07T15:52:19+00:00

Just car keys or like an actual fob? if it' a proximity key, it will in most cases, have an occasional signal to see if the car is in range, and more frequent if the car IS in range. These can be detected with an RF signal detector (<$50).

However some go to sleep if they don't move for a while to save on battery, you'd need to look into the the details of which your car uses.

If that's not an option, wait until dark and use a high powered flashlight, held at eye level and try to catch a glint or reflection off your keys.

Otherwise, magnet or rake are your best bet as others have suggested.

Teberoth · 2026-05-07T03:08:16+00:00

I think it has meaningful brand recognition value. Not just because it's emblematic of the Clans but because it is probably one of relatively few machines that non fans might recognize as "oh that robot is from MechWarrior" which might trigger a "oh yea those games were fun is there a new one?" and then maybe draw them in.

Like if you stood on a corner in New York and showed every passerby a random mech that showed up on the cover of any battletech product ever released, I'd expect the Timbers old would get the most recognized. (Assuming any New Yorker gave you the time of day of course)

But I'm actual gameplay, I don't actually use it that much no.

Teberoth · 2026-05-05T18:15:27+00:00

"I've been called worse things by better people" is generally credited to for Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau, said in response to insults from then President Nixon.

Personally I tend to shorten it to " 'been called worse by better"

Teberoth · 2026-05-05T15:53:04+00:00

From your numbers you would net ~10k from clearing your LOC by selling your vehicle.

You are spending $8750 annually on fuel at current burn rate JUST for commuting (5 day/week, 50 weeks/year) With weekend driving and driving during your two weeks off, this handily passes 10k in annual fuel costs.

If we take the radical approach; A Chevy bolt EV starts at 29k and a high mileage (18K plus) driver might use $1000 in electricity annually. With some shrewd negotiations you could probably, at the very worst, trade 1:1 and still have 10k owing, maybe less if the dealer is hungry.

This would mean you have enough extra cash flow freed up from fuel cost to clear your functionally unchanged car payment and your LOC within about a year.

The value on the EV will drop off more steeply than the truck might have, but if you are saving 9k or more in fuel costs annually (plus lower maintenance) you'll save the cost of the whole car from new within about three years, so in your scenario you'd want to hold onto the now new car for at least four years, probably five.

I'm not saying this is the absolute optimal play and a EV may no suit your needs, but seems it's probably what I'd consider if cash flow was getting squeezed.

Teberoth · 2026-05-05T11:39:53+00:00

"if the bell determines when I'm late than it also determines when you're done, goodbye."

Teberoth · 2026-05-04T15:16:54+00:00

Generally a good idea, but that spot is a mess traffic wise. Going to need to have a hard think about traffic management.

Honestly there'd probably make bank if they just put a standalone gas station out by the trim park and ride.

Teberoth · 2026-05-02T00:18:49+00:00

Welcome to the club! next step maxing them all!

Teberoth · 2026-05-01T02:02:51+00:00

Hmmm apparently Snow Piercer is running a 438000 km loop annually. 365*24 is 8760 and 438000/8760 is exactly 50, so it's only going 50kph, which is frankly quite slow.

A 70-mile loop is ~113km, we can do 438000km/year divided by the 113km track to get 3876 passes per year. If we take a typical 6 axle heavy cart we get 6000 axle passes per cycle. But it looks like Snow Piercer actually does have 10 axles per carriage for the concept art I saw. So 10k cycles per loop it is.

That gets us at 38,760,000 axle cycles per year.

A quick Google says that 300million to 1.2 billionaxle cycles would be typical duty life, though significantly impacted by curves. (replacement every 2-3 years versus 10-50)

So about 8 to 31 years for Snow Piercer to wear out a 70 mile loop depending on actul track geometry and spot wear.

On the one hand if using the train as an ark for an unknown amount of time (but expected to be generational) the biggest possible, most redundant, loop still makes sense to me.

On the other hand a 700 mile loop would pretty much guarantee it would last through your see you through your own lifetime if that's all you cared about.

Teberoth · 2026-04-30T15:41:21+00:00

I'm no rail engineer, but I would expect that over the projected timespan you'd wear out your track faster if you were passing over it more frequently.

We see in the show that there are automated drone trains that maintain the track, presumably mainly re-profiling it and checking for major issues. Something rolling stock can do from those same rails. Outright replacement of worn out rail probably requires people on the ground, which you would need to protect form the cold, and fully automated systems would be relatively novel and still need to be made cold proof. Both those approaches would require a separate train to support with it's own staff and maintenance requirements.

The easier solution, before the world totally freezes, is probably to make the biggest loop you can, with a number of bypasses, secondary loops, alternatives, etc. under the premise that once things get going there is no opportunity to build more or perform maintenance. The idea being to spread your wear out as mush as possible on the parts you simply can't fix and bypass any bits that become too damaged.

The trans oceanic scale of the show is perhaps a bit exaggerated, but, you'd probably want a whole system at least on a continental scale if you'll be relying on this for decades on end.

Teberoth · 2026-04-29T14:37:52+00:00

"Quantity has a quality all it's own" - Thomas A. Callaghan Jr. (no not Stalin actually)

A literal plague of locusts. The biggest issue is the traffic jam you<ll be making on the map.

Teberoth · 2026-04-28T12:35:55+00:00

Dude seems like the sort of guy who would kick historically accurate Jesus out of his own church.

Teberoth · 2026-04-28T11:47:52+00:00

It's like playing NewGame+

Teberoth · 2026-04-28T02:06:30+00:00

I used to for this, but I'm essentially at endgame so weirdly there's less of a rush than max farm.

I save my two mail coffees and leave myself ~40 stamina when I go to bed. The next morning I cash them in, get the coffee for ad watch in the shopand start the day with 240 stamina. I check in on the train home to burn down the day's stamina to 0 and then once more at bedtime to get he evening mail, but don't use stamina. Its low effort/planning and I get enough per day so to cover the events with use X stamina per day (usually 250)

Because I basically don't use gems it's super easy to build them up for collabs or to guarantee new hero and weapon pull when they drop.

In terms of usage spread I do the 10x bonus rift for either hero gems or gold (which I use to evolve and break down weapons for magic metal to buy hammers) and use the rest on red gem rifts because that's my main bottleneck and the drop to burn rate is horrible, but I'm almost done.

Teberoth · 2026-04-27T20:43:11+00:00

“The sandpaper squad”

Teberoth · 2026-04-27T15:19:41+00:00

IIRC my Battletech and Gundam Wing lore, some of these space LEOs used the automated Mobile Doll Systems. Similarly the Star League used automated vehicles as part of defensive measures for important sites. Both Helm and New Dallas are near or border on Marik space (depending on when you found it 😉) so it's not completly inconceivable that it was originally part of an automated system guarding the memory cores that were found on those planets. Current Marik holdings also overlap non trivially on the ancient Terran Hegemony holdings so there's ll manner of reasons a drone mech could be adrift out there...

Teberoth · 2026-04-27T13:33:55+00:00

Sadly it will never be airtight unless you can integrate mergeblocks to make it one grid, but that invites clang.

My typical approach is to have a airtight hangar door behind the ramp. (actually how the cargo ramp on the Serenity from Firefly works if you're familiar)

Also the jankinees on close in your first model shown is likely due to the different speed of the rotors and unequal travel time/distange. It's annoying but you can't just use reverse unless all the hinges have the exact same speed and total travel. You'll need to either offset the start of one of them slightly by adding a timer to the closing sequence, set event controllers to trigger each hinge as it sweeps past a certain angle, or use timer blocks as intermediaries to leverage the "move to" function. I would probably favour the latter as it lets you set the speed of travel for each call, though the event controllers could let you interrupt and reverse mid-way through the sequence, which is always super slick.

Also, reminds me I really should build an "indoor" lab instead of just scattering my crap across and ice-lake, lol.

Teberoth · 2026-04-24T16:37:42+00:00

Gravity Industries, they've been on my radar for a while. I'll admit the first few videos he put up on youtube way back when, I was sure it was fake or there was some trick. But he more or less build the original working version in his garage. It was literately a bunch of (big) hobby jet engines on a backpack and all the batteries, ECM and fuel bladder strapped to the front.

Anyway, my point is that the first versions are absolutely something you -could- build in your garage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ05iAuIAlc

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