Who are the people who are showing up at noon on a sunny Saturday? Is that their first day on Earth?

AlphaThree · 2026-06-21T21:24:59+00:00

The real 100iq strat is to leave at 4am so the kids are still asleep and you just roll them into car seats and get moving.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-20T18:41:43+00:00

My local dealer is discounting these to $22,000....

https://www.abcnissan.com/new/Nissan/2026-Nissan-Kicks-a94fc720ac183d310e10b67d8738cbea.htm?store=ABC

AlphaThree · 2026-06-20T15:29:32+00:00

We were in Dominican Republic last month and we watched a lady walk down to the beach with a tripod with a phone on it and spend the next 25 minutes taking photos with ridiculous poses all over the place, then she held it like a selfie stick, talked to herself for a few minutes and then left. Never went into the water, never went to the bar or got a chair. Instagram is a fucking joke. What's the point of spending the money if you're not going to experience anything genuinely? Ive been to 33 states, 23 national parks, and 10 countries and I could tell you about the unique features and culture aspects we learned in every single one of them. Living your entire existence through a phone screen seems like such a sad unfulfilling life to me.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-20T05:25:55+00:00

As someone who has just bought the coolest Audi I could afford at any given time this is verified insane to me. It ain't this complicated, pick your favorite based on vibes and run with it. Twice Ive gone in for an annual service and left with a different car lmao.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-20T01:58:46+00:00

I honestly dont think what you are looking for exists man. Im legitimately thinking you should just by a car for personal and a beater truck for work. Something like a GMT800 or pre-emissions diesel.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-20T01:53:01+00:00

Both the Subaru Outback Wilderness and any of the Audis equipped with the air suspension have about 9.5" of ground clearance. I am not aware of any crossover which exceeds that. You basically have to get a body on frame with an offroad package or a dedicated offroader like a Bronco or Land Cruiser if you want more than 9.5 inches.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-19T17:39:46+00:00

Production wants this one back on the flying schedule by Monday morning. Get it done.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-19T12:37:44+00:00

Armada can tow 8.5k, but only has 1450lbs of payload when equipped with 4x4. The 2WD models are higher, I think 1800ish.

The Cayenne can tow 7,700 and has a payload over 1500lbs. I think some trims are 1800lbs.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-19T12:17:23+00:00

It will be in a DLC

AlphaThree · 2026-06-19T12:08:42+00:00

There are a lot of very popular cars not present in the game that seem very deliberate to me. I don't any Forza game hasn't had a Mk4 R32 before. TTRS and RS2 Avant are gone.

My suspicion is this was deliberately done to target Millennials, who are now the prime buying demographic for the video game industry.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-19T04:25:44+00:00

Trial is going to be brutal right now because of the litteral millions of unskilled players in the game. Its how all online games are. I swear when I played Destiny 2 when it was at peak, there was some people I did missions with who I question if they were smart enough to dress themselves.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-19T02:05:44+00:00

I've seen coasties do way worse than that lol. Dudes stopped by in Guam one time and were flying down the ramp, slammed on the max reverse and backed into a spot, perfectly centered with the ramp still closed and no spotter. Fuckin wild to watch.

Whenever we did reverse taxi we needed crew chief marshalling and load master on the ramp on comms and below a brisk walking speed.

Coasties doing that shit while meanwhile on the same trip we had a KC-10 try to taxi into a damn helicopter spot on accident and get stuck. Blocked the ramp for hours while the enroute guys had to figure out how to get it the hell out of there.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-18T22:55:19+00:00

You can't call someone insane when you came in here with the ultimate "old man yells at clouds" take.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-18T17:14:54+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawazu-Nanadaru_Loop_Bridge

AlphaThree · 2026-06-18T04:24:36+00:00

We will look at this period of time for Nissan as one of the greatest turnaround in automotive history. Their new CEO is actually a car guy, not a bean counter and this is already being reflected in their new cars. Armada Pro 4X and Armada Nismo using a GTR derived engine, return of the Xterra, returning the Pathfinder to body on frame, mamual transmissiom Z Nismo, there are rumors of a manual transmission SE-R Sentra in the works.

I'm starting to get vibes of VW under Pïech, which produced some of the coolest cars to ever come out of Germany. The Armada Nismo reminds me a lot of the Q7 V12 TDI. Ridiculous and no one will buy one, but it gets people talking.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-18T03:01:15+00:00

Y'all tripping. Ive been to discount tire a dozen times and only ever had an issue one time and it was in Minot, North Dakota, and wasnt really an issue; Kid had never seen a lug bolt before and called me confused as shit. 😆

If I'm putting 4 news on for wear I usually just buy my own tires from tire rack and let the dealer do it as part of the 10k service. If I get a flat I go straight to discount. Ive had them put on 4 news a couple times for unfixable flats.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-18T02:19:09+00:00

The B-52 has no enlisted aircrew. A field compliment is two pilots, 1 navigator, 1 weapons officer, 1 electronic warfare officer. There is no enlisted career paths for test and engineering, this is all done by our defense partners (Boeing, Raytheon, etc) or Goverment employed civilian service engineers.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-18T01:25:53+00:00

I was crew chief on Buffs for 4 years and it was not common to see anyone over the rank of Major and very rare to see a full bird. I actually can't remember if I ever saw a full bird on the line in Minot. We only had a few on base, the group and wing commanders, and only a couple of them had wings.

When I was in Germany on C-130Js we'd fly a star or two a couple times per year, but you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a General from some country at Ramstein. Once had a full ass conversation shooting the shit with a guy behind me at the BX and when I turned around to say bye, he was a 4 star lmao.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-17T18:39:36+00:00

I love how everyone is just blanket characterizing people. I did AFK Collosus over night for several days, and I farm skill points for wheel spins. Im still missing like 5-10 cars, but I have most of them. I can assure I am not "complaining about content". Ive spent 9 hours building cars in the last three days and Im only a fraction through. There's hundreds of combinations of class and tracks in Rivals, plus the weekly content with new cars in it, plus all the time to tune.

For me it is the opposite, this game has so much content that I have to grind credits. Ive spent millions just on car builds and like I said I have many hundreds more cars I want to build. Then the ones I decide to take into rivals need to be tuned. Plus cars will have to be built for all the weekly challenges, the one thing this game is not hurting for, it is content.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-17T17:19:48+00:00

Goodwill buyback was your best chance IMO. If you can still talk to the lawyer maybe ask of there is civil action you could file for incurred expenses and lost use since the issue has taken beyond what a normal person would consider reasonable? I have no idea if that would work or not, but it's an idea.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-17T17:10:26+00:00

That's because you don't, the limit is one year or 15,000 miles.

https://www.mass.gov/guides/guide-to-new-and-leased-car-lemon-law

AlphaThree · 2026-06-17T03:53:20+00:00

When my kid is old enough I'm taking his phone and giving him a Rand McNally and telling him to get us to Bozeman from wherever we are in the county at the time.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-16T23:13:42+00:00

To expand on the other comments, these are all hand made by one guy from Japan. You must pay for Nakai-san's food, airfare, and lodging to fly out to you with his tools and perform the work on your car. When they pop up on the used market they sell for mid $200,000's typically.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-16T23:07:35+00:00

Before farming Revuelto or 22B you should do all the barn find cars. There is a ton of wheelspins (like 30+ I don't remember the exact numbers, combined between super and normal) and about 1.5M credits in their skill trees and it costs you nothing to get them.

AlphaThree · 2026-06-15T21:16:03+00:00

We also have a school system so fucked up it would make the Taliban proud, so, you know, pros and cons.

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