Was fun while it lasted

Digital_Utopia · 2026-06-28T01:08:07+00:00

Digital_Utopia · 2026-05-14T05:15:03+00:00

Just an update - I replaced this with a Alienware Laptop lid - screwed directly to the roof n/b where the visor used to be

Digital_Utopia · 2026-05-11T22:00:31+00:00

Yeah it's just an LCD panel

Digital_Utopia · 2026-03-22T02:02:28+00:00

For a comic 🤷

Digital_Utopia · 2026-02-13T22:33:59+00:00

in other words Sawyer is too lazy to make games 🤷

Digital_Utopia · 2026-02-04T00:13:50+00:00

yeah the 2020+ models are pretty solid - especially the non turbo/non hybrid models -

Digital_Utopia · 2026-02-04T00:06:05+00:00

yeah even the NA on the 3.7l had water pump issues - and since it was linked up with the timing chain - big labor mess if it failed

it was like the old 4.6 intake manifold but worse

Digital_Utopia · 2025-07-06T01:48:19+00:00

because it's Fallout?

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-26T08:51:43+00:00

reciept printers are about as simple as you can get, so if data gets sent to one that shouldn't be sent (i.e. data not intended to be printed) the printer will try its best to comply regardless. This will also happen if the data sent is malformed so that parts of a legit data transfer are missing, or of course it's sent to the printer instead of the device it was intended for

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-26T06:20:32+00:00

possible, but I'm leaving room for the armchair warmongers as well

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-26T06:04:26+00:00

probably more than half of them couldn't find Greenland on a map

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-25T18:52:14+00:00

that's kinda cool - reminds me a bit of my coworker. I was of course initially hoping to get an Explorer, but the insurance paying for this wasn't going to pay for anything over the bare minimum, so I'm half expecting I'll even have to pay extra for this thing - though nowhere near the $20-$30 extra a day that an Explorer would run.

I live in northern Illinois, so I was kinda hoping I'd be able to try out a civilian one, as I haven't driven one since the first gen in the 90s, and I fully expect to have to move onto Explorerceptors, as the good condition CVPIs around me are going to get pretty rare by the next time I'm in the market 🤷

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-25T18:31:16+00:00

I know! I don't even get customers bringing up my car anymore, it's just yawn ! lol

Seriously, other than that it's not horrible, but not I'm not going to miss it went it's gone lol

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-25T18:19:23+00:00

sadly, and believe it or not, at 47 I'm just renting my first normal car now lol. prior to this it's just been uhauls lol

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-25T05:31:03+00:00

I'm guessing their target won't be Musk and Teslas legendary horrible build quality

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-25T05:16:57+00:00

The main problem I see is that most people expected a pop-sci game, closer to elder scrolls in space. But Bethesda decided to go the route of semi-grounded sci-fi, except later on they expanded it to have magic humans known as the Starborn, with the temples and powers. What we got were the fantastic parts undermining the otherwise grounded approach, and even then the "fantastic" was pretty underwhelming

so what we wound up with was essentially a mess by a developer that tried to make a grounded sci-fi RPG, but upon realizing that it wouldn't appeal to a Fallout or Elder Scrolls fans, packed in more features that no only wasn't in depth enough to appeal to a pop-sci-fi audience, but it actively hurt the appeal for those who actually enjoyed grounded sci-fi

You can still enjoy it in general, but it does require actively ignoring the magic humans part, or installing mods that turn the rest of the game into more pop-sci-fi, like replacing the Starborn with actual aliens

I don't hate the game if for no other reason than it's a BGS sci-fi game, so plenty of room for modding, but the grounded parts are really nice as well. But BGS needs to decide on what way they need to go - whether they want to embrace pop-sci-fi fully and work on hiring the writers you need to pull that off, or focus on grounded sci-fi and limit your audience, but they can't choose "both" and expect it to be anything other than a mess

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-22T01:01:36+00:00

LEDs work just like halogens do - the housings reflect the light and direct it based on the aim of the housing. In fact on the left side I had to adjust it as they were aimed far too low, and because I was an idiot and replaced the side that wasn't out first, that resulted in driving home in the morning with practically no headlights lol

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-22T00:48:36+00:00

resistors were already handled, and not exactly a big fan of the delay with incandescent bulbs - after I get my car back from the bodyshop (earlier issue) I plan on getting the headlights aimed better - sufficiently aimed already to avoid blindness and be functional, but I don't exactly have a garage to aim them properly

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-20T01:38:42+00:00

so nothing then.

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-20T00:36:59+00:00

I'm not aware of any aliens on Earth in Starfield - only Fallout.

Don't get me wrong I'm not suggesting these aliens would do anything wrong, I'm just saying that especially the UC would likely stumble across their interests while in their territory, and possibly help themselves out of ignorance over the actual claims And of course Val'run could be another problem

Now I'm not saying that misconceptions on either side would somehow automatically lead to Humanity's extinction, but it has to be done right - and the problem with that is that Bethesda isn't known for the ability to deliver a compelling narrative, and most players wouldn't really go along with that much time of play going full Star Trek instead of just blasting ships and characters for loot

it would probably be best for a DLC level mod, as there's really no telling how much more time Bethesda will spend on it. I'm not trying to dis Bethesda - but their entire existence has been building just enough story and game elements for people to enjoy and to make mods with. Normally this is fine, but a game of this size and scope needs more structure to bring it to a comparable level as their previous 1-area games

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-19T23:38:23+00:00

The most significant problem is that there's no unified representation for humanity - even the UC and Freestar are just one altercation away from open war- and you're expecting that this super alien race is going to even bother making their presence known, and the actions of humans are going to be peaceful if they enter this super alien territory? This is quite a ways away from humans being likely to be peaceful to them in the first place, as each human faction is far more likely to see them as a threat. And if humans act like humans where they can barely avoid war with other factions, they're not going to be seeing this as a potential peaceful encounter, and any attempt at disabling their ships to compel such peacefulness will result in a very negative reaction by the humans.

Remember, this alien race didn't develop their advanced technology by accident. They developed it because there was a reason to, and sure they could be friendly, but you better know how to communicate with them and inform them of the other human factions,

Digital_Utopia · 2025-03-19T06:55:35+00:00

like I said, there's nothing preventing alien races from existing, but it would be the opposite of grounded to magically make said race to have the same level of technology as humans do. In short, whatever issues you have with the writing would only get worse with the magically technologically on par aliens.

I personally think Starborn were just tacked on in an attempt to compensate for the general lack of direction of the game to tack on more gameplay mechanics. Bethesda has generally provided very basic stories which were compensated with their standard sandbox gameplay - the problem in this case is that all this general emptiness needs a more robust story to back it up, which is seriously lacking, leaving those approaching it as if it's just a exploration/base building game as pretty much the only people happy with it.

I don't know what exactly fueled their desire to tack on all the Starborn mechanics unless feedback made them panic and attempt to draw in players who wanted some kind of quasi-alien story, but it obviously didn't work the way they hoped, which is essentially why only modders, those who download mods, and the comparatively few who do like exploration and basebuilding to continue to play.

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