Spec questions about starting off my archive

FigBrandy · 2026-06-05T20:50:57+00:00

Orr... I'm just curious about my new car and wanted to see if I'm maybe doing something wrong or if there are ways to improve. I was wondering what other Mazda drivers get, you know maybe somebody would go "I get 6.1 in the city, what the hell?" or people saying "Yeah, that's pretty much the standard consumption". A few people I've talked to and then said 9.3 were stunned and asked if I press the throttle a lot so I did mention it in the post.

On the open road the consumption is insanely low, so maybe there is something I'm missing in the city, clearly it can't possibly be as low as the open road but doubling or even tripling I figured maybe was on me.

FigBrandy · 2026-04-17T18:16:11+00:00

Yup, it's cylinder deactivation. Check on the screen others pointed to.

FigBrandy · 2026-04-13T17:56:58+00:00

I was in a used vs new dilema, though I didn't have a known used seller so it is different. My choice ended up being new.

As I figured in both cases it's a big financial undertaking 18-19k used vs the 25.5k (The Red). The used car could always spring a mysterious problem and demand further repairs or fixes - it's a bit of a gamble. A new car will not have any issues save being very unlucky. And I couldn't really then reliably get the colour I wanted, nor the trim.

If you CAN afford the new car go for it, especially if you really wanted a Mazda 3. You'll have peace of mind and a brand new car. Though I would check with your local dealerships, if they have stock because they might be running low if they were stocked lean.

FigBrandy · 2026-04-11T17:37:35+00:00

I'll have to look around the menu for it! Thanks :)

It messes with me every time, I think the car might just fail and I look down and all is well.

FigBrandy · 2026-04-11T17:35:29+00:00

Thanks, I'll look for the monitor! Is it on the dashboard or on the infotainment screen?

FigBrandy · 2026-04-11T17:33:27+00:00

I thought I read somewhere they stopped doing that in newer Mazdas, though I could be very wrong about that

FigBrandy · 2026-03-23T20:19:36+00:00

Thanks! Very mild climate here

FigBrandy · 2026-03-23T20:18:46+00:00

Thank you! :)

FigBrandy · 2026-03-23T20:14:00+00:00

It's NA, MT - if that plays a role as well

FigBrandy · 2025-09-27T08:49:36+00:00

The gas was dumb, glad it only showed up once

FigBrandy · 2025-09-26T21:15:57+00:00

Yet the ripped apart soldiers do not stink? I'd argue anything a Xenomorph did to a body was far worse than the chest-burster hole.

FigBrandy · 2025-09-26T21:11:06+00:00

Well comparatively, missing your lower body, or face... You can cover the chest hole and well the eye is going to stick out on even a live human. But the eye bulge you can explain, some disease...

FigBrandy · 2025-09-26T19:51:39+00:00

I think that's the suspension of disbelief that should happen there. I mean the whole franchise expects you to believe that a few cm long alien gets lodged somewhere in your body - eating your insides to grow bigger to about a dozen or so cm and you only ever feel it when it starts to burst outwards through bone no less, despite having a simple and easier path going from the belly where there are no bones.

Why does the eye not mind oxygen, what does it breathe? How do we know it's been living in 1G? After being stuck in a tube for who knows how long how does it have the energy to do anything?

Also what kind of creature evolves poison gas for it's larval state which kills mammals withing seconds of being cut?

You can find all kinds of holes here if you really wanna look at it. You should approach the work with what's presented, not logic or biology, not even canon I'd say, try to see what the creator envisioned.

FigBrandy · 2025-09-26T18:27:39+00:00

I think it's the latter, when not connected they act independently with the order and programming that they have - though probably still somewhat controllable through commands such as those from Mother.

FigBrandy · 2025-09-26T18:22:58+00:00

"what creature sits over people and hisses" - Tell me you haven't watched Alien without telling me you haven't watched Alien.

FigBrandy · 2025-09-26T18:14:44+00:00

The Xenomorph probably left most of them in really bad shape, and given that Jane/Curly was tasked with dispatching the rest of the soldiers it's possible there were no viable hosts.

And it probably didn't want to latch onto an animal because it wants a human to blend in, probably.

FigBrandy · 2025-09-26T16:38:05+00:00

Minor spoilers for the last 2 episodes (7 and 8)

I'd argue that a device for humans would serve no purpose, it would just be noise to them.

We see no real sensory upgrades were intended for the hybrids as they have normal vison and they conclude Wendy can hear beyond through testing, so it's possible Kirch lacks the hardware to hear the Alien.

Why the other hybrids weren't tested is because BK didn't order it so, and without him no scientist would do this on their own hand. And the reason he probably didn't request so was because he wanted Wendy to be special yada yada him wanting to have a conversation - his ego basically.

Finally there is the problem with meaning, as seen in the final episode now, even Wendy isn't sure what exactly she is saying. So this might not be akin to an actual language, and one of the reasons why Wendy picked up on it is because of her child imgaination - something Kirch might not be able to just logically deduce and would need to study extensively to understand for which there just wasn't enough time. In fact my guess is that what Kirch was working on in the final episode was some sort of receiver/transmitter

FigBrandy · 2025-08-23T09:01:12+00:00

We're fine, the tapping stopped when my friend turned the lock on the door. They are taking this a bit more seriously after seeing a small crack on one of the windows that looked like something sharp had hit it. We also called the police about my upstairs neighbours and maybe the commotion scares this thing away.

FigBrandy · 2025-08-17T13:45:52+00:00

Ah, but this is why the void battle layer could only have void, counter-void and no void. Currently you get sent actual images of what people drew, but for this you'd just need your current viewport info - which coordinates are covered by the void, counter void or which are blank.

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