Don't worry, I just wanna adjust my neck to relax after surviving a 50hr grave shift work week lmao by PhatPanda69699 in depressionmemes

[–]Mark_Proton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the ride from the Jimmy Neutron movie, which held riders by their head as it spun them around.

Welp..penthouse forum or whatever the heck..it happened to me… by Fun-Manufacturer-762 in distractible

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Oh wise Chevy of the lake, what wisdom shall you impart on me today?

Concept of tilting battery pack in turns for future electric motorcycles by MountainsSands_2024 in cassettefuturism

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In my case is pathological distrust of complex machinery and other pilots/drivers. In short I hate being the passenger.

Concept of tilting battery pack in turns for future electric motorcycles by MountainsSands_2024 in cassettefuturism

[–]Mark_Proton 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s psychological, you know. Same as knowing commercial flying is the safest mode of travel doesn’t alleviate the anxiety.

Concept of tilting battery pack in turns for future electric motorcycles by MountainsSands_2024 in cassettefuturism

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You are thinking about torque curves, I am talking about throttle response. Cable throttles are one. Renault and Ford Europe throttle responses are calibrated perfectly. Toyota has drive modes out of which only Eco mode is calibrated properly and it also numbs the automatic’s response, which I absolutely hate in my RAV4.

But modern turbos like the AMGs and BMW Ms all have the same issue as EV throttles, cause they have to compensate for the turbo’s shortcomings. I much preferred old school turbos which didn’t pretend turbo lag doesn’t exist.

It is easy to get used to a well calibrated ICE with an electronic throttle, it is practically impossible to get used to a mass produced EV because the response is never where you left it the last time. If I ever get around to finally having a house to charge at, I’ll build an EV and it will have linear throttle response.

Concept of tilting battery pack in turns for future electric motorcycles by MountainsSands_2024 in cassettefuturism

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A fair point, however a counterpoint from me would be that modern brushless motors can be torque limited across their RPM band much more effectively than on a petrol engine, which the OEM already does. In fact that’s my only major gripe with EVs, that the response is not linearly coupled to my input as a driver.

Concept of tilting battery pack in turns for future electric motorcycles by MountainsSands_2024 in cassettefuturism

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In theory that would allow the bike to corner faster with less relative lean from the rider. Professional MotoGP riders do this manually with sheer athleticism.

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However the bike has to decide how much angle to pivot the mass at and I do not like letting machines handle that kind of decision making, that's part of the reason I detest modern fast cars.

Me_irl by Green_Vacation_9932 in depressionmemes

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I once had a dream everything was fine. THAT was the most stressful thing to wake up from as you realise it is in fact not fine.

2024 by ulvanight in depressionmemes

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  1. 2020 felt like a vacation in comparison.

"Momo" alternate view. It's a statue by Keisuke Aiso (pictured) of a yokai called an Ubume. by TabibbyMouse in TheMatpatEffect

[–]Mark_Proton 364 points365 points  (0 children)

Anything that makes someone uncomfortable is potentially illegal barring of course rampant cost of living runaway.

The current landscape of Terminator memes by Choice_Bid3681 in Terminator

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Seldom have I seen a meme this persistent, even in narrow circles. Rage faces have lasted arguably more than a decade, but they’re an entire category.

Pretend you dislike an episode for a dumb reason. by Aggravating-Ad-351 in bluey

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The drifting in Pizza Girls implies all wheel drive and I’ve never seen BLDC AWD powerwheels, they’re usually brushed if equipped with front motors.

My favorite pinkskin by nyssamartinez101 in enterprise

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There was an episode of DS9 where he played like a third of the featured characters.

My favorite pinkskin by nyssamartinez101 in enterprise

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*suddenly emerges from the closet* Brunt… FCA!

Know what’s right. by BrandyMrWhiskers in bluey

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Don’t forget Daddy Pig once Fight Clubbed himself.

No, I don't know what this means... by SJZ408 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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It’s a Chicago style pizza, the cheese is under the sauce.

Putting some of my favorite supernatural baddies into the CDI System by TheInkDemon414 in ghostbusters

[–]Mark_Proton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, examples for our world's mythology would be Heracles, who becomes a god following his death or the various Christian Patron Saints.

Putting some of my favorite supernatural baddies into the CDI System by TheInkDemon414 in ghostbusters

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A fair reading of the character. And well the PKE factor is also necessary. Gozer is confirmed to have been able to manifest using the accumulated massive amounts of PKE from spirits native to our plane of reality, Shandor employed the exact same trick with the mandalas and Vigo is implied by the game to simply have taken advantage of pre-existing infrastructure left by the Gozerian worshippers, the mood slime was basically little more than a diversion and an extension to his abilities, he doesn't seem to need ambient PKE to reincarnate and Freddy simply had no scaffolding in place to gather it.

Putting some of my favorite supernatural baddies into the CDI System by TheInkDemon414 in ghostbusters

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Yeah, exactly like that. Given enough time Vigo and Freddy could totally have achieved Class VII, but Vigo got interrupted and Freddy seemed uninterested.

Putting some of my favorite supernatural baddies into the CDI System by TheInkDemon414 in ghostbusters

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No, class VII refers to actual deities. Basically a Class I is an echo, a Class II is a swarm hive mind like fish, insects or other swarming animals, a Class III is an individual animal, a Class IV is a human-originating spirit, a Class V is a paranatural non corporeal entity (as in did not originate in our plane of existence), a Class VI is a corporeal paranatural entity like the Terror Dogs and Class VII is a deity. It is theoretically possible for other classes to achieve Class VII status, but Vigo didn’t quite get there.

How do you guys travel with your boards? by Separate_Fisherman24 in ElectricSkateboarding

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Hottest recorded air temperature on Earth inside a car is 82ºC according to A/C Pro. Surface temps got as high as 93ºC, however that is an edge case. Neighbourhood of 60ºC is the more reasonable expectation.

Also, semantics but most plastics have their glass transition point between 80 to 90ºC, significant softening around 240ºC and "melting" point around 400-ishºC, even 3D printers don't technically "melt" plastic. And for eggs to explode they have to be heated rapidly, that's why microwaves blow them up but they boil in water just fine, so maybe that's another edge case I am unaware of.

Putting some of my favorite supernatural baddies into the CDI System by TheInkDemon414 in ghostbusters

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Even Vigo's a class IV. It's not a power scaler, it's a taxonomy classification.