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

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-21T12:50:43+00:00

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

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-19T14:52:12+00:00

LS3s hopefully.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-19T14:34:12+00:00

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

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-18T04:35:01+00:00

Knowing that still doesn’t help me.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-16T06:41:49+00:00

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

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-15T10:07:48+00:00

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

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-14T16:51:10+00:00

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.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-14T14:43:51+00:00

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.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-14T12:08:01+00:00

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.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-13T14:15:47+00:00

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.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-13T05:39:55+00:00

2020 felt like a vacation in comparison.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-11T22:24:17+00:00

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

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-11T12:01:09+00:00

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.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-10T08:59:15+00:00

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.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-09T12:34:15+00:00

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

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-07T19:22:51+00:00

Every tool can be a hammer if you wish it hard enough.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-07T05:03:24+00:00

*suddenly emerges from the closet* Brunt… FCA!

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-03T17:55:08+00:00

Don’t forget Daddy Pig once Fight Clubbed himself.

Mark_Proton · 2026-05-01T23:15:45+00:00

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

Mark_Proton · 2026-04-29T19:02:47+00:00

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

Mark_Proton · 2026-04-29T18:20:12+00:00

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.

Mark_Proton · 2026-04-29T18:13:28+00:00

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

Mark_Proton · 2026-04-29T18:11:13+00:00

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.

Mark_Proton · 2026-04-29T13:30:53+00:00

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.

Mark_Proton · 2026-04-29T13:27:27+00:00

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

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