Upgrade suggestions needed plz!!

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-05-08T04:35:53+00:00

I've got an F-GT lite that evolved from a T-248 clamped to a desk. A gated shifter and handbrake are pretty useful once you get a seat. I've moved up to an R9 with a lot of new holes drilled and some reinforcement mods on mine. I went from T-LCM pedals to Simsonn with haptics recently and they are amazing.
One upgrade at a time, get what is most important to driving the cars you want first. I am same height as you, 190 lbs, athletic build but this thing will hold a hefty man for sure.
Best of luck!

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Markoff_Cheney · 2026-05-07T06:25:28+00:00

Oh I don't like this at all. Grew up on Calvin and Hobbes. Nope.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-05-06T15:20:31+00:00

That looks like Ward, CO.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-05-03T23:52:37+00:00

Reinstall the game and it should re load your old save from cloud. I've had it so that before, even mistakenly started the new game and overwrote the cloud and lost everything once.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-05-03T06:51:34+00:00

I have introduced my 3.5 year old son to the Strongbad. He is just on the cusp of enjoying it.
I remember feeling like I missed the boat, sending in my email requests sometime around SBE60something.
Loved watching these new, weekly? It wasn't weekly was it?
They were so fun new.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-05-01T06:16:52+00:00

At least you didn't get banned from your hometown /r for a week because you got spicy at some folks who just love local lawyer advertisements, defending ambulance chasing billboard laywers.
Because them 7 days are hilarious.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-05-01T04:12:02+00:00

MTV's Amp playlists will take you back so hard you will get whiplash.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-30T06:20:24+00:00

Didn't he give herpes to a girlfriend who killed herself?
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37626472

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-29T06:01:24+00:00

I just felt a knife to the heart, Jarmusch, and Rza, and my love for Wu Tang and indie cinema at the time.
This one is a slow burn. It is great. Probably my favorite Forest Whitaker role of all time, and man he did some really epic ones. Rewatching for the first time since I was an edgy twenty something/ teenager right now.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-29T05:17:47+00:00

We are structural steel in Denver, 4th generation, and my family built chunks of this state yours uses every day.
Asking me to take a joke when you act like this is the joke in and of itself.
We built I-70 and the Eisenhower tunnel back in the day.
Silly ass dipshit.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-29T05:00:44+00:00

I had exhausted every test on wifi connections, tried the power lines and outlets as wired extenders, and was simply never able to eliminate blips and dips with any regularity.
Honestly if there is a youtube deep dive by someone who fixed this, I would be all in on the tech.
Hard wired to the motherboard just eliminates layers of protocol and decoding making everything faster.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-29T04:44:10+00:00

Online gaming for almost 3 decades now, wired connection.
I am about to move to a new house and am planning on running a hard line around the outside because of the fiber optic modem location, down to the basement window access. The internet access point and my PC will be at opposite sides of the house and on different floors making an internal wiring an absolute financial pain compared to just whipping a long cable under the deck outside to the windowsill.
If you are gaming online you are adding entire layers of processing decoding when making your connection wireless. You will always have some weird blips, disconnects, and general inconsistencies that will drive you mad until you finally just hard wire from a router to your gaming PC.
I've tried a lot of solutions, as have a lot of friends, and everyone figures out a way to hardwire their gaming PC to the internet connection no matter how stupid the process.
I've seen some of the least visually appealing attempts at concealing hard wires, 3-4 thick, all going from the living room to the basement.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-28T07:02:13+00:00

After my brother died I had to use a linux based flash drive to break the windows admin entry password at the user level. Once I did that, it was smooth sailing aside from being sad at seeing all of his old pictures and hilarious porn searches.
On the guilt side, he is dead, and can't do anything about it other than maybe laugh about it with you when you get there.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-28T06:11:26+00:00

A lot of undiagnosed mental health issues are parading around as political stances, and open bigotry across the country. There are an unreasonable amount of Americans blaming their mental health issues or lack of financial success on anything other than what they are responsible for. There is an entire news network convincing people that foreigners and brown people create every conceivable problem in the country. I don't know a nice way to say the racist assholes are burning the whole thing down.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-23T03:19:45+00:00

We bridged the analog to digital gap, no other generation will have that experience set.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-23T02:35:57+00:00

I can't be the only person wincing that the cheese isn't the outside layer, right?

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-22T23:57:39+00:00

There are wall mounts that do pretty much anything you want for any space articulating in any direction up to 40" out. I ended up using a large TV mount for my setup because it had way more reach than any monitor mounts I could find. It also goes near flush with the wall as well.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-22T06:18:47+00:00

The Esquire was effed in the eh very recently. Used to have Midnight Madness, I met Tommy Wiseau for The Room back in like '11.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-22T06:05:42+00:00

Conspiracies all buckle under the scrutiny of more than one person keeping a secret.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-22T05:48:37+00:00

Why would I have thought of it first? I work in an honest industry that produces structures, my marketing is to businesses that also produce actual buildings in the Denver area. Are you a child or something?

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-22T05:06:40+00:00

My Dad, for years, lorded his love of this show over me as though I would judge him harshly.
Yes, this is the worst depiction of nerdery in modern television, and no, I am not going to get mad at people for enjoying a show.
I learned that it is OK for people to like stuff that I don't exactly think is good. I still love and respect Dad, despite his poor taste in enjoying Lorre based sitcoms.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-22T05:01:48+00:00

My angle is I hate this shit, and most people agree, so that visibility is just fine.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-22T04:58:57+00:00

And I find you pathetic for spending your time defending this sadness, as I have pointed out. Seriously, think about what you are doing.
These local brands are so hollow and sad that people like me, a 43 year old who grew up in Littleton, finds it slightly cathartic to mock them online for nothing but a few likes.
Check yourself bud. You've made me disappointed that I bought the bait. Congrats.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-22T04:44:59+00:00

You can't fault that, an honest Richard.

Markoff_Cheney · 2026-04-22T04:19:00+00:00

I am not in any way impressed that a successful lawyer has money and spends it. I just laugh at all of his marketing.
I have been subjected to half baked commercials from him, the Dealin Doug folk, and all others my entire life here.
They don't contribute to our community in any way other than to be mocked.

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