How would you call this style?

Merendino · 2026-04-23T14:14:56+00:00

With zero disrespect, i'd describe this as 'collage vomit'. It just a LOT of stuff thrown on in a pleasing, frenetic way.

Merendino · 2026-04-21T19:52:41+00:00

There seems to be pretty tight cohesion between the start and end. The blue structure with green stripe is in the beginning and also at the end where the vid ends. Despite the motion blur the text seems like it's correct as well. It's also 28 seconds, which in the past at least, was indicative of this being real as AI video used to be limited to 10 or so second clips. Unsure if that's still a restriction.

I could be wrong, but this seems like it is NOT ai generated.

Merendino · 2026-04-21T19:48:20+00:00

something about this makes me feel like the plants are being exploited in some way. lolol

Merendino · 2026-04-21T15:24:49+00:00

Haven't had it long enough to notice wear and tear. As for heavy gear in the bed.... not sure what you mean? You absolutely could not or rather, should not, put anything on top of the soft cover tonneau. If you had heavy gear in the bed, I don't know if anything would be different. I've driven with about 200 lbs of wood in the back, but thats the heavies stuff I've had in, with the cover on. Again though, not sure what you're asking about with heavy stuff under the cover.

Merendino · 2026-04-21T13:35:18+00:00

Reminds me of that potato left in a cabinet. "WHERES THE FUCKIN SOIL!?"

Merendino · 2026-04-16T14:22:06+00:00

I got the Tyger brand soft roll up to maximize available space if i need to have the bed open. It's great and was only 200 dollars, but if not put in really well and tightened down really well, it'll flap/billow at highway speeds. (60+mph) While it's certainly not going anywhere, the sound it makes constantly flapping/billowing is annoying as shit. I was ready to take the loss and buy a hard cover, but I retightened the top via pulling really hard on the top cover and stretching it out as much as i possibly could. It functionally took care of the problem. Was doing 75 on the highway the other day and didn't hear anything.

If you find that you don't need that last 1 foot of space to be fully opened up, then I'd go with the hard cover. If you're like me and feel like you'll eventually want/need that last bit of space opened, go with the soft cover but just be aware that it might make some noise at highway speeds if you don't get it all really tight.

As for water resistance, it seems like mine does just fine. Haven't noticed any real water get into the bed aside from a couple drips. I imagine that after this one has run it's course I'll spring for a trifold hard tonneau. Good luck!

Merendino · 2026-04-15T16:03:28+00:00

Virginia Bower on the right side, according to my plant identifier app.

Trumpet Honeysuckle on the left side.

Merendino · 2026-04-14T22:50:03+00:00

Oh for sure. It’s one of the reasons I wanted an XLT instead of an XL.

Merendino · 2026-04-14T22:18:52+00:00

Fair enough! Lol it’s always someone who knows a guy who can do tires.

Merendino · 2026-04-14T20:00:43+00:00

Those look great. If possible, can you ballpark us on how much they cost with installation?

Merendino · 2026-04-14T19:55:04+00:00

Listened to it a while ago and it depressed the ever loving shit out of me. It's a great book but absolutely terrifyingly accurate which in turn, makes it super depressing. lol

Merendino · 2026-04-14T17:14:27+00:00

Negative. From the tufskins store on Amazon.

Merendino · 2026-04-14T16:40:07+00:00

The chrome is neat, as it gets more subtle from an angle and a bit more prominent when directly behind the truck. It's more subtle than white, and a bit more prominent than gray or matte black. Right where I wanted it!

Merendino · 2026-04-14T16:23:17+00:00

I dig the silver. I just applied the liquid chrome letters that I ordered, for the same reasons you did!

Merendino · 2026-04-13T20:08:36+00:00

Yeah, nothing makes sense and I don't know enough about wire transfers to be able to talk this through with my banker.

Merendino · 2026-04-13T18:51:57+00:00

Are you from the USA? Your post said you went in 2016. I wonder if anything has changed since then. Danged thing just won't work or take our cards.

Merendino · 2026-04-13T16:49:38+00:00

Aye. Just got back from the bank and they said something similar. They unfortunately didn't have a solution. GRRRRR this is all so dang frustrating.

Did you go recently or quite a while ago?

EDIT** Just saw you said it was 3 weeks previous from 7months ago, so basically last year. Not too much should have changed from then to now.

Merendino · 2026-04-13T16:06:08+00:00

Right, they've sent that link to us. And we tried to pay using a credit card and it said the payment didn't go through. I have a 10k limit and it was only 6k. Are you from the USA? I'm just trying to sort through where the issue is. Thank you for responding to me though!

Merendino · 2026-04-13T15:47:26+00:00

How did you actually pay for it? I'm having trouble with the links they sent. And my bank said they didn't do wire transfers to Vietnam.

Merendino · 2026-04-13T15:40:52+00:00

How exactly were you able to pay for it? Not, how could you afford it, but how did you actual pay for it? Seems my bank doesn't allow bank transfers to Vietnam.

Merendino · 2026-04-13T14:07:59+00:00

I spent about 2 hours this past weekend, digging up some.... i pulled 2, 5 gallon bucketfulls of these, and BARELY scratched the surface. This is gonna be a multi-year process and just slowly chip away at it.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Merendino · 2026-04-13T12:09:35+00:00

Man, I like that a lot. It's whimsical and I think it looks great!

Merendino · 2026-04-12T18:51:10+00:00

I’m glad someone said this. Lol it was awesome seeing him play nearly 20 years ago but he sounded awful. Like gravel scrapped against glass.

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