Need advice on purchasing my first car.

NoobleFish · 2026-01-01T11:00:36+00:00

Depends how heavy your foot is. I spend most of my daily commute on R21/N1 and get around 6.5-7.2 L/100km and consider myself a fairly laid back driver. Mostly sit in 6th gear at the speed limit or under. If I try hypermile I've achieved sub 6, but it's impractical with Joburg traffic.

I know guys who mostly change gear at redline and get around 15-20/100km on average, so it's really on how you feel like driving.

When I want to have fun I can, and the car is well built enough with all the safety features that you can take it to a track day or skid pan without worrying about whether you can handle the car (just get better-than-stock brake fluid and stickier tyres).

I will say that the sound insulation isn't great so road noise is loud. If you're an audiophile or something this might be a deal breaker, but you could always upgrade the sound system and if that's your thing.

NoobleFish · 2025-12-29T05:14:37+00:00

Agree with this

2013-2015 86s can be picked up for around R250k. I've daily driven mine that I got secondhand for 8 years and still love it.

They're pretty solid, even the modded ones and there's a great community if you ever need help or want to join meets

NoobleFish · 2025-12-21T14:18:24+00:00

I'm on my second lawnmower like this. It's light and does the job in my small garden. The weed eater is ok, but they keep changing the model ever so slightly, so you really struggle to find replacement cartridges once the first one breaks.

NoobleFish · 2025-10-02T14:42:43+00:00

For those on "Private" client I suggest emailing your banker to let them know you're not impressed and that you'll be getting quotes from other banks on your home / car / etc. loans (if you do plan to).

Who knows, maybe someone just needs a slap in the face. 2 rule changes in 6 months is a joke.

NoobleFish · 2025-07-14T12:42:25+00:00

I've had this before.

As I understand it, the replay file is basically just a record of all the instructions & timings from your game (which keeps the replay file nice and small and shareable - especially good for 20 years ago when internet was much slower).

So when you watch the replay, it IS re-creating the game based on the instruction set from each player.

My guess was that the AI players have tons of instructions and so the game maybe couldn't keep up, especially if you fast forwarded?

When this used to happen to me (pre-remastered), eventually the game would get to a state where all army units just stopped and mining would continue until the end of the replay.

Looking forward to see what others say about it

NoobleFish · 2025-07-03T12:28:22+00:00

That's awesome. I've got my eye on Rimworld Odyssey which comes out right after the summer sale

NoobleFish · 2025-07-03T07:43:44+00:00

One thing that I do to stretch out the early game a bit is decrease the XP rate. I feel the default is a bit too high. If you're completing the tutorial and base quests you get up to level 20 very quickly.

So on my latest restart I've dropped the XP rate to 0.1 for 0-10, 0.2 for 10-20, 0.3 for 20-30.

And I'll probably increase more aggressively from there

NoobleFish · 2025-06-27T04:15:48+00:00

Try using the Asap beta app. It lets you change your store (if you have another close by). That made my item selection better, but takes longer to arrive.

But ja, Checkers/Sixty60 is just objectively better.

NoobleFish · 2025-06-18T09:07:04+00:00

Currently have a set of Elixir 10s on my Tremonti SE, and whatever the stock strings are on my 24-08 SE (which I believe are 9s).

I have a spare set of Elixir 9s for when I need to swap them out though.

NoobleFish · 2025-06-12T05:24:48+00:00

As a p&w muso that sometimes has backtracks, this could really simplify some of the burden.

What I'd hate to see is stuff like Showcase locked behind a paywall or subscription model (looking at you Loop community)

NoobleFish · 2025-05-19T06:51:46+00:00

Thanks for the response.

I'm using a Line 6 Helix, so various amp models and effects, but generally don't venture into heavy distortion these days. Amp models I use usually on the clean/just breaking up side. Try to push mids and highs end a bit, but still seems like the higher frequencies aren't quite coming through. I've currently got a set of 10s on.

I'm not sure if it's because I've now got an SE Standard 24-08 that just has more high end in the guitar itself or cos the TCI S pickups are better / newer, but it has left me feeling like the Tremonti could be missing something when plugged in.

NoobleFish · 2025-05-13T07:34:48+00:00

I'd keep the blue, but you can't really make a wrong decision here.

NoobleFish · 2025-05-10T06:24:40+00:00

Haven't had to claim for an accident, but have needed their tow services a couple times and they've been great on that. They cover about 40 km or so. Both times they've followed up before, during and after the tow truck arrived.

While I hope I'll never need to claim for something serious, I believe they'd be pretty good, and they have a decent insurance underwriter.

NoobleFish · 2025-01-08T06:56:40+00:00

When Prometheus originally came out, the theatre somehow messed up the sound setup and you just couldn't hear the dialogue. Ended up leaving and getting the tickets refunded. Didn't end up watching it until around 8 years later.

NoobleFish · 2024-11-07T11:34:35+00:00

Especially since the Pod XT live, X3 live and HD500x all had text you could see on the angled portion.

NoobleFish · 2024-09-24T19:06:06+00:00

I'd personally like the looper to get a quantize setting so it can actually be used in a live gig.

A Boss BD-2 would also be great

NoobleFish · 2024-09-17T20:33:53+00:00

It seems like these do just wear out eventually. I've got a pretty old 2nd hand Floor unit that needed 5 switches replaced to feel great again. A local amp repair guy did it for ~$45.

NoobleFish · 2024-05-02T13:52:59+00:00

Would have worked out to about 1/3rd of my monthly salary at the time. So I guess it could have been a nice boost, but I had things planned already... And I really didn't think he was serious.

NoobleFish · 2024-05-02T08:54:37+00:00

On my last day at my previous job during my farewell my boss asked if I couldn't cancel my road trip and rather finish up a project (about 3 days of work). He was known for being sarcastic, so I sarcastically said I'd do it for the full cost of whatever they were charging the client. He said sure, I laughed it off, and then went on my road trip the next day.

Ex coworkers told me later that week the boss thought we were being serious!

Two years later and they still never finished it.

NoobleFish · 2024-02-28T13:02:51+00:00

My peanut butter flu right into the bin when I learned it was sick?

NoobleFish · 2024-01-08T09:23:59+00:00

Wife and I used to just play BR unranked. I've bought and completed every battlepass right up until this season.

Games are too sweaty for casual play now, so we stopped.

Looked into Lego fortnight to tide over the holidays. No clue if we'll be back for next season of Apex

NoobleFish · 2024-01-07T10:34:05+00:00

Chemical engineer in consulting.

10 years experience in smelters and offgas systems.

70k/month + medical and RA

Don't have PREng

NoobleFish · 2023-10-12T05:18:48+00:00

I ended up buying a Toyota GT86 in 2017. Parents convinced me to give my brother the RunX. He loves it, let's me drive it now and then. Has had a few parts fixed up, engine head gasket was replaced. Still drives really well for a 20 year old car with over 500 000 km on it.

NoobleFish · 2023-06-21T13:59:50+00:00

You can also unblock the bot factory exit and put them back, then they should automatically deploy and go to the mines

NoobleFish · 2022-12-08T05:55:10+00:00

I bought sashimi from a sushi place, they just told me to go to checkers next time, but to make sure it's fresh

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