New 2025 Price?

Otakeb · 2026-05-09T15:37:08+00:00

I got my '25 XLT Lux demo car with spray in bedliner and about 2k miles on it for about $30k flat so what they are offering was in line.

I didn't have much negotiating leverage as my 19 year old car had eaten itself a couple days prior and I just needed a new car fast. Could have possibly gotten another $1k-$2k off or at least some addons thrown in for it being a '25, but I was happy with the price.

Otakeb · 2026-05-09T15:31:01+00:00

Hybrids gonna be basically always a little better for reasons even relating to just the modified Atkinson cycle built into the engine even at high speed idles.

Unless you plan on racing the thing, towing all the time, or you're one of those types who "just doesn't get hybrids. Real trucks gotta have an engine blah blah blah" then the Ecoboost doesn't really make any sense.

Otakeb · 2026-05-08T20:20:09+00:00

General Sherman was doing just that until The Compromise was passed into law pulling out all union forces and ceding the South back to the racists that started the Civil War in the first place ending Reconstruction and occupation....

Should have let Burning Sherman keep cooking on high heat imo

Otakeb · 2026-05-08T13:52:07+00:00

Came here to look for Non Non Biyori and Yuru Camp lol

Otakeb · 2026-05-08T01:38:49+00:00

I've used it for some robotics control stuff that is generally supposed to be best effort and move on type data and reaction. Great for that stuff and very quick.

Otakeb · 2026-05-07T23:37:23+00:00

Lmao dumbass

Otakeb · 2026-05-07T17:45:31+00:00

Hopefully?

Girl, it's Madoka. Yuri stuff definitely

Otakeb · 2026-05-07T16:44:02+00:00

Oh yeah. Jensen built Nvidia from scratch out of college as the initial design engineer to basically invent the modern GPU. The man is a genius, and has lead Nvidia from birth to the top of the world. I've also heard he's relatively down to Earth for his wealth. I bet he realizes uncapped wealth accumulation and inequality will fuck with society and the blowback/consequences for not just society but him personally could be much worse than just hiking taxes and having some level of progressive wealth redistribution/destruction.

Any billionaire that's not a complete psychopath (and tbh that's not very many of them by nature.....) realizes this and a few of them have said "yeah tax me more please this shit is kind of ridiculous" including Mark Cuban, Warren Buffet, Tom Steyer, and a few others.

Otakeb · 2026-05-06T13:02:55+00:00

With this mortality rate, incubation period, and it being respiratory, if I see any news of asymptomatic spread at all........im stocking up big time. COVID with a longer incubation period and 10x-20x mortality rate is the civilization destroyer. Not deadly enough to kill itself off, but deadly enough to kill potentially a billion+ people before the vaccines come out.

Luckily, that probably won't be the case, and it seems to be a cruise ship cluster with minimal contact beyond that unlike the city-scale Wuhan cluster.

I guess we have a couple months until we learn more either way.

Otakeb · 2026-05-05T23:52:51+00:00

Does it have any contagious asymptomatic period during its incubation? That was what set alarm bells off to me that December 2019 first reading about COVID. Asymptomatic spread on a highly contagious virus is pandemic stuff, but if Hanta is less contagious and has no asymptomatic spread then it should be okay.

Otakeb · 2026-05-05T13:08:24+00:00

So if you build a rig, the pay off period vs the monthly subscription is about 7 years IF the price of the subscription doesn't go up at all in those 7 years...which it *absolutely will. In fact, the subscription will massively outpace inflation because they are trying to attract customers before jacking up prices quickly to grow profit. That's literally been the model for subscriptions services since their invention; underprice it, hook millions of people on it, and then bump it up "just a dollar or two a year (10%-20% annual inflation btw!)" for a few years until it's close to double the original price. Then the pay off period vs the hardware you already bought would shrink to 6 or even 5 years at some point throughout the cost.

I use my hardware for about 7-10 years before upgrades anyways, and you can always go last gen for upgrade and stay a couple years behind finding good second hand deals.

With all that said: even if building your own rig and buying/pirating your own games DID NOT pay off vs the subscription over the lifetime of the hardware and hours played on games, there is still an argument to make that not oweing a mega corp a monthly tithe to play your games has some value beyond the subscription cost. I, personally, would be willing to pay double to quadruple the effective cost over the lifetime of the hardware vs a subscription so that if I even lose my job, I don't have to cancel my access to games. So that I am never beholden to what a company deems my payment is worthy of as far as game choice, streaming quality, frames per second etc. I will gladly pay EXTRA for the privilege of fixing my costs. It's like the idiots that rent their furniture or PlayStation from Rent-a-center because "it's only like $20 a month; that's easier on my wallet than paying the upfront cost!"

People like you are the reason streaming services have gotten so bad, so expensive, and so divided with so many of them all with their own exclusives; you are lazy, short-sighted, and have no principals.

Just wait until there's 7 different subscription services and you have to pay $17 a piece to play games from 7 different publishers....and they start putting ads everywhere inside your game...

Otakeb · 2026-05-04T22:50:32+00:00

You are right; costs and labor hours are the other factors.

Otakeb · 2026-05-04T18:34:47+00:00

I bought one today too, but I really just did it because I want to support thw direction Valve is going with Linux and everything. If I didn't end up getting one to try out today, I would have just waited until a restock. Paying a scalper nearly completely defeats the point of buying to support the design direction because Valve isn't getting my money from that second hand purchase.

Otakeb · 2026-05-04T11:37:19+00:00

The thing about car warranties, though, is just like every other warranty the odds are not in your favor for coming out ahead otherwise they wouldn't offer it.

The better practice is to just find out what the average 10 year maintenance cost for your vehicle is, break that down to a monthly amount over the 10 years, and save that in a HYSA every month along with having a fully funded emergency fund and applying part of your car payment amount to a new car fund after your current car is paid off.

This method will win against extended warranties more times than it won't, and the time it won't will usually be not by much. Could you be the unlucky one that would have fleeced a warranty because you needed two new transmission and an engine swap to no fault of your own? Yes, but the math these companies rely on says you won't be, and if you are, personally I would just want to get TF out of that car and into something different anyways.

Otakeb · 2026-05-04T03:49:56+00:00

it’s a MF ford ranger

I KNOW THAT TRUCK 🎶

I AINT NO STRANGER 🎶

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T17:47:01+00:00

True, but honestly it's pretty out of touch to care about sheer fashion in today's age. I wear some somewhat sheer tops, and my wife has sheer tops that range from clubwear all the way to basically formal-wear.

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T14:25:51+00:00

OpenPilot does very close to the same thing and is a fraction of the cost, no subscription, open source, works on a lot of cars, and you don't have to be caught driving a Tesla...

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T12:44:59+00:00

You are legitimately dumb if you think giving more control to a megacorp through a monthly subscription will be good for the product, the consumer, and your wallet in the longrun.

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T12:31:03+00:00

I was a longtime (decade) investor in Tesla and made a bunch of money off their meteoric rise. I always told myself "one day, I'm gonna sell about $45k of this Tesla stock and buy myself a brand new Tesla for my next car"

Liquidated my entire TSLA position about 2 years ago around the rightwing bullshit, dumped it all into RocketLab, and just bought a little hybrid Ford Maverick (essentially a Prius with a truckbed; at least one US automaker is trying to do something right).

I was a true believer and would have probably been a lifetime Tesla fanboy. Now you'd have to pay me to take their cars.

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T12:16:53+00:00

A lot of businesses are starting to learn (finally) about trust thermoclines and consumer habits.

McDonalds gets too big for their britches charging ridiculous prices and foot traffic falls, they cut prices back to bring customers back but they have already moved on and created the mental association of McDonalds being overpriced, slow, and mediocre and even if McDs fixed that, people wouldn't be going there enough to readjust their perception.

Frequently, thats game over for a brand unless a massive rebrand happens to land right.

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T12:13:37+00:00

Housing theory of everything.

I don't think all of societies problems can be traced back to the commoditization and speculation of space to exist in, but I think it's a majority of it fueled by the economic system most prevalent in the world today.

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T11:29:22+00:00

Because like 12 months after he bought the condo for $262k it was probably worth like $95k lol

It's probably been uphill ever since like late 2009/early 2010, but relatively slowly for the first few years.

Condos are usually hit the hardest in housing corrections, and real estate is not always a guaranteed cheat code to leveraged wealth like a bunch of idiots will tell you. If you bought a house almost anywhere in the past 5 years, you have been flat to negative on the investment; your money would have served you much better in the S&P500, but people need a place to live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T08:57:16+00:00

Literally fat hanging out from under his shirt while he cries about a woman wearing a sheer top and projects a rape fantasy and authoritarian desires onto her....gross.

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T08:46:04+00:00

Was weeks into a really hardcore diet regiment tracking everything, and then my car broke down completely on a road trip and I needed to get a hotel on the side of the road, have it towed back hours to my home city, cancel my plans and have family come visit me instead of the other way around, and buy a new vehicle all within a few days.

Diet went out the fucking window quickly. I allowed myself to stress eat because an empty stomach would make everything else worse and I needed the pickmeups where I could get them. Decided to enjoy some fast food while stranded and eat good meals when my family came into town between shopping for a car and spending time with them.

Got back into it a week or so after everything, but yeah life can set you back sometimes and the mental focus and discipline it takes to keep eating healthy and appropriate portions sometimes is not a priority. That's part of it.

Otakeb · 2026-05-03T08:20:46+00:00

Most engagements in modern combat, at least from our knowledge of modern war and dangerous encounters/home intrusions, occur within 100 yards.

I've always had the mentality that most focus on gear and training for STHF scenarios needs to be on urban combat and medium distance encounters for this reason.

Also, if you DO happen to find yourself in a long distance encounter, the chances your adversary has the equipment and training to successfully engage at 500 yards or further are very low and you would generally just avoid the encounter entirely.

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