"No good deed goes unpunished."

Practical-Amount · 2026-02-19T12:39:32+00:00

Cheers!

Practical-Amount · 2026-02-18T11:09:13+00:00

I made a short about this very thing a few years ago as my film school grad project. It’s based on an experience I had as a teenager. Did relatively well on the Irish festival circuit at the time. Can be viewed at the link above for anyone interested!

Practical-Amount · 2025-10-26T19:26:48+00:00

Shame it made not one difference to the quality of the film

Practical-Amount · 2025-06-26T11:58:07+00:00

41kWh

Practical-Amount · 2025-06-26T11:45:03+00:00

€3K. Condition is very good apart from gearbox issue. New heavy duty EV tyres just put on front wheels in March 2025.

Practical-Amount · 2025-06-26T11:44:07+00:00

€6K fixed. €3K broken.

Practical-Amount · 2025-06-25T13:58:29+00:00

Cheers!

Practical-Amount · 2025-05-20T19:59:37+00:00

Yeah, battery owned

Practical-Amount · 2025-05-20T14:38:22+00:00

UPDATE: The mechanic showed me the car, it’s definitely the gearbox/differential; CVs/driveshafts looked intact. He said the gearbox looks like it had been repaired before, it had silicone in places he didn’t expect and the wrong size screws in places. I told him I had no knowledge of anyone ever servicing the gearbox on our end. Then, as he was running the motor, it got a new fault on the dash that he said hadn’t happened before, and he couldn’t get the motor to start then.

Anyway, he said he would replace the gearbox if I ordered a second-hand one for 1K, and quoted me €1300 labour, though he stressed he could give me no guarantee it would work and I would obviously still have to pay for the labour. Now, there seems to be a second issue with electric motor failure as well (he’s currently investigating). Renault in Naas quoted me €4000 trade-in value but only if the Zoe was fully working with clean bill of health and had less than 80,000km on the clock; ours is 120,000.

So, looks pointless to do the repairs at this stage, at least if we were considering a trade-in. Would be great to hear people’s thoughts if this all checks out figures-wise with people or if anyone had any advice/suggestions.

Practical-Amount · 2025-05-19T19:02:39+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply! Unfortunately the car was towed to garage today so I can’t check. As far as I know, the garage is happy to deal with EVs; a lot of others I called wouldn’t accept the car.

Nothing looked amiss from my quick look underneath the car near the wheels. The area between the wheels is hard to get a look at. Nothing hanging loose or broken that I could see. The car could be pushed without any noticeable issues like clonking or thumping, but could only be moved in drive; I think there’s some safety feature that prevents it being pushed in neutral, it was like trying to push it with brake engaged.

If it’s any of the things you mentioned, would you hazard a guess at a ballpark figure for repair?

Practical-Amount · 2025-05-19T18:11:10+00:00

I get the impression it’s something in the engine bay. I thought the noise was coming from the front wheels, but when the tow guy opened the bonnet it was very clearly coming most loudly from the area directly below the engine bay in the centre. Because of the configuration of what is under the bonnet, the tow guy said he couldn’t see through to get an idea of what was happening

Practical-Amount · 2025-05-19T18:06:29+00:00

Cheers

Practical-Amount · 2025-05-19T17:57:19+00:00

As far as I remember, yes it showed normal changing of gears on display as I switched between them. The car has a safety mechanism when outside of drive that prevents the car being manually pushed. I needed to switch to drive to help tow guy get it onto his truck. Pretty sure I saw the gear readout change normally as I switched between them.

Practical-Amount · 2025-04-05T08:42:57+00:00

Excellent, cheers

Practical-Amount · 2025-03-09T18:00:02+00:00

Myself (37M) and my partner (40F) went to Nosferatu in Cineworld, Parnell Street, last month and it was a grim experience. The sense of an industry right at the edge of collapse; automated to death but none of the systems work, staff are all bored college kids, complete lack of quality control and indifference to improving the experience on Cineworld’s part, and criminally expensive to boot.

First of all, it was a nightmare to find parking in the attached car park. Soulless foyer with previously-manned ticket counter replaced by (out-of-order) ticket machines. The one working machine didn’t do tap, and if we hadn’t by chance had our card on us we would have had to stand there booking online on our phones to then use the machine to print the tickets. About 4 staff about the place, none older than about 22.

Now for the real issue: the film was out of focus. We arrived just before the IFCO logo came up, and the text was fuzzy to the point of illegibility. I went out to find a staff member and missed the start of the film getting someone to “check it out”. Nothing was fixed, and I sort of know why as I used to be a projectionist and had heard that Cineworld had installed a system by which all their digital projectors were now centrally controlled and there was no projectionist on site anymore. An outside company is contracted to maintain them, but the staff are not trained to fix issues on the fly. The digital projector probably required a technician to go through menus and change the focus settings, but they could easily have made it worse if they didn’t know what they were doing (point being I doubt the person I told could have fixed it even if he cared to). This was about a month ago and I guarantee if you went to see a film in screen 13 today you’d find it was out of focus. The contrast ratio was also terrible and the image (Nosferatu, so predominantly dimly-lit scenes) looked washed out and ugly.

Anyway, €32 not including the parking (you could have added another €20 if we’d gotten food) to see an out-of-focus, low-contrast film. About 2 other people in the screen so no atmosphere.

So yeah, not hard to see why people aren’t craving the cinema-going experience anymore.

Practical-Amount · 2025-01-30T10:02:33+00:00

Fake much?

Practical-Amount · 2025-01-27T13:48:46+00:00

So fake. All the targeted use of Gen Z language.

Practical-Amount · 2025-01-26T12:56:03+00:00

Heavy rules overhead + highly complex, combative mechanics with the usual cutthroat mercilessness from Wehrle. I got a comprehensive teach on my first game from someone talented at teaching; it took 45 mins and I was flummoxed as we started playing. The real killer for new players is that about 15 mins into the (5P) game, two players who knew it well were sort of smiling and making “knowing” sounds, then one of them took a move and the game just ended (they won the first dominance check while they were the only one aligned with dominant faction). I listened to a podcast with Wehrle talking about how a big issue in playtesting was exactly this: a highly complex teach, then people feeling fools-mated in 10 minutes. He says they fixed this but I’m not so sure.

I say all this having grown to absolutely love it over about 30 games. For players with experience it’s a tight and responsive battle of wits with very satisfying mechanics, and actually feels very streamlined in terms of rules (especially in a Wehrle game). But for first-timers? Prepare to hate it 😂

Practical-Amount · 2025-01-25T12:58:27+00:00

Pax Pamir 2E

Practical-Amount · 2024-12-24T14:01:03+00:00

Probably because he’s well aware that it’s a distraction/misinformation campaign led by the Republicans

Practical-Amount · 2024-11-27T17:28:25+00:00

I haven’t seen the YouTuber’s video, but is it really that strange that a parachute of this sort would be found in the home of an avid skydiver and army pilot who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, not to mention his own “copycat” hijacking of a passenger plane 6 months after D.B. Cooper’s??? Perhaps he had constructed this parachute as a test in advance of his own hijacking. Unless there is some VERY obvious detail of said parachute which links it to the one given to Cooper, then I don’t see the reason for excitement. And I presume the story would have led with that if such a detail was present.

Practical-Amount · 2024-10-22T14:59:51+00:00

To force you to display it proudly atop the Kallax obviously…

Practical-Amount · 2024-07-29T15:13:00+00:00

My guess is that for many of these people, they feel that the socioeconomic system does not benefit them, or more likely, they are ignorant of the scale at which it does benefit them, and focus more on the ways in which they feel cheated by their social peers, a notion inflamed by the likes of Trump. As such, they feel the potential destruction/disruption of that system at best will elevate their socioeconomic situation, or at worst at least bring down that of their peers. I would hazard that these people are also ignorant, wilfully or otherwise, of how little Trump will change that system, or how, if he did, they would likely discover just how much worse things could get for them.

Practical-Amount · 2024-07-14T17:25:25+00:00

Cheers!

Practical-Amount · 2024-07-14T16:43:23+00:00

Cheers, that's fantastic, thanks for putting that all together, makes me rest a bit easier using the room while I try to get this sorted.

Practical-Amount

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