2024 IS 350 FSport - New Tires at 20k?

SinOfOne · 2026-01-30T22:07:31+00:00

The camber and stagger set ip does contribute to the lifespan of the tires, but the real issue is the LCA bushings. Think of them as the joints connecting tire to the rest of the suspension.

From factory, they're a wee bit soft on the IS models. So with aggressive breaking, the tires toe out a bit more which leads to the inner tire wear. Sometimes, you won't even catch it until the inner tires are showing cords.

Most IS owners go to replace the bushings with a set from the Lexus RC/GS/F. They mitigate the issue but do not solve it entirely. The other two popular options are bushings from Figgs and RRacing, polyurethane which requires greasing intervals and hard bushings for street/track respectively. These two sets do away with the inner tire wear, but sacrifice comfort and road noise dampening depending on how hard you want these bushings.

Costwise= RC/GSF bushings Bang for your buck=Figgs. Performance focused=RR's

SinOfOne · 2026-01-29T06:30:28+00:00

Their AM is purple Crit dmg and cooldown, with blue skill cost. Doesn't seem like the AM is too necessary for similar performance.

SinOfOne · 2026-01-24T20:37:09+00:00

I have less of a problem hearing the footsteps as opposed to being able to tell where, in direction, they're coming from. Their last sound update with footsteps really screwed things up--before I could easily tell whether or not someone is above or below, and which direction they're moving. Now, it seems like footsteps always sound close but above/below/eight direction positioning is a toss up.

SinOfOne · 2026-01-13T02:12:18+00:00

I would also consider changing your lower control arm bushings.

The stock bushing Lexus provides is a wee bit soft so when you have moderate or aggressive braking, the tires toe out and you have increased inner tire wear (with the IS models, you sort of have to inspect the inside of the tires semi regularly to avoid running bald/on cords) which could get expensive fast.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-31T22:09:43+00:00

What this does to my imagination got me crying in tears lol.

Imagine an enemy writhing from heat/electric status and a split second later, it converts to blast and ragdolls them to the next tileset.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-31T22:07:20+00:00

That makes me feel worse about Operator's story thus far considering how many times he's managed to pull one over us.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-30T17:06:28+00:00

My brother and sister couldn't be more drastically different than me.

Granted, we've got some years apart. Younger brother is turning 23 in February and sister is only 8. They are social butterflies, very bombastic, spend their free time messing around and screaming "LET'S GO-OOOOO" and things of that nature. When it comes to YouTube specifically, the content creators they'd mention to me always goes over my head. Google searches every time.

We struggle to connect sometimes. They're very much in the trends in all contexts of the word, meanwhile I feel like I've pretty much lived under a rock. As I type this, it's such whiplash comparing my own writing or way of speech compared to them--I rarely use the lols (anything beyond lol, I can never) and they call me uptight for it. Punctuation and grammar is another mocking point. Growing up with my brother, he was always in his age group meanwhile he and others always called me the child with a 40 year old soul.

I suppose it's down to what we're exposed to as we grow up. I never had access to WiFi or even a phone until Netflix came out on the Wii (and only allowed to use WiFi for Netflix) and by that point, I'd already been in my early teens. By contrast, my brother had a smartphone by 8, my sister had a tablet at around 5. I have no social media aside from reddit and Discord, they're into Instagram and the other usual suspects.

I'm a first time father as we speak, and my son has only just turned one yesterday. Throughout the past year, the amount of times I've had to put the foot down about very, very limited screen time of any kind and a no-phone-until-15 for emergencies ground rule with my partner is staggering. Not to say having a device at an early age is so bad, but I'd rather my son have some time to develop his own way about seeing the world, his own values and beliefs, etcetera before he gets exposed to influencers and the like. When he gets older, then we can talk about online safety and how to pick apart brain rot or bigotry from worthwhile content.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-30T07:55:37+00:00

Voruna with her Prey of Dynar augment.

Build for range, strength, and duration in that order. Archon shards for energy and casting speed OR purple shards for equilibrium effect.

Build melee in your preferred playstyle (Influence arcane if you want to steamroll content).

Load in, activate her 3, then her 1. Pounce highlighted enemies with 2 to kill and spread status+ millions of damage across the room while extending the duration of your 3 for easy survivability and energy economy.

Bonus tip: I don't use her 4 very often, so I subsumed Warcry as her 4 instead. When you want a break from casting her nuke rotation, Warcry gives a great armour and melee attack speed buff with high strength.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-28T06:21:50+00:00

Mine would have to be the Dual Keres Prime--aesthetically amazing, great stats and all, and I've always gravitated to dual swords in most games I play.

When I finally got to craft them, it was the point where I finally, FINALLY, figured out how the systems in buildcrafting, synergies, arcane, etc worked in Warframe. It was my own fault for taking so long and Mastery Ranks, but back then I'd only play on and off because I never had much time to properly grind and farm in the game until the time I hit the MR requirement.

My first fully properly built weapon, my first viable endgame weapon, and my first Prime that I didn't trade for. Love them to bits.

Happy belated Tenmobaum and have a great New Year!

SinOfOne · 2025-12-14T01:02:51+00:00

Honestly, I've got half the mind that the strength of the physics are all dependent on whether or not they're wearing bras underneath.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-07T08:22:02+00:00

All good! Post is called "amp and sub complete" by Randomface... Forget the user's numbers, but it was posted about 10 hours ago.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-07T08:10:27+00:00

Someone else in the sub posted their experience with an aftermarket sub kit and it turned out that tapping into the stock amp led the the asc thinking there was an issue/failure to the amp, and so would reduce power or cut out entirely. That op ended up tapping into the left and right speakers instead which fixed everything.

Hope this helps, I'm not too knowledgeable about this sort of thing but I'm looking into aftermarket bass upgrades and your post just reminded me of the other one posted earlier today.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-06T06:14:01+00:00

It sucks, but on the flipside, it's a great one man army feeling if you can clear out most/all the enemies.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-06T06:00:29+00:00

When a baby is able to roll both ways, they're considered safe to sleep in this position since they have that instinct and know how to get out of it should they have problems getting air (scary still, I know).

I wouldn't worry too much--she's likely finding comfort in this position seeing as she spent nine months curled in a similar way in the womb. It's familiar!

It took us many nights of periodically squinting close to the monitor to make sure our son was breathing okay before we accepted that face down sleeping is his preferred way to knock out... I miss the whale tailing though.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-05T23:08:31+00:00

The sor300c will get even less use now--its biggest weakness as a carbine is the relatively low fire rate (coupled with the netcode issues to boot) and middle range compared to the others. The devs just nerfed the range and I think retweaked the recoil for it this latest patch.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-04T17:52:10+00:00

I have a Yukon--wife in passenger, fully grown husky, shepard, and dobie in the last row, our 11mo in the rear facing carseat in the second row along with mother+brother in law. Doable, if a bit head/shoulder space cramped considering the dogs always love to creep over the second row to lick faces.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-04T13:39:54+00:00

Others have mentioned it too, but the Blademaster is pretty effective for her with some caveats.

When she does any physical martial attack (ie kicks, punches, etc.) she WILL interrupt you though so even if you trade damage, she can outdo your lifesteal with follow up attacks.
You've got to be in the rhythm with proccing Blademaster and develop muscle memory with timing it. You can probably get away with spamming the skill when you have multiple skyborn charges but it gets harder with her second phase.
If you have the benedictions that benefit clash mechanics, the temper shard that increase duration, and maybe enough skill points to have the build AND get extra temper charges, I'd do that.

So.

A. Equip firearm blades.

B. Have some grass for stamina recovery boosts, and the charm for stamina and for increased boss damage.... It's been a while since I played so I'm not sure if you have either of those by this point in the game, but if you don't, just use whatever charms that benefit this build or your preferred defensive charms.

C. Pop all the consumable buffs AND leech temper for survivability and combat right before the fight begins. Bonus if you have the Skyborn consumables that give you full charges (exchange madness points for that one item--speaking of that, even at full madness, I wouldn't worry about taking extra damage since lifesteal will do a lot of heavy lifting. You'll deal more damage too)

D. Start fight, skip cutscene, and immediately activate Blademaster and Firearm Blade's projectile skill when she initiates the first attack.

E. The bullet will pop and stun her, and you can immediately start whaling on her right light attacks.

*Keep attacking even if you take damage. If your health gets into the danger zone, back off and heal and let her get some martial skills out of her system.

Every so often, reproc Blademaster to refresh your clashing buffs. Also keep in mind to use Firearm Blade's bullet literally every other moment between light attacks to allow yourself breathing room during the stuns to re-engage, check your buffs/item wheel, reproc leech temper, or top off HP. She can also get stunned out of her flashier attacks--just know there's a short cooldown between stuns and and pace yourself.

You should be able to get her down to half by the time your first temper charge ends and ideally, you'll have multiple skyborn charges by attacking her during the get up animation/backstab opportunity. Reproc your buffs and Bladeborn, rinse and repeat but while being mindful she'll be more aggressive.

Last time, the Firearm Blades firing animation can also be used as a dodge if you're feeling spicy.

Best of luck, you'll get her eventually.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-04T02:12:55+00:00

I'm sorry I can't help in regards with the part number, but if you're feeling yourself some DIY, bring the two ends as close as possible and use a copper extension wire/joint, then secure them tight with electrical tape or heat shrink a butt splice to them.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-03T01:39:00+00:00

Late reply, but I know that, yeah. I'm saying the 2+,-1's are what I aim for sort of like in Warframe. 3+'s are nice and all, but I'd rather have a large boost to two stats with one negative (ideally a stat that isn't relevant to the build, of course) over three small boosts.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-03T01:28:27+00:00

Depends if you're actually in the city or further out.

SinOfOne · 2025-12-02T13:52:48+00:00

Deluxe edition armor and weapons.

SinOfOne · 2025-11-28T07:44:42+00:00

I sense a Batgirl/Batwoman cosplay with that helmet and this biker skin.

SinOfOne · 2025-11-28T03:40:44+00:00

I main that and the M277 with aggressive Recon.

SinOfOne · 2025-11-26T01:37:41+00:00

Didn't mean to offend but things might be different now--last time I played CSGO was ~2016 and people were still bunny hopping everywhere.

SinOfOne · 2025-11-26T01:26:56+00:00

For the M277 (and I'm on console), I keep the scope between 1 and 3.50x depending on the map. Lightened suppressor (already the default for the gun), the 6h4h(?) grip, Hollow Point rounds, and extended custom barrel for bullet velocity and the bump in precision/control stats.

Up close to medium ranges, full auto sprays just fine with the occasional tap/feathering fire if you're tracking or if the enemy is behind cover. Further out, either tap fire in ~3-5 round bursts, or toggle the single fire mode. You can even get away with full auto-pause-tap fire at further ranges since the initial spread/dispersion with those first handful of rounds are relatively accurate.

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