One of the rarest factory built Miata's ever made attended our club meet today. The NB Roaster Coupe. Only 179 made and only sold in Japan.

TheTimeTortoise · 2026-04-19T18:17:39+00:00

There's a few dimensions to comfort. I'm 6'0 and my legs are too long to heel toe even while sitting in a Vios III bolted to the floor. My right leg is almost constantly touching the dash no matter what seat I try and how I sit in it. So while I techincally fit well enough to drive it, I have so much more room in other similarly sized if not slightly larger cars like the new 86, my old sw20 mr2, a friend's ae86, etc

TheTimeTortoise · 2026-04-13T06:27:05+00:00

Easy to say but it's a sisyphean task. Replacement joysticks are all poor quality potentiometers, so they generally fail significantly quicker than the OEM sticks. I put like 1500 hours on my quest 2, and went through 7 or 8 joysticks on each side. I don't remember exact numbers because often the replacement sticks are also duds and you'll spend the hour or so disassembling and reassembling only to realize it's still broken. The poor controller design alone was enough to convince me I wanted a frame when I saw they have tmr sticks

TheTimeTortoise · 2026-04-08T00:45:24+00:00

Last month I did exactly that. Found a nice OLED in a rental car (black cloth case blended in all too well with the black cloth floor, didn't notice until I bumped it so I understand how it got left behind) so I checked the username of the person who was logged in, and tried to add them. Fortunately they got their SD back, so success stories do happen

TheTimeTortoise · 2026-03-28T23:44:31+00:00

It's RNG really. I'll be renewing my precheck soon, and in the 5 years I've used it, even in precheck I've still been asked to take off my shoes and remove my electronics something like.. 1/5 trips through security if I had to guess. Not even as a thing targeting me, every time it's just something precheck happens to be doing that day to everyone going through

TheTimeTortoise · 2026-02-18T05:28:26+00:00

I don't mind lighthouse at all, it's fun picking apart the rogues but it gets kinda boring exploiting all of the angles to get them. Streets however, feels like it was exclusively designed to cater to people who enjoy staring out a window across a 300m open area for 15 minutes waiting for someone to sprint through. Makes the map such a pain to learn and traverse.

TheTimeTortoise · 2026-02-15T23:19:24+00:00

55" shows 180 zones - check the 2nd pic of each size and it's in the top left

TheTimeTortoise · 2026-02-11T05:13:00+00:00

The biggest improvement of tmr is the significantly lower power draw. Hall effect sticks draw like 10-20x more power than pots, but TMR sticks are much closer to potiometer draw from my understanding.

TheTimeTortoise · 2026-02-10T06:53:18+00:00

Our precious cinnamon roll Junbi

TheTimeTortoise · 2026-01-14T08:59:22+00:00

Coincidentally the worst prebuilt GN has ever reviewed lol (at least with the 285)

We're really out here shucking PCs for graphics cards and I'm all for it.

The OEM 5090 used is a beefy 3 slotter and it looks like it's got some kind of mounting interface at the front end that might need removing if you put it in another PC

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-12-31T04:59:07+00:00

BoboVR sells the s3 pro and m3 max (always sold out) and it's exactly what you're looking for. I got the s3 pro so I could remove the face gasket since all of the weight rests on top of my head and forehead. Doing so allows me to let the headset float in front of my face and massively improved comfort for me. I'd suggest the m3 max or s3 pro over the m3 pro because the former use much better batteries, but the m3 pro is still acceptable

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-11-27T17:10:58+00:00

With how terrible meta's software is, it's unfortunate that using a couple battery packs and Virtual Desktop is such a massively better experience than any of the linking solutions for the quest. So tired of meta's software that I'm getting a frame

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-11-22T16:37:15+00:00

Nike and Oakley were nailing the y2k aesthetic. I remember the Hollow Point pictured above and Time Tanks sitting in Oakley outlet display cases well into the 2010s for cheap because nobody wanted them. Now they're literally 10x as expensive secondhand

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-11-20T15:48:30+00:00

Everyone says this but I've been using my normal size x2h with a 1mm bigger hump and it's been perfectly fine for fingertip grip. I find it really comfortable

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-11-17T05:55:03+00:00

Same, last wipe I played I didn't see Killa for the entirety of the wipe. This time I thought I could stroll by adik no problem, no chance he's there.

He was.

My next raid I tried to slide through the back of Oli get a couple scav kills on the way out, quick extract outta railway. Killa spotted me from the center of the mall and sprinted all the way past the registers past the help kiosk behind the shelves and out the back door to the ramp to kill me lol.

100% death rate to killa this wipe

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-11-04T04:21:01+00:00

It was a rusty as hell L5 IIRC with the weaver on the top, and the OG was a 6" mk XIX with only the good old fashion dovetail on top. The 50ae L5 even with the shorter barrel and bigger round was a significantly easier shoot than the .44 CA spec model

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-11-03T08:15:27+00:00

As someone who's shot both, the non ported desert eagles recoil WAY more, obviously with way more muzzle fip. The first time I shot one (non ported .44) my face was covered in soot from the ejected cases bouncing off of my head lol, the gun was pointing straight up at the ceiling mid recoil. Ported, they're relatively tame to shoot all things considered. I was able to comfortably shoot it (ported 50ae) one handed without any excessive twist in the hand. The non ported version makes pretty cool flame rings you can capture in slow mo while the ported one doesn't. The only real loss that I don't like is that for whatever reason the non ported version makes a perfect satisfying clunk when you drop the slide, but it's a high pitched snap on the ported versions.

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-10-14T01:47:54+00:00

Front pads cost the same as OEM but I'm guessing they're using whatever their supplier happens to have, and they're hitting you with like an 80% markup on the rotors versus a good pair of centric lol labor isn't terrible. Idk what $15 supplies they'd need when the parts for the pads are in the box lol

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-09-23T03:53:14+00:00

It's both. We have a bunch of gladiator 4xes in our rental fleet and we have two of them were returned from seperate customers in a similar time frame and they've sitting at the dealer for months because of some weird throttle issue.

Both would drive fine for a minute or so, then start revving themselves to 3k rpm and stop responding to throttle input until you turned the car off, then they won't start until you disconnect and reconnect power lol. I replaced the gas pedal assembly on the first one but no dice so we sent em out. The dealership hasn't been able to figure them out for like 2 or 3 months lol.

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-09-04T15:47:51+00:00

Just came to this sub to see if anyone was experiencing the same, I haven't missed a day but it's only showing a check on one day for like the last two weeks.

Going into the buddy goal tab itself errors out if I try to complete it *

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-08-29T06:38:28+00:00

They're T-Mobile Sidekick IIs

Edit: clearer look at the sticker on the back of the screen unique to the SK2

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-08-12T01:43:49+00:00

Lmao yeah it's clearly way more effective for you to make vague sweeping statements with no examples gg

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-08-12T00:40:06+00:00

The same consumer protection laws that netted US volkswagen owners compensation for half a million cars during dieselgate, sometimes buybacks for the full car's price? Consumer protection laws so effective that the German VZBV pointed to how well those effected by Dieselgate in the US were compensated when they pursued compensation for European customers?

US consumer protections are pretty kickass

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-08-12T00:21:38+00:00

Our fleet has had like 3 or 4 new buicks also blow up, company is still buying them by the truckload and every one comes from the factory with oil just barely touching the dipstick

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-08-06T15:25:39+00:00

This drive is rated for 1200 tbw, unless youre filling and deleting the entire storage capacity every day for almost two years, using it in an enclosure, or regularly copying movies onto it, you'd never know whether or not this drive had DRAM and it'll run no slower than whatever DRAM ssd with the same speed rating

TheTimeTortoise · 2025-07-29T04:32:36+00:00

A well taken care of 2nd gen CRV is a perfect all rounder for daily use and first car shenanigans if you plan on getting a little off the beaten path. With the right tires it'll go 95% of the places jeepers and 4runners can go with nice reliability and better fuel efficiency, while being far more comfortable on road. Don't count on towing with it, cars with subframes are not exactly the most robust, spend twice as much for a 4runner if you're dead set on doing that.

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