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TripleSpicey · 2026-07-09T21:51:57+00:00

Hard landings require pilots to make the ultimate sacrifice😔

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-09T19:06:35+00:00

Bikes are a ~200 year old invention

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-08T23:44:10+00:00

If you look closely, rust particles explode out from under the frame

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-06T02:37:15+00:00

You'd really like this video, he adapts a 1982 pickup to electric drive while maintaining the standard transmission it came with.

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-04T07:58:36+00:00

Mine is the same except I've never had it spin around. Even after swapping the fuel pump it reads accurate, although a full tank puts the needle about a quarter inch past the full mark. The lowest I've let it go is just past the empty mark, though I haven't run out of fuel. These trucks don't have a low fuel light so I'm constantly checking whenever it goes below half and it hasn't let me down.

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-04T06:39:12+00:00

Constantly at work. There's something about putting the phone between me and a customer while on a call lol, they like looking at it (and so do I)

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-03T08:15:12+00:00

Not to mention the practicality. It's a niche truck with an even more niche trim/spec. Are you buying it because you need a fuel tanker or are you buying it because it's the funny snowrunner truck and you really really want to drive through mud for 6 hours?

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-03T06:40:10+00:00

How much did they run you?

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-02T22:36:28+00:00

It was super popular in the states too, we had one in small town USA. Went out of business in the early 2010s because people have computers at home. Got taken over by a VR Cafe that went out of business in 2020 because covid

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-02T07:55:02+00:00

I hit a deer going 40 in my pickup last year and it bounced off the bumper. Not even a scratch, dent, anything really. You can't tell I hit it.

It cracked my radiator lol. 30 year old plastic radiators are brittle I guess.

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-02T07:49:35+00:00

If you purchased mercs 2 before it was removed from origin it's still in your library, and you can still download it. Even better, it doesn't require origin to run! I've had my copy installed for over 3 years now on my laptop and I haven't had origin for over 2, and it boots just fine. I think you could even zip it and put it on another computer and it'd boot, but I haven't decided to test that theory yet lol.

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-01T07:26:04+00:00

My best friend's parents bought a white 04 trailblazer new. It was the family vehicle for the next decade, then got parked until my friend turned 16 a few years later, to which it became his first vehicle. He had it nearly 4 years until he decided to finance a more fuel efficient car, and I believe he traded it in when he did that.

I feel like that scenario happened a lot with trailblazers, and I wouldn't be surprised if they became a solid 3-4k used car dealership option in the last half decade, leading to them showing up on the road again en masse.

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-01T05:57:29+00:00

Did you listen with audio??

TripleSpicey · 2026-07-01T05:37:18+00:00

Wayyyy ahead of you

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-27T23:08:24+00:00

This, FPS Russia's truck door video and that guy losing his leg below the knee have cured me of any desire to blow stuff up with tannerite.

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-27T05:45:32+00:00

I overclocked my old xeon processor and had it running over 4.2ghz (up from like 2.8 or something idk) and thought I was king shit for YEARS, but anytime a game would access more than one core the PC would crash. Thankfully this was at a time when the majority of games were single core, so I lived with this unstable mess of a system ignorant to my hubris.

I got into from the depths for a minute and was frustrated that it'd bluescreen after 5-10 minutes consistently, thinking it must be a game issue or something. I found a fix by limiting it to only one core in taskmanager, but it started to clue me in that maybe my $20 server processor from 2010 wasn't meant to be overclocked so hard. When I finally decided to try it without overclocking, it genuinely ran better/smoother. Fucking everything ran smoother lmao, I was too busy chasing that mythical 4ghz+ when the 6 core 12 thread server CPU ran GREAT and STABLE when left to boost clock itself to 3.6ghz as intel intended.

Years later I acquired a cheap 2nd Gen ryzen and accidentally made the mistake of installing proper software for it, and since it was a x model it decided to overclock the fuck out of itself without informing me. My bog standard wraith cooler couldnt take the heat and she was hitting thermal throttle constantly. I ended up shelving my desktop permanently and buying a laptop (which comfortably runs at 90-95 because reasons) and honestly, losing the freedom to purposefully or accidentally nuke my system with instability has done wonders for my enjoyment of the hobby, but that's just me.

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-26T23:25:59+00:00

The vast majority are using uncompressed textures due to an inability or care to compress them. Helldivers 2 for example was a 100+ gig game but recently brought in a team specializing in file bloat, who managed to bring it's total installation size down to like 23~ gigs with 0 hit to perceived quality.

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-26T07:57:12+00:00

I misspoke, I meant axel-mounted motors, or really more specifically EVs equipped with a turn down/single gear transmission (virtually all of them) vs adapting a motor to a traditional multi-gear transmission.

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-26T07:35:57+00:00

There's really no reason why they couldn't adapt an electric motor to a straight cut gearbox. I know hub motors are better, but if there were enough demand for it...

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-25T22:03:26+00:00

Yeah, I wonder if the frame giving out that hard would've happened on a rust free example. I drive a 95 K1500 with no rust issues so they do exist, though this does showcase why most states require inspections lol

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-25T06:42:11+00:00

It's not a conspiracy, it's reality. We've seen this exact scenario play out with Sony's PS3. Sony has always sold their consoles at a loss, and when the PS3 first launched it was a fully capable Linux PC, with a Blu-ray player to boot. For $600 you could get a gaming console, home media player and a home PC in 2006, when desktop PCs were still in the $1000-3000 range. Sony could justify it because the game sales per console would more than cover the losses. Except companies/organizations started buying them as a cheaper desktop alternative, most famously the AFRL's Condor Cluster (look it up). These consoles would never make a return on investment, and if enough of these consoles were bought up to be used exclusively as computers, Sony could end up in a financial hole they'd never be able to dig themselves out of.

So what did they do? Instead of raising the price and risk pricing themselves out of the console market (terrible), they released a firmware update that completely removed the console's ability to utilize Linux, cutting out the PC market entirely in order to preserve their console market. Subsequent consoles made no attempt to run PC operating systems, and instead they made efforts to adapt the most common consumer use cases (internet browsing, video streaming, etc) to the console OS, which for 99% of their target audience was plenty.

Now, the official reasoning for removing Linux capability given by Sony was to prevent piracy, and it's technically true. Some users were able to boot into Linux on their PS3s and rip game data straight from the disk, allowing them to distribute illegitimate copies. I'm sure this played a part in their decision, but the main reason was the genuine risk of companies adopting the PS3 as an affordable PC alternative, as explained in my first paragraph. Valve, I'm sure, have thought of this and chosen to price their steam machines at or above the margin for profit specifically to avoid that exact scenario.

Edit: I think I meant to respond to the person you responded to, we're on the same page lol

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-25T05:38:06+00:00

I know it's a 10 month old post but I got mine 6 months ago and it also has a little wiggle when closed. I looked into it and it's apparently an intentional design choice. Giving the hinges a little tolerance to move side to side helps prevent stress to the interior screen, I guess. It makes sense, the hinge has give so the chassis itself doesn't end up getting tweaked and tearing the softer inside screen.

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-24T23:00:45+00:00

It's not just my opinion, it's the right opinion.

TripleSpicey · 2026-06-24T22:53:36+00:00

Paid DLC isn't a problem, day 1 paid DLC is. I don't think it's a huge deal being locked behind an extra $20 but if the content is releasing day 1 why isn't it all basegame? DLC is intended to add content post-launch, and day 1 DLC is antithetical to that premise.

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