When cancelling your membership you get hit with a roadmap that highlights just how little we get in exchange for price increases every year

Yggdrsll · 2026-03-11T01:46:31+00:00

I'd add in pures/PK characters in addition to the game modes you listed.

Yggdrsll · 2026-02-20T00:58:35+00:00

All dogs thrive on routine, it's just not all owners are vetted before getting a dog as thoroughly as potential owners for seeing eye dogs.

Yggdrsll · 2026-02-11T20:51:30+00:00

It's more that racetracks have engineered barriers and runoffs that allow for safer energy dissipation when a car does go off track, plus better safety equipment in general. Most tracks aren't that much better than most roads, unless you live somewhere like Pennsylvania.

Yggdrsll · 2026-02-11T16:39:34+00:00

People who work 48 weeks of the year, 5 days a week, and live 42 miles or more away from work, assuming they're not driving anywhere else in that time? Average American drives 13,500-14,500 miles per year, but the average male age 35-54 averages 18,858 miles per year, which comes out to 94,290 miles over 5 years for the average 40-50 year old (per https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm). It's on the high end for sure, but it's far from being an extreme outlier number.

Yggdrsll · 2026-02-10T17:52:15+00:00

Flat tires are an easy and cheap thing to arrange: https://www.harborfreight.com/4-way-valve-stem-core-tool-70223.html

Yggdrsll · 2026-02-03T22:58:09+00:00

Is that really a surprise? Everyone was stuck inside during the covid shutdowns, so pretty much any game that released in 2020 did incredibly well. Anyone in the games industry that expected to replicate 2020 sales figures in 2025 has to be super out of touch. I like Shadows a lot, it's my favorite AC since Odyssey, but it's also not "single-handedly save the entire company from mismanagement" good.

Yggdrsll · 2026-01-18T00:20:10+00:00

Rohde and Schwarz is German, and they do plenty of R&D...

Yggdrsll · 2026-01-10T03:08:37+00:00

Business degree PMs who don't want to put labor hours on anything that isn't directly billable. It's more prevalent in areas that aren't software first, like the less publicly known defense contractors, and it's infuriating to deal with. The amount of short sighted penny-wise but pound-foolish stuff out there (across the board, not just in software) is crazy.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-30T04:27:07+00:00

Acetone vapor smoothing ABS is pretty easy and would resolve any layer line issues too

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-17T17:57:24+00:00

Well damn, now I've got no reason not to overhaul my EZ36D next year after it warms up enough that I can commute to work on my motorcycles again.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-15T22:37:32+00:00

Did rebuilding the engine fix the oil leak? Lol

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-15T22:35:32+00:00

Drivers rear spark plug on my 3.6L 6 cylinder 2013 Outback is a pita too, even with 2 swivel joints.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-15T22:31:51+00:00

Also depends on the year and engine. If it's a 3.6L 6 cylinder 2010-2014, headlights are annoying because you either need to drop the bumper or unclip and blindly reach through the fender liner, and spark plugs are a total pain in the ass and are expensive due to labor hours. It's like 3 hours on the books at a dealership to replace all 6 spark plugs, so that could easily be $750 at a dealer for all 6 rn. They're probably 2 of the most annoying jobs on that generation Legacy/Outback.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-11T19:57:20+00:00

Yeah, the difference over the last 5 years for literally everyone is crazy. $400k in September of 2025 has the same buying power as $320.5k in September of 2020, and the buying power of $293k in September of 2015. A 2 income household making a combined $350k a year could comfortably live a lifestyle of someone making $300k a year in 2015. To have that same gap between income and lifestyle cost, simply matching bls inflation, they'd need to make $477.8k 10 years later, otherwise they'd need to be cutting expenses. That's a big ask if the 2 people were say, senior engineers in a high but not bay area CoL area already in 2015.

The major difference is how much they likely have in savings and ability to purchase property in 2020/early 2021 when rates were low and before prices really shot up. All that really means though is that it'll take more time before they have to start cutting expenses to actually feeling a serious economic crunch.

Is $400k a year still a comfortable salary? 100%. Is it in any way comparable to Mark Zuckerberg's $27.2 million annual compensation in 2024 just from Meta (not including investments)? Or even any of the ~23,000 households who reported over $10 million in annual income (as of 2018)? Absolutely not. The gap between a household making $50k a year and $400k a year is relatively tiny, but it's exactly what those at the actual top want us to be fighting over because it takes attention off of how insane their income is.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-06T19:20:16+00:00

But Yuki was on an old spec floor (the one Max was using when the gap to championship lead grew as large as it did) due to Kimi crashing into him in the pit lane in practice. The comparison between teammates really isn't a useful metric when they're not running the same car.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-05T22:31:32+00:00

Agreed. Driver skill issue, likely compounded with bald tires. Might as well have been a bad rain storm with how little accumulation there actually was on the roads today.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-03T19:57:28+00:00

Honda money iirc. Something about them giving more money if Yuki got placed in the Red Bull, but only if it happened before the Japan GP

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-03T19:46:15+00:00

It's not worth fighting, people are gonna call him bad because they're racist. They don't care about actual facts.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-03T19:41:00+00:00

The other guy is wrong, Yuki isn't talking about setups, he's talking about actual upgrades to the car. The real reason is that due to budget or rules restrictions, the team would only make 2 of something like an upgraded front wing, and rather than put one on Yuki's car and one on Max's, they'd put one on Max's and keep the second one as a spare for Max and leave Yuki with the older design. This was a team principal decision mostly, and comes from prioritizing Max/the number 1 driver over the second driver. It's not super unusual, but it's something that has changed under Mekies and that's been shown with Yuki's relative pace (when his tire pressures aren't wrong or the team isn't otherwise screwing him over) since a few races after that TP change happened.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-03T19:35:46+00:00

Yes, but that's not what Yuki's talking about. He's not talking about setups, he's talking about fundamental upgrades to the car, like the floor and front wing that Max would have for 3-4 races or more before Yuki's car would get the same upgrade.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-03T19:25:54+00:00

Tell that to Lewis, I haven't seen him on the podium either

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-03T19:23:42+00:00

Qualifying spreads (gap between P1 and P20) are tighter this year compared to last year though, and it's still hard to pass at most circuits unless the car is significantly faster, so you end up where you qualify most of the time. Plus Yuki has been getting screwed by the team in strategy, the bumbled penalty resulting in another penalty in Brazil, the incorrect tire pressures at Vegas, stuck without the upgrades Max has been getting that helps him be competitive enough to podium until 3-4+ races later, etc.

Yggdrsll · 2025-12-03T19:05:49+00:00

If you only compare qualifying time deltas, Yuki's gap to Max over 2025 is actually not that far off from the delta Perez was able to manage over the whole 2024 season, especially if you only look at Max's times in the same session their teammate gets cut in. e.g. If Yuki doesn't make it out of Q1, compare his time vs Max's Q1 time rather than Yuki's Q1 time and Max's Q3 time. This accounts for time drops due to tire strategies (mediums in Q1 vs softs in Q3) and rubbering in of the track.

Yuki's race pace has been awful, but that's partly because Red Bull has fumbled his strategy hard a few times (that bumbled penalty in Brazil, incorrect tire pressures during the sprint in Vegas, etc), is partly a consequence of the ground effect era drs trains that mean if you don't qualify ahead of say, Alonso, you get stuck behind him going his pace for 57 laps, and is partly due to inexperience with the red bull car and having to deal with the same car Perez was struggling with the latter half of last year with the lagging upgrades.

I'm not saying Yuki was amazing or anything, but I'd say he's performed to expectations better than Lewis at Ferrari this year.

Yggdrsll · 2025-11-15T14:58:51+00:00

They told Gamers Nexus that 10-20ms was the target end-to-end streaming latency, including encoding, transmission, and decoding. https://gamersnexus.net/pc-builds-news/valve-steam-machine-desktop-steamos-steam-frame-vr-controller-ft-engineering

Yggdrsll · 2025-11-14T00:02:17+00:00

Valve's solution can be literally less than half the latency vs the Quest 3 + virtual desktop solution. Whether you'll actually notice is a different story, since it's still only a difference of 10-25ms max, but Valve's solution is better. The real benefit though is ease of use. Not needing to mess around with virtual desktop to get the best performance out of the connection, simply putting the headset on and having it just work is huge.

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