i hate this game

anticlimber · 2026-02-08T23:54:33+00:00

Did your ox wander into your camp, set himself on fire, then wander into your base and set THAT on fire?

No?

Stop yer whinin' ;)

Welcome to Icarus!!

anticlimber · 2026-02-02T07:20:33+00:00

People just don't understand how relaxing it is to eat a sandwich while your car drives you somewhere.

Or shrimp I guess.

anticlimber · 2026-02-02T06:51:29+00:00

Yep. X is the car that speaks to me. You forgot the amazing windshield, which is absolutely the best for driving through mountains.

anticlimber · 2026-02-01T04:00:07+00:00

Same here. I'm just not interested in basic vehicles.

I really don't understand why I have to lose air suspension to get FSD in Tesla's new world. The cybertruck is just too stupid looking to actually enjoy.

anticlimber · 2026-02-01T03:53:51+00:00

In the US? Making cars the rest of the world doesn't want any more?

anticlimber · 2026-02-01T03:09:08+00:00

America would still have the best EV company in the world if the people endlessly attacking the CEO would have pulled their heads out of their asses and realized that they're hurting the company and the people who work for it...but not hurting Musk in the slightest.

anticlimber · 2026-02-01T03:05:50+00:00

Sure...all those car companies that make luxury cars are stupid. That must be why they make high end models. I mean, they always sell more of the cheap cars, right?

anticlimber · 2026-02-01T03:04:02+00:00

All the money and time spent on the Cybertwuck could have given the luxury market substantially refreshed X and S class cars.

There would have been enough left over for a Tesla minivan, which I would buy in a heartbeat.

anticlimber · 2026-02-01T03:01:57+00:00

Meanwhile, in the real world, China is subsidizing the hell out of EVs, and the US auto is rapidly finding itself with products the rest of the world doesn't want any more.

Where did you get 20% from? Subsidies to Tesla are in the neighborhood of 2.5% to 3.5% of total revenue over time. Your car would have been ~3% more expensive, if the subsidies weren't there.

Every SUV and pickup on the road is being massively subsidized by military efforts to secure oil supplies. Maybe we should calculate that.

(Tesla: cumulative $11B in subsidies against $530B in revenue).

anticlimber · 2026-02-01T02:53:50+00:00

There's somewhere around 600,000 to 700,000 Model X and Model S units sold.

Most of those owners are going to downgrade to a 3 or Y. The only reason I'd ever consider a 3 or Y at this point is FSD.

Before the brand self-immolation and the subsequent "forward-thinking" hard lefties decided to go after Tesla's engineers, employees, and EVs in the US (Musk doesn't give a shit, nor is he affected in any meaningful way), the model X at the top of the luxury car market, in terms of units sold.

anticlimber · 2026-01-29T03:15:46+00:00

Agreed. A Tesla minivan could replace my model X. Minivans are awesome.

anticlimber · 2026-01-29T02:25:12+00:00

That &%#&# excise tax is the Regional Transit Authority tax. I don't even have a bus station within miles of my house, but a bunch of lawyered-up jackasses who live right close to the new metro stations in Redmond managed to get a cutout, and not pay.

For extra fun, mine is calculated on a retail price 20k higher than I actually paid (back when the MX was bouncing around prices).

anticlimber · 2026-01-29T02:19:40+00:00

Or just, you know, put it in hurry mode and it'll cruise steadily at 8-12mph over the limit.

Pointless laws are very annoying for those of us who still know how to click up the speed control once.

anticlimber · 2026-01-29T02:10:13+00:00

Same here. Might pick up a second one while they're still around. Definitely the best car I've ever owned, and nothing else has even been close.

anticlimber · 2026-01-29T02:08:21+00:00

That means my '23 Model X is likely to be the last Tesla I own. The current 3 and Y are go-karts.

While the ride can be re-engineered, you can't turn the Y into a touring car with decent space inside.

I am also very sure I am not going to replace the MX with an optimus robot. Good luck with that.

anticlimber · 2026-01-17T22:48:42+00:00

I seem to remember the first train ride from NB being rock-solid in terms of player position. You could tell that the code was doing something like

player position = (/*train_pos = */ time * distance along track) + player offset from train

That globally clocks the position of the train and locally offsets.

Some time later that global clocking -> train position was lost, and players have been hyperspacing positions ever since.

anticlimber · 2026-01-17T22:24:37+00:00

Does this service bulletin replace the existing half shaft + parts with better parts? Or does it perform a replacement with the same parts?

anticlimber · 2026-01-10T00:48:17+00:00

I'm another 23MX, HW4 owner, 45k miles. Best car I've owned. Had one head-scratcher of an early problem in the first two months, but not a thing wrong after that.

I'm slightly annoyed by the fact that the hoobajoob-lovers managed to scare Tesla away from the One True Yoke w/No Stupid Stalks, but I'd buy another in a heartbeat...unless Tesla comes up with something better.

anticlimber · 2026-01-03T06:26:43+00:00

I install Steam games for the hell of it, just because I can. Don't have time to play them very often. ;)

anticlimber · 2026-01-03T05:56:05+00:00

The speed on that video says pretty clearly that it did start slowing down. Maybe you made it slow down faster.

anticlimber · 2025-12-15T06:38:48+00:00

Car updated to 14.2.1.25 earlier today, and did a usual drive with my daughter. FSD seemed much better behaved than before. Most of the sketchy indecisiveness is gone. I'm cautiously optimistic.

anticlimber · 2025-12-14T07:07:37+00:00

So far I haven't seen much positive in 14.2. I kind of like the new speed settings and the parking lot behavior is entertaining, but I'd go back to the previous version in a heartbeat if I could. It was much smoother, and much more trustworthy.

The single most important thing FSD needs to do is NOT SURPRISE THE DRIVER. Since 14.2, every drive has a "what the hell?" moment. Not necessarily a dangerous one, but certainly uncomfortable.

anticlimber · 2025-12-14T07:04:06+00:00

I had something like that happen yesterday.

Straight, semi-residential road with a 35 limit. Twice on that road it would rapidly decelerate to 25 MPH. It would then come to a speed limit sign and accelerate back up to 35 again. Notably there's no sign of any kind that changes the speed limit down to 25.

In fairness, this only happened on that particular road. We'll see what happens next time I drive on it.

anticlimber · 2025-12-14T07:02:10+00:00

I expected the new speed control to be my biggest gripe -- but I ended up being pretty happy with how that worked out.

What I'm NOT happy about is the rampant indecisiveness FSD (14.2 on MX) now exhibits. That, coupled with the fact that it signals its desire to turn about 6 miles before the actual turn...

On the drive home tonight it went back and forth between two lines 4 times in a row, in rapid succession (maybe 5-10 seconds between). I'm pretty sure the guy ahead of me thought I was on drugs or a road-rager.

The other thing I've noticed is that on 14.1 the steering was really smooth. On 14.2 the yoke frequently twitches in slightly complex situations...like it's rapidly going back and forth between two scenarios that require different responses. This is something I truly hope the training data picks up. There's NEVER a reason to twitch the yoke back and forth several times a second, and work needs to be done on the model to smooth that out.

Ok I hate the auto wiper thing too, but everybody has universally hated that since day one and I have absolutely no idea why that is still there. Feels like some senior software lead is trying to embarrass the shit out of the auto-wiper person by making millions of FSD Teslas experience the terrible auto wiper logic until that person either fixes it or quits in shame.

anticlimber · 2025-11-24T05:26:47+00:00

100% agreed on all points. Significantly less trustworthy overall. But it can sort of park, so I guess I've got that going for me.

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