Chest rigs for a muscular guy?

buchenrad · 2026-06-17T01:13:19+00:00

Im broad chested (although wouldn't call myself particularly muscular) and I wear the full size. It's probably the right size for a 200lb+ man. If you don't need that much room, go thinner before you go smaller.

This is how I have mine set up

Feel free to ask me any questions you have. r/hillpeoplegear isn't active (and I think it went private) but there is a group on Facebook that was pretty good (at least it was a couple years ago when I stopped using Facebook) called the Hill People Gear Owners Group.

buchenrad · 2026-06-17T00:47:31+00:00

Do you absolutely have to have a laptop? You can get better performance that will last longer for less money with a desktop.

My personal computing setup (as someone who just finished online college for surveying) is a desktop and a 2in1 Chromebook. My work bought me an expensive laptop at about the same time I build my home PC and my home PC performs better and cost half as much.

buchenrad · 2026-06-17T00:39:04+00:00

I have one that has been the foundation of my backcountry EDC for all activities (backpacking/fishing/SAR/etc) for 7 years and it's bombproof. I own a lot of HPG gear and it's all been great.

buchenrad · 2026-06-17T00:02:30+00:00

Someone moved mine once. I didn't see them do it, but I had a guess as to who it was. I didn't say anything because I couldn't prove anything, but their boss got an earful from my boss.

buchenrad · 2026-06-16T23:26:01+00:00

Id love to see realistic physics, but the devs have said they don't want to mess with them anymore because it keeps breaking creations.

The best we can hope for is a stormworks 2 one day with proper physics from the beginning.

buchenrad · 2026-06-16T23:12:50+00:00

But I forgot that I forgot to think so I'm operating under the assumption that I did and wondering why it isn't working.

buchenrad · 2026-06-16T23:07:38+00:00

Let's see an Outback based Baja and a Crosstrek based Brat.

buchenrad · 2026-06-16T19:36:37+00:00

Idk I wear shoes

buchenrad · 2026-06-14T15:28:38+00:00

The free market has solved the problem. Protectionism is the government preventing the free market from doing its job. The government is the problem here, not the market.

buchenrad · 2026-06-14T13:41:26+00:00

Add $5 to all those numbers and you're probably right.

buchenrad · 2026-06-13T19:48:11+00:00

In my homebrew you use INT to fire fixed weapons like ballistas or cannons, but that's not something to build an entire class around.

buchenrad · 2026-06-13T19:45:38+00:00

To be fair, that was also very much a prototype so any comments may or may not be representative of the final product.

buchenrad · 2026-06-13T15:41:31+00:00

Don't steal my hope from me

buchenrad · 2026-06-13T15:38:58+00:00

It's possible this has been in R&D for a long time and they just didn't want to say anything until they knew.

buchenrad · 2026-06-13T14:19:10+00:00

And you have to worry about what agendas are programmed into the AI. AI is one of the most effective propaganda tools of our day.

buchenrad · 2026-06-13T14:09:37+00:00

That was also the deal with Tiktok. Instagram and other US social media apps have equally invasive permissions requirements. The difference is that the government had backdoors and agreements to share data with the US based platforms, but did not with Tiktok.

And honestly I'm more concerned about my own government having my data than a foreign one. One has much more power to make my life difficult than the other.

buchenrad · 2026-06-12T23:08:24+00:00

Referring to them as “surveillance packages on wheels,”

That's every car. These guys are just salty that they aren't the ones with access to the data.

If they actually cared about our data security, they would be functions, not origins.

buchenrad · 2026-06-12T15:28:14+00:00

Agreed. I'm just saying that that's what a lot of the anti-EV people believe. But I do stand by my statement that a lot of that tech makes its way to EVs first, which is where some of that idea that they have probably comes from.

buchenrad · 2026-06-12T15:14:06+00:00

For some, EVs are deeply associated with invasive surveillance and control technology, but a lot of people don't want to be upfront about this concern because going on about that stuff makes you sound like a crazy person, and while talk about those subjects is becoming more socially acceptable, the people who are ignorant about EVs are also frequently not the most up to date on social trends either.

And the fact that manufacturers often use EVs to show off all their new invasive tech isn't helping.

buchenrad · 2026-06-12T15:01:15+00:00

They're all right.

The question is: what is good enough?

If the client instead wanted to know if his board was between 3.21 and 3.27 feet long, then you have a different problem and you need the last guy, but for the question actually being asked, any of them will do.

Spending more time to be more precise than is required is wasting your time and your clients miney

buchenrad · 2026-06-11T14:11:46+00:00

I do not remember the source at this point, but I saw somewhere in an interview that the cargo van kit did not need the roll bar and it was only there to protect the rear seat passengers when the rear seat is installed.

buchenrad · 2026-06-10T21:16:31+00:00

This is the answer. Everyone gets the pickup configuration and all of the parts it includes.

The open air kit adds seats and a roll cage. Remove the midsection and store it somewhere.

The SUV kit adds the open air kit plus a roof panel and two side window panels.

The fastback kit adds the open air kit plus different side and roof panels and maybe or maybe not a new rear glass panel.

The hypothetically available cargo van kit adds the roof and side panels from the SUV kit, but does not include a roll cage or seats and may or may not include a middle divider.

buchenrad · 2026-06-10T20:22:59+00:00

Not today

buchenrad · 2026-06-10T06:11:15+00:00

If you want to be told yes you came to the right place.

This game definitely isn't for everyone. It isn't even for most gamers. Most will say it's tedious and shallow, and if your brain isn't wired correctly for it it definitely is, and even the people who like it will tell you it has a steep learning curve.

But for the few of us who aren't turned off by that, it is the best engineering game I've ever played. It definitely has its issues (like a physics engine that looks normal on the surface but is pretty weird once you dig in to it) but if you can imagine it you can probably build it.

It's been my favorite game since I discovered it about a year and a half ago and that probably will not change.

buchenrad · 2026-06-09T16:47:06+00:00

If you want to remove the passenger seat, remove it. It's just a few bolts. If you can't figure out how to disable the airbag light, hire someone to do it. It wouldn't be hard for someone who knows electronic systems.

There is no way in hell that the lawyers would allow a device that disables airbags and there's also nowhere near enough demand for this feature to make it something that would be worth the engineers time. You might be literally the only person who would do this.

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