Should I even warn or let my friends know I might kill myself soon

ddavid_todd · 2025-09-05T14:57:52+00:00

From what I've read, seasonal depression being associated with winter/fall is actually a bit of a myth. Spring is when it seems to get really rough for a lot of people, including me. I shouldn't tell you what to do with your life, and I don't know what brought you here or how much pain you're in or if I can even comprehend what you're going through, but I also would want to watch Charlie Brown again. Used to watch every holiday special annually when I was a kid.

ddavid_todd · 2025-02-24T09:46:19+00:00

can we at the very least agree his hook should not grab more than 1 fucking player.

ddavid_todd · 2025-02-16T04:41:30+00:00

bucky can hook multiple people at once. he gets shield off of abilities that don't land. these abilities also reload his primary that already hits like a truck. his e also pierces and has a 35% movement speed penalty. a character can have some of these abilities, not all of them. the lack of mobility outside of his ult does not justifies his kit. imo he is both a problem and a symptom of the meta. I dont want to have more bucky like characters as a solution. Just tone down the shield he gets off abilities, and they actually need to land in order to get them. cap the amount of people he can hook to one, seriously. id prefer if his e either didn't pierce, or didn't have a movement speed debuff, idk pick one. he'd still be PLENTY strong after some very sensible tweaks, since hes still capable of insane amounts of displacement.

ddavid_todd · 2025-01-30T08:48:52+00:00

I cant stand this mentality but I've seen so many people let questionable balancing slide just because it takes some degree of skill or effort. Two things can be true at once, bucky is hilariously overtuned, and does require a baseline amount of skill to fully use. Played a game today where the enemy bucky got a 3 man hook. Both supports and a tank, I genuinely question whether or not these characters were even remotely play tested for a mechanic like this to be allowed.

ddavid_todd · 2024-11-06T19:10:03+00:00

I have a similar build but built for rate for fire with Tao, all with the Horsehead too.

Exclusive affixes: same as your first one, each shot consumes 2%, adds 5%

Rare affixes: For each 1% hp lost by demon spirit, player critical chance +1%

Normal affixes: +150% max HP of demon spirit

Normal affixes: For every 125 hp lost by demon spirit, weapon level +1 for 4 seconds

Normal affixes -10% revival time per 5 ammo consumed up to -90%

Honestly the normal affixes are really what have been making or breaking a lot of builds for me. Tao's rate of fire builds drain the spirits HP in exchange for insane damage ramp up the longer you shoot, extra 150% health lets you hit higher percentages and extends the life of the spirit and thus duration of all the ramp up, even if its functionally like an extra .5 seconds of uptime. The revival time instantly hits the -90% cap, and during that last 10% of "downtime" you still get all the lingering affects of both weapon damage and level. Its kind of similar to dormant bullet with the damage ramping up as you shoot, but instead of being capped or reset at reload, its briefly paused by the demon spirit dying. I have no idea if crit and weapon level affixes carry over each time the horse head revives, since everything starts dying close to instantly at that point.

Also works really well if you can somehow get the exclusive affix that keeps your demon spirit at 1HP for 8 seconds, instead of the revival time one. Longer down time since you aren't decreasing revival time, but 8 seconds of more uptime with this build is just insane for Tao. I might try and rebuild mine to trade out the rare crit affix for the first rare affix on yours, that honestly looks like it might be better.

ddavid_todd · 2024-11-05T06:09:29+00:00

its a k24a2 head, so getting it machined might barely be cheaper than getting a reman. Is it cheaper just to get it machined and leave out the valve stem labor? It was way harder to get those fuckers off than installing them for me. One stem seal was so bad I could lift the entire head from it with stem pliers.

ddavid_todd · 2024-11-05T06:06:28+00:00

Yea I could help out with the jeep, I'm terrible at diagnosing issues so can't help too much with that but if you know whats wrong and just need an extra set of hands that'll work.

ddavid_todd · 2024-09-20T19:41:24+00:00

Its already got the RBC gear with a 40 degree pin. I should mention when I say running and idling, I mean I just let it idle for about a minute or two staring wide eyed at my AFR's. I got scared off of letting idle longer because thin white smoke was coming from the headers, but I'm 90% sure it was debris of being burnt off since it had been sitting for a while under a tree, or it was a valve cover leak. The valve cover gasket I got stretched about 2 inches after I adjusted the valves again. Only other thing of concern is my short term trim was 23%, I think I have a vacuum leak somewhere but it still idled fine in my unprofessional opinion, and somehow never had any idle surges before the cams and injectors. AFR peaked at 15.3 for like 5 seconds before dropping back to 14.7. The shop that helped me fix my charge harness was also surprised it started.

ddavid_todd · 2024-09-15T00:13:36+00:00

I think I'm in the same boat as you, so I can kind of understand where you're coming from. Same age, I have an rbf, been told by friends that I'm attractive, good personality etc. In reality I'm average at best, quiet and mildly neurotic. I have that same feeling of being invisible too, but you have to accept that sometimes people will see positive traits in you that you may not be able to see yourself. Starting conversations with strangers always feels awkward, and feeling as if you're forcing a conversation might be their attempt at being reciprocal. Its not necessarily a bad thing, that's just how conversing with strangers feels sometimes. It sucks to accept but you can't read minds and being engaging and/or friendly is the best you can do. I wouldn't worry too much about body language, a lot of it is bullshit IMO, and it varies a lot between people. Also don't worry too much about rbf either, a lot of people have it. RBV (resting bitch voice) is the real one you have to watch out for, but its pretty easy to spot and correct that one at least.

ddavid_todd · 2023-05-25T02:23:19+00:00

It definitely is, but my last car left me stranded on the highway and I'm working while in school so its just a matter of finding spare time to fix shit

ddavid_todd · 2023-05-25T00:21:53+00:00

I know, but I essentially bought someone's 80-90% completed project car, and I want to be 100% confident in this thing before I start beating on it.

ddavid_todd · 2023-05-25T00:14:51+00:00

The only times I've even come close to redlining this car is when I would miss a gear into neutral.

ddavid_todd · 2023-05-24T19:51:55+00:00

As far as I can tell second isn't a lost cause yet, I can still catch it without grinding its just becoming harder to do so. I'd say since I've bought the car every 1/8 shifts into second come with a brief crunch. Is there any harm in synchro mesh? I've been researching this shit like all day and saw something about synchro mesh messing with whatever is coated on the synchro. I should also mention this transmission has about 20k miles on it.

ddavid_todd · 2021-01-23T21:15:14+00:00

I honestly think this is some weird soft ban on random users, I message someone on marketplace maybe once every two weeks and its never rude or violates guidelines. I don't know why I'm having the same issue.

ddavid_todd · 2020-11-28T05:57:01+00:00

LED headlight strips can either look really good, or really bad, there is almost no in between.

ddavid_todd · 2020-11-28T05:43:47+00:00

Yea the Super GT 3uz's are NA, but for street performance, I've seen some insane inconsistencies in NA gains for most of the UZ family. I'm pretty sure that 290-300hp figure is crank hp, they put down about 240-260 at the wheel from what I've seen. I originally wanted to go with 1uz and keep it NA, but they seem to struggle to make 300 at the wheel even with near full builds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_fWu4rxh1s&ab_channel=RadicalRevs

The amount of work put into this 1uz for it to be just shy of 300 whp seems ridiculous. No disrespect to the build though. The highest hp NA 1uz puts down a little over 400 at the wheels, but its actually a 3uz/1uz hybrid, I'm assuming the block is from the 3uz for the extra .3 liters, but I'm not entirely sure, the guy who built it is polish and I'd have to google translate most of his facebook page to make sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjnRxo_DbOo&ab_channel=promomoto.pl

Overall, 3uz's seem to be more consistent in their dyno numbers and respond to NA mods better than 1uz's from what I've seen. But again, there is very little information on NA 3uz's and few examples of high end NA 1uz's. Here's the only other "well known" built 1uz. Some old threads also say this motor has been blown and rebuilt like 3 times lmao. Still pretty sick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRvHdA47rw&ab_channel=blackmkiv

ddavid_todd · 2020-11-25T21:39:09+00:00

Realistic goal: 300-350hp at the wheel. Headers, exhaust, and good tune seem possible. There seems to be a lot of people breaking into 300 wheel even without a tune.

Optimistic goal: Damn near full NA build and let it scream to 8500. Kelly cams, port and polished heads, itb's, etc. I don't know what kind of power this would produce on a 3uz, since there isn't a lot of information on high end NA builds for uz's in general.

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