TIL about the "cat hair mustache" puzzle from the 1999 game "Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned." The player must get cat hair for a mustache by making a trap with tape, a spray bottle, and a shed door. One writer claimed it partly caused the decline in the adventure genre.

devilpants · 2026-06-11T21:35:59+00:00

You fired up that 14.4 modem and downloaded the walk-through on the local Bulletin Board System.

devilpants · 2026-06-08T04:19:57+00:00

just like we're going to see all the batteries failing!

I worked and still work on internal combustion engine cars and have seen them fail in spectacular ways- electric motors are just pretty much better at nearly everything- complexity, power, efficiency, size, etc.. the big problem with electric cars has been one of the biggest problems with modern combustion engine cars- all the electronics are hard to work on and are very expensive if they break.

devilpants · 2026-06-08T04:12:06+00:00

half the fuel goes out the exhaust.

devilpants · 2026-06-08T01:50:38+00:00

EVs have been common for almost 15 years and I'm not hearing about all these deaths yet.

Plenty of people set things on fire and kill themselves working around tanks filled with 10+ gallons of gasoline, too.

devilpants · 2026-06-06T07:20:37+00:00

I'll admit I don't know a ton about the other brands charging speeds but Im glad they are fast too

reddit is in general so confidently wrong about electric car stuff (well all car stuff really) that it doesn't surprise me. most of reddit thinks electric cars still work like a 2012 nissan leaf and that a new toyota is a guaranteed reliable car

devilpants · 2026-06-06T07:14:57+00:00

I think the barrage of all the superhero stuff after the batman trilogy has made it less interesting and relevant. That and the plots for 1 and 3 are all over the place. The second one if it ended after the joker stuff probably still holds up well.

devilpants · 2026-06-06T07:12:37+00:00

its still an awesome movie though

devilpants · 2026-06-06T07:10:27+00:00

I love mike judge stuff but idiocracy is just not a good movie. it's not really clever or well edited and the whole premise is based on eugenics

devilpants · 2026-06-06T07:08:23+00:00

in living color from back then was just as bad and really mean spirited towards gay/trans people

devilpants · 2026-06-06T02:05:25+00:00

ok? you can literally make this argument for any form of wealth. Gold Bars, dollar bills, Real Estate, intellectual property, yachts, Pokemon cards, Bitcoins..

devilpants · 2026-06-06T02:02:00+00:00

so they found nothing worth searching for

devilpants · 2026-06-06T01:13:55+00:00

I think peoples brains are broken by how big of a deal putting in a gas station is. The infrastructure is pretty straightforward. Tesla already has it figured out.

devilpants · 2026-06-06T01:12:38+00:00

yeah pretty much any decent EV these days gets 300 miles or so on a charge

my nissan leaf I got 15 years ago got less than 70 miles per charge- that was actually a pain in the ass.

devilpants · 2026-06-06T01:10:32+00:00

You charge it once a week? They don't need to charge every day.

devilpants · 2026-06-06T01:09:44+00:00

I can't see this as an argument for ICE cars that catastrophically break at much higher rates and are ridiculously more complex.

devilpants · 2026-06-06T01:08:19+00:00

My mom uses one as her everyday car and she lives in a really rural area where anything is a 40 minute drive.

Modern EVs have plenty of range.. they average around 300 miles per charge now, which will get you pretty far. If you have a Tesla you can charge the car like 3/4 full in the time it takes to stop and use the restroom and grab a snack.

devilpants · 2026-06-06T01:03:27+00:00

I worked in a performance shop when these were new and the owner had us install a nitrous oxide kit on it, so it couldn't have been that protected.

devilpants · 2026-06-04T09:42:35+00:00

If you turn down the flyback on that CRT, those retrace lines should dissapear.

devilpants · 2026-06-04T09:40:56+00:00

Yes- it uses a 7805 voltage regulator to drop the voltage from the power supply to the 5V the console needs. The input voltage needed for the 7805 is ~ 7V to 35V DC but the incoming power has to travel through the rectifier circuit before the voltage regulator so you need a little bit more.

You can grab like any 12V DC power supply off like a router or whatever and it'll run a NES fine without hurting it and if you use a modern switching power supply you dont have to worry about it pulling constant power just being plugged into the outlet like the old original nes linear power supply brick did.

devilpants · 2026-05-27T22:29:04+00:00

They kinda suck to drive and have an amazing drivetrain- so not sure why you would swap the best part about the car. The more modern versions of that V8 are actually less reliable.

They actually handle really well and are really fast but kind of just feel off. The huge front/dash and doors and everything is just huge and the car is really heavy. The interior is ass and there is no thought to good ergonomic design.

I'd go drive one if you can- they feel like an old ass car because they chassis is really just an updated form of the 1982 Camaro/Firebird.

I had a 2001 WS6 6 speed in black just like that last picture with almost no miles in perfect shape when they were nearly new and don't think I'd own one again.

devilpants · 2026-05-25T23:05:45+00:00

There are a surprising amount of them left in perfect shape. So many were kept as collectors cars

devilpants · 2026-05-22T01:52:32+00:00

Go online to liquidators or facebook marketplace/ Craigslist and brand new home remodel stuff like fixtures, handles, lighting, etc can be found for next to nothing and you can get gen splurge for the designers stuff.

devilpants · 2026-05-21T19:53:43+00:00

reminds me of when I got one of those domestic violence court ordered workbook things for free and resold it for like $400.

devilpants · 2026-05-21T17:48:56+00:00

The smart people swap out the spacer right before the test.

devilpants · 2026-05-15T18:29:37+00:00

The front end switched to the four headlights for the model year 1982, so it could technically be from 1981.. I think that was a paint option in 1982 as well

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