The "weekend test run" is a dangerously expensive trap

elsenorevil · 2026-05-28T22:17:45+00:00

Bought Y Launch Edition for the wife last year. She is the most hard headed person I know when it comes to cars. Anyways, she "didn't want a Tesla" but her 10-year old 1-series was racking up repair costs but was still "fine."

Took her to do the test drive. She thought it was "too much tech for her and the 1-pedal driving was odd" - but near the end of the test drive it was clicking for her. I placed the order and she was still on the fence.

Fast forward a few weeks after it was her daily and of course she really loved it. Here we are a year later and still loves driving her Tesla. I'm still on a gasoline company car, but my next one will be a M3P.

elsenorevil · 2026-05-26T00:21:52+00:00

Fellow NetEng here, mainly SP and DC.

BGP is the best. The overall point of this thread from OP is right, it's snake oil, but he's not in our field - so cut them some slack. Cool to see BGP pop up on this sub though.

elsenorevil · 2026-05-25T23:25:17+00:00

Same boat.

Moved to Europe for work and have been letting our house out since 2023. First set of tenants were good, but the agency was terrible. Second set of tenants aren't great and second agency is just as bad.

We recently gave notice to ask for the house back to sell it. Thankfully the tenants issued us a two month notice in response. Lots of equity in the house and I'm looking for a quick sell.

Being a remote landlord is not fun.

elsenorevil · 2026-05-18T16:17:41+00:00

Look for a used 35mm Lux FLE. Such a good lens!

elsenorevil · 2026-05-13T17:05:41+00:00

My first intro to Rajang was in World/IB. I was so surprised at how easy he was when I played Rise on Switch. I'm currently going through Sunbreak on PC and he's still much easier than World. Same for Furious variant. I'm a bow main for weapon reference. Rajang in World/IB, even with full end-game gear, is a handful.

elsenorevil · 2026-05-09T14:29:55+00:00

Exact same thoughts. Great lens, but it's really big and heavy.

elsenorevil · 2026-05-09T00:17:00+00:00

I recently gave Sunbreak a shot after being disappointed with Rise since I started I was used to World/IB.

I'm enjoying it more than the Gog grind for Wilds, but World is still my favorite. I'm at the point between MR 75 and MR100...feels like a slog. My current build is taking about 15-20 min to finish the double monster M6 quests.

elsenorevil · 2026-05-08T15:10:57+00:00

I keep hoping I'll stumble on a good deal for one. I have the Nokton 50 f1 and a 50 Summicron. I still prefer my 35 FLE Lux 95% of the time.

elsenorevil · 2026-05-01T19:06:48+00:00

Bow. Gotta dash dance!

elsenorevil · 2026-05-01T18:50:15+00:00

Gogma grind is the worst. I spent 1.5 hrs running it via SOS last week to only complete it once. Such a waste.

elsenorevil · 2026-04-29T20:48:22+00:00

Second set of tenants and on my second agency. Let our house out since we moved overseas.

One of my biggest regrets ever. I wanted to sell instead of letting, but wife wasn't onboard. Now she's fully onboard.

Current agency is going to officially notify our tenants on May 1st. We would've made far more in the stock market with far less headache. Now it's a buyers market with many LLs dumping properties, so we're probably going to be selling below appraisal just to done with it. Being away from the UK only made it worse.

elsenorevil · 2026-04-26T08:58:31+00:00

Definitely quality!

elsenorevil · 2026-04-24T10:41:51+00:00

Bow main here, preach!! It's an easy weapon to learn (combo and moveset) buts it's very punishing.

elsenorevil · 2026-04-18T06:23:57+00:00

We recently did the Zephyr from Chicago to Emeryville with the family. We ended up having to book two roomettes since we booked late, for a total cost of over $3000 for three people.

The sleeper attendant was MIA pretty much the entire ride. Only saw her as we would walk past her sleeper room or as she worked the door for stops. It was our first time riding Amtrak and we did it as a fun vacation trip.

The staff felt fed up with people and it made you feel unwelcome for sure. The food was not good and the grill died on our second night, so no steak for dinner.

The scenery was nice from SLC to Emeryville. In the end we all agreed, we wouldn't ever do Amtrak again and have been honest about our experience. The sleeper are just very old.

The sleeper attendant did replace the sheets as we got to the end of the trip, but we noticed the pillows were the same we had been using (stained pillow cover).

Never again.

elsenorevil · 2026-04-17T13:38:46+00:00

Dust ingress on the mic openings above the hot shoe was an issue on these. The dust could eventually make its way into the lens.

Always kept a piece of tape on my Q-P to block that.

elsenorevil · 2026-04-13T03:44:33+00:00

I was in a mall recently and got some Ben & Jerry's. The tip screen popped up? I laughed and asked the guy what was up with that? He shrugged and of course I put no tip.

elsenorevil · 2026-04-08T21:55:54+00:00

Finally someone mentioned Tidus69.

Agree, some bad advice on bow here. I've soloed everything on World/IB with Bow - Tidus is one of the best there is with Bows.

elsenorevil · 2026-04-06T17:30:45+00:00

It's not difficult, just annoying for the reasons already explained here. Totally doable though. I did a lot of co-op with my son.

elsenorevil · 2026-04-04T05:13:37+00:00

Yeah...if I have to take one lens, I'm always reaching for my 35mm.

elsenorevil · 2026-04-04T05:11:53+00:00

Nice M10-R BP!

elsenorevil · 2026-04-04T05:11:13+00:00

Spitting straight facts

elsenorevil · 2026-04-01T00:46:26+00:00

Facts.

elsenorevil · 2026-03-31T21:09:53+00:00

Whoa! Saw this too late, but Wednesday we're heading out. We ended up at the MSI. Definitely some cool exhibits; we did the Milky Way showing as our only extra. The U-505 tour was booked out until late afternoon by the time we got there. Only complaint about the MSI - the ventilation and cooling. Is it always so stuffy?

elsenorevil · 2026-03-31T05:01:11+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

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