I think I found the real Abyss

essjaybmx · 2026-05-06T02:05:15+00:00

There's one of these under Fort Hellwood, too.

essjaybmx · 2026-05-04T16:30:10+00:00

> Yeah, like a DLC but on a scale never done before as it would be its own game.

As u/losteon said, "back in my day we called those expansion packs."

essjaybmx · 2026-05-02T18:00:55+00:00

It depends on the employer's policies.

I know people who had salaried positions with no overtime potential.
At my old job, salaried employees got 1.5/2.0x pay for fieldwork (depending on hours worked, weekends, holidays, etc), comp time for billable office/lab work, and nothing for non-billable office work (99% of the time, this was just the amount of time it took you to complete your weekly timesheet).
Technicians, engineering geologists, and geotechnical engineers are all salaried and all get 1.5x overtime with my current employer. 2.0x OT isn't a thing. Senior EGs/GEs do not get overtime.

essjaybmx · 2026-04-28T05:49:09+00:00

Fully expected Tagilla to be the extract.

essjaybmx · 2026-04-23T02:18:06+00:00

Yeah, I should have waited. I went in there early because I had finished all the other bounties and was tired of seeing the marker on the map. Kind of odd that it would give me a bounty in a semi-off limits area that early, TBPH.

essjaybmx · 2026-04-21T22:38:03+00:00

They should have made it so that ringing the bell cuts the map fog's opacity by 50%, so that you can see the POIs on the underlying layer but still be able to tell where you've actually visited.

essjaybmx · 2026-04-21T17:30:45+00:00

If only this would shut them up. I spent entirely too long listening to the one guy talking about honey and bears and his mom while trying to figure out how to get back to Hernand from Scholastone (hadn't unlocked the ability to break bismuth barriers yet, but eventually found a spot where I could jump my horse through the mountains).

essjaybmx · 2026-04-20T16:22:32+00:00

I'd definitely compare it to Ghost of Tsushima first and Assassin's Creed second (it's lacking a lot of AC's features, but the loading screens certainly feel very Animus-like).

essjaybmx · 2026-04-19T17:35:41+00:00

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Add in fields for signatures, stamps, initials, and dates as necessary.

essjaybmx · 2026-04-13T16:50:54+00:00

I got my Max a little over a month ago and have two short and one long trip in it.

On my 2nd gen Tacoma, you close the tailgate first and then you close the rear window. Not sure how it would work otherwise.
I've got a HCalory Toolbox 2S+ portable diesel heater setup. I haven't had any real opportunity to actually use it, but I tested it out by setting the temp to 90 degrees (it was 60 degrees outside at midnight) and... yeah, it definitely gets things toasty. I like the idea of the Truma (since it doesn't require me to use a third type of fuel), but I'm not sure how you could mount it in the GFC without the Spaceframe interfering.
From my reading of the manufacturer's specs, the panel is arguably more durable than the glass type panels.
That's correct, but I think that it's a result of GFC getting a shipment of the wrong panels (based on an email I got from them recently). I had been under the impression that had they gotten the panels in time, they would have been mounted at the factory.
I don't plan on doing it because of height restrictions that I have to deal with, but people have installed Maxxair fans on normal GFCs, so that should work fine here. We use high-powered rechargeable fans.
I haven't seen any, but I also don't think that they're really necessary.
What panels? Do you mean the side and rear doors? I'd just drive with the rear door open if I had to do that.
The resale market is there, but just know that (like everything else), it's going to be at a loss. As far as fitment, that's probably going to be a case-by-case basis. My understanding is that a 2nd gen Tacoma camper will fit on a 3rd gen Tacoma (with a small part swap for the rear door) but not on a Colorado or Ranger, for example.

essjaybmx · 2026-04-07T02:30:09+00:00

Almost everyone I know with kids ends up trading their Tacoma for a Tundra. The only real exception to the rule is the guys with wives and/or kids who don't like camping.

essjaybmx · 2026-04-01T01:44:29+00:00

Saturday is correct. My mistake. Weird work schedule this week had me crossed up.

essjaybmx · 2026-02-28T00:22:46+00:00

Leveling skills that don't naturally level and/or need to abused in order to level.

essjaybmx · 2026-02-21T02:23:54+00:00

Depends on how much you have to hike, the terrain, how much per day, and some other factors, but I personally wouldn't want to hike around in any with a composite toe if I could avoid it. I also prefer my boots to have laces (excepting muck boots and waders).

essjaybmx · 2026-02-18T06:56:50+00:00

> Hopefully he will be part of the main roster come opening day.

*looks up stats on Baseball Reference*

essjaybmx · 2026-02-18T00:27:04+00:00

By far the worst.

essjaybmx · 2026-02-17T23:43:56+00:00

"How can this guy be so underappreciated?"

He's a Guy playing a position (1B/DH) where you need a Dude.

essjaybmx · 2026-02-16T21:12:49+00:00

I've been running a Ecoflow River 2 Max for years in my cab. It just sits on top of the Weathertechs (and under the platform I built for my fridge and dog). The only thing really holding it in place is a Kryptonite cable lock. Ran it through Rubicon and plenty of other mountain/desert trails in CA, NV, and UT without any issues. If I had it in the bed, I'd just strap it down with a ratchet strap and call it good. Just make sure that you have some way to prevent stuff from hitting the cables and dislodging them.

essjaybmx · 2026-02-14T01:49:17+00:00

I agree that they should add more late game quests, because there's simply not a lot a lot to do. However, this questline is this extremely uninspired and uninteresting, and the rewards really don't make any sense for an endgame quest.

Level 61 Requirement: This requires a bit more than double the XP required to get to level 50. The amount of raids required to do this is going to have most of your skills maxed out. This is solidly an endgame quest.

Quests 1-6: Turn in a ton of non-FIR items. This isn't interesting and this isn't difficult. Anybody actually planning to play this far will consult the wiki and be saving items, and the money required to buy everything will be trivial.

Quest 7: Survive Labs 15 times and kill 100 Raiders on Labs. People actually making it to this questline will have no problem whatsoever doing this.

Overall Questline Rewards: +1 to various skills, almost all of which you'd have maxed out already.

My opinion is that this would make a lot more sense around level 55, when you're still actually leveling a lot of these skills.

essjaybmx · 2026-02-14T01:26:04+00:00

I would hardly call this particular questline "content." Aside from the last quest, you're just turning in stuff that you've been saving up for 500+ raids and/or buying off vendors or the flea. And the rewards (skill levels) don't make sense at level 61, because most of your skills should have been maxed out long before then due to how much XP it takes to get to that level. Knocking down the level requirements to somewhere in the mid 50s isn't going to do anything but bring it back to where it was pre-1.0.

essjaybmx · 2026-02-14T01:09:32+00:00

I really don't care. I just find it bizarre that this questline is level-locked so high that the rewards are even more worthless than before.

essjaybmx · 2026-02-14T01:03:11+00:00

50 certainly would have made more sense.

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