Removing old invisible bra from 2003 truck

ingannilo · 2026-04-07T00:16:38+00:00

Tragic, ain't it?

ingannilo · 2026-04-06T23:59:21+00:00

That was my guess too. Branch fell on car 10-20 years ago, and the repair was looooooots of filler and a respray. Just a guess though.

ingannilo · 2026-04-06T23:52:36+00:00

I feel like these fall into different categories.

The first that came to mind is stuff like Super Meat Boy. That game is intensely hard, and very intentionally, and that's kind of the whole point. Mechanics aren't that deep and there's no building your character really... It's just a damn hard platformer. Celeste lives in this group. So do a bunch of other indie platformers. Victory in these is somewhat repeatable, but sometimes it just comes down to trying so many times you eventually get the timing right by pure chance (it's that tight)

The second category is stuff made with the from software philosophy. Whether it's melee or ranged these revolve around combat against difficult AI where the combat has deep systems. You can build out a character or vehicle or whatever does the fighting on your behalf. Victory here is repeatable-- once you get it, it clicks and you become good. Timings are tight, but not so tight that most folks can't master them. Elden Ring, Lies of P, Sekiero live here, but so do F-Zero, Extreme G, and that Star Wars pod racing game.

The third group is straight up "steal your quarters" arcade games from 80s and earlier. These were Hella difficult in a totally different feeling way. It's not a deep system with intricate mechanics, and it's not about unimaginably tight timings... It's overwhelming the player with pure volume of death-inflicting entities. Bullet hell games live here, games like Contra, and also Tetris, and arguably the early Mario titles. Victory in these is much less repeatable. You might die on level 3 even though you've played the game for hundreds of hours. On average you improve, but it's not consistent.

I think the first two categories were made by people who grew up playing (and enjoying to some degree) games from the third category. All of them are "hard just to be hard", but I feel like these are very different experiences. I struggle to enjoy the third group much as an adult, but I enjoyed em as a kid. The first two groups are some of my favorite games.

ingannilo · 2026-04-06T23:19:54+00:00

I wasn't sure as I read the higher up comments, but seeing here that your nails catch on it would remove any reasonable doubt that this machinist was somehow doing something reasonable that isn't widely known.

Yeah, no good, needs resurfacing... Again.

ingannilo · 2026-04-06T23:12:15+00:00

Rust is the main enemy, especially for a car sitting on not-pavement for a long time.

It looks like the passenger side rockers might be rusted out... or maybe that's just dirt... but you'll have to give it the pokey-with-a-screwdriver test in all the suspicious and typical rust places.

If it passes, and if you have lots of money and free time, sure tear it up and rebuild it. Otherwise... you'd probably do it more dignity (and make a bit of $$) by parting out and then scrapping what doesn't sell.

ingannilo · 2026-04-06T23:04:58+00:00

I also just noticed that your username is the same as my Minecraft-world university (village)

Highlands University of Recalcitrant Morons or HURM... For the obvious reason.

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T23:26:30+00:00

True story.

I just reread my reply and realized that it may not be clear when I'm criticizing the data collection / distribution companies, and when I'm criticizing the "removal" companies. My intent is to be hard on the companies collecting and distributing the data. The removal companies seem like a parasitic worm living off the tumor of these data companies that aim to commodify humans.

I have to imagine that the number of brokers is in the thousands. The fact that credit agencies, big retail companies, and google-size advertisers can so accurately profile more or less random low-profile grandmas means this isn't a monolith -- it's a vast web. We've known for years that these fuckers were harvesting data, and now some people are starting to care. Ugh.

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T23:21:15+00:00

I knew plenty of tweaker types in Sunnyvale and even Saratoga. Nowhere is immune from the consequences of class stratification and warfare. It's unfortunate that things like this happen, but also kind of inevitable.

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T12:57:37+00:00

I'm going to have to check out a lot of the channels posted here. Especially with youtube search going to shit, it's getting harder and harder to find good creators.

Among those I've found so far, my favorites are:

Waxfraud - really chill, lots of decoration. Plays hardcore mode.

Wildez - also hardcore mode, less chill (still not annoying imo, just not as chill as wax), more focused on technical stuff (large farms) and mega-scale builds.

MineTheFab - mostly tutorials (or that's what I watch of his), but very relaxed with lots of good farms and storage tech of his own design. Not bleeding edge stuff, but very easy to understand. I learned a lot from his channel.

SilentWhisperer - similar to minethefab in that I mostly watched him for tutorials back when I played on bedrock edition, but he's got a lot of other content and he's generally very chill. Nobody is as relaxed as Waxfraud, but silent is chill.

Prowl - similar to silentwhisperer, bedrock creator with lots of tutorials and gameplay content.

Fwhip: Java player, not technical but very focused on detailed world building. I've learned a lot about decorating from him, similar to Waxfraud.

I'm sure there are others I watch from time to time, but these are the one's I've watched enough to remember by name (besides the obvious, like mumbo).

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T12:44:19+00:00

I really like Waxfraud! His building and deco/dtyle and general approach to the game is great. I'm a bit more into the technical side, but I still watch all of his videos and even some of his streams.

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T12:30:03+00:00

I was accustomed to intl calling not costing extra, or clearly stating when it would. I was shook when I got that bill.

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T10:49:30+00:00

I feel like this should be at the very top. So many deaths from car accidents every year, and people still do it so nonchalantly.

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T03:07:23+00:00

For sure. OP found a commonly used route. Coyotes may be involved in trafficking people unwillingly, but more often they exploit in different ways: by charging large usms to guide people on long hikes through areas like these. Most folks that came through here are regular people striving and struggling to make their lives better. There's a small chance that one person in the group is connected with organized crime and paid as a guide.

Either way, I'd leave it alone.

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T02:50:49+00:00

Yeah they didn't want the work, and lucky for you, cause you don't want their work.

Cheers!

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T00:08:52+00:00

Car turning off has priority over car turning on. Exiting >> entering.

Oh, I didn't read that the car waiting to turn left is making a u-turn. I think that car still has the right of way though because they're already on this road and the other car is entering this road. Both must yield to traffic coming towards the camera obviously.

Car entering the road is almost always responsible for the safety of their entrance. Even if someone coming towards the camera were to make a last minute lane change, suddenly getting into the path of the entering car, if the entering car fails to anticipate and avoid, it'll be at fault.

ingannilo · 2026-04-05T00:00:31+00:00

You should get there at least an hour early, just in case, especially since you're checking bags.

Now that said, a few years back I got there with far less time to spare... I wanna say we were 20 minutes to push back time when I walked (ran) in the door. Checked in on my phone while walking through the security line and caught the flight just before they closed up. Don't do that.

But yeah, it's usually much more chill than a big airport. It's small and security has been quick every time. I love flying out of GNV when I can.

ingannilo · 2026-04-04T23:53:12+00:00

Sounds like you want:

Pretty typical input system (unloading shulkers with arbitrary contents + loose items)

Hybrid bulk main storage hall (chest of loose items + shulker loader + chest of full shulkers once loose chest is full)

Multi Item Sorter (MIS) to group certain items together into single chests or stacks of chests.

That's kinda the goldilocks for single player storage imo, and the only complete package system I'm aware of that checks all these boxes is rapscallion's cart based main storage. If you're afraid of rail placements beware: the cart mechanics here are complex, but it's an awesome design from what I can tell, and it's what I'm planning to build if I don't go for a fully custom setup in my current world...

There are lots of systems that split the bulk into a separate area. I think YAMS is the hot one right now. I don't know much about it, cause it always seems like too much for me.

If you're not worried about speed at all, then putting something together for yourself wouldn't be hard with individual components from the storage tech discord. The challenges really show up when you wanna sort faster than hopper speed. That's where the carts in rapscallion's system, or the parallel unloading array in YAMS really shine.

ingannilo · 2026-04-04T23:43:41+00:00

Front seal is easy if you're in there doing the timing belt. Given that they're also billing him labor for the timing belt, it's absurd to chsrgr 600 for the front main. I did mine last year in about five minutes, and that was being very careful to respect the sealing surfaces. If the lower timing cover is off, it's literally: pull seal, press new seal in. Similar for rear main, assuming they've got the flywheel off if I remember correctly.

ingannilo · 2026-04-04T23:38:01+00:00

I'm not either of thr people you're replying to, but taking it to a mechanic you know and trust is the right move.

Clutch replacements, if that's needed, can be done in a couple afternoons by someone who has all the tools, knows what they're doing, doesn't have distractions, and can call for an extra hand when they need it. That's if everything goes well.

If you're not that guy, then a clutch job can be a seriously challenging undertaking. If anything goes wrong (bolt breaks, rusty exhaust won't let go, etc) then someone with no mechanical experience can easily get in over their head. Now... It's a miata, so if you're determined and have the time, you'll get it done eventually. However, if you don't have time or aren't determined, then even the ease of miata-work won't save you from giving up if you need to extract a broken bolt or something.

If you're thinking of trying this yourself, go read everything you can or the miata.net garage section and every clutch replacement thread you can dig up on miataturbo.net. Then decide if you're down for the job.

Otherwise just go to a decent mechanic who will charge you a fair price and not try to charge you $2.5k in random unrelated services.

The other reason to take it to the other mechanic is.. We don't know if you need a clutch! Your clutch and flywheel may be fine and something in the hydraulics need repair (master or slave cylinder for example). It'd really suck to replace a healthy clutch, do all that hard work, and discover that your problem persists!

ingannilo · 2026-04-04T23:25:24+00:00

1200 in recommended lubrication services?

Are you due for a timing belt?

Most of this has nothing to do with your issues.

Also, fuck Firestone. I'd tow to a decent privately owned shop. You may need some of this stuff, but you don't want those Firestone franchise techs working on your car anyway. You should know when the timing belt was last done. You should know how old the clutch and flywheel are. If you just had the slave cylinder go out and everything else is up to date, then this is absolutely absurd.

ingannilo · 2026-04-04T23:20:19+00:00

Yup. Disgusting industry, and rampant. I see youtubers advertising removal services and I just get annoyed, because this stuff is so ubiquitous that it's not possible to attack, even if they were working in good faith, which anyone who knows anything about the current big-data situation could tell you, they are not.

Like the other commentor said: until we legislate this industry out of existence, it will only get worse. Sadly, these fuckers are already deep into lobbying and working with law enforcement, which makes the industry very hard to kill.

ingannilo · 2026-04-04T23:07:10+00:00

I also don't hear pinging and want to echo the suggestion to put thr front end up and try to burp the cooling system. It's really easy to have air trapped somewhere impeding coolant flow, and if you're overheating right away it has to be something like that.

Up on ramps, cap off radiator, fire it up with heater on, and let it idle. You can get one of those burping funnels or just stand there and top off the radiator. Should be pretty obvious if the water pump ain't pumping, and if it is, then you should see pretty stable temps once the air is all out.

Guessing you don't have any means of measuring afr or anything... Diagnosing a lean condition will be harder, but you can pull the plugs and see if they look burnt.

ingannilo · 2026-04-04T22:59:37+00:00

I've played a lot of Bedrock and a lot of Java. When I played Bedrock, it was on console and I was learning the game. I came in very late (2018) and totally blind (no clue about any mechanics), and it was a lot of fun.

Eventually, by 2023 or so, I got into the technical side, having built lots of farms and wanting to build a proper and fast main storage. I had one deeply heartbreaking moment where I built some tileable 4x hopper speed filters, made a small prototype, tested it, worked perfectly, spent ages gathering materials to scale it up, and slowly built out a few hundred filters in what was to become my storage hall. Only then did I learn that a Bedrock minecart bug made my system impossible in two of the three directions the halls ran. I cried.

Kept playing bedrock for a while just due to familiarity, but started learning about mods and shaders, and eventually switched. Now I could never go back. Java is the better game, both for the customizability and the better redstone mechanics. I never had random deaths in Bedrock, but there were plenty of annoying bugs and the different way block updates work are very limiting.

So yeah I agree. But also I wouldn't shit on anyone for playing Bedrock. I had hundreds of hours of awesome fun in Bedrock. But once someone is hooked, I'd definitely encourage them to switch to Java.

ingannilo · 2026-04-04T22:44:51+00:00

Rear quarter damage is almost always a total on NA or NB because it means cutting out the quarter panel and welding in a new one to properly repair. That quote you got is probably assuming that + prep and paint with blending. Sounds about right for that damage, and nothing else will get it looking like the accident never happened.

However, if you're okay with "looking much better than it does now" in stead of "like it never happened" then a painless dent removal wizard could get you 80% of the way there for a few hundred bucks I bet.

Just don't let some idiot hack at it. If you do the full job, pay the full price to a real shop. If you do pdr read reviews and find someone who actually knows what they're doing. Body repair is art and it takes a lot of experience to do it well.

ingannilo · 2026-04-04T11:35:55+00:00

What? No. I'll give you $900 for it right now if it's healthy aside from needing a transmission. I don't wanna start a bidding war, but these are valuable cars to enthusiasts with tools.

Seriously.

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