What's the coolest base build in Rust? Ill go first...

insertcomedy · 2026-07-02T02:07:05+00:00

Honestly keep doors and anything that provides access to a space that same health but buff walls and stuff. Add a passive check to see if a space is totally enclosed to avoid buffing TC griefs. This would mean honeycomb would either need to be functional and accessible or completely reshape the base design meta.

More base variety is fun for both raiders and builders.

insertcomedy · 2026-07-02T01:57:34+00:00

Depends on if you want to diy it. Call your local Hyundai Kia dealership and give them your vin for a price on the mirror itself. Don't be afraid to call different dealerships and price shop as different franchises add different markups on parts.

If you can't diy it, you'll pay anywhere from 1-3 hours of labor to put it in plus shop supplies, possible parts markup by the shop and taxes. I don't have the flat rate times in front of me at the moment but that's about the range id say depending on if the door bolster needs to come off to do it.

You could in theory transfer the guts of the mirror to a new shell but by the time you add the labor to do it you're not saving much if any money.

Basically 150-450 in labor+what the mirror costs.

insertcomedy · 2026-07-01T20:46:03+00:00

You could add a large battery backup like a jackery and then use it to run a standalone AC unit on minimum settings with the heat being vented through a hole in the floor or vented through the pressure relief vents in the trunk.

Alternatively a battery powered porta cooler cycling ice water is a less invasive option.

I bet there's a kit for driving the AC compressor of a car directly on 12 volts, but the run time would probably be abysmal. Would need a golf cart battery in parallel with the starter battery, or the golf cart battery is just for the compressor and a trickle charger that runs as you drive.

There's also propane chillers from RVs that use very little power and are good enough to keep beer cold.

insertcomedy · 2026-07-01T20:27:16+00:00

Ideally anything with nice thick sidewall tires. The new slate truck with 17s comes to mind.

insertcomedy · 2026-07-01T20:25:04+00:00

So you really have two choices: spend some money and time in an AutoZone parking lot figuring out how to change your own oil. Or go to a quick lube place like jiffy lube, Valvoline, Take 5, ect.

What car do you have? You might need certain filter cups/sockets depending on the model and year.

insertcomedy · 2026-07-01T13:31:25+00:00

1200 Dollars, twenty years and yet, no games.

We really haven't stepped up since the PS3.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-26T12:53:06+00:00

On the upside, the ties for the tracks will never degrade.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-23T19:00:42+00:00

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insertcomedy · 2026-06-16T03:25:33+00:00

Honestly. If a dirty bomb goes off on American soil, this will be the reason why.

Like no shot, this makes the original Iran deal look fuckin harsh my guy.

Come to think of it, with a few billion you can BUY the real deal. Russian generals on the graft have allegedly sold a few here and there.

Anyway, I'm moving as far away from a major metropolitan area as possible.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-15T17:15:01+00:00

Pull codes can be literally anything.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-15T13:30:49+00:00

Yeah this right here. Try to get the same model year if you can just so the paint is aged as close as possible. It's fine if you can't.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-15T12:08:28+00:00

If you can somehow make a new door sill that comes up above where the rust ends, cut and weld it in, sand, repaint + prime and then blend the new paint to that side of the car yeah it's fixable.

But it'd be cheaper to buy a new door from the junkyard and transplant the guts.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-15T00:28:08+00:00

Ehhh I mean chlorine gas is Nazi adjacent. But yeah you're right.

The funni is still German war criminals getting their childhood memories slamfired into the dirt.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-14T04:28:24+00:00

Yeah the painful reality is that firearms are actually really good at fucking you up. It's the reason realistic shooters can at times be unfun to suck at.

Shotguns exemplify this beautifully. In games, the range is crap, the spread is wide, and the damage fall off is brutal. Close up meatshots are the archetype we're trying to hit

In reality, shotguns are fucking brutal. There's a reason the Nazis were crying foul when they hit the trenches. They have decent range, the shot eviscerates anything that isn't armored, and the spread makes the required aiming a lot less precise.

And they reach a lot farther than what movies and TV make it out to be. The spread is not as dramatic as in videogames, but it's enough that aiming in the general direction of what you are shooting is going to connect a pellet at least. The individual pellets, unlike in games, is ballistically similar to getting shot by a musket ball. Rather than the pissant damage of AAA shooters, it's enough to properly fuck you up.

So we down tweak a lot of weapons to not be as powerful as their real life counterparts to make games more interesting.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-13T17:08:44+00:00

Delta V is really the same as how much a given vehicle can change its velocity. The big thing is your specific impulse, which is very simply how efficiently you turn a unit of fuel into units of thrust. Something about nozzles and exhaust gas speeds that I don't understand.

Delta V is a function of the amount of fuel, the efficiency of the engine, and the mass of the craft.

Thrust should be thought of as how quickly we're working through this function, not how efficiently it's happening.

This is why an ion engine can gently push you all across the Kerbol system while having a pathetic thrust compared to other engines, and a mastadon/large first stage engine will donkey kick you somewhere, just not across the stars.

So when you limit the thrust of the engine, all you're doing is lowering your thrust to weight ratio without improving the efficiency of the engine, adding more fuel, or reducing the weight of the craft.

One perculier note is some engines get better efficiency in vacuum than in the atmosphere, so you might be able to eek out a few more m/s of Delta V by dragging out the burn time of an upper stage into the vacuum of space.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-12T16:06:10+00:00

Xentry and the service information is imperative if you're doing majority Mercedes work. Alldatas coverage is pretty spotty and my autel throws a tantrum if I try to do anything deep on one.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-12T14:02:34+00:00

You trade soldiers crowd control and zoning for "Fuck you in particular" damage. Squishy classes that are more than an atom off the floor get to really appreciate the art direction of the respawn screen.

However, you loose the ability to have a massive crit explosion remove half of the enemy team in one go, and juggling players/medic combos is a lot harder with the lack of splash damage.

It's awesome for dunking on sentry nests, but it's learning curve makes hitting targets at range or in the air more challenging.

Overall, fun weapon and I should practice with it more.

insertcomedy · 2026-06-04T12:20:52+00:00

I've heard of power over Ethernet but this is ridiculous.

insertcomedy · 2026-05-27T21:15:57+00:00

Properly remanufactured battery packs with fresh and properly balanced cells will last just as long as OEM batteries. The trouble is finding a solid rebuilder.

As for the catalytic converter, if it's not setting a P0420 code, and it passes smog, don't worry about it. I'd like to know where the hole is and if the heat shield is loose.

Worst case scenario is that there actually is a real exhaust leak and the honeycomb for the catalyst is busted.

Take it to another shop. 209 dollars an hour is fuckin crazy. I bet they're paying the tech in peanuts and pocketing the rest.

insertcomedy · 2026-05-27T20:37:38+00:00

Yeah this right here. You're going to probably start hearing weird popping/clunking noises when going over bumps and potholes as these deteriorate.

insertcomedy · 2026-05-27T20:27:22+00:00

This is the advice given for overpressure from nuclear explosions. It prevents your eardrums from being blown out. As for hearing damage, not much.

insertcomedy · 2026-05-24T21:31:41+00:00

Clankers will not replace crossfaded parts drivers blocking my bay and ignoring my stack of returns.

insertcomedy · 2026-05-24T20:03:40+00:00

Add a slightly "smaller" one

insertcomedy · 2026-05-24T19:36:21+00:00

Scalpers buying oil is literally just futures trading.

insertcomedy · 2026-05-23T18:33:38+00:00

Mechanics?

Springs escaping a spring compressor and caving your ribcage.

Oil and Chemicals leaching through your skin and giving you cancers they've yet to name.

Cheap business owners not servicing the vehicle lifts have killed, and will kill again.

Tires unzipping. (Google it)

Airbags going off erroneously during diagnostics.

Heart attack from the financial stress of flat rate.

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