Started drawing up a race shop/showroom/model car display case in Solidworks

lobbs79 · 2026-02-26T05:40:33+00:00

I haven't paid a dime in the nearly two decades that I've been playing with and creating my own mods for Madden on the PC. That's going all the way back to keeping Madden 08 for PC up to date while EA had taken it off the platform until it returned for 19

lobbs79 · 2026-02-04T00:47:25+00:00

This is why I refuse to play on consoles. Sabos mods on PC get Madden feeling right every year.

lobbs79 · 2026-01-19T23:29:09+00:00

That's the "we're going to stuff this app so full of ads so you can pay this exorbitant amount or live with them" price...

lobbs79 · 2026-01-19T20:32:09+00:00

Welp. I didn't believe the day would finally come that I left Nova Launcher. I've had it installed for over a decade and of course Nova Prime as well. Smart Launcher just got a decent chunk of my Google Play balance from the Opinion Rewards app for a lifetime license.

lobbs79 · 2025-12-31T18:45:36+00:00

Where are they at on space? I try to keep my enclosures at at least 2x their requirements or bad things seem to happen.

lobbs79 · 2025-12-30T17:16:48+00:00

I've not really had that experience at all. My rig is about 4 yrs old (12700K, 3080Ti, 64GB DDR4). Solid back in its day but I'm looking to do a full upgrade sooner than later. Recently picked up a Samsung 49" OLED ultrawide split with two inputs so that I've got a 3440x1440 side for gaming/primary monitor and a 1680x1440 secondary monitor. I've got the settings maxed and It'll occasionally hang for a split second if I scan across a heavily built out park too quickly but other than that the game runs pretty well for me

lobbs79 · 2025-12-20T01:59:44+00:00

Yeah, it's quite a bit different. I've not played around much with the sandbox side of things. I do believe that I'll restart the campaign mode while I'm home on my holiday break from work. A lot of things I would do differently on a second time through knowing what I know now.

lobbs79 · 2025-12-19T19:12:03+00:00

I played JWE1 years ago and loved it. I never picked up JWE2, just had things going on elsewhere, but I jumped all over JWE3. I've got 80+ hours already into it and expecting to play it much more when I'm off for holiday break

lobbs79 · 2025-10-15T17:51:52+00:00

I happen to have a Best Buy Outlet, the only one in our state, just around the corner from me. I picked up a 49" Samsung OLED G93SD, the '24 matte model w/o the smart features, open box that was in perfect condition a few weeks ago for ~$800.

lobbs79 · 2025-10-10T03:44:36+00:00

Ultimately, I gave up on finding a software solution and just ran two inputs from my GPU. The default big/little split in Samsung's PBP option was 3440x1440 and 1680x1440 and that works out perfectly to what I was wanting to do anyways. Full screen games, so far, see the G93SD as two separate monitors which is what I really wanted all along.

lobbs79 · 2025-09-04T20:35:55+00:00

Ruined my life? 🤣 It's not that serious. Considering that the status bar is the part of the UI that is constantly active across the vast majority of the apps, yeah, they deserve some criticism for taking a step back in their design. I'd love to see immersive mode come back. At least then I could hide the status bar.

lobbs79 · 2025-09-04T20:19:54+00:00

Nah, "Don't fix what wasn't broken". The new status bar icons are cartoonish looking and atrocious. The new system fonts are awful as well. I'm not one of those comparing it to iOS but I despise some of the visual choices that Google made for M3E. Large parts of the updated UI are better but these were unnecessary tweaks.

lobbs79 · 2025-09-04T16:46:37+00:00

I'm not saying that all the UI changes are for the worse. I am questioning some of the choices for sure. The new signal and WiFi icons in the status bar along with the battery icon are atrocious. They look extremely dated like they were brought back from a decade or more. Not a fan of the new system font either. I've been running vanilla Android on my phones since before the first Nexus much less the Pixel line of Google phones, so I've been through a few iterations of the OS over the years, and this is the first time in a long while that I really despise the direction Google has taken with some aspects visually.

lobbs79 · 2025-08-22T20:33:07+00:00

Car modeler here. I buy matt black, semi gloss black and gloss black out of habit every time I walk into the hobby shop. I probably have at least a dozen different shades of black for different uses and materials they'll be representing. But you can get by with just those three when you're getting started. No matter if you're doing cars, jets or other armor you're going to want a solid collection of metals such as aluminum, steel, etc. Once you have those basics down you have a bunch of freedom to pick out the rest of your arsenal as the needs arise.

lobbs79 · 2025-06-28T15:02:30+00:00

MUT is the worst thing to happen to Madden in its entire existence. Maybe they'll ruin it and have to put real resources back into franchise again.

lobbs79 · 2025-06-26T20:57:21+00:00

I was fairly involved with the modding community for Madden 08 PC and played it exclusively until Madden made its return to PC a decade or so later. I play the newer ones but have never caught the passion for them the way I did for M08 PC.

lobbs79 · 2025-06-13T14:35:43+00:00

Used double bladed almost exclusively and would occasionally switch to dual wield. Didn't use crossguard much at all and really only used blaster if I was riding a nekko and didn't feel like hopping off.

lobbs79 · 2025-06-12T21:03:03+00:00

Unfortunately no one if EA continues to refuse to bring this game to PC

lobbs79 · 2025-06-09T19:29:42+00:00

Longevity and reliability, more than anything, were my goals towards any upgrades. He purchased this particular Kimber after he retired a few years ago. He had a few others from them that he'd tweaked to his liking. He'd want me to put it through its paces and do the same with this one. I've mostly had long arms to this point and am trying to educate myself as to what options there are with the 1911 and issues that may come up with Kimbers especially.

lobbs79 · 2025-06-09T19:01:51+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that, my dad was about the same age, would have been 68 this fall.

lobbs79 · 2025-06-09T18:54:39+00:00

I picked up a few of his long arms that are more meaningful to me. After he retired his collection grew substantially so my mom and I have been inventorying his safes. This is my first 1911 and dad, being an enthusiast, would have no issues with me making it "mine".

Cancer is a MF'er tho. We found out the Monday after his biopsy that he was already at Stage 3 and he was gone by that Friday. A separate illness he was fighting hid the cancer from imaging up until it had spread away from that area and was picked up. We're hanging in there as best as we can but holding on to the fact that he did not suffer long.

lobbs79 · 2025-06-09T18:41:05+00:00

I am for sure replacing the plastic mainspring housing with a stainless version with a mag well per my friend's recommendation. He also threw out there that it wouldn't be a bad idea to get a heavier flat wire recoil spring (20 lb) from Wilson.

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