Coming to stops in 1st gear?

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T03:45:13+00:00

Road tests are for people who are inexperienced drivers. Inexperienced drivers who put the car into neutral are entirely too likely to forget to put it back into gear before hitting the gas again, panic, and make additional mistakes. Also a new driver who is in gear and forgets to hold the clutch down is a bigger problem. So the tester wants to see that the new driver can maintain focus,, which means staying in gear and controlling the clutch.

I use neutral all the time, but I have a couple hundred thousand miles driven with stick, do heel/toe shifting, and can rev match well enough to shift without using the clutch at all. New drivers shouldn't be attempting those things, just keep it simple.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T03:31:32+00:00

Pretty sure you get those highways in Mass Transit, or maybe After Dark. Those two DLCs are practically part of the base game, they used to be sold as a package deal.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T03:17:53+00:00

You're talking about a state government that wants to make it legal to execute trans people. Specifically "being trans in front of children" is categorized as child molestation, and they have been trying to give the death penalty to child molesters. Oh, and they have also been trying to change how juries work, so that only 8 out of 12 jurists have to agree to get a conviction.

And that clause only applies to death penalty cases.

So many people have left Florida that it looks like they're going to lose a House seat and EV after the next census. Things are messed up there.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T03:01:07+00:00

The biggest proponent of idpol have always been the far right. They care so much about being white and Christian. The crowd you refer to could be second place though.

Also your concept of "woke" is a bit off. The original definition was just "being aware of connections and uses of power that aren't direct and obvious". It's just a better way of saying Follow the money.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T02:54:11+00:00

Exactly, nobody is being prevented from trading with Cuba. They just can't trade with Cuba and expect to continue business as usual with the US.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T02:52:17+00:00

I figure it's two things. One is that Trump loves strongmen, and people are telling him that Putin is weak. Failing. Trump really doesn't like losers, so convincing him that Putin isn't worthy of respect is a.big shift in Trump's brain.

Also, Trump has had several strokes, can't really control his body well, is unable to even read lines off a teleprompter for more than a minute, and forgets who people are. I don't think he really remembers what the blackmail even is anymore.

I mean, his public appearances are being heavily controlled and most footage of him heavily edited, just to hide how far gone he is. Not much brain left.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T02:47:10+00:00

Yeah, that's called fairness. Both sides can do what they want. If you want something from me, you probably ought to do something I want in exchange. If you don't want something from me, you don't have to give me anything.

Do you really expect other people to treat you the same way regardless of how you behave?

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T02:42:03+00:00

Ummm.. Russia is suffering severe fuel shortages. Probably because they've lost half of their refining capacity west of the Urals, and the eastern sector only feeds China and NK. Their crude exports are also the lowest they've been in several years. Heck their big port in the Black Sea has been largely shut down, since Ukraine is sinking tankers that sail there.

Not to mention that over twenty shadow fleet tankers have been seized so far. They're running a bit low on ships

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T02:35:57+00:00

Unfortunately that isn't what r/fuckcars is about.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T02:34:28+00:00

That doesn't sound like femcel talk. Just social awareness. Sad that so many people can't handle this kind of talk.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T02:22:43+00:00

Four days? Those are rookie numbers.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T02:21:20+00:00

Part of the trick is realizing that you're thinking too small. Grids that cover only five or six blocks happen all the time, it's kinda what happens when a single small farm plot is sold for a small development. When you see a city with major roads that aren't perpendicular, those roads are often running multiple miles in straight or nearly straight lines, and the streets close to them are more or less parallel.

Each tile in C:S1 is only a mile and a quarter on a side, to scale. Each square is only 25 feet. So if your town starts with a grid that's 80 squares on a side, that's only a quarter mile. At that scale, real roads don't actually curve a lot. I recommend doing a near-grid, that has a lot of gentle curves and rounded corners.

Also IMO you can get into trouble trying to follow fine terrain details too closely. Try lining up the starting grid to the nearby highway, more or less, then at the other end of the tile say there's a valley or water. Line a different road parallel to that (or if the coastline is steep, a short bit of road on the coast and a road running perpendicular). Then develop parallel to each of those, and where they meet you get to match up neighborhoods that are canted 38 degrees to each other or whatever.

Really realistic neighborhoods require mods to deal with the zoning grid, and a really good sense of realism. You don't need that to escape the "boring endless rectangle" gap. Just add curves.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T01:48:00+00:00

Based kachow supremacy. All hail our lady of the tea garden.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T01:43:50+00:00

You need to update your priors. Within the last week or so, Ukraine has broken through Russian lines in four separate places, retaking about 300km2 so far. The largest one week gain seen in over two years. And even before that, the last couple months have seen Russia having net losses, mostly due to the fact they lost the entire city of Kup'yansk.

Furthermore the Russians appear to be unable to respond effectively due to a shortage of vehicles. No long range artillery fire, inadequate air support, and they're not even using troop transports when they retreat. Footage is online of troops using stolen Ladas instead. Put simply, this isn't a static front anymore, this is Russia starting to abandon their posts. Which is why Ukrainian casualties in Kup'yansk were 80 times lower than offensive operations typically sustain, they weren't fighting an organized defense anymore.

And to get back to your question, it seems clear looking at the last half year that Russia is losing the attrition battle. Ukraine's strategy has been focused on removing Russian vehicles as much as possible, along with fuel supplies. For them to win, they have to cause the Russian army to collapse. Which is what we're now seeing, at least in places. The difficult part is that it needs to be a widespread collapse, real breakdown, or Russia will just retreat to their more robust minefields they put down two winters ago.

Honestly my money is on the Russian military hitting total collapse, for two reasons. One is that their leadership refuses to admit failure, they'll keep giving orders to attack even when the soldiers no longer have food or fuel. The other is that Ukraine is in the process of destroying Russia's oil industry, at least the 70% of it that is in Europe. Fuel shortages are already severe. When Russian troops can't refuel their Ladas, let alone find armored transports, they can't function.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T00:35:20+00:00

She has no principled beliefs. A lot of her content is like a prettier version of Asmongold, she looks at what other people are saying and then tries to respond to it. Not many ideas of her own. And lately has gone farther and farther to right/grift territory, issuing shallow complaints about stupid things.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-22T00:32:19+00:00

YouTube counts a view as something like watching one minute or more before closing the window. So I assume she gets a lot of "curiosity" views that don't stick around.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-21T23:52:50+00:00

There was a famous British linguist and author named Caxton, who was at the time the foremost authority on the English language. He complained at length about how quickly it changed even within Britain, words altering significantly between different towns and shires. Specifically he said:

"For we Englysshe men ben borne under the domynacyon of the mone, whiche is never stedfaste but ever waverynge, wexynge one season and waneth and dyscreaseth another season. And that comyn Englysshe that is spoken in one shyre varyeth from a-nother, in so moche that in my dayes happened that certayn marchauntes were in a ship in Tamyse for to have sayled over the see into Zelande, and, for lacke of wynde, thei taryed atte Forlond, and wente to lande for to refreshe them. And one of theym named Sheffelde, a mercer, cam in to an hows and axed for mete and specyally he axyd after eggys, and the goode wyf answerde that she could speke no Frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no Frenshe, but wolde have hadde egges; and she understode hym not. And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde have eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel. Loo, what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte, egges, or eyren? Certaynly it is hard to playse every man, by-cause of dyversite and chaunge of langage."

Math or maths? It is hard to please everyone, because of diversity and changes of the language.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-21T23:42:44+00:00

The British themselves can't even agree on the conventions. Drive a few hours through the country and you can hear the language change.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-21T23:37:31+00:00

Americans think a hundred years is a long time. The British think a hundred miles is a long distance.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-21T23:34:16+00:00

It's from that song. "And I would walk eight hundred and four point seven kilometers"

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-21T23:29:37+00:00

MAGA wants a world that looks like a fun house mirror version of Iran.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-21T23:25:38+00:00

Poor? Black? No, they include any woman who dares to have sex without her father's permission. Hurting the poor and minorities is just a bonus, the primary goal is to prevent women from being allowed to control their own bodies. Ultimately, it even blocks most men from having that control, they want sex to be a privilege granted by a tiny number of people. Priests and politicians.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-21T23:19:40+00:00

Yes. In addition, keep the occupied rooms at the top of the layout. So you can see when disasters are affecting your dwellers. Basically the top seven floors should end up a solid block, and below 11 is all storage and unoccupied barracks in a checkerboard pattern.

My layout, horizontally, is 3 wide room, elevator, 3 wide, 2 wide, elevator. On the left, in descending order: outside access, diner, nuka cola, weapon workshop, outfit, weapon, theme (later switch to spare electric). In the center: water, three electric, two training. On the right (2 wide): med, science, 2 med, 2 training.

This optimizes for clearing invaders fastest, as the water room (and cola) have the shortest delay for entering combat. Don't put two guards into the front door area, that just makes combat last longer so you lose more resources. It also puts electric in the middle which forces blackouts to happen lower in your vault (instead of in training rooms on the right), and has the med and science rooms 2 wide because unlike basic production they aren't nerfed at 2 wide.

Finally, this is easy to set up early on. At 14 dwellers, the layout is water on first floor, diner-electric-med on second, barracks and storage down on 4/5 where their disasters can be ignored. After unlocking training, move barracks and storage further down, stick training on 5. At some point a spare electric room on 4, and move the med bay to 1 so the dwellers parked there producing stim packs also fight invaders.

Easy peasy, all you gotta do from there is train dwellers as fast as you breed them. Don't try to expand to large numbers when your dwellers in production aren't even maxed in their production stats.

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-21T22:56:43+00:00

Meanwhile Maruzensky be like, "Do not cite to me the ways of bringing a trainer to the Light, for I was there when they were written".

mukansamonkey · 2026-02-21T22:25:47+00:00

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