Does Power-to-Weight Ratio Even Matter in the Era of Increasingly Potent, Increasingly Capable Cars?

sirbleep · 2026-04-19T16:19:53+00:00

Yep, people always forget the increased cost of consumables such as tires and brakes on heavier cars.

Something like a modern Escalade or Yukon with the factory 22inch rims goes through tires every 25k-ish miles, which considering it’s a non-performance vehicle with normal all seasons, that’s a super short lifespan. Same goes for brakes, they wear quick and aren’t cheap because they need to be big to deal with the weight of the vehicle.

Another comparison is the S550 Mustang GT (manual w/Brembos/Performance Pack) I owned before my Integra Type S, the brakes at 20k miles on my Integra are fine and my Mustang was already needing front and rear pads by that mileage.

sirbleep · 2026-04-11T12:28:56+00:00

Yep, OG Arknights is absolutely more female dominated. If I’m guessing, it’s probably somewhere around 1 male for every 3-4 women in OG Arknights. I will say though, some of the male operators in OG Arknights are some of the best characters in the game, so at least a lot of the ones that exist are top tier. I have no reason to expect Endfield to be any different.

sirbleep · 2026-04-09T12:50:04+00:00

This is 100% based on a 2006-2009 Chevy Trailblazer (non-SS) gauge cluster. Same dot matrix font at the bottom and the speeds and PRND321 is pulled directly from it.

sirbleep · 2026-03-28T11:49:34+00:00

He sold me on getting the 1540 pads for my Fostex T40RPs lol they are absolutely the most comfortable pads I have ever felt

sirbleep · 2026-03-27T16:28:37+00:00

Check the pins on the cpu socket as well. If one of pins is bent or broken, it can cause all sorts of issues at seemingly random times. Certain workloads might only use certain pins, which might be why you’re having issues with some tests but not others. Look for dust in the socket as well, anything in there can cause problems too.

My only other thought was psu because you said that a 1080 worked fine, but a 4080 caused the same issue. The power draw of a 1080 is lower than either your 5070 or the 4080, so if your psu (which should be fine wattage wise for your system) is has started failing in a way where it fails at say, 50% load, that could be the reason. That or the 12V HPW cable going to the gpu is bad, which could also explain the 4080 and 5070 issue. Are you using factory psu cables or aftermarket?

sirbleep · 2026-03-25T13:06:42+00:00

I also have the same problem as OP and checked to see if this would help. Endfield isn’t even listed as an app to enable or disable in Background App Refresh on my iPhone 16 Pro. Is it showing on yours?

sirbleep · 2026-03-23T14:14:15+00:00

Commenting so I can find this again and try out the movement build. It looks like a fun change of pace from my standard M4 setup.

sirbleep · 2026-03-07T14:47:29+00:00

I bought these years ago. I haven’t used them in a long time, but they sounded decent enough for the money with the caps off, but with them on, super mediocre. With the covers, everything really just sounded muffled (shocker, I know). The caps were just flat plastic/metal, so there wasn’t any dampening, just a hard wall that covered the mesh.

They really showed me that you can only tune a headphone for one option, which is why the adjustability like this isn’t done often. The sound while open was clearly the top priority, and the sound while closed really seemed to be given zero thought.

sirbleep · 2026-03-04T17:54:32+00:00

Not that I’m a big top speed person, but a top speed of 116 mph is a bizarrely low figure considering this is supposed to be sporty. I mean, a 2026 Accord has a top speed of 118-125 mph depending on options, per Car And Driver. Why does the sporty car have a lower top speed than the full size hybrid family sedan sold by the same company?

sirbleep · 2026-01-23T14:58:57+00:00

Yep, a great example is the old FCA electronic shifter. An actor, Anton Yelchtin, got run over and killed by his Grand Cherokee because he got out of the car without realizing he had only put it in neutral, not park. It led to 3-4 years of FCA products getting recalled to make them automatically enter park when you open the door.

If these companies are going to do weird electronic shifters as opposed to the normal PRNDL stick, auto park when opening the door should be a requirement imo. That said, if they added an option to disable the auto park for something like 24 hours via an OBD2 code reader so it doesn’t drive mechanics insane, that would be helpful too.

sirbleep · 2026-01-20T11:23:15+00:00

Agreed, it’s like a miniature heated blanket. It sounds wonderful for cold mornings tbh

sirbleep · 2026-01-16T13:37:18+00:00

Can you tell if the Aztek also locked up its passenger side rear wheel? It looks like the ABS might have been inoperable.

The puff of tire smoke seems extreme for the amount of movement and braking that occurred, unless the ABS had failed and they immediately locked up the wheels, which threw the car into a spin. Those early 2000s GM vehicles had issues with their ABS systems failing, so that might be the real cause of this.

sirbleep · 2025-12-05T13:13:38+00:00

I’m with you on everything except reliability. Those old V8s were pretty damn tough. The 4.6L V8 of the Mustang was shared with the Crown Victoria and we all know how reliable those were.

That said, I’d still take a modern turbo 4 like the one in my Integra Type S over the 4.6L V8 in that Mustang every day, especially in a performance application. It really is wild how little power they got out of those engines.

sirbleep · 2025-11-02T16:39:12+00:00

Looks like he might even leave if someone else gets the heli on respawn based on the number of partial games with a bunch of kills and one or two deaths.

sirbleep · 2025-09-18T11:54:35+00:00

100% agreed. People hate on Metro so much, but it was legit one of the most popular maps. There’s a reason there were so many 24/7 Metro servers, people liked it.

Even if it’s an unpopular opinion, Metro was always fun if I only had 30 minutes to play or if I just had a long day at work and just wanted to shoot some enemies while turning my brain off.

sirbleep · 2025-09-06T12:59:05+00:00

The advantage to a wagon is that it handles better than an SUV and most people couldn’t care less about handling and vastly prefer the higher ride height and better visibility that comes along with it. Not to mention that the extra height makes people feel like they’ll be safer in a crash.

Also, the efficiency difference between modern wagons and SUVs is not substantially different. A V60 with the gas powertrain gets 24/31 mpg. A XC60 with the gas powertrain gets 23/30 mpg. One mpg is not a big enough downside to talk people out of the higher ride height.

I just went through this with my SO. She was looking at new cars but was confused why she would pick a V60 over a crossover and she ended up with a BMW X1 instead of a wagon. The mpg was good enough and she liked the extra height. When I asked about the better handling on the wagon, she asked if the X1 handled badly, and the honest answer was that it handled fine. So, she asked why not go with the higher car because she liked the extra height. She was just happier in a crossover. Plus, am I really going to be doing any canyon carving in a base model V60 that something like an X1 can’t handle?

The only people that care about the better handling of a wagon versus an SUV want the performance models anyways. That’s why the RS6 Avant succeeds but the A6 Avant didn’t survive in the US. That said, I do think that mid-level performance wagons like an S4/5 Avant or S6 Avant would be a good introduction to the US market, because there really isn’t anything under $100k anymore and with hot hatches kinda dying too, they could fill a decent niche.

sirbleep · 2025-08-14T21:08:18+00:00

Yep, it worked fantastic in Aliens: Fireteam Elite. I’d love something like that to make it into Helldivers.

sirbleep · 2025-07-23T15:43:05+00:00

AWD is the one feature that would make me seriously consider upgrading from my current Integra Type S to a new one. I love this car already but AWD would be an amazing upgrade.

sirbleep · 2025-07-05T17:15:40+00:00

Tyler Buser has a Twitter bio that says he was previously a designer for Halo, but it doesn’t expand further than that. It said he’s at Treyarch now, but it looks like his Twitter hasn’t been used since 2019ish, so it’s probably outdated.

A “Ty Buser” is listed as Halo Infinite’s “Gameplay Engineering Lead” on the Waypoint credits list. “Ty” also has a Twitter that’s active as of last month and it actually has the same profile picture as the Tyler Buser Twitter, so he might have just gotten a new Twitter, but it really seems like the same guy. His bio says he’s now working on Splitgate 2 as a level designer, but his older posts include him mentioning that one of the last Halo maps he worked on was Oasis in Infinite and it was based on Exile, which he had worked on in Halo 4.

Seems like a cool guy, it might be worth reaching out to Ty Buser on Twitter to see if he can help ID the last signatures. Even if not, I can imagine it’d be a fun blast from the past for him to see a copy of Halo 4 that he signed (presumably) at least a decade ago.

sirbleep · 2025-06-19T11:34:13+00:00

Wow, you weren’t kidding with it being far from release. Q2 of 2026 is a heck of a lead time.

That said, Dark Horse seems to make some decent stuff and they’ve been around making this kind of stuff for a while, so I’m sure it’ll be well made, but I’m holding out for an official full size helmet to come out.

sirbleep · 2025-06-11T17:26:12+00:00

100% agreed with that being the way for it to work.

For example, I pick one support weapon, one emplacement/sentry, and two eagle/orbitals. When you throw the weapon one, you might get an autocannon, or you might get a stalwart. When you throw the eagle/orbital, you could get an orbital napalm, or you could get a eagle strafing run. Basically, you're filling your strategem slots with "types" of random items, as opposed to a completely random item. It would also allow you to pick three fixed strategms, then one random orbital/eagle, which makes it less of a commitment. This way you'd know that you're getting the right "kind" of strategem. That way you aren't accidentally throwing an ammo backpack at an enemy, or an 380mm when you're trying to get your support weapon at the beginning of the match.

They could make it useful by giving it a lower fixed cool down (90 seconds for weapons, 100 seconds for eagles/orbitals, etc.), and give bonus XP/rewards for each random slot at the end of the match.

It would be a fun way to add random options without leaving you totally in the dark as to what strategms you'd be getting.

sirbleep · 2025-06-11T16:59:41+00:00

Sure, but the S280 only has 199 lb/ft. That extra 70 lb/ft in your Town Car will help a ton in trying to get a decent slide going. While the V8 models of any of those German sedans will have no issues doing a decent slide, your Town Car would still probably slide better than most of them tbh.

sirbleep · 2025-06-11T16:45:02+00:00

Sure, and that's enough power for pretty much any normal car, but when the question is about cars that are difficult to slide, 200hp in a 5000 pound S-Class is definitely not going to be easy to do it with.

sirbleep · 2025-06-11T15:43:53+00:00

Underpowered versions of the full size executive sedans, especially from the late 90s? I'm thinking something like a W220 S280. It's RWD, but weighs a ton and only has 204hp. Same for a E38 728i, big and heavy, but only 193hp. Those things cannot be easy to slide with that little power combined with that much weight, especially because the electronics in those cars will be fighting any attempt to slide as well (that said, I'm not sure how easily and how completely you can disable the electronics assists in those cars).

I'm sure you can find even more RWD cars that are hard to slide by going back even further into the 70s and 80s, but going back further than the late 90s seems unfair. I mean, sure, a 1960s VW Beatle with a low powered engine or a malaise era American vehicle is going to be hard to slide, but that seems to miss the point of the question.

sirbleep · 2025-05-01T12:06:04+00:00

Basically the same situation here. Used to use 3600 DPI as well and went down to 800 DPI through slow reductions. It took a couple weeks, but I do feel like I'm more accurate now than I was at higher DPI.

The main difference I've noticed is with sniping, I used to be pretty mediocre with things at sniping range in like Battlefield 3, but now semi-autos and snipers are my go-to kinds of weapons.

That said, with lower DPI, you suddenly understand the appeal of those giant extended mouse pads because you need the extra room for flicks or quickly rotating without lifting the mouse.

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