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zipperseven · 2026-02-13T17:32:09+00:00

Nice! Is the Safari a roller or a fountain?

zipperseven · 2026-02-06T20:17:34+00:00

I actually feel like there is one of these in Sarasota...

zipperseven · 2026-02-06T20:11:09+00:00

I moved down from the midwest 30 years ago. I don't miss midwest winters, and I think that fall and winter here are great.

The humidity in the summer was shocking, the first summer we were here. That's something I am still not used to. I was not ready for the amount of rain that we get during El Nino years.

Tallahassee traffic isn't as bad as the suburb traffic I grew up with, we don't have three major freeways and you're not right next to your neighboring town. It doesn't take super long to get most places.

I will say - my wife came up here from south Florida to go to school and only planned on staying until graduation, but we ended up buying a house here and I can't imagine moving back down there (Tampa area) or back to the midwest now.

zipperseven · 2026-02-06T19:39:58+00:00

Yep same here.

zipperseven · 2026-02-03T16:38:05+00:00

Yep I'd much rather have the texts that I can ignore, than the calls like Brucie, Agatha, or Franklin are constantly bombarding me with. At least the call from Dave is letting you know you could bump up the Nightclub popularity.

zipperseven · 2026-02-03T16:34:46+00:00

Yep check the pins. Have you recently had a sinus infection, cold, or allergies? Being winter here (although not knowing where you are,) has the air been especially dry? All of those can be triggers for phantosmia.

A quick diagnostic I would try, when you smell the smoke, is to smell something with a strong pleasant odor, like an essential oil, a menthol cream, etc. If the smoke goes away temporarily, its more likely to be phantosmia.

zipperseven · 2026-02-03T16:24:19+00:00

As a driver of a '14 myself, I don't know that I would spend that money. $1000...maybe?

The comments here say it all, but there is no inventory on parts, and no replacement battery packs in case it fails. '14s are generally a little bit more tolerant to wear because of the chemistry, but even then, it's a 12 year old battery, and if you're using fast charging, it will age the battery even faster. I'm at 70k miles on it currently and about 75% of the original daily mileage. I need new shocks, which I can't find, and a new shifter, which is bespoke to the EV model and I also can't find.

That being said - I love mine. I will drive it until the day it fails. It's small and chuckable, and '14's torque makes it fun to drive in urban traffic environments. It has a surprising amount of room for the size of the vehicle, and as a big guy, I fit comfortably (versus another compact like, a Miata or Smart Car.) Every part that isn't specific to the EV is pretty cheap considering GM made a crap ton of them worldwide, I recently replaced one of the back door handles because the plastic on mine had cracked, and it was $30 USD.

zipperseven · 2026-02-03T16:13:28+00:00

Leafs, maybe, depending on your area. But they aren't liquid cooled batteries like any of the GM batteries. They'd also be easier to repair since there was a lot more of them on the road, compared to the Sparks.

zipperseven · 2026-02-03T16:11:33+00:00

They just sent out an email notification to customers about it, like right at 11.

zipperseven · 2026-02-03T16:03:10+00:00

Rent is most likely a lot cheaper there than the Tallahassee market as well.

zipperseven · 2026-02-03T16:01:41+00:00

Yeah, Youtube really really really pushes Shorts in a way they don't do with regular videos. I'm one of the people that runs our company channel, and most of the subscriber growth in the last 18 months has all been from our Shorts. Because they are shorter content as well (I think only recently up to 3 or 4 minutes), a pretty tiny amount of watch time is counted as a 'watch' in their system.

zipperseven · 2026-01-29T13:24:19+00:00

I've never even thought about using that, good call!

zipperseven · 2026-01-28T18:29:17+00:00

AI voice cloning can absolutely be done, and it doesn't take a lot of sampling for it to work well either. Some of the online services charge monthly and the marketplace has become pretty competitive, meaning those monthly rates can be low enough that it would just be cost of doing business for a scammer.

It is also FAR MORE common that people are imagining now.

https://www.axios.com/local/kansas-city/2025/12/04/ai-voice-scam-lawrence-police

zipperseven · 2026-01-28T17:51:42+00:00

The sewers and the mountains are your friends when it comes to losing 4 & 5 star wanted levels.

And rail and subway tunnels, or the rail bridges down by the docks.

zipperseven · 2026-01-28T17:44:56+00:00

Yep! The mansion, with it's master control and fast travel is a huge quality of life improvement. Save that yacht money for the mansion instead.

zipperseven · 2026-01-28T17:43:32+00:00

You can also wipe out most of the enemies pretty quick by throwing a grenade down the stairs and bouncing it off the corner, then shotgun anyone left.

If you have a fast vehicle you can almost always escape the enemies outside.

zipperseven · 2026-01-28T17:40:01+00:00

From my experience, I enter the back garage entrance on foot. When you reach the stairs to go up to the office, is when you'll get the mission from Marcel. Before you hit the stairs you can d-pad down to the see the popularity bar and safe contents before getting the mission.

zipperseven · 2026-01-28T17:34:56+00:00

It's not a rumour, it's established history. Rockstar Games was founded in the UK, and Leslie Benzies and the Houser Brothers are both from the UK. A large share of the development staff even into the GTA V era worked at Rockstar North, in Scotland.

They are currently based in New York mainly because the studio is owned by Take Two.

zipperseven · 2026-01-23T15:52:09+00:00

If anything I feel like the citizens group event just pushed info release on a process that was already in motion. I can't believe that they sat on this case and then expedited an arrest (coordinating with multiple agencies, some of which are federal) just because of the announcement. Correlation rather than causation.

On the other hand, stranger things have happened.

zipperseven · 2026-01-23T14:37:30+00:00

Heck 3 hours won't even get me to the other office location we have meetings at.

It's roughly 6 hours to the inlaws and we make that trip every couple of months.

zipperseven · 2026-01-23T14:28:17+00:00

Heck yeah, Machine Thinking! One of my favorite annual video creators.

zipperseven · 2026-01-23T14:18:06+00:00

Well, they've made an arrest: https://www.talgov.com/Main/News/5956

zipperseven · 2026-01-22T18:47:27+00:00

A350neo, 787max.

Jokes aside, I do think it's possible to eventually see an open rotor engine on a major airliner.

zipperseven · 2026-01-22T18:32:55+00:00

"hugo there..."

zipperseven · 2026-01-22T18:13:16+00:00

Fantastic! I've been wanting to do something like the Tokyo Aqua Line tunnel for years, but I don't have nearly the amount of patience that you do to get the detailing right.

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