The Porsche C88 was a concept for a small family car for mass mobilization in China. In a time where Porsche was desperate for cash and their design team had already worked with Volvo (engine development for 480 turbo, 4/5/6 cylinder engines in 850/960 - later V90/V40 - all come from the same family, engineered by…

that looks like a fatted-up Volvo P1800 to me. Sorry, can’t unsee it.

eh, cars have to wait for pedestrians at crosswalks / zebra crossings in most of the world. Not doing so is punishable by law. Doesn’t that apply in the US? It should.

Look up “as bad as new” or Dave Walden, and how he restored an everyday-car, a Plymouth Valiant, painstakingly to be as “correct” as possible to when it rolled of the assembly line, vinyl seat stink and hammered-in exhaust pipes (to make them fit, was done from the factory) as well as badly applied paint and overspray…

ouch! Sounds like something they dreamt of to get more money from the unaware consumer.

iirc Mercedes had heated windshield wiper nozzels and lines from the W124 onwards in the E-class? Saw them at a friends car, were a pita to replace.

The SSC Tuatara run has been debunked on the net pretty widely, even the GPS company whose equipment they used said that they wouldn’t certify it.
Still, the REAL speeds it was measured at are nothing to scoff at, but even SSC now admits it never went beyond 300mph, let alone oder 330mph as they first claimed.
Somewhere…

It was ok-ish when the first Smart car did it (its crash characteristics were best described with ping-pong-ball). The Cybertruck is more of a bowling ball though...

if somebody is “breaking the law” for years (or even decades in this point), and nobody is enforcing the law, then it could happen in some countries (and maybe some regions of the US too? I dunno) that the law will be abolished because it is apparently not necessary if there are no steps taken for it to be enforced.
Thi…

Sometimes people park vehicles for the purpose of selling them in crowded spaces where parking space is at a premium. Probably won’t bother anyone in the US, but in Europe, there are cities where you are circling the block for 45mins just to look for someone leaving so you can take their space and park for the night.…

The interesting thing lies in doing jobs that are tiring and can be automated easily. A robot does not get tired, and it can work under circumstances that may be harmful to the human body.
Back in the days, humans used to take the glass front screens of TVs out of the oven and put them on trays to cool down. Glass…

What is it with video game musicians being somewhat... meh in RL?
Jeremy Soule wasn’t a shining example a few years back either.
Sucks that I still have a signed CD set from Skyrim, makes them completely worthless I imagine :P

Those costs are reason for a fraud claim against the whole operating company.
The costs for a medical helicopter flight are about 90€ per minute of flight. Combine that with the use of a winch which complicates things, and the average cost of a helicopter rescue of people stranded in the mountains amounts to about…

Knights of the round cost me a battle. I remember having it as a materia with a counter strike or what was it called attached, so that it would trigger when my party member would get hit.
Unfortunately, there was one mission on a train that had a timer, and the timer didn’t stop during battle animations. Needless to…

Oh, I absolutely agree! IIrc, the whol Yuffie arc was completely optional and you never needed to visit certain areas of the game or complete that storyline and get her as a party member - it was all optional.

“never meant to be this long”?
I spent about countless hours in the original FF, doing all kinds of quests, grinding to lvl 99 before the final confrontation, trying to get every Materia possible, golden Chocobo breeding... the list was endless.
How can a remake be “too long”?
I mean - it is FF7, most people who buy…

Eh, something like this was available YEARS ago, but back then, all of the game disc cases actually fit inside the nuke - which made a nuke sound when you pushed the red thingy on top.
Come to think of it, the games were in paper sleeves back then though... which makes me think that this is the exact same container…

I’ve seen a good numberof 2 litre NC units that were burning oil and dropping quickly below minimum levels, resulting in engine damage.
Never saw something like that on unmodified NA/NB engines, though a lot of blow up ones when people with more money than brains slap on a huge turbo/supercharger and think that’s it…

quite on the contrary, the moderation tools of Xbox seem to work for me. Apparently toxic young annoying screamkids are now shelved off into game lobbys where they encounter only players that have been branded the same by others, while most times you can enjoy a pretty civilised gaming experience.
COD is always garbage…

When I heard “passion project” and “already on PC/Xbox”, I immediately thought of Grounded. That one is out of beta now, and I think stable enough that it could benefit from a new influx in players.
And it was a passion project for Obsidian.