Thanks for the info! I could have sworn seeing round shells like this packed with small pellets and gunpowder in a museum. Could have been a fever dream.

Interesting; so if they’re round like this they’re always solid?

Congratulations on your internet dick of the day award!

Perhaps because it might have a grapeshot charge inside? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapeshot

Did it for 5 years in LA; was the best ever except for that one time I almost died.

“Assures shareholders”

Omg this guys on fire!

No worries man, we just hate freedom so much and you’re being all free and it drives us so crazy how free you are.

Counterpoint:

Right, so you get a Miata, mini, brz/frs, or any of the handful of other cars that are light, manual, and have short gearing. Commuting in a muscle car with a 45mph first gear and truck clutch? Yeah you’re doing it wrong.

Yeah I agree. Rev matching practice is the one fun thing you can still do in heavy traffic. And my god people, is depressing a clutch that painful?

More conservative tastes how dare you.

I don’t know man. I ride my bike to work in LA 2 days out of the week and it’s fucking terrifying when everyone is snapchatting at 45mph. Was also hit by a person at an intersection while walking because the sun glared while they turned. They were paying attention.

Right, but heart minus the money gives you exactly zero chance. This kid’s the best out of a tiny group of kids who can actually afford to compete.

As a former driver of a 3cyl metro, I can confirm that “runs like new” is not a particularly high bar.

On the other hand we have CARB, which effectively bans all turbo miatas. So there’s that.

Living there now, and even our crap rent controlled apartment has a first gen Bronco, FD RX7, 993, 70's super beetle and a v70r in the parking garage. So proud of my neighbors

That makes sense. I look for the same sort of work that you describe, and yeah it’s out there, but you really have to make it your priority to get work like that over other goals, as yeah it’s becoming more rare.

While I understand the sentiment, I’d argue that knowing the tools and frameworks is now an important part of what makes you a good engineer. I mean you could be the most amazing oil painter ever, but you’d be a useless artist to my particular needs at work... and in that use case are you really a “good artist”? I’d…

I work as an artist in game dev, and we’re constantly looking for ways to automate the process so that we can do more with less people.