dsigned001
dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter
dsigned001

This was my thought too. “Who’s the last person in the world I would want opening his yapper about DMLK?” I mean, there are probably worse people, but none who might genuinely be expected to participate. I’m not going to shed tears over this.

I think that it might be a better idea to re-introduce boxing (or maybe some sort of MMA). The inclusion of weight class means you’re not going to get leveled by a kid three times your size. I took boxing as an adult, and as a dude, it was very informative. I realized that I could, in fact, take a punch fairly well

Those trucks are freaking massive too. It’s not like they’re paper thin fiberglass panels over a roll cage, or a street car with pedestrian friendly bumpers, or like they’re going parking lot speeds. These are eight ton behemoths rolling on massive tires at insane speeds. Standing in the path of that thing makes you a

I actually think GoT is about the right speed for a Dune remake. I’m not sure the first book can be condensed into a single movie very easily

Someone needs to do a Kubelwagen version of this.

I want one of these in an airplane. Actually I want two in an airplane.

Yeah, a lot of this can be forgiven after “podium”. Getting on the podium in F1 is an achievement that I would equate roughly to getting a bronze in the Olympics (not sure which sport though). Actually, I bet there are more living bronze medal winners than F1 podium finishers. I’m not sure I would want to spend $80

I saw Watchmen before I read Watchmen, and I kind of think that’s part of the problem: people who love the comic/book/etc. are always going to have problems with an interpretation. Arguably LOTR is one of the better adaptations, and I still have pretty significant gripes with some of Peter Jackson’s choices (Hobbit

I don’t think Vietnam deserves to be in the same category as Bahrain. The government is authoritarian, but they actually care about what happens to the people. I lived there between 96 and 2003. They changed the uniforms of the traffic cops to be peach colored to a) keep regular cops from extracting bribes and b) to

Vietnam is significantly better than most other third world countries, “democracies” or not. The “guy on the street” is much better off in Vietnam than say, the Philippines, which is technically democratic, but is a giant mess in every other conceivable metric.

Yeah, if you want to talk human rights violations, Duterte is a good place to start. Fuck that guy.

While Vietnam’s government isn’t great on civil liberties, it’s a functional government, which is more than can be said of much of the world. I’ve lived there, and would live there again way before I’d live in the Philippines (for example). The access to basic healthcare, education and the like are way above what’s

Might be worth pestering your apt complex for electric chargers. They’re not expensive to install. I’d bet there’s already 220 3 phase wired up for the air conditioners, so it’s just a matter of installing the charging station.

200 miles is way more than I’d want to commute on bike in a day. A 15-20 minute commute is about all I’d really be comfortable with. And for weekends, you’re talking a solid 2-3 hour ride. If you plan it, you could ride a few hours, stop for lunch at a place with a charger, then ride another hour. I could see the

The thing that irritates me about the general aviation community is how ridiculously resistant they are to change. The FAA should have mandated electronic fuel injection, ignition, a switch to alternators, etc. twenty years ago. Instead, we’ve got ancient tech flying around, and deaths that would be preventable if

There was an article several years (like 15?) back in Sport Compact Car (I think) where they did a test with 3 or 4 different rim diameters on a road course. IIRC the second smallest was the fastest out of the four, and the largest was the slowest (and this was like 18 or 19", nothing ridiculous).

I will say though

More sidewall is often faster around a track as well. There's a limit, but with a bigger wheel, you're shifting the weight towards the outside, so you have greater inertia for the same weight wheel.

I have put in 91 previously, and my mileage was not dramatically different. Maybe 1mpg difference in real world driving.

$10k sounds pretty reasonable to me actually, given how much of this requires almost entirely custom work (and how much you’re adding in parts). It’s not chump change, but it makes the C30 into a Swedish Golf R. That’s pretty freaking cool.

I put 87 octane in my XRS. Is that bad?