Perhaps actually put more thought into it than the shallow level of thinking you display with that last sentence. There are some people I watch because they are incredibly good at coming up with good architecture. Others because I enjoy how insanely technical they get and just how hard it is to understand their…

I had a lot of fun when developers at SoE would troll me when using unorthodox strategies. The really fun ones were when they introduce heal procs (chance to get healed upon being hit) as a standard mechanic for paladins. I wasn’t the only one trolled on that account and we kind of deserved it for what we did with…

Well I could see them living up until the following nuclear winter. Had to fight off cockroaches after living in a particularly bad part of town before. What ultimately killed them was putting all my stuff in a U-Haul and leaving it there for a night in below 0F temperatures. Cleaning their corpses out of all my stuff…

Viscosity of fluids. The pump in most cars is meant to suck in vapor and produced a compressed liquid so that it can vaporize again later in the carburetor or fuel injection system. It does so by trading (vacuum) pressure in the lines for gaseous fuel in the tank. The pump can operate without this effect but it relies…

Having used programming code editors that picked colors similar to those. It’s not just challenging on the yes, it will straight up give you a massive migraine if you stare at it for too long in one sitting. Need something for a gradient cue or the eyes have some really powerful effects on you.

Well GM has had a track record for the past decade or so of not even acknowledging design defects in their cars. For example the Buick’s and other H-body cars all suffer from a sub-frame that rust out long before the body of the car does. The simple fix for this is to paint the subframe with a paint rated to resist…

Here’s the thing I don’t get about all of this crap with cross play and proprietary protocols. Sony wants to use their protocol, Microsoft wants to use theirs and PC lets you use pretty much anything. There is one simple solution to this problem. The server must be hosted on a sufficiently powerful machine, in other…

I like how it’s poorly explained to be possible from poor nutrition due to bad eating habits. That’s a stereotype that shouldn’t be coming out of medical professionals mouths unless there is proof of it in those cases.

Rubbing alcohol. Even the cheap dollar store stuff in a bind. It’ll clean the oils and corrosive elements off the circuitry. If plastic is buffed with it you can restore the surface to it’s original shape relatively easily. Great way to remove the old label and prep the cartridge for a new label if your goal is…

Where I grew up, which wasn’t out in the country side or anything like that. Having tall grass you got annoying flies that would get into everything, hornets, possums and racoons.

A few years ago that very same auction lot auctioned off my first car, a 78 Camaro that had been wrapped around a tree. I couldn’t afford the absurd impound fee so it went for auction. Sadly the guy that got it had no idea what he had gotten his hands on. I got to inspect it at the lot, engine was still fine. It was…

As Dave mentioned yes, as for what type of title it depends on the car. Some will be under salvage title since they are no longer fit for use on the roads and only useful as a parts car. The dumb thing about that, so much as a missing catalytic converter can qualify a car for a salvage title and it takes a bit over…

Parts: no. Labor: yes. Electronic components are cheap. I can buy a top of the line capacitor for just under $1 or go cheap and buy a knockoff for $0.25. These prices aren’t exact but it is roughly the sort of difference in price you find between bottom barrel and top shelf electronic components. Pretty rare you have…

Oh certainly that was the appeal. If you give me the choice between a broken cartridge that I’m confident I can fix, even if I have to study a bit to understand how to fix it; or one that works and the price difference reflects that. I’ll take the one I have to fix and have some fun fixing it. Makes the game much more…

That was me with my PS2, sometimes while playing a game to gauge just how well the adjustments took. Never had that trouble with a Dreamcast though, for me I had to replace the powersupply of two Dreamcast units. used old PC power supplies that were small enough to fit inside and just tapped down a 4-pin molex onto…

Certainly and it’s starting to become visible to me as to why. Every day we are bombarded with bad news. Damn near a constant stream of it unless you do something extreme to escape it. It erodes your opinion of the world around you little by little until your terrified and angry; a very volatile combination of…

It’s cool, at least we don’t have to worry about being assaulted with foam weapons. Surely being shot is preferable to the beating from a whiffle ball bat.

It’s certainly not just your personal bias. Have a brother that is autistic and it was a few years ago when he asked me why someone got really upset when they called him autistic and he acknowledged it (without taking it as an insult). Apparently he accidentally trolled a troll. I didn’t get why he asked other than…

If you have a lot of patience you can use a tube of fish tank silicon and some tooth picks to waterproof a mechanical keyboard to a good degree. It’s tedius but worth it if your clumsy. Did that for a shop that used an old mechanical keyboard in the office to help keep fluids on their hands from getting through the…

Honestly I like the newer look but I do think they took the comedic elements a bit too far with Monkey Island, kind of threw off it’s creepy, jolly pirate vibe.