Shake & Bake!

Well, I spent this past weekend racing this thing around COTA:

That’s a bit harsh. The GT-R is getting kinda long in the tooth now, but when it came out it was pretty much unbeatable from a price-performance perspective, on or off the track. And yes, you probably want to make some modifications if you plan to track your GT-R on a regular basis, but that’s true of pretty much…

Needs a few more clicks of front wing.

I’m ok with the idea of LCS design as a cutter. I’m just questioning why we really needed both classes of ships.

Hmmm. It's a reasonable argument but I'm not sure I entirely buy it. For one, anti-piracy and drug interdiction sound like a good job for a Coast Guard cutter, like one of the new ships developed for the Coast Guard IDS program. Not sure why the navy needed another design (not to mention two!).

I’ve wondered for a while now how much of this program was driven by a top-heavy organizational need to have more hulls in the water, and more captain’s chairs to go with them.

Given the potential for tragic misuse it’s pretty obvious why we’d be reluctant to slip a few MANPADS (covertly, of course) to the anti-Assad forces currently under Russian air attack. However, it makes me wonder whether it would be possible to develop a MANPADS system that would be electronically “locked” to a…

I guess I’m getting old. I consider university students kids :). They have the rights and responsibilities of an true adult, but lack the perspective.

Sure. But in this case I’ll let someone else spend the $50+ to try things out and wait for the reviews :). And BTW, I wasn’t trying to dampen your enthusiasm - we all enjoy different things when it comes to games. I was just trying to explain some of the negative attitudes you’ve been seeing in the comments.

Oh geez. They’re kids! We’re all narcissistic as kids - the ubiquity of cameras and photo sharing these days just makes it more obvious. Sometimes we eventually grow out of it. Sometimes.

Nick Ha beat me to it. My concern is also with the “finding new things” aspect of NMS. A procedurally-generated universe is theoretically capable of generating infinite variety. In practice, a universe like NMS that is based on creating variations from a finite menu of variables and archetypes, will probably have a…

I completely understood: sincere apologies if my post came across as a dis. That wasn’t my intention at all, but re-reading it I can see how you might take it that way.

Thank God we have these guys to protect us from the horrors of the Tesla direct sales model.

I think it’s entirely possible to be a moderate, or even moderately conservative, and still be utterly appalled at what has become of the Republican party over the last decade.

In all honesty I’d be happier about having MV Agusta logos on my AMG...

I think that that’s true for everyone, at least when you’re maxing out on power. The point is that, when you’re using less-than-max power, which is most of the time, unless you’re sprinting or hammering up a hill (or the spin class equivalent), it’s much more efficient to try to apply power evenly throughout the…

Very true. I wasn’t trying to slam your advice, which is good - just wanted to point out that it’s just a starting point on the way to “perfect” form.

Actually, proper form demands more than just pushing down and pulling up. Ideally, you should be continuously and smoothly spinning the cranks through their entire rotation (i.e. that also includes pushing the pedal forward at the top of the stroke and pulling back at the bottom, and everything in between).

It’s as if someone asked themselves “What would it look like if Picasso painted a Hyundai Sonata?”, and then proceeded to try and actually build it.