Not Transporter enough to remind us of the cool cars they used to make.

I drove from Carson City, NV to Salt Lake City to look at a 2005 Phaeton a couple years ago with a friend’s VCDS tool and diagnostic software. Driving it was a dream, sitting in it was amazing. Looking at the diagnostic results, and seeing the number of things that would need repair and attention scared the holy hell…

(Stuck in the grays, but figure I’ll post a new thread anyhow.)

A Saitek X52 Pro will make E:D far, far more awesome. What else works nicely? A VR headset. The Rift is apparently the better one for it now due to performance issues, but I’ve gotten really great performance out of my Vive with a 1070 and a few visual tweaks.

The problem is that there *is* no right, and computers are, so far, only really good at solving binary problems - albeit a whole lot of them at a time, coming to a final judgement that doesn’t look or act like a binary choice. Autonomous cars can and have killed people. Cars driven by people, can and have killed…

When I took this quiz a few weeks ago, I answered everything with one priority - making the car’s response as predictable as possible. Most of the time, this meant simply slamming on the brakes instead of changing lanes or trying to avoid anything. Why? Because the car won’t know anything other than “There are…

His base supporters won’t be changing anything based on this, but the percentage of people who are actually *undecided* somehow? This might. And it might motivate people who don’t want him to win to get out and actually *vote*.

I am suddenly even MORE glad that the VR headset that arrived from Amazon today was the Vive. After all of his/Oculus’ bullshit, and now this? Yep, voting with my dollars.

But ugh, nut huggers just get up in the crack of your crotch and thighs and itch or rub if you have any amount of extra flesh down there. Wearing those things is like torture for some people. Boxer briefs, though? All the snug with none of the chafe. Only drawback is that sometimes your junk might move around a bit…

YJ for the square headlights, most unique look of the entire lineup. Parts are everywhere, the AMC 4.0 HO engine on later model years is practically unkillable, and if you do somehow manage to break anything you can repair it with $400 and a catalog that you could build the entire Jeep from the wheels up from. If Joe…

Nobody has made a proper, well packaged, affordable, American-style wagon since the Roadmaster, really. You might be able to call the Magnum an example of that, but really, it was packaged horribly and was more of a truck than a wagon. Pity.

Americans don’t necessarily buy crossovers because we’re insecure, we buy them because they’re the most practical option at a reasonable price point. There are no good wagons out there for $30-40 thousand new, that are equipped as well as a crossover in the same ballpark.

What’s funny is that I seem to recall hearing her say that things... Weren’t so bad, because at least they’ve got a place to live. Was this new dialogue?

Don’t skip northern Nevada out of hand, I live in Carson City about 2 hours from Sac, and the standard of living you can get here is pretty well balanced all things considered. Sac definitely seems like a mess, but a decent little house is in that same price range.

Call it a life goal/bucket list item accomplished, but last year I got to see the very last Faith No More reunion tour show at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento. One of two bands I discovered too late, and thought I’d never have a chance to see live. The other was Devo, and I got them too.

What I’d like to see are those numbers, but specifically among the “People with $60,000+ cars.” demographic. I suspect a lot of the fatality rate for cars in general, is with older, cheaper, poorly maintained cars with drivers that don’t have the same level of interest in driving that you’re likely going to have with…

So what happened to the Aston Martin in a parking lot?

Yeah, that’s a Snowspeeder main section.

He is so completely wrong, I test drove one of these in 2003 (the top-end model at the time, no less!) and my primary complaint wasn’t about the handling, the noise, the seats, anything else, it was “This steering wheel feels worse than a cheap Logitech.”

Harmonix has really had to tread lightly with Rock Band 4 due to finances. The music game market never really seemed like it recovered, and it seems like people spent more money on the Guitar Hero franchise this time around. I’m mainly just glad Harmonix is still around and keeping the flame lit.