well, the expensive useless shit I bought is that big plastic Fallout 76 helmet as part of the super-rare-expensive-limited-collectors-edition. No I didn’t spend it on Overwatch. When FO76 came out, the statement was “no paid DLC” -- but then later they had paid DLC. I did the Beta and since I had already bought the…

Yay another Rainier beer fan!

Not directly related but honestly I can’t stand most of the current-gen of passenger car designs, I don’t mean sports cars, just the basic sedans and cross-overs. The grill or front “face” specifically. It’s one thing to show “unrestrained rage” in a street rod, but these are friggin drive-to-the-mall vehicles with…

> What does a president being racist have to do with truck designs degenerating since the 1940s.
 

Yeah but at least it has a shitter for Uranus.

Porsche 911 being the prime example of “aesthetics and functionality” being compatible. Note that I didn’t stress comfort or practicality. But aesthetics and functionality, definitely.

Hell, I might even buy one of these in 2 years for $12K. But certainly not for the $75 they’re probably going to ask for it.

You’re right, “company regulatory guy” is probably the most thankless auto-industry job. And I don’t know if it’s just me, but at the end of the post, I somehow saw the word pedantic as “pandemic.”

I see this Aeron chair thing is from a few months ago so probably too late to be noticed, but, I’ll tell you what they did for my Aeron chair, where I broke the Lumbar support (I think it was my fault I was forcing the control and didn’t realize what I was doing wrong) They sent a service technician to my house, about…

Personally I don’t do gaming on a phone (but do on a 3DS, Switch, and Vita). Nonetheless, if you do poop and phone at the same time, and have some sort of inadvertent drowning of your phone, it’s probably no co-incidence that your $1K Apple phone is both waterproof (and presumably poop-proof), and is too large to…

The toaster almost always wins in that case....

I think you missed the point of the article. It basically started off by saying “here is what I (f’in) hated about the User Interface of this car.” It never was intended to be a review of the powertrain, the suspension, the braking. There are plenty of articles on that already. It basically told you “f all that” I’m…

That sounds like someone misusing their rear for light which is standard (possibly mandatory) in Europe. It’s very important when in HEAVY Fog. we don’t have those here. But you’re not supposed to use that light unless you’re in HEAVY fog (i.e is that a vehicle 20 feet in front of me or not?). Most European cars have…

Yeah, I saw that in the photo and liked the side vents. There was an earlier comment about “one thing you can’t do is fold down the windshield.” And I think most of use agree that’s probably not essential. In my YJ I did it exactly once, just to try it. But I think it’s really from the days when it was trendy to drive…

well, maybe resale value, but yeah, I get your point assuming all controls can be done with other buttons. As I understood from the Ford.com site yesterday, this is just an optional thing, standard in the higher models.

Drives like a CJ-5 but center video screen like a Tesla?

I have YJ with half-doors and it came with soft-top (zipper) side windows that drop in with 3 pegs, remove in a few seconds. I love the half-doors but you need something for weatherproofing (or at least keeping cold and rain out). In Hawaii once I rented a YJ, it came with lower half-doors but no way to close the…

Yes I had a motorhome and it had that small window by the passenger side foot area just for that reason. Because it was basically right below the mirror, so even with a wide-angle mirror you would not see a small car or motorcycle (or pedestrian) right below you on that side. It was a cool feature. (I think nowadays…

ya beat me to it.. actually metallic_caucasian is a great username, maybe I will adopt it. lot of typing though. Wasn’t sure what to do with the two “c”s in the middle. But it’s OK to hate on Chevys so all in good fun.

I can confirm I experienced that too. (would have been mid 1970s).