As I said, “You bought the cheap console, you get the cheap specs.”

Because it’s not “that big”, it’s only 15 GB. Yes I know, that’s larger than my first three computers’ hard drive capacity combined, but it’s 2015 and texture/sound quality is through the roof compared to games of that era.

No real horror stories, but I recall the exact moment when I realized how shitty the average driver was. Before we reached the full road parts of the training the instructors set up a cone slalom in the parking lot. They then had us go through it forward and in reverse.

‘73-91 Suburban with a 6BT swap and manual everything. That generation of GM truck was incredibly common and parts are everywhere, so add a rock solid motor and subtract any dependency on electronics for a perfect vehicle to leave society and/or what’s left of it behind. It’s also large enough to live out of.

Ironically of the five times I’ve hit some item laying in or bouncing across the road two of them have been ratchet straps.

Kinda between Cleveland and Akron, and GasBuddy shows that our prices around here do trend under the national average. We’re above right now for some reason, but as a general rule we’re more often below than above.

This is very true, a running diesel truck for under $4000 is a rare thing around here, even if they’re basically falling apart around the engine. A gasser in the same state might be listed for a grand or less.

Where are your fuel prices that cheap? Here in Ohio we trend a bit under the national average and it’s $2.59/gallon for 87 and $2.79 for diesel. That’s $370 vs. $280, for a $90 savings on that 2000 mile trip.

Escort Passport SRX, a custom installed radar detector and laser jammer package. It’s basically the 2002 model SR7 with the laser jammer added. Not the greatest detector by any means.

The front of my old car looks like 13 year old me’s face from many years of exactly the same kind of driving, but somehow there’s only one good chip in the windshield and that’s been there for six or seven years at this point. No cracks and no sign of the chip intending to expand any time soon.

Or, of course, they could go the German route and just have their names make no sense.

Rental cars are a thing. If an electric car fits your normal needs you can rent a car in extraordinary circumstances just like you might when you need a truck and don’t have one. Around $400 will get me a similarly sized gasoline SUV for a week. That’s nothing compared to paying for maintenance, insurance, etc. on…

What something can reliably be expected to carry over time, especially in motion, and what that same thing can carry for a short time at low speeds or while stationary are two very different things.

Moreover, some developers of smaller games contend that their genres and designs never needed to run at 60 FPS, or that they simply couldn’t get there with limited resources. They fear that the Framerate Police are taking them downtown for a crime they didn’t commit.

The seats in the second one bug me, it looks like someone cut the center out of a bench to fit the console. So you end up with most of the disadvantage of a bench (not holding you in place as well) with none of the advantage (no console blocking your significant other from sitting right next to you).

Wheels? How about tracked vehicles, belt sanders, those old vibrating football games, vibrating...massagers (NSFW-ish), boats, airplanes, etc.

Probably not. Those Cat motors are pretty stout. My family used to have an RV with a 3126E in top trim and you had to learn to brace yourself well if you were walking around the rig when the driver launched hard off the line. First gear was pretty smooth as it built boost, but when that Allison decided it was time for…

Just try it out. Ubuntu is definitely the easiest, and the process is nothing like it used to be. Both of my desktops and my laptop actually are easier to install Ubuntu 14 on than Windows because Ubuntu has all the drivers built in. Everything just works on first boot. The GPU is in 2D-only mode usually because it…

If you’re trying to keep running everything at maxed out settings, sure. If you just want to have something that outperforms the consoles it’s a lot easier.

No one complains about old Harleys having problems that were common to bikes of the time. The problem I have with them is that the brand new ones still have flaws that everyone else figured out how to fix before I was born. Often those flaws are still there because when H-D tried to fix them the “purist” types…