(but when a mother rams a 5 year old into the garage wall killing her own child, somebody must pay for her loss)

I can’t help but think of the IKEA MALM lawsuits. I have one of those “deathtraps” and the instructions clearly stated that it’s intended to be used with wall tethers. I’d lay odds those went straight into…

Wonder how much of the Link’s Awakening remake’s engine and assets could be reused in bring the Oracle games and TMC over. To me, it seems like the heavy lifting is already done.

I’m trying to remember the whatever behind it storywise, but there’s the weirdo anomaly/station thing that’s a sort of hub. Everytime I go there for reasons, it’s full of peeps. Never bothered interacting with them because those deposits aren’t going to mine themselves but I’ve had people eye up my pre-order freebie…

Been a year-ish(?) since I fired it up, but for the most part outside of some hub and event areas, you won’t see another soul for hours of actual playtime. Given the last couple updates, I’ll probably dive back in for a little while again.

Mea Culpa, missed that part of the timeline. Shouldn’t attempt to post before coffee. If I had done this, I’dve been watching that transaction like a hawk. Like, as soon as Tesla swiped my card I would’ve waited five and checked my statement the transaction. Once it posted, my bank should’ve been able to take matters…

I loathe defending Tesla but this is an issue with modern banking and payment processing. If I catch an erroneous or fraudulent transaction in flight, e.g. pending, there is not a goddamn thing that a vendor or my bank can do about it until it has officially posted.  If they had just answered the phone and told them…

Too bad this is about trademarks. Not sure why anyone’d argue this was fair use.

Dude, I’d be ordering a set of Lucas Electrics vinyls immediately.

It sounds awesome.  Too bad I’m fully expecting a not-so-awesome pricepoint.

Kangaroos are the deer of Australia. Found everywhere, will wreck your car by crossing the road at the wrong time and are utterly delicious.

It’s kinda funny how the attitude shifted. I will say the ZF9 deserves all the hate it garners. Still, I’d blame the general decline of the former Gawker sites; the commentariat’s just burned out. That and 2015 was a whole different culture ago, to be blunt.

My wife and I bought one of the first ones in our area. If I…

Neat. Coulda sworn they dropped it when the Crosstrek got the bigger engine. But after taking a peek, the cowards didn’t pair it with that bigger engine.  Also, apparently you can’t get a hole in your roof on either trim the manual is an option, so yet again: they try to make the manual a penalty box.

The sensor went under warranty and only affected some of the automatic functions of the parking brake, like setting itself when the car turns off or something like that. Can’t remember and I always set it before killing the engine because old habits die hard.

The overall/lifetime average it shows us is 28MPG but the…

Did the Crosstrek lose its stick, too? Bah!

I’ve actually got a Rennie manual. In that format it’s been a blast and in 65k, we’ve only had a lone clutch pedal sensor go. These things seem fairly tough in the right spec.

Resale is probably because the manual was the one to get, and they vanished in a hurry. Surprised you found one. After the first couple allotments, our local Jeep dealer had, like, nil with manuals.

We’re post-warranty at 65k on ours (2015 1.4T/manual/4WD as well) and the only real issue we’ve had was a bad clutch…

Not really. GM/Fiat Small Wide (Renegade) versus Fiat Mini (Panda).

The Tigershark/ZF9 is trash, but the 1.4T/manual/4WD is a chonky 500 Abarth that can bounce down a firetrail. I have one and I’ll die on this hill.

We got the manual and 4WD as an option here in Freedomland.

My K3 600 was buttery smooth from idle on up, as you say, and buttery smooth from I-swear-it’s-spring through fookin’ hot summer to here-come-the-frost autumn, from shore to mountain-top without a complaint. My Ninja 400's fueling is without a hiccup so far as well. Any “snatchiness” in that bike is due to the…

Seriously. Would you like a bike that runs half like shit, or one the runs somewhere between 1 to 5 sixths like shit? Multiple carbs are the tool of the devil, regardless of how cool they look.

Oh, I know. My K3 was in the first generation of fuelly Gixxer 600s. That said, I’m in a climate where bikes get stored for a third of the year and, on top of that, this isn’t exactly a daily whip. Carbs make for a miserable first ride when your bike starts, but you have to spend half an hour to an hour getting your…