sparky1337 @ sparky1337 @ttrpg.network Posts 19Comments 182Joined 2 yr. ago
No hate here! Music is super subjective. And that era of punk is…….somewhat an acquired taste haha.
Green River, U-Men, Gas Huffer, Skin Yard, TAD…..so many great bands and too many to name. Of course everyone remembers the big 4, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Nirvana. But they weren’t what defined the scene. Maybe the early releases, but the mainstream albums hit for a reason. I still like it all though.
I’m that weird guy that still buys cassette tapes from Sub Pop haha.
If you get a chance and want to dive into it, then book by Mark Yarm (no relation to Mark Arm lol) called “Everyone loves our town, the oral history of grunge” is super wild. The guy basically interviewed everyone from the U-Men to producers and managers.
Astroneer, Raft, and if you like mindless indie stuff Generation Zero.
Remnant 1 & 2 if you like souls type third person shooters.
Dungeon of the Endless and the new version Endless Dungeon.
Matt Lukin and all the guys from Mudhoney are still there. So is Krist Novoselic. He even holds political office currently I think.
Jack Endino still runs a recording studio, although I think he doesn’t produce as much as he used to.
Forced update, they took too long to restart.
Norfolk is taking on debt with the McArthur and Military Circle Mall acquisition and are desperate for cash flow. Especially since O’conner vacated recently.
Damn that is literally all they post
Looks like they retconned the dub announcement with this too.
Damn I had completely different experience. I think I’m on NG+4 with almost 300 hours.
PS1. Unless mouse and keyboard counts….
Should be OSX 10.5.8 if anyone is curious. Which can be used all the way back to the 2002 quicksilver G4’s that ran 867 MHz processors. Which is dumb, the dual cpu 800 MHz were limited to 10.4.11 and couldn’t upgrade. But at that point they were quite dated anyways so it doesn’t matter that much.
Pearl Jam tried this in the 90’s and got ran over. There would have to be people in congress that cared enough.
Full BEV maverick please. Ford, you’re soooooo close.
If you can get ahold of a maverick hybrid at msrp, there’s that. But it’s limited to 2,000 lbs. the ecoboost with towing can do 4,000 but then you’re right back in the same spot as the Hyundai minus the theft issue lol.
Right on. I apologize if I came off a little gruff, there’s a lot of stuff to try and say on this subject haha. Trying not to get too wordy.
But the manual EV can be done. Ford released the “Lithium” concept in 2019, and if you take a look at Autoblog website, Toyota just unveiled their “manual EV” prototype. It even simulates stalling!
I’m sure we’ll get there! But the demand just has to be high enough which makes it difficult. Manual take rate over the last few years has bounced around 3-5% in the US.
It doesn’t help that there are fewer to choose from every year. Even the base mustang doesn’t have a manual anymore.
Yes, in reviews and media documents it is mentioned the Taycan has the second gear to be able to maintain Autobahn level speeds. It’s not explicitly mentioned, but Porsche won’t outright confirm efficiency last I looked, so even they don’t think it helps range. Just speed.
But it’s not that there isn’t efficiency to be gained, it’s just so small it’s not worth it. In order for even a 2 speed ev, the shift point would need to be approximately 70-80mph to realize efficiency gains.
That’s just not something that’s done with EV’s. Most are city centric, and even if you are driving 70-80mph in an EV, you’re hitting peak efficiency of the motor anyways. It’s a bell curve, so it’ll only start to taper off not drop like a cliff. Although, the one side might drop faster due to how resistance works.
I don’t mind it. It’s the initial startup that seems to be slow and unresponsive. But because it’s a rental I’m not quite sure if it’s the infotainments fault or all the stored phones on it.
The dial is useful, but in the Miata they put it where the cup holders used to be and it’s a bit too far back to comfortably use while driving.
Theirs unfortunately has no efficiency benefit. There’s two motors in the taycan, front and back.
Front motor is single speed, and once the car hits 62mph it shifts to second in the rear motor only.
The taycan is all about being fast, not efficient.
Mazda requires you use the rotary dial and disables touch functionality when in motion. I heard the 2024 models enables some functionality while in motion but it’s not responsive. I’ve got a 2021 rental right now and it’s really slow. AA/Carplay are only 2016+ and some might not have it.
As for subaru I’m not quite sure. If you find a well serviced version, and adhere to the service manual you should be fine. Other than being a little cheap I haven’t heard anything crazy bad about them. The new turbo motor is a little inefficient in the city but that’s about it. And the base engines are a little pokey.
From what I remember AA/Carplay wasn’t added to Toyota until 2020/2021 so that’s also something that needs to be considered.