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Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Buddy shared this with me, hope it hasn't been posted before.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/i0wgoo/just_increased_my_cars_value_by_1_billion_dollars/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Americans can buy one for $15k!

https://www.duncanimports.com/wholesale-used/Toyota/1990-Toyota-Crown-30c2c0130a0e08f75e04c78b456893ec.htm

Everything on that site is awesome, especially the firetrucks.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
From what I gather, they haven't updated any of their cars in years. The GTR is basically unchanged since 2007.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
I couldn't find cheap steelies for my BMW, so I got a set of alloys from the junkyard for my winter tires. I miss the steelies I had on my VW. :smith:

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Rhyno posted:

Weren't the calculations for the first mission into space done by hand?


Yeah, humanity can do amazing things sometimes.

Sometimes I wonder what Newton could have done with access to a PC.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Memento posted:

Yeah I didn't think insta was letting you read poo poo without signing up any more.

It seems to let you on mobile but not on desktop.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Darchangel posted:

New-ish Gymkhana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32I0Qso4sDg

Pretty neat. I love the look of concentration/oh poo poo on Travis' face.

The Black Rifle Coffee sponsorship immediately ruined my enjoyment.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Mustache Ride posted:

You didn't notice the pitviper car?

I guess I'm glad I have no idea who they are?

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Krakkles posted:

Thin Blue Line / oPeRaTOr bullshit, positioning themselves as the coffee company for MAGAts is what I'm aware of.

They did come to notoriety lately because Kyle Rittenhouse (noted murderer) was wearing one of their shirts immediately after being bailed out, but to BRCC's credit, they disavowed any interest in sponsoring or profiting from what they described as tragedy.

I mean, they disavowed having anything to do with him after sharing a discount code and promoting their business in response to the original post.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
I was gonna say it's a post-9/11 thing, but then remembered the 90's Desert Storm trading cards I had as a kid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Storm_trading_cards

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Colostomy Bag posted:

I'm unfortunately old enough to remember Ted Turner colorizing movies. My god, they were awful.

I got Night of the Living Dead with a Mystery Science Theater style commentary track, but you can only hear it when you watch the color version. Mike Nelson even makes fun of the colorization, which isn't the fault of the movie!

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Once I figured those out, I would put them in the case in the same orientation they would go into the player, so I never had to look at the label again.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

BOOTY-ADE posted:

Semi-related to the restoration stuff - I've been watching vids on Youtube of people taking movies that used de-aging or wonky CGI for face tracking & using deep fake tech to make it look better. I hope studios can use that tech nowadays to remaster some older movies, a good example I found was TRON Legacy when someone re-did all of the Clu scenes with young Bridges face, it looks so much better than the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW6PKX5KD-U

Channel has a bunch of other good ones too like the newer SW movies with Leia & Tarkin, it's pretty cool to see the differences

It amazing how much computers have evolved.
These guys recreated the original Tron CGI that took months of pain staking frame by frame work on state of the art hardware in a single day on a desktop PC, while learning a new piece of software in the process.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2-yhFTCCzY

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Gotta wait for a sunny day in Britain!

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

That's awesome.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

davebo posted:

I got my boating license well before I could drive. I remember in the early 90s you had to take like an 8 hour course then a written test. Some friends finally took theirs like 5 years ago and it was all online and much shorter.

From what I gathered by sitting on my uncle's boat in Wisco, there you could drive a boat on a regular driver's license, but could take a class for a boating license if you were younger than 16 (which he made my cousins do). Small boats on a lake, and all that.

From experience, you also needed to have a stocked cooler full of beer to operate.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Driving off with your lug nut security key still on the wheel.

(luckily I was just reversing the car in the driveway and found it in the street in front of the house.)

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Aw, I had one of those. :3:

Still kinda miss it in the "I didn't give a poo poo about the car" kind of way. It was freeing just not giving a gently caress about it.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
White Ford Tempo and Green Mercury Villager

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Mr. Wiggles posted:

Well SOMEONE was in a Ford town.

The tempos were really aggressively bad cars.

In my lifetime, my folks have had:
I think a Chevy? I was like 2 years old.
Buick
Chevy
Ford
Mercury
Mitsubishi
Kia
Subaru
Honda

3 of those were not terrible.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
I'm really worried about that movie. Miller and a bunch of other people who created Fury Road wrote a Furiousa comic that was awful.

This review mirrors what I thought about it when I read it.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-furiosa-comic-undoes-everything-great-about-mad-max-1713368243

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
I major reason I got a GTI was because of the tartan cloth interior.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
How much duct tape was on it?

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Saukkis posted:

That's true about the movies, but there's no reason you couldn't make the explosions wrong in new and exciting ways. You could make the explosion... blue?

Just make it look like an immortal was killed on the way to there being only one.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Suburban Dad posted:

Can someone please explain (so I can roll my eyes)?

E:CO2? Been a long time since I took chemistry.

The fish is jumping through the hoops.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Boaz MacPhereson posted:

I smell a fly-and-drive!

Description says it has no brakes, so make sure the road ahead is empty!

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

Nah it whips, it just doesn't suit Ferrari's modern cars. This is the kinda poo poo you'd see in those old photoshoots of late 60s/early 70s concept cars which coincidentally, belong in this thread.















This is probably the only one that isn't an actual old photo


Death Race 2000 suddenly seems less way out there than I assumed it was.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
Is gonna drive backwards balancing gravity and the push of air pressure to make sure it neither slides off nor flies away.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

mobby_6kl posted:

Needs a bit more red imo



Oh, gently caress, nostalgia button pressed. Was that theme called "hotdog" or something?

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

You Am I posted:

Congrats to giving money to Richard Brunning who supported the Rittenhouse decision as well as giving other lovely takes over Covid and a massive Thatcherite

Thankfully from what Richard has said in Twitter, Nik has opposite views to him

I specifically ripped the video from YouTube so they wouldn't even get a view because of this.

Unfortunately, I'm too deep into the series to give it up completely.

EDIT: Didn't realize what thread I was in. Um, here's a MKV Golf in pieces.

Uthor fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Dec 19, 2021

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

boxen posted:

I saw a couple of those over the last week, and it hosed with my head seeing the Mustang symbol and sequential taillights on something that looks like that. After seeing the first one I thought it was someone's bondo/kitcar fever dream, then later I saw another and questioned reality.

I've only seen one and immediately forgot about it when it passed me just like every other SUV.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
I regret not buying the 6 player X-Men cabinet I saw for sale even if I was living in a 3rd floor walk up apartment at the time.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

mobby_6kl posted:

Hope y'all replaced your groundhogs.

https://i.imgur.com/7yomAfd.mp4

I forget, is this more winter or less?

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

OK so I've just found out about this product from years ago :allears:

Info: https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/08/11/turboxs-dtec





This owns.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

It's like if someone looked at a 3D model that I created and took the coloring as literal.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Didn't know that two digit numbers could be used on a license plate!

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
I need to replace the fans on my computer and that is giving me ideas.

Need to stick my computer into a Porsche!

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

I'm going to post this in the woodworking thread...

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

madeintaipei posted:

Depends on her style, but these Isotoner gloves look nice.

Huh, I was thinking about how I need new gloves for driving the car in the winter (stupid leather steering wheel being cold) and now I have a website to look at for that specifically.

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Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Rhyno posted:

this is literally anywhere that it snows in America.

OH MY GOODNESS WHATEVER IS THIS WHITE STUFF

What makes me "laugh" is that people get used to driving in the snow, then it gets nice for a few weeks at the end of the season, followed by a really late snow storm right before the start of spring. People freak out and drive super slow again as if they hadn't just dealt with it for three months!

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