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heffray posted:IIRC it was a '68 Firebird, and then he moved on to a Locost and disappeared? This was before my AI / SA days, I remember him from Si vs. All. That's right!. Yeah, he got sick of people pestering him I think. I've got my Firebird of Doom medal around somewhere, along with the AI conrod bottle opener. IOwnCalculus posted:Oh, and slightly surprised nobody went with ye olde KNOW YOUR AI POSTERS banners. Or the Sharktearingme avatars, or Blaise's neon, ShaneB's sliding his GTI into a ditch, Fleetwood's American car histories, LobsterboyX's Buick film car disaster for Indiana Jones, or about a thousand others. sharkytm fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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I was going to say Chrysler turbine engine but I want to win baby.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Adiabatic correctly armchair diagnosed it and it was something absolutely insane like a defectively wired window switch. I vaguely remember this, iirc the switch was connected backwards and it was backfeeding power to the ignition coil or some equally stupid thing, preventing the engine from shutting off. Just Chrysler Things.
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Haha I remember that now. Crazy. I kept my answer for 16 Mazda, yet not the obvious one :P
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MrChips posted:Question 15: AI has been around for quite a while now. This is the greatest story to have been told in the entire history of the subforum. Wondering how many people deliberatly avoided answering that due to the ugly way things went? quote:Sockington Rust Adventure - 5 Exhibits why AI is great quote:Mooecow and the GMC/Divco - 3 You two are just the best  quote:Holdbrooks Bosozuku truck - 2 More examples of why AI is just the best quote:Cat Terrist settling down - Charles Ummm... thanks? Not sure what to think of that. quote:Question 16: The __________ is undoubtedly the strangest engine to have ever made production in a road car (be specific!) Holden Roadpacer with the 13B wankel... yep fair cop that one.
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Bruiser's flaming street sweeper is the oldest thread I can remember, and I didn't remember it being in AI. Also surprised no one picked Boomerjink's DINO DAMAGE
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quote:Ummm... thanks? Not sure what to think of that.
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Deeters posted:Also surprised no one picked Boomerjink's DINO DAMAGE gently caress that guy tho. Legit surprised nobody went for the Intercontinental Datsun, it was really hard to choose between that, Kevbarlas and Mooecow for me
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CannonFodder posted:I stand by my lone wolfs (wolves?) and want to know more about the following: As I said earlier, I was thinking in terms of "snapshot moment in time" singular things, rather than entire threads or projects etc.
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Charles posted:Yeah I guess I was just looking for more of a happy recent thing than a great story. When I read the question I did think of the rise and fall of one of AI's posters and I didn't really want to answer that. Mental disintergration followed by a long slow climb out certainly aint a bad story  Honestly I probably appreciate AI more because of the support in the dark times (even if the rapid accquiration of Subarus WAS amusing)
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CannonFodder posted:I stand by my lone wolfs (wolves?) and want to know more about the following: I couldn't think of anything besides the really bad thing, so I just wrote in the time I had a psychotic break and basically livetweeted madness into the chat threads for months. In return, I got better therapy from goons than what I was actually paying money for The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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Doccers also elevated the traveling chicken cheese thread, I believe he got an avatar out of that for a while. gently caress there's been some great stories in AI.
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Bajaha posted:gently caress there's been some great stories in AI. Amen, brother.
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WRT to the wankel answer I put the 13B 
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Theres enough insanity in the entirety of the wankel family to justify them being lumped in together imo.
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I'm hoping I have some support on 17, and I forgot what I put on 18 so I'll be surprised to see my own answer tomorrow 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Wondering how many people deliberatly avoided answering that due to the ugly way things went? *raises hand*
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Wondering how many people deliberatly avoided answering that due to the ugly way things went? Yes because it’s time we collectively move on from bringing this up out of respect to our community.
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There were a number of people who referred directly to said person, but I decided to put all those answers into ExplodingSim's truck, since, in my opinion, his own personal journey with the truck, if you can ignore everything else, is a worthy candidate in and of itself. And yes, I think it's time to put the final nail in this story and move on once and for all. E: Also fixed all the mistakes I made for this round! MrChips fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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CannonFodder posted:I interpreted question 12 wrong, but at least I wasn't alone. I think we interpreted it completely correctly. 
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Turns out I typo'd the Chrysler turbine engine in my submission email, if I could type numbers in the right order I'd be paired with NumbersMatching320i for Q16.
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poo poo, I forgot mooecow's glorious truck or I would have gone with that.
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Liquid Communism posted:poo poo, I forgot mooecow's glorious truck or I would have gone with that. Easily one of the best success stories, from "I think I can change my oil" to "I rebuilt two trucks".
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Just because I loved Mooecow's thread so much, here it https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3104932 Keverblas https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3336130 Sockington https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2814857 Tekh's loving amazing S2000 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3810046 CursedShitBox https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3783526 Doocers buys a Volvo https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3428752 ExplodingSims https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773374 Adiabatic - somewhere in there I think is the Chrysler wiring and the absolute amazing Almost Out of The Woods fate of his S2000 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3672020
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Thank you!!! I lost track of the current status of ExplodingSims truck though. Oh I just remembered something -- somebody who had a classic septic pump truck! It's late now but is it possible to send those threads to the "goodmine"? (The subforum of comedy goldmine for non-comedy threads)
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Found the thread with Adiabatic and the Dodge Intrepid wiring diagram (thread is from 2017, so probably needs archives): https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3812091
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MrChips posted:There were a number of people who referred directly to said person, but I decided to put all those answers into ExplodingSim's truck, since, in my opinion, his own personal journey with the truck, if you can ignore everything else, is a worthy candidate in and of itself. Now, being meatpimp, I must take a contrary view. Presented for your consideration: The ExplodingSims truck story was a great journey, agreed. But it dovetailed in with the larger epic saga of a poster that started on SA with a pic of himself licking his own flabby tit. And then it got weird. That poster challenged a lot of us over the years, often in a direct and personal way. During the time of the Sims' truck journey, AI mobilized in a way that many would not believe would come from such a disparate group of people spread all of the world that happen to like cars. We organized physical equipment, money, and time to give that dude the support that... let's be honest, we'd collectively do for any one of us. We did it because this group is full of some damned good people that care and, just because the poster ultimately revealed that he was an rear end in a top hat, it doesn't mean that the entirety of the story is a bad one. Before I go further, I'll point directly to Tremek and say again -- that dude went so far above what was reasonable to help. THAT is one of the things that should be remembered. Tremek put in blood, sweat, and tears for that poster and we will always recognize his sacrifices. That the situation went tits-up in such a lovely way is also something we'll remember, but for that to be the sole focus diminishes what he did and what we did as a community. We were all engaged with the saga. And let's face it -- it wildly exceeded the excitement and drama that you'll find on a screen. During many times it bordered on the unbelievable. I know I shared developments on a sometimes daily basis with my wife, "so today Meth Guy did this..." And if you weren't watching it real-time, it'd be overwhelming. But in that list of Number 15 answers, you can see that we have, collectively, done a lot of crazy poo poo of the years, and truly helped some people in an honest and personal way, and we should all feel proud of that. Just because one poster revealed that he was ultimately an rear end in a top hat doesn't cast much of a shadow on us as a whole.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Wondering how many people deliberatly avoided answering that due to the ugly way things went? Guilty as charged. I was stupid and forgot it was Exploding Sim's adventure to start with.
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Question 17: In the 80s and 90s, we saw the Japanese car industry come to the forefront; in the 90s/00s it was the Koreans, and in the 2010s it’s looking like it’s China. Which, if any, country’s car industry will rise, or rise again, in the 2020s and 30s?   Question 18: If I didn’t need a car to commute to work, I would put this in my garage as my weekend toy.    Answers soon...
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My answer to 18 was through an interpretation of the question as "what 'toy' do you not currently own that you would like to own if someone offered to buy you one?" I don't really need a car to commute to work, and I currently have enough vehicles that when people ask me how many I own i actually have to stop and think (technically I think it's 14).
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Question 17: In the 80s and 90s, we saw the Japanese car industry come to the forefront; in the 90s/00s it was the Koreans, and in the 2010s it’s looking like it’s China. Which, if any, country’s car industry will rise, or rise again, in the 2020s and 30s? India - 17 Stevobob The Royal Nonesuch The Door Frame toplitzin NumbersMatching320i slothrop Elephanthead turb CannonFodder Maksimus54 StormDrain heffray meatpimp Bajaha Dadliest Worrier Nitrospazzz Alarbus USA - 7 No Wake SharkyTM superdylan nitsuga Deeters Modus Man Korwen Germany - 5 bolind McTinkerson cursedshitbox Chunjee eaten by a grue China - 4 Liquid Communism Seat Safety Switch Elmnt80 pr0craztinazn Russia - 3 sirr0bin ephphatha Freelop Japan - 3 IOwnCalculus Beverly Cleavage Bentai Brazil - 3 luminalflux Wrar Slung Blade We'll be dying / dead - 2 CAT INTERCEPTOR Kazinsal Mexico - 2 CornHolio Somewhat Heroic Great Britain - 2 LloydDobler builds character ACES: Mars - InitialDave Kenya - nadmonk Canada's - Nebakenezzer South Africa - Powershift Czechia. Tatra will rise again - Charles Sweden - Fermented Tinal France - Grakkus Italy - Terrible Robot FULL COMMUNISM BABY TRAINS FOR ALL - Fender Anarchist Question 18: If I didn’t need a car to commute to work, I would put this in my garage as my weekend toy. Mazda Miata - 12 Liquid Communism bolind CornHolio sirr0bin slothrop Somewhat Heroic CannonFodder Chunjee nitsuga Dadliest Worrier Modus Man Grakkus Ariel Atom - 4 nadmonk superdylan meatpimp Bentai Electric motorcycle - 3 The Royal Nonesuch Charles ephphatha Porsche 911 - 3 IOwnCalculus luminalflux turb Dodge Viper - 2 StormDrain heffray A motorcycle - 2 Korwen Stevobob ACES: Lotus Seven or appropriate substitute - Seat Safety Switch A Canadian. She knows how to dismember and dispose of dead bodies. - CAT INTERCEPTOR FIAT X1/9 - The Door Frame FD3S (Spirit R) - McTinkerson Land-yacht 60's Cadillac - No Wake AWD K swapped Insight - toplitzin I don't know but I think it would look like it went from the set of Tokyo Drift to the set of Fury Road before it got there - NumbersMatching320i A field find bricknose. - cursedshitbox AE86 - InitialDave Overlanding 4Runner - Elmnt80 NSX - Kazinsal Pantera - Elephanthead Chev Corvette - Nebakenezzer AC Cobra replica - Beverly Cleavage Honda S2000 - SharkyTM BMW R1200R - Maksimus54 ls swap miata - eaten by a grue Factory Five 818 - Wrar Attex - builds character Lamborghini Diablo - Deeters Alfa Romeo 4C - Bajaha Delorean DMC-12 - Slung Blade F-type Jaaaaaaag - Freelop 2CV - Nitrospazzz 2020 Koenigsegg Jesko - pr0craztinazn Volvo V60 Polestar - LloydDobler FB RX7 - Terrible Robot E90 M3 - Alarbus Motorcycle - Fender Anarchist C3 Corvette - Fermented Tinal C8 corvette - Powershift
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Scores after question 18: meatpimp - 226 IOwnCalculus - 216 Elephanthead - 213 Liquid Communism - 210 luminalflux - 210 Dadliest Worrier - 208 sirr0bin - 207 Bajaha - 206 Grakkus - 193 Somewhat Heroic - 188 Nitrospazzz - 188 Maksimus54 - 187 Fermented Tinal - 187 turb - 186 builds character - 181 SharkyTM - 180 Deeters - 178 nitsuga - 177 Elmnt80 - 174 The Royal Nonesuch - 171 superdylan - 168 pr0craztinazn - 165 Fender Anarchist - 165 Bentai - 163 StormDrain - 158 heffray - 158 McTinkerson - 157 Korwen - 156 Alarbus - 156 CannonFodder - 151 Beverly Cleavage - 150 No Wake - 149 Chunjee - 146 LloydDobler - 144 Modus Man - 140 Nebakenezzer - 134 Stevobob - 133 Terrible Robot - 133 slothrop - 131 Powershift - 131 InitialDave - 125 eaten by a grue - 116 nadmonk - 110 CornHolio - 109 The Door Frame - 107 toplitzin - 107 bolind - 103 Kazinsal - 101 Wrar - 99 Slung Blade - 96 Charles - 93 Freelop - 89 Seat Safety Switch - 88 NumbersMatching320i - 83 cursedshitbox - 58 CAT INTERCEPTOR - 56 ephphatha - 52 Congratulations to our  meatpimp! Thank you all for participating in this round of the Sheep Game; Happy New Year and all the best in 2020!
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Yay! Somewhere in the middle! Also, I didn't specify in my answer for 18, but it would be a Mazdaspeed Miata
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Thanks Chips! My run fell the gently caress apart in the last 4 questions. I'll try harder next time.
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I'd argue that my "Motorcycle" ought to be limited in with the 2 other answers of "A motorcycle" but it's not like it changes the score lol. Happy sheep to all, see ya next decade!
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Scoring the answers I sent, instead of the random blend of other answers with "heffray" on them: big sheep answers on a few of these were huge, and my big misses were on questions that didn't result in a lot of agreement: from: Heffray <heffray@gmail.com> to: AIsheepgame@gmail.com date: Dec 18, 2019, 3:02 PM subject: Sheep Game: Heffray 6 Corvette 6 Camry 1 Badge (generously: combine with "Looking expensive" for 2, but leaving as wolf) 6 $2500 34 Toyota 6 Fiat/Chrysler 16 Porsche 911 3 Turbochargers (scored as "Turbos") 23 100hp/L 22 Ferrari 35 My Dad (scored as "Dad") 1 BMW 3-series 4 Camry 3 Drum Brakes (scored as "Brakes") 1 kastein vs all the Jeeps 31 13B-REW (FD RX-7) (scored as "Wankel Engine") 18 India 13 Miata --- 228 (copied numbers from each result post, +1 to each because of my contribution to it) I'm not disputing meatpimp's victory here and there's some interplay between answers that would require a full re-score for perfect accuracy, but I'd love to hear how this broke in such an interesting way.
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Well, congrats gents  I think I might like cheap Italian garbage too much
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