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  1. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I always check Pure-gas.org - ethanol-free gasoline in the U.S. and Canada when I need to get gas for any small engines. More have it than you think and just do a shit job of advertising it or only have it on a few pumps. You might convert to rustling when they start putting up the price...
  2. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Pfft. I could bring a five dollar footlong. Oblig:
  3. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Depends on the timing, usually if it's sufficiently early they'll just lock them or put them in a cordoned off stage. I can tell you from experience from at least one OEM that they would have the entire paint job either touched up or redone, all the doors would be remounted, and they would go...
  4. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    I know the Raiders suck balls and all, but Sanders has looked surprisingly decent. He's probably Jerry Jeudy not being a dipshit away from being up 3 scores the way they were moving.
  5. Kobayashi

    Home Improvement

    Not sure how big the chunks you're talking about are, but if they're mostly under a foot or so in diameter, I like to use a sawzall with a shrubbery blade. In my opinion it's a bit easier to deal with as you're never worrying about kickback, overly worried about getting stuck (worst case you're...
  6. Kobayashi

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I think I've got 4 of those controllers and a few steam links sitting around untouched in the original packaging from that sale. I guess my unused steam library also includes hardware.
  7. Kobayashi

    Home Improvement

    If I could find a local outfit that did a good job for 15k, I'd book them this second. I've been trying to get our master bath redone for a while now and every quote is more ridiculous than the last. One of those prefab, done in under a week, places wanted 60k. That was with keeping all the...
  8. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Yeah, that's a good call. I actually use a ton of gaffers tape, but I only have it in obnoxious colors. I use it to mark missed connections and other wiring fuck ups. It's pretty durable and has a little better adhesion than painters tape while still not leaving much residue. For that vehicle...
  9. Kobayashi

    Car ?'s

    They tend to leave out steps in the process when it's convenient for the narrative they're pushing like harvesting, processing, distribution, etc. I'm sure the car could run on fermented algae fuel, but the reality is it'd probably cost an arm and a leg to produce at scale, so, it'll run on...
  10. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    If I could Thanos snap any group of people off this planet, it would be the fucksticks who keep pushing for piano black trim and glossy screens in automotive interiors. I swear they won't stop until the entire interior is a surface to reflect glare and collect fingerprints. On one vehicle I was...
  11. Kobayashi

    Car ?'s

    Shhhhh. Keep up the facade so we can keep some gas vehicles... Also, they glossed over the key point of that article: the Wankel is back baby! Mazda just can't quit it.
  12. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    The gaze tracking system is basically the trade off for these advanced level 2 autonomous systems that have hands free driving. In level 2, the driver has to remain engaged and immediately ready to take back over. It should only yell at you if you have the system engaged, which it appears he...
  13. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I don't. It sure looks clean, but I hate almost everything in that picture. What's that Mr Customer? The system doesn't work? Great. I can't wait to start cutting the 8 million zip ties in my electrician's little art project here and diagnose which unlabeled, same color wires he fucked up...
  14. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    He said it to Brad Allen. I'm certain whatever it was, it wasn't nearly harsh enough.
  15. Kobayashi

    Health Problems

    Maybe you've already tried this, but as a teenager I would get migraines almost daily. Back then I supplemented with feverfew and it seemed to have an effect on both the severity and frequency.
  16. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The true GOAT...
  17. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  18. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    The dynamic guidelines just use the vehicle's steering angle sensor. Pretty sure that vintage of Escape should have that since you need it for vehicle dynamic control - it needs to know if you happen to be turning so it doesn't think wheels are slipping from the differential in wheel speeds...
  19. Kobayashi

    MLB 2025: Year of Ohtani, on the doorstep of an Empire

    I'm about to stop, this is never going to end. Side note: can we bring in the fucking robo umpires already? Porter is allegedly one of the best in the game and he's absolutely blown some massive calls this game.
  20. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    So that's what happened to all my 10mm sockets...
  21. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I had to look up a video to understand how that steering wheel worked. That entire interior is the most fascinatingly weird I've ever seen. Just about everything I look at I can't quite figure out how it's supposed to work. Asking me how to do any simple task like activating a turn signal and...
  22. Kobayashi

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    SimAnt, SimEarth, and Mutant League games please.
  23. Kobayashi

    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    A friend of mine sent up a giant track throughout his entire garage workshop. The cars you could completely customize - motors, suspension, tires, etc. Thought I was really going to get into it until I tried it and flew off at every turn - I could never master throttling down in time. Everyone...
  24. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I think it's perfect. The Geo Metro's engine had no balls. Metro with balls:
  25. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Speaking of getting stuck in Police Quest games, this old bag still haunts my dreams:
  26. Kobayashi

    Microtubules (responsible for your thoughts) spin faster then speed of light, they go back in time, they send light back to its original source faster

    This isn't making sense to me. Can you please fire up Microsoft Excel and decode it? You can post the results here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeeCiphers/
  27. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Don't put your hopes up. Lions D really struggles against running QBs, especially Lamar. If they can't keep pace early and it's obvious passing downs, the Lions are going to get smoked like they did in week 1.
  28. Kobayashi

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Fuck Yeah! I can't wait to play Mario Tennis for 7 minutes and then have a migraine the rest of the day!
  29. Kobayashi

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I assume we're talking about main controllers and not gimmicks... I've never actually used it, but as a kid, the Atari Jaguar controller looked absolutely retarded. How many games needed a full number pad? Don't know, maybe it wasn't actually bad to hold - the Dreamcast controller looked...
  30. Kobayashi

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Has anyone else been following N64 hardware emulation using FPGAs? There are a couple of dedicated boxes coming out from Analogue and ModRetro. Analogue is promising 4k upscaling, not clear on ModRetro. Both have released hardware in the past and have serious developers working on the projects...
  31. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    He doesn't. That said, with how Williams holds onto the ball, he might get a sack or two and get your hopes up.
  32. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I'll buy her some black makeup and she can be one of my 25 goths. Not on my short list:
  33. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Not exactly sure what I'm going to do with Sydney Sweeney and 25 goth chicks, but I'll figure it out. Oblig
  34. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Last year, their line was easily top 3 in the league. This year, a lot of questions. Tackles are unchanged. Decker is probably a B+ at LT. I'd say he was 2nd weakest on the line last year - only because 3/4 of the others were that damn good. He still made a Pro Bowl last year. Sewell at RT you...
  35. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    I couldn't watch any of this game. Looking at the box score - what happened with the Eagles passing game? AJ Brown had only one target? Was Dallas' run defense just that bad all night? Did they never try to spy Hurts?
  36. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I assume that is tracking trips to the mechanic.
  37. Kobayashi

    *warning* Do not accept DMs/click links from Hatorade on Steam until he verifies he still controls the account

    Curious if the guys who got hacked were running Steam Guard and had the mobile app - I have always had notifications there for any login attempts, but I'm thinking a website like that might be able to cheat it since it's somehow coming from a trusted device.
  38. Kobayashi

    Car ?'s

    If the connector looks similar, but is a different color, it could be that the pins are the same and you could de-pin the connector housings and swap them. There's usually a video out there for de-pinning just about any connector.