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  1. Kobayashi

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    This remix button they added to google messages. Yeah, when someone texts me a picture and I open it, I don't want to view it fullscreen. What I really want is to have it slightly expand and get partially covered up by this oversized banana icon and 'remix' it, whatever the fuck that means. Who...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Fixed it for you. Dude's 35 and was already starting to slow down. Doubt he is able to rehab from that mess in under a year, so, he's probably looking at trying to come back at age 37. He's had a great career and won a Super Bowl, time to hang it up.
  3. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Which eye surgery? Inquiring minds want to know...
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    Home Improvement

    Just a word of warning, under no circumstances farm any job out through Lowes. We had the gutters redone on our old house with them. The company they subbed out to was the most incompetent group of dipshits I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. We went to Lowes when they missed their...
  5. Kobayashi

    Home buying thread

    Is that supposed to be your fridge in the corner of the kitchen? I wouldn't butt it up to a wall like that, especially if you were doing a french door fridge. Also, not sure what styles of cooking you do, but I think putting your range where it is will make it difficult to do a vent to the exterior.
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    Shock the world you say... An 8 cylinder supercar is interesting, but the MR2 is more interesting.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I'd say in general you're right - if you're getting any kind of pie anywhere it's probably in the bottom tier. You're only going to get top tier if you either make it yourself or encounter a unicorn. That being said, I think the floor for bad pumpkin pie is much lower than say a cherry or apple...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Pumpkin pie CAN be very good, but by default I usually pass on it. Most people and storebought pies use canned slop. I've done a scratchmade pumpkin pie and it was very good, but I also couldn't help but think if I put that sort of time/effort into an apple or cherry pie, how much better it...
  9. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's funny how perspective changes with experience. I don't appreciate the beauty in that photo, I mostly just imagine getting tangled in that kelp while trying to get that shot. Oblig:
  10. 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...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Pfft. I could bring a five dollar footlong. Oblig:
  12. 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...
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    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.
  14. 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...
  15. 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.
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    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...
  17. 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...
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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.
  21. 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...
  22. 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...
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The true GOAT...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  27. 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...
  28. 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.
  29. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    So that's what happened to all my 10mm sockets...
  30. 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...
  31. Kobayashi

    General Gaming News and Discussion

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

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Speaking of getting stuck in Police Quest games, this old bag still haunts my dreams:
  35. 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/
  36. 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.
  37. Kobayashi

    Nintendo Switch 1 and 2

    Fuck Yeah! I can't wait to play Mario Tennis for 7 minutes and then have a migraine the rest of the day!
  38. 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...
  39. 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...