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Farted by Losperman, November 01, 2005, 01:26:35 AM

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Quote from: PhantomCatClock on December 31, 2024, 07:26:45 PMdid you know that, not to be confused with jim varney (a real man), ernest p worrel's dying word as he was slain by his fed-up neighbor tells us he lived in a fantasy realm?

"wyvern?"

Slurpee

hahaha dude the n64 only had like 50 good games and only like 10 of them were peerless classics and the greatest video games ever made. the rest were basically either beloved entries in classic series/genres or trailblazing pioneers of unique new forms of gaming or just incredibly fun to play for hours on end either by yourself or with friends and family lol. you literally only think it was good because it was a joy to play and home to generation-defining masterpieces that gave you cumulative weeks or months of happiness and entertainment over the course of several magical years. I bet the indelible memories you made with them still radiate with the light of heaven lmfao. sniveling animal. you creature. *spits*

Slurpee

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on January 01, 2025, 10:55:46 PM
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on December 31, 2024, 07:26:45 PMdid you know that, not to be confused with jim varney (a real man), ernest p worrel's dying word as he was slain by his fed-up neighbor tells us he lived in a fantasy realm?

"wyvern?"
oh, I see

haha

Slurpee

it's beginning to look less like christmas

Slurpee

a kangaroo is just a dude. if you fistfight one, you might win, he might win. at the end of the day he's still an asshole but there is mutual respect

PhantomCatClock

kim possible and ham fistable

Slurpee

in spider-man 2 peter parker saves a little chinese girl from a burning building and then just wordlessly hands her to the first asian couple he sees

Slurpee

pcat what was that thing you posted that one time about "stop asking to ask"? I think it was you? I didn't get it and made a mental note to read it again when I was less tired in case it was directed at me but then I never got back to it

RobClock

a classic robclock livejournal entry-esque rant;

If not previously established, for the last three or so years I have been driving a 2005 Ford Ranger, with the 3 litre V6. It was originally a 4wd so it has the higher ride height and extra leaf in the back suspension. It came from the states originally so the odometer and speedometer are in Miles rather than Kilometers. It's sitting currently at roughly 187,000 miles on the odo which is not an insubstantial amount but aside from the exhaust system being in relatively rough shape, the truck is rock solid and drives well. I love my little quarter ton.

Now. The truck has been, for the last year or more, slowly leaking oil, and over the last six odd months it has become worse. The cause of this; the oil pan is half rotten. Obvious solution; buy a new oil pan and gasket. Easy enough. A chimpanzee can do an oil change on a 20 year old pickup truck, and the oil pan on the 3 litre seems reasonably easy to access. Drop the 24 bolts, pull off the pan, pop on the new gasket and pan, and robert's your mother's brother.


Apparently to get the oil pan off you must not only disconnect the motor mounts and lift the engine block into the air approximately 4", you must also DROP THE TRANSMISSION, and potentially disconnect the exhaust from the manifolds to get it out of the way, graduating what should be a simple 1-2 hour task into a 12-14 hour ORDEAL. What's more, given I have no garage of my own, and it being January in fucking Canada making the concept of doing it in the driveway basically inconceivable, the auto shops I've called to try and get a price on the labour for the task have basically told me to fuck off because due to the complex and time consuming nature of the endeavour, they don't want to take it on because they can and WILL make more money by overcharging Grandmother's and International Students for lube jobs and tire changes.

Why must basic automotive maintenance be so arbitrarily impenetrable for the common vehicle owner?

PhantomCatClock

fnord f-150



and https://dontasktoask.com/


this is from nerds about programming questions, but it applies to everything. The gist is don't send a message saying "hey, can i ask you something" or "hey, can anyone here help me with rust?"

if your first message is short, polite, and actionable you save a lot of time for everybody involved. It's like nicer to the people on the forums because it doesn't waste their time, but it also doesn't waste your time so there's no reason not to do it

RobClock

Phantomcat, if you don't mind me asking;

What is this forum for if not wasting time

PhantomCatClock

Phantomcat, do you mind me asking?

edort: 8888

RobClock


PhantomCatClock

cyberdunk 2077-to-zero starring keanu reeves and magic johnson

Slurpee

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on January 03, 2025, 05:26:58 PMand https://dontasktoask.com/


this is from nerds about programming questions, but it applies to everything. The gist is don't send a message saying "hey, can i ask you something" or "hey, can anyone here help me with rust?"

if your first message is short, polite, and actionable you save a lot of time for everybody involved. It's like nicer to the people on the forums because it doesn't waste their time, but it also doesn't waste your time so there's no reason not to do it
ohhh I get it

the first time I read this I thought it meant like, in person when you're asking for somebody's help, or like when I made a post about some chess confusion I had and opened it with "do any of you know like a lot about chess?" and I got all defensive lol
I was like "I'm just politely introducing the subject, sheesh!"

but they mean like uh

I was hanging out on reddit for a bit [crowd booing] just in /r/tipofmytongue [crowd pipes down but still isn't happy],
and, it's SO MUCH BETTER when people name their posts something like "[MOVIE/MUSICAL/CARTOON?] background characters dressed as office workers sing-chanting the word 'unhappy' in a minor key in a huge dehumanizing office setting?"
vs e.g. "trying to remember a scene with a song maybe, not sure what kind of thing it's from"
like >:|
dude give us as much information as possible upfront in as succinct of a way as possible, you're asking for help, don't make people have to work to figure out what you want help with

Slurpee

(that's not a real example from /r/tipofmytongue, it's something that was bugging me during dinner today but I remembered what it was when I was doing dishes, it was a scene from the producers remake)

Slurpee

what the
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that's a cool feature

Slurpee

oh I was going to say,
it's funny that cars have basically the exact same "inexplicably inaccessible repairs" problem as smart phones

well not funny ha-ha, funny like I want to kill everybody and then myself

Slurpee

Quote from: Slurpee on January 05, 2025, 03:04:00 AMwell not funny ha-ha, funny like I want to kill everybody and then myself
this was a joke but I guess I need to clarify that it was a joke because "trying to murder the entire planet because I'm angry about my phone not having replaceable batteries" sounds like something that might actually happen now because everyone is stupid and mad all the time