Avali Nexus

Well, I know what video Surge will probably post here soon...

I wonder if I've surpassed surge as most hated yet...

(09-10-2015, 09:21 PM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-10-2015, 09:20 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]SHITFUCKASSCUNT

My driver's side wiper came loose while I was driving home in the rain.

it could be worse
a tree branch could have fallen and broke through your windshield and stopped just short of skewering you.

Been there done that. 1/10 would not go that way again.

Only it wasn't a tree branch. It was a grocery store shelf that fell off a truck in front of me.

By my calculations from the damage inflicted, it was less than 6 inches away from impaling me while I was at speed on the highway.

(09-11-2015, 05:14 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-10-2015, 09:21 PM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]it could be worse
a tree branch could have fallen and broke through your windshield and stopped just short of skewering you.

Been there done that. 1/10 would not go that way again.

Only it wasn't a tree branch. It was a grocery store shelf that fell off a truck in front of me.

By my calculations from the damage inflicted, it was less than 6 inches away from impaling me while I was at speed on the highway.

poor car

Oh and by the way, I actually fixed this car and drove it another 2 years after this happened. It sat in my driveway all smashed up for a couple of days, and I got so pissed off about not having a car that I took a hammer and started hammering out the dents in the tin and breaking free the glass so it could be replaced.



She was never a pretty car, that 1988 Chevy Nova, but it certainly went places. 1.6L carbureted engine of a mere 90 horsepower, yet I could still hit 88 MPH if I wanted to. I didn't let it go until the transmission started failing. At that point it had over 260,000 miles on it and needed significant chassis and engine work as well. I took it to 88 MPH one final time on the way to the scrapper, the transmission being kind enough to give me the missing gear one last time in order to do it. The whole time it had been making 35-40 MPG. For comparison a 2011 Ford Fiesta Hybrid, which was new while I was driving this, only got 32 MPG.

Considering I paid only $700 to buy it, and it lasted over 4 years and 100,000 miles of my driving, I certainly got the best deal ever.

Store shelves sound worse than tree branches. Especially since it dented the car, too. Damn.
My mom is lucky the tree branch only broke the windshield and didn't hurt her, and lucky it didn't completely shatter the windshield either.

(09-11-2015, 05:17 PM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 05:14 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]Been there done that. 1/10 would not go that way again.

Only it wasn't a tree branch. It was a grocery store shelf that fell off a truck in front of me.

By my calculations from the damage inflicted, it was less than 6 inches away from impaling me while I was at speed on the highway.

poor car

Oh and by the way, I actually fixed this car and drove it another 2 years after this happened. It sat in my driveway all smashed up for a couple of days, and I got so pissed off about not having a car that I took a hammer and started hammering out the dents in the tin and breaking free the glass so it could be replaced.



She was never a pretty car, that 1988 Chevy Nova, but it certainly went places. 1.6L carbureted engine of a mere 90 horsepower, yet I could still hit 88 MPH if I wanted to. I didn't let it go until the transmission started failing. At that point it had over 260,000 miles on it and needed significant chassis and engine work as well. I took it to 88 MPH one final time on the way to the scrapper, the transmission being kind enough to give me the missing gear one last time in order to do it. The whole time it had been making 35-40 MPG. For comparison a 2011 Ford Fiesta Hybrid, which was new while I was driving this, only got 32 MPG.

Considering I paid only $700 to buy it, and it lasted over 4 years and 100,000 miles of my driving, I certainly got the best deal ever.

Store shelves sound worse than tree branches. Especially since it dented the car, too. Damn.
My mom is lucky the tree branch only broke the windshield and didn't hurt her, and lucky it didn't completely shatter the windshield either.

Newer cars don't use plate glass.

How has everybody been today? Just got out of the freezing rain. I swear that it was a typhoon or something.

(09-11-2015, 05:14 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-10-2015, 09:21 PM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]it could be worse
a tree branch could have fallen and broke through your windshield and stopped just short of skewering you.

Been there done that. 1/10 would not go that way again.

Only it wasn't a tree branch. It was a grocery store shelf that fell off a truck in front of me.

By my calculations from the damage inflicted, it was less than 6 inches away from impaling me while I was at speed on the highway.

poor car

Oh and by the way, I actually fixed this car and drove it another 2 years after this happened. It sat in my driveway all smashed up for a couple of days, and I got so pissed off about not having a car that I took a hammer and started hammering out the dents in the tin and breaking free the glass so it could be replaced.



She was never a pretty car, that 1988 Chevy Nova, but it certainly went places. 1.6L carbureted engine of a mere 90 horsepower, yet I could still hit 88 MPH if I wanted to. I didn't let it go until the transmission started failing. At that point it had over 260,000 miles on it and needed significant chassis and engine work as well. I took it to 88 MPH one final time on the way to the scrapper, the transmission being kind enough to give me the missing gear one last time in order to do it. The whole time it had been making 35-40 MPG. For comparison a 2011 Ford Fiesta Hybrid, which was new while I was driving this, only got 32 MPG.

Considering I paid only $700 to buy it, and it lasted over 4 years and 100,000 miles of my driving, I certainly got the best deal ever.

jeese, the usual stuff that fly towards the windshield here is mostly junk(yes that includes papaya skins) the only thing hazardous are the driver's inablility to obey street rules(it's a bloody asian country here, what do you expect?) and small to medium pebbles that kicked up by some truck due to very poor rouad quality.

looks like you could use an APC there with those kinds of hazardous

(09-11-2015, 05:07 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]I wonder if I've surpassed surge as most hated yet...

Not sure if that's something you should be proud of.



Anywho, part 10: Protect + Shell = longer videos

(09-11-2015, 05:33 PM)Reks Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 05:07 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]I wonder if I've surpassed surge as most hated yet...

Not sure if that's something you should be proud of.



Anywho, part 10: Protect + Shell = longer videos

I fucked up my savestates last night. Now I have to play through the start all over again.

(09-11-2015, 05:00 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]Awkward but somewhat awesome?

No, just awkward...

(09-11-2015, 05:23 PM)Flarezerker Wrote: [ -> ]How has everybody been today? Just got out of the freezing rain. I swear that it was a typhoon or something.

Oh hi, did you see this?

(09-11-2015, 02:53 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 02:52 PM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]different swords will have different abilities. Some will have parrying, some will have things like that, others might have a lunge attack...it makes weapons and combat FAR more interesting.
can't wait to see if they can actually make combat fun after the combat update.

Combat is already a little fun.

Also, you feeling any better?

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This just, appeared in a steam chat, from a good friend:


BELLY RUBS!
^_^

(09-11-2015, 05:37 PM)Flarezerker Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 05:33 PM)Reks Wrote: [ -> ]Not sure if that's something you should be proud of.



Anywho, part 10: Protect + Shell = longer videos

I fucked up my savestates last night. Now I have to play through the start all over again.

I was gonna comment before, but forgot

Yeah, I only mess with savestates as an emergency restart or somesuch.

And thus why I save normally like 50 times

(09-11-2015, 05:19 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 05:17 PM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]Store shelves sound worse than tree branches. Especially since it dented the car, too. Damn.
My mom is lucky the tree branch only broke the windshield and didn't hurt her, and lucky it didn't completely shatter the windshield either.

Newer cars don't use plate glass.

That isn't plate glass in that car Marxon. It was the same design of automotive safety glass still in use today. And even on a modern car, when struck hard enough the glass will shatter like so, but retain as much of the pieces as possible to prevent injury to the passengers from flying broken glass.

The only standard safety features that Nova was lacking compared to a modern car are antilock brakes and airbags. It used the same crumple-zone technique to absorb impact energy, the same tempered coated automotive glass, a direct ancestor of today's seatbelt arrangements, and even had a functional anti-theft device.


And the roads around here are pretty messed up too. Cold wintertime weather has left them full of holes, but you also regularly see farm equipment and construction trucks dropping chunks of dirt and rocks on the road. The car I bought to replace the Nova when it finally died went through 3 windshields in its first 2 years. The first one got chipped by rocks, then cracked out and had to be replaced. The second one got hit by a piece of steel falling off of a truck and cracked, needing replacement, and the third one was at least my own screwup- I was trying to replace a wiper pushrod and banged against it with the wrench I was using, cracking it and needing to replace it for the third time.

Hopefully the one that's in it now stays crack-free for the rest of my time driving it.

(09-11-2015, 06:00 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 05:19 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]Newer cars don't use plate glass.

I know this is gonna make me look like a) a retard, and b) an asshole, but after reading that and seeing your sig, I thought that was kinda funny. The sig, not the incidents with the windshield. Well, 'cept the last one.

(09-11-2015, 06:00 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 05:19 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]Newer cars don't use plate glass.

That isn't plate glass in that car Marxon. It was the same design of automotive safety glass still in use today. And even on a modern car, when struck hard enough the glass will shatter like so, but retain as much of the pieces as possible to prevent injury to the passengers from flying broken glass.

The only standard safety features that Nova was lacking compared to a modern car are antilock brakes and airbags. It used the same crumple-zone technique to absorb impact energy, the same tempered coated automotive glass, a direct ancestor of today's seatbelt arrangements, and even had a functional anti-theft device.


And the roads around here are pretty messed up too. Cold wintertime weather has left them full of holes, but you also regularly see farm equipment and construction trucks dropping chunks of dirt and rocks on the road. The car I bought to replace the Nova when it finally died went through 3 windshields in its first 2 years. The first one got chipped by rocks, then cracked out and had to be replaced. The second one got hit by a piece of steel falling off of a truck and cracked, needing replacement, and the third one was at least my own screwup- I was trying to replace a wiper pushrod and banged against it with the wrench I was using, cracking it and needing to replace it for the third time.

Hopefully the one that's in it now stays crack-free for the rest of my time driving it.

Im aware about the glass, I didn't need a lesson.

(09-11-2015, 06:13 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 06:00 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]

Im aware about the glass, I didn't need a lesson.

Hey Marx, how's your foot? And you, I guess. Might be important to ask that.

any, had another Vector Thrust video, this time after the most recent update, F-22s now have their internal bays which greatly lower down their radar cross section, making them hard to lock by radar.

Today in college I had an intro course on modelling in Maya.
All we had to do was model an incredibly basic table, but somehow I fucked it up and made the edges go everywhere, so rather than a table I get this giant wave thing.
I'm good at computers I swear.

(09-11-2015, 06:37 PM)Sankoro Wrote: [ -> ]Today in college I had an intro course on modelling in Maya.
All we had to do was model an incredibly basic table, but somehow I fucked it up and made the edges go everywhere, so rather than a table I get this giant wave thing.
I'm good at computers I swear.

Brilliant Sank, just brilliant.

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(09-11-2015, 06:16 PM)Flarezerker Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 06:13 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]Im aware about the glass, I didn't need a lesson.

Hey Marx, how's your foot? And you, I guess. Might be important to ask that.

I'm doing well, for once.

(09-11-2015, 06:49 PM)Marxon Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2015, 06:37 PM)Sankoro Wrote: [ -> ]Today in college I had an intro course on modelling in Maya.
All we had to do was model an incredibly basic table, but somehow I fucked it up and made the edges go everywhere, so rather than a table I get this giant wave thing.
I'm good at computers I swear.

Brilliant Sank, just brilliant.

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(09-11-2015, 06:16 PM)Flarezerker Wrote: [ -> ]Hey Marx, how's your foot? And you, I guess. Might be important to ask that.

I'm doing well, for once.

That's always good to hear. Man, on a side note, Frog's Theme from Chrono Trigger is amazing.