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By . on 2025-10-07 12:10:28
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I live in Michigan and we have all 3 major US car companies right here in a 50mi radius. Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler are all right here. This is important because it really distorts our traffic vehicle ratios. We have so many people who will just always buy a new vehicle every year because it helps their companies sales.
But even with that, there is not that many EVs on the roads. Absolutely not enough to tip the scales. Also, all electricity is taxed, so it's not like that gasoline money is 100% missing.
Here in Michigan, we have the most corrupt state level funding crap bills and propositions. We have had multiple increases to our taxes over there years with the promise of "rebuilding our roads". All that revenue increase went on to fund several round-a-bouts in extremely rural areas that nobody asked for. No doubt the contracted construction company is related to Governor Whitmer.
You are correct tho, crooked politicians stealing our tax dollars is a non-partisan issue.
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By . on 2025-10-07 11:50:04
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By . on 2025-10-07 11:37:25
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I used to want a 996 Turbo (I guess I still do), but the fact that car is as fast as my Tesla makes me worry.
Have you driven one before? You might find you don't like it, I know a lot of Porsche owners that are kinda meh on them once they drove it. They have some weird handling characteristics. They've also gone up in price a lot lately for good ones.
Personally, I prefer the NA 996s with a 3.8 or 4.0 overbore done. It really brings available torque earlier in the RPM range and adds a lot of life to the car without the complication of the AWD system in the Turbo. OTOH the M96 is just...bad...even after they've been overhauled, Mezger engines are a lot better...ask me how I know (currently on rebuild #2)....
I have not driven any 911 yet, but I do know a lot of people who say they prefer the Boxster/Caymen performance and handling over the 911. I'd love a 718 Boxster GTS, but that's way more than I'd ever spend on a car. There is a 996 C2 at a dealer near me, I might go drive it.
The M96 scares me. My 2.5 is the one that has the least problems. Way less common IMS failures (no stupid single row bearing on the 2.5) and no coated pistons that cause bore scoring. I wouldn't buy a M96 car just because those motors still cost $7k-$13k. LS swapping everything always makes me sad, but the 996 really does make a fantastic LS powered car. Whenever my motor does give out, I've been seriously considering doing a EJ25 swap on my Boxster to be unique. I sold my WRX to get my Boxster, so it feels like combining these cars.
Bismarck.Josiahflaming said: »EV and Hybrid registrations went from like ~250 to ~1000 dollars a year in the last couple years to help increase the lost revenue for road maintenance. because EV sales are the reason we don't have road budget... Not because of politician misappropriation of funds.
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By NynJa on 2025-10-07 11:12:35
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The cope keeps getting thicker. Asura is a great server, say whatever you want, we love the hate. YouTube Video Placeholder
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By NynJa on 2025-10-07 11:09:19
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Couldnt you implement a check comparing item ID and name on use? Or is that the same thing wrt pulling resources on load?
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Also, while it never happens, if item IDs ever get shifted around you risk losing something. I'd recommend to pull the item ID from resources at the start of the addon. I normally don't recommend this since item resources are by far the biggest table and take the most ram, but dropping items is a critical enough operation that you should do it.
Given that its only the temp bag and recycle bin is a thing, its probably ok? I could probably restrict it to that zone as well, worst case I toss a temp item that is easy to get again?
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By Lkki on 2025-10-07 10:32:33
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I quite enjoyed this thread. Keep it going people!
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By . on 2025-10-07 10:28:24
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youngest person in my play group, and to this day I can make them feel old.
RICHY! my kid is 3yrs old now! see I just did it, it's that easy.
Plot twist: Her kid typed this, Tesa isn't even 3 yet ;) lol
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By Garuda. Chanti on 2025-10-07 09:37:49
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Bismarck.Josiahflaming said: »Bismarck.Josiahflaming said: »I bet that base model tesla 3 versus a base model same price generic muscle car would probably get smoked for off the line speed, it's not just the expensive luxuries Most electrics smoke gas cars. Its that full torque at liftoff thing. Steamers did that too way back when. But quicker =/= faster. Such a fascinating argument not seen before gas engines started getting smoked off the factory in production cars. Very effective goal post moving "quicker =/= faster" sentiment became widespread when it was all about "acceleration 0-60" for the last 100 years beforehand as the key metric. Back in the neolithic age when I was a teenager there were two measures of performance for your flintstonesmobile.
Waddle she do in the quarter. That's the acceleration or quick bit.
Watts she top out at. That's the top speed or fast part.
Both are still viable today. The only thing that has changed about measuring automotive performance today other than numbers is as well as HP and torque they also measure power in KWs.
P. S. for most cars and motorcycles the fast and quick part are somewhat interchangeable. That's the rear end ratio part.
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By Suph on 2025-10-07 09:23:06
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There it is
Bahamut number 1. Unseating the 10+ year champion Asura

Mama mia
@Odin, your turn

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By Suph on 2025-10-07 09:17:46
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Did you just post a video of a screenshot?
Here's a screenshot of that video

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By . on 2025-10-07 08:46:29
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Wish I'd bought a GTR back in 2012 when they were going for 20-25k EUR.
Same car worth ~100k EUR now. Crazy prices.
Teslas are just too heavy though really. All the bhp in the world doesn't help you when the car weighs a few tonnes.
Road tax should definitely start taking weight into account not just engine. All those heavy EVs running around completely destroy roads.
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There it is
Bahamut number 1. Unseating the 10+ year champion Asura

Mama mia
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By Dodik on 2025-10-07 07:21:26
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There are microbes and micro-organisms that evolved to live in pools of acid that also think their acid pool is a great place to live.
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The cope keeps getting thicker. Asura is a great server, say whatever you want, we love the hate.
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The cope keeps getting thicker. Asura is a great server, say whatever you want, we love the hate.
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By Lili on 2025-10-07 04:40:20
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Fenrir.Brimstonefox said: »Would this work?
Looks about right, try and see what happens.
Also, while it never happens, if item IDs ever get shifted around you risk losing something. I'd recommend to pull the item ID from resources at the start of the addon. I normally don't recommend this since item resources are by far the biggest table and take the most ram, but dropping items is a critical enough operation that you should do it.
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SE should follow all the gil buyers that switch again and ban them.
What they are doing is all they need to do, banning buyers is counter productive.
There is a lot of psychology in RMT, and if you close off the most elitist server you're kneecapping RMT hard.
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By Asura. Iamaman on 2025-10-07 03:40:20
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Bismarck.Josiahflaming said: »Such a fascinating argument not seen before gas engines started getting smoked off the factory in production cars. Very effective goal post moving "quicker =/= faster" sentiment became widespread when it was all about "acceleration 0-60" for the last 100 years beforehand as the key metric.
This discussion predated electric cars by a long time, at least a decade if not longer. The Cayman and 944 being good examples, they were relatively low powered for their era, but there would be a lot of conversation around why those cars were keeping up with their more expensive, sophisticated peers on the track when they had slower 0-60 times. I remember this discussion ~2005-2006 at least and the same discussion around 0-60 times being somewhat meaningless.
I think how much you heard this depends on whether you were in car enthusiast circles or not, but it was definitely a discussion for a long time. The average person would "feel" 0-60 times more than weight bias, brake performance, traction, etc because it's evident in daily driving on the street, so they may be more consumed with that figure. Folks tracking their cars would have a different perspective and view 0-60 times as less meaningful.
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By on 2025-10-07 02:27:16
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By . on 2025-10-07 02:16:47
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By . on 2025-10-07 00:57:49
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but of course... woc... sucks... so... bad.... if i got a swart every time i lost to soul voice or benediction spam id be able to go from r0 to r15 for a single rema. Wind damage prevents Benediction or Invincible once you proc it before bracelet mode. I'd recommend taking the first 5-10mins proccing the SPs without pushing to 60% and ensure either of those are white procced with Wind damage THEN push to bracelet mode.
Ice damage prevents Soul voice after the initial use (or use Wind damage to proc Call Wyvern before bracelet mode and Soul voice can never be used during Bracelet mode).
The first 5-10 mins of a WoC solo is playing it slow preventing SPs that can be used during Bracelet mode since that is where he is most dangerous with up to triple SP back to back. Then it's a chip away after.
Hope this helps and I believe in the W. hey, your advice of focusing more on proc compared to dps helped, Soloed WoC on BLU/RDM with 1:34 left (the ONE time i dont record..)
i'm too stupid to figure out how to post photos so this is the best i can do YouTube Video Placeholder Did you just post a video of a screenshot?
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By Shiraj on 2025-10-06 23:19:41
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hey, your advice of focusing more on proc compared to dps helped, Soloed WoC on BLU/RDM with 1:34 left (the ONE time i dont record..)
i'm too stupid to figure out how to post photos so this is the best i can do I believed. Congrats man.
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youngest person in my play group, and to this day I can make them feel old.
RICHY! my kid is 3yrs old now! see I just did it, it's that easy.
Also this one time in dyna, I prevented a wipe on pup. I think I must have been /sch or something I swapped my auto to whm mid combat and manage to stay alive while everyone died, got them all up afterwards.
I used to be able to do build swap very fast, now I am lazy and just use an addon.
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I made a Moonbow Belt +1 <3 weeks after release, long before shields. I probably wasn't the first, but it was pretty early.
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Base skill: 746
+Merits: 778
+Empy body: 826
+Empy hands: 870
+AF feet: 884
At 99 with merits and no JP, you're almost at 900 skill with no earrings, rings, back, or waist, for HMarch. You get another 50 from Gjallarhorn for every other song. TECHNICALLY it's possible to have an under capped HMarch, but it's...really hard. At 405 JP, you have 900 skill with only the empy body, empy hands, and AF feet.
Skill is not something you should care about in a midcast set, put in DT instead.
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