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So it turns out that the 2 months delay of no man's sky was mostly due to Hello Games not having reached a settlement about the use of the word sky in the title with the company sky and having to reserve some time for a possible rebranding :facepalm: (they settled now, and they can trademark the title "no man's sky", which is no small feat. Apparently, the company is the reason why microsoft's onedrive isn't called skydrive). The legal battle seems to have been ongoing in the background of the development for almost 3 years now, but has never been made public because... well, all the internet trolls threatening to blow up sky might have lost them the war (Sean Murray jokingly twittered something along the lines of "On the positive side, they are probably the main reason why skynet never happened").

You know, I feel sorry for all you guys who have english as a first language. In fifty years or so you'll barely be able to talk without paying royalties... :shifty:
 
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Maybe Dick the butcher and Jack Cade were on to something?


(this post brought to you by hp business solutions)
 
So, how can i trademark the word "the"?
 
A fun day disassembling and reassembling parts of my car. Key would no longer unlock the driver side door, so for the last several months I've been locking and unlocking by climbing through the passenger side. Bought a new lock cylinder, pulled apart the door and removed the old cylinder, took apart old cylinder, and luckily the worn tumbler plates were ones I could replace with ones that came with the new cylinder so I could use my old keys. Cleaned, greased, and re-assembled, no extra parts. Locked and unlocked the door a couple of dozen times just because I could.

I love that feeling of fixing something and putting things back in order. Ahhh...
 
Thunder Chicken said:
A fun day disassembling and reassembling parts of my car. Key would no longer unlock the driver side door, so for the last several months I've been locking and unlocking by climbing through the passenger side. Bought a new lock cylinder, pulled apart the door and removed the old cylinder, took apart old cylinder, and luckily the worn tumbler plates were ones I could replace with ones that came with the new cylinder so I could use my old keys. Cleaned, greased, and re-assembled, no extra parts. Locked and unlocked the door a couple of dozen times just because I could.

I love that feeling of fixing something and putting things back in order. Ahhh...
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Ahhh, the old days when you could actually fix your own car with simple tools and no worries about blowing yourself up with the stupid airbag.
 
I know the feeling. The satisfaction of a job well done. I only get that at work when my feed pumps run up after an outage. The brownie hounds usually get most of the glory, but most of them don't know (nor care) how the dirty/greasy/oil soaked equipment works.

(this post brought to you by BBC's Top Gear back when it was really good)
 
Andy44 said:
Ahhh, the old days when you could actually fix your own car with simple tools and no worries about blowing yourself up with the stupid airbag.
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I have a 2005 Honda Civic DX, manual windows and locks, 290k miles, drives like a champ. Just change the fluids and it just goes. It's been getting niggly little signs of age like worn locks, loose connections, etc. It's starting to rough idle when I start the car in the morning when the gas tank is low, so I suspect the fuel pump might be going bad. That's a pretty easy fix though on a Honda. The engine and drivetrain are solid.

I really don't want to buy a new one, but sooner or later it will have to happen.
 
Thunder Chicken said:
I have a 2005 Honda Civic DX, manual windows and locks, 290k miles, drives like a champ. Just change the fluids and it just goes. It's been getting niggly little signs of age like worn locks, loose connections, etc. It's starting to rough idle when I start the car in the morning when the gas tank is low, so I suspect the fuel pump might be going bad. That's a pretty easy fix though on a Honda. The engine and drivetrain are solid.

I really don't want to buy a new one, but sooner or later it will have to happen.
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I have a 2005 GMC pickup with almost 200k miles on it and I stay on top of it. I predict it will need some major work at some point, but if it's done right it's worth it. It has all the features I like and few of the ones I don't (no stupid OnStar or other built-in spyware, for example) and I've driven it across the continent 3 times. I have no plans to replace it; it's the B-52 of trucks.

Sometime around the 90s or early 2000s car-makers started really getting serious about quality control and it shows. When I was growing up a car with 100k miles on it was pretty much considered done, especially an American car. Now all the major companies, not just the Japanese, are stepping up their game.
 
I will forever swear by late 80's/early 90's imports from Japan. They're basically indestructible. Change the oil regularly, and you're good.
 
Don't you just love the bean-counters with their planned obsolescense? The fit and finish of the products of today are very high. Be it a car, microwave, toaster or desk chair, they look great. For about a year or so, then the shiny wears off and the marketing dept releases pictures (or video) of the next model.

All part of the plan to separate you from your dollars & cents (pounds, shillings and pence).
 
PhantomCruiser said:
Don't you just love the bean-counters with their planned obsolescense? The fit and finish of the products of today are very high. Be it a car, microwave, toaster or desk chair, they look great. For about a year or so, then the shiny wears off and the marketing dept releases pictures (or video) of the next model.

All part of the plan to separate you from your dollars & cents (pounds, shillings and pence).
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I've heard that theory for years and I don't really buy it. Like I said, modern cars last a lot longer than they used to mechanically. I think the difficulty of working on them is driven by efforts to make everything compact and by government safety regulations that mandate adding all sorts of devices and technology you don't really need just to have a working car.

As for finishes, those can be tricky things. But in general if you leave your car out in the hot sun and other weather it won't last as long as if you keep it in a garage.

There's a guy where I work who has a 10-15 year old Chevy suburban and for some reason the roof is rusted, like he parked it on the beach or something. Other trucks, same manufacturer, same time frame, look fine.

In Baltimore there's a chemical plant called Sparrow's Point. I knew someone who worked there, and the story was that if you worked there you had two cars: one for normal family driving, and a beater for driving to work, because sitting in the company parking lot meant your car's finish would get wrecked due to the chemical fallout from the plant.

Glad I don't work in a place like that, imagine what that does to your body after 30 years.
 
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PhantomCruiser said:
Don't you just love the bean-counters with their planned obsolescense? The fit and finish of the products of today are very high. Be it a car, microwave, toaster or desk chair, they look great. For about a year or so, then the shiny wears off and the marketing dept releases pictures (or video) of the next model.

All part of the plan to separate you from your dollars & cents (pounds, shillings and pence).
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Yeah, luckily the EU is not allowing this the too obvious way, otherwise it would be far more extreme. I remember the fuzz some printer companies got here because they had a chip that made sure that you constantly need more resupply than necessary.
 
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Hmm...I just pruned my big silk tree in the back yard, and now my neighbor is following suit.

He's got about a six pack of beer in him, he's standing on the top of the cab of his pick-up truck (because he doesn't have a ladder), and he's trying to cut a 8-inch thick dead branch off his oak tree with a dull-as-hell chainsaw. He's been at it for about 20 minutes, the blade is smoking, and he's only about 1/3rd of the way through the branch. He just stopped to put more gas into it.

I wonder how long it will take him to realize that he's cutting off about 500 lbs of tree limb six feet above his shiny truck.
 
Beats watching the telly.
I assume you have the number of the local hospital ready when the inevitable happens?

N.
 
Notebook said:
Beats watching the telly.
I assume you have the number of the local hospital ready when the inevitable happens?

N.
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Yeah. The guy is going in for hip replacement surgery in a few weeks. I'm thinking that he figures if he breaks a few more bones and other parts that they can fix that in the hospital while they are working on the hip.

If I were a better neighbor and he wasn't such a crotchety prick I'd lend him my ladder and blade sharpener, but I'm not and he isn't.

He's got the chainsaw fired up again! Woo hoo!
 
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