Jump to content

Guadaloopy

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    10942
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Guadaloopy

  1. My first post today. NoName fits your meme better.
  2. Fuck outta here with this. A lot has changed in the last three and a half years since I bought it.
  3. But that's not what I have been doing. I'm not touting Tesla as some model of reliability. I've simply been saying that their quality issues are not unique in the industry. That's it. Yep.. I missed Buick ahead of Tesla there. My bad. Doesn't change my overall point, though. Tesla is not uniquely bad with quality issues, despite the fact that they have only been manufacturing vehicles at large scale for less than a decade.
  4. LOL all you want, but I have a car that drives itself. I enjoy it. It has had a continuously improving level of self-driving features since I purchased it over three years ago. Latest update with v 12.3.1 is impressive.
  5. That was only part of the calculus that went into my decision. The main factor is that I wanted to support the development of self-driving technology and experience it firsthand.
  6. I didn't say American-made. I said American manufacturer. I posted a link to the latest Consumer Reports rating that has them in the middle of the pack and ahead of the big three, considerably. People in this thread continually throw Tesla under the bus a if it is a unique outlier in build quality in reliability, and it's just not true.
  7. I feel like I should start inoculating my commentary with the following two standing statements: 1. Musk has revealed himself to be an incredible piece of shit. I used to be ambivalent about him, but find myself more and more in the camp that he just needs to shut up and go away. 2. The Cybertruck is a terrible hunk of shit from concept to execution. That said, here goes... Tesla has earned a lot of scrutiny with their quality issues, but let's not pretend that they are unique in the industry: Toyota Prius Ford F-150 Chevy Camaro My Volvo XC90 has been in the shop twice in two years to replace a known quality issue with the electric heating element. For 2024, Consumer Reports has Tesla as the highest rated American auto manufacturer for reliability. Tesla gets the extra scrutiny because it has revolutionized the auto industry and people are very interested in what the company does, and people generally dislike Musk.
  8. Framber leading the league in DPs induced.
  9. Yes... GOTW is subject to BO restrictions/
  10. NL: Padres over, Phillies under AL: Detroit over, A's under
  11. Aren't all bridge accidents essentially man-made?
  12. Started watching this last night. These shows were well after my time. I was barely plugged in for the early days of YCDTOT. There was definitely a lot of skeevy shit going on, but some of the stuff they highlighted was a stretch. Like saying that that big nose character had a cock and balls on the shoulders of his costume and that that the giant sneeze was a cumshot joke. It was a snot joke - something kids find hilarious. But I guess you don't earn any benefit of the doubt when you're a shit person. When you prove yourself to be a huge perv, everything you did gets interpreted through that perv lens. I did laugh at Ray Romano hungrily stroking a pickle that was passed through a glory hole. Probably shouldn't have been on a kids' show, though.
  13. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
  14. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
  15. She's the character that makes the least sense in the series adaptation. She's a partial analog for the main character in the first book, Wang Miao. The problem is that they split Wang Miao's story between two characters, Auggie and Jen. In the book, he is the materials scientist and he is the one who helps Da Shi investigate the scientist suicides and is also "Copernicus" in the 3 Body game who solves the game and is invited to the summit for Ye Wenjie's organization. In this series, Auggie only functions to give us a reveal of the countdown and to provide Chekov's nanofibers. They also saddled her with the overactive moral conscience for the group, which was pretty unnecessary and uninteresting considering the level of threat they are faced with. The good news is that Wang Miao completely disappears after the first book, so we are likely done with Auggie.
  16. Yes. Book one. About 90% of the way through. It led to the big reveal about sophons, etc. BTW... I like the change to "San-Ti" from "Trisolarans." I always felt that was a dumb name for them.
  17. Yes. The reasoning for that method of “attack” is more thoroughly fleshed out in the book
  18. Ghost Corps did Afterlife, too.
  19. Correa the younger with a Crawford Box special.
×
×
  • Create New...