dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️ @ dual_sport_dork @lemmy.world

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Definitely not. Test Drive Unlimited 2 leaps to mind, which while it certainly had racing events and racing related content in it, you could also just drive around doing nothing in particular as much as you wanted.

There are several other racing oriented games that nevertheless had open worlds and you're never actually forced to race anybody in any of them, albeit usually at the expense of sacrificing any game progression and thus having a rather limited vehicle selection. Need For Speed Underground 2 and Forza Horizon, for instance.

You might have crap all wrapped around the axle behind the spool. It's probably worth taking that apart and seeing if it's packed full of weeds.

There probably is, but this is what I mainly use:

https://fsymbols.com/generators/smallcaps/

BoOkMaRkEd, ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀʟᴏɴɢsɪᴅᴇ ᴀʟʟ ᴏғ ᴍʏ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕡𝕚𝕕 f̴͎̠͕̈́̐͠o̸̡̪̼̿͐͐n̴̞͖̒̚̚͜ț̸̺͉̔̐̐ 𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖘!

Or JuSt UsE SpOnGeBoB CaPs!!!

...That's actually really annoying to type, though.

Reading.

Or rather, how so many people seem fear and avoid it, or can't do it. Something like 21% of adults in the US are illiterate, and the majority -- 54% -- read at or below a 6th grade level.

I've been a sight reader probably since I was about six years old. I absolutely cannot look at any words legibly written in my native language and not understand them. You couldn't force me to look at words written in English and not digest them if you held a gun to my head. I fear no wall of text, no matter how tall it is.

It takes some effort to wrap your head around the notion that not only can most people not do this, but statistically speaking most or at least a plurality of people have to struggle or exert conscious effort to read and many of them are loathe to do so. And roughly one in five people simply can't. This did not sink in for me when I was younger.

I can't imagine having to live my life that way. You nerds have seen how much bullshit I write in a day; I'd go absolutely bats.

They're all functionally interchangeable as far as I can tell, but only conceptually and not in the sense that your batteries will fit all the different machines because the manufacturers have seen to it that it doesn't work this way (because fuck you, that's why).

If your machine is dying in minutes the issue is probably that the battery is roached, not the machine. Lithium-whatever batteries do not last forever, and generally the ones in outdoor equipment are not charged or stored with much care, or in ideal temperature conditions, etc.

The secret is to just buy Chinese knockoff off-brand batteries. "But," all the oldheads will cry, "Those are Chinese garbage!"

Yes, they are. But so are the "OEM" batteries. The only real difference is the audacity of the markup; you may as well pay what they're actually worth rather than what your local big box store thinks people ought to believe they're worth. Before you throw away your weedwhacker, get a knockoff battery pack from Aliexpress or Amazon or whatever and give it a shot. Worst case you're out thirty bucks, but the gamble is probably better than buying a whole new weedwhacker.

I have all Ryobi crap, for the most part, because that's where I got roped in initially and that way I only have to stock one kind of battery. I have two genuine batteries that came with my stuff, but all the rest are knockoffs. The knockoffs are everything the genuine batteries are, but 1/6 of the cost. Actually, due to the perpetual slow march of battery tech improvements, one of my knockoffs is legitimately a noticeably higher capacity than my oldest genuine Ryobi batteries were even when they were brand new.

One wonders how much of this is down to the proportion of people on here for whom English is not their first language. I know that I struggle enough to comprehend any other languages which aren't my native one to begin with (i.e. English, in my case) so a lot of subtlety surely flies over my head in those. Can't imagine that situation is much different for others.

I'd need three of those because my yard -- or rather yards -- are three discontinuous chunks.

But then, that may qualify as my own robot army. Hmm...

I convinced my truck drivin', Trump votin', gun totin', beer swillin' redneck neighbor to switch to an electric mower purely because he was envious of my own electric one and how it just runs when you press the button, without fail and every single time. It was actually kind of hilarious.

Yeah, I don't trust the feds with any of my account details for anything. They can fuck right off with that.

It's not like Elon Musk already illegally withdrew $5000 from some guy's bank account on a whim, or anything.

Maybe as part of those 100 new stores they can re-open one of the three around me that they abruptly closed several years ago. One of those was one of their "flagship" stores and had about the same square footage as one of the larger REI locations and seemed to be doing a brisk business right up until the end. So I'm not sure what was up with that. My nearest EMS is now 120+ miles away which is a bit silly if all I need is some chalk or something.

I did score some mega-clearance stuff back then, though. So that was neat. Like a pair of Gore Tex Ascent pants for $15 or thereabouts.

Perhaps the same could be said of all religions...

They are also the only national retailer that sells AR-15’s.

Eh, what? Cabelas/Bass Pro Shops are certainly nationwide.

It was not by my hand that I am once again given flesh. I was called here by humans who wish to pay me tribute.

They're often in disguise.

Yeah, that turned into a Laurel and Hardy skit in short order. "But it's 'lifetime!'"

Uh-huh. You want to bet?

I had their credit card, too, for the simple expedient that you could take the rewards points and cash them out. You can't do that anymore, because you can't cash out membership rewards at all anymore. Which to be frank was the only reason to shop there since the pathologically sell everything at 100% full list price all the time. The dodge was you could get your discount in a roundabout way later by combining your normal membership points with the extra from the card, and then cash it out. Now that the membership points are just more company scrip, this is pointless. You may as well just buy the same stuff from somebody else for less, since there's certainly no longer any ethical benefit to purchasing from REI to make up for paying extra.

Meanwhile, US Bank (the bank which used to issue their credit card before the transition) offers a Visa with precisely the same rewards structure as the old REI card, sans the extra couple of points on specifically REI purchases, which you can likewise cash out. So I just got one of those instead. It seems I wasn't the only one who figured this out, because the CSR I spoke to in the process told me a lot of people were doing the same thing at that time.

Relatedly, never abuse your pizza delivery driver. He has unsupervised access to your food, and he knows where you live.