Bulldrek v3.0

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If only. I actually think about this story...every week? Every few days? I have so many ideas, but so little time!

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I consider it a good sign that this remains 7 of my currently open browser tabs, so while I haven't added to it, I also haven't archived it.

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That's my thinking. Similar case to "[Fiction] Old Dogs of War Redux - Peter + Marita".

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I hope no one complains to the management that this stuff really belongs in Artistic License. No one goes to Artistic License, Karen, all the traffic is to The Game's the Thing. There hasn't been a post in Artistic License since 2012, Karen, so why don't you go back to harassing black people at Targ...

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Deke was born in 2049, though he didn't know until he was tested for entry in Combat Bike. "Why would I care?" he asks me, when I question why he didn't ever try to find out before then. "We don't do birthdays in the Playground." 2049 was a simpler time, people would say now, bec...

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Much has been written about the Great Ghost Dance. About its heroism, about its great achievements. Less has been written about the horror that followed. In our collective guilt for centuries of nightmares, horrific acts and prolonged torments, we see through different eyes than were opened on that ...

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Much has been written about the Great Ghost Dance. About its heroism, about its great achievements. How a single man (our civilization's hero narratives don't love ensemble casts) stood up against the forces of the United States government and its Mighty Military Machine. We all know the narrative: ...

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Well, see, now you have to keep reading to find out.

There's "unreliable narrator", and then there's what's happening here, which is a whole other level of fuckery.

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The plan for years had been to just hold it exactly how it was, but holy shit spam control was a real problem, and security became an increasing issue. I looked at making it a static archive, but that comes with a huge variety of challenges all its own. Fortunately, there was still an upgrade path f...

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DV8 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:18 am It seems like after the first four years of your car's technical lifespan have come and gone they seem to just become this massive money sink.

And this bullshit hot take has only gotten more hilarious with age.

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Now on my eighth year with the latest Cherokee. Six years since I had the doors on. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLVUQFA2tQeZ4fTdE30H9s6ouQw5s7NFeZ3Le_tug8CP2NQW6CsskokzlX3zgt-jZm158Ge21sdNeWuRgufeVEMXriPT9mPX9PSd2kHAQnlAZOZDqtBvKpu-hBq0-Pzzv-OERwXqJrF0ChWJEpW3OwNHuQ=w882-h588-no Two yea...

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Ironically, a year of plague would have been a very reasonable period to have something like Bulldrek to fill the time, but alas it was rather badly broken at the time. Control seems to have sorted all that, though.

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There was nothing for it but to start over. Editing can only cover so much: the whole point of trid is that it's like being there, and the more you cut the less the audience feels. It's all about feels, you know. My producer gave me the nod, so I asked Deke - just Deke - if he was all good. He stare...

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One last note, before we begin: it is important to remember that these are children. If you keep one thing foremost in your mind, let it be that. You will hear about gruesome killings. There will be accounts of the volume of blood a single troll can produce, and the color of the mud that forms when ...

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This left me with a conundrum. As a human, as a citizen of the UCAS, as an employee (however indirectly) of MCT, it was my responsibility to make his story heard. But despite my years as a corporate stooge, spoon-feeding pablum to the masses, I remain enough of an iconoclast to consider myself a jou...

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Jizz!

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After the interview, when it became clear what we were dealing with - and why, of all people, it was I he'd requested to do the interview - we tried to confirm what he'd told us, naturally. But they were all gone. We couldn't find a single person from the Playground, from those days. He was right: e...

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He didn't know his age until the Combat Biker docs had him tested to make sure he met the league minimum. That's uncommon in other sports, where a system identification number is a requirement, but Combat Biker's, shall we say, more renegade history means that no small number of recruits every year ...

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Of course there's a trid component to the interview. You can't just sit with a three-time Combat Biker Most Valuable MFer of the Year™ and do a print piece, however long, however detailed, however much your corporate ownership is the same as his. (This disclosure statement brought to you by MCT Medi...

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"That's drek. There ain't karma," he said, and unselfconsciously spit on the carpet. We had only met a few minutes earlier, and I was still wary of angering the chipped monster sitting across from me in the ten-thousand-nuyen Nouveau Américain chair like a pit bull at the helm of a Classiq...

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It doesn't seem like it, does it?

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Naturally, I'll have my character done sometime this week.

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Tears

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I'm quite curious to know how I'd have scored then, and how everyone else would score now, and how those have changed.

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Economic Left/Right: -1.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.46

That makes me about as much of a leftist as SeriousPaul, and about as anti-establishment as Scamp. I'm down with that.

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Union

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Jeff's supposed to be running a game's OOC thread here. But he isn't.

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It would help if I could just focus on one page at a time, but I keep seeing one thing here, and fixing that, and then another thing here, and fixing that... Still, making progress.

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Basically, when we're all done, everything should be the new, larger, size, but should automatically scale to your screen. The current layout is all fixed widths, and everything's controlled to the pixel, because I didn't know what I was doing and I was a control freak. [It's literally the name of t...

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Started work on a few modernizations. Not all pages are complete. Um, posting, for example, is pretty spectacularly wrong, for a reason that's not immediately clear to me. So put that on the list.

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Yeah, I'm torn between doing it right and just throwing the doors back on with bolts and dealing with it later, since I've only got three weeks, and the entire house needs packed up. I may just get them on there, no shims or anything, just enough to be doors, and then deal with it once I get up ther...

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If nothing else, you might at least be able to get enough business to pay for the hobby of owning the machines. I'd mentioned before the custom aluminum engine covers some guy was making for Audis, and virtually every automotive community has needs like this, that basically boil down to bending and ...

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Damn, that is tragic. As sorry as I am to see her go, and for you to have to lose her, I'm glad you knew how and when to make the right decision. She had a hell of a good life, though, with people and dogs who loved her; a pup can't really ask for anything more out of life than she got. Which isn't ...

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZVcHOB9G3Es/V2_TVtwklFI/AAAAAAAAvZk/HPPQIvUT1m4oKV19CJ9UL33H3o3pQkRmACCo/s800/IMG_20160626_083155.jpg How much Jeep is too little Jeep? Next step: remove hatch; remove rear side windows; install roll cage; remove roof. Still debating whether or not to re-install t...

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It's probably not surprising how much time I spend driving the Jeep in the wilderness, imagining I'm one of the last humans on Earth.

If Mad Max is what happens in Australia, what's the Canadian version? Polite Pete: Within the Timberline?

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Hell, yes.

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Is it possible that the persistent redshift we see wherever we look into the universe, which is statistically greater the greater the distance the object is from us, is not from expansion, but from a property of spacetime that acts to decelerate objects with mass, such as the "resistance" ...

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1500 miles on the new shaft so far, and no problems. Still would like to shim the rear axle, but that takes time and money.

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Driveshaft in, no problems. Seems a little short - like, a quarter inch - compared to the old one, but Tom Woods doesn't make mistakes, and my measurements were pretty solid, so I'm reasonably confident. Brief test drive went fine, except the transfer case wanted to be between gears; definitely need...

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Now that I think about it, I skipped the part of the story where I sheared off all three passenger-side engine mount bolts, power-sliding into my driveway one night. Without realizing it. And then drove it like that for another couple weeks, 70+ on the expressway everyday, with half the engine resti...

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Did it again . Just looking at the part from a physics perspective, I don't understand how this has happened. This will be the second double cardan joint I've replaced in a few years; I've replaced the rear pinion u-joint three times. So after I've gotten this double cardan repaired and the Jeep dr...

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That's something I've slipped on, too, is water. We used to keep 3-5 gallons on hand, because we used them to water some of our more delicate animals, but they just get tap water now, so we don't have piles of full gallons on the shelves. Like Joseph, we do have a water filter and two different type...

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IF you can work with the yoke separate from the unit... My hope, if I can pull the yoke, is to totally replace it, but I've got to get an air impact [easy], a 1-1/4 inch socket, and a torque wrench good to 200 ft/lbs. But that's what I'd really like to do, as it would eliminate the problem and give...

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I've installed the relays for the high and low beams, and shrink-wrapped the connections to hopefully make them a little more weatherproof. I installed a new heater blower, but that's not the only problem with that system: much like the headlights, as the system ages and resistances increase, switch...

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Fucking heat shrink won't arrive until Friday, but other than that, I now have all the parts to fix: 1. Headlights 2. Transfer case linkage 3. Front driveshaft 4. Turn signal 5. Heater fan 6. Fender Not bad. That's everything but fixing the driver door, which is way less important. Should be 80 perc...

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Were you able to check the circuit and see how it performs in contrast to the faulty circuit? Other than to double-check that it turns the lights on, no. :) Do you know the specific thread size? I have taps/dies, but want to make sure we have the correct size. The bolt is a Spicer 231401, so it sho...

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So I bought a replacement for one of the relays, except the harness uses some janky weird relay style that isn't a standard Bosch, so I either have to shell out another 20 bucks on a pack of these weird relays, or rebuild the harness completely and use standard relays, which means shelling out 40 b...

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Bought all the supplies to rewire the headlight relays with high-quality automotive relays, including probably the next two or three years of soldering supplies, and a nice new temperature-controlled soldering iron and brass sponge and stand. Also bought the new blower motor. Still need to buy a new...

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Oh, yeah, that'll do it. Probably not worth trying to swap a new engine into, either, I would guess, depending on how much the car's worth. Academic, really: if you can't pay the payments, you sure as hell can't pay for the repair. ;) There's a guy here at work that blew the engine on his Subaru Imp...

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But I can't imagine the additive being Bone's problem, either. Loose drain plug?

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