What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?
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Crucially, that wouldn't be better carried in a van.
Why does that matter though? A van is just as big and heavy with even worse visibility around you.
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Pickup trucks in and of themselves as a concept is fine.
The issue I an many others have with them is that they have grown to large, even here in Sweden we have got infected by American pickup trucks that has their bonnet at the same height as my 2021 Seat Leon's roof.
That is insane.
Get back to the size of 80-90s pickups, and I doubt you'll get a many complaints
Exactly.
The crew cab with a laughable bedsize, hood as tall as the average person, and clearly unused off road tires is what is unreasonable.
A truck actually being used for work is totally fine.
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
Ohh people are aren't going to like this
AI coding, "vibe coding"
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Pickup trucks in and of themselves as a concept is fine.
The issue I an many others have with them is that they have grown to large, even here in Sweden we have got infected by American pickup trucks that has their bonnet at the same height as my 2021 Seat Leon's roof.
That is insane.
Get back to the size of 80-90s pickups, and I doubt you'll get a many complaints
I think those huge American trucks are cool too, but the size is more of an inconvenience than it’s worth, and they stand out and draw too much attention - which is a big reason I didn’t get one. I’m honestly surprised by how much attention even my ’07 mid-size Nissan gets, but luckily it’s all been positive.
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Why not a van? Can typically carry more and keeps it dry.
The number one reason I went with a pickup over a van is that it just looks way better. Vans are boring. But also that my pickup has a 4WD, low-range gear box and a diff lock which vans don't. It also has a camper shell on it so stuff on the bed stays dry too.
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
Steven Universe. The online fandom was insane. The actual show was incredible.
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
Sonic The Hedgehog
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The number one reason I went with a pickup over a van is that it just looks way better. Vans are boring. But also that my pickup has a 4WD, low-range gear box and a diff lock which vans don't. It also has a camper shell on it so stuff on the bed stays dry too.
Hah, you took the one part that makes a truck stand out from a van, and put a box over it making it a bad van!
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
i still think Balan Wonderworld was awesome. the single button controls were refreshing after three decades of controller bloat, the suits felt like a fun evolution of the character switching from LEGO Star Wars, the game is full of weird nooks and crannies that constantly had me thinking "i can't believe they thought of that," and the music and art kick ass. there are definitely areas that could be improved and i think we were all hoping for something more kinetic from Sonic Team alum but it's still ultimately one of the better AAA games in the last few years. i still don't understand the backlash, especially after the crickets Naka's previous and signifigantly worse game Rodea the Sky Soldier got
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Ohh people are aren't going to like this
AI coding, "vibe coding"
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, take the enshittification out and +1.
How many corporate man hours are wasted re-inventing the wheel a bajillion times? Wouldn’t it be awesome if people could do less of that, and do more personal stuff like “make this niche program to cuz I want to, and share it,” or “make a game as a passion project” because the bar to entry isn’t an expensive CS education?
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Ohh people are aren't going to like this
AI coding, "vibe coding"
Vibe coding has a niche, which is people who can read, understand, and debug code, but can't remember the syntax or can't be arsed to write everything manually. It's good for blocking in right now, basically, and that's an entirely valid use of the technology
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Owning a pickup truck is pretty awesome, and I don’t think I’ll ever buy a different type of vehicle again.
Mentioning it online gets hate, but in real life people keep coming up to me, complimenting how nice it looks, asking questions about it, and kids give me thumbs up when I drive by. All of that is just a bonus on top of the fact that I love driving it and the way it looks - and that’s all that really matters.
Speaking as a Texan, I associate the worst of truck driving with “being an ass.” It’s not always true, but man, if someone’s gonna cut me off just to be a jerk, it’s usually a lifted abomination.
This though:
This is fine.
No, it’s magnificent.
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
AI art (and AI in general). The amount of misinformed and outright wrong bullshit that gets levelled at me when I defend AI or point out something false is ludicrous. Almost every single argument against it was levelled at photography a century ago, much of that was levelled at pre-mixed paints before that, and what's left is either flat out wrong, or levelled at the wrong place
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
Silent Hill: Homecoming was the first thing to come to mind.
It's the only one I've really played and I thought it was great. I can understand how the Silent Hill community doesn't like it, but I also believe they're blowing their criticisms out of proportion to fit in with immature tantrum throwers.
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Owning a pickup truck is pretty awesome, and I don’t think I’ll ever buy a different type of vehicle again.
Mentioning it online gets hate, but in real life people keep coming up to me, complimenting how nice it looks, asking questions about it, and kids give me thumbs up when I drive by. All of that is just a bonus on top of the fact that I love driving it and the way it looks - and that’s all that really matters.
Crazy watching you get downvoted for driving a pickup.
Most of the people on these forums live in major cities and don't do any real work with their lives, so it's understandable.
I guess I was mistaken for holding them to a higher standard.
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AI art (and AI in general). The amount of misinformed and outright wrong bullshit that gets levelled at me when I defend AI or point out something false is ludicrous. Almost every single argument against it was levelled at photography a century ago, much of that was levelled at pre-mixed paints before that, and what's left is either flat out wrong, or levelled at the wrong place
wrote last edited by [email protected]Wait but why would someone defend ai art...
Like the only reason I can think of is it maybe makes someone who is lazy feel good about themselves because they make a computer generated picture with zero effort (while stealing from real artists and feeding the megacorp machine) ?
Sorry, this is on the same level of saying "well they denied electricity at first and this is just like that!" Braindead take.
Carry on. (Yes im reinforcing your comment by even replying here, ha!!)
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Yeah, take the enshittification out and +1.
How many corporate man hours are wasted re-inventing the wheel a bajillion times? Wouldn’t it be awesome if people could do less of that, and do more personal stuff like “make this niche program to cuz I want to, and share it,” or “make a game as a passion project” because the bar to entry isn’t an expensive CS education?
How many corporate man hours are wasted re-inventing the wheel a bajillion times? Wouldn’t
Honestly, very little. Unless you're in a "not designed here" environment. There's a lot of open source applications/libraries out there that can be added to your project to get what you need.
But I do agree, vibe coding can be great as long as it's just for one off small projects. Need to do a quick computation or a quick POC and don't want to spend the time setting everything up? Great!
But if you want to build an application that's used by 1000 or even millions and receives regular updates? Please follow best practices / design patterns, etc... otherwise you'll be rewiring the entire codebase every time you want to add a new feature.
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I use it for work so pretty much every single day but that's besides the point. It would be awesome even if I had no need for one.
I was just curious. You mentioned just liking the truck enough that I wondered if it was more fashion or function. Nothing wrong with fashion of course, who wants to drive a vehicle they don't like the look of? I have feelings about efficiency, but that's your wallet, not mine.
I want to get a small truck for my wife (she's always got a project going that would benefit from cargo space) but small trucks are tough to come by these days. I wish Rangers weren't as big as F150s used to be.
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How many corporate man hours are wasted re-inventing the wheel a bajillion times? Wouldn’t
Honestly, very little. Unless you're in a "not designed here" environment. There's a lot of open source applications/libraries out there that can be added to your project to get what you need.
But I do agree, vibe coding can be great as long as it's just for one off small projects. Need to do a quick computation or a quick POC and don't want to spend the time setting everything up? Great!
But if you want to build an application that's used by 1000 or even millions and receives regular updates? Please follow best practices / design patterns, etc... otherwise you'll be rewiring the entire codebase every time you want to add a new feature.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I dunno, my experience is teams of people grinding away designing systems that are likely 95% the same as what several other companies already constructed, if not hundreds. It’s great if they use (much less contribute to) some open library for the functionality, so the wheel doesn’t get re-invented, but how often is that the case?
Of course one doesn’t want to distribute slop. I’m talking more theoretical, especially if more formal code verification becomes standard.
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
I was an early adopter of No Man's Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
