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  1. Does anyone else remember a video game that you personally enjoyed a lot, but not many other people remember very well? For me, Downhill Domination was one of my favorite "Underrated Gem" video games.
     

     

    :ph34r:

    1. Yamato

      Yamato

      Seek and Destroy for PS2.maxresdefault.thumb.jpg.59109b8e3e99f831c08877d7d1ad46f4.jpg

      Look at that cover, man! It's all actiony and American...

      Then there's the actual game.

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      Completely different. Still, it was a great deal of fun. Lots of different tanks with a LOT of customization. The story, silly though it was, actually had several ways it could play out. Doing one mission before another could completely change the other mission and land you with different rewards, which was pretty cool at the time. The only downside for me was on the replayability front. Enemies weren't scaled up for NG+, so the game became laughably easy. It was fine though if you were willing to start a nee game every time.

  2. Going to see the caves down in Hannibal, Missouri today!

  3. Ah man. I was surfing youtube last night and came across some old cash for clunkers videos. That was such a shitty program... So many great cars killed. The mechanics were just doing their job so they shouldn't take the hate. I'm glad some of them got to have fun with some of the old cars before offing them. This video is hilarious:
     

     

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    2. Yamato

      Yamato

      Oh that's fantastic...

    3. Miles

      Miles

      I think that it's an odd example of a car that is not timeless. By that I mean, I get why people think now, in 2017, that it's ugly... But that people in the 1980s thought it looked sharp. There's definitely still a (very) small niche of people who love these, like you and I, but many people think it's a car best left in the past, and I understand both sides.

    4. Yamato

      Yamato

      It really is fantastically hideous, but that's what's so great about it. The continental kit and wood paneling sold me enough, then it started talking...

       

      Imma have to teach my Lexus to do that.

  4. These FSL Zinc Zn30's sound really freaking great for their price. If I tried them in a blind test I'd assume they were 40 or 50 dollar earbuds, honestly. I can't say anything about durability though because I just got them. I initially got them for on-the-go travel earbuds, but seeing as these sound almost as good as my 60 dollar Sony's, I'll probably just use my JLab JBuds2's for travel, which are also pretty good but are a little too high on treble for my tinnitus-ringing ears for multiple hours of listening at home. But yeah, I totally recommend these:

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F61DLYU/ 

    Oh, and while I'm recommending stuff, these rechargeable AA's are great:



    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N9AZC5Y/

  5. How to tell everyone that you are a complete douchebag and ruin a muscle car at the same time:

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    1. Yamato

      Yamato

      Actually saw a Challenger like that today.

    2. Clod

      Clod

      I'm no car expert but even I know this is disgusting.

  6. To be honest, the majority of pictures are just regular old tractors with either diesel or gas engines. There are multiple pictures of oil pull threshers in there, but overall there weren't as many as we originally expected to see. But nevertheless, I'm sure you'll love the pictures anyway. There are some rare gems in there for sure. I was in bliss the entire time I was there. Oh how badly my father and I want to have one of those Ford 8N tractors (light grey body, red chassis)! The Ford that was painted maroon-ish/burgundy-ish red was my favorite, though. To turn a simplistic tractor into something that looks sleek and elegant without making it seem hoity-toity (or posh) is brilliant. Yeah, it generates steam using the oil, and the steam powers the belt (as well as the rear wheels when the transmission is in gear). It's quite similar to locomotives of its time. Steam powered trains and tractors were a really big deal. Do note that I corrected the caption for the picture above. However, my explanation is still correct as to how it works, I just initially typed the wrong name; that is an Advance Rumely not, an Oil Pull - but there are a couple of Oil Pulls in the photos. --- For most of the photos my dad and I took, it should probably be easy to tell what kind of tractor you are looking at in the photos. However, I don't have in-depth information to give. So, I'd gladly accept positive comments any of you may have, but I won't be able to answer specific questions about the tractors such as their model year, their horsepower, and their torque.
  7. Yeah, it generates steam using the oil, and the steam powers the belt (as well as the rear wheels when the transmission is in gear). It's quite similar to locomotives of its time. Steam powered trains and tractors were a really big deal. Yeah, zipped folders might not be too mobile friendly. Nice! We don't have any classic/antique tractors, just a late '90s or early '00s Cub Cadet 7205 with a 21hp Mitsubishi diesel engine.
  8. I made a new blog about the Western IL Threshers show my father and I went to yesterday - There are tons of photos! Go and check them out! Feel free to comment anything you want, even old stories if you have any. 

    Has it become obvious why Applejack is my favorite pony yet? :icwudt:

    Initially, I posted a thread in General, but it was closed as the mod thought it wouldn't generate enough discussion, which I understand. But I hope to see at least a few people looking at the photos and commenting! Feel free to post photos of your own (or your family's) tractors and such, as well!

  9. Hmmm... You know, I've always thought your name was one of the coolest ones here.

  10. I totally agree... --- I'm still pretty much sticking to the same stuff I posted about 2 or 3 years ago in this thread when it comes to Spring/Summer clothes. T-shirts (typically with logos but sometimes plain), and cargo shorts (usually tan) or jeans (typically faded black) in moderate to warm weather... I just got a new shirt that I really love from Le Claire, Iowa after visiting the American Pickers' store a couple weeks ago. It's kind of an earthy pastel green with a picture of a old Land Cruiser (though the front end looks like a Jeep but it's just a "clip art" style picture) with the words "Less People - More Life On Two Lanes - Made In USA" on it. For Fall/Winter when it's colder, although I love flannels as I've said before, I don't currently have any that fit me so I'll probably need to buy some more (most of my old ones were so worn out they were getting holes and had to be thrown out). Typically anymore I just throw on either a field jacket or a zippered hoodie over my T-shirt, and I'm usually always wearing jeans (faded black) or some of my army green sweatpants from IIRC I think American Eagle or Aeropostale - I don't remember. Oh, and as always... I have a ball cap on my head 90% of the time. It's either a CAT or Ford cap.
  11. Boxer-briefs, the in-between answer. BUT NOT JUST ANY BRAND, specifically Joe Boxer boxer-briefs. Unfortunately, I think K-Mart stopped selling the type that I like (pure or mostly pure cotton, and zero spandex or anything similar).
  12. It varies greatly depending on whether or not I have to get up early the next day, and how much physical activity I endured during the daytime. Anywhere between Midnight and 6:00 AM. Lately it's been between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM.
  13. I'm from central Illinois, in the Spoon River area. My hometown has a population of about 2500 or so people. Our town is surrounded by corn and beans everywhere (and basically every surrounding town in this county as well as the towns in surrounding counties). I quite enjoy the small town life in a city dominated by agriculture. Our community is quaint and rustic, and at least 70% of the people here drive pick-up trucks (or so it seems). It's normal to see tractors and other large agricultural equipment driving on main street. My parents and I live in town but we have somewhere between 6 to 8 acres of land out of town out in the country where my mother has a horse, and a miniature donkey. In fields next to our land we often see someone flying a crop duster (small aeroplane) over crops. We can go out there in the dark of night to view the stars with basically zero ambient light, and that is an incredible thing to see if you've only seen the sky from a city where there are streetlights and such everywhere.
  14. Yesterday, my father and I went to see the Western Illinois Threshers Inc. 50th Annual Show in Hamilton, IL. There were many old tractors, a couple oil pull threshers, some garden tractors, some automobiles, and a few Mack trucks. This website describes it more in depth: http://www.westernillinoisthreshers.org/Here is an Oil Pull thresher/tractor (being used to turn the belt for a sawmill that is outside of the picture). CORRECTION: This is an Advance Rumely steam tractor/thresher (being used to turn the belt for a sawmill).* I had been looking at the actual Oil Pulls in the rest of my photos and accidentally typed the incorrect information for this particular tractor in this photo. Anyway, I may as well also add that "thresher" is a name given to tractors that can be used to "thresh" wheat from the hay - "thresh: to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine." If you want to look at a plethora of pictures of old tractors, download this .zip file I uploaded here: Threshers_at_Hamilton_IL_8-4-17.zip Backup link on Dropbox just in case: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uywtb77pdpzzwjw/Threshers at Hamilton IL 8-4-17.zip
  15. *Sigh* You know... 2 or 3 years ago the topic I created would have brought in boat-load of discussion. I almost thought about complaining that my topic would still bring discussion. But then I realized what this site has come to these days, and figured that you're probably right. Oh well. You win some you lose some. :maud:

  16. Yesterday, my father and I went to see the Western Illinois Threshers Inc. 50th Annual Show in Hamilton, IL. There were many old tractors, a couple oil pull threshers, some garden tractors, some automobiles, and a few Mack trucks. This website describes it more in depth: http://www.westernillinoisthreshers.org/ Here is an oil pull thresher/tractor (being used to turn the belt for a sawmill that is outside of the picture). If you want to look at a plethora of pictures of old tractors, download this .zip file I uploaded here: Threshers at Hamilton IL 8-4-17.zip Backup link on Dropbox just in case: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uywtb77pdpzzwjw/Threshers at Hamilton IL 8-4-17.zip
  17. "You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."

    - Jonathan Davis, KoЯn

  18. So apparently my cat Louie is a total Badass:

    I know it may sound biased coming from me, his owner, but my cat is the most docile, super chill, loving, and nonchalant cat (around humans) I have ever seen. He's both an indoor *and* outdoor cat, and likes to love up to almost every human that comes near him, especially my mom, myself, and my dad. He likes to "talk" (meow) a lot if he wants attention, too.

    However, when he deems it necessary, he takes on a completely different attitude. If we're outside with him and a stray animal (or someone else's unknown pet) comes nearby, he becomes fully territorial [of our area] and relentlessly protective [of us].

    Today, my mother was outside picking weeds around our weeping crabapple tree near the street, and a woman's dog had apparently gotten loose from her grasp on the leash (or possibly just wasn't leashed anyway). I was inside so I didn't see this happen, but my mother says that, as the dog was walking on the sidewalk across the road, it saw my mother and started to bark at her and "bounce" towards her. Louie had been sitting or lying near my mother, and when the dog (a full grown Labrador) started doing that, Louie jumped up and bolted at him like a tiger, throwing paws and claws and screaming like beast. He was absolutely intending to destroy that dog if he needed to. Luckily for its own sake, my mother immediately yelled at this woman to grab her dog. The owner mistakenly thought my mother asked this because she was afraid the dog would hurt the cat, but my mother quickly replied that no, she was afraid our cat would claw that dog a new face. The woman quickly realized her dog had just pissed off the wrong cat, and grabbed it and started to walk away, looking backwards at my cat every few steps in awe of him and his courageous behavior.

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    1. Once In A Blue Moon

      Once In A Blue Moon

      My cat Archie had an epiphany when he realised that our dogs (Labradors as well) were terrible cowards, although thankfully unlike another of the cats he didn't start to bully them* - rather, he just ignored them when they tried to chase him or other such antics that would earn a slap from the other cat. Friendly though he is, I don't get the impression he'd lift so much as a paw to protect me - too busy fixating on catching birds (as opposed to the rodents that he's supposed to be after.)

      What is more concerning is his complete lack of fear of horses; he will sit in the middle of the yard and expect them to walk around him - and so far they have.


      *said cat is the reason that the local fox now avoids going too near our barn.

    2. Fluttershy Friend

      Fluttershy Friend

      My cat is terrorizing only flies and spiders. But he is good at it. True flies serial killer.:D

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    Hahaha, he's so on point. I can't imagine having people sing "Love Shack" to me day in and day out because of the car I'm driving.



    ^_^

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    2. Yamato

      Yamato

      That ES300 tho

    3. Miles

      Miles

      Yeah man, I know. I know...

    4. Yamato

      Yamato

      The Camry trying to pretend it's something it isn't...

  20. I tried the (kind of) new Pepsi Fire out. I didn't know what it really was when I bought it. To me, it gave the implication that it was spicy like hot peppers, so maybe it had some kind of pepper extract. I was wrong, as it's cinnamon. That's cool I guess, but why call it Fire then? I'm not big on cinnamon (and really I'm not a Pepsi guy to begin with), so I didn't really like it. I didn't waste it, though; I drank it anyway. But I won't be getting any more.

    1. Fluttershy Friend

      Fluttershy Friend

      Your reaction after drink was?:

      1.:orly:

      2.:pinkie:

      3.:eww:

    2. CheeryFox

      CheeryFox

      I agree. It sounds like gimmick city. I wish it was hot peppers, lol. Maybe a flavor in Japon. :P

    3. Miles

      Miles

      @Fluttershy Friend 4. :maud:

      @Stormfury Yeah, I was hoping for Cayenne Pepper flavored Pepsi (it's not super spicy, but moderate, and tbh it's the best tasting pepper of most hot sauces I've tried). Lmao, Japan has all the weirdest stuff:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Kats_in_Japan

      I would LOVE to try sweet potato Kit-Kats!

  21. I've spent far too many hours of daydreaming in my life on subjects like this, and other similar ones. But you see, I just have too much of an emotional attachment to my parents, family, and friends to give a legitimate answer to this question as it stands. That isn't to say I wouldn't enjoy temporary time travel - I mean, who could honestly say no to temporary time travel (on the predetermined basis that it is 100% proven and safe, and with 100% ability to come back to the exact time at which you left)? Despite all the times I have considered myself to have more in common with people 10 to 20 years older than I am (traditional values, a deep love for simplicity, and an inherent respect for property of any kind regardless of what it is, among other things)... I would never dare to say that I wish I were born as a Gen X instead of a Gen Y, because even considering some of the bad things I've had in my life, the good things outweigh everything else tenfold. Nonetheless, I will still give a hypothetical answer to OP's question... I know that this may sound like a ridiculously corny, and possibly materialistic reason, but in all honesty, I do not feel that it should be viewed as such - I would have loved to have been able to see some of my favorite grunge bands [in person] performing concerts while they were still putting albums out, namely Nirvana, but probably also Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and so on (ergo, I would have loved to have been a young adult in the early 90's, which would mean I'd have been born in the late 70's). It is unfortunate that there is somewhat of a negative stigma attached to people who listen to grunge music. I don't listen to it because I want to be different; I don't listen to it because I'm depressed; I don't listen to it because I'm trying to be counter-culture... No, none of that. I listen to grunge because I just love it, plain and simply. It strums just the right chord inside me, and pulls me in. I'm not saying the genre itself doesn't have some elements that make it seem depressing, or make it seem like it's trying to be counter-culture, but regardless of that, it comes down to the individual and how they interpret the music. Anyway, I wouldn't change my birthdate, but if I were to be able to time travel safely and with the ability to return to my current present time, I would go back to see the beginning of the grunge genre in person. Furthermore, to give additional reasons as to why I would have liked to enjoy the 90's as a young adult (and I swear I am trying to say this in the most objective manner as I can), the 90's were undeniably the "Calm Before the Storm" turning point of society and technology. By then, car manufacturers were finally learning how to build cars that satisfied both the government and the people; safety and efficiency standards were becoming achievable without dissatisfying consumers with under-powered engines and notoriously over-utilitarian designs (albeit, Japanese Imports were nearly a decade ahead of American vehicles in the 90's, although we caught back up by the turn of the century). Music was still listened to via Boombox for the most part, but portable cassette tape players would be just coming out and would soon gain popularity quite quickly. MTV still aired music that could quench the majority of peoples' tastes. While still essentially rivals within the government, Democrats and Republicans (and most others) could still speak to each other calmly in person and/or in public without screaming at each other and wanting to rip each others' throats out. The advent of the Internet as we know it now had not yet come to light, and cell phones were larger than bricks so not too many people used them. Terrorism was probably one of the last things on our mind, even bearing in mind the attempted attack in '93. Our society as a whole was mature enough shrug off comedy we thought was distasteful or offensive, rather than being triggered into acting like someone just pissed all over their KIA'd grandfather's grave. (At least from an American standpoint) The 90's really were a great decade to live through because society wasn't as chaotic and hateful as we are now, and people still lived their lives as themselves in person without relying on an ever evolving alias, and without being hidden with the cloak of anonymity. We as a whole were happy... were content... and were hopeful with what we thought we would see in the near future, because - excluding the silly Y2K scare - we expected the first decade of the 21st century to be a continuation of what we saw in the 90's, but better, as we expected major breakthroughs in technology that would make the 00's a happier and more advanced version of the 90's. While we did indeed get to have almost all those major technological breakthroughs pretty much come to light, we never expected what the 00's actually brought us. So, that is why I would have liked to have experienced the 90's as a young adult: we were moving forward without taking two steps back, and our outlook on the future was mostly positive as we walked next to our friends... of whom some may have had polar opposite political views, but we didn't care. Vietnam was 15 years in the past and we were finally feeling stable again. We lived life simply, and one of our biggest worries was merely about what SPF of sunscreen to buy. We felt as though we had our lives in control. And well, we did... Until September 11, 2001. That was beginning of an ultimately unpredictable society. A new hell was born, as we finally had our lucky streak of breaking the wishbone in equal halves taken away from us.
  22. My parents and I are taking a little road trip today. We're going see the American Pickers shop (Antique Archaeology) in Saint Claire, Iowa. :)

    1. Miles

      Miles

      *Saint Le Claire, that is.

    2. Fluttershy Friend

      Fluttershy Friend

      Sounds very intersting (at least for me). Are you going to buy something or rather only see?

    3. Miles

      Miles

      We just went to sight see, but I did get a T-shirt there. We went to a plethora of other little shops in the town, too, not just the Pickers shop. It was fun. Though it's quite uncomfortable trying to cram 3 adults into an '89 Camaro for an approximately 300 mile round-trip. It's our "Show Car" that doesn't get driven much, so we decided to take it on the trip since it's mid-summer. I had just changed the oil in it yesterday, too (which is a pain since the car is so damn low to the ground, and that makes getting it high enough with a jack stand to crawl underneath pretty difficult).

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    TFW When your favorite auto parts store's website is down for maintenance:

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    :P

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