#Lift engineer

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Twisted T-Bug, 2025. The British off-road specialists have created a restomod Volkswagen Beetle in the style of the Baja Beetles of the 60s and 70s. Modifications include new LED headlamps, raised heavy-duty suspension, increased engine power (still only 80hp) and upgraded interior trim. There's no indication yet of how much the T-Bug will cost

[frenchoniontf2]

DO YOU GUYS FW FRED CONAGHER?!?!

HE LOOKS AWESOME!!! RAHHHHHH!!!! pls give him lots of love and kisses ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ MWAHMWHAMWAHMWAH

[soundleer]

Would Tunner act if someone take Jevin from him?

(can you draw it...)

i imagine that regardless of what reason that person took jevin for, tunner won't hesitate to take action especially if jevin was expressing subtle discomfort.

though at most, i like to think tunner will just carry jevin and relocate somewhere else together. he'll just make firm warnings and only blast someone between their eyes as a last resort

he doesn't take that kindly :))

[radarsteddybear]

My dear Captain Hastings,

Here you see me in front of London’s most magnificent Tower Bridge. Does Argentina have such magnificent bridges? Perhaps those who live in the Argentine must travel to London to see such greatness. Of course, those of us who live in London have the pleasure of seeing it tout le temps. Ah, to be so lucky.

Yours truly,

Hercule Poirot

[skyriderwednesday]

Rusty is maybe just a little bit short for this configuration of a celebratory hug...

But anyway they won a race together yayyyyyyy

[melchinafan]

SKILL UNLOCKED, KNITTING ABILITY LEVELED UP

So I've been knitting a fair bit as of late, all sorts of shenanigans and funky little things and a thousand fancy plans. Only some stuff finished thus far, but a fair bit of learning new building blocks going on.

And in a fit of pique while trying to get some ridiculously tiny dense pointy picots out of a purlwise cable cast on base, being mad that my normal purling (wrapping the yarn counter-clockwise) made the yarn have to cross SO FAR to get back up to the needle, I just...crossed the yarn up clockwise instead, and it was so much better. Distracted from the picot situation by how well it worked, I wondered why it's not the norm, did a quick search, and...

Found I had accidentally stumbled upon combination knitting? Which (for flat stockinette and the like) involves purling clockwise, and then knitting through the back loop to untwist those stitches. And it has FIXED my purl tension! The left side of my flat stockinette no longer gains a giant, sad loop! (Hell, I think that selvedge might even be neater than the right side now.) And I still don't necessarily like knitting ribbing, or how it looks vs. other, funkier options. But a quick test of normal vs. combination ribs side-by-side? Hot damn, that combo rib looks GOOD.

...Now, to get back to seeing if I can wrangle those picots to do what I want, without resorting to smaller needles...

[athenasdragon]

In thinking about how the Dragon Age games have changed since Origins, I’ve been thinking about genre conventions and the inspirations for the series.

Dragon Age: Origins is very very heavily lifted from Dungeons & Dragons, and my impression is that this is because Baldur’s Gate was a big inspiration. I think it’s especially obvious when you open up your character profile. Like that is straight up a d&d character sheet. You can map the d&d classes onto the DA:O subclasses too (e.g. some of the warrior subclasses are champion [classic fighter], templar [paladin], and berserker [barbarian]). The heavy focus on tactics and the top-down combat option also evoke TTRPGs to me.

And of course, because we’re existing in the genre tradition here, we have a lot drawn from the Lord of the Rings as well. Darkspawn/Orcs are an unambiguously evil species that exists just to cause destruction! Humans are the predominant species, but we have nature-connected elves and subterranean dwarves! Our story takes place in among the ruins of a past civilization that existed in a distant age! We’ve got themes of history and faith and a little fellowship going on a journey to defeat an evil dragon.

So with that in mind, we have a pretty straight up and down medieval-inspired dark fantasy. It follows so closely in this tradition that we even see the writers struggling to break out of molds that they explicitly set out to avoid—for example, certain gender politics.

I really think the character who starts to break that is Varric. Not only is he a well-known author (requires not just widespread printing but widespread literacy and reading for fun—now we’re talking much more recent history in our world) but he’s writing (Kirkwall-flavored) hard-boiled detective fiction, which is explicitly an American* post-WWI tradition. This is a genre that explores the gritty reality of life in cities, interpersonal and systemic violence, and often positions a lone morally grey hero in small-scale opposition to those larger forces. Kirkwall (and DA2) isn’t a bad place to add that flavor.

Inquisition starts to feel more 20th century to me as well. We’ve got international espionage and geopolitics. We’ve got anxieties of a dramatic apocalypse brought about by man’s hubris. We’ve got, effectively, some variety of civil rights movement for both elves and mages.

What really got me thinking about this is that Neve and Lucanis feel like they’re some the same genre to me: the jaded, brilliant, but somewhat poorly-upkept big city detective and the heir-apparent of a powerful mafia family caught up by a betrayal both feel very interwar noir imo. Emmrich’s look is also SO 1930s. I can only speak for myself but I think that’s where a lot of the change in “vibe” can be traced.

It feels to me like Varric’s narration of the series has tugged the story itself into the genre he exists in.

Anyway, whether you wish the series stayed more straight up and down sword and sorcery or like the direction it chose to establish itself, I think it’s interesting to think about!

* I might ramble about how deeply North American the geography of Thedas is another time lol

[wolfram-but-art]

[I take your engineer.

Well, try to. Since he is a fully grown 5'7 man and I am 5'3. I don't get very far with him.]

if you were to just ask to hang out, i'm sure this would've gone a lot easier, but whatever you wanna do

[lululovesprongs]

why kys when you can just watch f1 and reach the same results🤩🤩🤩🤩

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Porsche 911 Safari Sportsman Package, 2022,  by Russell Built Fabrications. An off-road conversion kit for 964 series 911 models that provides 10” of wheel travel, 2” of lengthened wheelbase, raised ground clearance and a widened track. The kit pays homage to the Porsche's participation in the Safari Rallies of the 1970s and uses Russell Built's NORRA Baja 500 class winning off road suspension

[lonestarflight]

"Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser full-scale engineering test article has been readied for shipment to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California for phase two of the flight test campaign that will be conducted later in 2016 in coordination with Edwards Air Force Base. Dream Chaser program upgrades and initial hardware testing were completed at the Louisville, Colorado spacecraft assembly facility, and within the next several weeks, the same Dream Chaser vehicle that conducted the company’s flight test in 2013 will arrive at Armstrong. SNC and Armstrong will begin a series of pre-flight ground evaluations to verify and validate the vehicle’s system and subsystem designs. After successful completion of all ground testing, Dream Chaser will begin its phase two free-flight test. These activities are being conducted through the company’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capabilities Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program."

Date: July 28, 2016

NASA ID: KSC-20160728-PH_SNC01_0001

[tokyoliftbracket]

Engine Eberhardt [wiki page]

Original Shadows player for the Lift

Joined active play in s14

Was traded back and forth with the Steaks several times

Inky Rutledge [wiki page]

Original player for the Magic

Played for the Lift s18-21

[quatregats]

Nothing worse than reading about something and thinking "Hornblower would probably be fascinated by this" like why am I in his head get me out of here

[wonderfulworlddownthere]

The Falkirk Wheel, Falkirk, Scotland

[ficandkaboodle]

Ghost Does Mardi Gras: Them Other Funny Fellas, Part 1: Nihil

Nihil: Krewe of Tucks

Okay so Tucks is a different kind of funny from the crude satire of Vieux and d’Etat. For one, they have a signature throw. The throw is plungers:

For another, they do have a king and the king’s float has a throne. This is the throne:

I mean. It was named after a now defunct college bar its student founders went to after failing to become white flambeaux carriers (it was a thing of the time, now anyone can do it). I don’t know what you’re expecting.

The frat house party boy lifestyle fits Nihil regardless as to whether you’re picturing him in his youth or him as he is now (???): He likes the absurdity and the attention. Similar to Bacchus, they’ve had celebrity kings in the past such as Eugene Levy and John Candy. They’ve even had past riders and Grand Marshals include the Blues Brothers and Spike Lee respectively.

Compares to some other krewes, Tucks feels way more laidback, opening their ball up to the public to pay by admission. Plus, they’re encouraged to dress in costume or dress casual, so that’s neat.

Honestly, there’s not much to say here because Tucks is Tucks: What you see is what you get, and what you see is a funny great time screaming at somebody to toss you that fancy-looking toilet brush.

If he’s not partaking in Animal House on Parade, though, then Old Man Nihil is probably taking it easy…in his motorized easy chair!

Hi yes hello these are the Laissez Boys, hittin’ the streets in their motorized recliners. You can’t tell me that sleepy fucker wouldn’t love the absolute shit out of this. (You also can’t tell me he won’t have it shipped back to the Ministry so he can Tokyo Drift in the hallways in it. Sister is sick of his shit. She does eventually give in and sit on his lap for a cruise to the cafeteria, though.)

[healpimp]

ive dreamed the bothosters coming back with even worse bots twice now and every time i woke up like slightly annoyed before realizing some of the bigger bothosters and cheaters have been banned and every effort theyve made has been foiled by Valve and theyve yet to reverse engineer whatever it is Valve is using to gut them with and i start looking like this