Fascinating. Thanks for the update

Man, people can suck sometimes.

Unrelated to vehicles, - my grandfather sold all of my grandmother’s land when they got married to spite her family. So, yeah. People can suck.

Hell yeah. Extra points for Toyota; they’re the shit. I drive Fords because they’re available to me, but if I had my druthers, I’d rather drive a Toyota. Best vehicle I’ve ever owned was an 05 4Runner. Miss that thing. It would go everywhere.

Oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t realize it was still coming on during the initial startup. Definitely do those tests and let me know what happens.

Out of curiosity, what make and model is your truck? I haven’t dabbled much with any vehicles newer than, like, 2017, so I suppose it’s possible that they’ve changed the way the TPMS works.

My last vehicle was a 2010 Ford- TPMS worked fine; took the wheels off while the car was on jack stands in my driveway, and took them to my neighbor’s shop (~1/4 mile away) to mount and balance new tires. My son started the car to mess with the stereo while I was gone, and the TPMS light came on. Even after I replaced the wheels, with the same transmitters, it refused to acknowledge them. The light stayed on until I junked the vehicle last year.

As far as I know, that doesn’t happen. You typically have to program the TPMS monitoring system to search for certain transmitters.

Now, I’m just a somewhat skilled shadetree mechanic; I’m not claiming to be the source of all knowledge or anything, so I could be wrong.

If there aren’t any other vehicles around and you haven’t programmed the sensor, I’m gonna guess the light just stopped working.

Yeah but when the battery dies, the light on the dash stays on. It only turns off if it has a signal from the sensors that it’s programmed to look for and they all read proper pressure.

That does sound rather worrying. The good news is that those sensors only have a range of about 35ft tops, so it’s more likely that one of your neighbors stole your wheel, put a new tire on it, and are now using it on their car.

Any similarly-wheeled vehicles nearby?

I’ve gotten 2 votes for no and one for yes. That’s good enough for me to give it a shot.

I do enjoy a bit of nin. That’s sad to hear, though. I love Tron. I even liked the shitty second one.

:-(

I’ll have to tell my Japanese and German friends. They’re really into that sort of thing.

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(Implying that whoever stole your tire is now stalking you)

There was a new Tron movie? Shit. Is it any good?

Sorry mate, too busy thinking about banging this gal

Implying my mental health is perfect. You don’t know a god damned thing about me and my struggles. When I said everybody, I was including myself.

Fuck yourself.

If fewer people thought like this, and we came together to fight what’s happening, then it wouldn’t be this way. But everybody just wants to sit around and be sad about it instead of actually trying to make a difference.

And I get it- it’s overwhelming, and it’s a lot easier to say “I told you so,” than it is to say “We fought hard and won.”

Ah, I see.

It’s hard for me to find joy in things right now. There’s too much rampant disregard for the state of the world, and I can’t bring myself to enjoy life while everything is burning around us all. I make an effort, occasionally - I played Minecraft for an hour last night, which is more gaming than I’ve done in several months - but it always comes back to “You’re just sitting here while life turns into Hell, and one day your children will look back and ask why you didn’t help them.” So, at the very least, I will not participate. I may not be actively trying to stop it, mostly because I’m so overwhelmed that I didn’t even know where to start, but it just doesn’t feel right to have fun while I’m convinced that there won’t be any for the future generations. And then I start thinking about all of the horrible things that have been done in order for me to even be here - the genocides that took place on this continent, the slave trade, the raping of the ecosystems - it’s just too much. We’ve lost so much culture and wisdom, and nobody seems to care at all. I hate people.

I spent way too much time on Nanaca Crash and Curveball, myself. The io games came a little too late for me to get into - they were all fake multiplayer games, too, weren’t they?

Yeah, I don’t think I could’ve read that many if it hadn’t been for the fact that I was reading literally every moment that I could. I was a pretty quick reader then, as well. And the books were rather short I think - a few hundred pages, maybe. I’ve never read 1984, but I feel like I have - as much as it gets referenced, especially nowadays.

I figure if they want me, I’ll start my lessons again. The way the world is going, I’m not hopeful enough to believe I’ll have a use for the language if I don’t have a job that takes me there. I don’t see myself ever being able to travel much, and I don’t see the world lasting long enough for that to change. I’m pretty downtrodden these days.

I gotta say - your English is really good. Is it required learning there? I apologize if we’ve discussed this before, my memory is ass and I don’t feel like scrolling back through the conversation.

No worries on the reply timing.

I’m not sure if “rage game” is an actual genre, or if it’s just something I started saying, but if you were around for any of the early 2000s flash games then that’s what I’m referring to. Stuff like The Helicopter Game, Impossible Quiz, Linerider, Nanaca Crash, Happy Wheels, Curveball… Basically anything that you’d find on AddictingGames. Those were my bread and butter when I was younger.

I’ve never had a great many books, but I did have quite a collection of ebooks for a while. I used to be a big reader - when I was doing tech service, I read 100 books in one month. Sounds insane, but I was reading 10-12 hours a day then. My favorites from that period of time were all written by SM Reine - I have a particular fondness for the ascent and descent series.

Traveling sounds nice. I’ve never been fortunate enough to travel outside the US. Furthest from home I’ve ever been was when I worked in Pennsylvania. Or maybe the month I lived in Tampa? They’re pretty similarly spaced from Home. I live in Kentucky, and have been considering reaching out to KFC Japan to see if they’d like a real Kentuckian to come work as a spokesman. Maybe fly me over and get me out of this place.

Ah, calendar reminder, nice! That’ll be a happy surprise.

I’m just gonna learn different parts of all the languages and create my own language. Germtalianglish.

I’ve been wanting to set up Pi-Hole for a while now, but I never seen to get around to it. I’m still a Windows junkie, too which is another thing I’ve been meaning to change - I did get around to de-bloating eventually, though, so that’s something I guess. Got a little “media server” set up, which is just a few shared folders on my main PC that I actually never use at all unless I’m trying to find one of the thousands of random memes I’ve got saved. Also archived a few YouTube channels.

Glad you enjoyed the game. I had aspirations of expanding each minigame with multiple levels and adding more games. Trying to make it a one-stop shop for the classic rage game experience; was working on a Flappy Bird-like game where you controlled the pipes instead of the bird. Ended up getting burnt-out. That’s typically how my hobbies go. Super into them and can’t bring myself to do anything else, and then one day I just stop and never go back. Same thing happened when I got into Minecraft command blocks, and when I moved on to making Minecraft add-ons, and streaming, and writing, and Python, Java, Japanese, German, woodworking… Honestly, the Duolingo AI debacle was just a convenient excuse to give up on Spanish now that I think about it; I was falling off before everybody started getting upset.

Anyways, yeah I’d love to try y’all’s game. I will almost definitely forget come November, but maybe I’ll get lucky and writing this comment will force it into my brain somehow. Feel free to steal any of mine and take em to the next level (pun intended).

I started learning Spanish because I worked with an old Mexican man and he told me that Spanish and Italian are very similar, so I thought to myself “If I learn Spanish, it’s like a 2-for-1 deal. I’m basically losing money if I don’t do it,” lol. Plus I was watching a lot of XiaomaNYC and I thought it would be neat to be a polyglot - even a fake one. My plan was to learn Spanish and then use it to help me learn Italian and Portuguese, and then just kinda worm my way through all the languages I could.

Oh yeah, lmao. Totally my fault - I get confused sometimes.

I understand the urge thing - I get that with things sometimes, but almost never for long enough to become “accomplished” at anything. I’m a dabbler - I dabble with game creation, CAD, languages, music, writing… pretty much anything that randomly catches my fancy.

Here’s the game I was working on if you wanna check it out: https://old-man-bombin.itch.io/ragegame

It’s probably as finished as it will be.

The university club sounds awesome. Tell everyone there that I said hello.

Yeah now when it comes to languages outside the romance category, I might as well be looking at Martian runes. Especially if not written with English characters or whatever. Even if it is, though, it’s still basically gibberish to me. French, Spanish, Italian, German - stuff like that I’m pretty good on. For your average redneck anyway.