Huiuiui, V8-Motor und ein 125-Liter-Tank mit fossilem Brennstoff. Dazu ein Auspuff in Backkartoffelgröße. Das dürfte länger brennen als ein Tesla, was meint Ihr?
#Pickups
Help us, help you? Potential trade pickups for the Penguins https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/49649/ #for #FrontPage #help #Hockey #NHL #penguins #pensburgh #pickups #Pittsburgh #PittsburghPenguins #PittsburghPenguins #potential #the #Trade #us #you
Is this the antidote to America’s truck bloat problem? - The Verge #slate #smallSUVs #pickups
This #segagenesis game has a hidden surprise inside! #gaming #retrogaming #collection #pickups
https://youtube.com/shorts/LRsKUB9F-gE?feature=share
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/gefahr-im-strassenverkehr-immer-mehr-riesen-suvs-auf-deutschlands-strassen-13354735.html?bezuggrd=CHP&utm_referrer=newsletter (€)
#Dodge Ram #USPickup
#Gefahr im #Straßenverkehr: Immer mehr Riesen- #SUVs auf Deutschlands Straßen
#Amerikanische #Pickups sind auch in #Berlin zunehmend beliebt. Dabei brauchen sie eine Einzelgenehmigung – die offenbar leicht zu bekommen ist. Der #DUH zufolge kommen die per Einzelgenehmigung zugelassenen Autos auch um die sonst vorgeschriebenen #Abgastests herum, von #Klimaschutzvorgaben nicht zu reden #Autokorrektur
Curious. Do you have a pick ups preference, for prs guitars, through the years and current offerings? Have they improved over time? #GearSquad #prs #guitar #PickUps
#GearSquad #guitar
New #pickups for my #Epiphone Dot.
~$40 on 'bay.
3 hours to install was most of the cost.
Neck was stronger than bridge; Lowered one and raised other.
https://youtu.be/mzrCQ_7iRIU
New #pickups. First time with a 335. Took 3 hours between these two photos.
Stock Epiphone to Ibanez Super 58s from 'Bay that I think are Chinese ($40/set).
16.5k bridge is quieter than the 7.5k neck. Not sure why. Got them mostly even by raising one and lowering the other.
Now I need time to play it!
#guitar #gearsquad
Trying to A/B new #pickups (Chinese Ibanez Super58's from 'Bay) with the stock Epiphone one, by clipping it to an instrument cable and swapping back and forth with a cable plugged into the guitar.
The new ones sound clearer and brighter, probably because they're direct-out vs the current ones still being wired to the tone circuit.
It's less of a difference than I was hoping for, at this point.
I'm still planning to put them in, maybe next weekend.
This week’s #Pickups:
#BluRay:
Planet of the Vampires (1965)
The Rubber Keyed Wonder (2024 documentary)
Silver Streak (1976)
#Gaming:
Scramble Spirits for #Sega #MasterSystem (replacement for a poor copy)
Super Fantasy Zone for Japanese #Sega #MegaDrive
Even at Slower Speeds, #SUVs and #Pickups are a ‘Big’ Problem for #Pedestrians
Pedestrians hit by median-height #cars have a 60 percent chance of suffering moderate injuries, but that figure rises to 83 percent when they are struck by a median-height #pickuptruck at that same speed.
Coches | El INEOS Grenadier más radical llegará en 2025 con una suspensión insólita que un Mercedes domina
https://www.motor.es/noticias/ineos-grenadier-v8-shortermaster-2024105470.html
#INEOS #INEOSGrenadier #INEOSGrenadierQuartermaster #Todoterreno #Pickups @INEOSGrenadier
Re: my last post, how does one approach playing a guitar with a high-output pickup?
My toy Kramer sounds nothing like my single-coil & PAF guitars; it even FEELS different (more compressed?). 16KOhm.
I'll just play it until it feels normal, of course, but I'd like to learn from your experience.
#guitar #pickups #gearsquad
#Coches | ICKX da paso a ICH-X, la marca de todoterrenos de DR Automobiles anuncia la llegada de nuevos vehículos 4x4<br />
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#ICKX #ICHX #ICHXK3 #ICHXK4 #Todoterrenos #4x4 #Pickups #DRAutomobiles
I grew up in highly rural #France: 30 mins to nearest supermarket, many unpaved roads, really tough winters. And yet I rarely ever saw SUVs or #PickUps.
Because the French have understood that the C15 represents the peak of what the automobile can be. ⬇
#GM #recalling more than 449,000 #SUVs, #pickups due to issue with low #brakefluid warning light
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/gm-recalling-more-than-449000-suvs-pickups/507-3a6e787d-18a4-4744-82cf-61be0a160603
#generalmotors #recall #trucks #vehicles
A tiny spark of progress from the #NHTSA re making North American #cars less deadly to #pedestrians - proposing new rules which will address head-to-hood impacts (like the EU has been doing for DECADES).
This could change car design and the ridiculously high vertical front ends so popular on current #pickups & #SUVs.
Of course the car industry will fight it and probably win...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241047/nhtsa-rule-pedestrian-safety-fmvss-suv-truck-design
Ich kann mir nicht helfen, ich habe immer mehr das Gefühl, einen Kleinwagen zu fahren! 🤷
(der "große" Kombi in der Mitte ist meiner)
#Verkehrtwende #Autokorrektur #SUVwahn #PickUps #VanLife
Two years after my last trip to Japan, I headed to Japan knowing prices were only getting worse on retro games. So, I had a mission: Snag as many of the Mega Drive games that I wanted as I could.
The bad news was that, if I thought Mega Drive prices (and stock) were bad two years ago, they ended up being worse now. The good was that I still found a handful of decent deals to snag, along with some other random games to go with them.
All prices are converted at 155 yen to $1, which is what I paid when buying the yen for this trip.
Three of these games—Granada, Alien Storm, and the Japanese version of Ghouls ‘n Ghosts—were games I’d specifically wanted for a while now. Most of the rest I grabbed because they would be nice additions to my library for the price. I had initially planned to pick up one high-priced title—either Alicia Dragoon or MUSHA—but I found neither for a price I was willing to pay. So, instead, my big purchase was Aero Blasters.
DJ Boy was funny, because as it was looking like my MD shopping was going terribly, for some reason I told myself, “I’m going to go to the next shop, and they’re going to have something random like DJ Boy there.” And, I almost burst out laughing when I walked in and there it was sitting on the shelf. So, I had to get it.
Anyhow, here’s what I paid: Space Harrier II ($11), Fatal Fury ($18), Junction ($15), Aero Blasters ($71), Vermillion ($6), Super Monaco GP ($6), Alien Storm ($64), Ghouls ’n Ghosts ($25), Super Real Basketball ($6), DJ Boy ($23), Phelios ($31), and Granada ($25).
Even thought I’ve literally got four different Genesis consoles in my office, I really wanted to own a proper Japanese Mega Drive. At the same Hard Off shop that had Aero Blasters and a couple of the other games, there was a used MD bundle for $57. Checking the serial number, it seems to be a VA0—aka, the initial limited run of the console in Japan before hardware quirks were fixed and the system was mass produced worldwide. From my understanding, there aren’t a ton of VA0 models out there, so I felt like I had to go with this one, even if it isn’t one of the most desirable board revisions. Thankfully, beyond one of the cartridge slot doors being a bit loose (which I should be able to fix), the system otherwise seems in pretty decent shape. I saw a number of other models where some of the gold paint had chipped off of the “16-BIT” logo, so I was glad that wasn’t the case here.
As well, I finally picked up my late birthday present: the 2023 Mega Drive release of City Connection from Habit Soft.
Though we all know that the Mega Drive was clearly the superior 16-bit console, I decided to also give a bit of love to the Super Famicom—mostly because all of this stuff was super cheap. I got Mario & Wario, Space Invaders, and Mario Paint for $3.55 as a bundle deal. I then paid the exact same price for a Super Famicom that may or may not actually work once I give it the cleaning it desperately needs. Finally, a Japanese SuFami controller that also may or may not work and needs cleaning for $2.12.
As big of a Nintendo DS collector as I used to be, I’d kind of fallen out of love when it comes to buying DS games due to how annoying the pricing has gotten when doing so. However, after giving my twins their own DSes earlier in the year and them going crazy for the platform, their enthusiasm has rekindled some of my love. Almost all of the games in the first photo were $3.55 each, and the reason for the duplicates comes down to either wanting them for family multiplayer sessions, or daughters deciding that they don’t want to share.
The very first game I bought after getting to Japan was Nintendo’s DS Bimoji Training for $6.32, which I got due to my love for weirdo DS releases that come bundled with weirdo accessories.
I have no pricing on this stuff because, basically, it was all free. Before heading to Japan, my wife told me that her nephew was thinking about giving us his Game Cube collection. I appreciated the sentiment, but as we’ve got my original US Game Cube that I modded with an ODE—not to mention the fact that I’ve been actively trying to sell off my physical GC library—getting another Cube and a bunch of physical games wasn’t hugely exciting.
After meeting up with him and seeing what he had, I convinced him that he should instead try to sell it, given some of that stuff currently goes for decent prices. Instead, he gave us his old DS and GBA collection, which was far more interesting to me. The funniest part is that, almost 20 years ago, I bought one of those red DS Phats for my wife. When she was getting ready to move to the States a few years later, she gave it to her mother, who had become obsessed with playing Brain Training. Mother-in-law then (I assume) gives it to nephew, and now it comes full circle.
Something Game Cube that I did want was a controller, as we’re one shy from having a full set of four. Funny enough, the cheapest option I found for picking one up was getting one of Nintendo’s official Smash-themed re-release models new in box. Given I only paid $12.79, that seems like a heck of a deal.
In addition to that, I snagged a third party PSP-2/3000 replacement battery for $10.84 to substitute for my original one that ended up swelling, and a Duo Tap for $4.54. I got the tap in the hopes that I could then pick up a few PC Engine controllers so I could finally use my Analogue Duo, as my hope that the PC Engine Mini controllers would work was a bust. Sadly, PC Engine controllers cost way too much these days, to the point that I couldn’t justify buying one. As cool as the Analogue Duo is, more and more it’s just becoming a costly weight around my neck.
Rounding out the retro gaming, I got Frame Gride (a FromSoftware DC release I’ve never tried) for $5, Sega Rally for $2.59, and Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtual Casino for $1.80 each. I’ve recently sold the US versions of all three of those Saturn games, so I figured this would be a super cheap way to add them back to my shelf (in a physical format that I don’t find revolting).
And then, on PlayStation 4, I picked up new copies of The King of Fighters ’98 Final Edition ($14.84) and The King of Fighters XIII Global Match ($24.34), along with used copies of Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight for $4.65 each.
Last, but certainly not least, I got Ohashi Junko’s album Minds on LP for $4.65. I had some high hopes music-wise for this trip—especially in terms of getting a replacement MiniDisc player/recorder, and finding Ito Maiko’s Idol Miracle Bible Series – All Songs Collection on CD—but most of my efforts in that regard were a total bust.
What’s interesting, though, is the trends that I noticed. Nearly every Book Off I went to had a specifically-labelled ’80s J-pop section, and you could see signs of certain albums that were on display (or high priced) due to the city pop boom—with some of that vinyl no doubt being targeted at visiting foreigners.
I’ve got more thoughts and photos from Japan, so check back for those soon!
#Coches | El frontal del nuevo KIA Tasman se descubre en estas fotos espía, el esperado pick-up es cazado en la fase final de su desarrollo<br /> <br /> @KIAEspana #KIA #KIATasman #PickUps #FotosEspía...
https://www.motor.es/noticias/kia-tasman-fotos-desarrollo-europa-2024103402.html
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