Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@boomzilla Well, I can understand them doing this. Not only for the actual residents but also for wear and tear on the road itself.
Residential roads are rarely rated for such amount of traffic.
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@rhywden Somehow my brain skipped the "residential" in the first paragraph.
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@rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Residential roads are rarely rated for such amount of traffic.
Do they use a different kind of asphalt or something? Paved road surfaces more or less all look the same to me.
Filed under: Everything Is Racist thread is
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@masonwheeler said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Residential roads are rarely rated for such amount of traffic.
Do they use a different kind of asphalt or something? Paved road surfaces more or less all look the same to me.
AFAIK the thickness of the layers depends on the projected traffic - less traffic means cheaper roads because they don't have to dig as deep, use less material and are faster to lay down.
There are also different types of asphalt - silent, easy to fix, sturdy, ...
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@rhywden And sometimes concrete is used instead of asphalt, for one reason or another. In fact, some really old streets are made of brick, even in the U.S., although sometimes the highway department will cheap out and use asphalt instead of brick to patch those.
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@lolwhat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
And sometimes concrete is used instead of asphalt, for one reason or another.
The big one is that it wears very well under heavy traffic, but the big downside is that the surface is noisier than most asphalt roadtops.
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Vertical videoing anti-patterns:
https://youtu.be/tQxdX_8mUlQ?t=114Stick around to the end, it's great.
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@hungrier I really wanted to hear what she was saying!
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@dcon I mostly wanted to hear what the other people were saying to her.
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Really dumb of her to cross the line on the driver side.
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There's fishbone parking in my street. Weeks ago someone parked stepping on the drivers side. It's spread to adjacent cars since then and currently basically the whole street is, if not stepping, at least very close to stepping on the driver's side.
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Stick around to the end, it's great.
It is?
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@hungrier I really wanted to hear what she was saying!
Can you believe how this asshole parked?
Yeah, that asshole parked straddling the line. What a fuck twat.
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Driving along a straight path of street ending on a T juntion, coming from the leg of the T and wanting to turn right.
I know the timings of the traffic lights well enough to see that it's still green now, but it will soon turn orange; but, if I speed up a bit, I will manage to clear the intersection just as it goes from orange to red, pushing it a little, but it's not like it isn't something I never done before.
But there's a light drizzle, the pavement is wet, and I'd rather not risk spinning out of comfort as I turn; so I slow down instead. I'm in no hurry.
As I approach the intersection, 20 or 30 seconds gone by, I see it turn orange as expected (I could still speed up and go through); and I see a car coming from my left, running what I know to be at least one red light (knowing the timing of the others, probably two); and crossing at high velocity the intersection where I could have been.
Shit.
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
don't you have ABS? it might have helped a bit, although probably not significantly at that point...
In snow ABS would not help, in fact it could even slightly prolong the braking distance compared to no ABS.
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@thegoryone said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I mean technically that's not true, increased braking distance is still preferable to locking your wheels up and losing control
In this one case it is true. @blek said that here was nowhere to turn and he was headed straight for the vehicle in front. Of course in general the ability to retain steering is very much useful.
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@boomzilla Good.
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In Hampshire we have 40mph speed limit in the forest. The Forest is the King's/Queen's Forest for all that don't know.
I drive through it on the way to work and it is like driving a rally or close to as one as I can get i.e. the 40mph limit is too fast.
Sometimes the road is good and is like a race-track and then next minute you are driving semi-offroad.
So we have people that just speed through the 30s, then drive 45 through the 40s. FFS if you are going to speed just do it.
These people aren't paying attention.
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EDIT: Whoops, posted in the wrong thread.
Check In Other News Today instead:
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Hah! Get just the fuck out of the way!
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@boomzilla I wish they'd do that here in Texas.
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Morning's gone
Echoes of dawn
Shaking my soul
All but done
Delirium
The rain with the cold
With nowhere to go
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I saw a dead momma duck and a bunch of ducklings on the I-5 today. Had to swerve to avoid the little guys. Would have called the cops but dialing the phone in a car is illegal here.
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@boomzilla on a lighter note,
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OMG everybody was driving like a moron today. Usually, people either drive 70 or 75 on the highway, even if its wet. We keep our distance to keep that safe. Well I got cut off by people going 55 about 6 times today. Did they get the hint that they're in the passing lane and should pass traffic? NO! Did they even try to match my speed or at least go faster than me for a bit so I wouldn't have to slam on the brakes? NO! Did they bother looking in their blindspot? Probably, but YOLO!!
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@captain said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Did they bother looking in their blindspot? Probably, but YOLO!!
Dummy! You don't look in blindspots; they're blindspots. If you looked in them you'd be denying the blindspots their self-declared identities!
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@captain said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
OMG everybody was driving like a moron today. Usually, people either drive 70 or 75 on the highway, even if its wet. We keep our distance to keep that safe. Well I got cut off by people going 55 about 6 times today.
Did you wave to @masonwheeler?
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@boomzilla I might have waved a finger at him...
The really annoying part was that for a bunch of these, there wasn't anybody behind me for like a quarter mile. They could have just waited about 4 seconds for me to pass and then enjoyed a whole minute to plod along at barely legal speed without bothering ANYBODY.
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In my vicinity there's currently a big road project which shut down a major way for traffic flow. Which of course means that everyone needs to use the one remaining route.
The traffic jams this creates turn about seemingly everyone into bloody morons - the first rule of how to drive onto a crossing when the streets are packed?
You don't drive onto the crossing if you can clearly see that you can't leave it before the other routes get a green light. Because then you'll block them needlessly - I mean, this is one of those "50 cars into one direction but only 3 in the opposite direction" situations where you'll block the three cars.
Bonus if you're a truck or bus driver doing this - because then absolutely everyone will be blocked from driving through the crossing. Even pedestrians and cyclists.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Did you wave to @masonwheeler?
Unlikely unless he lives in Hawaii.
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@captain said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
OMG everybody was driving like a moron today. Usually, people either drive 70 or 75 on the highway, even if its wet. We keep our distance to keep that safe. Well I got cut off by people going 55 about 6 times today. Did they get the hint that they're in the passing lane and should pass traffic? NO! Did they even try to match my speed or at least go faster than me for a bit so I wouldn't have to slam on the brakes? NO! Did they bother looking in their blindspot? Probably, but YOLO!!
Even better is this variant: Three lane Autobahn with a 130 km/h limit. Bunch of trucks on the right lane going 100 km/h, me in the middle lane at roughly 128 km/h and a bunch of the usual suspects going 160+ in the left lane.
Suddenly a wild speed trap appears.
What does the bloody idiot who just overtook me do? Swerve into the middle lane before me and hard break down to 100.
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@rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Suddenly a wild speed trap appears.
Speed trap casts Slow on Careless drivers.
It's super effective!
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Suddenly a wild speed trap appears.
Speed trap casts Slow on Careless drivers.
It's super effective!
Careless driver flinched!
Careless driver attacks Careless driver with his Collision.
It is not very effective...
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Blakeyrat has never played a Pokemon game because fuck JRPGs!
Yet Blakeyrat recognizes these fucking stupid jokes!
Kill me now!
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@blakeyrat note: Pokemon is not a JRPG. Japanese, yes. RPG, no.
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@benjamin-hall said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@blakeyrat note: Pokemon is not a JRPG. Japanese, yes. RPG, no.
I've commonly heard the Pokemon games referred to as RPGs (just checked and Wikipedia also categorizes them as such, for what that's worth). Are you not role-playing a Pokemon trainer?
(I feel like I'm about to wander into some video game genre holy war I'm not aware of...)
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@heterodox actually, I think I was just having a brain error there. Everyone else I talked to said it was, in fact, an RPG. Durr. My bad. Mean culpa.
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@blakeyrat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Blakeyrat has never played a Pokemon game because fuck JRPGs!
Yet Blakeyrat recognizes these fucking stupid jokes!
Kill me now!
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Aaaaaauuuuuugggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!111
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@boomzilla Dude, the Nope thread is etc.
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@boomzilla Is that the Khyber Pass?
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@captain No. Khyber Pass in in Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan. Looking at the scale indicator on Google Maps, it appears to be about 650 miles from the nearest point of Nepal. It's also much more barren and desert-like:
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@benjamin-hall said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@blakeyrat note: Pokemon is not a JRPG. Japanese, yes. RPG, no.
"JRPG" refers to a specific sub-genre of RPG that is common in Japan. Although the letters stand for "Japanese RPG", not all Japanese RPGs are JRPGs.
And of course by @heterodox 's argument that in Pokemon you play the role of a trainer, so therefore Pokemon is an RPG, we have to conclude that Monopoly is an RPG (you play the role of a property tycoon / developer). I think that ends up over-broadening "RPG" a teeny tiny bit.
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@boomzilla It was 802 degrees Fahrenheit?