• @[email protected]
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    1494 months ago

    I love this. Just like what happened with the gold skins in MechWarrior Online.

    The “truck” has a terrible design, and often is incapable of completing basic tasks a truck is expected to do without great difficulty or some weird quirk.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      494 months ago

      Youtuber be like:

      The “truck” has a terrible design, and often is incapable of completing basic tasks a truck is expected to do without great difficulty or some weird quirk.

      but it’s a great truck, i love it.

    • @[email protected]
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      314 months ago

      Is the Cybertruck even a truck? I don’t see the “truck” part.

      I know very little about cars, and even less about trucks. When I think of a truck, I think of a bed in the back where you can haul stuff from Home Depot.

      Where is the “truck” part?

      • @[email protected]
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        294 months ago

        Trucks with covers are a thing, it’s called a tonneau. What’s not normal is for them to be permanent.

        • @[email protected]
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          114 months ago

          That’s not entirely true. The high end of aftermarket covers are electric, require the semi permanent installation of rails, wires, and the box, and are fairly cumbersome to remove. They’re not permanent in that they can be removed, but practically no one does this. Rivian’s truck has one built in as well. Most legacy manufacturers leave this to dealers to do as it’s an easy high profit accessory for them to upsell.

          • @[email protected]
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            74 months ago

            Yeah, that’s I mean though, it’s optional and not a fundamental design of the truck.

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              For legacy automaker pickups, that’s true. It’s a dream accessorie: a factory, waterproof, roll away, electric, secure tonneau that doesn’t eat bed space is a HUGE draw.

      • @[email protected]
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        244 months ago

        Someone on my discord posted the warranty terms and apparently it doesn’t cover unusual damage or useage such as exposrure to rain, sunlight or being used off a paved road. So no its not a truck, in fact it doesn’t even stand up as a car.

      • @[email protected]
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        84 months ago

        I know very little about cars, and even less about trucks. When I think of a truck, I think of a bed in the back where you can haul stuff from Home Depot. Where is the “truck” part?

        Generally if you get a truck and do truck things with it, there’s 2 specific things a truck will have that no other class has:

        1. A protected bed that you can put bulky and dirty/stinky items into for transport
        2. The ability to pull a large trailer

        But hilariously your average crossover is fully capable of hauling an inexpensive trailer and a couple thousand pounds of whatever if not more than that, which covers 99.9% of the lifestyle arguments most pavement princes truck owners make for why they need a truck

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          54 months ago

          Yeah, for sure trucks do not own pulling trailers, and they are fairly bad for cargo also. Truck fans will hate it, but a minivan can take care of both of those probably just as well, if not potentially better. The one use case is oversized cargo, which is almost never hauled by anyone. In the off chance you need that you can rent a truck or uhaul.

          • @[email protected]
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            24 months ago

            I’m in the market for a truck and actually drew this same conclusion. Trucks are terrible in fuel efficiency and would likely not be my daily driver.

            The main reason I want to buy (vs renting a truck or uhaul) is primarily availability. When I’m doing a weekend project, on more than one occasion I could not rent a truck because everyone else had the same idea.

            Over the past year, I’ve rented the Home Depot truck four times, totaling about $400 which includes fuel and late fees. The main difference between renting a Home Depot truck vs a uhaul is that you don’t pay mileage. Renting the Uhaul once is about $200 with mileage and gas.

            Uhuals can be reserved, but at that price point it’s not worth it.

            • @[email protected]
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              24 months ago

              If you’re a new homeowner and either have a lot to fix or a lot of projects in mind, a pickup is great. Daily driving it is useful for when you have to grab materials after work. I opted for an older $2000 Ranger 4cyl 2wd earlier this year for that so I’m not killed by fuel economy. It gets 20mpg on my commute but I do also split that with a 50mpg motorcycle. It’s also great for when you see random bulky things on the side of the road you want. I did start with a 4x8 trailer but it’s not as convenient. I admit, part of that was because my wife s car was the only one with a functional hitch.

              But I’m talking a Ranger. Like an F-050. 115hp. This little guy has hauled so much already. The only thing it can’t technically do is tow a car and I don’t have the capital left to buy a nonrunning project car. I’ve been eyeing the new Maverick in hybrid form. But maybe by time I have the cash for such a new vehicle I won’t be doing reno projects anymore

    • Rhaedas
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      My first live sighting of one of them I realized how god-awful ugly they really are. Even in some bronze/pewter terrible color. Or maybe it got left in the rain and that’s just corrosion.

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        Yes, it was funny when the entire game would stop just to focus on killing the gold skin user. Didn’t matter what team they were on, they became the collective target of everyone in the match. Good times, indeed.

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      2054 months ago

      Quoted in the article:

      “i propose a new fortnite rule: if you see someone in a cybertruck, you are now in a truce with everyone else in the lobby until they’re taken out. this repeats as many times as necessary until everyone that bought this stupid thing is gone. normal gameplay proceeds.“

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            Thats absolutely the kind of rule that gets crowd sourced and becomes real, real fast.

            Rocket league has/had like a half dozen rules nearly everyone knows.

        • @[email protected]
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          94 months ago

          almost makes me want to play Fortnite just to join, but that feels like added engagement because of Tesla so I won’t

      • Echo Dot
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        204 months ago

        I’m so confused about what fortnite even is now. It used to be a game where you fought zombies, now I have no idea

        • @[email protected]
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          324 months ago

          It’s a game where you summon towers out of your ass and then get sniped by a 12 year old who fucked your mom

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            I played that back when it was called Team Fortress.

            Edit: I didn’t mean that to be dismissive of Fortnite or ignore the vast differences, just commenting on that particular description which perfectly matches playing an engineer in TF2 and I think TF, but that was a long time ago.

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          My wife’s been playing a bunch of it and honestly best I can tell it’s an Unreal Engine tech demo combined with a easy-to-use game engine for beginners to make mini games in (similar to Roblox’s various games) with integrated hosting, release, discovery, authentication and payment processing.

          Which is kinda confusing given Epic also has Core which is also an Unreal Engine tech demo combined with easy-to-use game engine with integrated hosting, release, discovery, authentication and payment processing

          Oh and Fortnite has its official Battle Royale mode that’s largely a copy of PUBG

      • λλλ
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        04 months ago

        You don’t buy it right? I didn’t check the store, but I saw its a reward from a quest.

    • @[email protected]
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      454 months ago

      I guess if it’s a situation where multiple enemies are in sight everyone would focus on the cybertruck so you’d be even more targeted than normal (I have no idea how to play Fortnite).

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      134 months ago

      I guess everyone will work in solidarity to kill the player who picked the cybertruck character, then once that’s done the remaining humanoids will just play like normal

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      114 months ago

      Driving a Cybertruck in the game would be like being a child molestor in the penitentiary. Other inmates may have beef with one another and be ready to shank a mfer if they get froggy; but if a child molester joins the cell block, they team up on him first.

  • @[email protected]
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    584 months ago

    No idea how Fortnite works. But can you (realistically) use the Cybertruck to cut off your enemies fingers with it’s automatic doors.

  • Marighost
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    534 months ago

    I wish I could do this in real life. I’ve seen two in my city and they’re visually arresting.

        • @[email protected]
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          144 months ago

          unless they’re parked right next to your roses, I imagine it would be pretty easy to prove malice

          • Krzd
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            174 months ago

            But could it not be reasonably assumed that you were only attempting to annoy the owner and not cause harm?

            No idea if that even makes a difference, would be funny tho

          • @[email protected]
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            14 months ago

            Yes prove intent, but depending on the legal system that might not be enough. Say I believe that spraying someone with sparkling water on the beach would kill you, that does not necessarily mean you attempted to take someones life. Similarly hurting someone in sports does not mean you assaulted them in a criminal sense.

    • @[email protected]
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      144 months ago

      And they look like dumpsters from behind. Apparently raccoons have even scratched some trying to get inside, thinking they held delicious trash.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 months ago

      The dude who owns the new Dunkin Donuts in town parked his out front with a Dunkin sticker on it. Totally a legit business expense.

      • Flying Squid
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        24 months ago

        Right in front of the Dunkin, huh? It would be terrible if people kept accidentally spilling their coffee, hot chocolate and the like on it considering you have to immediately scrape bird shit and dead bugs off of it when you get to where you’re going to avoid corrosion. (Really.)

    • @[email protected]
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      324 months ago

      The change is if you see one, there’s an implied truce between every non-Cybertruck-owner until they’re dead, then it’s back to a free for all.

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    34 months ago

    I fucking love playing as the odd man out. This makes me want to play fortnight and go run rampant in the cybertruck like john wick.

    Now all I need is skill