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AmpleApricots said:
It's probably a part custom made for that exact vehicle. Good luck getting a spare one a few years down the road.
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They'll all be serialized to the car they came from and won't function in any other car. Why bother repairing your car when you can just buy lease a brand new car every couple of years?
 
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PC LOAD LETTER said:
They'll all be serialized to the car they came from and won't function in any other car. Why bother repairing your car when you can just buy lease a brand new car every couple of years?
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oh yes, for "safety" purposes. To cut back on those elusive dangerous third party knockoffs that are apparently everywhere.
 
Discord is cancer. We all know this already. But the sheer extent of it is truly remarkable.
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Pictured above is the default Discord profile. You can change that banner color at the top, and use a static image for your avatar, but otherwise that is all the customization you have access to. Soulless and boring, but what else do you expect from a site like Discord?

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These are what custom profiles look like. You can add an image for the banner, add a .gif for your avatar, and most importantly, change the coloring of the main information section on your profile. These features are all paywalled behind Discord Nitro, their premium Discord service. It offers some other benefits, but this + global use of custom emotes is basically the entire reason people give money to the trannies behind it in the first place. The locking of such simple functionality behind a subscription service is already irritating and indicative of the utter contempt these people have for making a competent service, but it gets so much worse. As I have been made aware of recently, they had to add settings to allow users to reduce the brightness of these custom avatars because apparently, people were getting triggered and discomforted by the introduction of bright colors into Discord's otherwise boring, monotonous grey/black minimalist hellscape. They will literally show you a pop-up about how you can lower the contrast of THESE COLORS SPECIFICALLY anytime you click on a custom profile. Imagine being so fragile you need to adjust the brightness of the colors on someone's small profile card lest you get triggered or feel slightly uncomfortable. These people would fucking melt in the Web 1.0, over-saturated, flashy beyond belief days of Geocities and custom home pages. How did Internet users turn into such massively fragile pussies?

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eta: just wanted to note that all of these pictures were obtained from google. also, the last image was fucking massive so i had to downsize it which is why the aspect ratio is so weird. sorry.
 
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StickFruit said:
Imagine being so fragile you need to adjust the brightness of the colors on someone's small profile card lest you get triggered or feel slightly uncomfortable. These people would fucking melt in the Web 1.0, over-saturated, flashy beyond belief days of Geocities and custom home pages. How did Internet users turn into such massively fragile pussies?
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To be fair, I'm not sure who they're actually making this "accessible" for because I've seen plenty of random fags on Twitter with their own Neocities webpages and such that are very clearly designed to be an old-school eyesore (and then some are actually competent). There's always a very small minority of idiots out there to complain about literally anything I would guess, lol
 
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Wright said:
To be fair, I'm not sure who they're actually making this "accessible" for because I've seen plenty of random fags on Twitter with their own Neocities webpages and such that are very clearly designed to be an old-school eyesore (and then some are actually competent). There's always a very small minority of idiots out there to complain about literally anything I would guess, lol
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I've seen these pages as well alongside art that tends to evoke a similar aesthetic. You're right, but that minority of idiots must be bigger than I realize because without fail, anything in this flashy, brightly-colored artstyle tends to be accompanied by several trigger and content warnings mentioning "eyestrain." Pathetic.
 
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said, I guess it's because there's "Zoomers" coming of age, and to them the GCN is a nostalgic thing from childhood.

(to me GCN is a newer thing that isn't quite "retro" like 8-bit is)
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what I get less is this acronym. I was trying to solve what console was being talked about. Is GC already taken up? Does this mean Game Cube Nintendo?
 
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Toolbox said:
what I get less is this acronym. I was trying to solve what console was being talked about. Is GC already taken up? Does this mean Game Cube Nintendo?
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This has been an acronym as long as I can remember and I'm not sure why. The N stands for Nintendo. I'm thinking maybe it's called this to avoid confusion with the Gameboy Color, but that's GBC so... I don't know. Maybe Nintendo labelled it as the GCN on products or retail listings or something back in the day?
 
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StickFruit said:
This has been an acronym as long as I can remember and I'm not sure why. The N stands for Nintendo. I'm thinking maybe it's called this to avoid confusion with the Gameboy Color, but that's GBC so... I don't know. Maybe Nintendo labelled it as the GCN on products or retail listings or something back in the day?
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You'd think NGC would make more sense if the acronym absolutely needed to include Nintendo.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
I hope they're using the right kind of touchscreen panel. Last thing you want to happen cruising down the highway is the thing suddenly registering phantom touches.
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God forbid you cruise during winter/damp mornings and water sets on the touch screen.

Think windshield is hard to clean?

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I am so FUCKING tired of seeing everything I use look like it was made for mobile on the damn desktop. What the fuck is the point of this? Especially when the site is still just as bloated if not more so, now featuring more bugs and unusual design choices. I absolutely despise the average modern web designer, and a good chunk of them are shitskins. Even the ones who aren't are incredibly ignorant of computers and networking.
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I love having 1600x900 screens where buttons cover 20% of screen widthand have no text, and are green colored.
 
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Speaking of car-related bullshit, car manufacturers prioritisng their ugly aesthetic over form and safety. Saw a new car the other day - a white SUV which looked like a fat ladybird, cannot remember the make or model - with an indicator light so tiny I could not see it. I'm sitting there like a pork chop waiting for this cunt to drive past and only when he actually starts to turn do I realise his indicator is on - a tiny blinking yellow light in the corner of his headlight! Why the fuck was this change made, it looks stupid, is less functional and less safe!
 
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So it's Nintendo's autism? Very strange.

They do archive an actual support page on Nintendos website for this.

That's not even really a regional difference thing because for some reason it's saying GCN was for both PAL and US. And Japan had two different terms?
 
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Lone Wandering Courier said:
Good news: the metaverse is dead and won't be missed; Bad news: they are getting into AI
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Winner sticker for watching Mental Outlaw.

AmpleApricots said:
I hope they're using the right kind of touchscreen panel. Last thing you want to happen cruising down the highway is the thing suddenly registering phantom touches.
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Gender: Xenomorph said:
God forbid you cruise during winter/damp mornings and water sets on the touch screen.

Think windshield is hard to clean?
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Reminds me of a gripe I have with touchscreens - for some blasted reason when a screen is pricier and more glasslike it gathers more fingerprints and it's harder to clean. Cheap plastic screens can be wiped clean with any soft cloth you have lying around, but glass or glasslike screens take many wipes with certain kinds of cloth. Glass screens also crack easily and get colder than an Eskimo tit in winter and in the morning. I also don't think they feel any better than plastic screens.
 
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