Memes

Mass effect is 19 years old.

My nephew was telling me about how he dusted off his old console and laughed at how bad the games looked. He was of course talking about his PS3.

One of these days I need to sit him down and subject him to some early 3d games like Battle Arena Toshinden or FFVIII to give him some real pizza-face perspective.

Though retro is so popular that lots of modern games still look like the 90s...

I used some the other day and it felt so much better.

We have manual winders. (We down graded our car on purpose for cheaper repairs)

I prefer winders for the front. No need for key in accessory position, and fine control.

Back is tricky

It's hilarious to me how many people are shitting their beds over the Slate pickup coming with crank windows.

VW Golf gen 1-3

I learned to drive stick in an e30 BMW. I have a real soft spot for boxy 80s cars.

Crap, the time between when the moon landing happened and when I was born (late 80s), is smaller than the gap between 9/11 and today.

And it always will be, by an ever-widening margin.

... I think I gotta lie down

I blame ford pickup trucks for that. Did you keep getting bigger and the front end keeps getting flatter. Eventually they're going to be so high up you'll be able to run over small trees without noticing.

My truck just turned old enough to drink in the states, I feel like that must be some kind of country music initiation

What government mandated surveillance equipment are you referring to?

Same, I just recently had someone offer me a Buick Lasabre for cheap. I was very excited until they said it was a 2003 😑

Reliable sure, but man did the '00 models look gross. Go back 10-20 years from that ugly thing to these beauties and it would have been a deal.

My experience with such old cars, where their age is starting to make full restoration advisable:

• mechanically reliable and simple to fix (and critical parts are usually available, quality varies)
• everything electrical is shit (and old), you need to go through everything to check the connections, completely rotten through ground wires aren't necessarily visible and will cause endless pain until you find them
• the rust-proofing wasn't great but it was there so usually if they're still alive by now they just need the usual spots where those models rust checked before purchase and/or crash damage thoroughly checked
• crash safety is nonexistent, ABS and ESP aren't that useful if you learned how to drive without, if you rely on ESP, better learn not to
• the fastest affordable cars from the 1980s are slower than family cars from the 2020s, still feels like you're going way faster
• if you buy something predating catalytic converters in your country, be prepared for it to smell atrocious
• carburettors that haven't been tampered with and aren't leaking don't need to be touched unless they malfunction, if they malfunction they usually only need a good scrubbing with diesel then a wash in petrol, replacement of extremely dead gaskets, and the jets usually need a clean, the tiny drill bits for carburettor jets can be used for cleaning if you use the size just below the marked size. Ultrasonic cleaners aren't necessary, replacing all gaskets usually means it's going to leak more than before.
• EFI was shit until the 1990s, avoid it if you can

Get one while you still can, they haven't been going down in price for a long time and may in fact already be going up in price. They're pretty iconic, but not as many on the roads these days.