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I got a new controller for Forza 6 since I wanted something with trigger haptics like the elite 2, but without the price and wonkyness of that controller. I got a Flydigi vader 5 pro, but all its triggers do is just rumble blandly, does anyone know a controller with the kinda trigger response that the xbox elite 2 has?
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A bought a new knife for myself, and a second one as a gift for my friend. They arrived yesterday.
I opened one of them and it had a manufacturing defect where the detent was way too strong which made it take a painful amount of force to open. It's a frame-lock knife and I fixed it by taking it apart, removing the over-travel stop and bending the lock bar back a little bit to reduce the amount of pressure on the blade when closed, allowing it to open with much less force, then I put it all back together. It opens perfectly now with the proper amount of force.
Now the question becomes, do I open the knife that I got for my friend and check whether it has the same defect and fix it if it does, or do I give it to her, let her open it, and if it does have that defect bring my tools and fix it there? It's a pretty easy fix, took me less than 5 minutes.
I opened one of them and it had a manufacturing defect where the detent was way too strong which made it take a painful amount of force to open. It's a frame-lock knife and I fixed it by taking it apart, removing the over-travel stop and bending the lock bar back a little bit to reduce the amount of pressure on the blade when closed, allowing it to open with much less force, then I put it all back together. It opens perfectly now with the proper amount of force.
Now the question becomes, do I open the knife that I got for my friend and check whether it has the same defect and fix it if it does, or do I give it to her, let her open it, and if it does have that defect bring my tools and fix it there? It's a pretty easy fix, took me less than 5 minutes.
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My SO's phone screen got cracked and our shoddy repairs weren't enough so I bought her a refurbished 2025 Motorola Razr. She didn't want to go with the ridiculous price of the 2026 models, plus they don't yet have graphine os on them yet, which she really wants and her current phone probably won't last till next year which is the earliest they will show up.
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Looks cool, but also like it would get really uncomfortable with any amount of extended use, unless you attach a different controller to it.
Its Schrodinger's defect. There could be an entire shipment of these knives with that defect exist and you got two of them. It could be you have the very last knife from the defect run and the other one is fine. You'll never know unless you open it.
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New pair of chukka boots. Kind of surprised I've never had a "desert" boot despite the fact that I live in California.
I've bought a couple of tickets to see Cavalera Conspiracy (Max and Igor Cavalera, ex Supultura) with my girlfriend and my old metal buds in Camden next month on their Chaos AD tour, playing songs from that sepultura album. Couple of mates saw them on their bestial devastation tour last year and said they rocked.
I saw Sepultura once before in maybe 1995 but I wasn't really there in spirit IIRC so it didn't make much of an impression so it'll be nice to see them as an adult.
Also a couple of tickets to the orbital gathering, a local hippy techno festival in a field at the weekend. Going to see lots of dreadlocks, baggy trousers, girls wearing ankle bracelets, that kind of thing.
I saw Sepultura once before in maybe 1995 but I wasn't really there in spirit IIRC so it didn't make much of an impression so it'll be nice to see them as an adult.
Also a couple of tickets to the orbital gathering, a local hippy techno festival in a field at the weekend. Going to see lots of dreadlocks, baggy trousers, girls wearing ankle bracelets, that kind of thing.
Does this "orbital gathering" have anything to do with the electronic duo Orbital, or does it have something to do with the M25, the orbital highway from which Orbital took their name? Or neither nor?
Not this time, Phil Hartnoll played at the one in January this year, but I saw him twice last year so I figured I'd give the freezing horizontal rain and wind a miss.
It's probably too late now, but I'd just leave it. If there's no problem, no problem. If there is, you get to look cool by fixing it. Win/win.
I saw Orbital ONCE back in 1999 on the Community Service tour for their Cleveland, OH stop; they were my favorite artists at the time, and it was a 2-hour drive for me. I tried to bribe a security guard to let me meet them or at least get an autograph; didn't work. Only thing I have from that day is an Orbital t-shirt I wore to a Moby concert months later where Moby actually pointed me out saying "Nice Orbital shirt!" between songs. And you decided not to see Phil Hartnoll because it was cold, and you'd already seen him twice the year before? You know I'm within my legal rights to kill you now, don't you? I won't actually kill you, obviously... maybe, but probably not.
I'd love to emigrate to the UK and have steady access to the music I love, but given my luck, if I did, all the artists I love would retire, and the UK would start some Apartheid policies making it illegal for me to hear any music within 1,000 meters of a white person.
Is this a bad time to say it was happening a ten minute drive from my house?
Seriously though, Cornish winters are grim. It starts raining in November and doesn't stop until March. The venue is on a hill facing the North Atlantic so the wind will push the rain through your clothes in a matter of seconds of getting out of the car. Fortunately it's not too hippy to forgo having an inside stage along with the ones open to the elements.
Yeah...hmmm... hopefully Reform won't be getting into power, but the rule these days seems to be 'just when you think it can't get any worse, it will'.
A gym membership, as my therapist said I need to start using heavier weights for my rehab. Kind of kicking myself for not doing this earlier, because it's hella convenient to have a gym in the building you live in. It's been pretty good so far, being able to work out at off hours means I have the gym to myself most of the time. Thank God, because some of these people SMELL.
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I didn't spin my salad. I rinsed the lettuce, and the residual water left in remains was so inoffensive, I never imagined someone would create an entire device specifically for removing it. My gf insisted we "needed" a salad spinner today, and because it's my day off and arguing with the one being in God's creation who is never wrong would have netted me a Pyrrhic victory at best, I shelled out $25 to shut her up about it.
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Well, welcome to old, once you acquire a salad spinner it is over. You should schedule your colonoscopy.