Tulpa Network
Off-Topic => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Joy on August 27, 2025, 12:19:57 pm
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Did you know I, one person, have three vehicles now? It would have been 4 but I got rid of a very expensive Mercedes that someone gave me because even the parts on that bitch would be too much for a Bear.
So anyway my truck has been giving me shit for years, fucking years, it's old, way older than me, and it's simple as shit, a carburator, manual transmission, no radio even, just fucking bare bones and I bought it so long ago I was a teenager at the time ffs. It's a very impractical 2 ton capacity that drives like hell, sounds like shit, and is slow as a turtle.
I've done a lot of shit to this thing to keep it running given when something breaks you're fucked if you can't find an aftermarket part.
Anyway, I believe the fuel pump went, so I replaced that like 3 years ago, maybe even 5 years ago and after that it has been one problem after another with the fuel system, always on the edge of failing, frankly the pump might have been trash but every fucking thing is trash now. The carburetor was being a bitch constantly and later I realized, like years later, that the consistent issue was no fuel to the driver side of the carb. Fine, replaced the fucking thing, immediately failed, same issue, fixed it about 27 times by disassembling the carb and polishing the float seats. It would work a few months and fail again, this was happening on the carburetor that came with it so I bought a new one and same fucking shit, didn't figure it out till recently that maybe I should up the pressure, that kinda worked maybe but it was always a bitch so I bought another carburetor, now I have three, and this one didn't have that problem but because everything is shit now the choke didn't work right and it was still a bitch. So I put the second one on and fuck me if it refused to start.
I got the timing light on it and noticed that there was only flashing during startup.
I jumped the bitch and with the coil hard wired it ran, barely. So I attempted to check voltage and sure enough, no voltage to the coil with ignition on. Okay, Motherfucker I jumper it again, checked some connections and now the bitch won't spark at all. I think I fucked the coil. So now I'm waiting for a new coil. The truck is dead for now, I'm pissed.
So my newest cat, still old, 70k freedom miles, idled like shit. The car was free, so I buy a bunch of shit to fix, it needed some of it and the idle was near perfect. Idiot light keeps coming on after reset, the car is still not happy. It's running way too rich.
The spark plugs and o2 sensors definitely agreed with that assessment, black on the pre-cat, ash on the post cat.
So I then begin to smell raw fuel in the engine compartment including when I don't even have the hood up, there's a fuel leak. So it's one of two things, high pressure pump (notorious bitch of a part according to the internet) and the injectors. The fuel pump would cause lean condition but bad idle, leaking injectors would cause the other symptoms, possibly including the fuel smell after sitting though unlikely.
So I'm waiting for the 3 day weekend to do that and I'm driving with Bestie because listen, bestiemom works for me, waaaaay more hours than she charges and all hours day and night on my home business so I help her out because frankly picking bestie up from school is waaay easier than the shit bestiemom does.
Well there was apparently a toy under the passenger seat, so when Bestie moved the seat back it pushed up on the motor and popped the shaft out of the worm gear.
Holy fucking shit dude, 3 vehicles down. So pissed. I skipped work and spent an hour popping it back in. The toy was there for at least 2 years because it was a stupid mcdonalds happy meal toy and she hasn't had a happy meal for ever.
Fixed it thank god, but still needed to vent.
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I admire your ability to fix cars but at some point you gotta let go. 3 broken cars and no working one is Soviet-tier. Host also likes to tinker around with broken stuff endlessly but if you look at it rationally, is the amount of money, work and especially time worth it?
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Nope all the new cars are either garbage or garbage and hybrid and there's no fucking way I'm buying a car that becomes disposable when some stupid battery inevitably fails. The replacements are always used, don't last long, dangerous, and cost more than the car's worth.
I will no longer own a car that's newer than 2019, everything they sell here is retarded unreliable, all new designs are stupid. Would never buy American, or European, and my next car will probably be a 2019 4runner but I don't need 4 cars.
You think I want a newer truck? You're batshit crazy, every old fuck who sees my truck feels compelled to say something like "I used to have that truck and I wish I never got rid of it."
My cars are mostly under 100k mi anyway.
Take your new cars and shove them up a Norrh African's ass.
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yeah but you could buy a decent old car instead of having 3 broken ones.
i hate the modern botnet shit thats perma-connected to the internet and sells your data as well but theres no escape with eu regulations in the long run.
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I'm telling you, there are no decent cars anymore. I watch a lot of mechanic videos, the new cars suck. Maybe in Kashtanastan there are some locally produced cars that are okay, or you could get an 80's Volvo 240 or a Lada, they seem to last forever.
No botnet in the truck, no radio even.
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Oh yeah! I order a high pressure fuel pump and it doesn't fit. I ask the dealer and they don't sell the original anymore, instead they'll sell me a conversion kit for a replacement for $2200.
Welp, return that one and hell no to the $2200 fuel pump mutherfucking son of a bitch.
We'll see of the new injectors fix the engine light at least, I used my only half day off to tear the intake manifold off and replace the injectors. 3 day weekend means I might get a day off on Monday.
If that doesn't fix it, then this car is trash basically. Because I already sunk $2000 into it and it's worth $6000, won't be putting 2200 more, that basically means I bought the fucking thing and I wouldn't have chosen this.
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I told you about trash cars, I told you
Dog Bear
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Like I said, at least if the light doesn't come on, I'm good. The pump shouldn't affect that.
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The fuel injectors I got were counterfiet! Ffs. The code on the injector didn't match the code o the box so as others have said online, you got scammed Sam. So I had to return those and order the dealer parts at a whopping 4x the price. F.
Still need them, two leak. Now we're up to about 2500 for a free car. Also got a fuel pump supposedly couldn't get the fuckers wanted me to buy bullshit kit for 4x the price. Will see if this one is right.
That should be everything. Fucking Chinese nevron scammers.
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Fixed the truck. Don't know why but the line from the ignition to the coil died. Had to add a new line. Works now.
Just waiting on parts and I'll have 3 cars again hopefully.
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Someone came in my kitchen and said, who did this? The tiling and custom woodwork is master level.
Just me the Bear, Master of everything.
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>someone came into my kitchen
for a moment i thought someone broke into your house
tried tiling once - never again! it looked uh - artistic
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So, Exgf was a phenomenal cook, like her mom back in the day was gourmet level no joke, now her cooking sucks bc she is on a low salt kick, but Exgf isn't and she made some kind of loose meat and it had some ingredient in it that gave her hives so I took it gladly bc its been since last Thanksgiving since I had exgf cooking.
Holy Jesus it was epic. I put it in between some brioche buns with mayo and oh my god fucking unforgettable tex-mex loose meat sloppy joe wet dream.
Just wow.
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Was called a kike on X for telling someone they have Jew Derangement Syndrome.
My point was they were trying to explain the Hews killed JFK or some other stupid thing that no one cares about.
I don't care about Jews aa much as I don't care about Great White Sharks or Polar Bears, but maybe I would care more if I had to deal with them. Still, why so obsessed? Anyway.
I was raised Catholic and that cured me from ever giving a fuck about anyone's religion. My true lord and savior is of course...
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What are you even doing on social media? Whats the point?
Well at least you can't get arrested for a Like as in Germany.
I had to look up what 'loose meat' is. What's the difference from minced meat?
Can't say I'm a good cook. I lake baking cakes and cookies but our ordinary meals are bland. Healthy but neither especially tasty nor good-looking. The body gets used to it. I'm proud I've managed to completely shut down buying sweets and stuff. Host would devour that stuff if laying around, but it isn't. Becaaause -I won't let him buy it. Or anything else that's none- essential.
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It wasn't minced for one. Other than that I don't know off the top of my head.
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A Bear can't trust anyone, the fucktards at the dealer tried to sell me $2200 in adapter fuck shit for a pump I got from another dealer for $600.
Asshole car has new injectors and high pressure fuel pump, started easily, no rough idle, no gas smell, seems ok, no engine lights.
Fucker better run for more than 100 miles before the next drama, bitch.
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asian cars are the way to go. i think you showed that toyota has the least problems. or some romanian dacia. at least no useless shit and cheap to repair. the parts are renault. no diea if thatss an option for us though. a lot of people drive them here.
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My other car is Asian, never had a problem. My next car will be a 2019 4runner
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I cleaned the contacts on the coil and used some tune-up grease and it started and ran fine. I checked voltages and they seemed to show low voltage at the coil which is why I cleaned the contacts. 9V is ok, 6V is minimum, 12V is maximum. It was at 6V. So afterwards it was at 9V and we're good. When the Alternator kicks in, you see 11.5V so no problem now.
The truck is very old, old enough for contacts to rust. Still going though, I constantly get people coming up and asking to buy it. The thing is older than me and worth way more than what I could sell it for. Newer trucks are literally junk.
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It's awesome to fix old stuff that has history. But it requires a lot of work, time and money
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Naa
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Yesterday sucked, lots of stress, I just wanted to return my unused fence crap because I completed the fence and had left over shit. Take the truck of course, it's working and again since I'm retarded, I thought I ran out of gas in my driveway and spent half an hour transferring fuel from a can and the fucker wouldn't start then I realized I didn't turn the fuel valve on again bc retarded. -.-
Next, load up the truck with shit that's not supposed to get wet and it starts raining. Global Climate change for me here means on-shore flow through July, so less sunny days and then monsoonal southern moisture all fucking August and September which means occasional rain, sometimes significant, which if you look at the averages that's unheard of this time of year, never ever ever happens in history except the last 5-10 years, then every fucking year which is fine except it's happening multiple times a month now in August and September and so I'm trying to do shit, expecting IT NEVER EVER EVER EVER RAINS between May and October like redoing my roof and it's fucking raining in June, July, August, September fuck you.
So I have to unload the truck again, now this is an hour and a half wasted and I load up the krautmobile with construction materials and have to do two trips, needed gas anyway, it's ok.
But the fucking store can't hire anyone besides downies so they can't figure out how to return things even though that's what they're doing all day and give store credit only when it's obviously on the receipt but they can't figure out how to match what I'm returning with what I bought. Fucking scam.
Next I forget to get gas and then have to go do that, get diarrhea from something I ate so I'm stuck at home in the afternoon. My Amazon package arrives and says delivered 2 but only delivered 1 but used the same picture for both. I try to navigate the website for half an hour, AI is trained on retards so it's also retarded and can't help me. Another scam.
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All my 1st world problems getting me down. Exgf tells me for the 4th time and I finally understand that she has cancer and it's not a big deal yet, but they're watching it now, could be benign. I had a lot of that kind, had big like 2lb tumors removed that were "benign". So she might need that.
Anyway the german car is doing well now though I can't get the fucking rose scent out of it, making it forever smell like Grandma. After the new injectors, I had to return the potentially counterfeit ones and the fuckers at FCP Euro with their "no hassle" returns are giving me a damn hassle.
It's turning around today though, I got out of Jury duty, I get a notification that my 2nd package hasn't shipped yet, so Amazon fixed their own shit, and got out of doing bullshit at work. Looking up.
I'll fucking reverse the charges on those assholes at FCP Euro if they don't return shit I didn't even use.
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I thought I ran out of gas in my driveway and spent half an hour transferring fuel from a can and the fucker wouldn't start then I realized I didn't turn the fuel valve on again bc retarded. -.-
This is something I'd more expect of my host than a Bear Genius!
get diarrhea from something I ate
Weak. Host bought minced meat from the bargain bin that already had questionable color and smell. Problems weren't.
Exgf tells me for the 4th time and I finally understand that she has cancer and it's not a big deal yet, but they're watching it now, could be benign. I had a lot of that kind, had big like 2lb tumors removed that were "benign". So she might need that.
Wtf man, right, I forgot about that. You already told us. Still scary. Also I imagine your exgf desperately trying to get the Bear Brain to realize something. I know how tough that is. Then again, I'm not a woman but a monster. I speak in a way that's clear and coherent. Not some 'you should know what I mean even if I don't say it' shit.
I got out of Jury duty
Wait, wait, I haven't heard about that! You were selected for jury duty? Did you have to acquit some nigger or what? That's one of our nightmares to get selected for jury duty. We don't want to deal with other peoples problems.
potentially counterfeit injectors
Didn't hear about this either. They sold you fake car parts? How did you find out? Some of those chink copies are near perfect.
Stress level here - zero.
Luckily all is well atm.
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>Chink copies
yep, close but different and garbage, now they are giving me the hassle part of the no-hassle returns.
>Jury duty
It's a regular thing, I got out of it saying I had to "take care of a dependent" which is of course sometimes true because I pick up Bestie sometimes. 2nd time in a row I used that excuse. Jury duty is the "jury of your peers" side of the justice system and they pay you $5 a day to do fuck-all, I can't obviously afford to waste my time in that.
I had to serve once and they settled before we had to make a decision. It was a human trafficking case and the human who was trafficked folded, the American who trafficked him got caught right there in court.
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Krautmobile still kickin, bitches ended up not returning the counterfeit injectors. Got $200 paperweights now, not even good ones.
So tell me this, why do I still poop twice a day when I'm only eating once? Stupid
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The poop is leaking over from the Negative Plane.
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It's decidedly not demonic poop
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I eat one FUCKING MEAL a day, ONE! I'm starving all the time and I gain weight three days in a row. Back to 205, what the LITERAL ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK?!!?!?!! So pissed rn.
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That's it, I believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORDAis1YH9k
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How's this possible? Maybe your tulpas are secretly eating while you sleep? If more come out than goes in and you gain weight, something's fishy.
You're all weird. Bernd gets stronger instead of exhausted by heavy workout, Bear gets fatter by not eating, what about you, Kashtan?
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Those fucking turd horders! I should have followed my instinct and never started this.
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I'm done.
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keep us updated if that fixes the problem! you gotta lose weight to fit into the ultimate car
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I added 40 minutes of walking a day. So boring
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The walker!
I can't discern whether Kashtan's car is an AI abomination or real Eastern European craftsmanship. But I gotta say this is the funniest thing I saw in a while.
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That german car has crap for gas mileage.
Anyway, I'll be buying a used 4runner if something major happens to either of these cars. I'm not going to replace engine/mentally ill on this car it's worth more than the carfor just parts.
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engine/mentally ill
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You'd have to be mentally ill to replace a tranny on these old cars
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I told you from the beginning it's not worth investing too much money in such an old car, didn't I?
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No, but my old truck is priceless, def worth it.
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Haha what the hell how long did it take you to make this?
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I have been struggling to lose weight, you know, moving more and eating less, zero progress.
Then I said, "FUCK YOU SUN!"
I lost 4.5 lbs by eating more.
Mhm, that fucking Sun was feeding me like a plant. Fucking photosynthesis.
On another subject I tried MSG and it did exactly jack shit to the flavor of my meal. I am not Asian enough to even taste it.
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These are those girls from that band tatu like 25 years ago and the one on the left in this picture looks a lot like the bartender girl I hung out with in NYC that one summer I lived in a closet and made no money. (Not in a gay way)
This was the majority of the basis for Ashley but Ashley is way nicer and not half gay. (She was bi and also had a GF that pretty much considered me a threat but was "taking a pause" or some shit from chickie.
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These girls look like shit now, oof. The girl I know would be well my age obviously, or was she older? I think I was 21? I can't even remember what year that was anymore. I think they gave me too many drugs when they stole my appendix.
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These girls look like shit now, oof.
They are Russians. They look extremely hot as Teens but from there it quickly goes downhill. Well they undoubtedly looked good when Tatu became famous. I had to look it up and man, that was 2002. They were born in 84 and 85 so they are actually younger than me and were 16-17 back then. Borderline.
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Eww they're old.
It's the alcohol, it ages you.
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So I've sustained 205 with 2150 cal per day. Thatseems reasonable.
I can remove 500 calories from that and still sustain 205. That's unreasonable.
I'm counting every calorie. So a while back I was at 1250/day and lost weight through to 195. I will try this again.
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You're too obsessed with weight and calories. It's all bogus.
Truth is nobody can tell you what happens with the theoretical caloric energy of food within your body. How much is truly metabolized, incorporated, used in anabolic pathways, eaten by gut flora or excreted is highly variable. Genetics, hormones and stuff. I'm sure you know. Generally highly processed goyslop food has more calories that end up in fat than complex fibrous raw ingredients that actually take the body effort to break down. When I made host live on 600-800 kcal I was surprised how much food that was. Because it was all vegetables and mushrooms. Eat 2000 kcal of vegetables and see if you sustain your weight.
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lmao
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This is by no means a flex, I have a computer from 2019 that's my main computer at home, it's great, fast, reliable, just reloaded it after the main hard drive was getting issues, and it's better than ever. Win 10 of course. Runs Rimworld just fine.
It's not compatible with win 11, don't even care. Security? Ha! I used win 7 on my old computer even as late as last year. I got virus protection.
Well, the video card is a 1080, yes, that old, and to play a demo, I had to download the latest Nvidia driver, it bugged it out. Anyway, had to roll back, tried that, it turns out that was a bad idea. I couldn't even get into windows after. FML. Also turns out f8 doesn't work on win10, you need to be in windows to restart in safe mode, wtf? I hate this retarded fuck shit. Or you have to hard reset it 3 times. Fucking why not spin on my heals and tap my ruby red slippers together you fuck shits. Anyway, that worked, was able to restore point and it was ok.
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PTSD now Bitchrosoft.
New computer is probably $3500-5000, stupid. Turns out building your own rig is stupid because it's a glitchfest and they write custom drivers for a reason. I don't know how to write custom drivers. Luckily I have money but seriously, this is stupid.
The German car is doing fine after 400 miles or so, still ok. Surprised.
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>computer from 2019
Our PC is from 2006 and runs Win7. But it's not connected to the internet for obvious reasons. We have 2 more modern laptops. Still older than yours. Running Linux.
>harddrive failure
I never understood this. What are people doing with their hard drives? I can't remember host ever having a failing drive. Ram sticks yes, once motherboard. But not once a hard drive. Even the 20 year old ones still run fine.
I don't think it has to be a new computer for 5K unless you want a 5090 for 'reasons' which costs half of that alone. Also rimworld is a native linux game and should run fine on something like ubuntu. Unless you need some fancy software that only runs on Windows (which is why we have the ancient PC), I see no reasons to buy a new computer every 2 years because Microsoft says so.
Host has been playing with the idea to get a new computer for years but I have been able to shut that off so far. There's no reason to. We play no video games so why? Ask yourself if a laptop isn't a better idea. You can use it everywhere and don't have to sit in a dark room indoors in great weather.
Oh wait, you're a Bear...
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>suggesting bullshit OS
STOP, I'd rather elect a Muslim as mayor than that
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Windows is the biggest bullshit OS and you know that!
Well, I'm done giving advice to Bears who are against everything I say on principle. Have fun with your spyware that will cause more issues in a year or so when it forces you to upgrade to Win12. Not my problem.
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I can't even run win 11, but ok. I just want to play games and watch poorly done AI vidoes, if they want to spy on that, great!
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inb4 Alice breaks into your computer and steals all your nudes
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Let's see, I have some nudes on my computer that I used to draw 18yold Ren topless, and similarly I drew 22yrold Ashley completely nude but no one ever saw that one. With their claimed ages now I wouldn't even know how to get references and I'm sure they're probably illegal anyway.
I think there may be a few pictures of myself but fully clothed because I wanted to draw myself with my system but that never happened and at this point never will. I have nevet sent anyone nor even taken nudes of myself or exgf even though she said I could. Why? No thanks.
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inb4 Alice breaks into your computer and steals all your nudes
implying I want to see this
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