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A car is freedom.
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
A car is bills.
Sure, in the sense that a computer is a computer, coffee is coffee, a meal is a meal, and a console is a console. Which is to say "not really".
irt "bills";
Life is bills. A car is not a mortgage though. It's kind of the opposite of a mortgage, really.
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I've been screwed over by too many breakdowns, insurance increases and gas price hikes to feel anything toward a car other than a sense that a good car is one that won't fuck me over financially.
Back when I was sixteen though, yeah a car was freedom.
Now I feel more like convenient public transportation would be freedom.
That looks like freedom to me.
$800 - oh yeah.
Convenient public transit is only freedom if you pretend there's nothing outside your town, and if you somehow find a way to convince yourself that living entirely by someone else's schedule qualifies as "freedom". And having owned several cars it seems to me that breakdowns are only a problem if you buy an ancient car, don't do any maintenance, and/or deliver pizza in it. Insurance hikes are alien to me since I haven't had a ticket or accident in over six years.
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Yeah that looks highway-capable.
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Ooh, pitchfork. Didn't think of that.
I'm sure he's worried about highway driving with that, VC.
He's claiming it's freedom. Being confined to one town doesn't sound like freedom to me. It sounds like a penal-colony.
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I know there's motorcycles you can get that will hit highway speeds and get 75mpg. Will run you somewhere around $1.5k used.
In New England you don't have to take the highway to get somewhere.
That might be different in other parts of the country that weren't settled before automobiles though.
You can get from DC to NYC without using highways? How many more hours does that take?
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Go go carpool/HOV lane.
No shit.
Right now there's that awkward range where walking to some places takes way to long, but driving there just feels like a waste. Scooter would be perfect for that.
Too bad I don't trust the people in this city one bit to not drive me over.
Chicken curry with rice for dinner and lemon sorbe with strawberries for dessert. What's makes it even better was that there was an awesome episode of Spongebob on.
Yeah that remark really makes it sound like I'm at all excited about it. He said that's freedom. To me being trapped within one town isn't freedom. I say this spending the vast majority of my time the past two years stranded in one town, only able to escape when I can find a car to borrow or convince someone to come rescue me. That scooter would not do, there's no way it can safely handle even the little 2-lane highways I have to take just to get to the interstate, let alone the interstate itself.
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Hahah. Yeah right dude.
Chicks dig Vespas.
Um.
I don't know, because commuting from DC to NYC really isn't something I do.
Freedom, for me, is not even having a car or other vehicle. I'm not expected to (a) drive anyone anywhere, (b) pick anyone up from anywhere, (c) pick anything up from anywhere for anyone, (d) do the whole "designated driver" thing, (e) have to deal with assholes on the road, and so on.
People define "freedom" in many different ways.
THEN YOU'RE NOT FREE AND THE WORLD IS SHIT SHIT SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
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Guy: "Let's pull over and hop in the backseat."
Girl: "Uh, aren't we already in the backseat?"
I rest my case.
Getting laid with a scooter sounds dangerous.
Sure.
If you live in Poland.
Grayhounds being of course known for going straight from major-city to major-city without making dozens of stops in every podunk-town along the way, as well as running whenever it's convenient for me.
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
I am angry with you now. You've toyed with my feelings for the last time!
BUT IT LETS YOU BE FREEEEEEEE
Well since going down the street to buy some groceries isn't something I do clearly being locked in my apartment is freedom.
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