What Irked You Today?

[Ace-Garageguy]

I see a lot more people in the YT comments praising AI slop "documentaries" full of misrepresentations, inaccuracies, distortions, and outright lies (plus mismatched photos that have nothing to do with the narration) than I see people calling them out for being useless gibberish.

This is why a dumbed-down society that's lacking vast amounts of what used to be considered "general knowledge" or "common knowledge", and who have become complacent about accepting whatever garbage Google vomits up first, with rarely any fact-checking or critical-thinking skills applied, will be easily led to places they probably don't really want to go...if only they stopped to think about it.

Sometimes I just have to wonder if that's been the plan all along...

Edited Monday at 09:25 PM by Ace-Garageguy
punctiliousness

[FoMoCo66]

Scraping off my car after school and my ice scraper broke before I was done. Now I need to get a new one and I had to wait for my defrosters to finish the job.

[Ace-Garageguy]

11 minutes ago, FoMoCo66 said:

Scraping off my car after school and my ice scraper broke before I was done...

Extra special Chinese plastic that gets so brittle when it's cold...

I have some US-made scrapers that are decades old, heavy material correctly speced for the job, still going strong.

[FoMoCo66]

16 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Extra special Chinese plastic that gets so brittle when it's cold...

I have some US-made scrapers that are decades old, heavy material correctly speced for the job, still going strong.

The thing is that one has lasted my family for a long time. It was also some pretty heavy duty stuff, thats why it really frustrated me.

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

Recently I'm hearing primarily younger people, start sentences with "I'm not gonna lie". Well thanks for the warning, but shouldn't that be a given. I think it would be more helpful to let us know when you are going to lie. Or, should we just assume that you are lying if you don't preface you're statement with "I'm not gonna lie"?

[Ace-Garageguy]

59 minutes ago, FoMoCo66 said:

The thing is that one has lasted my family for a long time. It was also some pretty heavy duty stuff, thats why it really frustrated me.

Well, sorry to hear that then.

Plastic, even high-quality plastic CAN get brittle as it ages, as the 'plasticizers' leach out.

But it's pretty common for "offshore-made" plastic items to fail totally in a few months or less, sometimes even turning to powder, or getting sticky, or turning to goo... etc. etc. etc.

[mk11]

Scrapers have varied over the years... 8 tracks, cassettes, cd cases etc.    Oh yeah, and the ones with handles  

[mcs1056]

1 hour ago, Perspect Scale Modelworks said:

Recently I'm hearing primarily younger people, start sentences with "I'm not gonna lie". Well thanks for the warning, but shouldn't that be a given. I think it would be more helpful to let us know when you are going to lie. Or, should we just assume that you are lying if you don't preface you're statement with "I'm not gonna lie"?

Well. I'll be honest with ya...that one doesn't really bother me, to tell you the truth.

[Rodent]

44 minutes ago, mk11 said:

Scrapers have varied over the years... 8 tracks, cassettes, cd cases etc.    Oh yeah, and the ones with handles  

No expert here, I live in California and the two dailies are in the garage. I must admit to occasionally using a credit card in the rare event of needing an ice scraper.

[89AKurt]

What are scapers? 😜  Plastic, rubber, all junk now.

I love how my MacBook always dims down my screen now, just can't stay where I set it.  Waiting for the day when it dims down so much that I can't type in the password.

[Mark]

10 hours ago, Perspect Scale Modelworks said:

Recently I'm hearing primarily younger people, start sentences with "I'm not gonna lie". Well thanks for the warning, but shouldn't that be a given. I think it would be more helpful to let us know when you are going to lie. Or, should we just assume that you are lying if you don't preface you're statement with "I'm not gonna lie"?

Anyone who watches shows like "Cops" or "The First 48" know that, when someone says that, the next thing that comes out of that person's mouth will have absolutely no relationship with the truth.  Usually the people asking the questions already know the answers, and it just becomes a game of how many go-rounds there are before that last person's verbal stylings veer anywhere near the truth.  And even then, it's sometimes by accident.

[Ace-Garageguy]

3 hours ago, Mark said:

Anyone who watches shows like "Cops" or "The First 48" know that, when someone says that, the next thing that comes out of that person's mouth will have absolutely no relationship with the truth.  Usually the people asking the questions already know the answers, and it just becomes a game of how many go-rounds there are before that last person's verbal stylings veer anywhere near the truth.  And even then, it's sometimes by accident.

"Verbal stylings"...that's just funny right there.  

[mcs1056]

My newest irk: Copycat Videos

A4Garage and Kenji'sPlasticModels are...well...models of this hobby. There are several others, too. HPIGuy is among those who does a really watchable presentation. All end with admirable results. 

Lately, though, I've seen some videos where they seem desperate to be the next A4. With much drama, the art of sanding is presented. Black backlighting, stainless "parts presentation" platforms, and often...no glue (some seem like dry fit videos). Taking eight seconds to display their scalpel or paint marker, too. All done in silence, on a spotless work bench, and seemingly lacking the ingenuity and skill of the aforementioned contributors.  

The ADD bothers me, too. Bouncing from sanding body lines to the engine build, then back to body sanding, followed by wheel assembly...I couldn't watch anymore.  

OK. I'm done. Plus, there are kids at whom I need to yell to get off my lawn. 

[Trainwreck]

Taking pictures of a model, cropping the photo for the most impact (read no feet or week old bananas in the photo), composing the text of the models history and or modifications and then waiting at least 45 minutes for another posters kit to be viewed.

You post your model and someone bumps it within 10 minutes and it's lost forever.

Won't be posting for a while as this has happened over 5 times in less than a month. 

Am I missing something here, are new members not supposed to post?  

[stitchdup]

7 minutes ago, Trainwreck said:

Taking pictures of a model, cropping the photo for the most impact (read no feet or week old bananas in the photo), composing the text of the models history and or modifications and then waiting at least 45 minutes for another posters kit to be viewed.

You post your model and someone bumps it within 10 minutes and it's lost forever.

Won't be posting for a while as this has happened over 5 times in less than a month. 

Am I missing something here, are new members not supposed to post?  

the newest post always gets the top post. its nothing to do with membership status. if someone comments on something else, or if someone posts a fresh build makes no difference, whatever has the most recent activity will be top. for example, as soon as i hit enter on this comment, it will get top in this sub forum. its just how it works.

[A modeler named mike]

50 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

the newest post always gets the top post. its nothing to do with membership status. if someone comments on something else, or if someone posts a fresh build makes no difference, whatever has the most recent activity will be top. for example, as soon as i hit enter on this comment, it will get top in this sub forum. its just how it works.

I have found one exception that causes my post not to show. It's called stupidity, and it's totally on me. Write up something to be posted and totally forget to submit the post..🥴 Hey, I am just human not an AI bot.

 

[Engine 51]

Today...almost everything.

[Russell C]

6 hours ago, Trainwreck said:

...post your model and someone bumps it within 10 minutes and it's lost forever. ....

Could you clarify what you mean by "lost forever"? I've posted my builds in the "Under Glass" section, somebody posts theirs next in the same section, and down the conveyor belt history line I go. But my posts from over a decade ago are most certainly still there, for example my thread on my 911 in my avatar. Thus I'm lost on what you could possibly mean by "lost forever."