I'm discounting things like limited runs, one offs or dumb shit like just gluing a lot of diamonds to one here and that arrives you at this, curiously all at about ~15.000€ give or take

• Pinarello Dogma F Disc Super Record
• Specialized S-Works Epic 8
• Coffee Bike

To be fair I can't find a price for the coffee bike without the espresso maker and assorted equipment but you can just buy one of those

I occasionally go on an SCP binge and I'm glad to see they've gone and stayed woke after the schiism. This is such a good SCP.

Crucially you have to attach a cantilever construction right where your actual brakes are so if this ever catches on any road debris your tyre picked up you will instantly go frontflipping over your handlebars

It's called the trotify and here's the STLs since you can't actually buy it anymore

Borrowed one rather similar to this from a mate to test out whether shit's good. Have given it a few testrides now and here's my impression:

• towing it empty you really don't notice it at all. Gotta watch out in very sharp turns like hairpins, but otherwise goes off easy.

• with weight (I got up to ~15kg so far, so think like a weeks shopping) you do notice it but not nearly as much as you'd think. What's nice is if you're used to panniers for most operations your bicycle feels way less sluggish since all the weight sits a lot lower and on a rotational axle

• Parking is a bit annoying, most bike parking isn't made for vehicles that long excluding some rare cargo bike parking. So you have to unhitch it and since you probably want to lock it up, too that's a hassle. I think if I got one for myself I'd either devise some sort of lock to keep it affixed if possible and just carry a spare cable lock for all other times since they're usually fine for the 30 mins or so you spend at the store

• Going past cyclist pinch points is a full ass hassle now because there's really no way to do it without unhitching it. I avoided some routes due to this

• this one is highly area dependent but like with anything car drivers aren't used to seeing they seem to pay a lot more attention at the weirdo who's bicycle towing shit. You're also gonna get stared at a lot.

• braking doesn't seem to be really affected all that much so far. I took down my cruising speed by maybe 5 - 7kph just in case but I've not really noticed it shoving me all that much, but then I also didn't have to go full emergency brake so far.

• for most things I'd just strap down a big plastic tub on it to throw shit in, but I do like the versatility of the flatbed in case you ever need to transport something long. Theoretical legal maximum where I live would be 1,5m over the end of the trailer, which comes to about ~2,5m of length you could transport if you're willing to also push it over the edge of the connection side a bit.

• I have plenty of storage so this isn't much of an issue, but I do appreciate the wheels release at the press of a button so if you can store it upright against a wall or so it takes about 30cm of horizontal space

All in all; I think I'm gonna get one, this is pretty nifty and fills the missing middle for things I'm annoyed at having to use a car for because you can't really strap them to a standard issue bicycle, so things that are big but not hugely heavy. A weeks shopping, some particle board for DIY stuff, a beer crate or two and the like.

I don't even mean this as a critique on the site, the world's just got even more terrible.

many such cases

i'm kind of struggling to put this into words but I've replayed a bit of Far Cry 2 and was amazed by how much the enviroment reacts to the firefights. The fire mechanic, obviously, but even beyond that sparks fly when you hit metal, sheds or other structures get destroyed, explosions make the plants react to the shockwave and form some little craters.

Then I played Control which has very different style and pace of combat but it has the same thing going on. It's easily legible but you can feel like there's a lot of, like, destructive potential filling the air here currently.

Contrast this to something like even Modern Warfare 2 (pick any of the three there is, really) and while it is THE bombastic shooter it still feels flat. Yeah maybe you get a broken window and some bullet decals on the walls but outside of scripted sequences any CoD level looks basically the same at the start and once you're through it having shot 800 rocket launchers at the place.

So I'm wondering, what other games do this sort of enviroment reaction / cinematic shooting the best, where you can really feel that a lot of very fast objects are hitting a lot of different things and breaking them?

Red Faction: Guerilla and it's sequels are obvious, I'm thinking Stranglehold and at least Mafia 2 also did this really well. What else is there?

Most of the german meme internet history is, surprise, garbage. This one is grand tho. Nikel Pallat was a member of far left german punk band Ton, Steine, Scherben which enjoys itself limited success even today. Very a part of the 70s german left when they still had balls, occupying houses and fighting cops (more) and such.

Nikel Pallat (N): The TV does a fucking shitty liberal programme. We get the opportunity to parlour socialistically, some of us get to talk evolution, some of us talk revolution.

N: And what happens, objectively? The oppression doesn't change at all. TV is an instrument of opression for the masses. And that's why, if anything is ever to change, you have to position yourself against the opressor. You have to assume a position!

N: And that's why I'll destroy this table right now!

[axe noises]

N: There! Now we can continue discussion.

N: The microphones...the microphones I need for people in juvenile jail.

I keep seeing this pop up in comment sections, about how you need to tint your windshield to protect you from the F350 Xenon Eyemelters and if you don't that's your fault. What the fuck? What do you mean tint your windshield, how the fuck do you see at night?

The amount of people just posting evidence of them being entirely unable to drive a car with 0 consequences is insane. Great compilation of you raging out over somebody going 5 below the limit, phone in hand in the drivers seat. Really liked when you got stuck behind a lorry for 20 seconds and were frothing at the mouth over it. You're never getting your license back.

Image via https://velo-gap.de/2020/05/26/duerkopp-kettenlos-1912-kardanantrieb/ who have lovingly restoreded this specimen into a rideable state

Another option for a bicycle drivetrain beyond chain, penny-farthing, the velocipede or lever-driven bicycles is just put a driveshaft on there, like a car.

There's scant information out there as to how good it is, mostly because by 1920 or so everybody stopped doing it. CeramicSpeed has some kind of vaporware around this for the roadbike I have posted about before but they made the error of trying to do this shit high-tech and with gear changes instead of figuring you could just get good at pedalling your singlespeed so it sucks.

The singlespeed driveshaft bike, all enclosed? Yeah, might be onto something

Picture via https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1930s-lever-driven-bicycle/ and it has a nice story to it if you care for it. The last quote is very dudes rock. Also this has iron tyres on wooden wheels.

This is a singlespeed. Much like there is more than one way to skin a cat, there is more than one way to convert leg movement into rotational force to go well far on two triangles. Like you could just plonk some levers on the rear and use those to convert some leg motion into going forward via wheel. This, by description, would have had freewheels of some sort, but conceptually you could make this even more low tech as a fixie, one lever fixed at the top, one at the rear of the wheel, off you go.