>buy a game
>YOU HAVE TO CLICK ACCEPT ON THIS LICENSE THAT SAYS YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO MODIFY THE SOFTWARE
And I should obey this because....?
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>buying cars like this
I will never part with my 2006 Nissan 350z, I'll repair/replace every fricking inch of it before I buy a new car
Based. I used to be amazed by cool car dashboards and tech, but over the years I realized how shitty they are
Sticking with my car made in 2001 till the day I die
i have an early 2000's trailblazer with a fricked up rught side because my ma bashed it into a collumn in a parking garage. damned thing practically wheezes when i turn the ignition.
i still trust it more than anything on the market nowadays.
Get to wrenchin', boy
Your government can destroy your ICE car any time they want. What are you gonna do about it? Sue them? And then buy A modern car with the money?
2005 dodge ram 1500 because I am man but I respect your decision
>i buy big truck because I am man
Americans are fricking stupid
Yep, and Cletus is proud of it
They’re pretty useful
The transmission in my car is worth $10k, it has been replaced 5 times under warranty due to multiple different issues over a 7 years period. If it breaks again, it will no longer be covered under warranty and I will be forced to front the money myself. I would love to keep my car, but if it happens again I don't think it would be worth my time or money.
Doesn't the lemon law apply here?
>5 times in 7 years
Just Kia things
That's just its arbitrary price, it's definitely not worth that much if it needs to be replaced almost every year.
2018 M4 here. The worst fricking thing is when buying the fricking thing from the dealership, the stooges are unironically called "Geniuses", and tries so fricking hard to be the Apple of cars, I should've seen the warning signs then and there.
Now, all of the 2020 and newer cars look like absolute ass. I don't think I really need to talk about them rolling out a subscription plan for heated seats. What an absolute shitshow.
I guess if they really want to be Apple, they can enjoy the second-hand jailbroken market, because that's what they're destined for at this rate. Next time, I'll just buy a mid-2000's 4Runner and drive it into the fricking around.
The absolute end for me was the introduction of push to start buttons, or even FOBkeys with proximity unlocking. Central computers controlling mechanical features is one thing but if my car is easy enough to steal simply by cloning an RFI signal then its worthless.
If you replace every inch of it, you will more or less, by definition, have a completely new car, so why buy a new one at that point?
No it won't, Theseus. Your story is bs.
>new parts means new blueprint
thesius gays still cant comprehend
because i like the model i drive and dont want to upgrade to some new piece of shit that will have dead batteries in under 8 years, isnt friendly to being user serviceable, has all sorts of BS tech like mandatory speed limiters, or tries to sell me hardware functions as a subscription fee.
My car is fine. I have the tools to repair and maintain it. I like what i have. Frick off.
you and your worthless ship can frick off, theseus
Based, my 03 cavalier might be a piece of shit but it's my piece of shit. I'll keep that thing running till the day I die
You say that, but I bought a new "smart TV" yesterday and it's almost kinda dystopian how much it bombards you with ads, apps, alexa etc. my remote even has specific buttons for Netflix and Disney+, I'm starting to feel old because I've never seen TVs act like this.
>I'm starting to feel old because I've never seen TVs act like this.
TVs have been doing this for 10 years already, bro.
my previous TV was probably 13 years old
I don't even watch Television. I just connect to my PC and watch shows/youtube and play vidya that way. But I still felt kinda hit over the head with the aggressive monetization and commercializing of it all.
Switch it off and throw it in the garbage.
I don't use my smart tv's software, I just hook up an Apple TV and it's a way better experience.
homebrewed hybrid or electric car is better than buying this homosexual shit.
BMW is now software-locking features like headed seats/wheels behind subscriptions.
I can understand a self-driving subscription, but not for already installed hardware.
well maybe you should read the license before buying said license you fricking moron
Because i'm sick of homosexuals complaining on Ganker that their "money was stolen" when they inevitably get banned.
>Buy a game
>Get banned from ever playing online again because you said "Night" once in a private server with your friends
IM SICK OF homosexualS COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS! THEY DIDNT STEAL YOUR MONEY!
>Purchase service
>Agree to terms and conditions
>Violate terms and conditions
>Can no longer use service
Maybe you shouldn't throw your money away. Might be an idea.
>send company 100 pages long letter
>they don't send it back
>this means they accepted my contract
See ya in a few years when you inevitably get banned
Buy car.
Say Black person.
Get banned, not allowed to drive on public roads anymore, because of $bad_word
Say n word
Don't get banned, despite literally saying the same.
>buying new cars when there are thousands of used low miles cars without a tablet for a center console
lol
>"Customer" instead of "Owner"
Really shows you how they view things.
what fricking car is this?
Tesla, what else
Mercedes EQS, you can still open it because there's a plastic cover over the handle. This is just a scare tactic so suburban mums think they have to take it to a pricy specialist.
This is the merc equivalent of the model S, i.e. overpriced "luxury" electric for overpaid yuppies. people buy this to be seen in it before giving it back in a year for the next toy, hardly anyone driving it would even care to fix it.
So that's why there are so many one-year-olds on the used car market.
the vast majority of these cars aren't bought but loaned on 1/2/3 year contracts with specific mileage limits. After that they give the car back and get a newer model. You don't see them because very few people actually own the cars, and the tech is still so early that they rarely last more than 5 years and parts are nigh impossible to get making secondhand electric cars a real gamble.
Electric engines and especially batteries are still very difficult to build and maintain, once we crack the storage problem expect to see cheaper, more simple engine parts from 3rd party companies that will undercut the insane price gouging that companies like Tesla are profiting from.
buy a secondhand from within the last 15 years with less than 70,000 miles. don't buy a used sports car and focus on utility/mileage over looks. Get to know it inside and out, what a car should feel like and how it works, then you'll never be duped buying a shit car in the future.
I heard through the grapevine that the EQS has these warnings because of a serious risk of electrocuting you with high voltage if it breaks and you open the hood without knowing what youre doing.
Supposedly regular merc techs are not even allowed to work on them without taking a special EQS electrical safety course.
Thats a car? God i hate everything right now.
>accept
>check online how to safely open the hood and do whatever needs to be done to use the gatekept features
>???
It’s not like they can do shit about it.
How long before you get an account for a company's ignition app instead of keys and documents when you buy a car?
10 years. Own nothing. Be happy.
it's 7 and a half ears you ape, it's supposed to be by 2030
you need a monthly sub to access heated seats, heated steering wheel and other features in new BMWs
it won't be long before everything you can do in a car is part of a subscription model
we're already there with Tesla
Were all already in hell arent we?
That's an electrical car, right? So it doesn't have an engine, it has a battery.
That does mean it has a lot less points of failure and a lot less things can go wrong under the hood, so you do have way less reasons to ever open up the hood in the first place, doesn't it?
I don't know much about cars, but electric cars don't need oil changes or water to cool them, right?
>So it doesn't have an engine
Your theory is right, but you worded it like a mongoloid.
What it means is that if ANYTHING goes wrong you won’t be looking at replacing a $100 part but whole 20k battery. Enjoy.
Enjoy replacing your battery bank every four years for double the cost of the car at a manufacturer approved service centre sweetie. Enjoy getting software locked from your vehicle after replacing a bulb and needing manufacturer approved diagnostic equipment from a manufacturer approved service centre to stop your car from #cancelling you. Enjoy your car phoning home when you say a no no word. Truly the transport of the resistance.
>Enjoy replacing your battery bank every four years
I don't get how the electric car can be the future.
Powers that be are secretly in panic over global oil reserves. They need some kind of solution and they need it fast.
We need an alternative for oil. And electricity can be made from many different sources. All it needs is better batteries. By better I mean cheaper and with greater life expectancy.
Graphene batteries just became a proper thing, expect to see them in cars within 10 years. You'll be paying both of your kidneys though.
They dont speak about YOUR future. They always talk of THEIR future. And their future is fricking rich while yours is fricking poor.
enjoy changing your combustion engine every four years for double the cost of the automobile at an expensive "mechanic's station" sweetie. Enjoy getting locked from your vehicle after replacing a tyre and needing a manufacture approved technician from a manufacture approved school simply to keep your automobile working. Enjoy your car overheating in the midday sunshine, while my mighty horse and wagon power through. Truly the transport of the future.
The end of horses as normal transport was really more the world wars fault rather than the cars of the day, so many horses died.
also the fact that horses are much slower and cant be mass produced like cars
The cars of the day were really not all that much faster and were prone to breaking down all the time, the end of horses was the numbers game after the first world war killed most of them, as you say, they can't be mass produced, by the time they had anywhere near the numbers back to be viable cars had taken over entirely and gotten reliable enough.
Yeah I think the top speed for cars at the time was around 30km/h or roughly 20mph, trains were at around 95km/h or 60mph.
Race horses reach about 40mph, but those are race horses of course.
>he can't change his own oil or tyre
it's true that the average IQ has been decreasing every generation but come on man
If I don't get a stamp from an authorized service for changing oil, car loses value.
Your plastic 2014 BMW is going to lose 90% of it's value within the first five year regardless
>it's
GOTEM!
>pic
Know a guy whose gf died like that in her sleep.
It was his first gf too, so it was like a cosmic evil inflicted injustice upon him.
Or maybe a cosmic good inflicted justice upon her.
The people who buy and use these cars and then listen to the warnings are not the same who know what a dipstick is
you are a dipstick
>sudden arrythmic death syndrome
>SAD
Guys do you think Trump was trying to cast death hexes on people via twitter and that's why they had him removed as presiden? He signed like 50% of them with SAD
electric cars still need maintenance and lubrication. Most still have transmissions, and differentials.
>a service based economy is le bad
Is there a bigger right wing dog whistle? This is how we resist capitalism!
>wasting tax payer money on the mentally handicapped
>~~*butterfly*~~
>WARNING Risk of injury from using the windshield wiper...
>"Frickin' Chink drivers..."
>"Slur detected. Commencing shutdown."
This is not real right?
Please tell me it's not
>buy a game
You got it wrong immediately. You're not buying a game. You are buying a license to play the game.
EULA's are nothing but ass covering, very few of them would actually stand up to scrutiny if they made their way to court in a dispute.
Guys, i think i should hoard 10.000 or 20.000 liters of gas.
t. future house fire victim
Gasoline is difficult to store at home without degrading. Hope you use diesel instead.
i heard BMW has heated seat DLC
Everything was lost the moment we agreed to drive by wire.
What should I get as my first car?
A 1999 Toyota Cresta
Any second, third, or fourth gen Ford Explorer
Anything under 150k miles is good for another 100k. Just watch out for rust and transmission issues
First of all, buy used, never new. Even if you might have the dosh.
Second, buy a hatch, not a sedan, not a sports car, and certainly not a "hot" hatch either. Something like a yaris or an auris, or an i20. 10 years older at the very least obviously.
And third, buy lpg or convert it later. Screw EVERYONE for telling you otherwise
>lpg
Lmao yes that will have a future now that the world's #1 supplier is going apeshit.
It's still going to last for quite a while anon, don't think it's just gonna go away in a summer or something.
yes pay for an expensive conversion that you can only fill up at in commercial gas stations, im sure the fuel will take off long before your 2001 Ford KA rusts away
Well, I'm sure in the states this advice won't probably go off, but here in Europe it certainly does. In my country there isn't any, ANY big gas station without an lpg pump, and the ones that don't, are shit ones anyways that noone uses even for standard 95. In my town alone we have 4 stations that serve lpg.
And my car's a 2011 Huyndai i20. Truth be told it was already modded, so that was kind of nice.
>yaris i20
If you're by yourself or with one other person fair enough, but be aware that the back row is miserable in these. If you have 3 or 4 people, you should absolutely aim for something like corolla or civic at least.
Yeah, I completely agree with you man, the back in my i20 is not very spacious, especially for having sex with my girlfriend, we have to move the front seats all the way forward every time
Some kind of Toyota, most of their cars seem to be near indestructible as long as you remember to change the oils on time.
Do not buy a fricking German car if you live in the states
>prone to being stolen by Black folk
>constant fricking breakdown issues
>cost an arm and a leg to repair
Either buy a jap car if you want something that will never break, or buy american if you want something cheaper thats piss easy to fix.
Frick German cars
Based
The owners of these companies are literally Nazis, that were never prosecuted.
prove that i agreed to your shitty eula before i violated it
If you have to accept a EULA after purchase and weren't explicitly supplied a copy beforehand, then the whole thing is void if you're in the EU. If you HAVE to accept it to be able to continue the software, then you accept under duress and it does not signify any kind of true legally binding acceptance. Infact; the EU specifically has legislation which states that any terms of contract a consumer had no opportunity of familiarizing themselves with beforehand, must be non-binding on the consumer.
Like I said before, most eula's would not withstand a judges scrutiny, even in the US, they're just ass covering with the expectation that it'll almost never end up in a real legal fight.
>clicking on accept
is not a contract at all.
Frick off, EU.
so you don't cheat online, gaynuts
When I was young, I never understood the appeal of buying an old ass crappy car and restoring it to mint condition. Now I do.
We live in a society
I see this as the moment that capitalism went too far.
>adaptive cruise control
>high-beam assist
>adaptive suspension
cant wait for someone to die horribly in a crash cause they didnt pay their subscription
People have been driving just fine before those things existed.
None of that shit works anyways. That shit I'd always first to die and when the customer sees the repair bill and the cost of the golden BMW parts, they leave it dead.
Note: I work at the little garage so I see the second hand bmws, not the guy who still bothers with dealerships. I assume he barely looks at the bill.
>heated steering wheel
Rich people hands must be really delicate.
but can't you just hack all that stuff tho? Like, mess with the car's brain mobo thing and just turn the subs off or something
Of course you can and it's piss fricking easy, but then BMW claims you've tampered with your car and voids your warranty because they didn't collect your tithe.
So? Who cares about warranty? Don't be a complete dumbass with your car and you won't need it.
But then again, we're talking about "people" owning BMW's...
Considering some cars break their engine or transmission within 100k km with all of the oil changes etc being done on time you would be crazy to void warranty on a new car. Or really fricking rich.
I've heard a story about a colleague who went to service a car, and in the shop there was a brand new .......KIA...... that only had done a thousand something kilometers and it had a broken transmission....
> broken transmission....
Always use the parking brake if you have an automatic
ALWAYS
Surely this is a joke, I mean there is simply no possible way that this is real. I just bought a new vehicle (inb4 poorgays screeching) and it didn’t exist at the dealership I went to. Is it BMW only?
Obviously yes
>gets jailbroke by eastern euros before it hits the matket
heh nothing personel krauts
>high beam assist
>you have to pay extra to use your fricking headlights
what the everloving frick
cant they get sued for this? if an accident happens in a foggy night, wouldnt bmw be responsible for it since they didnt let you use a tool that could've helped avoid it?
i'm not sure if its trolling or real , thats how sad this world is
Is it even legal to go to a gas station and just filling the car up, without paying 30% to the car manufacturer?
It clearly shouldn't.
>no subscription fee for opening doors
Just leaving money on the table.
>all cars must be electric by 2030
>all energy generation must be green energy by 2030
>nuclear power is racist
It's almost like the rich want the grid to collapse. Also mining lithium is one of the worst processes for the environment we've ever created, you are the problem sweetie.
Mining lithium is nowhere near "one of the worst processes for the environment we've ever created", the waste is literally just salt water you fricktard
>destroy vast swathes of land and ground water supplies but resistance fighter get iPad
powerful
>the waste is literally just salt water you fricktard
Even if that was true (which it isn't), increased salinity in water is a massive environmental issue in of itself. Educate yourself before you post moron.
Increased salt levels in the ground water table kills off the ability for plants to sustain themselves, because they rely heavily on a quite delicate balance of minerals in the soil and water.
The concentrations of salt water that come from lithium mining are literally pure poison to basically ANY plant life on the planet. Moreover, extraction of lithium involves a lot of lime and magnesium by product in quantities that we do not really know how to handle well and a lot of it ends up going back into the environment as well, rather than being disposed of or kept in storage properly. This also upsets the balance of the ecosystem. Because extraction of lithium requires obscene amounts of fresh water for washing, it is also a danger for the ground water table and fresh water reserves in and of itself; and over-exertion on the available supply leads to lower water tables and drought.
Oh and yes; that 'salt' water waste? The mineral contaminants that make up the 'saltiness' include poisonous levels of arsenic and antimony.
I find this sort of thinking very london-centric, electric cars have problems out in open country, and it especially doesn't work for heavy vehicles that need to be able to carry shit, your not going to be seeing electric trucks or vans.
and more to the point, I don't know a single person in my local area who buys new cars, it's all car trading and sub-£1000 transactions for used vehicles, don't electric cars have longevity problems? those batteries degrade with use.
NOOOOO YOU CAN'T HECKIN OPEN THE HOOD
Just for owning a tesla I'll get on a bike and go as slowly as possible in the middle of the road in front of you. Get fricked cagie.
>it's a new 2022 coupe-styled city crossover with a 3-cylinder mild hybrid
imagine buying a "new" card with all that worthless shit
>And I should obey this because....
Its for everyone's protection, thats why! Are you licensed? Are you insured? Where did you get certified to do your work? This is to protect EVERYONE from UNQUALIFIED people like YOU. Repairs and modifications done by people who think they know better than the manufacturers and mechanics cause HUNDREDS of injuries and DEATHS every year! If you want to be a mechanic so badly then maybe you should to go school to be be one. How dare you try to skirt environmental restrictions and put people at risk every day with your 2 ton death machine all because you think your right to fun drumpfs everyone elses safety!
>Hurr but thats just for cars, what about muh games
SAME. THING. How do you know by modifying the game you wont break your computer? Are you a licensed repair tech? You could accidentally and recklessly unleash a VIRUS that could destroy everyones computer. Stop thinking you know better than the sofware developers. Maybe if you wanted to play computer engineer, you should have gone to school to be one.
> You could accidentally and recklessly unleash a VIRUS that could destroy everyones computer
sign me the frick up
>unleash a virus
>banks and everything goes to shit
>This is to protect EVERYONE from UNQUALIFIED people like YOU
Yes.
YOU NEED A MEDICAL LOISENSE to be allowed to do medical work, otherwise you are a liar and a quack.
And as soon as you call our beloved safe+effective vaccine an experimental gene therapy, we are removing you loisense and you are on your own, because that's not a medical opinion, it's dangerous to our democracy.
>We installed a GPS you can’t turn off. We’ll only look at it for amber alerts, we promise.
>Oh the government asked for the GPS data of every car we made and we just handed it over without asking for a warrant. Whoops. 🙂
>climate menu
>let's you control the climate
>switch TV off
>climate change is gone
>corona also gone
Wierd.
>mfw sharing a planet with clinically-moronic troglodytes who believe electric and hydro-powered cars aren't possible solely because they're illegal to drive
>a planet
Whatever you want to label as the physical environment that we currently (theoretically) reside in.
>physical environment
top kek
>theoretically
I don't necessarily believe any of this is real*.
You can't keep your car if its not electric you fricking brainlets.
Says who and what army?
Im so glad i live in a fricking state where your pic is illegal, what fricking dystopia did that goddamn car crawl out of
>CUSTOMERS CANNOT OPEN THE HOOD ONLY SPECIALISTS
fricking christ
You will own NOTHING. You WILL be happy.
Nah, that got an upgrade.
>buy it used
>crack the software locks
Nothing personnel, israelites.
>access by the customer is not permitted
what car make so i can avoid it in the future
Your car knows what you talk about
Your car knows where and when you go
Your car knows when you gained or lost weight
And that's before you even open the can of worms that is apple carplay/android auto
Well, well, look at the city slicker pay pig pulling up in his fancy microtransaction German car.
God I'm so glad I don't live in some shitty US backwater and can actually just walk to most local conveniences and services.
>EULA contains a very specific clause agreeing not to boycott Israel in any way
Hmm...
>b-but you agreed!
lol
it's literally
>by not dodging my bullet, you agreed to getting shot
you morons don't understand this is a good thing for vidya. no one cares when it's just games getting israelited. israelites once again overplay their hand and now regular people get to say wtf and go to court over license issues and mtx. if you're a moron that bought this care then lol sucks to suck.
Pretty sure that cases against EULA have been won before with the simple argument of "I don't have to read it"
attack them the migrant way "ooga dooga, can't read bugga, gimma gibs"
I don't have to read it is a perfectly valid argument for eula though. It's some popup that appeared after you bought the game. You skipped it because it's unimportant. It's not a contract and "accept" is not your signature.
why is everything new complete garbage?
>buy game
>mod game to skip agreements on startup
Checkmate
That's why you get your cat or your neighbor's child (while babysitting) to click through the prompts.