i suppose i should go to bed. it was boring shit anyway.

fuck i closed my browser and lost all the shit I was doing

I had never actually looked at RE because of my aversion to supporting England

Good news! The English part of RE went bunk in the 60s, the company is 100% Indian now. That’s the reason why they’re so cheap - RE makes about as many motorcycles as all of the European brands do combined, so they have a serious economy of scale advantage in addition to the advantage of being a hundred years old.

Is it your first bike? If so, the best one is one that you’ll get a lot of hours riding, and usually that means a secondhand Japanese model. Ninjas are a meme for a good reason, they go fast and last a long time and don’t do anything that they don’t need to. Their equivalents from other companies, the GSX-R and the CBR, are basically exactly the same bike, just pick the size you’re comfortable with and go for it (my first bike was a 750 so don’t start on a liter bike but also don’t feel like you need to start on a 250).

I would also recommend looking at Royal Enfield if top speed isn’t as important for you - they’re the best value for money in the industry and it isn’t even close, but they primarily target the Indian market which has fewer highways so their bikes are slower, but are more useable in less than ideal road conditions. I think RE is still doing the 3 year warranty thing too, which is more than anybody else does because they’re trying to shake off their reputation for making shitboxes (which wasn’t entirely undeserved, but it’s a new era now).

Just be sure to keep an eye on your used market for a while before making up your mind, you’ll get a sense of what’s a deal and what’s overpriced, and don’t buy it unless you can test ride it first.

The good thing about guitars is that there’s no shortage of really good ones on the secondary market that have just been in storage for twenty years and need to be cleaned up a bit. At least that was the case when I bought my last one threeish years ago.

This is true of shitboxes, but the funny thing about manual people now is that pretty much every modern manual transmission is computer-aided at least and a placebo at worst.

I still prefer having one to not having it though, it makes the driving funnerer.

I’m a millennial and I fukken love my motorcycle. The reason millennials aren’t riding is because none of the major brands stepped up to the plate to offer an entry level bike for $5k and market that fucker - among millennials in America, motorcycles are synonymous with enormous $30k weekend machines that can’t replace a car therefore making it a 100% luxury purchase.

Same thing happened with electric motorcycles. A millennial might consider an electric moto to get around town with even if it doesn’t have a huge range or speed - just look at eBikes - but the offerings from the major manufacturers are all trying to be cutting edge flagship machines with a premium price point, and nobody is going to drop big money on an advanced motorcycle unless they’ve been riding for a while already (and the boomers and Xers who’ve been riding for a while all think that electricity is for beta males).

Give it time and Chinese electric motorcycles will reach Western markets, and Harley will beg the Trump admin for a tarriff on them, only to continue to refuse to actually bring an entry level electric motorcycle of their own to market. Maybe we’ll get lucky and a Taiwanese company will evade the tariff, or the Japanese companies will finally step up to the plate and put some out there as they fight China for the export market around the rest of the Pacific, but I kinda think that roadgoing motorcycles are on the way out in the USA and it would take a major cultural shift to change that (dirt bikes and atvs should be fine).

Oh shit, is he the 3am chili guy!?

Civilization has always been more of a board game with a historical skin than some kind of simulation. Making small civs viable wasn’t done for any ideological purpose than creating more gameplay variety, same with the addition of more ways to win and the removal of doom stacks.

Is there some like unspoken rule that some dudes don’t wash their ass

This is embarrassing but I didn’t wipe until I was in my twenties and saw a reddit post of girlfriends complaining about how none of their boyfriends wiped and how they all had underwear streaks and other hygiene issues. I’ve kept my butthole clean for over ten years now but I have no doubt that that’s still a thing, and that there’s some kind of machismo “being clean is for betas and females” thing that causes it.

beta leftists trying to explain that penis size is random and therefore not worth shaming or being shamed over

I legitimately love Moana, in part because it’s the most woke movie Disney has ever made, being that it’s about finding strength in your culture’s history but not in a fashy white supremacist way.

Biden said there were “at least three” genders one time a while back, that means he’s a woke frankfurt school graduate.

Cancellations still happen, but all of the recent ones have been Palestinian journalists getting cancelled by

tfw I order a chili dog near closing time and they just pile an entire bowl of chili into the hot dog container cuz it’s about to be thrown out anyway and I have to eat the chili with a spoon to unearth the hot dog below

edit: also, all of this is vegan, so I’m eating the gooey brown beans to get to the semi-solid pink beans/onions/bread and there’s a non dairy yellow goo all over everything and it’s all salty and savory but it’s also got that “heatlamp” quality to it where there’s a bit of crustiness to it that’s not supposed to be there but it’s late so you just chew through it.

Finally someone cool to hang out with.

I think a lot of people got dogs without thinking it through during the pandemic. I love my husky to death but taking care of her’s a big commitment.