The Tahoe/Yukon hybrid... now there's a definition for useless. Thing didn't get any better mileage than the models that just had AFM and it was unjustifiably more expensive for what you got out of it.

I dunno about this. My little S-10 Blazer was able to transport a queen futon without much trouble fitting, aside from having to have the window Hatch Open and bungies to secure/flag it so it was legal for transport. My crossover (Chevy Traverse) has just as much volume.....but (un)surprisingly they engineered the freakin thing into an egg-shape that wouldn't let the futon fit in at any angle. Also, having the hatch instead of a gate / window, I wouldn't have been able to let the thing hang out the back either. Piece of crap, I wish I never got the fucker.

Please tell me there's at least someone on this site that didn't take me overly serious? I know there's a lot of people here that have trouble with humor..but, I thought I was being rather blatant myself.

Honda CRV = CUV.

Toyota Rav4 = CUV

Still haven't proven me wrong. I'm talking about an honest SUV, where they sit with enough ground clearance that I can take a dolley, lie down under the thing and more or less move from front to rear without hitting my head on anything. A Highlander is an SUV. A Nissan Pathfinder is an SUV. An SUV requires a better than delicate drivetrain and suspension to be able to handle moderate off-roading.

CUV's all of 'em. You want an SUV from Ford, nothing smaller than an Explorer, and some of the new ones are getting on the edge of small. Anything smaller than that but bigger than a car is a Crossover. They don't have the drivetrain to survive major offroading like the true SUV's do.

Ok...I see why. Roughly the same curb weight, but your engine is designed to rev a lot higher than the engine in my blazers were. The Blazers were putting out 110 to 140 hp (the '86 had a power chip installed) at 4000 RPM with redline being 4300 RPM. Your Sorento Pushes 180 hp at 6K. Redline is probably in the area of 6200 - 6800. Your engine is more designed and geared for and speed and passenger comfort (max achievable torque is 178 lb-ft @ 4K Revs) . The Blazers could tow heavier loads by having 198('84) - 215('86) lb-ft at about 2k Revs...which also caused a bit harder shifting than modern vehicles. The Blazers could have also used a sixth gear to reduce the ratio change between 3rd and 4th. There were many times where 3rd had to rev too high but 4th lugged. Unfortunately, I blew out the trans on the '84 from pushing it through the mountains too much, and the motor quit on the '86 (problem was traced back to the power chip reducing engine life by having hotter detonations. Caused the water jacket to crack under stress letting the coolant wash the bearings as it mixed with the oil)

Could always fling the stuff out into the depths of space. What's the worst that could happen? Progressive Alien Space Hippies come down to Earth and start embargoing/picketing us with "Save Our Void" signs?

What SUV has a 4-banger in it? I had 2 Chevy S-10 Blazers with a 2.8 liter V6 each, and they fit perfect definition of Vehicular Anemia. The Inline 5 of the Trailblazer was the same kind of joke, too. "Accelerate up the hill" I'll just do the best I can and hope I make it, thank you. I can't imagine the kind of puttering a 4-banger in one of those would do... Unless you're talking about the mostly plastic CUV's they have now, like an Equinox or Trax.

For an AC on /. ...fuck no I'm not that stupid.

For your second (and third) questions...I'm in a slump at work and bored as hell. This article struck a chord at the wrong time.

See...the pace is so Ludicrous I get the same joke posted twice within minutes of each other! (dafuq happened? I posted the "Pace of" version...not "Paced".)

I knew Plaid would come back into fashion! Advertise it as "Urban Camouflage for the Ludicrous Paced Life!"

I knew Plaid would come back into fashion! Advertise it as "Urban Camouflage for the Ludicrous Pace of Life!"

I'm not sure about the "started with". Maybe "started when"? Or if you want to keep "with":

(I also agree with the out of/outside change)

FTFY

I have more than enough other games to keep me happy that I find no value in what I see on Steam, thanks. Yes, it's only a matter of $5. Yes it's cheap as I can recoup that in about 5 minutes at a terminal. But what is it really costing? By paying up, I'm telling Valve okay. I'm telling Valve that I'm willing to pay additional money for a service that was supposed to already have been paid for with my purchase of the initial game. I'm telling Valve that there's nothing stopping them from charging $10. I'm telling Valve that they could start requiring a small subscription fee to use their service. $65 a year? That's not bad. $10 a month? That's about what Netflix charges. I'm telling Valve that it's ok for them to invade my privacy, it's ok for them to lock down my games where I can't make hard backup copies of them, it's ok for them to delete games out of my library, it's ok for them to trample - with a smile and a handshake - over whatever promises they've once made with their Users and Developers... and charge the people who are gullible enough to fall for it and spinless enough to not fight against it... a measly $5.

No Dumbass. My beef is squarely on Steam and your attempts to deflect are getting you buried deeper and deeper in the shit you wallow in. Bethesda made a contract with Valve for Steam to provide Bethesda's End Users with access to the Steam Workshop for a modding community. This was done as part of the agreement Bethesda made with Valve for Bethesda to use Valve's DRM (Steam) in their game. The agreement was made, and now Valve is reneging on it and demanding that Bethesda's End Users shell out an additional $5 for services that Bethesda already paid Valve for on our behalf.

To put it a bit more simply: The service was working until Valve dicked with it and now it no longer works as advertised. This isn't Bethesda's fault because Bethesda has no direct control over Valve's servers. As you said, they're two different companies. Bethesda made proposed an agreement with Valve, Valve agreed, Bethesda advertised the service Valve provides for them, everything worked...everyone was happy. Now Valve changed their service agreement after the fact, nullifying the agreement, and expects direct payment and you expect me to be pissed with Bethesda over what Valve did? The only thing I have to be pissed with Bethesda about is that Bethesda used Steam in the first place..which I've always been leery of, and now it's come to fruition.

As for your offer... keep it. You obviously need it more than I do. I mean, it took you 3 and a half hours to get that money in the first place where I crap out a Lincoln almost every 5 minutes. How else would you not be able to recognize when you're getting shafted unless you were stuck in a minimum wage job where that's all you ever get?