• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    I love this. Just like what happened with the gold skins in MechWarrior Online.

    The “truck” has a terrible design, and often is incapable of completing basic tasks a truck is expected to do without great difficulty or some weird quirk.

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      Youtuber be like:

      The “truck” has a terrible design, and often is incapable of completing basic tasks a truck is expected to do without great difficulty or some weird quirk.

      but it’s a great truck, i love it.

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      Is the Cybertruck even a truck? I don’t see the “truck” part.

      I know very little about cars, and even less about trucks. When I think of a truck, I think of a bed in the back where you can haul stuff from Home Depot.

      Where is the “truck” part?

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        Trucks with covers are a thing, it’s called a tonneau. What’s not normal is for them to be permanent.

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          That’s not entirely true. The high end of aftermarket covers are electric, require the semi permanent installation of rails, wires, and the box, and are fairly cumbersome to remove. They’re not permanent in that they can be removed, but practically no one does this. Rivian’s truck has one built in as well. Most legacy manufacturers leave this to dealers to do as it’s an easy high profit accessory for them to upsell.

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            Yeah, that’s I mean though, it’s optional and not a fundamental design of the truck.

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              For legacy automaker pickups, that’s true. It’s a dream accessorie: a factory, waterproof, roll away, electric, secure tonneau that doesn’t eat bed space is a HUGE draw.

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        Someone on my discord posted the warranty terms and apparently it doesn’t cover unusual damage or useage such as exposrure to rain, sunlight or being used off a paved road. So no its not a truck, in fact it doesn’t even stand up as a car.

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        It has a bed with a cover on, racremoveds think it’s a dumpster and try and open it.

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        I know very little about cars, and even less about trucks. When I think of a truck, I think of a bed in the back where you can haul stuff from Home Depot. Where is the “truck” part?

        Generally if you get a truck and do truck things with it, there’s 2 specific things a truck will have that no other class has:

        1. A protected bed that you can put bulky and dirty/stinky items into for transport
        2. The ability to pull a large trailer

        But hilariously your average crossover is fully capable of hauling an inexpensive trailer and a couple thousand pounds of whatever if not more than that, which covers 99.9% of the lifestyle arguments most pavement princes truck owners make for why they need a truck

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      My first live sighting of one of them I realized how god-awful ugly they really are. Even in some bronze/pewter terrible color. Or maybe it got left in the rain and that’s just corrosion.

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        Yes, it was funny when the entire game would stop just to focus on killing the gold skin user. Didn’t matter what team they were on, they became the collective target of everyone in the match. Good times, indeed.

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      Quoted in the article:

      “i propose a new fortnite rule: if you see someone in a cybertruck, you are now in a truce with everyone else in the lobby until they’re taken out. this repeats as many times as necessary until everyone that bought this stupid thing is gone. normal gameplay proceeds.“

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            Thats absolutely the kind of rule that gets crowd sourced and becomes real, real fast.

            Rocket league has/had like a half dozen rules nearly everyone knows.

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          almost makes me want to play Fortnite just to join, but that feels like added engagement because of Tesla so I won’t

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        I’m so confused about what fortnite even is now. It used to be a game where you fought zombies, now I have no idea

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          It’s a game where you summon towers out of your ass and then get sniped by a 12 year old who fucked your mom

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            I played that back when it was called Team Fortress.

            Edit: I didn’t mean that to be dismissive of Fortnite or ignore the vast differences, just commenting on that particular description which perfectly matches playing an engineer in TF2 and I think TF, but that was a long time ago.

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          My wife’s been playing a bunch of it and honestly best I can tell it’s an Unreal Engine tech demo combined with a easy-to-use game engine for beginners to make mini games in (similar to Roblox’s various games) with integrated hosting, release, discovery, authentication and payment processing.

          Which is kinda confusing given Epic also has Core which is also an Unreal Engine tech demo combined with easy-to-use game engine with integrated hosting, release, discovery, authentication and payment processing

          Oh and Fortnite has its official Battle Royale mode that’s largely a copy of PUBG

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      I guess if it’s a situation where multiple enemies are in sight everyone would focus on the cybertruck so you’d be even more targeted than normal (I have no idea how to play Fortnite).

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      I guess everyone will work in solidarity to kill the player who picked the cybertruck character, then once that’s done the remaining humanoids will just play like normal

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      Driving a Cybertruck in the game would be like being a child molestor in the penitentiary. Other inmates may have beef with one another and be ready to shank a mfer if they get froggy; but if a child molester joins the cell block, they team up on him first.

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    No idea how Fortnite works. But can you (realistically) use the Cybertruck to cut off your enemies fingers with it’s automatic doors.

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    I wish I could do this in real life. I’ve seen two in my city and they’re visually arresting.

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      And they look like dumpsters from behind. Apparently racremoveds have even scratched some trying to get inside, thinking they held delicious trash.

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      The dude who owns the new Dunkin Donuts in town parked his out front with a Dunkin sticker on it. Totally a legit business expense.

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        Right in front of the Dunkin, huh? It would be terrible if people kept accidentally spilling their coffee, hot chocolate and the like on it considering you have to immediately scrape bird shit and dead bugs off of it when you get to where you’re going to avoid corrosion. (Really.)

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      The change is if you see one, there’s an implied truce between every non-Cybertruck-owner until they’re dead, then it’s back to a free for all.

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    I fucking love playing as the odd man out. This makes me want to play fortnight and go run rampant in the cybertruck like john wick.

    Now all I need is skill