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Descent was one of the first games I had to play, I remember it fondly. It came bundled with my family's first computer (along with Lemmings and Simcity 2000) so I spent a fair amount of time on it. The freedom of motion you had in Descent was impressive - albeit easy to confuse yourself with - and something I have rarely seen since.

People sign up to app intended to share personal information about others without their permission, end up having their own personal information shared without permission - the irony is impressive.

Presumably a reference to the town, or more specifically the road sign for it.

A broken wisdom tooth rubbing against a nerve - would not recommend.

It comes down to the sun being really bright, enough so to overpower the light reflected from the satellites. Consider for example how you can see the effect of car headlights for kilometres away at night time but during daytime you'd be hard pressed to pick them out at all at such distances. Your eyes at night time also adjust to the low light and can see fainter light sources than you can with eyes adjusted to daytime levels.

That phrase tends to be much less literal when its said by those who are getting honked at regularly to move off from the lights.

If someone is telling you they get honked at all the time for no reason there usually is a reason (or several) and they just refuse to acknowledge what they're doing.

Closest I've come in a truck is an annoyingly loud alert for everything the computer reckoned was an issue and that was painful enough. Every time I'd drive it it'd be blaring the alarm for some reason or another and if it had been a long term company truck instead of a rental I probably would have ended up removing the speaker.

For example the lane departure warning would fire off every time you moved over to not run into someone parked on the side of the road, the close distance warning would fire off regularly when people merged in front of you, and if it was windy it'd set off an alarm to let you know the truck was being blown around when driving. Could be useful if you're mentally challenged or blind but that sort of thing is just going to annoy anyone who isn't. You couldn't even turn the alarms off properly - you could go through the deliberately prolonged procedure to turn them off temporarily but then they come back again every time you start the truck.

I've driven an SUV with lane keep assist and it would pull at the wheel trying to follow lane markings that were outdated or ones it just made up, I hope that particular bit of 'safety' tech doesn't make it to any truck I have to drive.

There's a pretty good chance that you can get a bit of wire or a fine pick and push the key through from the other side, I'd be trying that first.

Aside from that the next easiest solution is likely to just disassemble the lock and replace the cylinder as others have suggested.

This particular video was from a few years back so it's not a current thing, but I believe at least one of these squabs survived to adulthood. What normally prevents successful nesting there is movement of the shipping containers before the pigeons have time to hatch anything, this particular set got lucky in their choice of location (long term storage at the back of the stack so it didn't move for months).

Apart from that rather major downside shipping containers make for pretty good pigeon habitat - multiple gaps like this and rats/cats find it hard to climb up to get to them (these pigeons are nesting on the roof of one hi cube container and covered by the floor of another container stacked on top). Unfortunately one does have to keep moving them around and in/out of the yard so the pigeons get thwarted in their efforts.

Yes, you can. I guess I should have been more specific because I was thinking of a complete kit when I wrote that (so including helmet, boots, gloves, etc) and you do need to set your sights a bit lower to make the budget work for that.

A mid range set of motorbike gear (dirt or road) or a very cheap registrable motorbike.

Alternatively a number of interesting secondhand cameras/lenses, the number ranging from one to many depending on what exactly. I'll admit I have actually spent near that much on two backs for my 1960s era Hasselblad so you don't even necessarily get a whole camera...

I don't think they were saying you shouldn't ever look at the tacho, but that you should learn to be able to pick your shift points without having to look at the tacho.

As you say you do want to figure out what revs works best for a particular vehicle (having driven/ridden vehicles with redlines between 2500 and 19000rpm there I can say there is a little bit of variability to be found out there) but it shouldn't take long to figure out what this sounds and feels like for regular use.