I have never in 1 million years wanted one of these, but this one is so close to the video game Battlezone that I feel like I must have it.
https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1792610762504233156?s=61&t=7zPHcBzjb1UW-wh6DrDc3g
ETA I showed this to my wife and told her I was going to go buy it, and she asked me what a cybertruck was. Just a reminder of the social media bubble we live in.
The Cybertruck is the ugliest vehicle I’ve seen in a long time. I’ve seen some wraps out there that make it look somewhat better, but that’s just putting lipstick on a pig at this point.
I hope it ends up failing hard, but there are a lot of brainwashed Musk fanboys out there.
Why do you want it to fail? I would walk everywhere before I bought one but I don’t care if other people like them.
Elon Musk is a transphobic and white supremacist asshole, so I tend to root for his failure.
I still don’t want one but that color at least amusingly fits the style better than the brushed steel does. That guy seems like he’s leaning into it in a humorous way.
I have found the winner of the worst Cybertruck wrap contest.
My friend described the Cybertruck as looking like “something that hasn’t finished rendering”.
:golf clap:
I kept trying to come up with something to describe its weird pixelated-in-the-real-world look and couldn’t quite get there. That’s perfect.
I’ve seen lots of work trucks with a lock box in the front of the bed which is used to carry tools. With a box you can’t carry a sheet of plywood but you still have most of your bed available to haul stuff. With the high height of the sides of the bed up front I wonder how practical this is for all but the tallest people?
I also think this should be the official vehicle of the mayor of Boston; their brutalist City Hall doesn’t look like it’s finished, either despite being 55 yo; it would work parked there.
I finally saw one in person today in Chicago in the South Loop. Unfortunately, it was wrapped in a shitton of company branding (though I’ve already forgotten for whom) and a weird red-tan-brown-black kind of overall color scheme. It just looked like an aggressively polygonal billboard of some sort. What I was most surprised by was it was smaller than I had imagined it, despite seeing pictures and videos of it with humans nearby for scale. I was expecting maybe more the size of an F350 or something.
The best design 1980 vector graphics had to offer! Where’s a buzzing missile when you need one.
At first, I thought that video referenced above, the sublime green truck, WAS a cg animation, the way it moved. It looked totally fake.
Or as I described it to a friend and fellow fan: “They -finally- got the Reverse Digitizer from Tron (1982) working! I’ve seen proof (points to Cybertruck)!”
Looks just like a roly-poly, I think it is squeeee totes adorbs.
Um, thanks?
To no one’s surprise, the complaint about tedious performative declarations about ugliness set off a long chain of tedious performative declarations about how ugly it is.
These guys did some pretty interesting off-road testing before and after the latest software update. The short version is: no locking diffs and poor throttle control made it perform fairly poorly before the update. As they say at the time, they tested the truck as they had it at the time (i.e., as it shipped), which of course is entirely fair.
Nevertheless, the update added locking diff support and a bunch of other features, and it was an entirely different truck after that–vastly more capable. No, not comparable to a kitted-out Jeep or whatever, but does very well even against a Raptor.
Before:
After:
EVs in general have a lot of nice advantages over ICE in this kind of environment if charging isn’t a problem.
To nobody’s surprise, the tedious performative declaration about tedious performative declarations set off a ted…
Is a Ted like a Karen? I thought male Karens were Chads not Teds
Nah, Teds just do a lot of talking.
Here I thought that tedious performative declarations was the Musk Fan lifeblood…
The guys from Donut tried to take a Cybertruck offroading but, due to far underperforming range, it never actually made it to the course. They seemed to generally like the vehicle but it couldn’t do what the set out to do with it.
(No embed because board software is being its usual self)
