A custom head + rotary valve train, the EJ25 uses standard valves with a standard cam design, this is fine, but rotary valves have their own advantages and disadvantages that I think would be fun to tinker with. Unlike a regular valve, rotary valves don’t have springs, therefore they don’t experience the “valve float” that standard valves experience at higher RPM’s, allowing you to rev to very fast engine speeds. They also give better fuel economy since they are much lower resistance, standard valves have to overcome the force of each spring in order to open, rotary valves are just a hole. Rotary valves are also non-interference, and if I blew the timing belt, it wouldn’t destroy the engine

I’d also just like to be able to make shit out of metal, it’s a brainworm of mine I’ve had forever

I’ve been wanting to learn how to work with metal for a while now, my current long time goal is to get good enough to make a rotary valve train for my Subaru motor. I’ve been absorbing a lot of information about how engines work and how these parts interact I’m just missing all the practical knowledge for it.

the oldest is one of my portable cassette recorders, a very early GE model that is in near perfect condition. It’s so early on it doesn’t have much info online, and seems to be rare, but unwanted.

The one im the most proud of is my IBM LexMark model M keyboard, It’s older than me, abused to hell, modified, and is still my daily driver because it’s so comfortable

I just got myself very sick by forgetting to turn the heat off while sleeping, so no

A raccoon ran straight into my window at midnight, that was spooky as fuck

If you think Super Meat Boy is hard oh boy do I have one for you.

The End Is Nigh is also an Edmund McMullen platformer, but with a much higher emphasis on precision. The game is technically short, but there are just so many easy ways to die that you have to get good to beat it.

It also has a little modding community that has produced some even more nightmarish levels to go along with it.

All of The Grumps’ Ten Minute Power Hour videos.

Never in my life have I been more invested in a show than this one

And if I really hit that accelerator like people want me to, the thing slips, stops, and then suddenly engages full force and I burn out. So that’s not much safer either

I have no choice but to do this in my current car, the transmission is fucked and if I accelerate too fast it slips and I don’t go any faster. So I slowly go to the speed limit and slowly slow to a slow stop

I have dreams where I’m stressing so much that I grind my teeth, and then they start crumbling and everytime I chew I break my teeth apart more

That’s fun to know haha, I always thought that it was constant and some people just had it worse

It’s hard to stray away from caffeine later on since my job is in the morning and I have to stay alert until at least dusk since my S.O. doesn’t have a license and she works afternoons and nights.

Also first I heard of the chicken liver and creatine stuff, what’s the supposed effects of those?

It’s really difficult to do nothing when you’re so used to being occupied though, like all the things i do are involved, I gotta find new things that arent involved… wack

Well I was diagnosed years ago with it actually haha. Though it was never this severe. The way it manifested back then was far more emotional, it usually never fucked with my motivation or energy this hard, I would just have a week or two of awful venting and bad sketches, then all was well after that.

For a good 2 years I had no symptoms at all, and I had stopped taking the medication a little before that since I felt that it wasn’t needed?

Anyhow it seems really odd for it to come back in a completely different, and somehow more debilitating way.

I was thinking about taking a break from my job but I’m currently training a few new people so I have to wait a little bit longer -_- And it’s very difficult for me to be unproductive. There’s this itch in my head i can’t scratch unless I’m working on some project or thinking hard about solving a problem I have.

Though the hardest part would be trying to ‘disconnect’. I’m pretty heavily relied upon for my own job, and my SO works out of town so I usually have to check in to see what she needs. Social media can probably go first though, was already thinking about deleting the big apps off my phone.

trying to set my mind into the ‘shut up, stop thinking so hard idiot’ mode will be a challenge as well. Though recently I’ve enjoyed some of the brain dead times since I could just have silence.

it’s an odd.

The cement thing probably, I haven’t heard that one before either

That family crap is awful, I would be blessed to never speak a word to my relatives ever again. Luckily though, I’m on a 2 year streak

prolly 2nd, mornings are really busy depending on where you work