Listen to this and tell me it's not a great riff.
Stuck in my head now.
Wednesday 23 October 2019
Friday 11 October 2019
(not sim) Mechanic
I bought Mechanic Sim for the PS4.
The problem and I do see it as a problem, is that to renovate a car involves hours of patience, sitting in the car imagining it running and eventually after hiding away in the garage from the family for many weeks (or more) finally rolling it out and taking it for a drive just far enough to justify your RACQ membership.
But it's rewarding - rewarding because you can touch it, smell it, and late at night when you sneak a snack taste it (burnt oil, not good mmkay).
Mechanic Sim takes away the emotional connection but leaves the hours of toil. There's also no satisfaction in finding that magnetic spark plug removal tool you thought you'd lost - no, it's replaced by pressing X to unbolt whatever you have to unbolt. And then that's it - you're undoing a myriad of bolts because someone has decided you should - not because there's some mechanical reason that makes it all work, someone has decided to make you do it all for the sake of doing it. Toil.
And I can tell you, having built an engine in-game, that once you've done it, you've bought all the parts, found out you've bought the wrong ones and gone at it again - you finally have an engine. And then, then... you realise you've built the wrong spec engine (there are many), this is the point you realise this is not a game it's a test of endurance.
I stuck with it though and built a car with a well-tuned engine, I even took it out for a drive. And of course it's not Sim Driver, it's Mechanic Sim. 30 seconds later I was over that too.
All up I've put in probably 3-4 hours on it, and I have a collection of cars to "do up" but I just can't find the desire to do so. Relegated to the uninstall list - and however cheap it is, it's not worth it. If you want to wrench, read on...
Making it real
What I have been doing in real land is spending a small fortune on cars. Nothing exciting, but the sine wave of service costs all lined up with the "fleet" which meant $1k for the Lexus, $1k for the Commodore and $1k for the MX5. Great.
But that's not mechanic stuff, other than funding their retirement, this is!
What's different? Well, there's new plugs, leads and coils is what. So now we're good for electrics for a bit I hope. We'll see!
But I want to build a car
And so I did. What I did was take two Meccano kits (dump truck and loader thing) and scratch built some sort of racecar. Overall it was a wholly satisfying experience actually, I built for around 30mins a day after dinner and it really exercised my mind. Sure I'd do it a bit different, but overall I'm happy. I might keep an eye out for more old kits in bargain shops in fact!
Don't.
The problem and I do see it as a problem, is that to renovate a car involves hours of patience, sitting in the car imagining it running and eventually after hiding away in the garage from the family for many weeks (or more) finally rolling it out and taking it for a drive just far enough to justify your RACQ membership.
But it's rewarding - rewarding because you can touch it, smell it, and late at night when you sneak a snack taste it (burnt oil, not good mmkay).
Mechanic Sim takes away the emotional connection but leaves the hours of toil. There's also no satisfaction in finding that magnetic spark plug removal tool you thought you'd lost - no, it's replaced by pressing X to unbolt whatever you have to unbolt. And then that's it - you're undoing a myriad of bolts because someone has decided you should - not because there's some mechanical reason that makes it all work, someone has decided to make you do it all for the sake of doing it. Toil.
And I can tell you, having built an engine in-game, that once you've done it, you've bought all the parts, found out you've bought the wrong ones and gone at it again - you finally have an engine. And then, then... you realise you've built the wrong spec engine (there are many), this is the point you realise this is not a game it's a test of endurance.
I stuck with it though and built a car with a well-tuned engine, I even took it out for a drive. And of course it's not Sim Driver, it's Mechanic Sim. 30 seconds later I was over that too.
All up I've put in probably 3-4 hours on it, and I have a collection of cars to "do up" but I just can't find the desire to do so. Relegated to the uninstall list - and however cheap it is, it's not worth it. If you want to wrench, read on...
Making it real
What I have been doing in real land is spending a small fortune on cars. Nothing exciting, but the sine wave of service costs all lined up with the "fleet" which meant $1k for the Lexus, $1k for the Commodore and $1k for the MX5. Great.
But that's not mechanic stuff, other than funding their retirement, this is!
What's different? Well, there's new plugs, leads and coils is what. So now we're good for electrics for a bit I hope. We'll see!
But I want to build a car
And so I did. What I did was take two Meccano kits (dump truck and loader thing) and scratch built some sort of racecar. Overall it was a wholly satisfying experience actually, I built for around 30mins a day after dinner and it really exercised my mind. Sure I'd do it a bit different, but overall I'm happy. I might keep an eye out for more old kits in bargain shops in fact!
Work in progress
Not sure what formula
I do like the rear on it, a happy accident really
Fairly mean, if you skip the ultra wet weather tyres
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