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A photo of a very small corner of the Chapel St Bazaar. In the middle on a table are milk crates with old records, behind them in glass display cases are just TONS of random small knick-knacks: old round metal containers from decades ago that used to contain things like shoe polish or tobacco or sweets, similar things but boxes, small porcelain statues, and so on. At the left are larger tins and such that say they used to contain cocoa, milk powder, coffee, black tyre paint, imitation maple syrup, etc. Everything is just absolutely jam-packed next to everything else.

A photo taken looking down Chapel St in the grimier Prahran end of things. There are lots of cars parked on either side of the road, with traffic stopped along it, and a bunch of older-looking two-storey building/shop fronts.

Today we had an extremely lazy morning, then went for a walk along Chapel St through South Yarra into Prahran to go visit the Prahran Market and the Chapel St Bazaar. The Market wasn't that interesting, mostly just food, but the Bazaar was amazing. Massive and just absolutely chock full of the most random stuff, from vintage cameras and old paintings to Playboy and Penthouse magazines from the 1980s and earlier. Chapel St itself gave me EXTREMELY King St in Newtown vibes, if you took away the tram tracks and overhead wiring it's an absolute dead-ringer.

In South Yarra we've seen not one but TWO McLarens, a Ferrari, several high-end Porsches, and a goddamned Rolls Royce as well. It was interesting how quickly the atmosphere changed from "gentrified high-end wankery" in South Yarra to "grimy and a bit run down" in Prahran as we walked south along Chapel St.

Posted on 14 December 2024, 16:09

A photo of an underground carpark with a whole lot of hotted-up Subaru WRXs parked in the bays, with people standing around talking.

Ah, I see it's time for the local Subaru owner's club meetup in the underground carpark at our local Coles again.

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Posted on 15 November 2024, 20:14

A rather poor quality photo (I used the ultra-wide lens in my phone and forgot how dim underground carparks actually are at night) of an underground carpark just packed to the gills with all manner of different Subaru vehicles, some of them with their bonnets open, and people milling around.

We went to do our regular Friday night shopping, and apparently the local Subaru Owners Club decided the Coles carpark would be a good place for a meetup. Just a SEA of Subarus, and like 95% dudes.

I think my bar for "Wow there a bunch of douchey-looking guys here" is a lot higher than @yayKM's though, by virtue of being extremely familiar with the sheer number of ridiculously hotted-up cars that used to cruise down George St in the CBD of a Friday and Saturday night before it was turned into a tramway. 😂

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Posted on 7 June 2024, 20:26

A photo of a quite 90s-looking but very large sedan in a very dark blue. The most distinguishing feature is that the side view mirrors are positioned half-way down the bonnet instead of on the front doors. The Wikipedia entry says "It is often used by the Imperial House of Japan, the Prime Minister of Japan, senior Japanese government leaders, and high-level executive businessmen" and honestly it looks pretty much exactly like the sort of car you'd expect from that description.

Interesting car spotto at the shops tonight: this thing that said just "Century" on the back of it and "V12" on the side, and a logo I didn't recognise.

@yayKM looked it up and it's a Toyota Century, and began production in 1967! It was primarily for the Japanese market which explains never having seen one before.

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Posted on 2 February 2024, 23:35

Man, tonight I had some Mad Max-esque weather to deal with while hooning around Forza Horizon 5's Sierra Nueva rally expansion!

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Posted on 8 October 2023, 21:15

Back on my Forza Horizon 5 bullshit again! I'd forgotten I bought the rally expansion and man is it fun to blast around this rally-spec Peugeot 207 without any of the usual breaking lines on and instead just getting the instructions from your co-pilot ("hard left", "medium right into hairpin right", that sort of thing). On asphalt it's pretty much glued to the road and even on dirt it handles extremely nicely.

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Posted on 19 August 2023, 21:29

A screenshot of a dust-covered black hatchback driving along a road with looming sandstone cliffs behind it.

I was a bit sceptical about the new Forza Horizon 5 DLC, it's a whole proper rally thing. By default they recommend you leave the driving line off and they have the full co-driver giving you directions ("medium right into hard left", etc.) and I gave that a go and man is it fun! I've been blasting around in my rally-spec 1990 Nissan Pulsar (the brown is actually dust, it's black underneath all that, haha).

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Posted on 2 April 2023, 22:11

A screenshot showing a hotted-up (pun unintended) red 1970 Datsun 510 driving along a road with rolling sand dunes behind it and clouds in the distance, and the sun blazing down. Just looking at it, it feels HOT.

Another screenshot of the same Datsun 510, this time in a different spot. There a bunch of foliage and palm trees on the side of the road being buffeted by extreme winds, the entire scene is yellow and the visibility is extremely low because I'm in the middle of a huge dust storm.

It's the hot season in Forza Horizon 5, and it feels like I'm driving on Tatooine. And then a dust storm rolled in!

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Posted on 1 January 2023, 22:26

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, it's a sunny day with cobblestone streets and obviously-Mexican buildings, and there's a massive Christmas tree in the middle the section where a road is splitting apart. On the other side of the road is a huge yellow building that I think is a church.

Another screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, showing my red Datsun 510 with big rims zooming along the road in the middle of the desert, there's lots of cactii and scrubby bushes on the side of the road.

Haha, Forza Horizon 5 is getting into the Christmas spirit as well: there's a giant Christmas tree in the middle of the city, and various other places have big candy canes lining the side of the road.

In related news, still having a ton of fun in my hotted-up Datsun 510.

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 22:34

My favourite thing to do in the Forza Horizon games is to take an old car and just entirely hot it up. Witness my 1970 Datsun 510 that has an inline four turbocharged rally engine in it, along with full rollbars, weight reduction, and slick racing tyres.

In related news, I am absolutely incapable of playing racing games without leaning my entire body to one side or the other as I go around corners.

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Posted on 11 December 2022, 20:41