#car puns

[fantasyfantasygames]

Stickshift

Stickshift, Final W Games, 2007

Did you watch Initial D? So did the folks at Final W Games! Did you have no idea whatsoever how to adapt it to an RPG? Same for the folks at Final W Games!

Stickshift is a driving RPG that focuses on a drift-racing team (your PCs) as they try to win illegal street races.

Most of the mechanics for Stickshift are fine. Well-designed, even. Your stats are all either social or tie directly into driving. There's a "risk tolerance" factor that tells you how much your character is willing and able to risk in a given situation, and your risk tolerance goes up when something you care about is at stake. I love that. Dice are a unique d6 rating where you add 4, 5, and 6, and subtract 1, 2, and 3, which gives you a weird bimodal distribution. You're more likely to get higher or lower rolls than mid rolls.

However, I said "most" mechanics. And the one that hurts the most is that the racing mechanics are trash. You can put together the solid base mechanics and the risk/reward tradeoffs and your car's maintenance level and... it's all still just a time/distance meter that you fill up on your own. There's no real sense of competition. Roll dice, add to total, keep rolling, keep adding, whomever gets to 100 first wins. You might as well all be rolling separately, and then comparing afterward. There aren't any real tactics you can take advantage of that aren't blindingly obvious. You could make bad choices, but it's obvious that they're bad, so you don't. How do you make a driving game where the driving is not fun?

Another unfortunate thing in Stickshift is that most people have no idea how to describe driving. We've all seen fights in movies and TV shows. Most people come up with Star Trek technobabble or noble intrigue plots without too much trouble. How do you describe driving fast? "I shift into 3rd and floor it," sure, but how many different varieties of that description do you have? I played in a group where one person had seen Initial D, one had seen Tokyo Drift, and the others hadn't seen either, and boy did it show. Stickshift might have benefited from a big chart of descriptions that people could throw into the game.

The art initially looks like it has three clashing styles, until you get to the two-page spread in the middle of the book, when all three styles are used in the same piece you realize that there are three teams of drivers, each with their own art style. That two-page spread slaps. Anime-style guy high-fiving spraypaint-grunge-style guy while newspaper comic guy looks on with disrespect? Yes. The art direction is on point. I say guys because they're almost all guys. Gals are generally in the three classic "chick" stereotypes - the extra-femme girlfriend, the short hot-tempered driver who has to prove herself, and the mechanic with extra-baggy clothing who is secretly super-hot. There are worse stereotypes, I guess, but there's a much wider range of representation they could have gone for than "the standard 3 chicks".

Grab a copy if you want to scavenge it for parts, but most of it you can leave in the junkyard.

#ttrpg #imaginary #indie ttrpg #rpg #review #car puns #if you want to know why it's called initial d you can find out on anime stackexchange #did you know there's an anime stackexchange? #I sure didn't know

[gammaliminal]

if you know, you know

#ΔΘ post #cars #car parts #trans #puns #car puns

[gomjabberwocky]

#pinterest #meme #funny #shoes #jokes #boots #revenge #car puns

[eggwishing]

saddled

#homestuck #mad because he has to babysit instead of fistfight wild animals in the woods.Or dump used car batteries into lakes #dave strider #bro strider #omg i just realized. saddled #heehee #horse pun

[the-punforgiven]

Imagine getting into a fight with a wizard and the bitch is just like: "A curse unto thee, far worse than Confusion. I cast upon you, Severe Brain Contusion!"

and then just beans you over the skull with a cast iron pan

#this is the edgy spinoff of my wizard car post #Same guy though #pun's text posts #Wizards

[spiderwarden]

Between Minthara’s teasing and her deadpan humor and Karlach’s sense of adventure and fun, nothing can go wrong. Tav/Durge and the rest of the camp are in for a good time.

#[ 🕷️ ] —— musings #[ Karl.ach: does a stupid joke ] #[ minthy - poking them awake and asks a question leading into a pun ] #[ Minthy is the kind to whisper in your ear about your cars extended warranty ] #[ and then cackle cause you thought she was serious ] #[ imagine sleeping around the fire between these two when you pick them for adventures ]

[gonkaccino]

HAVING A NORMAL ONE OUT HERE IN THE OLYMPIC EXCLUSION ZONE

#pacific drive #ran out of gas ran out of battery #had to uninstall my autoparker and KICK my car through the gateway #my fucking gas can FELL OUT OF MY SIDE RACK AT SOME POINT #MY VERY BIG VERY LARGE VERY FULL GAS CAN GONE WHEN I NEEDED IT #BARNACLES TRYING TO VOMIT ON ME AND OH BOY THERE'S THE RED WALL OF THE STORM GETTING CLOSER #and what does oppy say? what does she say when I'm shoving my car into the garage to get some juice and start replacing EVERYTHING? #'allen would've gotten a kick out of that car' #SHUT UP OPPY NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR KICK PUNS I NEARLY LOST ALL MY SWAMP GOOP

[procrastinationaccount]

Au where Harrow is a NASCAR driver and her moniker is the Revving Daughter

#Or should I say yasscar driver? #I thought of this pun and immediately went to make this post as though I was possessed by the soul of Gideon Nav #On a serious note I think one of the most important aspects of any au is having Harrow trying to follow in her parent's footsteps #Ex: her parents were famous racers before her and got several drivers killed by sabotaging a car to ensure their victory #Harrow's parents would make great twist villains in a Scooby Doo movie. Harrow is the red herring and Gideon is the helpful one. #the locked tomb #Tlt au #griddlehark #harrowhark nonagesimus #Gideon Nav #Gideon is in her pit crew (unwillingly) and the cast of GtN are rival drivers obviously

[andy-clutterbuck]

7x09 | Rock in the Road

#richard put your leg down you hussy #Rick Grimes #* #rg #S7 #H A N D S #hotwiring a car #that's hot #....no pun intended #but today is not that day #one day your lips will not make me want to bust through a wall like the koolaid man #the wonky tooth 💙 #that's a different angle #i am not adverse #rogue neck fuzzies 💙 #rick out here looking like he's pretending he's in grease racing for pinks #FOREARM VEINS #oh...there's bram stoker knocking again

[maurmondz38]

I'm X-tremely busy atm to make more IBVS cat memes so I'll give y'all the most brosome thing that you ever laid your ice upon :D

#Ibvs cars #ibvs #justin carter #louis lopez #ibvs cody #Ignore the puns... I can't help myself! #Silly jocks #Louis is getting squished #That shit's so corny HELP- #LMAO 😭

[moonkit60633]

He’s!……working on it….

#stex #starlight express #stex greaseball #greaseball the diesel #StEx Belle #Belle the sleeping car #mama Belle is NOT having that anymore #peep the puns in the book titles I’m quite proud of them

[zelda-without-a-licence-plate]

Finally got around to actually drawing our design idea for Sidon and Mipha's mom, the zora queen. As far as Nintendo is concerned I'm pretty sure they just think Dorephan just like willed those two into existence all by himself but I'm like bro where is their mom is she dead are you seriously going to pass up on all this dead mom angst potential? So yeah here she is, Queen Charquina. She is a great white shark and is originally from a Domain in the ocean. She's also awesome and a badass and so so cool and swag. She'll be featured in the botw prequel fic/age of calamity (heavy)rewrite :) I'm love her

#mod car #art #my art #botw #loz breath of the wild #ocs #age of calamity rewrite #loz art #loz zora #zora oc #and yeah her name is pronounced shark-queen-a #queen charquina the shark queen #she matches king dorsal fin #when we were coming up with her name Anon was like it HAS to be a pun #at this point the hwaoc rewrite is like. barely even a rewrite we kind of just stole terrako and now are doing whatever we want #and sooga. we stole sooga

[coupleofdays]

"You know, if Sam Flynn was transgender, I don't think they'd be riding a bike."

"No? So what kind of vehicle do you think they would use?"

"A car."

"A car?"

"Yes. Some sporty brand, I think. A real muscle car. Maybe a Pontiac Firebird."

"Wait, do you mean...?"

"Yes. I think trans Sam drives a Trans Am."

#tron #tron legacy #Sam Flynn #puns #transgender #cars #Pontiac Firebird #Trans Am

[itallstartedwithharry]

Today’s answer to the question “what do guys talk about?”

My husband is in a group chat for a bachelor party, and the topic began as: in the Pixar Cars universe, do they bury cars or do they scrap them? And from there the group got to the existence of world leaders and dictators in said Cars universe. Now they are all contributing excellent options for public figures. Highlights include:

- Sedan Hussein

- Kim Jong Vroom

- Gengis Kar

- Napoleon Bonakart

- Justin Beamer

- Brake Obama

Please feel free to include your own 😂

#boys will be boys #in the best way #cars universe #also if you’re curious they decided that they only scrap cars who are organ donors #IM LOSING IT #wife life #puns

[scattershotsaffron]

Darling there’s a part of me

I’m afraid will always be

Trapped within an abstract

From a moment of my life

Me when an animal being tranced by the headlights of a car is the same as being tranced by the beauty of the person you love and falling in love is the same feeling as being hit by a car and being comforted and guided into the afterlife in your final moments

Hozier was insane for this someone needs to see if this man is ok

#art #my art #oc art #I don’t post a lot about my ocs anymore #But this came to me in a hallucination #And hit me like a car (pun intended) #So I had to draw this #Also bc i love this song sm #Lyrics are from Abstract (Psychopomp) #tw blood

[twenty-orange-balloons]

idk racing but does wwx construct a situation where he can wear booty shorts and a tied shirt and a lil flirty flag next to lwj?

100% he does. The booty shorts have Lan Wangji's race number (33 obviously) on the ass and the tied shirt is official Lan Wangji Merch. The flag says "I'd let Lan Wangji thrust in my throttle" in rainbow colors or something equally suggestive 😂

When Lan Wangji wins a race he makes sure to "accidentally" spray champagne all over himself in front of him.

#cell rambles #race car au #wangxian #idk cars either does someone else know a better suggestive race car pun? lmao