Why did manufacturers decide that tail lights should stick out like swollen lumps?

"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth) 11/17/2016 at 13:29 • Filed to: None

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Seriously, I saw one SUV where the tail light had a clear lens that bubbled over like a blister that served no purpose but to look like someone gave no fucks about following a body line.

Nibby > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:30

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Omg model bloat

HammerheadFistpunch > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:32

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combo tail lights/side markers plus boundary layer separation.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:38

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Edsel called. They want the 1950s back.

atfsgeoff > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:39

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I find swollen lymph nodes sexy

E92M3 > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:40

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Toyota loves this design. I wish they would stop with the Altezza/APC lights. Let’s all agree that fad died 10 years ago.

marshknute > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:41

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Because tail lights can be a styling element of their own. Red plastic doesn’t look like painted metal, so you’re not concealing the taillight by making it flush.

SnoopDouggyDougg > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:43

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I think a lot of tail light stick out more now because of trying to improve aerodynamics. Not sure if a .00025 saving per mpg really matters that much though.

Milky > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:43

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So attractive.

OKcarburetor > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:46

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Here Loyd, this helps!

Rainbow > Milky 11/17/2016 at 13:50

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At least those serve an aerodynamic purpose.

Justin Hughes > E92M3 11/17/2016 at 13:51

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I agree.

I remember when all the kids would tint their red tail lights dark or other colors. Now I’ve gone and used the same type of tint (VHT Nite Shades) to make my tail lights red light they ought to be. (The turn signals still shine amber, not red, when they’re lit, which I like.)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > atfsgeoff 11/17/2016 at 13:51

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The following picture is an obscure reference I am mostly making to amuse myself.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:52

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I think it has to do with the aerodynamics around the transition to the rear of the car. My grandfather’s X5 has little fins which stick out of the side of the tail lights.

Shift24 > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:55

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About the same time people though tablet dashes looked good.

Tapas > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 13:58

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THANK YOU!!!!

Toyota is the worst offender, in my book. This whole light-bulge catastrophe began in the early 2000s with them and it remains as a prominent feature in their design language even today.

Fuck your bulbous puss-filled design language. And don’t you dare ruin the Supra with this bullshit!

Probenja > HammerheadFistpunch 11/17/2016 at 14:02

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So if side markers weren’t a thing we wouldn’t have things like this?

Then I hope they remove the side markers law from the US.

HammerheadFistpunch > Probenja 11/17/2016 at 14:04

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many truths

Urambo Tauro > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 14:30

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Maybe it’s because we complained about cars being too streamlined, and not having enough character.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/17/2016 at 14:36

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Holy fucking Rifts.

Jack Does Cars > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 14:41

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Because they’re dumb

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > PanchoVilleneuve ST 11/17/2016 at 14:45

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Talking of hilarious Palladium things, I’m going to buy a copy of Nightbane. Siembieda decided he needed a Vampire-like Dark Monster PCs hiding in shadows sort of game, so the next step was 15 pages of random tables for generating PCs, which can include having a motorcycle as one’s lower body.

I am not making this up:

http://oppositelock.kinja.com/rpglopnik-1788872884

What’s mind-boggling is that it’s probably more playable than RIFTS because it doesn’t have a PC class split on who can do/resist megadamage and who can’t. Almost everything in Nightbane is SDC.

E92M3 > Justin Hughes 11/17/2016 at 14:55

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That looks sooo much better than stock!

HONDAD > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 15:13

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Thank God for Audi keeping it flush and clean.

MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 16:42

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Newer Highlanders and 4Runners are really bad about this. Even the headlights stick out really far.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/17/2016 at 17:54

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His masterpiece is the description of mega damage he did where a laser pistol gunfight makes a building collapse.

Also the Machine People RCC thathe could power energy weapons indefinitely and eat metal to add 200 MDC with no limit on how much can be eaten.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > PanchoVilleneuve ST 11/17/2016 at 18:01

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RIFTS: the game that knows there’s a fine line between stupid and clever, and has loopy enough rules to ensure that anyone playing is too autistic to know where said line actually is at any given moment.

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/17/2016 at 18:01

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I get what you’re saying and Imma let you finish, but Porsche had some of the ugliest taillights of all time.

I like taillights with a lil’ style.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/17/2016 at 18:15

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It’s post-apocalyptic Calvinball.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > PanchoVilleneuve ST 11/17/2016 at 18:27

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So far, the times I’ve run it, the combat has been largely the MD types just on the rampage, with almost no point in keeping track of anything on the SD scale, and just sort of loosely managing enemy vehicles/etc. as “okay, this one can take about two hits”. Generally the way to carve out space for those people not capable of destroying city blocks is to rope in their technical/other skills. Because if you’re willing to threaten your players with actual risk of nuking them if they try to MD their way out of everything , sometimes they pay attention. Sort of.

Actually, I did have them re-opening a rift to somewhere that was devoid of animal life because of vampiric plant energy essence soaking evil, but then they had to run away from the site because the Coalition had it on their “Nuke This Shit Right Meow” list. So they had to get out to quasi-safe range - including the dragon but only sort of including the glitter boy.

Anyway, who would be such a fool as to buy Nightbane? Me. Mem, that’s whom.

NJAnon > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 11/18/2016 at 17:28

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Design choices I suppose. But it is a interesting question.