u/endlesstire

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Cannot find correct size tyres

Pardon my spelling I'm located in Australia so thats why there's a Y in tyres. Anyways I'm wanting to replace my tires as they are cheap and old and one isn't holding the right pressure for long. The placard on the door says I need 215/50r16 89v tires to suit the (original) rims it comes with. Currently the car has 225/50r16 96w tires fitted, which do rub the fenders a bit when I lock the wheel. I thought this was odd, until I looked for the correct tyres on the internet and could not find them anywhere. I'm thinking this might be the reason these wider tyres were fitted. Just curious if it would be fine to replace the tyres with the same size fitted or if I should look further into finding the perfect fit. For reference, the car is a 2001 Ford/Mercury Cougar. Thanks for any help, I'm new to this.

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u/endlesstire — 10 hours ago

It works, but how wary should we be?

I'm well aware of the controversy surrounding LBPOnline and it's creators / promoters, but it does work. I tried it out of curiosity and it does indeed work on PS5. It's just so bittersweet considering what we know now about it's founders.

The real question for me is, what would the average person have to fear in terms of using it? I'm aware of the fact that there's risks concerning the information the server's administrators have access to when we connect to it, but what is the likelihood that any one person using the servers would actually be singled out and attacked by said administrators?

I do agree that we should favour other options when they become available for moral reasons, but imo SONY is probably more likely to give a person grief for using the servers than the founders themselves. I know they're not great people, but how and why would they single out any one person and attack them using the information we give them unless we not only attack them first on a different platform, but then give them our PSN username almost as though we are asking for retribution?

I get that most people see it as a completely avoidable risk and thats fair, but is it really that likely that people who attacked a game server years ago would start ddossing random players who they've never even had contact or grief with? I'm not trying to defend the founders, but I am curious as to why people see personal attacks as a likely possibility.

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u/endlesstire — 2 months ago