Rant incoming
Just watched the video and read through the thread. A little surprised at some of the vitriol directed at the folks in the video. Pushing a truck or engine to its limits like this is of zero interest to me personally. My Ford F150 is stock and works fine and im happy with it. However, I do not have any negative views to those who do enjoy doing that. I instead would encourage them in there interest and endeavor. I can admire it, even if I have no personal interest in it.
I'm always perplexed when someone who isn't interest in a certain hobby or interest puts those who are interested in said hobby or interest on blast. Its as if saying " I don't find any interest in this, and anyone who does is stupid" Its such a narrow minded view of the world, and if everyone shared that view we would never have made the gains we have over the last 300 years.
One thing I have spent years doing is overclocking and modding computers. Similar to what you do with a car or truck, but just a smaller scale. I assume folks would think I'm stupid for pushing computer components beyond their rated limits. I have destroyed a couple components over the years from my overclocking endeavors. I began overclocking computers at age 13, and have always built my own computers, often modding them heavily. I've never owned a computer in the last 20+ years that wasn't overclocked at every component to outperform stock. I spend over a week with a new computer just to overclock and fine tune memory timings, adjust voltage rails, and tweak every aspect of its function. It is thanks to my interest and knowledge gained over the years in these endeavors that landed me in the career I now enjoy.
Sometimes people do things simply because they are interesting to them. They are likely engineering type personalities, as I am. I am an INTJ MBTI personality type. INTJ / INTP personalities are natural tinkerers and system builders. They are the ones who take apart the alarm clock at 6 years old because they want to see how it works. They have also been responsible for vast advancements in science and technology over the last 300 years. Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Sir Isaac Newton are a few famous examples of those types. Ive read in depth biographies on both Einstein and Turing. Both were tinkering and developing theories and in many cases questioning their intellectual superiors when they were still considered wet behind the ears. I'm taking the argument to the ultimate extreme here but my point is that calling someone stupid for their interest in something you don't care for is narrow minded. The tinkerer, the one who pushes things to the envelope, is often the person who designs the next advancement - this has been true all through scientific history. They tinker because they find it highly interesting, intellectually engaging, and because they have a natural curiosity about how the world works, and how it can be improved. These are things we should celebrate, not denigrate.
I make this argument because I've had people call me stupid in the exact same way for taking computers apart, pushing them to the limit, and occasionally burning something up. I've had people ask why I waste my time doing that, and risk destroying something that is perfectly fine. What the person making the accusation never sees however is the why. They also don't see the mountain of knowledge I gained along the way, or where that knowledge has taken me. Some folks are comfortable going through life vanilla, living ultra conservative, pushing no boundary, questioning nothing, and thats fine. Everyone is different though. Dont be so close minded.
/end rant
