142 points

And the bed of that playtruck is empty and has never been used

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48 points

Why not put a spare car in it?

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28 points

Car? Why not another truck?

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12 points

It’s just trucks all the way down

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7 points

Can’t. The cab needed enough room to put the family so you know where they are without having to mow them down first.

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21 points

And this moron will be allocated the parking space next to mine in our residence.

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99 points

He needs the large crew cab to have somewhere to put his groceries. Because he doesn’t want to get that bed scratched.

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Well you don’t want groceries in the bed mostly because it will be thrown around since it’s just open space…

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12 points

What a fantastic car design

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Things are pretty fantastic when you use them for that they’re made to do… Try safely carrying 20 4’x8’ sheets of sheetrock in a small car… Or try carrying two bags of groceries in a sedan’s trunk without anything holding them in place…

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Aren’t there cargo nets and other accessories for that? I get it if you have perishable groceries that need to be kept frozen until you get home and it’s hot outside.

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Indeed. Hell my old Ranger had a gap in the bed liner so I could slide a 2x4 (I think I actually used a 2x6) in place and have a perfect divider for groceries right at the tailgate. It was simple and worked perfect. When it was time to do truck shit the board just lifted up and got tossed in with the bricks or whatever.

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My dad always has trucks, whole 30 years of my life. To prevent groceries flying around you tie the bags and put them close to the cab, unless they’re really light and that case you put them in the cab. He never had crew cab until much later in my life so stuff had to go in the bed as 90s extended cabs were not very extended lol the days of the single fold down seat behind the main front seats sucked for me

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I’m 6’2" and used one in my adult lifetime (ranger if I recall). At my age now I doubt I could do it again

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56 points

I watched a guy load bags of soil from the hardware store into the back seats of the crew cab while he had an empty bed. The bed would have been easier to load and could easily be hosed down if a bag leaked. I guess he forgot it was also a truck and not just a luxury commuter car.

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Not arguing with the statement being made here but the tilt shift photography makes that picture much worse than it is in reality. Again, I completely disagree with these giant atrocities rolling down the road but still this photo is not accurate by any means.

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I see some blurring, probably deliberate, on the left edge of the image. I don’t think this is “tilt shifted” and I don’t think the effect you’re describing would make the one truck seem larger than the other.

I don’t disagree with your point that the image is chosen specifically because it excessively highlights the difference in size… but I’d say it has more to do with the angle and the order of the trucks than any post fx.

Also, srsly: no tilt shift.

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That’s cool, I’m no photographer but there’s something at play here skewing the perspective. Def not gonna argue if it is or isn’t tilt shift, I don’t fuckin know

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I dont know much about much or anything either but I thought tilt shift made things look smaller but idk you know

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Remember that photo of the Bidens with the Carters where the Bidens looked like giants compared to the Carters? It was an illusion caused by the use of a wide angle lense. Makes things around the edge look bigger.

This photo looks like it was taken with a wide angle lens and then the left side was cropped off. Look at the difference in size between the wheels on the truck.

These pickup trucks are still stupid though.

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Yeah, depth of field is all over the map. It doesn’t make sense. Text in focus behind the truck, but not the SUV, even though it’s further away.

My vote is a composite. Several images merged together.

EDIT: oh yeah. Tree is a seam. Bush behind the truck bed is 2 colors and focuses. And the trucks back bumper… bad masking.

Tilt shift generally makes things look miniature like a model.

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There is no tilt shifting in that photo. Neither physical (by actually tilting a single lens inside the lens assembly) nor digital. What you’re seeing as blurryness is just normal how camera focus works.

They may have applied a slight vignette blur to the edges, but it’s really hard to tell with the light bleed on the left edge.

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He means there is deliberate perspective making the big truck even bigger in the photo.

Notice how the whels of the small SUV are the same size. And the front tire on the big truck is like 20% bigger than the rear.

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That may well be the case that this is what he means, but how would we know when he calls it tilt shift anyway? Cause that’s not what “tilt shift” means.

If he wants to say it’s photoshopped or whatever, just say that instead of using terms that clearly don’t apply.

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I think you mean forced perspective, not tilt shift. Those are two different things in photography.

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2 points

they have big people over there

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