Quote from BlueFlame :

Trust me it's one of the best platform games evermade. Think Garrysmod meets platform. That's why LBP is so fun, 2minutes isn't enough to create levels and stuff, which is the most fun part of LBP, creating a rocket car n stuff.

I can't agree on that. Foolishly I have preordered LBP2 without having played part 1, and I was quite underwhelmed. Of course, it's pretty much a sandbox/level editor, but the gampleay itself is so bad that no amount of toying around with the editor can compensate for that.

If you like plattformers, go Wii. New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Donkey Kong Country Returns are the best plattformers out there...


And to get back on topic: I'm curious what Games I can download, as the best two infamous and dead nation are not available in Germany. Hopefully it'll be different in Austria.

I'd personally go for Ratchet&Clank and Wipeout. (If infamous isn't available).

Quote from Shotglass :

both are countries descended from criminals ans hookers... whats difference?

We don't have kangaroos, except in zoos...

Quote from BlueFlame :

Lol, I'm completely neutral believe it or not.
How boring must your life be that you can't believe anything, you can't take a risk unless science has proved its existence. As I said I'm neutral, but people have boring lives, so the human race is always bound to believing/responding to conincidences and conspiracies. Instead of calling them stupid, maybe you should find another way to describe the people who don't believe what you do?

Oh, don't you worry, my life ain't boring, even without believing in stupid things.

Quote from BlueFlame :

At the end of the day, nobody can believe anything unless they saw it first hand, or did their own experiement, anything else and your taking somebody else word for it anyway.

That's true. But, and that is a huuuuuuuuge BUT it's a totally different matter to believe in something that is based on scientific evidence and verified by peers, than believing in something some guy of questionable mental health has said.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Guess you don't believe in FATE either?

Now that's a tricky one. Life is pretty much a sum of chemical reactions happening for various reasons, and a lot of our behaviour is dependant on chemical processes in our brains. Additionally, studies have shown that the brain decides before you consciously make a decision. Both of these points illustrate that a "free will" might not exist to the extend we'd like to imagine.
Still, I don't believe that my whole life is plotted out by some other higher entity and I just follow it on rails.

Quote from BlueFlame :

That say, meeting a pretty girl, spending the rest of your life with them. Most cases, the odds that you met her in the first place are slim. Infact, love isn't scientifically proven, so I guess that doesn't exist to you either?

Wow, that really baffles me! How is love "not proven"? Love is one of the most researched parts of human behaviour. And love is, as most things we do, dependant on hormones, pheromones and other neat stuff that happens in our brains to trick us into reproducing. To me, love is nothing "magical". Nontheless, it's one of the greatest things humans can experience.
But love is also very opportunistic. There isn't "this one girl" that you'll live happily ever after in real life. In reality, there are dozens, if not hundreds of girls living in your city you're "compatible" with, so the girl you end up being with is totally coincidental, and she AND you for that matter, are both replacable.

Quote from BlueFlame :

I do sound like Racer X but, I'm just making a point. Instead of calling these people dumbasses, why not accept that maybe they are just more open minded (albeit open minded to the wrong agenda [maybe]).

I am very sorry to tell you that "believing in stupid things" doesn't show up under "being open minded" in my thesaurus. Also, I have made the experience numerous times now that people who strongly believe in some fiction tend to be less open minded than sensible people.
I for one would regard myself as open minded, as in I can accept things to be real even though they comrpomise my view of the world, if I get convinced that those things are true. Also, I like to try out new things.

Additionally, I tend to let people believe in what they want, as long as they don't try to evangelise me, and in fact, I am good friends with some very deeply religious or "homeopathic" people. That doesn't apply to online discussion forums though, where I do enjoy a good argument about those things.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Wouldn't say that. Many smart people are believing these coincidences or taking an interest.

Many smart people believe in coincidences rather than prophecies coming true because of some "prewritten" fate-like thing that is apparent to lunatics (believing themselves in it, the minority) and charlatanes (not believing in it, but using it to make profit from stupid, gullible people. The majority, including organized religion and homeopathy), that is correct.

A pit stop with a happy end

Quote from BlueFlame :

Just because it's mathmatically possible to GUESS. Doesn't mean that it's just a coincidence.

Yeah, but in 100 out of 100 cases, it simply IS coincidence. People who believe in prophecies are even less smart than people thinking playing the lottery is a viable way to gain money.

Last edited by ColeusRattus, Thu 12 May 2011, 17:35.

Well, guessing the day of an earthquake ain't that hard, as an earthquake happens almost every day. There are about 1400 earthquakes of the strength of 4.9 to 5.4 on the richter scale per year.

And even if somebody would pinpoint the location, strength and time of an earthquake, it's a mere coincidence if he can't repeat that.

Last edited by ColeusRattus, Thu 12 May 2011, 07:19.

Here's the link to the forum this thread should've been posted:
http://www.lfsforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=8

And here's the link to the suggested impovement log where you should check if somebody has already come up with your ideas:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=2626

I know it's a long list that requires a lot of comprehensive reading, but it's worth it. As you might know, Live for speed is in developement for almost ten years, and discussed in forums for about the same time, so chances are that somebody had the very same ideas in all that time.
So if you find that somebody has already had your very ideas, go to the original post and read it. If you have anything of value to add, ressurect that thread instead of opening a new one. If you haven't (and "yeah, great idea" is NOT a valuable contribution), simply refrain from posting.

Also, it's usually better to flesh out your ideas more than just stating a single sentence. Put more thought in it.

apologies for the shameless doublepost! My not very impressive Nordschleife runs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... -pIeE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... smq_Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYFqLw0fiFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgmeSZnloOo

Quote from morpha :

Also, unless you absolutely have to see Vienna, I'd avoid it altogether. It's just no fun at all by car.

Can't agree on that, never had a problem with driving in vienna. Not that it's fun per se to drive in the city, but its not really that troublesome either. And there are plenty of things to see in vienna.

And i can highly recommend my hometown Graz, a very nice town mixing both alpine and mediterranean atmosphere.

to bumo this thread: Bought Shift 2, and I do like it. While it's nowhere near a sim, it has two things that I hope we'll see in real sims in the future:

Visible marbles and flexible cars. If you look at the rear view mirror and the screen wiper, you'll see how they flex, which is quite neat, especially since it isn't done in an overly exagerated way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvU-eFnumf0

I am watching Metalocalypse. It's metal, it's awesome, it's brutal. :headbang:

Watched Paul recently. While not as good as Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz, still a nice comedy with lots of sci-fi references. Had a good time watching it.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Finland. The only country to lose every single war it's ever been in, ever

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

Not really a loss, K/D Ratio of finnland 126,875/25,904... Perkele!

It took me 2 evenings, so 5-6 hours. Plus an additional 3-4 for coop.

So while it's not a long game per se, I think it's quite hard to judge the length of a game like portal. I have watched a friend of mine play a few levels after I finished it, and he took considerably longer than me to figure some puzzles out. So for him, the overal length would be 7-8 hours.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Portal 2 does look very lovely.

As the whole corporate design of Aperture Science reminds me of apple, that doesn't come as a surprise.
But I agree. While the source engine isn't among the most technically advanced engines anymore, the art of Portal 2s visuals is great.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

You can't beat a manfeast unless you throw on more bacon, sausages and eggs.

Coming from a country with a rich sausage culture, and having been to England once, let me assure you, that unless you have those special kind of british taste buds on your tongue, nothing, and I truly mean bold and italic all caps NOTHING, becomes better when you put more of those things that - for some very odd reason - are called "sausage" in great britain on it, in it or next to it.

If the EU would be of any use, it would surely mark british sausages with a "not fit for eating" label, similar to those "smoking can kill" on cigarette packs.

On PS3, which contained a code to download it on steam too. Thanks, Valve!

IMHO there are much worse looking cars out there.

Still, unless it has the traditional rear engined rear wheel drive setup, it won't be interesting, as it will be another overpriced but less practical Golf in disguise...

EDIT: just read the text, it's gonna be FF...

Quote from BurnOut69 :

Dont get your hopes high, they just found a few resized logos in a hidden directory

Hence I introduced it with "seems like", and not "there are".

And on other news, I wouldn't mind if they finally starting making all cars premium, which polyphony stated somewhere they were planning to do.

Seems like more tracks are coming. I'm hoping that they will be free, or at least cheap.

http://www.gtplanet.net/24-new ... n-gran-turismo-5-website/

Especially looking forward to Costa di Amalfi, which was my favourite btrack in GT4, as it was beautiful and didn't get boring after hours of farming the Toyota RSC car for quick money.

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Quote from tristancliffe :

You don't HAVE to listen to the phone. If you're chatting away, and something exciting happens (you skid, someone pulls out in front of you, the lights turn to red when you least expect it) you can stop listening and devote 100% attention to the road. Then you say "sorry, the lights just changed and I had to brake, so I missed the last 5 seconds of what you said". Easy!

And why do you have to look at the phone to video? I video my racing, but don't have to watch it through a screen. You can just hold the camera/phone in the right direction and look out of the window directly.

Bunch of sissies.

Edit: The holding the phone in front of the face comes from TV programmes. The TV people want to be able to hear both sides of the conversation, so it's done on speaker phone with the phone held out at a stupid angle. But the public (which are by and large morons collectively, and the main reason democracy can't work) think it must be cool or better, and copy them, thus looking like knobs.

The problem isn't stopping to listen or talk when something happens, the problem is the longer reaction time when something happens that needs your attention.

And the speaker phone thing is even more strange as it's not a common practice on TV over here. I can't think of a single time I saw it on TV.

While defiantely scary, I fail to se the "miraculously" and the "escaping"... the board merely penetrated and got lodged in the windscreen by the looks of it. Spectacular? Yes? A miracle that somebody survived it? Nope.
At best, it was a tad of luck it didn't smash her hand.

On other news, joing the hands free talking debate: I do agree that it's quite distracting trying to film while driving a car, as the camera needs a lot of attention to be pointed in the right direction, at least relatively. You won't immediately crash, burn and die, but you're distracted enough to miss things.
Same as with talking, no matter if holding a phone or talking to a passenger. While it does not impede the genreal ability to drive much, as in: staying on the road and not hitting large objects like cars going on the same road, it does severly hamper the attention you pay, and I for one regularly miss traffic signs like speed limits while talking.

And somewhat related: recently I see more and more people using their phones while driving in "speaker" mode, or whatever it is called in english, not holding it to their ears or using a handsfree, but holding them stupidly in front of their faces... what use is that?

Very, very nice

It's out and noone commented on it?

Allright, so I'm the first. And I am almost at a loss for words. To sum it up in the briefest way: If you like IL2, you're better off sticking with IL2 1946 for now.

At least from what I can gather by the ten or so minutes I tried the training.

first, the pros:

• the shadows look amazing
  
• insane detail, like grass, random bicycles standing around etc.
  
• clickable cockpit instruments
  

now, for the cons:

• performance is abysmal, even on medium details (i7 870, 4 gb RAM, gforce GTX460)
  
• Many controls don't work, even though assigned in the options. Many controls not to be found in the options at all, or at least not easily.
  
• some textures are missing (most notably on the training plane, which just sports a yellow bumpmap)
  
• radio chatter sounds odd and too fast/cut off
  
• special effects like smoke and fire look worse than in Il2 1946
  

special training issues:

• Instructs you to fly through rings, which are invisible.
  
• no prompts for the controls.
  
• explains procedures without letting you do them.
  

To sum it up, it looks and feels like a very half assed ww2 combat mod for FSX

And here's a screen, with everything maxed out. It sucks more than neccessary due to steams screenshot compression though.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ ... A7B7FF568CFBFF9254C8C1CB/