Man, this is addicting. Goodbye any serious work for tomorrow...

Quote from Bob Smith :

4? 4 what? I think I can safely say that isn't a winning answer.

4 after taxes. Anything after taxes is 4.

4

From what I've studied, Japan tried to surrender many times before the bombs, but was neglected. Bombs were used to scare Soviet's. The Cold War had already begun - about the time Berlin was captured.

Study the history, but not from school books. School books only contain what they wan't you to learn.

Quote from 510N3D :

Besides that, in a land without effectively birth control and with such a poor infrastructure its unavoidably that people gone die.

Krhm.. In a land which oppresses other countries, messes with internal affairs of independent nations, loathes social wellfare and rights of poor to benefit the rich elite, its unavoidable that people are going to die.

And no, I don't blame americans or USA as such. I blame the rich custards who get more and more power- and moneyhungry. Eventually the aristocrats will get overthrown by the oppressed masses. And after that, new aristocrats will rise among the masses. A constant loop.

Quote from 510N3D :

The most stupid post i have read so far. Btw, the USA was save, well they thought they are, just like you. See the result and think about it. The worst case can happen everywhere the terrorism do not care as long as many people die. Thats the point you dont get or was it just, uhm...irony or sarcasm? illepall

Well, Finland hasn't dropped bombs or invaded other cultures very much. The word "terrorism" is actually quite an abstract. Only madmen kill for the pure pleasure of killing, the people that get the "terrorist" label often kill for raising awareness on some agenda.

I remember reading from somewhere (heck, it might have been even in this forum, or - better yet - in this thread) that during ww2 the France resistance was called terrorists by the nazis - and similar examples are numerous. It's always a matter of perspective.

Killing people is never nice. In real world there are no good or bad people. In this real world there is only people. Gray people.

A bomb in Africa doesn't affect western world so much as a bomb in "our territory". That's sad fact. When tidal wave kills hundreds of thousand is Pacific, we only seem to care about the casualties of our nation. That is the real world. We born alone, we live alone, we die alone. We care only about things affecting us. That's the fact.

That doesn't mean that things couldn't be changed. It's just that the memory of the people is very short. That saddens.

End of rant, for now. Hope it makes any sense and no biggies if it doesn't. I'm more able to express my views head on than with keyboard.

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Anyway, talking in a way you do about a subject like this is respectless in every way to those who got killed because they lived in the wrong country or simple where in the wrong time & place. Who cares about others as long as its not concerning you right?

But anyway, ignore me as usual and go ahead, to live in fantasy land must be so exciting.

This is tough one, gotta strecth my memory a bit.. What saddens me is that I actually have to leave Pit Stop out from the three-list, since the three others affected me more.

Indy500 - This was propably the first racing game which I played for hours and hours non-stop. Never finished the long races, because of crashing. Ten-lappers were easy and 30-lappers too. I played this with 8088, with really low frame rates. You wouldn't believe. It was really hard to make clean laps with full grid. Later I played it with better computers, but by then I already had a new favourite:

F1GP - The original Crammond one. I had it on 386 pc and my friend had it on his Amiga. We did some "hotlapping" where we kept a score on lap records. Huge fun. Wet weather was the thing, it just happened so rarely. But when it did.. wow.

CMR2.0 - I tried the demo and liked it, so I bought it and fell in love with it. First rally game I ever played more than once or twice. Played it with keyboard and quite quickly learned to master it. Only the tarmac in France was pain. Random weather was very nice. Oh, the joy of foggy RAC. However it was clear that those two to three minutes long stages were disappointing in their shortness. The hunger for full-length rallying became huge. I'm still waiting..


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Didn't forget Stunt Car Racer. Never made higher than Div 2, but spent lots of hours with it. And Stunts.. And SkidMarks.. And...

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Obviously not. I'm terribly sorry for the inconvenience. Does beating myself with birch branches compensate this foul?

UFR - the fifth open wheeler.

Condolances and strength to family and friends.

Anarchy Online.

I tried Enemy Territory and liked it, but at one point it started freezing everytime I joined a game. Should propably re-install it.

Well, what is the essence of LFS and could it be reproduced into such limited environment?

Quote from Gunn :

You would judge a person by the texture on they used the front of their virtual helmet in a race sim?

Nah, I'm just bored at work But sorry, I can't rephrase my train of though ts into words right now

Like someone in some other thread said: if I have time to look at graphical gimmicks, then I don't drive fast enough.

I'm with Soro here. Imagination is much more powerful than vision. Helmets bring equality: no-one is judged by their looks but instead of their driving.

Colors and textures of helmets and cars (=skins) don't actually show anything about the driver her/himself. Faces - even if virtual, but still visual - are in much more personal level than the color of helmet.

Black visor brings equality in sense that we're only judged by the edge of our skills or the sharpness of our tongue.

Quote from Hyperactive :

Port LFS to...:

Nice, but shouldn't those be "Guru" cards instead of just "Blackwood"

Quote from Takumi_Project.d :

Load "lfs" ,8 ,1

Cartridge's the way to go.

I like Java. I found it easy to learn, but then again I'm quite object-oriented miself

For the work I do, I'm more than willing to sacrifice the decimals of a millisecond in processing time for easy multi-platformality. Java is just as effective as another languages - it's all in the optimization.



But I still think that the über-programming language is Prolog

Quote from Scoop :

well if u have total n00bs at the front and pro's at the back then when they get to T1 there will be a HUGE crash because pro's drive fast and n00bs spin fast in front of them and like i said HUGE CRASH, but usualy they are very fun

Crashing pros aren't actually pros

Quote from Stellios :

FXR and the corkscrew (as i call it) on aston historic. The uphill chicane.

Same one but with FOX. The same chicane going the other way (down) with MRT is pure pleasure too.

If 512 isn't enough, then why stop at 1024?

Quote from BrandonAGr :

It's clear BMX is spouting a typical my country is better than yours sentiment and I dont see any real intelligent discussion coming as a result of it, but I'm not one to get in the way of a growing flame war. +1 for locking this thread

I would say that I am proud to be an American and would rather live here than anywhere else, but of course I am a bit biased

And I'm proud to be Finnish and I like living here very much That's same with most of people anywhere. Home sweet home. All are biased

Of course that doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to travel and see other countries. And I warmly welcome you to visit Finland. Land of the monsters

Quote from BrandonAGr :

This wasn't a political thread to begin with, just a post remembering those who have lost their lives defending their country.

Yeah, I know, but it just smelled gasoline for usual forumflamefire, so I decided to post my post about the pointlessness of taking it into politics.

Respect the dead by learning from their mistakes. That's what memorial days mean to me anyways.

Majority of netforums I frequently read have one rule: no religion or politics. I like that rule very much and I'd only hope this forum or atleast all but specific threads would have that.

The direction where this topic is heading leads to nowhere. The same thing have been "discussed" (read: argued) to the core over and over again, even in this forum.

This is, afterall, thread for General LFS discussion. There's no politics in LFS, there's just the frame for racing.

Quote from duke_toaster :

I beg you... make it public!

Done. Check skin-thread.

As begged in off-topic.. Nothing fancy, just constructed the pattern for filling and ripped a t-shirt logo. Someone could make better