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nihil
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Quote from Gunn :
LFS is a much better sim all around than GPL was and is..... There's no comparison.

Only because there is little chance to actually make a comparison. It would be very interesting to see a 67 lotus modelled in LFS, but then again if the Cortina mod ever comes out it will be a test for me to see if LFS still holds my interest.
nihil
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Quote from StewartFisher :Just because people don't agree with the way record companies run their businesses doesn't mean they have the right to steal music.

Not having the right is not the same as not having the desire. People have demonstrated the desire, created the opportunity, and indulged it freely.

The record companies have to come to terms with the way that the market is being shaped by its consumers. I mean, do they want to sell music or do they want to become policemen?

If its the latter, then **** them. Bring on the noise.
nihil
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Quote from BlueFlame :...blueflame demonstrates all the political acumen of a cold virus...

Yeah, whatever....

All rather odd: there is little more than speculation that the murders in Mauritania were the result of a terrorist attack. Robbery seems a much more likely cause, and the ASO should really be more specific about the nature of the threats that have allegedly been levelled directly at the organisation.

Given that people die on the rally every year anyway, I don't see that some ragged and badly organised terrorist cell would make much difference to that particular statistic. Given too that the rally's route is almost a of tour France's imperial interest in Africa, it would be surprising if they have never received threats in the past.

Sounds like a failure of organisation really. Surely part of the point of the rally is to route around trouble anyway?
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nihil
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You're a big girl's blouse. Stop whimpering about on the fringes of energy reactions and start playing with the sun...
nihil
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Quote from spanks :

"Patrick Depailler at Montreal in Tyrrell 008"

That's ripped from "Lap of the Gods": Depailler at Long Beach is a great reason to buy the DVD, as is Alain Prost at Zandvoort (listen to his downshifts, if I had to burn a cd that would be only thing I could listen to for the rest of my life, I would include that sound...)
nihil
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Quote from lizardfolk :For some reason the sick artist are the good ones. It's a shame.

LOL... Loving this thread - come on, what do you mean by sick?! I'm guessing you've never read De Sade or Bataille, never seen Hans Bellmer's work, or Andre Masson's prints. Not that I would consider these particular artists as sick, but their art makes dragon shagging look rather cute and innocent.

"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison."
Georges Bataille
nihil
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Quote from lizardfolk :(category 3) This is a incredibly sick group of people

Quote from lizardfolk :Well, really I dont and I really dont mind.

Ok, if you don't mind, was your first comment merely a defensive reaction, knowing that, in general, people have a very low tolerance for anything other than vanilla sex? (and no... that's not sex with ice cream...)
nihil
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Quote from DragonCommando :
My vote however goes to hating only the dirty ones.

Quote from chanoman315 :...and category 3... wth! is wring with this world ... damn

Quote from Jertje :"furfag?"

Quote from Osco :the poll misses: 'I think you are sick and need to be locked up in a home for the mentally retarded'

You people need to deal with your own problems before pontificating on the behaviour of others.

I'll repeat a question I put to Lizardfolk earlier: what is so sick about these fantasies? Why do you find these fantasies so threatening?
nihil
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Quote from AndroidXP :Why? WHY?

Just google 'hokusai' and 'octopus'....
nihil
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Quote from Vain :....the imaginary.... (sorry, wasn't interested in the rest of the quote)

Visualisation is a technique taught by sports psychologists to athletes of all types; its basically about rehearsing a positive outcome for an event in as detailed and vivid way as you're capable (might be a useful technique for LFSers)

As well as getting a feel for the rhythm of a track, I'd guess that many racers are using remembered images from the PS2/3 as a visualisation tool. To that extent, the physics of the game are irrelevant.

(There's a lot of anecdotal reference to a study made on basketball players showing only a 1% difference in the success rates of two groups: one which practiced free throws in their heads, and one which physically practiced. I think it might be one of those myths perpetuated by some would-be sports guru, but if anyone knows any better I'd be interested to know more.)
nihil
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Quote from JJ72 :being confident and being capable are very different things.

So true.

This isn't really news, is it? There have been loads of racers who admit to doing a few laps on the playstation to remind themselves of the rhythm of a track. That's all.

LFS fanboys get over yourselves. Its not like they're learning how to drive. Its a technique that works. Period.
nihil
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I used to go out with a plushie... She was great; a very sensual lover (but I don't really know if that was an inherent quality of her 'plushiness'!)

Quote :Category 3 are a scary bunch. These people are actually sexually attracted to "furries" or bipedal animals and perform sexual activities with each other either through suits or online cyber sex (There is a term for this and it is "yiff" or "yiffy"). This is a incredibly sick group of people are DO NOT MAKE UP a good portion of the furry population

Hmmm... Getting a bit judgemental there, aren't you? Personally, I find anthropomorphism itself a troubling philosophical concept, but the idea of people having sex in animal suits is both amusing and banal, but not by any stretch of the imagination would I call it sick.
nihil
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Quote from aoun :
Please explain.

No

Not interested in arguing a petty point. You asked if you were making any sense. You weren't. I apologise for interrupting the flow of this thread.
nihil
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Quote from ajp71 :I can't understand what you've got against them (or why you've got one).

Lol... I don't understand this forum at all, really: full of people that profess to love motorsport and yet whenever anyone enthuses about something there's a crock full of bitches who just want to spray bullshit on any kind of conversation.

Its got wheels. Its fast as ****. What's not to love, Blueflame?
nihil
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Quote from beefyman666 :We'd start at Great Yarmouth seafront and have a convoy of the 2 wheeled assortment going to Lowestoft and occasionally Beccles. Best turn out we had was between 50-60 bikers.

LOL... sounds like a laugh... I had a scoot once upon a time; a Malaguti Jetline. Only mine didn't look like that - it had been sprayed silver (with an aerosol can) and had been stolen and recovered at least once in its lifetime. Crashed it twice and it just kept on going until someone lifted it over the wall of my front garden and it went on to be someone else's abused workhorse/plaything
nihil
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Quote from AstroBoy :Casey Stoner all the way

Seconded without hesitation (though I've really been enjoying Guy Martin's exploits, especially at the Ulster GP this year). Casey just looked the part from the first race to the last this year: last year, six retirements; this year, never finished lower than sixth. Yeah, Casey Stoner all the way.
nihil
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Quote from aoun :

If you have a skill to race, it should include controlling the car if it goes sideways, not having the skill to drift itself, if that makes sense.

No... it doesn't make any sense at all. You just saw the poster say it was useful sometimes and jumped on the "LFS is race simulator" soap box.
nihil
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Quote from ajp71 :I want the option for anything other than the cockpit view to be removed from LFS whilst not spectating in all modes,

I want... I want... I want... If your mother could hear you talking like that... Anyway, Live for Speed is a computer program, not an exercise in social engineering, and I can't see any reason for fetishising the cockpit view in such an extreme way. Forced cockpit view is now a server option. Why do you want to force even offline users into your brand of subjectivity?

You're just weird...
nihil
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Quote from danowat :I wish I could, but I can't see it, it's SOOOO tight under the bonnet, you just can't see a thing, everything is packed in so tightly.

Sounds familiar - took me bloody hours to change the rad on the 405, and I had to take bits off the front of the car and the wheel arches to do it. Even then it was a tight squeeze (amazingly, swearing profusely both at the engine bay and the french designers didn't make it any less so...)
nihil
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Quote from danowat :
edit : garage can't even look at it till 3rd Jan, worth trying radweld till then?

Yeah, it'll do the job til then. Had same problem with my peugeot 405 and radweld did the job well enough for a few months. Eventually gave way though... New radiator is the best cure.
nihil
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Quote from Shotglass :....and now, because white people say "hizzle fo shizzle," we have to say "flippity floppity floop."

LOL... No, zonino is what comes out if you put woohoo into a phone with predictive text entry

Quote from beefyman666 :I don't see why people can't just say something which makes sense.


Ever read Finnegans's Wake?
nihil
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Quote from Californian :just that you can say Drift competition or Drift Race

You can indeed, its just that words change their focus of meaning depending on the context in which they are used. Using the word 'race' on these forums makes pedants with axes to grind spit their dummies out.
nihil
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Quote from thisnameistaken :that is the time to seriously consider the potential benefits to future communication, stand firm, and say "No".

Well, that is the way that language works... don't use the word and it dies. However search for w00t on the LFS forums and there are eight pages of links to delve through...

Quote from beefyman666 :I thought woot/w00t was an equivalent for woohoo/yay.

No... w00t is already on the way out. Its now "zonino!" that means woohoo!
nihil
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Quote from JTbo :

So I would say it is easier to replace a human than a classic old car

Replacing humans is easy - there's a fun bit (that happens all to quickly in some cases), and then a nine-month long bit that's not so much fun...

Back on topic... Anyone remember the Portuguese garage abandoned by its owners? This thread reminded me of it... Here's a bit of truth behind the story and a list of what was behind those welded doors.
nihil
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Quote from Jakg :...? It would require a LOT of code to do!

I'm guessing LFS code is different, so kidnapping David Kaemmer and beating him with nettles until he gives up GPL's secrets hasn't been considered?
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