LOL - having grown up with guns in the Essex countryside, I kind of understand what you're saying, but to make the argument that guns aren't to be feared because most people are lousy shots is.... Sorry there's no polite way to put this.... desperate. Desperately stupid.
Its a great idea, but I really couldn't afford to do it that often.
Boo Yaa Tribe!! Cracking sound track and nice, 'hand-held' feel to the video. Enjoyed that...
He's certainly lucky to have a father who, if you believe the press, was willing to work three jobs to bring him and his brother up singlehandedly. I don't know, his dad seems really amiable in interviews. For the moment I just like to think he's a bloke who loves the sport and was really happy to see his son had a gift for it. Hopefully he won't turn out to be another tyrant of a sporting parent!
AutoX Layout Selection
Is there any reason why the layouts available for any particular circuit configuration can't be shown in the track selection screen? Unless, I'm missing something obvious, it seems really clunky having to open the editor just to load a layout and it would be more logical to deal with the selection process all in one screen.
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Was reading about this in the papers yesterday - saddest thing was that everyone now claims to have known there was a problem with the student, that he was emotionally unbalanced. His room mate said that they rarely even spoke, even when in the same room together.
Thats chilling. There are some events that are simply inevitable. You can't stand in front of a tidal wave and counsel it to stop travelling forward; you can't pass a law that will prevent it from capsizing ships. But you can look to the horizon and watch the weather.
I'm not sure however that this boy was really that strong. How is it that someone can be left to consume themselves in solitude like that? Like I said, its a cultural problem.
Thats chilling. There are some events that are simply inevitable. You can't stand in front of a tidal wave and counsel it to stop travelling forward; you can't pass a law that will prevent it from capsizing ships. But you can look to the horizon and watch the weather.
I'm not sure however that this boy was really that strong. How is it that someone can be left to consume themselves in solitude like that? Like I said, its a cultural problem.
Well, I can agree to differ on everything else, but on this point I'm with you all the way
Same with looking down your bonnet to the car in front - the quick road to 'target fixation'.@Dajmin - very thorough, very eloquent. I just wish that people wouldn't confuse realism with the photographic image.
Its a reasonable point, but you can't really see your bonnet in cockpit view either.
No, I probably wouldn't notice, but it is beyond my ken why you lot obsess about it. Its just not rational....
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Maybe its something to do with the way I perceive things, but there is no middle distance. Its all on the same plane.... Its a screen. What you mean is that you are concentrating on a small part of the centre of the screen. So why surround it with crap? My point is exactly that there is no reason to see more!
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LOL.... I can't help myself on this subject...
I pretty much always use the wheels only view:
At the LFS meet last weekend, I got to drive in front of a big screen (about six feet wide) for once and, tbh, I wasn't so bothered by the last point. Driving with the cockpit detail in place, I was just as fast (alright, no s******ing at the back, just as slow...) as I am with wheels view. So probably with a ffb wheel, I wouldn't be bothered about which view.
What does annoy me about this subject is the "anything else is not real" attitude. None of it is real....
It is all representation. Which is more real: Mont Sainte-Victoire painted by Cezanne; Mont Sainte-Victoire photographed by a tourist; or a topographical view of said mountain? Answer: none of them, but they all serve a purpose at different times.
Same for driving. In the real world I have a sense of the car that cannot be replicated by a camera. Never. What you see on screen is just information and to me, it doesn't really matter how that information is conveyed. I know that using a raised view, for instance, will give you a better view of the line through a corner, but lets be honest... Its no greater advantage than having the track available for your own personal use 24/7. If Aston was real, how many of you could afford to clock up thousands of laps each year to learn the ideal line in a GTR? That's not very realistic either is it?
EDIT: S******ING? FFS... alright... no laughing...
I pretty much always use the wheels only view:
- 'cause the cockpits kill my frame rate and
- seeing the wheels compensates for not having a forcefeedback wheel, as well as for the many shortcomings of viewing the world as a limited, two-dimensional image that has zero (or near to zero...) gravitational effect on my body
At the LFS meet last weekend, I got to drive in front of a big screen (about six feet wide) for once and, tbh, I wasn't so bothered by the last point. Driving with the cockpit detail in place, I was just as fast (alright, no s******ing at the back, just as slow...) as I am with wheels view. So probably with a ffb wheel, I wouldn't be bothered about which view.
What does annoy me about this subject is the "anything else is not real" attitude. None of it is real....
It is all representation. Which is more real: Mont Sainte-Victoire painted by Cezanne; Mont Sainte-Victoire photographed by a tourist; or a topographical view of said mountain? Answer: none of them, but they all serve a purpose at different times.
Same for driving. In the real world I have a sense of the car that cannot be replicated by a camera. Never. What you see on screen is just information and to me, it doesn't really matter how that information is conveyed. I know that using a raised view, for instance, will give you a better view of the line through a corner, but lets be honest... Its no greater advantage than having the track available for your own personal use 24/7. If Aston was real, how many of you could afford to clock up thousands of laps each year to learn the ideal line in a GTR? That's not very realistic either is it?
EDIT: S******ING? FFS... alright... no laughing...
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At heart, I'm a libertarian, so have a bit (only a bit...) of sympathy with the American attitude to gun ownership. But its a tough stance to live with. Sorry America, but if you want to argue that prohibition is not the way, then you've got to go the full stretch. Ditch your moralistic sexual laws; kick the god botherers into touch over abortion; start dealing with recreational drug use as a market, not as a "war".
Its not a question of access. The death rate in the USA is a cultural problem: just like alcohol only becomes a killer when people use it to "solve" the dilemmas of life, America has become dependent on killing to sort out its issues.
Unfortunately, a growing, general impoverishment of life in the UK means we're seeing something similar start to happen here.
Its not a question of access. The death rate in the USA is a cultural problem: just like alcohol only becomes a killer when people use it to "solve" the dilemmas of life, America has become dependent on killing to sort out its issues.
Unfortunately, a growing, general impoverishment of life in the UK means we're seeing something similar start to happen here.
How seasoned players can stop annoying the rest of the world
Stop acting like LFS is a branch of the Moonies
There's no question he's a fine driver - he's already spent years demonstrating that. Its really a question of whether he can survive all the other F1 shite. As you so rightly put it in relation to Button, its about whether he can retain his humanity and not be turned completely into a human billboard for various vested interests.
One of the problems with popular culture generally, is the degree of identification deemed necessary to enjoy it. I have short-cropped hair, think Tolkien was a tosser, and have no faith of any description (much less Wiccan, or any other new age tripe...)...
But I really like Black Sabbath, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Brujeria, and Abruptum. I know these bands are vastly different once you start the looking at the genre rules that produce them, but I don't care.... I mean, you don't have to be a neo-fascist, anti-semite to like Wagner...
LOL - and that sentence intrigues me....
But I really like Black Sabbath, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Brujeria, and Abruptum. I know these bands are vastly different once you start the looking at the genre rules that produce them, but I don't care.... I mean, you don't have to be a neo-fascist, anti-semite to like Wagner...
LOL - and that sentence intrigues me....
LOL - I just followed a google trail through more sub-species of metal than I thought could exist. Elvenking are a power/folkmetal band apparently, and as well as Viking metal, there's Mittelalter Rock (medieval metal).
The stuff I like is apparently known as drone metal: SunnO))), Boris...
The way that weight shifts is more crucial in a rwd car. Rather than thinking about how much faster or slower you will go by adjusting the throttle or putting on the brakes, think about where the weight will shift on the car, and consequently how that is going to affect grip.
Same with the steering. Stop thinking of your wheel (or whatever) as the device which points you in a certain direction. In a rwd race car, the steering wheel is a corrective device. Use your brakes and throttle to steer - and then use the steering wheel to adjust the direction.
You don't have to be gentle, but you do have to be smooth. When you accelerate out of a corner, squeeze the throttle (its like the trigger on a gun - pull it and you'll just pull the barrel away from the target).... And as you squeeze the throttle, unwind the steering wheel at the same rate.
Cheers
That's the Birmingham Superprix - so from '86 to '89. Well, '87 to '89, I guess, since it seems to be a beautifully sunny, brum day and acccording to silhouet, it pissed down in '86!Ok... Its been bugging me for a while ... WTF is "Forest Metal"? Not that anyone here has mentioned it. Just thought you might know....
...that great source of everything that is true.
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I like your attitude, but just wanted to add that not ALL racers can see the chat. Some block it out, and from my own experience, I just don't register whats going on in that part of the screen when I'm driving anyway. I'll press the '-' key for either of two reasons: if the audible notification is becoming irritating; or if I'm on a server where people use a lot of binds. In the latter case I'll make a point of blocking messages while we're on the grid.
This seems a bit odd to me - has the FXO been treated to more weight too? 'Cause on the STCC servers, the only thing that keeps the XRT from drowning in a sea of rapidly cornering FXOs is its straight line speed (seems to me that sorting out the diffs would be more of a priority than piddling around with weight dis/advantages...)
I just spat my breakfast all over the keyboard...
That one sentence justifies this entire thread in my opinion.
Was well happy to be about half a second behind you. The LFS crew can hold its head high in this respect, I think a fair proportion of attendees managed times that would place us fairly high on the centre's record sheets. Not bad for a twenty minute acclimatisation session.
Was also happy with my race times on South City, despite my appalling qualifying times! And I plainly made a tactical mistake by qualifying amongst you fast geezers at Fern Bay. Didn't see anyone for the entire race, but it was great fun anyway!
Thanks Bob for organising the event - and it was great to meet you all.
I like this - its like an extension of the sprint layout I did. Are you going to work on it some more? If not I'll have a look at it when I have some time - as it is, the timing doesn't work, you get the "wrong way" message when you turn at the top end of the course, and get a penalty message when you blast through the pits
Wow, that clip has sure done the rounds and for some reason always gets labelled as an Audi R8. Its not. Its Alain Castellana in his Norma M20. Google around, 'cause there are more videos of him hanging around the web, but anything from the European hillclimb scene is usually fairly impressive...
EDIT: I just love the wind noise on this one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8vPWnTyhaq8
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