Yup - about twelve of them.
Thank you for putting into words what I've had at the back of my mind but couldn't find a way of putting. It's a bit like arguing with the White House spokesman.
I can't tell here whether you're trying to be funny, or just actually being incredibly boorish.
I'll go with (a) myself. In his golden, moralistic vision of the USA that does everything for the Right Reason, he seems to have forgotten who put Saddam in power in the first place. Pity I've got stacks of work to get done today, I'll have to save my (full) reply for later.
What does the number of combos have to do with anything? You cover the same corners on the track using the different circuit configurations. Your overall route might be different but the corners are still the same. The scenery is still the same. The immersion offered by that particular environment is still the same. We're better covered on the car front in terms of the variety available, and they all handle quite differently. But I have no desire to try all 900+ combos. FE3 in an LX4 is very much like FE3 in an LX6. KY2 in a RB4 is a very similar experience to KY2 in a XRT, bar the obvious handling differences. We might have hundreds of combos, but distil them down to groups of interesting/appropriate tracks and car classes, and the number drops dramatically.
No - personally, I want more content to provide more choice of racing venue, more variety, and yes, of course there is an appeal to having something new, both to learn and to play around in.
If everyone never wanted any new tracks, we'd all still be playing on LFS's recreations of the tracks from Pole Position on the Atari 2600. There's nothing wrong with wanting new tracks. It's not a sin. It's not symptomatic of having some kind of attention deficit disorder.
Mind you, none of this makes any difference if everyone continues to drive, and continues to be provided for/encouraged to drive, the same bloody AS3/GTR. I'd love to see what would happen if that combo could be blocked at the master server for a weekend.
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I really wanted to get cracking with some work as soon as I got in the office this morning, but spotted some shit that needs smothering.
Aggressive? How many times had he attacked or threatened the USA? please, name them.
The country was destitute, broken, with a half-assed conscription army and a few dozen mid-Soviet era tanks. What money had been earnt, or illegally acquired from the UN programmes, was squandered on luxurious palaces for Saddam's family. Or were you referring to a different "Iraq"?
Oh? He was? Please, name them (the terrorists). I'm curious what you'll come up with, because it'll probably mention the favoured bogeymen from a few years ago - Al Qaeda. Except that Saddam and Al Qaeda really didn't get along and had nothing to do with each other.
This and further comments suggests that you suffer from the idealism someone mentioned earlier in this or another thread, whereby too many Americans think their country has such a clean conscience, a heart of gold, and whose shit doesn't stink.
You talk about Americans going to Iraq to fight terrorism, which is just a beautiful example of how if you repeat something often enough, it seems to become true. There was no mention of terrorism when the gunsights shifted from Afghanistan to Iraq. No, it was all about WMD. Saddam was developing WMD. Saddam building new development facilities to make more WMD. Saddam's WMD were getting longer ranged. Saddam had more WMD than we could count. The whole frikkin country was bristling with frikkin WMD, according to Bush'n'Bliar. Oh, and of course, Saddam was merely evading the weapons inspectors with mobile WMD labs. Remember Colin Powell standing at the UN with a comical Powerpoint slideshow, depicting nothing more incriminating than satellite photos of some sheds with trucks parked around them. The Bush administration were all over tv giving interviews and press conferences, chanting the mantra, "Saddam, WMDs, Saddam, WMDs, Saddam, WMDs".
And then they invaded against the advice and common sense of the rest of the world, there was no trace of WMD, and then it was a case of, "errr, well Saddam was a terrorist anyway, yeah, didn't you know? He has bottom sex with Osama Bin Laden every other night".
Except that Saddam didn't. The only terrorists in Iraq came there in the power vacuum created by the US.
Aggressive? How many times had he attacked or threatened the USA? please, name them.
The country was destitute, broken, with a half-assed conscription army and a few dozen mid-Soviet era tanks. What money had been earnt, or illegally acquired from the UN programmes, was squandered on luxurious palaces for Saddam's family. Or were you referring to a different "Iraq"?
Oh? He was? Please, name them (the terrorists). I'm curious what you'll come up with, because it'll probably mention the favoured bogeymen from a few years ago - Al Qaeda. Except that Saddam and Al Qaeda really didn't get along and had nothing to do with each other.
This and further comments suggests that you suffer from the idealism someone mentioned earlier in this or another thread, whereby too many Americans think their country has such a clean conscience, a heart of gold, and whose shit doesn't stink.
You talk about Americans going to Iraq to fight terrorism, which is just a beautiful example of how if you repeat something often enough, it seems to become true. There was no mention of terrorism when the gunsights shifted from Afghanistan to Iraq. No, it was all about WMD. Saddam was developing WMD. Saddam building new development facilities to make more WMD. Saddam's WMD were getting longer ranged. Saddam had more WMD than we could count. The whole frikkin country was bristling with frikkin WMD, according to Bush'n'Bliar. Oh, and of course, Saddam was merely evading the weapons inspectors with mobile WMD labs. Remember Colin Powell standing at the UN with a comical Powerpoint slideshow, depicting nothing more incriminating than satellite photos of some sheds with trucks parked around them. The Bush administration were all over tv giving interviews and press conferences, chanting the mantra, "Saddam, WMDs, Saddam, WMDs, Saddam, WMDs".
And then they invaded against the advice and common sense of the rest of the world, there was no trace of WMD, and then it was a case of, "errr, well Saddam was a terrorist anyway, yeah, didn't you know? He has bottom sex with Osama Bin Laden every other night".
Except that Saddam didn't. The only terrorists in Iraq came there in the power vacuum created by the US.
-1 from me. In real life you can reach down and feel what gear you're in, or if necessary, look where the gear lever is. When you don't have that option on the computer (as we don't all have G25s), you need an on-screen substitute.
My real car starts just fine without pushing any pedals. You're advised to dip the clutch but it's not essential.
Fingers crossed that future improvements to the damage and collision models will make post-race wrecking harder or near impossible. So when some moron decides they have to start crashing into people, they'll only be able to do it once and then be left with a car with no radiator, the tyres jammed into the bodywork and unable to roll or turn, the engine in the passenger seat, and so on - and he won't be able to do it any more. It's only the current damage model that allows people to bash and bump around like they do after the race. When it (the damage system) (hopefully) gets a LOT more sensitive, it'll stop a great deal of the problems.
I don't see as much of it now as I used to, but post race wrecking is incredibly annoying. The FFB causing the wheel to whip round is a genuine cause for concern, whether you have your chin resting on the wheel (I do that too sometimes) or your fingers resting on the spokes, or even if the wheel is left unattended. I've parked my car up well out of the way before then jumped out my seat to get a drink/take a piss etc before the next restart, and some twat still manages to hit me.
I think you've bought the wrong game mate. Oh, wait...
So when some moron decides they have to start crashing into people, they'll only be able to do it once and then be left with a car with no radiator, the tyres jammed into the bodywork and unable to roll or turn, the engine in the passenger seat, and so on - and he won't be able to do it any more. It's only the current damage model that allows people to bash and bump around like they do after the race. When it (the damage system) (hopefully) gets a LOT more sensitive, it'll stop a great deal of the problems.I don't see as much of it now as I used to, but post race wrecking is incredibly annoying. The FFB causing the wheel to whip round is a genuine cause for concern, whether you have your chin resting on the wheel (I do that too sometimes) or your fingers resting on the spokes, or even if the wheel is left unattended. I've parked my car up well out of the way before then jumped out my seat to get a drink/take a piss etc before the next restart, and some twat still manages to hit me.
I think you've bought the wrong game mate. Oh, wait...
This has nothing specifically to do with this year's German GP, but everytime I look at that circuit map, I cringe and think back to the early '90s GPs with Prost, Senna, Mansell etc thundering through the forest with sparks flying from the undertray.
Bloody Tilke.
Bloody Tilke.
That's a damn good point. Why don't they run shorter tracks? I can understand why the super-long tracks were phased out due to the difficulties of providing adequate marshal/fire/first aid coverage, but I think a GP with a fast, 45 second lap would actually be very lively!
With the viewfinder of a D40, not so much lost as just very hard to find. 
ffs...
Same as it always is - "when it's ready to be tested".
Holy shit, this is a major topic bump.
I'm afraid I tend to agree with Becky's comments from 2006, in principle if not in a literal sense. I've never understood some people's fascination with upgrading their sound systems. On the road, you need to be able to hear your surroundings in order to be a safe and quick driver. Chavs driving round with their rear glass bouncing to the beat are idiots - they can't hear their own engine, let alone anything around them. Occasionally I see idiots with loud music on holding up ambulances or fire engines because they never heard the siren coming, and it's no surprise that the same people are also too thick and/or irresponsible to look in their mirrors and notice the swathes of flashing lights.
I'm afraid I tend to agree with Becky's comments from 2006, in principle if not in a literal sense. I've never understood some people's fascination with upgrading their sound systems. On the road, you need to be able to hear your surroundings in order to be a safe and quick driver. Chavs driving round with their rear glass bouncing to the beat are idiots - they can't hear their own engine, let alone anything around them. Occasionally I see idiots with loud music on holding up ambulances or fire engines because they never heard the siren coming, and it's no surprise that the same people are also too thick and/or irresponsible to look in their mirrors and notice the swathes of flashing lights.
Thanks.
They say that 90% of an image is made by the person holding the camera, so don't blame your equipment. Not that I mean it in an egotistical way - simple physics dictates that to get the kind of bokeh in my shots you need a decent sized sensor and a suitably fast lens. No photographic skill required, just open up the lens and shoot.
Love the last picture, great posture.
What is it you like about the 40D?
Of course they can. I've seen magazine-worthy fashion shots on location that were just taken with a decent Fuji compact. And yes, SLRs are a bloody money pit. Fortunately I got my A700 on special offer, combined with the Sony cashback, plus selling my old A100, meant I managed to upgrade for just under £400. But now I need a better general zoom lens. I'm very tempted to splash out for when I go to Amsterdam at the end of this month, but I don't really want to part with another £300 at the moment.
No.
Doing it in camera > doing it in photoshop.
Here's a few snaps from a couple of weeks ago when I went to Durham Botanical gardens. Nothing serious or requiring a lot of effort, I had no tripod or anything and it was far windier than would be ideal.
All shot with A700 and Tamron 90mm.
nice one. It's hard to imagine anyone not enjoying it, imho. It's up there with Toy Story 2, but with a lot more thought & development put into the characters.
It's hard to imagine anyone not enjoying it, imho. It's up there with Toy Story 2, but with a lot more thought & development put into the characters.Seconded. Watched it last night - absolutely frikkin brilliant. I even had a lump in my throat at the end, even though I was telling myself it's just a bloody animation about fictitious robots in the future! So cute though - poor lonely little robot - bless him.
I want WALL-E as a pet robot around the flat.
The point about spreading the players too thinly over too many different tracks is a good one. And it makes me think of another track/player issue.
Now, I'm very much for more content in LFS. Whilst the updates we receive are substantial steps towards a more "polished" product, and contain many useful changes, we've still got the same six environments. Three of them from 2003, and another three from 2005 when S2 was released. The content is so lacking that it's only the excellent physics and "feel" of the cars that keeps people racing, imho.
But, if you look at the populated servers list, with the exception of CTRA's automatic circuit rotation, nearly everyone else is just driving the same old bloody combos. How can we put our case across for more tracks when the vast majority of people will quite happily drive lap after lap after lap after lap after lap of the same track in the exact same car? I don't actually think the likes of ConeDodgers or Redline are doing LFS any favours by permanently running the same combos (sure, people would drive those combos anyway, but at least it wouldn't be fixed as part of the LFS "establishment").
I guess most new players fall into the AS3/GTR trap, I did at some point, but managed to get out and realise that there's so much more to LFS than driving everywhere with the throttle wide open in a super grippy car.
But why are people playing the same old combos again and again ad nauseum? If the community is bored of the tracks available, why are they making it worse by only ever using one or two combos?
On the forums there's all sorts of debate and opnions about what/why/how/when we need more tracks, and the general consensus is that people are bored of the tracks. Yet this isn't mirrored in practice.
Now, I'm very much for more content in LFS. Whilst the updates we receive are substantial steps towards a more "polished" product, and contain many useful changes, we've still got the same six environments. Three of them from 2003, and another three from 2005 when S2 was released. The content is so lacking that it's only the excellent physics and "feel" of the cars that keeps people racing, imho.
But, if you look at the populated servers list, with the exception of CTRA's automatic circuit rotation, nearly everyone else is just driving the same old bloody combos. How can we put our case across for more tracks when the vast majority of people will quite happily drive lap after lap after lap after lap after lap of the same track in the exact same car? I don't actually think the likes of ConeDodgers or Redline are doing LFS any favours by permanently running the same combos (sure, people would drive those combos anyway, but at least it wouldn't be fixed as part of the LFS "establishment").
I guess most new players fall into the AS3/GTR trap, I did at some point, but managed to get out and realise that there's so much more to LFS than driving everywhere with the throttle wide open in a super grippy car.
But why are people playing the same old combos again and again ad nauseum? If the community is bored of the tracks available, why are they making it worse by only ever using one or two combos?
On the forums there's all sorts of debate and opnions about what/why/how/when we need more tracks, and the general consensus is that people are bored of the tracks. Yet this isn't mirrored in practice.
Yeah, I watched it last night and found it quite enjoyable. Not quite as good as the hype had made me think, but worth watching.
Do you have permission from the skin creators to use any of the skins in skins_x?
When it comes to gangs of children knifing people and kids going feral on estates and destroying everyone and everything around them, then yes, lock em all up and throw away the key. Had enough of the liberal, whinging class moaning on about how it's all due to a lack of opportunities and deprivation or because we don't give them a chance or invest enough in them.
Bullshit. They're scum. And scum breeds more scum.
Scum isn't interested in education - you can't educate people that don't want to learn. They're not deterred by some soft-touch community service or supervisory order. Words and morals are not part of their life. Violence is.
Instead of the police going all PC and recruiting ethnically diverse men and women from all backgrounds, they should be recruiting large, strong young men, preferably ex-forces, that can not only defend themselves and others with ease, but also smash a few noses and break the odd bone. The legal system should come down like a ton of bricks on juveline delinquents, instead of allowing them to sue people who's property they're vandalising, or escaping serious assault charges on technicalities. Prison time should be hard and unforgiving - a nightmare filthy hellhole of a place with sadistic guards; a place that will frighten young people into avoiding a life of crime.
Sounds brutal? I guess so. But let's face it, the velvet gloves "ooh don't touch them, those poor deprived angels" approach is hardly working.
(EDIT) Forgot to add that the reason for that little rant is that I think the current epidemic of knife crime is an extension of the existing breakdown in law and order and respect for others.
Bullshit. They're scum. And scum breeds more scum.
Scum isn't interested in education - you can't educate people that don't want to learn. They're not deterred by some soft-touch community service or supervisory order. Words and morals are not part of their life. Violence is.
Instead of the police going all PC and recruiting ethnically diverse men and women from all backgrounds, they should be recruiting large, strong young men, preferably ex-forces, that can not only defend themselves and others with ease, but also smash a few noses and break the odd bone. The legal system should come down like a ton of bricks on juveline delinquents, instead of allowing them to sue people who's property they're vandalising, or escaping serious assault charges on technicalities. Prison time should be hard and unforgiving - a nightmare filthy hellhole of a place with sadistic guards; a place that will frighten young people into avoiding a life of crime.
Sounds brutal? I guess so. But let's face it, the velvet gloves "ooh don't touch them, those poor deprived angels" approach is hardly working.
(EDIT) Forgot to add that the reason for that little rant is that I think the current epidemic of knife crime is an extension of the existing breakdown in law and order and respect for others.
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Good. Btw, you do realise that if Scawen ever turns round and says "that's it, it's stopping at S2 with few new features added because I'm getting bored of the complaining" that the community* would f*cking lynch you?
[size]* Yes, the community that you claim to represent. Go speak for yourself. I've posted before, on more than one occasion, about the lack of content in LFS. However there are times when such criticisms may be appropriate, but right now is a time when we should be grateful for what we do receive - as is the silent majority that Scawen refers to.[/size]
There's a Premier Inn on Newcastle Quayside which is pretty central and close to the station. There's also one on New Bridge Street which is also central to Newcastle. There's a Travelodge on the Quayside too. And a Holiday Inn just up the road from the station. Plenty of choice.
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