Quote from TehPaws3D :

Is she okay? From all the radiation? (or did they do it some other way?)

Even though it's not much from someone like, a billion miles away. Best wishes.

Cheers man. She hasn't needed radiotherapy for anything thankfully, it's all been operations, and she has been fine for over a year now. Best wishes are always appreciated though.

Quote from logitekg25 :

thanks for making fun of cancer guys

I described my girlfriend as 'fairly cancery' the other day - she's had two cancers removed and two lots of abnormal cells. I've spent a lot of time taking care of her after operations on cancerous stuff so I will make fun of cancer if I damn well feel like it.

I have a rare form of personality dystrophy and I'm not asking for money either.

Quote from tristancliffe :

If he isn't dead, then I'm sure he'll release a broadcast soon to ensure that his followers remain motivated.
If he is dead, then it doesn't really matter how it happened, or even when. Terrorism won't go away because of it.

/thread

Or they made a deal with him in return for something more valuable than the head of an Arab martyr on a stick, and he took up his dialysis machine and ****ed off. He's probably got a flat in Chelsea now.

Quote from 5haz :

Because clubs are horrible places when you're sober

The various styles of '90s techno were the main reason I took a lot of ecstasy. Bloody horrible racket.

Quote from Shotglass :

for me the single biggest problem with portal 2 is how forced the humour feels
in part 1 it flowed very naturally largely because it was unexpected and fresh while portal 2 comes off as trying desperately to be funny and completely failing at it... kind of like dustin... or americans

I think Stephen Merchant's character doesn't really work. He's not believable as a robot, and he's basically just playing himself. His delivery is still very funny in places because it's so inappropriate, and his character is likeable enough, but I think the overall experience of the game isn't as cohesive as the original and his character is one of the biggest reasons for that.

I did still enjoy the game a lot and I was a bit sad when I finished it, but you're right it lacks the direction of the original.

Last time I logged in I found some clown had decided to poke a load of holes in my house at random. Judging by the stuff he was going for it must've been a newbie (stuff that would've looked interesting but would've been useless to him). I also noticed a nearby house had been vandalised in a similar way.

I haven't been following the thread - has this person already been identified and removed from the whitelist?

Getting shitfaced is the only way to make life bearable. I imagine if they outlawed alcohol the suicide rate would go through the roof.

Or everyone would start drinking aftershave.

I think Doorman is in his 60s, we've got quite a wide age range playing LFS.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

According to the reports I've read from credible news sources, the house where Osama was camping out was singled out in August 2010 by intelligence reports and confirmed in February 2011. Then there were meetings starting in March regarding what to do about it.

This story gets less believable all the time. If the US military had the slightest whiff of suspicion in August 2010 that a baddie was in a house they would've bombed the sorry shite out of the place and then not quite apologised later when it turned out to be an orphanage.

This reminds me of old Native Tongues sounds, excellent hip hop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvefbuPOru0

Her sister's alright too, bet she's filthy.

I still would.

To be fair, a computer-generated random number seeded from a naturally-occurring source (as in your example; background radiation) isn't really a computer-generated random number. The random element occurred outside the computer, all the computer did was modify the result into something more useful.

We are working on some new material but it's taking longer than we anticipated.

Quote from xaotik :

http://www.gtlw.co.uk/

I never got GTL because GTR was so wank. Is it any good?

Quote from ColeusRattus :

... those things that - for some very odd reason - are called "sausage" in great britain...

Sausage snob!

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

I think you are really showing your lack of awareness of what is happening within LFS Community.

Do you think it's unfair to perceive this update as being the LFS Cruise Patch?

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

... That coupled with a skewed perception of what LFS should be in your head, and what in reality it actually is.

I'm not going to argue with this, but if you are going to blame my attitude on a misunderstanding of what LFS is, are you going to go on to argue that it isn't mostly "cruise" servers and that this patch isn't mostly pandering to those people?

I know you've always been busy in leagues, I've never been able to do that because I can't guarantee I'll be around at regular times. Leagues are useless to me - I need good casual racing, which I used to get from LFS and I've never seen from any other multiplayer sim.

http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID ... 15/details.html?kbid=1582

Fully licensed which is reassuring, and half the price of the old illegal Real Book v5, but they've removed about a hundred quality tunes and replaced them with rubbish ones.

Only bought it because it's a standard amongst some guys I'm jamming with but the material is not a patch on the fifth ed.

Thought the thread would be locked by now, pleased to see it hasn't even been moderated. One of the best things about LFS is its forum.

Quote from SparkyDave :

Interesting to see you joining the growing torrent of lfs bashers Kev, is it really the sim that dictates if you or I race, drift or cruise?

I don't know of a "cruise community" in any other sim, and this update is tailor-made for the only activity that still survives in LFS - cruising.

Quote from sinbad :

For me, it wasn't the cost (although to be constantly buying tracks and cars to keep up with "the crowd" was always going to annoy me) but the cost combined with the limitations,

Yeah I'm fairly certain that hiPricing won't work for me either, I can't be that strictly scheduled about racing (which is why I only ever entered one LFS league and had to leave half-way through it) and I don't like the way it's funded.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

2. Hate the iR brakes.

That too.

LFS is still my favourite sim, and I've tried them all, and I'm sorry Dave if you feel that I'm jumping on some LFS-hate bandwagon but it ****s me off to see energy spent on an update designed to fix all the issues that are on the wish lists of cruise server operators when there's been a physics update waiting to happen since 2008.

Massively ****s me off tbh.

I was thinking the other day that I might get another wheel and start racing online again, then the patch to provide better cruise servers on LFS comes out. I haven't looked but I'm assuming you can place Burger Kings using the autocross editor now.

So what sim should I get if I want to do racing these days, is there only iRacing?

Quote from dadge :

surely he has consumer rights. they can't just tell him to bugger off. after all, he's purchased software off them.

I think according to their EULA they can do that. I doubt their EULA has been tested in court but he's not about to attempt it.

What's weird is if you're caught hacking in a game they just shut you out of the multiplayer portion of that game and the rest of your Steam account is unaffected, whereas with this supposed friends network infraction (something they have point-blank refused to discuss with him) they have shut down his Steam account completely.

He can't even log in, so he can't tell if someone's compromised his account and changed the password. I can guarantee he's not done anything dodgy, he barely uses Steam and he's got no reason to try to phish account details from people or anything like that.

It's made me very wary of them.

Quote from ColeusRattus :

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

A friend of mine recently got his whole Steam account suspended, apparently for 'suspicious activity on the Friends network'. He didn't even know they had a Friends Network.

He explained that he hadn't used Steam since Portal came out on the Mac, and asked them to compare the behaviour they were banning him for to his regular behaviour prior to that, to determine whether it was him or not. They told him to stop arguing and that he wasn't getting his account back.

Worst type of DRM in the world - someone hacks your password, you lose all your games, no argument.

Thinking about flying into Kiev, then doing the Chernobyl tour and then taking the train down to the coast and doing a more typical holiday.

Me and the missus would really like to take a summer holiday in Ukraine this year, we've never been to eastern Europe before or any former Soviet countries, neither of us know any languages involving the Cyrillic alphabet, or know anything much about Slavic culture / people. Which is why we want to go, really.

Wondering if any locals have any advice?