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xaotik
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Quote from vlado_skopsko :If I decide to buy S2 and i have some trojans on my computer can someone take my card number take my money and the voucher number and then I kill my self

Your current hypothesis brings forth a number of ethical, social and philosophical concerns - such as the connection of material wealth and one's suicide over their loss - yet leaves a lot to be wished for in the field of logic and rational conduct, starting from the fact that as a hypothesis it is hardly post-worthy.
xaotik
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Quote from aoun :Also think about the speed, the weather, the g-forces, weight of the wheel all acting in them 2 tenths.

He would of if he didn't have to send an SMS due to the intercom radio problems they were having but the horoscope he was reading at the time said it's wasn't the time for un-needed delays and distractions.
xaotik
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Quote from Electrik Kar :I've no idea whether I'll actually get around to forking out money for iRacing, but I don't understand how you guys can be so conclusionistic about something you've never seen.

Hold on, we're getting to that bit - we've only done 29 pages so far, what's the rush?
xaotik
S3 licensed
SarcaSim for Live for Speed : (Version : S2 ALPHA 0.5Z)

SarcaSim allows communication between up to 8 witty individuals and LFS.

TCP or UDP packets can be sent in both directions, LFS reporting various things about its amusement factor, and the relevance to the topic at hand - extra data like special puns, snickering commands or accidental keypresses will result in disconnection.
xaotik
S3 licensed
Some of the mods for the PC version are pretty good fun - the vanilla game is not. I never went for the storyline really since I'm a sucker for the open-ended sanbox-like aspect.

After I got it modded out so it was actually interesting (levelling, AI, stealth-related stuff) I sort of played a roguish explorer type of character and got into as many ruins and such places as I could and wasn't ashamed to just up and run when the shit hit the fan.

The gameplay mechanics are greatly enhanced by mods like the one that adds just about all the weapons and gadgets from the Thief series* in there or the other that makes magic more interesting than just blobs of energy floating around.

* grease arrows on the top of parapet-less towers and ragdoll physics go hand-in-hand
xaotik
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Quote from AstroBoy :Well lewis will never be Senna for one his skin is the wrong colour and his nationality is all wrong.

So, according to that, he's basically suffering from migratory melanin-induced unsennism. Not to mention he's still breathing.
xaotik
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Quote from Christopher Raemisch :To me it's not and find it hard to accept that others are crazy enough to think it's acceptable, but I am biased.

In a world where people believe that a god's kid can be born by a virgin woman after being commanded to do so by a lily-bearing angel, I find it hard to accept that you find it hard to accept.
xaotik
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I can't say I was much enthused by the general level of driving. Somehow it all seemed unrefined and sillyish or I just have a selective memory of older rainy Monaco GPs with lower-tech cars that had no traction control. Funny to have Kimi say he'd like rain so it would be a more interesting race in a pre-race interview.

It's all OK though - they got their fat paycheques for doing dick-all creative, we lost 2 hours watching them screw around a richy rich town and despite there not REALLY being much actual racing action we even got something to type about and have multiple debates about. It's a win-win.

PS I checked ITV's broadcast for a while to see if they were less annoying than the local yokels and much to my dismay they turned out even more annoying - and that is a mighty feat. Speed TV's had some genuinely funny comments, as usual.
xaotik
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The last thing I wanted to do this Saturday was spend several hours writing, editing, and typing this post. However, I needed to do it because it's really the best way to free people from the fetters of absolutism's poisonous embrace. In the text that follows, when I quote from drifting sources, I will use the word "excrement" in place of another word which is now apparently permitted in general circulation publications and which I have edited out. Nature is a wonderful teacher. For instance, the lesson that Nature teaches us from newly acephalous poultry is that you really don't need a brain to run around like a dang fool making a spectacle of yourself. Nature also teaches us that drifting has been trying for quite some time to convince us that it's okay to leave the educational and emotional needs of our children in the eccentric hands of wretched reavers. I suggest it take this rotting ordure and dump it where it and its fellow annoying calumniators congregate. At least then we could build a sane and healthy society free of its destructive influences without having to worry that it will feature simplistic answers to complex problems.

Whenever drifting tries to inure us to xenophobic colonialism, so do confused mafia dons. Similarly, whenever it attempts to subject us to the mingy yapping of lousy, unbalanced slackers, prudish pop psychologists typically attempt the same. I do not seek to draw any causal scheme from these correlations. I mention them only because it swears that the Universe belongs to it by right. Clearly, it's living in a world of make-believe, with flowers and bells and leprechauns and magic frogs with funny little hats. Back in the real world, a drifter's pleas are not an abstract problem. They have very concrete, immediate, and unpleasant consequences. For instance, idle hands are the devil's tools. That's why a drifter spends his leisure time devising ever more litigious ways to create anomie.

We are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: the drifter. Drifting's overweening slogans wreck our country, derail our civilization, and threaten the human race with extinction. News of this deviousness must spread like wildfire if we are ever to reach out to the poor, the marginalized, and those unfortunate enough to have been labeled as unforgiving by drifting's propaganda machine. There is every indication that drifting treats serious issues callously and somewhat flippantly. But what, you may ask, does any of that have to do with the theme of this post, viz., that it is guided by the ignis fatuus of cronyism? If you need help in answering that question, you may note that it is entirely versipellous. When drifting's among plebeians, it warms the cockles of their hearts by remonstrating against denominationalism. But when it's safely surrounded by its compeers, drifting instructs them to put the gods of heaven into the corner as obsolete and outmoded and, in their stead, burn incense to the idol Mammon. That type of cunning two-sidedness tells us that drifting is planning to demand special treatment that, in many cases, borders on the ridiculous. This does not bode well for the future because if you were to ask it, it'd say that it doesn't remember making my blood curdle. Not only does every drifter have a very selective memory, but according to it, we should avoid personal responsibility. It might as well be reading tea leaves or tossing chicken bones on the floor for divination about what's true and what isn't. Maybe then drifters would realize that my general thesis is that it has been trying hard to protect what has become a lucrative racket for it. Unfortunately, that lucrative racket has a hard-to-overlook consequence: it will plague our minds before you know it. I'll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: I wonder what would happen if drifting really did reap a whirlwind of destroyed marriages, damaged children, and, quite possibly, a globe-wide expression of incurable sexually transmitted diseases. There's a spooky thought. Drifting's shock troops are hardly strangers to scapegoatism. And that's the honest truth.
xaotik
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Quote from thisnameistaken :the usual six months it takes to realise you're dating a psycho

And ten or so years to figure out they're all closet psychos.
xaotik
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However down the thread:

Quote from Jason Moyer :I was under the impression you had to buy the car/track before you could use it in time trial mode, and you could only race in cars that you not only owned but also earned a license for.

Quote from TonyRickard :Yes I believe so, I haven't seen a test drive option, but I may have missed it.

xaotik
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Quote from DeadWolfBones :Kinda ridiculous that diesel is so much more expensive than gasoline over here, right now (~$1/gal higher). Isn't it supposed to be cheaper to manufacture?

I was wondering about that when I actually looked at the prices at the gas station across the street. Diesel was about the same price as premium unleaded (I think about $7.74 per gallon).
xaotik
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Quote from srdsprinter :Ideally, you hop on iRacing, and in any race, if you drive your best, you stand a chance to win.

Ideally they should have a controlled free-for-all once in a while where better-ranked players would get pitted with the better-ranked ones of the next level and so on. Then you get the chance to beat someone much better than you - or learn how to lose properly to someone much better than you.
xaotik
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I wonder how large a margin they'll have for the division because generally you need to race your betters, at least once in a while. Everyone needs a good ass whooping to get the picture back in perspective.
xaotik
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Quote from jayhawk :When I first met my wife, she had Norton

Oh those old software bundles they used to throw in, I hope she didn't have that defragmentation program that was actually a credit card number phisher - but then again that's usually built-in. Mind you they still haven't added the manual in .pdf form and the registration forms are quite positively an intrusion on private info.
xaotik
S3 licensed
In the <lfs_path/data/knw folder as .trs files if I am not mistaken.
xaotik
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Quote from ajp71 :Our taste in tracks is very different, that track is pretty but it's still a flat boring track with far too many tight constant radius corners that are easy to learn and don't really present much of a challenge.

Not so flat really, it has a slight downhill section with bumps that unsettle the car under braking and there are atleast two turns in it that you have to deal with as one in certain cars. The long bend before the start-finish line seems to exhibit the traits you mention in Gerard's because of the way the bumps are on it (you can't take it as a constant radius turn if you want to be fast on it) without being a full 180 turn.

Anyway, yeah - to each his own. This still does leave the whole "all rovals are not proper racing tracks" in the air though - which is what got all this track comparing started.
xaotik
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I'm not exactly sure when it resets itself, but it does on occasion.

Quote from Meanie :A "stock"/fresh LFS copy has a racing groove on all tracks by default, right?

Not that I know of - no. Set it to update from all cars, run a few laps with "rubber lay" set to 2 for example then revert it to 0.6 and set it to not update any more and you got yourself a brand new groove that never changes.
xaotik
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Quote from P5YcHoM4N :Sort of reminds me of an Aston.

Only happier - it's smiling while Astons usually have a slightly perplexed face on them, something between a stoner and a grouper (the fish).
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xaotik
S3 licensed
Did you at any time get a message saying "path updated" or something like that? In cfg.txt what setting are your "Rubber Lay" and "Rubber Dark" variable at? The groove should re-appear if you race the track for a few laps (or, faster still, set 20 AIs to race it for 10 laps).
xaotik
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Quote from ajp71 :Try it in GPL or rF with a powerful low downforce car and I guarantee you you'll find it much more fun to drive than the Daytona course, which is far duller to drive in a sim than to watch on TV.

Well, my taste in tracks is a bit different - currently for example in rF just about the only track I screw around with is this one. With Niels' Corvette or the Caterhams it's quite good fun.

Quote from ajp71 :Well TBH the motorbike layout replaces Gerrards, the Esses and Devil's Elbow with slow chicanes so the hairpin is the only part the current bike track has in common with the Mallory everyone knows and loves.

Judging from youtube evidence it seems that they have several motorbike layouts - some of which included at least one of the Esses and Gerrards - but anyhow, that's a moot point.
xaotik
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While the racing action itself is fine - I can't say that track presses any buttons for me. It's almost as boring as watching a lap of Daytona (since it was compared to that) - two 180 turns connected with two esses. The motorbike layout looks like more fun, but bikes have that effect anyway.

The "oh but it's more fun if you're driving" card works for all tracks really; it's always more fun when you're doing the driving and I still haven't seen much justification to the "all rovals aren't proper race circuits" statement which was tossed.
xaotik
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Quote from Becky Rose :You know, there was a time before lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z7etQ0oWu0

Sure, but Mozart's piano sonatas don't classify as "songs" so naturally they wouldn't have any lyrics associated - I think danowat was referring more to songs and how the lyrics affect the mood/appreciation...
xaotik
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Quote from RocksGt :But are they musicians?

Uh... yes.

What I'm saying is that you could substitute the melody of their voice with an instrument instead.

Try the same with Leonard Cohen's songs - they lose more than half their potency.

Or even better go for the same with Kurt Weill's music - it's awesome on it's own, but add to it the lyrics of Brecht and it becomes amazing.
xaotik
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Quote from ajp71 :The best roval in the world has to be Mallory Park, although most people are probably unaware of the fact it is a roval

Odd, one would of thought that the oval-with-a-bump-and-a-few-chicanes-thrown-in shape is a dead give-away.
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