It's great to hear about WR racers on servers, leagues, etc. I'm really pleased that LFS still has the rich, full online life that I remember many, many years ago.

But, as I get banned for having a ping greater than 100, welcome to the rest of the worlds LFS online experience.

I'm sure that 'when' the game finally get's it's physics update ( Plus whatever else is coming, VR for more immersive online racing.........,) It MAY start to grow in actual racer numbers. But till then it's a great cruise simulator. As it has been for many years in this part of the world.

FYI, don't bother telling me I haven't been online for ages, I am aware of that as I prefer to actually play racing games, rather than cruise/drift sims.

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A 54 year old versus a 15 year old..........

Floor wiped.

FYI - nikopdr, who was that.... ?
Another stain on the floor.

And Hallie Berry is 52, how many 19 year olds want to take her and her dog's on and believe they would win ?????

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Just a little thread bump....

"Elder Scrolls 6: Where's it set? What will be in it? Why has it taken so long? This video will answer those questions, and many more. Brought to you 3 years before E3 2021 happens by the uncannily prophetic mind of 2kliksphilip."

https://youtu.be/vteI_z7SmUo

FYI, watch this three part series.

Part 1; https://youtu.be/kotPSqVp4uU
Part 2; https://youtu.be/HsVqIXusKCI
And absolutely watch....
Part 3; https://youtu.be/UxGtlqMGj0I

The adventures of Odgrub......


And if you haven't yet seen this, WHY NOT...
https://youtu.be/6Ym5ibEzCtE

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Damn.... I thought it was $*#........

My bad.

Yeah, cus it's 1 June 2019.......

Edited post above during/after your post.

Sorry Bro but by producing an interest in 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' I have had to report you to your own security agencies and I feel compelled to request everyone on this forum take the same action.

It is citizens such as Racer Y who are solely responsible for the current world terror situation and clearly my earlier misguided postings suggesting that the War on Terror(tm) is carried out by Governments were completely incorrect ....

It is now clear to me, thanks to the re-education I have received from our glorious "Correct Thought Citizen Holiday Camps" that our true enemy are White Males and we must all come together to defeat this "Enemy of Humanity"(tm).

/S

https://www.dhs.gov/report-incidents




https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111417426/small-town-new-zealand-not-exempt-from-white-supremacists

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/111956645/white-supremacists-going-unchallenged-at-auckland-university-students-say

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/386797/white-supremacists-left-out-of-designated-terrorists-list

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=202513

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/3/15/18267163/new-zealand-shooting-christchurch-white-nationalism-racism-language

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Deep, but being a high level in early South Park helps.

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"The Chinese government has outlined plans to further control the number of online video games available, set out in the name of protecting teenagers from suffering myopia."
http://www.moe.gov.cn/srcsite/A17/moe_943/s3285/201808/t20180830_346672.html
(Google translate may be required)

"Marketing Dept says we must look at moving into foreign markets to continue financial growth."

(Fully supporting our (NZ) Free Trade Agreement with China. And, FYI China, most of us do apologise for our moronic Foreign Minister and his statements )

Last edited by Racer X NZ, Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:13.

Short answer: If you have S2 - NO

Long answer: Blah Blah VR, Blah Blah Rockingham, Blah Blah.... Ok, I'm now out of long answer. See many of the posted responses above for differing opinions.

If you still have any LFS online racing in your area and they race on Rockingham then perhaps.

IMHO S2 is all you need until the ( upcoming, long awaited, being worked on, see the progress reports.................................) game is updated to make S3 a meaningful update.

Disclaimer: I purchased S1 in 2005, then purchased S2 when it was released on June 24, 2005. S3 was released on 19 December 2015.........
And yet I still do not feel it is a mature DLC release in late February 2019.
Just my opinion, feel free to disagree.

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Dirt Rally 2.0 Review "Buy, Wait for Sale, Rent, Never Touch?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p29P3AJorDY

Released on 26 February 2019

Meanwhile.........
"New Zealanders made the most of the country's hottest summer on record."

Last edited by Racer X NZ, Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:14.

I really feel for you guys ATM, really I do......


Did I mention it's summer here ?

"The stuff I went through back then would make your head spin - and I was a very low man on a very big totem pole."

Probably not...., to the head spinning thing anyway.
Just be thankful that you were not stupid enough to try to bring the Clintons to court.

But I fully agree that from a Health and Safety point of view it pays to stay a very long way away from people like that.

As a research topic however, it certainly shines some light on American Foreign Policy that is still operational today.


"The United States invaded Afghanistan largely to restore the heroin industry and it is now making about $1.5 trillion every year from this business, according to Dr. Kevin Barrett, an American academic and political analyst."
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/11/20/542871/US-invaded-Afghanistan-largely-to-restore-heroine-industry

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Key Point - All games can be cracked.

I just find it interesting that LFS is still felt worthy to be cracked, that is actually quite a compliment to the game.

Here's an early look at Dirt 2.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Gg1xQNu5Y

And yes, Jimmy is also annoyed by the lack of VR.

Try doing that in NZ !!!!!
Your only choices are new, or Ebay. And who wants to buy second hand from the other side of the world.
Here's Linus on VR. (4 Jan 19)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85DiHTpxGCo&feature=youtu.be

In NZ anyway, there is no VR. No real retail, competition etc. And if you read what I said, It's the fact that VR isn't NEEDED for gaming at the moment. Yes its nice, yes its still being developed, and yes, it still has a long way to go.

Clearly Codemasters feel the same and believe that they will sell enough product without the need to support a still emerging tech.

I'm just happy that they are still trying to produce a decent Rally game, with weather, good physics, and immersion.
I'm much happier with that being the outcome personally.

For those of you that feel that its VR or nothing, more power to you.

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Well, VR is just so mainstream as "EVERYBODY" runs it... NOT.

As someone who thinks VR is a massive **** only enjoyed by those with a large disposable income who will need to spend equally large amounts of money repeatedly until this either dies or becomes usable, let's see which, here's an opinion from a 1080 gamer.

Looks good, Codemasters seem to be focussed on an actually rally sim. As the last great rally sim was Colin MacRay, untold years ago, much credit to them for trying to create a great rally sim.

"There's a movie about him too with Tom Cruise, but it's not all that accurate either. And I forgot the name of it."

American Made.

Here's a more accurate Barry Seal Bio.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/american-made-tom-cruise-barry-seal-real-life-true-story-cia-drug-smuggler-informant-pablo-escobar-a7911081.html

The truth behind Narco's is probably far more entertaining, but will be missing from a Netflix story....
I wonder why.

Very Very Big Hint: Mena Airfield.

And I'm sure that no one involved with 'Narco's' had any desire to end up on this list.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-real-drug-lords-a-brief-history-of-cia-involvement-in-the-drug-trade/10013

For more than a decade, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega was a highly paid CIA asset and collaborator, despite knowledge by U.S. drug authorities as early as 1971 that the general was heavily involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. Noriega facilitated ”guns-for-drugs” flights for the contras, providing protection and pilots, as well as safe havens for drug cartel otficials, and discreet banking facilities. U.S. officials, including then-ClA Director William Webster and several DEA officers, sent Noriega letters of praise for efforts to thwart drug trafficking (albeit only against competitors of his Medellin Cartel patrons). The U.S. government only turned against Noriega, invading Panama in December 1989 and kidnapping the general once they discovered he was providing intelligence and services to the Cubans and Sandinistas. Ironically drug trafficking through Panama increased after the US invasion. (John Dinges, Our Man in Panama, Random House, 1991; National Security Archive Documentation Packet The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations.)

https://ips-dc.org/the_cia_contras_gangs_and_crack/

CIA-supplied contra planes and pilots carried cocaine from Central America to U.S. airports and military bases. In 1985, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Celerino Castillo reported to his superiors that cocaine was being stored at the CIA’s contra-supply warehouse at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador for shipment to the U.S. The DEA did nothing, and Castillo was gradually forced out of the agency.

When Danilo Blandón was finally arrested in 1986, he admitted to drug crimes that would have sent others away for life. The Justice Department, however, freed Blandón after only 28 months behind bars and then hired him as a full-time DEA informant, paying him more than $166,000. When Blandón testified in a 1996 trial against Ricky Ross, the Justice Department blocked any inquiry about Blandón’s connection to the CIA.

Although Norwin Meneses is listed in DEA computers as a major international drug smuggler implicated in 45 separate federal investigations since 1974, he lived conspicuously in California until 1989 and was never arrested in the U.S.

Senate investigators and agents from four organizations all complained that their contra-drug investigations “were hampered,” Webb wrote, “by the CIA or unnamed ‘national security’ interests.” In the 1984 “Frogman Case,” for instance, the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco returned $36,800 seized from a Nicaraguan drug dealer after two contra leaders sent letters to the court arguing that the cash was intended for the contras. Federal prosecutors ordered the letter and other case evidence sealed for “national security” reasons. When Senate investigators later asked the Justice Department to explain this unusual turn of events, they ran into a wall of secrecy.

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