Quote from Becky Rose :

Show me one person over 30 who claims not to be effed up, i'll show you a liar.

That suggests that everybody over 30 secretly (unconsciously?) acknowledges the fact that he or she is effed up? Surely you could not call that person a liar if he only knows he's effed up very deep within himself, but hasn't ever accepted that fact, or even thought about it. I obviously can't talk for others, especially on a personal level, but I don't think I'm effed up.

Or maybe I am, in my own way, and that it is what you mean. We all have behaviors unique to ourselves, and unconsciously, I think most people redoubt those behaviors being discovered by their peers, however unimportant they may be. For instance, just a weird habit can make somebody paranoid about not being like the rest of the pack. Some of us have a tendency to claim to cherish being unique, but deep down, I suspect a lot of people want nothing else than to be just another blur in the pack (didn't want to use individual, seemed like the opposite of what I meant). In that optic, maybe people call themselves effed up, yes.

e: I'll even give you an example. I, for one, quite like to surf the web, and especially forums. I've virtually learned most of what I know about the
English language over the internet, but even today, English not being my first language, I consistently fear to misunderstand other people's posts. I don't call myself effed up for that, because I know it's completely dumb, and that 99.9% of the time, when I actually take the time to read something, I'll understand the meaning of it. I guess that makes me somehow paranoid (slightly), and that maybe I unconsciously define myself as effed up!

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Quote from S14 DRIFT :

They don't believe it. They just bandwagon and copy some other moron, thus making them bigger morons. Process repeats..

But who's at the top of the ladder (or pyramid) of the moronness? There has to be some kind of moron king. Or maybe he is master ruler moron of the universe? Surely, nobody has got over 9000 on the scale of the moronosity? Allegedly that is impossible!

God, I've fallen into the trap of posting every two minutes! I've become the very thing I hated, I'm one step away from becoming a moron!

Damnit!!!1111oneoneleven

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

No, it's because most people on here are immature morons..

That's possible, but I believe there are a some people here who truly believe Lady Gaga's a man, or at least not a woman. Agreed, though, that most people are just making fun of the situation.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

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It's a ****ing woman you bunch of ******.

Oh, yes, that's very probable, however the simple fact that it's arguable makes it quite funny. When we can have multiple pages topics arguing about somebody's alleged gender, it's obvious that we're right to ask ourselves questions! ^^

On a close subject, as much as I prone respect and the freedom of doing whatever you want with your life, I can't call shemales interesting in the slightest. To make it simple, the first thing that comes to my mind about shemales is that they're seriously effed up. We could call everything we find effed up interesting, but it doesn't change the fact that calling it interesting isn't enough. It's like looking at it with only a scientific, sociological or psychological point of view, but only that. It's feels like taking the emotion completely out of the subject. For instance, I doubt anybody's first thought about shemales would be: "Hum, well, I can quite easily understand the psychological process involved in this person's gender reasignment. It's obvious a trauma in the early stages of his (her? how do you refer to shemales? I guess it depands which way they go around) life caused him to be uncomfortable with his gender, and thus decide to change his life around to fit his intrinsic moods.

I just call it effed up.

By the way, I'm not aiming any of this at Gaga, I don't believe for a second she's a bloke, or even a shemale. I just find the fact that you guys are truly doubting her gender quite interesting

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http://diaryofahollywoodstreet ... /02/lady_gaga_b_gr_01.jpg ?

I don't think so...

Wow the news are basically talking only aboot this, it's getting rather annoying. We allegedly have like 30 cases in the whole country, but only 6 so far have been confirmed. In a 30 million people country, I don't really understand the problem. I think it's just one of those things that mostly kills already weakened people. For instance, young, old and already sick or sickness prone people might be at risk, but for a healthy person, there's probably no problem. Just like normal flu, which by the way kills about 500,000 people yearly (source CNN).

OooOoo!

/page claim!

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Well, 'it' is probably not a man, but you can't be really sure. It's a mystery of life, just like how they make cranberries into a sauce. We'll never ever be sure, and the doubt always will remain. I can't understand people saying that it's good looking, though. Yak.

Quote from Mattesa :

That was a satisfying race. After the relative calamity of the first three, this was a bit of fresh air.

Good job Hamilton getting up there and hanging with the fast cars. McLaren is clawing back. Ferrari finally got one into the points without some sort of massive incident. Their pace relative to the others remains.

So Barcelona is supposed to be some sort of reset? We'll see.

I don't think McLaren is getting back to the pace. The same basically happens every race.

1. Both drivers fail to reach Q3
2. Kov. crashes during the race
3. Hamilton's good driving saves the day and he ends up 4th

It's not the first time I've heard servers banning people because they've crashed, or caused a crash, and I can't really understand the sometimes eagerness to ban someone. To me, you don't ban somebody if he crashes, or causes a crash, unless it's obviously intentional. If it is, then yes, no problem, and go ahead with the 999 ban. But even a 12 hours ban for a simple error seems harsh. Guess it's not really a big deal, though.

There's also the story of the man that shot himself with his nail gun... without noticing it. Then he goes to see the doctor and he's told: "everything's fine... oh wait, no... there's this one thing, you have a nail in the head."

Uh... I believe it's a good car, but there's no way you should buy that, it's a girl's car! Over here it's called the Precidia, and trust me, I've never ever seen a bloke in one of those.

Quote from bunder9999 :

[...] think about how annoying it would be to be a celebrity whose phone number got published on the internet? it's the same way here.

Not really. Scavier can ignore any comment made on an announcement if they want. It's not like the comments land directly in their personal e-mail addresses.

It's probably to make sure the Sirocco will be out when he comes back, so he won't be able to complain about it not being out yet. 3 years... well I hope they're being overly pessimistic.

In my opinion this moves create a jurisprudence for further similar situation. AMB's been banned for that long and in my opinion it just serves him right, and underlines where nonconstructive complains and immaturity can lead you. Hopefully in 3 years he'll be more mature.

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UK's not alone that's gonna invest a lot of money in the hope of boosting their economy, and thus increase the debt by a truckload. Canada (or is it Quebec, I'm always confused about which gov. does what) has done the same, and the debt will rise like crazy. I think it'll erase all the reimbursement we did over the past 15 years or something like that.

I suppose we have no choice.

I still fail to understand how the devs actually communicating with us would be a bad thing. Some of you guys seem to think that the moaning situation on the forums would be as bad, or even worse, if the devs started talking with us (or to us).

What I understand is that you think some people will moan just as much or more if they have information about what is going on with LFS, presumably because they would not be happy with the state of the development. However, I don't see what could be so bad in update news that would piss off people more than an almost complete lack of communication with us. The game would have to be cancelled and announced as so to annoy people even more than this.

Besides, there's two more things to note about people that would moan about updated development:

1. They can moan as much as they want, and in a way you can't expect everyone to be happy. Some people will not be happy with the way Scavier are developing actual elements in the game, let alone their schedule or road plan. This will happen whether Scavier talk to us or not.

2. So? Have Scavier every shown to be influenced by moaners, let alone the community's opinion? Yes, maybe some suggestions are taken into consideration, but I'm sure Scavier basically overlook all the moaning, they're very good at that! So even if there was more moaning with Scavier talking to us, they wouldn't care. Only users care about the moaning.

Quote from The Very End :

Because if he post he will just throw fuel on the fire. People will moan about stuff they do not agree on, ask xxxxx number of questions about the development, post xxx happy threads and pot xxxx moan threads and make forum less user friendly.
Don't think there is anything he can say that works out good, unless it's actually concret information and date on the patch.

I don't agree. The people who don't moan, or the people who moan constructively (I categorize myself there) would be grateful for an update, even if it was just a sentence. Yes, some people would moan, but not to say anything just because some people are immature or just stupid isn't really great for the rest of the community, who would appreciate the gesture.

It's like if Scawen decided to make S2 free because demo users complain.

NnooOooOoooOooo! Don't switch to the Nvidia! It's the dark side! The evil! The trickery incarnated! Run!

I'd have heard about it if it was going to become legal here in Canada, and... well I haven't heard about anything, so I guess it's definitely not happening now. People here would have been so pissed, it would have been fun to watch.

Personally, I can't be bothered about marijuana, I never took any, and I don't intend to. It's not something I need to 'prove' whatever to whoever. Thus, it's their problem, and I don't care about it being legal or not. They can kill their brain cells as much as they want, it doesn't bother my ass.

Quote from Anarchi-H :

I'm not even that bothered about the Scirocco tbh. It's just a shame to see the devs get bashings in threads like this when it could have been avoided by properly managing communication.

Scavier have always been the source of their forums trouble. Not talking to your community inevitably brings moaning. I've said it before; just a tad of communication would decrease the amount of moaning by a lot!

Do you mean after you leave the server, or after you go in spectate/pits? I don't remember exactly when the marks disappear, but I think it should be ok if it disappeared only after you left the server. Of course, it could still get quite messy, so maybe an option for maximum skid marks, or an option for timed skid marks (30 mins?) would be useful.

I'm all for an option, the more options the better!

Am I the only one that can see the money trap around the corner with this thing? Two versions: that'll give them more money. Online play: odds are it'll give them more money. Selling the game on a mobile console? Uh? That'll give them more money (if anybody is stupid enough to buy that). Unless it's on thte PSP2? But I don't know what the state of the thing is. I'm not optimistic about GT5 on the PSP, though...

There was already 600+ cars in GT4, so I guess what they're really counting on is the number of tracks, which I think was far below 80 (I hope they're not counted reverse as different tracks).

Should the thing come to PC, which I highly doubt, get ready to buy a 1TB HDD just for that

I've also heard Liquid Paper is good for such a situation.

Quote from SamH :

"legal reasons" is not an explanation, it is a conspiracy theory based on nothing but assumption and presumption. I think it's weird how you folk can make something up, that you know is completely fictional, and then start to believe in it.. and then start to think things are odd when they don't fit with the fictional explanation you made up together.

Bizarre ways you guys think.

I said to me it was an hypothesis, and why would I know that it's something completely fictional? The complete lack of information leaves us free to make all the hypothesis we want. Whether that particular one is far fetch or not is very arguable, and in my opinion, it is not. I just don't see a reason for Scawen and Eric, which are both very competent, to spend 4 extra months on something they said was almost ready 4 months ago. I agree that jumping straight to the 'legal reasons' theory is probably not right, and that I'm sure we could find more plausible answers, but there's no way I'll believe the 'they're still working on it'.

Again, all this speculation and moaning could have been avoided if we had just a tad of information.

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They can afford pretty much anything that they want. In the past, they've not been very moved by the community moaning; it shouldn't be different this time around.

Personally, I'd tend to assume that the legal problems explanation for the delay is the most probable hypothesis. Indeed, if they felt the car could be released back then in December, what could have gone so wrong with the physical or graphical development of the car that would make it non-patch worthy? We've got the model in the viewer, and it seems correct, at least there are no blatant bugs to be seen. So it has to be something much deeper, something that the devs can't work around very easily.

I don't think Scawen would release the patch without the Sirocco in it. Didn't he say that the patch containing the Sirocco would basically have nothing else in it? Maybe it's not true anymore, but if it still is, that means there's nothing else to be released for the time being.

As a rule of thumb, I only buy music made by artists who aren't already rich. For instance, if there's a, say, Stevie Wonder song I want in my life (it happens, 'I Wish'), there's no way I'm going to buy that. I'm sure he's already rich enough. However, if there's a good song made by an artist that's beginning, and that doesn't seem on the way to make billions of dollars a year, he's got my money!

It's true, however, that most artists I have in my library are already rich, and certainly didn't get any money from me to get in there. You know, there's something called Youtube, and there's plenty of music on there. Apparently they don't expect people to use programs like Audacity to record whatever they ear on their computers.

Quote from Bob Smith :

I'm sure it makes a difference in law whether your service is purely for performing illegal activities, and you openly encourage this, than a legitimate service that can be abused for illegal use and helping catch the abusers.

Programs like Limewire & co. make specifically clear in their T.O.A. / E.U.L.A. that using their software to download music or any other pirated files is not their problem, and that's it's illegal to do so. The thing is though, they hide behind the maybe 5% of legitimate files that pass through their software, and I doubt there's anything the RIAA (or others) can do about it. They're not responsible for how their people their program, and I don't think that the fact that their program can be used illegally is changing anything.

It's really the same with guns. For the sake of argument, let's pretend that mr.x buys a gun. He tend proceeds to rob a bank with the said firearm. Who's responsible? The corporation which made the gun? The store which sold the gun? Or the guy that actually used the gun to rob the bank? The corporation which makes gun knows that their products can be used illegally, and I've never personally bought a gun, but I'm sure there's a ton of paperwork that comes with it that states that the gun maker is in no way responsible for whatever is done with that gun. It's true, however, that firearms are regulated, and that you need a permit to own one, but I doubt we'll ever need a permit to use the internet, or at least use P2P programs.

Quote from Frostwire E.U.L.A. :

This software is not designed, nor does it intend to encourage or allow for the distribution of copyrighted, trademarked, patented, or other protected data, for which the individual sharing the data does not own the rights to distribute.

Do you really believe a second that their program would even exist if it wasn't for the distribution of copyrighted, trademarked, patented, or other protected data? The whole concept of P2P/Torrent software relies on the illegality of the whole thing.

Last edited by boosterfire, Fri 17 Apr 2009, 22:46.