Only time I've ever seen restaurants apply a tip automatically is with large parties (usually 6-8 or more).

Quote from 4d01f :

Yep, take another 10h flight and eat at home - problem solved.

Wasn't talking to Scrabby.

Don't ****ing go out to eat if you can't afford to tip.

Quote from majod :

Winning of "Argo" is proof academy's not rating films, it's trying to force opinions. Not a single sane person of film critics and experts can name Argo as the best film there is in 2012. The film was terrible, it was absolutely predictable (I didn't know the story before I saw the film) amateurish with horrible Affleck's acting.

The Hurt Locker won the same way few years ago, altho it was much better than Argo. Surprise "Zero Dark Thirty" didn't win "The best film there will ever be in entire universe".

Argo was fine. I didn't think it was the best of the year by any stretch, but among those nominated it was certainly one of the best. Zero Dark Thirty, too.

The Master wasn't nominated, but it probably should have won. Phoenix certainly should have won Best Actor, and possible PSH for supporting actor.

Mark Martin seems like the best dude

We have to kill the Gen6 car.

Yo PMD, hit me on MSN if you get a sec.

Debris.

Man, three of the favorites in one wreck.

Sadly, I haven't done anything that interesting in a long time.

what a shitty ending to the truck race

Quote from DeKo :

The whole point of this Tech Preview was to test the licensing system. Stop being an entitled child. What kind of self-respecting sim racer doesn't have a copy of NKP anyway?

This guy.

But I agree with the rest.

Thanks, guys. I've posted these before, but it's nice to go back and look at them occasionally.

pärtan, it's the Sigma 100-300mm f/4 on the Nikon D700. I got the lens for $550 used, but they're going for a lot more now 'cause they're getting scarce.

Yeah, I've done some panning with bikes and long lenses and it gets very difficult indeed. Hard to pan and get more than one in a shot when you're shooting at 300mm, too.

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Quote from amp88 :

By "unnatural" do you mean they look fake (as though the blur was added in post processing) or do you mean you just don't like the look (and it doesn't matter whether the blur is real or was added in PP)?

The reason I ask is because someone has already replied to a post with the same images on a photography forum and he didn't think the blur was real (he thought it was done in post).

It looks really strange in, for example, these shots (because all of the karts are presumably going in the same direction, at similar speed):





But I know and trust you, so I'll just say "cool."

Nice work!

The blur effect is a bit too unnatural, IMO.

Quote from PMD9409 :

lol no


Not every incident is the same of course, but an incident shouldn't be judged by the outcome solely instead of how it transpired.

I'll go on all day, so we can just agree to disagree and start another silly debate after tonight's races.

I'm looking at how it transpired, though. I think I've been pretty clear about that.

Anyway, yeah. Moar racing plz.

Car looks absurd but kinda cool w/o the fin.

Quote from PMD9409 :

In the 250 you pushed my car into the wall coming off the corner. There is no difference. You took your fellow competitor out in order to win the race. Sure it may suck for CE not winning, but he would have done the exact same thing to Larson if the roles were reversed.

Anyways, I assume you don't like Stewart, Gordon (both), Kenseth, Carl, Brad, Harvick, Montoya, Busch brothers, Mark Martin, Sr or Jr, Biffle, and all the other drivers who have taken out a driver to win a race.

Not every incident is the same, in severity or intent. This was a pretty blatant intentional wrecking maneuver. CE was going around, one way or another, and that's not racing.

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Only reason CE got to the side of Larson's car because if Larson didn't move CE was going to run him over.

I was talking about the KY250 there.

But anyway, I still don't buy it. If you can just wreck the leader on the last lap with impunity, it ain't racing.

IMO side to side is different than a divebomb from a few carlengths back to hit a guy three times on the rear bumper, Phil.

They'd battled in close quarters for like 10 laps, swapped the lead twice, and CE had managed to pull away with a comfortable lead on the last lap. Larson dove in there, used CE's car to brake, and then hit him twice more to spin him on the exit of the last corner. That's just intentional wrecking.

If you gotta hit a guy three times in one corner to win it, you don't deserve to win it.

End of that Whelen race was some bullshit. Hope Larson's stripped of the win.

Who earnestly starts a message board thread about a shitty meme in 2013?

Ray Kingsbury, that's who.

Quote from pärtan :

awesome stuff.