I'm not sure why you would want to do that? You don't want speakers on while you're using a microphone; you'll end up fighting feedback and echos.

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I have a name for the effect you describe. I call it 'The Lowenbrau curve"

HAHA That's great!

Lately all the time I've had for LFS is a half-hour of hotlapping online while I nurse a Sam Adams right before bed. I rarely drink more than one or two at a time these days, so It's actually enough to just loosen me up a little, but I couldn't say whether it really helps or hinders to any noticeable degree.

My WoW guild used TS extensively for 40-man raids and just BSing and such. It always ran without a hitch and I was even able to run WoW and TS on dial-up. I have no experience with Vent.

Boy do I feel dumb. I know I've seen a key assignment for 'reset car' in the options, and I think I may have pressed it a time or two while racing and thought, "Uh, that doesn't do anything?" and forgot about it. Whenever I get unrecoverably stuck in the sand, or end up on my roof, I warp to the pits.

From reading this thread though, I think I favor the option of disabling resets - if you're in a position requiring a reset, it should be "game over man, game over." However, I also like the idea of having a reset delay; this should be significant though. A tow truck can't get to your location, hook you up, pull you out, and unhook in 10 seconds; you should have to wait a minute or more to rejoin the race.

Of course, the delay should be a configurable option as well; when I'm hotlapping online on my hidden private server, I'd rather take the easy way out. I guess I'll have to try this fancy-schmancy "reset" thingy though, if I ever wreck again (lol )

RFB FTW!

I drive both a manual and an automatic on a daily basis IRL, and the only times I've ever experimented with LFB my left foot thinks it's a clutch (my clutch is pretty stiff) and presses really hard even though I tell it not to, and I end up with skidmarks on the road and in my pants.

Driving with the DFP, I think I've become good at switching my right foot from accelerator to brake quickly but smoothly - Whenever I get sloppy and hear the pedal slam back into place I wince, thinking of all the threads here for people with broken pedals =-/

This is clearly a terrorist attack. If we aren't safe in LFS, where are we?

I see what you mean. Seems like a good idea to me.

Quote from ajp71 :

This is a bizzare habbit only usually found in the US, the rest of the world always keep the windows up, I don't know what gain people expect to get from having the windows down, weight? or (very marginal) safety grounds? Whatever it is surely the aerodynamic penalty cannot be worth it.

I was wondering about this too... It does seem like it would just create drag? Also, in my experience, it is pretty annoying having the windows down going fast - but what do I know? ^.^

I need plans to build one of these please.






and the funding as well. I take paypal of course.

"Adult" films about racing?! I can imagine that requiring a Surgeon General's warning label about being likely to cause catastrophic heart failure...

I'm looking for a skin that makes the AI drive better if anyone can point me in the right direction.

My girlfriend and I have lived together for over 4 years now. She used to be anathema on all video games back when I used to play Everquest, but doesn't really mind any of my current games. She makes fun of me when I talk on CSS or DoDS though Oblivion is acceptable I guess since it's offline so I'm clearly not "chatting online with hot babes all day" heh ^.^

I've gotten her to play LFS once, and she enjoyed it, but she said she wanted scenery, so I put it on Fern Bay and told her it was supposed to be all Jamaica-ey, but she said she didn't want to drive around "in circles" on a track. I agreed, and told her she shouldn't try to tackle circles until she can drive in a straight line LOL.

She doesn't mind my LFSing much, except that it means I have to kick her out of the good chair and take over the TV.

She hates the "stupid 3D games" but we rented Simpsons' Road Rage for the PS2 this week and had loads of fun with that. The *ahem* physics model on that game sucks though... She likes the old school Mario games and such, so we play emulated SNES and Genesis games a bunch.

Do you have a better than the average TV? I very much prefer playing LFS on my TV instead of my monitor, but it's almost impossible to read ingame text at any resolution. Mine is a 27" CRT.

I play LFS on a TI-84+ Graphing Calculator with a DFP, but my DoD:Source and Oblivion machine is as follows:

Antec SOHO Server Case, ULTRA 450w PS
DFI Lanparty nF3 250gb motherboard
AMD Sempron 3100+
OCZ 1GB PC3200 (OCZ4001024WV3DC-K)
MSI GeForce FX 5900 256mb into a generic 19" CRT
Seagate Barracuda 80gb & 60gb
Samsung SM-308B CDRW/DVD & NEC ND-3520A DVDRW
Ooooold IBM Optical mouse (my favoritest mouse ever, a Logitech Dual Optical finally died)
OOOOOoooold Compaq keyboard from the first Windows machine I ever owned. The space bar is split into a space and a backspace key though; it rules. Currently on Dvorak keymap, but I use QWERTY for games (and for typing "QWERTY" lol)
Also have a 15" LCD and an IBM wireless mouse across the room with my music equipment.

very cool!

I have a couple more variations on Aston to work out before I've driven every possible track with the XFG (I'm going to do this with every car), but I have to say so far I really like the Kyoto GP Long (Reversed too). I don't know, it just has some fun turns and lines that make me smile out loud.

I used a gamepad RC car style like Hog700 before I got the DFP, and the most important setting for me was the analog steer smoothing. I had it maxed out; otherwise the steering was way to jerky and I couldn't hit corners exactly where I wanted. That of course might just be attributed to the El Cheapo (TM) gamepad I had. In the end I just couldn't deal with such a small range of motion though =-(

Quote from Funnybear :

'Cause you could be this get away driver right, in the future yea. And the city you live in is like a huge three dimensional thingy where Banks and other places that your crew rob could be 600 storys up in the air as well as 40 floors below groundlevel and you gotta make your getaways by making the most of the underground, ground and air aspects of the city. The more money you earn you can upgrade your 'Aero-car' (TM. . . by me.) And 'cause the physics all rocks then it's uber realistic both in the air and on the road.

Coool.

All it would need would be sharks with frickin LASER BEAMS attached to their heads!1!!

If tristan's teaser pic affects everything the same way, maybe you could use it to turn off the steering wheel...

Hypnotize yourself...

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I, for one, am deeply offended and will not stand for this mockery. DESTROY ALL LIGHTHOUSES!

















I'm joking of course; there are two lighthouses within two miles of my house and they're really quite lovely.

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Curling isn't going to stop your wife from being eaten by a snake.

What if you and your wife are ice fishing on a river, and suddenly a snake slithers out of nowhere intent on making dinner out of your woman. You're 100ft away and the only thing around is a semi-flat river rock - What do you do?! You curl the son-of-a-bitch!

As for ballroom dancing though, I completely agree.

me likey!

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agreed, so why in your system the final outcome is of no importance at all.

But it is; he's awarding 5 points, which is considerable, to the winner...

edit: Also, I don't see how it's "overly complicated" :/ The closer you are to the front throughout the race, the more points you get; you win, you get points; you make the fastest lap, you get points.

Last edited by Dumpy, Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:57.

Watched this a few days ago, several times. This man must drink pure distilled insanity for breakfast. Very awesome.