Check out OLGA (Online Guitar Archive) Not the best but a good resource nonetheless.

Check out Nuno Bentoncourt's 'Flight of the wounded Bumblebee'

If anyone can be arsed also check out Nightwish's version of the theme fromj Crimson Tide. If you like your guitar rock work then you'll love it. I found a vid and the music on Bearshare.

Also anything Dave Gilmour plays. I love that swooping, melodic guitar voice. Thats how a guitar should be played.

Been playing myself for over 10 years (Been playing the piano for since I was a kid. Mothers a concert pianist). Just got an accoustic atm. Need cashola to get meself a nice electric.

Plus that kid playing Air on a G string. That is virgeing on the virtuoso. I think I'm getting good and then I see something like that and just feel like chucking it all in and doing something else.

We should get a LFS band together or something.

I think, from what I gathered whilst still playing it, that many of the weapons suffer from the whole lag/prediction/hitbox issues. It was an often brought up critism on the forums and Dice had never really got to fixing it. Apparently (I used to play Sniper quite a bit) there is a way to minimize your losses and aim above-side-below-100yards behind you target but it was so counter-intuitive that I could never get the hang of it. Which is why I would quitew often switch to tanking. The splash damage from the big shells can rack up some massive scores. You just gotta watch you arse for covert.

In fact, checking out my stats, my most played characture was an engineer and the most played vehicle was tank quickly followed by the chopper.

I tell you one thing I did like about BF2. Whoever designed those maps should get a medal. A healthy balance between realism and playability. Well balanced with good implementation of choke points, sneak arounds and scale. Believable situations and locations and plenty to do for all classes. It's just a shame the game as a whole couldn't back up the brilliance in the maps.

I was addicted to BF2 for ages when it first came out. But as with any marriage I soon realised what faults lay in the game and like many marriages it was a case of give but not a hell of a lot of take. The more you play BF2 and look into it the more it appears that EA couldn't really give a huge amount for their games. It took months to sort out the BH Whoring that any dev worth their salt should have got too straight away. I'm not even sure how it got through the play testers. There was far too many wankers on the servers but I generally changed my game play to deal with them, i.e. stay away from anything that flies. I was a chopper pilot and a pretty good one too but was forever being FF'ed out of the sky by chopper whores or I could never get a gunner to stay with me. The load up times where just ludicrous, the interface clunky and ill-concieved and the add-ons and so called 'patches' where bug ridden and expensive.

But all that said, when everything worked with a squad playing well as a team and using comms effectivly it was the best game ever. A good squad and commander can take an entire map just by being effective and communicating.

It was my favorite thing in the world to be choppering and have my gunner place a TOW just where the sniper had called for it and then to lay suppressing misile fire whilst the assault guys moved up or the covert got a C4 on the defensive tank.

When it very occasionally worked it kicked arse but it just became to much of an effort to get those one in a thousand times when it did work.

I'm waiting out for a new Comp and ET: Quake Wars. That game looks to have promise.

Which view are you driving in? Side on?

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Aren't you meant to have left us in peace?

I'm going. Got till the end the end of the week . . .lol.

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Thanks Bal00!!

I saw your replay. Wow! Nice overtake. I never thought I could go into 2nd gear and take him on the inside like that. Anyway, it's really intimidating seeing how people like you drive. I feel like such a rookie but I'm improving little by little.

I notice you and others slide into curves and power through. Is that always the best way?

Just keep driving buddy. If I where you (yousound like your getting into this) I'd shell out the £24 and get S2. The drivings better, you don't get the crashfests (Well, nearly don't anyway) and people are around that will help you get the most from your driving and setup. But there is no substitute for just getting out there and racing. You only learn from the mistakes you make .. . .

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JJ - Methane, the major constituent of fart is a hydrocarbon, CH4. It is perfectly viable as a fuel if you can harness enough of it. I don't know the calorific value nor the volatility of methane, or even it's knock resistance, so I can't begin to guess how useable it would be, and what quantities you'd need. Cows, for example, produce a lot of the worlds atmospheric methane content (is a cow environemntally unfriendly?), so perhaps you could run a small car on cows?

You obviously hadn't read my post . . . .

Yes, cows are (in the numbers we use them) bad for the enviroment. Some, I'm sure, can argue they are worse than cars . . . but I reckon it's a close run thing . . .

I can generally tell when My own car understeers becuase I loose feeling through the steering wheel. In front wheel drive cars you still have the transmission doing funny things to the system, but in rear wheel drive you just got the tyres on the road. When you accelerate the front of the car gets lighter, thus makeing the steering lighter, thus loosing feel and sensation. So wouldn't that mean that any FFB in an acceleration understeer moment would be a lack of feel rather than anything else?

Although understeer under braking is a different kettle of mad frogs altogether . . .

lol. Good point actually. I'll have to remember that one.

Awwwww. *sniff*

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I'm speechless.

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I could recycle the coffee mug on my desk, but i'll probably put it into the dish washer and get out a fresh one... Another milligram of carbon enters the atmosphere...

I think that is the proverbial nail on the head . . . .

We all whinge and whine about what the government is and isn't doing. What it should be doing and why it isn't doing it, all of which are valid points, but at the end of the day the buck stops here. I am very aware atm of what my actions are doing. I'm turning more lights of, at work, at home. I'm not flushing the toilet as often as I used to, i it's brown flush it down, if it's yellow be mellow. I'm walking to a lot more places and a lot further. I'm turning heaters of earlier, only heatring the water once a day. I'm trying to do the little things because I can't do teh big things.

If we all did the little things, then big things will happen. If we changed out buying habits, big business will listen. If we swamped the councils with compostable refuse, the governements will listen. If we recycle and run a 'greener' home then our kids will listen.

We have to do our own thing as much as telling others to do it too. Thats the way you get change.

A major point for me atm is food. How far it's travelled, how it's grown, what happening to the local enviroment. I don't eat fish, unless I've caught it myself or it's been hook and line caught. Those massive factory ships are at sea for months at a time and run at about 80-95% bycatch. Which is useless, dead and thrown back in the sea. They destroy the ocean floor in the maritime equavilent of Strip Mining and we have no fish left . . . Quite literally, we have no fish left.

I don't eat beef anywhere near as much as I used too. Beef is the most energy intensive animal produce out there. It takes about 30,000litres (Could be wrong there, buts it's a huge amount anyway) of water to put one Steak on your plate. Cows are a major . . . . yes a major contributer of methane, a far more harmful and reactive 'greenhouse' gas than CO2. I don't agree with cutting down the amazon rainforest to make way for bad pastures for emmaciated cows destined for Mcdonalds Beef Paties. If I buy beef, I buy british, organic, good tasting, homegrown cow. I don't eat at MCDonalds, I don't buy cheap supermarket shit meat.

It's stuff like that that can change the world. Just take more thought into how you go about your daily lives, make these things a habit and actually stop yourself from partaking or doing something.

Thats the way we save this green and blue home of ours. There ain't any others you know. This planet, it's the only one. And we can't get back what we've lost.

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And in regards to the Nuclear power issue, doesn't it cost more in energy to make a nuclear power station than you actually harvest from one?

Well guys.


Come the end of the week I shall be saying goodbye to LFS and the associated detritus.

Due to touring commitments, A brand new ex partner, and having no computer or broadband where ever I end up calling home I shall not be able to service my LFS addiction.

Your a great bunch of guys, the game is a great game with a great, honourable and innovative concept and the racing has been second to none.

And thus, I take my bow and face the final curtain.

'Cause, now the end is near, of this I'm certain.

But . . . I did it my way.


I'll be boshing around untill the end of the week, Matinee friday and saturday at 2.30. Sourvineer programmes available for a modest fee . .

So it's good bye from him, and it's good bye from me . . .

Hiii . . . Thankyou.

P.S. Anyone fancy giving me a job in the gaming industry? Don't have to pay much, just enough to have a connection, aliean machine and a tin of beans. I can't programme, or do any fancy graphical stuff. Nor am I shit hot webber. But I can talk. On and on and on and on. I'm good at that. And I can hit things with an hammer. I'm good at that too.

I'm waffling again. Shoot me. Shoot me now!

Laters kids.

Na, hubcab. From a 75 chevy impaler. The one with the funny conical bit in the middle. I should think some kids are fooling around on the estate past the grandstand.

Just go round and show 'em your gun.

you havn't seen mine yet . . .

People make the skins they want to make . . . if they want tobacco on their cars thats just fine by me . . . Now, if they paint their car red and stick prancing horses all over it that is another matter. That is just wrong. That I deem vulgar and offensive . . .

Probs one of the battery leads jumped after the impact. I normally fix something like that by lifted the bonnet and beating the crap out of the engine with a large hammer for a while . . . . . Works everytime . . .

I would show you mine, if someone could host for me . . . .

Apparetently a server side issue that had nothing to do with LFS as a unit . . .

Scawen mentioned it in the RSC (Or whatever) forums.

Bit sus really ain't it if your business relies on sites and communication with your customers. If this was later down the line for LFS then it could have cost them quite alot in customers and money . . . .

Hope they get something back for their downtime . . .

I so wanna say yes yes yes, count me in too . . . Bu tI can't commit until I know what I'm working, which could well be the week before . . DOH.

But If I ain't working I might just come up and have a butchers at everyone and put faces to 'nicks'. Got family up in Northhampton anyhow.

So keep us posted about a meeting point and you never know, you might see a Funnybear up there too. And see why his full nick (Funnylookingteddybear) is a little more apt . . . lol

I reckon it's too close to be a fake. A faker couldn't get that looking so close without some serious work, plus the fact you see him dissapear at high speed into the distance . . .

I bet he pissed his pants, I know I would have done.

I reckon he actually hit (Scrapped) the front of the SUV and the white car must have seen him coming because he sped up.

Incredable.

Hmmm, I need to look at it somemore . . . I know you can get the camera right in low over the car or on the bumper excetera, but you have to manually turn it to keep it 'fixed'. I want an option to 'lock' it into place so you can generate those bumper cams that you see on TV.

SO city is bumpy. So if you feel your cart ain't giving you the handling you are expecting from it then raise the suspension, it might be hitting the stops and causing the car to become unbalanced.

Do the kegs come with the Jewel Case?

I wasnt my kegs. Anyone else had their Kegs?

Dammit, 24 ****ing quid this 'simulatory racing experiance' cost me, and everyone gets their Kegs apart from me . . . .

That's it. I've had enough. Unless I see my kegs in my house by the end of the week then I'm . . .I'm . . . . I'm . . . . Just gunna carry on playing LFS like any good addict.


[Ontopic] Dewd. If your into your racing games then I'm surprised you ain't signed up to LFS already . . . If you are truly into your racing games then you will never use a racing game again and will truly understand what a racing simulation is all about . . . .[offtopic]

Kegs?

And slighty friendlier user interface as well.

I wanna be able to pan, tilt and zoom all at the same time without getting my hands crossed and fightin' with the mouse . .. .

Plug you into a Sega?