...has been released. 310 cars listed (some duplicates). it also has "so far" written on the page, so hopefully more cars will be added

http://forzamotorsport.net/news/announcements/carlist.htm

the list is too long to post here, so follow the link to see the cars if you are interested. personally, i can't wait.

i've been lazy recently, and haven't done much, but i do have these...this one i've posted before in a different thread.


and this one i haven't posted before...


both done in photoshop.

crazy. that looks like water color. is that because of the type of medium you were painting on? looks like paper. still, pretty good.

Quote from TiJay :

Lots of left turns too

or lots of rights, depending on the direction around the track

this might be of some help...

Quote from kompa :

OT but here goes, does anyone other than Scawen actually know what 'FFB Steps' really does? Can it have a negative effect if set too high/low? Should it be set to as low as possible?

Quote from Bob Smith :

As high as possible.

Possible values are (IIRC): 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256

More steps increases the smoothness of the FFB. Just try it at 4 then at 256, the difference should be blindingly obvious.

Quote from Scawen :

You can safely set it to 256, if you don't experience loss of frame rate or controller lag as a result.

you might want to try a lower setting, as the default value was changed to 256 in one of the U test patches, so that is the default setting in V and W now.

i'll likely bring down the wrath of all the british for this...but i didn't see what is so great about alan partridge (based off the lexi clip). he really just seemed...annoying. kind of like a bad SNL skit (is that redundant?). but maybe it was just that one clip and the rest of his stuff is better

from a prius forum (found in a google search)

Quote :

4th declension neuter adjective. Depending on who you ask, the Latin plural is either "prius" and you change the noun which is being modified to a plural, or the Latin plural is "priores". (Root of "prius" is "prior")

Toyota seems to indicate that "Prius" is both singular and plural, like "deer" or "sheep"

Some English speakers tend to like "Priuses" or "Prii"

Or, you could treat like an adjective, and say that you saw "two Prius cars."

Whatever. we all know what you mean.

and

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We asked the Toyota executive in charge of the initial Prius rollout how his people refer to more than one Prius. His response was "Prius".

They use the same word for both. And since they named the vehicle, they are the ones that get the official say... though you can still refer to them the way you want.

Quote from spiderbait90 :

403 - forbidden

drag the link into your address bar

Quote from somasleep :

NFS:MW? No cockpit view. Totally acrade control.

sure there is...you just have to use the camerahack utility
http://www.nfsunlimited.net/download/?type=Utils&id=97

and i still think that porsche unleashed was the best NFS game to date.

and to the person asking about a demo, if you have a xbox 360, you can d/l a demo that limits you to 1hr of play time per session and 3 cars and one motorcyle.

i use teamspeak, because it came with my LFS server (500servers...i ordered months ago, when TS was part of the package. not sure it it still is), so there was nothing to setup on my end for the TS server (making it infinitly easy to use. install client, type in ip address in quick connect and start chatting. no muss, no fuss. never tried ventrillo, so i can't comment on it.

Quote from LFSn00b :

Can we just say it's Lexuses? I mean... There is a Lexus(SCsomething), then there comes another Lexus, so there is two Lexuses.

you could, but you'd be wrong

a newspaper was asked, and here is what their response was...

http://www.mpnnow.com/news/view_story.php?articleId=7366

Quote :

A few weeks ago I answered a question from a woman who wondered what the plural of Lexus is. Lexus corporate gave this rather unexpected answer: “Two’s the same as one. The plural is Lexus.” Sort of like deer and antelope, I guess.

so, if this paper did in fact get an answer from Lexus corporate, then the plural is "Lexus". and Lexus would probably know

the plural of lexus is lexus.

Quote from geeman1 :

Toyotas.

the lexus brand has started being sold in japan now, so this statement is not exactly accurate

i haven't played it on the PC, but on the 360, it kinda sucks...bad. I got the demo of it, and all three of the cars in the demo understeer really bad. the motorcycle actually unsteered pretty badly too, but the fact that you could adjust your positioning on the bike and do wheelies and nose stands made the bike fun to drive regardless.

overall, i'd give it a rent/demo to see if you actually like it. i deleted the demo once the novelty wore off.

all i know about manchester united, is their fans are the "soccer hooligans" (term used in the movie) that are portrayed in Eurotrip. love that movie.

sorry for the random tangent

did you get it working?

Quote from jayhawk :

much like the American media, which is so biased to the Democratic National Party and has a liberal agenda.

that is not completely accurate.
CNN = liberal
Fox = conservative

newspapers are largely conservative, while tv media is typically liberal.

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We® would not allow that to happen, since We® have vested interests in the stability of those countries.

yup. if their countries go to shit, then our oil prices go up. that is the reason, and the only reason that the US cares about what's going on in taht area of the world. if there wasn't oil there, i'd bet money that the US wouldn't be either. sounds shallow. and it is. but that's the way this gov't thinks and works. some of us here are trying to get this changed...we are just out voted by idiots.

of course it didn't show up. that's something new for vista.

found this in the installation instructions...

Quote :

You are then asked for a folder in which to install the mod. You must set this to the same folder that San Andreas is installed in. The default location is: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas\.

from looking at the screenshoot in the first post, it looks like MTA was not installed in the same directory as GTA san adreas. re-install it in the correct directory.

Quote from Becky Rose :

In which case, why are America allowed them? Given that they are the only country to have EVER deployed a nuclear weapon in anger... And they did it twice at that!

because they are the ones that came up with the policy, and they aren't going to exclude themselves. sounds like a ridiculous answer, but sadly, i think that's pretty accurate.

its a simple policy enacted by simpletons...if you are our friends, you get nukes. if you aren't, you don't get nukes.

the whole "world police" business seems to me to be a surviving ideology from the cold war where if a country wasn't with us, they were communist. so the US started making other country's politics its business. this estabilished the foundation for where the US is today.

now, the country has reached a time where the religious conservatives have gathered a larger portion of the gov't by doing what politicans do to get elected...lie to their constituents.

and now that these holier-than-thou types are in positions of power in the gov't, they see it as their "responsibility" to enforce their morality on the rest of the world, which doesn't work.

there needs to be a change in the mentality of the gov't and the US public that there is more than one religion, and that christianity is the only "right" way to believe. and we have to stop electing political leaders that are completely ignorant of this concept. we aren't the world police, and we should stop trying to assert ourselves globaly as such.

please don't take offense to this question as it is just a shot in the dark, but you have installed gimp and winrar, correct?

Quote from jayhawk :

Must be nice to have such high octane gas in the UK. I have use 93 octane, and the highest I have seen is 94 octane at Road Rangers and Sunoco's.

Love to see what 104 octane would do for my WRX.

Quote from JTbo :

You can't compare octanes from Europe directly, 93 should be quite close to our 98 if I remember right and 87 is somewhere between our 95 and 98, hmm or was it bit lower than 95, can't remember

Quote from glyphon :

yup. same grade of fuel. different rating number. its not like they are running racing gas over there

Quote from Roadie :

wow 99 octane! I wish I could get higher than 91 here.

Quote from -DrftMstr- :

it might be a replica?

it's not a replica. it was one of the executive producer's personal cars. he offered it up to get a "more realistic looking crash". and the sad part is, it looks fake because of the way they launch it and then spin it around with the cable.