You could always buy S2 and do it yourself 
Or just buy FnF:TD on DVD and sit there and loop the "best" bits ...
Or just buy FnF:TD on DVD and sit there and loop the "best" bits ...
Good luck, but I don't know how many of them you'll find. I'm sure there are quite a few RL racers in LFS world but I'm equally sure (to state the bleeding obvious) that the vast majority of LFS players sim-race because they can't race IRL. Of course the RL racers would all have to be in complementary time zones too ...
It wouldn't be a guarantee of quality or similar on-track attitudes either (in case that's your angle). I've seen some bloody awful driving from RL racers (or, at least, from people who claimed they were) and some absolutely stellar driving from guys still in school who don't even have a road license.
It wouldn't be a guarantee of quality or similar on-track attitudes either (in case that's your angle). I've seen some bloody awful driving from RL racers (or, at least, from people who claimed they were) and some absolutely stellar driving from guys still in school who don't even have a road license.
MotoGP: close battles at the front, loads of lead-changing, no bullshit F1-style sanitising or politics (no Ferrari! 
). I love World Superbikes for the same reasons. Plenty of quick Aussies & Ducatis in both classes too :up:
WRC: man+400hp car vs. clock, giant rocks, trees and sheer drops Again, no F1 bollocks.
V8 Supercars: very close racing, monstrous cars, the Clipsal & Sandown 500s and the Bathurst 1000 :up:
). I love World Superbikes for the same reasons. Plenty of quick Aussies & Ducatis in both classes too :up:WRC: man+400hp car vs. clock, giant rocks, trees and sheer drops
Again, no F1 bollocks.V8 Supercars: very close racing, monstrous cars, the Clipsal & Sandown 500s and the Bathurst 1000 :up:
In 20 seconds I found "shattering glass" under the "Graphics" sub-heading, and there are numerous existing threads on damage
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Or religious. Those people spoil everyone's goddam fun.
I hope you told her she was disgusting and offensive. If you did, I hope she punched you.
My wallpaper. Hope noone's offended or disgusted by Radiohead's "In Rainbows" artwork.
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Yeah, I'm not totally anti-contact though. It's inevitable and you're quite right, it's unsafe to just jam the brakes on to avoid any little paint-swap. If someone's driving like a tool and we connect lightly I might even try some light barge-arse to wake them up but I won't use deliberate contact to pass someone or make some kind of point.
In RL you drive with regard to safety first and fairness second. In sim-racing, driver safety isn't a concern at all but unsafe driving can still ruin your car or someone else's. If you don't care what happens to your car, fine, but it's not cool to inflict your apathy on other people.
In RL you drive with regard to safety first and fairness second. In sim-racing, driver safety isn't a concern at all but unsafe driving can still ruin your car or someone else's. If you don't care what happens to your car, fine, but it's not cool to inflict your apathy on other people.
Anyone with half a clue cares about racing fairly - it's common goddam sense to avoid contact where possible, if for no other reason than there's an equal chance of ruining your own race if you decide to bump someone. Contact in closed-wheeler racing is unavoidable sometimes, but if someone's the kind of racer who thinks "anything goes" in the pursuit of victory I hope to **** I never see them on the grid next to me - but then again it might be interesting to see how they'd react if I raced them like "anything goes".
"If someone sideswipes you and they get ahead of you...you should have seen them coming and gotten ready."
Bullshit. First rule of racing: if you're coming from behind it's YOUR responsibility to avoid contact with the car in front. If someone's a fast enough driver to pass me he oughta be good enough to pass me clean and not touch me. If he can make a clean pass I'll give him enough room to get by me and I'll suck it up and try and catch him at the next corner. Just because this is sim-racing and there are no physical consequences for car contact I don't see a single reason to drive like it's GTA. You race against people, not AI, so give them the same breaks you'd expect from them or you'll fast find yourself kicked from any half-decent server. Like I said, a little contact's inevitable and isn't a big deal, but if someone's using contact as a passing strategy they'll soon meet the end of someone's patience and might also find themselves in a wall.
"If someone sideswipes you and they get ahead of you...you should have seen them coming and gotten ready."
Bullshit. First rule of racing: if you're coming from behind it's YOUR responsibility to avoid contact with the car in front. If someone's a fast enough driver to pass me he oughta be good enough to pass me clean and not touch me. If he can make a clean pass I'll give him enough room to get by me and I'll suck it up and try and catch him at the next corner. Just because this is sim-racing and there are no physical consequences for car contact I don't see a single reason to drive like it's GTA. You race against people, not AI, so give them the same breaks you'd expect from them or you'll fast find yourself kicked from any half-decent server. Like I said, a little contact's inevitable and isn't a big deal, but if someone's using contact as a passing strategy they'll soon meet the end of someone's patience and might also find themselves in a wall.
Bah! That's only half a spectacle (and barely half a joke 
).
).Sorry Dusty. Far too spectacular. Go back to your pie.
Sheesh, this thread's just getting silly now.
Sheesh, this thread's just getting silly now.
Any more spectacle and it would upstage "So You Think You Can Dance" and that would be unforgiveable.
I can't believe it. Me! Of all people. I missed International Cephalopod Awareness Day!!
And I call myself a squid-lover. Bah
And I call myself a squid-lover. Bah
It was going so well ... and then Shotty had to storm on in with his thinly-disguised homophobic pseudo-postmodernist superloquacity and ruin Kev's and my afterglow. Kev, be a dear and pass me the merlot ...
Love the log concept, Becky - always a big fan of Frogger (though never could figure out why the bloody frog died if he fell into the water) :up: I might include something similar in the real Cephalursine Park(tm) and have the drivers cross the squid-pond and run across the grid to their cars a la the old Le Mans starts ... Mr Mosley will like that. "Spectacle, Hank! It's all about spectacle! There's not enough spectacle in cars doing 350kph! Need more...a lot...a bunch of spectacle...spectacle...spectacles? Who wears spectacles? I know! A-HA! I HATE YOU BERNIE you little Andy Warhol lookin' motherf- " he'll shout, then start foaming at the mouth and his attendants will rush in and start rinsing him in Veuve Clicquot as he writhes on the floor moaning in ecstasy.
Love the log concept, Becky - always a big fan of Frogger (though never could figure out why the bloody frog died if he fell into the water) :up: I might include something similar in the real Cephalursine Park(tm) and have the drivers cross the squid-pond and run across the grid to their cars a la the old Le Mans starts ... Mr Mosley will like that. "Spectacle, Hank! It's all about spectacle! There's not enough spectacle in cars doing 350kph! Need more...a lot...a bunch of spectacle...spectacle...spectacles? Who wears spectacles? I know! A-HA! I HATE YOU BERNIE you little Andy Warhol lookin' motherf- " he'll shout, then start foaming at the mouth and his attendants will rush in and start rinsing him in Veuve Clicquot as he writhes on the floor moaning in ecstasy.
Ferrari joins A1GP
No, clearly he suffers from octophallia.
Glad you liked it Mike, but I assure you there's nothing funny about out-of-control mutated giant squid. Perhaps the prototype mutation-proof robot giant squid will have a successful test this evening ...
If it's anything like my trademarked ham & pickle sandwich, prepare to meet at dawn. You may have your choice of lawyers.
If it's anything like my trademarked ham & pickle sandwich, prepare to meet at dawn. You may have your choice of lawyers.
:doh:
There's a skins/addons section at this forum. Look around for approximately twelve seconds and you'll find it.
There's a skins/addons section at this forum. Look around for approximately twelve seconds and you'll find it.
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Meh. Spec lists are pointless. All they do is prove (a) that you like to show off how much you spend on your toys or (b) that you're spoiled rotten because someone else is spending a mountain of cash on your toys
It's doubleplus pointless for this forum too, as you either have a PC that runs LFS or you don't - and if you don't, why are you even here?
It's doubleplus pointless for this forum too, as you either have a PC that runs LFS or you don't - and if you don't, why are you even here?
Thanks! It may end up being a robot squid, btw ... we'll see how the prototypes go.
Thanks Al :up: Mum always said I should have an ambition in life.
Shotty: the bears are housed in realistic surroundings (with great consideration in the areas of behavioural enrichment to encourage their naturalistic behaviours), separated from the pit by a drawbridge. When a hapless car comes spinning into the pit area, down comes the drawbridge! My bears are pretty well-fed and looked after, so it's not expected that they'll actually eat any drivers, maybe just biff them around a bit like kittens do. It's not like Jabba's palace with its underground Rancour cave. I'm not some kind of lunatic! Sheesh.
Shotty: the bears are housed in realistic surroundings (with great consideration in the areas of behavioural enrichment to encourage their naturalistic behaviours), separated from the pit by a drawbridge. When a hapless car comes spinning into the pit area, down comes the drawbridge! My bears are pretty well-fed and looked after, so it's not expected that they'll actually eat any drivers, maybe just biff them around a bit like kittens do. It's not like Jabba's palace with its underground Rancour cave. I'm not some kind of lunatic! Sheesh.
Squid don't have suckers, that's octopi.
I honestly don't care about Global Warming - rather, totally aside from my personal opinions about it I don't care for the massive hype around it, or for the the biased arguments for and against it by various people, many of whom either have a vested material interest in denying climate change or in ramping up the fear factor about it. Really, I don't. Here's why:
If we humans are indeed responsible for the various extremes of climate that seem to be on the rise at the moment, it will have presumably taken decades of our wastefulness to produce such extremes and the effects cannot be mitigated in a human lifetime. We cannot do anything immediate (in human terms) about it - if anything it will take a concerted, decades-long effort by the entire species to reduce our wasteful, planet-disrespecting habits. Most of us would be dead by the time anything positive that could be ascribed to our actions even happened (which would, of course, not even be close to a good reason to do nothing).
If we're not responsible for climate changes and it's more a natural function of century or millenia-long weather cycles that we have yet to fully understand but our actions are provably exaggerating climate extremes, see my first answer! It would have taken the better part of two centuries to get to this point we are and it will not be solved in a short human timespan. It still doesn't mean that going along in a normal wasteful pattern is acceptable.
If climate change is completely natural and we're not affecting the climate at all (which seems quite unlikely considering the crap we spew into the air by the billions of tonnes) we should still start acting like this is the only planet in the universe that can support us, because it bloody well is and a change in how humans produce, consume and dispose of waste is many, many decades overdue.
So screw the hype and don't listen to the talking heads from either side (yes, even scientists can take sides). Change your ways if only to save yourself some cash. Just turn off your freakin lights when you're not in a room! Don't paint a stupid sign, bang a drum and "March Against Climate Change" and get on telly chanting slogans (ridiculous, marching against a global climatic phenomenon, as if anyone actually has the power to "stop" it like it's some half-baked government policy), just walk to work or take a train. Lead by example and encourage others to be a bit more careful. Suck your pride in and leave your car at home if you don't really need it, even if it's just one or two days a week. Sheesh, just use less everything because you know you can afford to. Many millions of people get along with a tenth of the resources we well-off Western Hemisphere/Euro-descended people deal with.
Screw Al Gore's movie and whatever holes people want to pick in it. Do something because you know it's right, not because someone told you to (that includes me - if you think I'm wrong about any of this, tell me to stick it while you inhale some aerosol cheese and drive your Hummer to pick up your 120" energy-sucking plasma tv).
If we humans are indeed responsible for the various extremes of climate that seem to be on the rise at the moment, it will have presumably taken decades of our wastefulness to produce such extremes and the effects cannot be mitigated in a human lifetime. We cannot do anything immediate (in human terms) about it - if anything it will take a concerted, decades-long effort by the entire species to reduce our wasteful, planet-disrespecting habits. Most of us would be dead by the time anything positive that could be ascribed to our actions even happened (which would, of course, not even be close to a good reason to do nothing).
If we're not responsible for climate changes and it's more a natural function of century or millenia-long weather cycles that we have yet to fully understand but our actions are provably exaggerating climate extremes, see my first answer! It would have taken the better part of two centuries to get to this point we are and it will not be solved in a short human timespan. It still doesn't mean that going along in a normal wasteful pattern is acceptable.
If climate change is completely natural and we're not affecting the climate at all (which seems quite unlikely considering the crap we spew into the air by the billions of tonnes) we should still start acting like this is the only planet in the universe that can support us, because it bloody well is and a change in how humans produce, consume and dispose of waste is many, many decades overdue.
So screw the hype and don't listen to the talking heads from either side (yes, even scientists can take sides). Change your ways if only to save yourself some cash. Just turn off your freakin lights when you're not in a room! Don't paint a stupid sign, bang a drum and "March Against Climate Change" and get on telly chanting slogans (ridiculous, marching against a global climatic phenomenon, as if anyone actually has the power to "stop" it like it's some half-baked government policy), just walk to work or take a train. Lead by example and encourage others to be a bit more careful. Suck your pride in and leave your car at home if you don't really need it, even if it's just one or two days a week. Sheesh, just use less everything because you know you can afford to. Many millions of people get along with a tenth of the resources we well-off Western Hemisphere/Euro-descended people deal with.
Screw Al Gore's movie and whatever holes people want to pick in it. Do something because you know it's right, not because someone told you to (that includes me - if you think I'm wrong about any of this, tell me to stick it while you inhale some aerosol cheese and drive your Hummer to pick up your 120" energy-sucking plasma tv).
Dll wrappers, Al? Screen resolution? You seem to think I'm building this track for some sort of, um, computer game ... Cephalursine Park(tm) will be built in the "cursed earth" of the Maralinga area in the South Australian outback (former 1950s UK nuke-test site, thus leaving open the chance for awesome squid & bear mutations, or even hybrids!) and included in F1 Season 2012 as Mosley's new "Super Special" Round which is a 500km enduro, worth triple points and run at midnight (gets very hot out there during the day). I'd certainly be happy for any budding modders to include it in a game of their choosing, provided they have their people talk to my people about licensing.
FYI: the pool on the diagram isn't to scale and will be mostly underground anyway (with many subterranean viewing rooms to watch him feeding on specially-farmed humpback whales). Squiddy will have plenty of room to grow and the grid-system separating him from the track will modified to compensate for his ever-growing tentacles. You must think I'm an ub3r-n00b at this whole track-design thing. Sheesh!
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Really digging it so far. The production is gorgeous and cutting-edge without sounding sterile (such as Fallout Boy or any other fashion-rock band) and the arrangements are just beautiful (as I've come to expect from the 'head). Only listened once though so it shall live in my Ippod shuffle all by itself so that I can get to know it while I take the train to work.
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG