I wonder how many minutes it will take for Kimi to get drunk after the press conference ends. I mean... he's Finnish, and he's the fastest guy in the world - it should add up beautifully!

Go Kimi!

Quote from TAYLOR-MANIA :

no advert breaks?

plenty of those, unfortunately...

Daaaaamn, C. Albers eat your heart out!

I too drift shopping trolleys. The other day I was doing some shopping with my mum actually, and I re-arranged the heavier items to improve weight distribution on the trolley.

There's not enough respect for TF2 in this topic!

Also, the cake is not a lie - it was delicious and moist.

PS. Steam-nick is Jertje, I'm up for TF2 games!

English
Dutch
German
French (well, with some practice I'd be back up to date anyway)
Some extremely basic Finnish; enough to amuse the natives - or confuse them. (Mitä kuuluu? Aja hiljaa sillalla, kiitos!)

Quote from Albieg :

I don't need it. Having rules and players already doing anything to win suffices.

Kudos to DSR guys. It's a pleasure to see they still deliver.

The answer: Mr. T

Although I do disagree with the troll... or OP on fairness in sim racing, I would like to see football matches where there are no rules and where the players will do anything to win!

Quote from BlueFlame :

Stop flaming him(no pun intended)

I smiled anyway. ;p

Quote from Dajmin :

I might be conservative, but if I won that amount of money I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to work again. That's why I'd have to save a load of it - I have (hopefully) at least 50 years of life ahead of me that I'd like to be able to enjoy. Buying a dozen cars might be cool in the short term, but it won't pay the bills

Besides, my method involved profit. I'd have doubled my money within a couple of years, so I could use that to go out and enjoy life to the full. The hell with the rest of ya

Exactly :>

A cheap car, G25, new PC and everything else goes in the piggy bank for interest hogging - maybe I'd invest half of it, who knows? :>

The best thing to buy with a lot of money... is more money.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Nice work Shaun and Victor

Although this thought keeps running through my head: "Smoke and a pancake anyone?"

(sorry )

You know, a flapjack and a shigarette? No? Shigar and a waffle? No? Pipe and a crepe? No? Bong and a blintz? No? Well, then there ish no pleaaaaashing you.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

1) This was the best thing that could've happened in the championship today. I laughed out loud at Hamilton's mistake, mostly because it was hilarious watching a car get stuck in the smallest gravel trap I've ever seen.

True, I didn't realise it until you mentioned the size of the gravel trap, but it did seem a bit like a grown man had fallen over in the shallow part of the pool, and was drowning

I clearly saw gnomes pushing Hamilton wide at the pit entry.

Is it just me, or is Speed TV literally more commercial breaks than actual broadcasting though?

Watching live, whose with me? :>

Hey all,

Not sure if this is in the right section, but I suppose it is because I have some beginner-questions

As I'm not yet able to get a wheel on my hands in my new place of residence, I've started looking for some alternatives to using my trusty Logitech DF, as I did back home.

I have a mouse and a joypad. Both of these have some advantages, and both have quite a bit of disadvantages.

I've decided to go with my mouse anyway, as it allows me to steer much more smoothly than with my lame joypad (even with the analogue stick I just can't make minor corrections) but there are still some problems which keep me from lapping decently.

After about 5-10 practice laps with the 'latest' PartyBoy setup (I guess he's still a mouser?) I lap around 1.36.50 at my best around the classic combo of BLGP/XRG. I know exactly where I lose time, too:

- I can't trailbrake, or do any kind of advanced braking actually, since my right-mousebutton is just on or off, which means I can't break smoothly - or at a less-than-full rate.

- I can't seem to get used to the fact that the wheel doesn't auto-center. It's hard for me to know how much I'm steering, and how much I need to steer back to center the wheel. I'm currently just staring at the white line on the center of the wheel, but this takes some focus and I wouldn't like to do this online.

- If I'm ever going to race competitively, especially in a RWD, I'll need smooth acceleration - not going to happen with a mouse I suppose? I tried pumping, but it just upsets the car without being able to regulate the amount of throttle properly.

So anyway, what I'd like to know is if there are any tips to making it more bareable to play with a mouse, especially when looking at my current problems. My setups and style when I was actively racing with a wheel relied on accuracy, smoothness and sensitivity, and currently I tear around the track like a rocket-powered truck - I hate it.

Tips and advice are welcome!

One day, historians will look back at this fear-driven, paranoid society and laugh.

Quote from Blackout :

Well, you've haven't obviously spend a night out over here.

Seconded

That drawing... damn that's nice. As is the render, by the way.
I'm very, very impressed.

Quote from deggis :

Hopefully not back to Renault at least... that would mean firing Kovy.

Or Fisi? I do want Heiki to stay, I think he has much more to show.

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Sometimes, i just don't know why i bother............

It says *SPOILERS* in the thread title... I see no reason to even look into this thread if you want to shut yourself off from results until you see a re-run? No need to hide information from people who don't want to know spoilers if the whole thread is basically one giant spoiler.

I'll give that a go, deggis. Thanks :>

To Blackout: I study International Communication, but my home institution allows me to pick more or less anything I want. I picked mostly business studies here, and of course I'm also studying Finnish, but that's not going too hot, as it's quite difficult... but the language itself is absolutely beautiful, I love it!

Overall I'm quite happy here. The people are nice, but not intrusive or overly social; everyone keeps a bit to him/herself and I love that since it matches my personality. The girls are also quite nice here, but the alcohol is just stupidly expensive

Anyhoo, thanks for the suggestions everyone!

Hmmm, sounds a bit lame
Since I'll only be here until mid/end-December, it's definitely not worth getting into any kind of pay-per-view system or getting an additional receiver - I doubt the TV has any support for anything which was introduced after the 1960's anyway

To answer an earlier question: we do get cable TV here, but apparently that's also going to be cancelled from student appartments from January onwards. Ah well, guess I'll find my way around in some way or another - does anyone know of a pub in Jyväskylä where they show it on a screen or something? With 2 great drivers I'm sure F1 is at least somewhat popular over here - so do they show any races on-screen in public venues? :P