Wow, i said picture is coming shortly, but i didn't expect it this quick! Thanks Bozo

I'll will edit and give a name to everyone in the picture.. will post later

Gotta say, the name stickers look very fashionable

nice picture

Quote from spankmeyer :

That post gave me a strange feeling inside.

LMFAO.. sorry I know this is spam but this made me laugh so much! haha

yeah I know.. i am easily amused

nice once Spankmeyer!

Quote from dUmAsS :

pictures!!!!!

Don't worry, picture is coming, got a pm from Bozo (the guy who took our group pic) He emailed it to Ben, so it should be up tomorrow or Saturday. Ben right now is at a Trivium concert here in portsmouth... it will be up shortly though

Me drools......

was just on my way out and watched the vid before I was going to turn of the computer but vid is so good I had to come back and comment...

great stuff.....

mad

Well Niko, you could have at least let us know that you weren't coming by simply saying that you can't make it. I don't know whether you reason is true, all I know is if I had to travel to another country for a meet, I would be in contact with people all of the time to make sure its all going ahead as planned and tell them whether I can make it or not and WOULD CERTAINLY NEVER EVER FORGET THE DAY I HAD TO FLY OUT!!! EVER!! NEVER EVER!

so you excuse doesn't really hold up.

It doesn't matter too much, we only had to pay £2.50 on top... but it would have been nice of you to be more in contact or at least say that you are not coming. Some people ever reported you browsing the forums on Saturday

mad

haha.. I love some of those comments from people

DAMN RIGHT I am a PC SNOB, all consoles should be burned!

Quote from Krane :

Google Taking the cheese (zoom all in)

haha, thats great.. mnmnmnm cheese

Quote from Racer X NZ :

Government of the people, by the people.

If my government was behaving the way yours is they wouldn't be there for very long

That's right, people can always overthrow a government. Just look at Ukraine and Thailand for some examples.

Ukraine is where they had the orange revolution, where people were standing outside during sub zere temperatures demanding the election as fraud and corrupted.

Thailand's military coup to get rid of their president.

People often say, that protesting doesn't work and that it won't change anything but if a half million people actually get up off their arses and actually do something governments would take note. Governments are all scared of mass protests, they are uncontrollable, they cant stop them and when one happens there is very little government can do. Unless you are in the UK where the British Government banned and outlawed any protests outside the Parliament building in a 2 mile radius. Here in the UK its just as bad, I've spoken to so many people about what they think of Tony Blair and his government and many have very strong views and disagree which a lot of things the government does but rather then getting of their arse and doing something they just talk words. It's sad but that's the way it is.

Hankstar's posts above really hit the nail on the head.

Quote from Bob Smith :

we had to pay an extra £2.50 each

ZoMG.. that's like a pint! Niko you git!

ohh and PICTURES

Yeah I did the same thing and line 23 was different, for me it was line 38

It was going from England to France and then from France to America

Please guys don't turn this into another America bashing thread!!! We have head way too many of them already.

Quote from DTrott :

Handguns were completely banned after the dunblane massacre, when a man walked into a primary school and killed 16 young children, quite shocking.

Yes, after the massacre they were banned but look at the UK now, UK is suffering from the ever increasing gun crime. Just go back a few weeks and you will hear about shootings in a London suburb. Banning guns doesn't really solved the problem, if someone wants a gun then they will get their hands on it whatever means necessary. I am sure it wouldn't be that difficult in the UK either.

In America it does seem to be way too easy to pick up a gun though, it shouldn't be that simple to simply walk into a store, say hello, right I want that one. What XC said earlier in the thread. by making things legal like drugs and guns you will get rid of the problem because then there wouldn't be any need for having them I disagree. I just don't see by legalizing everything you will solve the problem. The sort of people that take drugs usually come from deprived families, have social problems, are part of city gangs, for pleasure and then you have the addiction. To these people legalizing drugs would mean peanuts. If you take alcohol for example, (yes its a poisonous drug) alcohol is legal pretty much everywhere, accessible everywhere, but it doesn't stop people from drinking. Here in the UK we are suffering from binge drinking and its becoming a serious problem, alcohol is way too easily accessible and when that happens people start to consume way more! Same would happen with drugs and guns.

edit: Nice article on why people take drugs

mad

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:00.

Quote from Leifde :

Also, PICTURES!

Yeah, where are the pictures, we didn't take many but we did a nice group photo at the end

very nice, Nukes are a bit disappointing!

edit: I was looking for a website where to test it click

works perfectly there!

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:00.

Quote from Krane :

Exactly, 129 Iraqi civilians died today in a bombing, where's their thread?

It's they way it goes in today's world, certain countries have world media priority. Main point with Iraq is that so many people have been dieing daily people kinda get use to the headlines and when you see the mess in Iraq you don't really expect anything else, they should start reporting days where no one was killed.

In America school shootings are not unheard off, they've happened before and people always knew at some point they will happen again, just no one knew when. When they happen its usually a big shock as you wouldn't expect these sort of atrocities going on in a developed stable country. Any loss of life is sad but 32 people dead is nothing compared to the death-toll in Iraq.

I just feel sorry it had it was the students, young people who had their life still to live.... very sad and I can't believe the campus wasn't closed when the two shootings happened few hours earlier.

My heart goes out to the families

Quote from Krane :

No they don't http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38945

Its so funny how many people straight away started criticizing GSC for stealing.. now it comes to light that HL2 bought textures from them too.. hah!

People are sometimes really silly and jump on the Zomg they stole textures band wagon...

Some of these features you have talked about deggis are in S.T.A.L.K.E.R There you are limited by the amount of weight that you can carry, mas is 60kg, if you have over that you simply cannot move, this bit "not moving" is a little bit silly as you just stop and all you can do is look around until you drop a gun or ammo or anything that you can to make you lighter again. Nice little feature is that when you are close to the limit say 59kg and you run, climb jump this seriously hurts your stamina bar, goes down very very quickly. If you were only loaded by 10kg of weight then your stamina goes down very slowly and you can run further jump and climb anything. It also has bleeding after you get shot your health bar continues to drop and you have to bandage yourself up, you can also get radiation poisoning which severely affects you and your health keeps dropping until you inject yourself with some anti radiation medicine.. or drink Vodka lol... Still though the rest is unrealistic, shoot em ups can never be as realistic as real life as deggis already pointed out.. unless they start selling guns with the game that you would hook up to your pc via usb, mount it on your monitor and next time you get shot in a game it will shoot you. hmmm lol

think games are realistic as they possibly will get for now, until processor power and graphic power develops and people find a new way to give you reality.

Quote from Highsider9 :

This is a miniature toy.
The Picture is form Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg wich is the world's largest model railroad layout. Clicky.

Whoah!... see the illusion was working though lol!

Quote from pdanev :

Right, before everyone jumps on the bandwagon screaming how great these miniature edits look, I'd like to point out that in my opinion there is still a lot to improve on the miniature pictures. The topic we are talking about is generally known as Tilt Shift Photography which can be used for making miniature look alike picture.

I googled for a quick tutorial, and this one seems ok. The pictures that were posted here before I think suffer from a very sharp line between the heavily blurred area and the non blurred part. I think there should be a slight and smoother transition, as well as a tiny bit less blur.

You may want to look here, and see a lot of great examples of real life pictures. You can see that the blur does not have to be always so uber heavy, as well as it doesn't always have to be on top/bottom at same time.

Anyway, my 0.02$, I think it's worth checking the links, and try and improve those edits a bit.

Really nice tutorials, this image is just soo cool if the car in the distance wasn't breaking it would easily look like its all just a miniature toy... great stuff. Will play around with it at somepoint...

Quote from Scawen :

I couldn't reproduce that locally but I could reproduce "False start - drive through penalty" in qualifying mode.

Hi Scawen,

I have today downloaded and installed the W9 test patch and I have also come across the bug where by joining a server picking your car and then leaving your garage I was booted off with a "false start - return to spectate" message as I drove out of the pits. I have been trying to reproduce it but with no luck. It only happened the first time I actually joined a server with this patch and after that all seems well

cheers for the patch btw, full of nice features

mad

Quote from al heeley :

http://www.miniclip.com/games/soap-bubble-2/en/
Very exasperating, still trying to get past the 3rd level

addictive fun!.. got to level 12 I think... level code: XPFK.. gets really hard now!

Quote from apthomson :

Found it! ... The missing Race 2 Replay file.

All 3 replays available here

http://www.simracing.co.uk/temp/lfsuk1.mpr

http://www.simracing.co.uk/temp/lfsuk2.mpr

http://www.simracing.co.uk/temp/lfsuk4.mpr

Adrian

Thanks Adrian for the replays... good fun to watch and analyse!

Quote from Itar (CZ) :

SS2 for me

Serious Sam 2? hmm interesting... doesn't really remind me of that as that was too much gung ho, kick ass, being swamped by hundreds of enemies type of game... Stalker has quite an eerie atmosphere and its like fear/oblivion..

man... I am knackered.... long and painful cycle home!

The event was a great success, really a good day....

Pub was good, once people started to turn up it then got nice and chatty...

Racing was a great experience, the 20min GPL session was good fun even though I knew what to expect although it seemed a lot easier to drive with the big projector screens, I was quite surprised to be top of the time sheets for that one only though by +0.025s away from Chris (Viper)

The LFS races and qualy was good fun too, managed to grab a first place in the qualifying, race grid was then reversed and on a track such as South City Town it always provides a lot of action which it certainly did. Had a nice race with Bob in that one...

The second LFS race at Fern Bay gold went well too (to my surprise), after my not so good qualifying I started 3rd in the reversed grid and then managed to win one one having a close race with Bozo until our slight contact which caused him to touch the grass...

The venue was better than what I expected, seeing the pictures I didnt think much of it but actually seeing it in the flesh was great and those big projector screens are wicked. The pods them selves were nice and comfy except pod number 7 which was just too small for my ass and were fully adjustable. Pedals had a really nice feel to them too and were 100x better than my momo ones at home.. Staff at the venue were really friendly and it was great to meet Adrian and co. Was good too see him come out after the event for food and beer, was also cool to get a ride in his Lotus!!!! :hyper: cheers again! We engaged on some lenghty discussions about GPL, LFS and other things sim related and it was really nice and relax end to the day.

must do it again soon!

thanks to everyone who attended, was great to meet you and good fun to race

mad

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:32.

Quote from Viper93 :

I think the biggest thing everyone needs to focus on is

HAVE FUN!!!!!


forget times, they are going to change when we all hop into those simulators anyways...

Yeah.. i am sure it will take some time to get use to the fov and the distance from the screen, also the pedals and momos will be different.. gonna be fun... i havent drunk a single beer for over a 2 weeks its been a draught so loking forward to the after race drinking... hope a few people will hang around after the race..

mad