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Origamiboy
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Quote from BlueFlame :It's pretty obvious you do... Go carry on hoping that the English football team is good enough to win the world cup again.

IMHO the problem with the England football team echoes that of English society as a whole. We beleive that we are better than we actually are. If we could just step back and see ourselves in perspective to other EU countries we may actually get somewhere.

Having said that, I am grateful the the opportunities living in the Uk has allowed me, and I wouldn't want to be from anywhere else.

Back on topic, I feel that Alonso should be lucky to get a drive in a pedal-cart next season after how he has acted. Lewis is a great driver who cannot win. If he wins in a competitive car, its the car doing the job. If he loses in a less competitive car, its his driving ability at fault...
Origamiboy
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Quote from z3r0c00l :Right hand drive please....

+1...

Great work, BTW
Origamiboy
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Quote from Kryten :It's about £26-£27 when VAT is added. It's not available a week earler in the UK, the Orange Box is released to everyone on October the 10th. Plus, if you already have HL2 and HL2:Ep1 you will be able to give them away to a friend.

AND you get Peggle Deluxe too. A 10-level puzzle game based on the Orange Box games.

I forgot to take tax into account.. Oh well.

BTW, you misunderstood me. I said it was released online a week earlier THAN the UK. Play.com have it listed for the 19th for the boxed copy.
Origamiboy
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Quote from Bawbag :I've been playing it the past few days, it's quite good for a beta and the general gameplay is good.

However, on the lowest of low settings it still runs like dog poop, although there is somethings you can change in order to make it run better and smoother which I must try.

Athlon 3800 2.00ghz dual core
2gb ram 800mhz
ATi X1300 512mb poop

When I say poop I just mean in extream situations your really disadvantaged, but it doesn't spoil the game that much.

(Btw for those of you wondering if you can play it or not, the Beta doesn't support dual yet so my guess is most normal machines should play it ok)

Hmmm. Same system as mine except I have an X1950 Pro 256mb. I'm expecting it to run ok-ish on low-medium settings, but I am a bit hesitant to get it as I know it'll only make me want to upgrade. My system isn't really that old and I'd like to get a bit more life out of it yet...
Origamiboy
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Quote from wien :Yep. You get it by pre-ordering "The Orange Box" (HL2, HL2:Ep1&2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal). Not sure if you get to take part in the beta if you just buy the game by itself, but you probably do. Never really looked.

Great, thanks! Seems like its time to buy the orange box then, doesn't it? Only comes to £22 here, and it seems like it will be made available online a week earlier than the UK as well. What am I waiting for??!

(I already have HL2 and Ep1, but hey ho...)
Origamiboy
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How do you get to play the beta? Do you have to pre-purchase over steam?
Origamiboy
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Liking the name.

Anyone want to join my new drift team, Chlamydia Drifters?

j/k
Origamiboy
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TBH I think the better drivers DO crash less often. Looking at the stats of some of the fast drivers on CTRA, they all have below average yellow flag %'s, with a lot of racers below 10%.

Whether thats because they are more aware of whats around them, or simply because they start ahead of the main pack is open to interpretation.
Origamiboy
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If you can get hold of one a Driving Force Pro would be your best bet, followed by a momo. You should be able to pick up a second hand DFP for about £30-40, and its a great wheel for the money.
Origamiboy
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Its excellent... Rolling on the floor screaming while chewing the door frame hard...! But excellent.
Origamiboy
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An evening for me to forget too. Lost most of my practice time before the race as my wheel was playing up, then :-

First race, was involved in the accident in the chicane, then flipped it at first chicane.

Second race, finished second after a run of good fortune.

Third race, all went well until Speedway overtook in first chicane. I couldn't see and flipped in the chicane again. (not Speedways fault btw.. ) I was very annoyed and at that point uncharacteristically left the server.

Hopefully all will be well next week.
Origamiboy
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''McLaren deny rumours of cutbacks in their pit crew...''
Origamiboy
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Quote from dawesdust_12 :He want's to get a Core2Quad to 3.7 GHz

What a waste of a Core2Quad.

Isn't a Core2Quad fast enough as it is? Surely if you want to spend your time destroying something its far cheaper to buy a roll of bubble wrap.
Origamiboy
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I was racing at Blackwood GP the other day and this guy kept hitting my car on the straight. I went nuts after the race thinking he was taking the mick and should have just passed, to which I was told he was bump drafting. My face was a tad red...

Can't say I fully agree with it though.
Origamiboy
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Quote from harjun :loL no, i just left this forum kind of, i dont come on MUCh, im on the ebuyer forum, they're more friendly there

also, that wasnt norton i blocked up, it was just some programme that you shouldnt know about

YES! He's back!
Origamiboy
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Quote from Mithras :You wrote the definition incorrectly. By your definition, the word should be just "Harjun", and it would be a verb

Correction:

Harjun [har-juhnd]
-verb

1. The act of doing something idiotic so as to relate closely to Harjun.

-adjective

1. Of, or pertaining to, an idiot.

I don't mean this, of course. Just a little humor is all..

And that is why you'll never see me writing a dictionary any time soon...
Origamiboy
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Quote from Takumi_lfs :wow.. Harjun is going to be a famous guy in the Lfsforums..

And Harjun'd is getting a official word in lfsforums



hmmm.. is it something like owned?

EDIT : but my sig is orginal!

Kind of...

Harjun'd (adj) - To fail by acting in a way that contradicts all sound advice given at the time. To pwn oneself.
Last edited by Origamiboy, . Reason : Its late and I wrote something daft
Origamiboy
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Quote from Swiss_Tony :But you post your findings in the CTRA section so it must be assumed that your remarks are directed at the CTRA and it's servers ?

If I couldn't connect to the server, or the points were messed up, or people started running hacks etc, then that would be a complaint against the system itself.

As it stands all complaints in this thread are to do with people USING the server. And, as Becky said, you can't control this on a public server.

The topic is entitled 'Standard on Race 1', and I had a negative experience on Race 1 that I thought would add to the topic. I don't think anyone here has a vendetta against CTRA, infact I think most would be lost without it.
Origamiboy
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Quote from Becky Rose :There are some really bad drivers. Some people, even ones in this thread who mocked the standard of driving on Race 1, can't even do a single lap without crashing. At the end of the day ALL public servers will be occupied by these people and we try to educate these drivers rather than throw them out, we will do that if we're forced too though.

Ultimately though, whether you get a good nights racing is down to you. We provide a place to race, you provide the drivers. Not us. We've given you every tool we have managed to develop to make the servers a cleaner place, we cant do any more. So it's down to you guys.

Posting about it here, about any server, will do not good. The server isn't the problem. LFS provides the server functionality and we've added to it but that's all we can do. We have trained marshalls sitting waiting to take your reports but they just cannot be on the servers 24/7 to baby sit you, and if you need baby sitting, then grow up.

That's pretty much all I can say on the subject.

I think you may have taken my post the wrong way. It was not directed at the CTRA servers exclusively, this kind of thing can happen in ANY public server. In fact, it seems that it happens less on CTRA, but it is still just as annoying when it does.

Theres something cathartic about letting off some steam about it on these forums though..
Origamiboy
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Must admit I've had a frustrating time on Race 1 today too. It was BL GP and I was carrying more speed than the driver in front (who shall remain nameless). I moved right after drafting for a bit and at that point he veered right sharply, putting me onto the grass.

I asked him why he did it after the race, to be met with ''I can take any line I like if you don't have overlap, noob.''. I said that surely he could see me in his mirrors and he knew that his move would take me out. This was met with ''Learn to drive..''

Following race I find myself flipped on the kerb on the chicane (my mistake). This caused a few near misses with following drivers. I then get a barrage of abuse. (The word 'noob' annoys me more than anything else..)

The whole incident left me fuming and I exited the server.. I fail to see the point of trying to drive fairly and cleanly, only for people to take liberties and hurl abuse when you make a legitimate mistake.
Origamiboy
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Great replies.

So, what you are all effectively saying is that all sims should be taken seriously, and seen as various component parts of sim racing as a whole?

My next question however is this.. With the current culture of 'my sim is better than your sim' amongst racers, how easy do you think integration between sims will be to achieve? For example, if sim racing becomes a recognised sport, there will eventually become 'top drivers'.. If the various sim racing 'celebrities' all use differing sims, how will they be judged against each other?

Will differing sims be thought of in the same way as differing forms of motorsport (eg F1 vs Nascar vs Touring Car etc) ?

It will be interesting to see what happens.
Origamiboy
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''Following this incident it is now forbidden for women in the crowd to show their breasts to passing drivers...''
Origamiboy
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Quote from Shotglass :i still cant figure out how she even got into that situation in the first place
she was parked on a completely empty bit of parking lot with no worries of the front scraping on another car regardless of which way you turn while reversing

Yikes! If it had been my car she'd hit I'd make it a priority to hunt her down and burn her driving licence!

I mean, what kind of scum hits a parked car 3 times and just drives away?! The mind boggles...
Origamiboy
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In the end though, will there need to be one 'sim of choice' for sim racing to be taken seriously as a sport?

Can there ever be just one all encompassing simulation that provides a constant platform throughout the sim racing world? I doubt it, but it seems everything may be a bit too fragmented for the public as a whole to take sim racing seriously.
Origamiboy
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''During the inaugural LFS real life drivers' championship, turn one went exactly as expected...''
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