Quote from downlikerain :

All Im going to saying to this matter is. If people are paying for Realism, then its certainly not worth it. And also It wouldn't be worth it if your looking for alot of players, becuse alot of people wont pay that first of all and second..there are tons of way better racing game that people are already associated with.

If by realism you mean better or equal physics and real tracks why wouldn't people want that? People complain about the lack of tracks in LFS all the time - I'm sure some people would pay for that feature alone.

Not many people are playing iRacing right now, true, because it hasn't been released yet. We have no idea how small or large the community will be.

Third, have you played iRacing? How can you say other sims are "better" without having first tried iRacing?

Quote from petrewitz :

You are lucky to have it. I personaly can't find any for acceptable price ( less than 1000$ for 19''). I have been told that NEC, who did them not so pricey, no more produce them. Keep in mind that even S-IPS panel may have a special "game" or "entertainment" modes and will show the most weird and oversaturated picture it capable when within those modes.

I am actually in the third round of buy>return circle with TN and PVA panels amd just can't believe that displays may be so crap in regard of color rendition.

My acquaintance bought a dozen CRT Trinitron displays in 2004. I thought he is insane that time. How wrong I was. He sold the last one for seven time more from their original price recently due to fact many artists and disigners prefer CRT Trinitron over even good S-IPS.

Mine are 20.1" HP LP2065 before they did the bait and switch. They're good enough for me - I just use them for software dev. hmmm... I happen to have a nice 19" trinitron monitor here I'll sell you for $1000+shipping lol.

Quote from petrewitz :

Does the grass on WinXP standard screen seems a way too bright green to you? If yes you definitely need a calibrator.

Nope, but I have expensive S-IPS panels

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People often complains about colors and just don't realize that the problem have a source in their LSD displays. Try a color calibrator hardware (spyder or eye-one). They are not that expensive now and very simple to use. First thing you would notice after display calibration is your colors, especialy greens and blue which become a lot more moderate. Sometimes the difference is absolutelly fantastic. The era of accurate colors had gone together with CRT displays. Now days display producers learnt a lesson: many people will buy the most oversaturated and overbrighted display from what they see in a store.

I'm no computer graphics expert, but I don't agree with that.

The videos are side by side. One displays vibrant graphics - the other, a real video, shows brownish colors. The display is obviously capable of rendering those colors otherwise the real video would show up oversaturated as well, right?

I think this is also a case of the poor quality of the onboard camera. All of my onboard videos taken with a bullet camera look much darker and less vibrant than the real world.

That's awesome... 7:40 ftw!11!

This would have been fun in the beginners cup rally stage... hahah.

I might be working on such an application... send me a pm if interested.

Quote from Nock44 :

Not the res you want but, i think it looks alright

It's a screenshot alright.

Quote from Victor :

I thinking maybe some of you can go higher than 1920*1200. And as you can guess, AA and AF is required.

Quote from Victor :

i think the minimum must really be 1920*1200

NZ, what kind of setup do you have?

I think we take security for granted. To do something as elaborate as this would require major effort, but some of these facilities which may appear very secure on the outside are actually a joke if you really had intentions of doing damage.

This thread makes me feel weary about contributing anything to this community...

Quote from LFSn00b :

I tried to drift in it, but i was amazed that the game countersteered the car itself. Yeah, very realistic. But i haven't yet found a way to turn that off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhAyyzaz_Y

Here's a vid where i tried to make some donuts :P

The smoke looks better than LFS

I just found startling new evidence that proves 9/11 was a complete conspiracy. It disproves all of Stang's points in this thread.

See the article here:
http://www.mit.edu/research/911/evidence.htm

This article is very saddening Hopefully the video doesn't get taken down. Do not view it unless you want the truth

I made up my mind about religion the first time my religious instructor insisted I was a sinner. I couldn't have possibly been a better kid growing up. I'm proud I was able to make up my own mind at such a young age.

Many years later when I was in high school it became obvious that I made the right choice. I entered a basketball tournament with a friend of mine (who's family is really religious). I thought it was just a normal mini-camp, but it turned out to be some religious camp that he kind of tricked my friends and I into joining. Two things stick out in my mind from that camp (but there were several other things that made me angry).

1) At one point I was forced to have a 1 on 1 talk with some religious guy. He asked me what my plans were after high school. Naturally I told him I was accepted to some college, blah blah blah. Then he basically stated I was making a mistake and should join his religious group instead. He spent several minutes trying to convince me but being the nice friendly atheist I am, instead of punching his face in I listened to his BS and left quietly.

2) One of the preachers there was ranting on and on for 30 minutes about how money was the root of all evil. When he got to the climax of his speech the money basket landed in my lap...

I'm never going to subject my kids to any of that. I will teach them about the various religions myself and they can choose to believe in whatever they want.

On the east coast, many autox's have 1st gear turns.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

So far they've confined it to Loose Change, I think.

I found this video linked from the zeigeist website

Quote from The Radness :

I have no idea what the hell your all talking about. I've never driven or heard of a "modern" manual where it had some sort of "safety" lock. in an Automatic maybe,....maybe. but not in a manual.

If you need a safety lock because you don't know where your gears are, just turn in your license now.

You're right, I have no idea where my gears are. I thought 1st gear was reverse OMG!!11!!11. I always wondered why I would have to drive the car backwards whenever I engaged first gear. I will take your advice and turn in my license. Thanks!

I'm getting great performance out of it now. I think I might have just had too many applications open at the time

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Just found some awesome pictures on the net, http://www.scribd.com/doc/2824 ... photos-of-the-Twin-Towers

Obviously they add nothing to the ongoing argument, but pics 4 and 5 really put into perspective what this is all about

Thanks, I have some high res pictures from the ground stashed away in a sealed envelope somewhere. TBH, it's scary looking at that crap.

You guys seem to be concentrating on the twin towers. Did WTC 7 have the same design as the twin towers? It's no where near as massive yet it still fell the same way.

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I see this is a sensitive topic for you DWB I'm the one living in NY... my father stayed home from work that day or he might have been one of the victims!

Anyway, I think it's important to have an open mind about stuff like this, whether you agree with it or not

http://onemorelevel.com/games3/double-wires.swf

http://farm.addictinggames.com/D78AQSAKQLQWI9/3874.swf

It may just be an "internet video" but to be perfectly honest I trust this guy more than US media.

You guys might be right. I always thought first gear had some sort of safety lock which is why it's only easily engaged when rev matching but now I'm not so sure

This is probably a pretty awful idea since it requires some sort of FFB shifter and it will annoy the hell out of everyone. That's why I'm suggesting it!

Most modern road cars won't allow you to downshift to first while moving unless you rev match. In LFS you can downshift to 1st at any time. This might be a neat feature to have if autox becomes more popular (where downshifts into first gear are really common).

I came across this 9/11 video the other night: "How the Towers Fell".

http://blip.tv/file/306082/

It's a presentation done by an architect named Richard Gage. The beginning of the video focuses on the collapse of WTC building 7. I actually watched the whole thing (it's over an hour long) and thought it was pretty interesting. I'm curious what you guys think of it since this is a global community.