If you are nice and clean as you say, you should try Dead men racing on Sundays. They race Race_s sets only and do team racing. They are clean and fun .
They also have good strict rules against dicks and kick them quickly

Excellent!

Thanks Alot

Quote from Dajmin :

Freespace 2 - finest space sim ev4R!!11

Any particular mod? There seems to be a few are they all the same or are some better than others?

Welcome aboard M8

Contact a good divorce attorney now and get him or her on retainer

Try this experiment....... Use "Race_S" set, if you get within a couple of seconds of the WR switch to the WR set.

As we have seen in team racing on the DMR server the past few weekends. Everyone uses the Race_S set and most people are around the same times. But there is always someone (Alien) who can make that crappy feeling set go a few seconds a lap faster than everyone else.
So I think it isn't the set that makes me slow, it is my abilities or lack there of.

Bloody hell!, why did you have to post this???

Now I have to agree with Kev about something....

Yup this wheel works good for me. I would love to compare it to a G25 if someone would be kind enough to send one too me:-)

Hi M8

Halfords are in the process of reorganizing, and consolidating right now. As a result we are not taking on any new drivers.

Sorry this had to happen now, we definetly would have been interested. You are all great drivers and fun to race with.

Quote from scipy :

It is your problem and your personal opinion. It does not have any hold over me or anyone else. In LFS sets might matter even more because, apart from the driver, they are the only thing that separate one car from the other (all drivers in same cars ofcourse). Again, people's ability to produce good setups depend on their driving and objectivity - so your sets (and many other people's) dont have a chance in hell of being anywhere near good enough.

Wow I'll certainly remember not to ask you for a set M8

I'll stay down at the bottom of the barrel grovelling for my betters sets (JUST NOT YOURS)

Quote from Woz :

That is normal. A big GTR style car might only run with 15deg at the wheels while having 540deg steering lock. It is normally forced on them by the car geometry and what they can get away with in the wheel arch.

What it means is you are turning the wheel more to get the same effect so it feels less snappy. 360deg steering lock with 15deg on the wheels is the same as 720deg with 30deg on the wheels feel wise, you just cant get the same extreme to catch when out of shape.

Thanks for confirming my sanity for another day at least

Quote from Gnomie :

What effect does this have compared to simply lowering the degrees of rotation?

I don't know for sure...all I know is my wheel only turns 180 from lock to lock. By lowering the degrees, I have felt the steering be more precis, I don't know why it just is for me.

Maybe someone with more knowledge can tell me if I'm full of shit or not.

On a steering note. For those of you not fortunate enough to have a G25......(This includes me) What I have found the last little while is, if you reduce the steering % down from 30 degrees to lets say 20 degrees you get way more precis steering. My wheel is a Logitech formula force GP.

This has helped my driving considerable.

Quote from STROBE :

Yeah, the D1X is a handy shape... I prefer my grips to be removeable though...


There's a post on the previous page where I originally posted some pics from a fashion show that I shot, but then removed them as I wasn't sure where I stood with permission to reproduce people's images for non-journalistic/newsworthy purposes (none of them had signed any contract or model release). Nonetheless, I was in front of a crowd at a charity fashion show at my gym, shooting the models. I was desparately challenged by my equipment (my Sony A100 is not designed for shooting moving models with flash in dim light - it's the absolute worst thing you could use it for) and spent more time winding the exposure compensation up and down whilst desparately hunting for focus than actually shooting, and I was up against a pro with a full-frame Canon 5D and 28-300 IS USM, but just got stuck into it. It sounds silly but I probably wouldn't have the balls to stand in front of a crowd and bunch of models normally, were it not for the camera and flashgun. In the end, the images were good enought to sell, simply because I forgot about where I was (and thus any self-consciousness) and immersed myself in the view through the camera.

Nonetheless, the pro with the 5D wanted to go and shoot in the changing rooms.... hmm, I figured I'd just stick to the "catwalk". Another guy there that couldn't stay to shoot the event due to him being double booked with a beauty pageant came across as a complete perv. My experience so far is that being genuinely modest and innocent in your intentions can get you some genuinely beautiful shots in such situations.


I like landscape and architecture too, but what really intrigues me is urban stuff. Urban decay, waste, dereliction and subsequent vandalisation makes for such interesting photojournals that I've wasted hundreds of hours reading such sites by those who have the balls to go and do such stuff. Needless to say there is little chance of me taking my gear into some areas of my locality without some kind of safety in numbers, or an ASP baton...

I have found the same thing with people. Some photographers come off the wrong way because we can sense the pervishness.
I think 99% of the time we are right in our assumption too!

I find the best way to make people comfortable with me taking pics is to make it abundantly clear that I am taking pictures of everyone, not just the good looking ones:-) I also make myself very visable ie: instead of taking a pic from way back with a zoom, I'll move closer so I don't look like a stalker.
Then when I need to shot some candids no one is aware because they are starting to ignore the geek with the camera
And yes I have admitted to myself that being a photographer just dosen't look cool to most people I don't think my wife is impressed with my big lens anymore

Quote from mrodgers :

It is my understanding from photo forums that in general (talking global generalization as laws are different all over...) they are your pictures, you have the rights to use the photos any way you wish unless you've signed the rights over to someone. You have the right to post and use the photos and even sell them. You just can't use them commercially where it could be looked at as the models endorsing a product.

Model releases are needed for usage in a commercial product endorsement.


Oh, and here's one of my recent shots since this little guy is moving into one of my bird "hotels"....

In Canada the law is almost the same. The Photographer owns the image outright until some one pays him or her directly for it.
Commercial use is the same though.

On a side note, about your signiture? You stole our national sport Whats next our oil?

Quote from Forbin :

Will Ferrel has to be one of the most obnoxious people I've ever seen in a movie. I could not sit through Anchorman nor Talladega Nights.

I agree!!!! Total crap to me.

Also good old war movie is "Where Eagles Dare"
Couple of more modern ones I've watched recently are "Momento", and "12 Monkeys"

Thanks for all the good picks to download tonight:-)

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Quote from Roadie :

Edit: nm, I fail. So, how was your day?

Hehehehehe how about this for a deal?
You send me your computer setup and I'll give you some pointers on how to not burn out your clutch

How do you burn it out? I only burn it if I srcew up lots or I'm not quick enough off the clutch when I hit a wall head on.

Hey M8

I just deleted all my old MPR's a couple of weeks ago Crap!!!!!

But I will pass this thread onto Boogle from my team. He has raced for years and saves every replay

He also races with and can compete with the best so he should have some wicked ones for you.

As an aside to this post... Is there any way to make a ramp without having to construct it out of 100 seperate peices side by side?

Hey M8


Good luck with your new team. Hope to see you on the track sometime soon.

And if you have a lower end system like me, it's another app running and sucking up resources better used on the game.

Nice Alien

Have fun putting it together M8.
Hurry up and drive already I haven't seen you for awhile

Oh ya and sent me your old PC instead of shipping it to the dump. Its probably ten times better than mine

See ya soon bud!!

Before patch Y I would have said the XRR but now the FZR is the hardest. The newest patch has made the XRR easier to drive I think.

Quote from Doorman :

What a nice man.

Hehehehehehe......Another one fooled

A few of us at Halfords have gone cruising when we were bored before. We had a blast being chased by the cops

And the cops were tickled pink when three of them caught me
You should have heared them( "We caught a Halfords guyWOOT WOOT") I think it made their day.

We thought the idea behind having cops was to put them too work?
If everyone followed the rules you wouldn;t need cops! Right?

Anyway Mr.X CHILL!!!

Quote from dadge :

it's not hard to get. just race people who are slower than you postal orders work iirc. no need for a bank account.

True dat!!!