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wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from BlueFlame :http://tutka.users.daug.net/lada/image/obj17geo19pg2p28.png

Something kinda cool about that... Maybe im just... an 'automobile gay'

Hmmm. Estate, darkened windows, flags at the front... Who died?? :tombstone
(Lemme guess: it's a funeral car for ricers who overestimated their driving skills.)
wsinda
S2 licensed
I was racing on BL GP with the FOX, in mid-field. There were 3 fast guys way in front, no one close behind, so I did some nice clean laps and managed to beat my PB.

Then suddenly I was 1st -- the others had been taken out by some stupid noob. And when I realised I was on my way to my first FOX win, I lost my rhythm and spun the car.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from DeadWolfBones :Depressing reading

Holy sh*t! I knew Georgie's mates had their hands in the government's pockets, but I didn't know the thievery was this blatant. (And suddenly, the conspiracy theory about Bush having planned 9/11 doesn't seem so crazy anymore.)

I get the feeling I just watched America start its downward slide from superpower to banana republic.
wsinda
S2 licensed
I voted for "Lightest", but to be honest I would like to see a different colour combo. I get the feeling I've seen hundreds of sites using orange + blue(ish).

Usage of fonts and whitespace is very good, tho. Nice clean looks.
The tabs ('quote', 'what we do', etc.) could use some more contrast, to stand out against the background. They're barely perceptible now, which is a bit irritating.

Good luck with your company. Oh, and good luck to Matt in giving up smoking.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from 1995CobraR :nonono.... i was witnessing them trying to ban a No-named person just because they had no name.... I think its kinda wrong!

Wrong maybe, but understandable. Often, unnamed players on demo servers are wreckers or utter noobs.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from rjm1982 :You've somehow connected your manhood to cars?

Don't connect your manhood to a car! Please. It's gonna hurt awfully, especially on bumpy roads.

(Sorry, couldn't resist. )
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from Inouva :The replay in whit track is it?

South City Town reversed. But if you have no S2 licence, you can't watch the replay.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Request: Could someone write the "reverse" of this guide? That is, how to get the most fps out of a low-end system (like mine), without harming the appearance too much.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from FireFox86 :
yeah, I could make the camere type random. It could choose different camera types for the focus. Driver view, Chase View, tv camera, and custom view.

Could LRV also leave it unchanged (= under control of the user)?
Quote :You can get the information from LFS itself. current lap number, split times. Another idea is to display the info in LFS with some buttons. Like F1 or CCWS. But its not high on my todo list.

When I watch a race, I tend to look for fast drivers, because they are likely to overtake a few cars, and because I can admire their skill and learn from it. Since patch X it's a bit hard to find the fast guys. A stats display in LRV (plus manual control of the focus) would be handy.
Quote :For now T1 is kinda pain in the ass for Race Viewer. Like you said, if there are more crashes, the camera will focus to the next one. Because the whole field is close together, a more overview camera shot is need to view the carnage.

When one crash is quickly followed by another, you could
- switch to helicopter view, or
- "queue" the second crash, and only switch when the first crash has been shown for a minimum amount of time (4 seconds or so).
wsinda
S2 licensed
This looks very interesting! Some remarks:

- The names list suggests that you can also switch focus manually, by (double-)clicking on a name. But nothing happens, so I guess that feature isn't included. Would be very nice to add it, though. (It does conflict with the auto-switching that LRV does, tho. Maybe that should be disabled when you switch manually.)

- I like to watch the race from various views (in-car, helicopter, chase). But when LRV switches focus, it resets the view to default.

- What function do the password and prefix have (i.e., in what situation are they used)?

- Adding statistics to the player list would be very nice. For example: current lap number, fastest lap, latest split time (for each player).

- The names in list of drivers differ from the driver names in-game (account name vs. player name, I guess).

About the focus-switching algorithm:
- It should ignore cars whose speed is close to zero.
- Basing it on distance is OK, but a battle is less interesting when the cars are not in the same lap.
- "When a crash occurs and causes an yellow flag, the camera focuses on it immediately". I couldn't test it, but what does it do at the T1 carnage? Does it switch focus like mad?

Keep up the good work! This could become a really great tool.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from Gunn :Sux to be a cheater. Ban fodder. Someone who cheats once can never be trusted again.

Well... According to LFSW the cheater in question is only 12 years old. Let's say he needs to grow up some more.

Cheats like this are so glaringly obvious, they will always be discovered. It's the clever cheaters that you should worry about.
wsinda
S2 licensed
The biggest problem for the new ultra-lightweight model was sneezing spectators.
Onboard gun to blast away AI cars
wsinda
S2 licensed
Given the current state of AI, I'd like to have an onboard gun, so I can blast AI cars to shreds when they've driven me off track again. It would really improve peace&quiet in my home, and save me a couple of years in purgatory.

</rant>
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from Cr!t!calDrift :I'll go for wsinda's, since Shotglass' is only a happy fantasy of mine

I won? Oh blast, I suck at finding good racing pictures. Shotglass, could you take this?
wsinda
S2 licensed
"Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in Nascar history: the triple Salchow!! Elegantly executed by nr. 25!"
wsinda
S2 licensed
New version (0.5) has been added to the first post.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :I 100% agree, and you really struck a chord in my heart with that statement (not ashamed to admit it). In fact, I'll be the first to admit that if I ever saw a woman being raped or a child being molested, I'd be the first one there and I'd have a hard time stopping probably even after the guy had stopped breathing.

Would you do the same if you had some time to reflect? If you'd read in the evening paper that the guy had been arrested, would you go to the police station and organize a lynch mob?
Quote :You see, I simply cannot stomach the thought of people being hurt / maimed/tortured etc.

A solid reason for being against capital punishment, methinks.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :Then I guess you'd better stop "murdering" cows to eat a burger, they're alive too. Clearly, being a carnivore is evil.

Great! Finally you're starting to talk some sense! Read this book for a well-founded explanation that killing animals is wrong.
Quote :If things were REALLY strict, there would probably be a lot less crime.

That's what they thought in England, around 200 years ago. And boy, was it a success... Not. Oh well, at least it helped with populating Australia.

The error in the reasoning for harsh laws is that a good citizen feels certain that he won't commit a crime if it is a capital offense. But he wouldn't do it anyway, so that makes no difference. And he doesn't really know how the mind of a less-well-behaved citizen works.
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wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :Do you REALLY think that trash like that will EVER be 100% "rehabilitated" and completely unlikely to re-offend?

As a matter of fact, yes. A large part of people who kill are unlikely to do it again after they get out of jail. The exceptions are the psychopaths, and the soldiers . The former can be found and diagnosed. Many countries either give them life sentences, or only release them after long psychological treatment.
Quote :Very rational indeed, wasting resources that could feed the vast array of hungry & homeless....

Ironically, the parties who are most in favour of the death sentence (the conservative side) generally oppose support for the hungry and homeless.
Quote :When you perform the types of actions that incur the death penalty, as far as I am concerned you indeed forfeit ALL your rights.

That's a known tactic: first you dehumanize them by giving them other names (scum, trash, etc.), and exaggerate the crime (= present examples of the most gruesome murders). Then you're free to do whatever you want. That's not rational, it's rethorical.

If you stop seeing the offenders as humans, then you can just as well kill them and sell the bodies as dog food.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from Racer Y :WE should spend $$$ to house the slime-ball and insure he gets three square meals and a TV and plenty of recreation time.

Send the guy to Iraq! Then he can kill loadsofpeople, get modern equipment for the job, a handsome salary, and maybe even a medal. It would be silly to execute a man who might become a war hero.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from StewartFisher :I'm not talking about torture or abuse, just imprisonment and/or execution. I don't see anything barbaric about providing basic food and shelter to a criminal.

"Basic food and shelter"? A prison isn't a B&B. It's about taking away someone's freedom, and that causes suffering. If that suffering is your sole goal of imprisonment, then your view of punishment is a bit... outdated.

I'm still wondering how you can concede that abuse is barbaric, but maintain that execution is not.
Quote :Ah. I see we've dropped into the realm of personal abuse. Nice.

Didn't look like personal abuse to me. More like non-personal irony. (Unless you hate to get coffee in your sinuses )
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote :Really though, you seem to want to have and try to justify the additional burden to society of having to house some dirtbag that strangled 16 women. Why's that? cause he can rehabilitate himself? yeah, right. Ohh wait... so he can mull over his crimes suffer in silent pain and remorse? lol that translates to can he relive his glorious moments of his crimes. And don't go there that since he's locked away, he can't harm anyone.... he harms the budget. He harms the survivors' constant thoughts of if he somehow gets out - wouldn't you think?

You have an Internet connection, right? Then why don't you read up on the subject, before airing easy opinions like the one above? For once, this subject is about life or death. Give it some serious thought. (At the very least, when it's election time).

Sheesh.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from Greboth :I believe that people who either commited an act of terrorism or were going to commit the act should also suffer the death penalty.

Quote from tristancliffe :I believe that the death sentence is a fair and just punishment.

Innocent people get guilty verdicts now and again. Always have, always will. Death or no death penalty. Don't overly concern yourselves with the tiny tiny minority that die unjustly.

So you'd have hanged the Maguire Seven, the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, then? Nice.
wsinda
S2 licensed
Quote from Kenneth Foster :Ladies and Gentlemen, by a designed scheming effort the United States and especially the State of Texas, has mastered the art of murdering its citizens. The resource centers have been shut down, appeal processes shortened and access to courts have been severely curtailed. The judicial and political regimes have lost all semblance of justice and sound reasoning.

Sums it up nicely.
wsinda
S2 licensed
LFS cannot generate an RAF file from an MPR replay.

An MPR file contains samples of a car's data at a low frequency. (Four times per second, I think.) All the smoothness that you see when viewing the replay is because LFS "guesses" the intermediate states. Theoretically you could write these states to an RAF file, but the data will be full of artifacts (= weird). It won't be very useful for analysis.
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