What's your setup look like?Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
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What's your setup look like?
It looks like a fairly cheap Thrustmaster wheel (£150) stuck onto a very cheap seat, crammed into the tiny space between my Ikea sofa and the telly in my odd-shaped area which passes for a living room.
It does all fold up though so I can preserve my very small amount of remaining dignity by putting it in the cupboard when anyone comes round, although no one has come round since February.
What sims are you playing?
I have Assetto Corsa Competizione but don't play a huge amount of it as my PC doesn't run it great. I play more Project Cars 2 which is an inferior (albeit still decent) sim but runs really well/immersively on my laptop.
Nowhere near plugged in enough to justify iRacing.
Yeah, iRacing is too darn expensive, but it is the best option. Haven't tried Assetto Corsa Competizione, but regular Assetto Corsa is good. There are a lot of good options nowadays, truth be told. Project Cars is quite good. I enjoy driving the Caterham.
You seem like the type to enjoy Grand Prix Legends. Will probably be a nightmare to get it running well nowadays though.
Counter-intuitively I don't get a huge kick out of single-seaters in this context, I find them a bit harem scarem, I prefer smoothing GT3s or touring cars around the place.
GPL I doubt you could make work on a modern day machine unless you knew what you were doing, which I don't. That monster BRM in it is a beast though.
I am all about the slow cars. Can't really be arsed with anything fast. Skip Barbers, Miatas, Clios, etc. all day. My best results came in the Lupo Cup back in the rFactor days.
Dirt Rally is really, really good, btw.
Whenever I get a hint that I'm into something as much as Jimmy is into computer game racing, you know I'm going out and dropping a bomb on a top end pc, wheel, gaming chair etc. Probably why only one of us owns a house.
I'm pretty obsessively into climbing at the moment, which is a good one because there's not much needless money I can sink into it aside from a gym membership and outdoor gear that's going to sit in a cupboard for the next six months. Quite a bit healthier than some past interests as well.
I thought long and hard about that recently. Will probably take the plunge before spring.
Been climbing a lot as well the past month. Only thing to get you through the winter here. It's such a good sport, the improvement is so satisfying no matter what level you're at.
My overall mental health is definitely hinging on the election.
It's going to be ok, I am sure you will still be able to see Tronald in some reality show.
It just won't be the same.
My PC's a 2013 shitbox but I managed to get GPL working. I can't quite tell you how but I'm sure a google sorts you out. I can't run it windowed but it seems okay everywhere else.
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/g...ix-legends-9zz
My sim list is pretty stocked at the minute with Assetto Corsa, the F1 games, DiRT Rally 2.0, ACC, Project Cars and Ride 4.
I keep threatening to get myself a wheel, and I'd be the same, the Supercars and GTs were the most fun in Forza 7.
Yeah. The serotonin hit from getting up a new route that you couldn't do last week is basically real life video games.
I was weeks away from doing my driving test and it seems that's all fucked now with covid.
How does covid render you incapable of driving? Or is the test cancelled?
Did you furlough the chauffeur or just sack him?
All lessons and tests are cancelled until end of lockdown.
lol at billy big pasta not being able to drive
I'm a twit
I work directly opposite a driving test centre and it has been very entertaining sitting at lunchtime over the last few months watching people fail and then throw massive screaming tantrums, ripping off their mask and chucking it in the bushes etc. Lockdown takes away all life's little pleasures.
Sitting there like a mimsy while his wife goes in to pay for the petrol. Giggles mate you've won.
She doesn't drive either.
I never needed to learn
None of my mates in London drive (most have licences, but they don't use them or keep a car). Probably the biggest cultural difference between London/not which neither side really understands about the other.
I just don't feel the need to learn. I can get places without one, although I always have one foot in the "Motorcycles are cool as fuck" camp. I value my collarbone and spine, though. In fact, my whole ability to walk.
There's also this weird feeling in the back of my head I'd start driving like I was in GTA.
Running red lights is fine definitely.
Also, if you see a group of Hari Krishna then it would be rude not to run them all over.
They're going to a better place.
You learn once you're old enough because it's something to get out the way.
There was a racket when I was in high school where the driving school would take the students out to beaudesert/ rural Queensland to get their licence as it was guarenteed.
I had no business passing a driving test at the time.
Last edited by Queenslander; 03-11-2020 at 10:45 PM.
I had a similiar scheme minus the guarantee. Or the driving school.
The absolute jackpot for driving test viewing is the young, rich, Asian male. I saw one start a test in a brand new black E-class (with monogram on the rear bumper), and the start of the test was delayed by a good 5 or more minutes because he didn't have L plates on the car. The examiner stood to one side watching the kid desperately try to stick an L-plate on without leaving anything on the bodywork, as his sunglasses-wearing father raged at them both from a social distance.
I think laughing at Asian drivers is the only acceptable form of racism.
You would think that it would be the other way round. If that racial stereotype is completely true all the time, what else is been kept from us?
I would say spitting but plenty of bogans spit as well.
I just realised Im talking about the China side of Asia and you blokes use Asian to describe India and Pakistan.
Last edited by Queenslander; 03-11-2020 at 11:15 PM.
They're all at it, driving as if nobody else uses the road. It's the same reason they litter.
While we're at it turning a 5 bedroom house into a 14 room sharehouse for Asian students is another good one.
The only time I've ever been pulled over for speeding was in Japan. I was going 60km/h. They drive incredible slow and orderly and safe (and boring) there.
But of course that's not what you mean when you generalise asians.
Id never include the Japanese they do rule!
When I say Asians it means south Asians, for future reference. My Korean driving experiences were they were quite slow and liked to look out of all six windows.
When I say Asians I mean people of B origin. You know, Bolton, Blackburn, Bradford...
I'm a twit
I just mean Chinese Australians and maybe male Indian Australians and Ill add 60 year old boomers driving around in those massive American trucks.
Last edited by Queenslander; 04-11-2020 at 08:30 AM.
The London Turks are the worst drivers by far. The amount of hit and runs they commit must be mental.
Better than what they've been up to down here, bits of at least two people stashed in takeaway freezers so far.
And they don't litter.
And they experiment in the Chinese.
A lot better than I've been since Tuesday.
My 11 week beard seems to have gone wooly overnight so Im happy.
Keeping head above water on day 3 of no meaningful football. Tomorrow we play Bosnia [with a weakened squad] which will have to be rationed for the following 8 days in what will probably be the bleakest stretch.
Vaccine talk has offered hope of a free summer. Work has quietened down. I went out at 16:30 for exercise and returned expecting the clock to be close to 19:00. It was 17:30. Mother is doing well. Nephew is too young to be aware.
Don.
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For god's sake look after our people.
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