The Official Status Thread
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i assumed GT6 was one of your weirdly named highways out that way.
They generally all start A, B or M.
GT6 = Gran Turismo 6.
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They generally all start A, B or M.
GT6 = Gran Turismo 6.
well.... a buttumption has made a butt out of me again
is it good game?
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Pass - I haven't played Gran Turismo since the PS2 which was GT4, I think. That was good, I assume the newer ones are.
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Pass - I haven't played Gran Turismo since the PS2 which was GT4, I think. That was good, I assume the newer ones are.
ah.... i've been a PC/nintendo girl my whole life. no wonder i didn't know it.
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They generally all start A, B or M.
And C, if you know where to look
@accalia said:well.... a buttumption has made a butt out of me again
Heh
@accalia said:is it good game?
Good, but not great. The physics are really good, but the menus are a bit stupid, and lobby voice chat is pretty much a no-go.
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And C, if you know where to look
I'm aware but you rarely see them. I'd accounted for them with the "generally" part of what I said.
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yes. but i don't want to die in a fireball.
Are you fricking kidding me? If that's your criterion, go buy a Bricklin, if you can find one. Or, slightly less facetiously, just about anything bigger than the Prius.
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like I-95 or I-20
Those aren't weirdly named at all, until the latter gets into Texas and becomes IH-20 for no good reason.
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Are you fricking kidding me? If that's your criterion, go buy a Bricklin, if you can find one. Or, slightly less facetiously, just about anything bigger than the Prius.
the prius will do. theyt have an impressive enough safety record.
i was also unaware that @RaceProUK was talking about a video game....
Those aren't weirdly named at all, until the latter gets into Texas and becomes IH-20 for no good reason.
not to us.... but try seeing it from the point of view of a londoner.
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but try seeing it from the point of view of a londoner.
Does the I not mean Interstate?
Assuming they actually go between states, it makes sense?
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the prius will do.
Does the Prius have hydraulic-assisted gullwing doors? I didn't think so.
Note that the Bricklin needs them because the doors weigh 250 pounds, what with the giant aluminum slab. It also features 50mph-rated bumpers and I know someone who owned one who can attest to their functionality: he was rear-ended by a BMW that was going approximately 50mph, when he was at a standstill. His rear bumper suffered a scratch. Literally--I've seen it. The BMW's front end was destroyed.
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it also, i presume from your description gets approximately 0MPG
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Does the I not mean Interstate?
@accalia probably meant that any naming convention seems weird to those not used to it, or (more likely) a more-specific version of same.
I was joking about how Texas, alone of the states I've seen, added a redundant letter to the name.
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The BMW's front end was destroyed.
Is the BMW not designed to do that? Crumple zones etc.
Unless it was a BMW from a few years back, then probably not so much.
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Does the I not mean Interstate?Assuming they actually go between states, it makes sense?
most of them do. and the numbers tell you things about them
even number is east/west. odd is north/south
the lower the number is the south/west the interstate is. the higher the further north/east it is.
three digits are spurs. even number first digit goes through city, odd number first digit bypasses city.
and that's not all!
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We have a numbering system too, believe it or not.
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@accalia probably meant that any naming convention seems weird to those not used to it
this
or (more likely) a more-specific version of same.
not really. jsut that the scheme would seem odd to one not used to it.
any numbering scheme will. although not all schemes are created equal. ;-P
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it also, i presume from your description gets approximately 0MPG
LOL. I don't remember what it was, but it probably wasn't too horrible for a 1970s car. Here's the specs if you care to see what the powertrain was: http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=93522
Ha! Car and Driver compared it to a Corvette in 1975: "They both corner within 0.01 G of each other and even deliver fuel economy within a half mpg during every phase of the C/D Mileage Cycle."
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Unless it was a BMW from a few years back, then probably not so much.
It would have been the 70s or maybe early 80s. FWIW IIRC it happened in Germany but my memory may be faulty--I don't know how many people had the money to ship a car across the Atlantic--twice--back then.
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You do know I'm talking about driving a car in a game, right? My real car is a Fiesta with a dead engine.
My real car is a V-6 Mustang. I have to be really careful with the gas pedal if there's even a bit of moisture on the ground.
Filed under: fishtail is really a thing
three digits are spurs. even number first digit goes through city, odd number first digit bypasses city.
If I may be allowed a bit of pendantry, you have that backward.
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three digits are spurs. even number first digit goes through city, odd number first digit bypasses city.
Actually, even first number reconnects to the main highway, odd first number doesn't: compare I-195, -295, -495, in Maine, MA, RI. There are, of course, exceptions: I-290 in MA was intended to rejoin I-90, but they changed the design. From Wikipedia: "Auxiliary Interstate Highways are circumferential, radial, or spur highways that principally serve urban areas. These types of Interstate Highways are given three-digit route numbers, which consist of a single digit prefixed to the two-digit number of its parent Interstate Highway. Spur routes deviate from their parent and do not return; these are given an odd first digit. Circumferential and radial loop routes return to the parent, and are given an even first digit."
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If I may be allowed a bit of pendantry, you have that backward.
Actually it's got multiple minor errors: all the spurs are odd-numbered because they don't reconnect. None of the even-numbered ones are spurs, by definition, because they do reconnect. Again, except for the exceptions, which are usually due to local opposition.
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Yes it is, even on a pickup truck.
Or an SUV. Although my SUV has vehicle stability control and beeps at me when I do anything foolish, which is annoying when I am trying to do something foolish.
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voice chat? icky bad no!
We use voice chat as it helps with clean racing. The blind-spot indicators are nice, but they're no substitute.
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i have a think about having my photo taken and of hearing my own voice......
it's..... not fun.
i've gotten much better on the photo, not so much on the voice.
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If I may be allowed a bit of pendantry, you have that backward.
i already spent my pedantry flags for the day.....
if i hadn't that would have earned one.
i know it's not dickweedish but i tend to ignore that requirement for first class pedantry.
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Status: 20 minutes to the New Year, happy 2015!
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i have a think about having my photo taken and of hearing my own voice......
it's..... not fun.
i've gotten much better on the photo, not so much on the voice.
But you don't hear your own voice back through the headset. Unless someone is echoing, I guess.
Then again, I don't mind hearing my own voice. For a brief period as a kid, I made fake radio shows. And about 3 months ago, I went in (unsuccessfully) for a VA role for Bingo the Multiva (a game no users here will have heard of, I bet). So of course I had to check my recorded demos actually worked.
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Unless someone is echoing, I guess.
that happens almost all the time in the voice chats i've lurked in......
do not want.... :-(
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that happens almost all the time in the voice chats i've lurked in......
do not want.... :-(
There is a way to cure yourself of the fear…<Though my idea of using a sturdy table, a dozen strong luggage straps, and a CD on loop probably counts as torture
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All I remember from voice chats on Xbox Live is every body sounding like they're 14 shouting idiotic crap like "OMG YOU FAGGOT", "YOU NOOB", or to really mix it up... "OMG YOU FAGGOT NOOB".
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All I remember from voice chats on Xbox Live is every body sounding like they're 14 shouting idiotic crap like "OMG YOU FAGGOT", "YOU NOOB", or to really mix it up... "OMG YOU FAGGOT NOOB".
And that's (one of) the (many) reason(s) I race exclusively in dedicated clubs
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..... yes. i know....
i just got a headset with a mic today...
am not looking forward to starting to use it....
but i'm going to.
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..... yes. i know....
i just got a headset with a mic today...
am not looking forward to starting to use it....
but i'm going to.
You'll get used to it a lot quicker than you think ;)<Did you check the raw of my previous post? >
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Status: 20 minutes to the New Year, happy 2015!
Still clinging to the Julian calendar, are you?
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You'll get used to it a lot quicker than you think ;)
<Did you check the raw of my previous post? >
<Though my idea of using a sturdy table, a dozen strong luggage straps, and a CD on loop probably counts as torture
raw post?
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Still clinging to the Julian calendar, are you?
Status: find a different way to troll TDWTF
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Status: Still searching for that damn video of that ATM machine standoff. (At least to the extent of whining about it here right now.)
In the past month, it is all I could think about. It is all I could dream about, to fathom, to fatten, to eat and devour.
Where is the ATM machine video, you unkind kind? WHERE IS IT?!
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under the set of rules i've been talking about ...
E_NO_CAFFEINE Caffeine level insufficient to follow the logic of this discussion.
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Caffeine level insufficient to follow the logic of this discussion.
it did stay remarkably coherent for a political discussion... i was impressed.
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Status: Got my replacement motherboard in. Unable to restore my old Windows 8.1 backup image because apparently my old system was BIOS and the new one is EFI and Windows Recovery says no to that. And my Radeon R9 280X is dead, too, but at least my motherboard and CPU support integrated graphics to get me by.
Who knew modular power supplies could cause so many problems?
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even number first digit goes through city, odd number first digit bypasses city.
That part of the numbering scheme I didn't know. But are you sure? I've seen ones that don't follow that rule. This hardly bypasses the city:
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This hardly bypasses the city
-shrug- i was going off my memory. i might have been wrong.
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Still clinging to the Julian calendar, are you?
I was going to pedantically point out that under the Julian calendar the new year began on 25 March, but it turns out to be a whole lot more complicated than that. That was true in England from 1155 to 1751, and some other countries at various times. In various times and places, it has started on 1 January (including the original Julian calendar in ancient Rome), 29 August, 23 September, 1 September, 1 March, 25 December and Easter (which is based on a lunar calendar and, as you probably know, varies with respect to the solar calendar). So I give up; I'm willing to wish @cartman82 a Happy New Year today.
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-shrug- i was going off my memory. i might have been wrong.
So I gathered from later comments. However, I never knew there was any significance to the even/odd first digit, so I did learn something, even if it wasn't what you thought it was.
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Fuck. Must be winter. Skin on my knuckles hurts and is cracking. Time to find the <how long will it take for the jokes to start?>hand lotion.
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Deciding whether to take the main highway through cities or take the bypass around is a remarkably significant source of stress to me compared to the difference it makes. :-) (Well, not always; occasionally it's clear; going from one side of Chicago along I-90 to the other via I-90 and not I-290/294 is a terrible decision.) But like St. Louis going I-55 to I-44. Do I just do that, or do I do I-55 -> I-255 -> I-270 -> I-44? Ahhhh!
(Google says to not take the bypass. But it used to say that for Chicago, and still often says it in one direction so I don't believe it.)