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This one got me chuckling

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RIP Ennio Morricone! :(


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Thanks all for some amazing songs
The XGN radio is pretty decent I'd say ;)

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And an all time favourite of mine (movie included)


And one for the chuckle (or has it been posted before?)

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OK Simone, I'll give it a listen, but only 'cause of the "froday noight!!!" :P
It's great music, I love Lynyrd.   Simone is rocking your thread lately :D

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Real Life Motorsport / Re: S5000
« on: June 15, 2020, 03:03:51 PM »
Ken has the advantage of being in a race car for 58 consecutive years.
Surely you'd get used to it by then. 8)

Yeah, hence my previous comment :D

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Real Life Motorsport / Re: S5000
« on: June 12, 2020, 06:47:44 PM »
75 and still driving a F5000 :o ?

There might be hope for me yet  ;)

rob

Unless you're like me and can't take the forces without getting sick ;)  Although, that famous simracer alien guy whatsisname puked his helmet full in the middle of a formula session as well.   So there's that.



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ah, that sounded great :)
Thanks, Simone!

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Its amazing that they can work out how to create something like that . . . .

If you mean the objects; they are scanned. Probably the same kinda tech they use for our race tracks :)

But the engine is incredibly capable; the sheer calculating capacity is mind boggling.

And they use it for a shit of a game, where someone "realistically" climbs a vertical wall like it was at some 20-30 degree slope.  TBH it probably was exactly that at the modelling stage.  :D
I've lately realised, you do not need these hyper realistic gfx for a good game - in fact most good games don't have it.   But this look sells, even if the game itself is as shallow as it gets.

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Ah RIP Florian.   I love kraftwerk and I reckon Autobahn is one of their best. 

All the great musicians are slowly checking out :(   Am I getting old?

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Racing general / Re: Stefano leaves KS
« on: April 03, 2020, 03:32:19 PM »
Brain surgeons usually don't switch to rocket surgery  :-\

Software engineers don't necessarily need to... ;)

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Racing general / Re: Stefano leaves KS
« on: April 03, 2020, 09:50:26 AM »
Well, it always takes more people when you want to divvy up someone's work, even if they're just as capable.
There's a lot of overhead in comms & documentation.  A LOT.   
The bigger the team, the lower the productivity - in smaller teams, it's really bad.  Add an extra person to your 1-man team (on a single project), and the overall output will be way lower than 2x.

There's also an interesting thing I've read somewhere; reportedly, MS programmers used to write a line of code a day on average.   They had thousands working on the windows code.  I know it sounds really incredibly low.   I wrote a 20k+ line program in a year - alone.  At least 75 lines / day (counting 260 workdays) if you look at it that way. 

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Mod Cars / Re: Mael's Very Own
« on: March 31, 2020, 10:16:11 AM »
I'd like to know the pricing!  Although I suspect it's going to be sky high, even on a replica GT40. 

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Thursday Nights fun racing / Re: ABs silly videos
« on: March 25, 2020, 09:33:48 PM »
AB that fezza must have been fun.   I was toying with the idea of driving the rentable 360 around EC (you can see me overtaking it on the previous video at the start)  But since it's a very expensive exercise, I gave up on it (it was $700 for essentially a single 20-min session of driving)  But I regret not trying it, now.  I can no longer survive these G-forces without getting very sick.

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Thursday Nights fun racing / Re: ABs silly videos
« on: March 25, 2020, 09:30:51 PM »
Oh, here's this one;  I'm chasing down an M4.   He can pull 100m on me on the main straight, but simply can't leave me behind the rest of the track.
Not wakefield, but it's one of my favourite few laps ;)


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