Draco-REX

Stay out of my head!

I would never pay someone to tell me what I can and can't do on property I paid for. Renting? Sure. But when I buy a house, an HOA would be a deal-breaker.

Bet someone that you can open a bottle of beer with a sheet of paper. If you can open it, you get to keep it. http://www.wimp.com/bottlepaper/

I'll be there tomorrow in the STI (FP 16) having fun dodging cones. Feel free to say hi or drop by the Ambulance at lunch to eat out of the wind. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/5719838387_e8d9703d6c_z.jpg

Gotta love it when someone hits the top of the mountain and says "F-it! I'm gonna build a tower so I can climb higher."

DirecTV here and no problems. Cable companies suck.

Big engines Big power Big bodies Big F-ing balls

The first corner really threw him for a loop... Happened to be a right-hand turn. :gabe:

It's due out Tuesday. I'm encouraged because they seem to have fixed a couple glaring omissions that past games (GT included) have had. One is the lack of active aero. Seems really simple, but neither Forza or GT have done it yet. And it just looks bad to me when you know something like the Veyron's air brake should happen, but doesn't. Another is left hand drive interiors for cars available in LHD regions. Seeing a LHD STI in the demo was a nice surprise.

"I'll just watch a couple....." :fuuuu: "I want more!"

Got the wheel working! It's nice to play Forza without having buttons cut out in the middle of a race. Played the F4 demo. It feels more NFS-ish with the sweeping turns and wide run-off areas. The STI felt more realistic in the corners though. Now that I have a working wheel I'll be picking up F4.

Only the other way around. You can use your XB controllers in Windows, but no windows controllers on XB. MS has some sort of stick up its collective ass and apparently charges a stupid amount for licensing. I guess Mad Catz sells enough mediocre peripherals that they can afford the fee and apparently will try to fill the missing gap. Lets hope it isn't a POS when it comes out. On another note, I disassembled my MS wheel. It was remarkably free of dust and dirt inside. On one hand that's good. On the other, there were no obvious reasons for the button failures. So I'm thinking it's the signal wires from the board in the wheel itself. They looked ok and free of kinks, but I reseated the connectors anyway. Hopefully that's all it takes. I'm taking a break before reassembly. The shift paddles are the biggest PITA in the process.

I had no idea. I thought Mercury = Ford. Now I know.

Dirt physics aside... Compared to the rest of the console racers out there, GT and Forza are sims. They can't all be iRacing. Which, btw, has drven home the fact that I operate much better outside the traction circle than within it. :fuuuu:

Want to be really freaked out? That's the MALE.

Don't sweat it too much. GT5's dirt physics *SUCK*. Lift throttle understeer in an AWD car?? It's funny because the snow tracks have better grip and handling than the dirt tracks.

exactly.

Agreed. I want to call up their tech support about that thing. Me: I'm having a problem with your Wireless Speed Wheel. Tech: Ok, what seem to be the problem? Me: Well, it'll be easier to show you. Tech: Oh-kay... Me: Pick one of these up, or just hold your hands out in front of you like you have one. Tech: Yeah? Me: Now hold that position for a couple hours. Let me know how you like it, because personally, I think it's a moronic idea.

I have one. But I've pretty much worn it out. The buttons and shifters stop working intermittently. I'm going to attack it with an S-Torx driver and see if I can fix it. I'd gladly give MS my money and buy another one.... if they still made it. But apparently, racing wheels aren't important. It's a good thing they don't have a killer racing sim that would need one... Oh.. right...

Try to find a good wheel for XBox 360. MS: "Hey! We have this great racing sim, it's better than Gran Turismo!" Me: Oh? Ok, you must have a great wheel to showcase its realism, right? MS: "We sure do! Check this out: http://randommization.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Microsoft-XBox-360-Steering-Wheel.jpg Me: :dumb: Fuck you. It pisses me off that the better wheels are on one system, but the better game is on another. It's utter bullshit. There is hope: http://www.madcatz.com/productinfo.asp?page=248&GSProd=5154&GSCat=98&CategoryImg=Xbox_360_Wheels But it doesn't look like it'll see the light of day until December.

$150 to see if you can hit 135mph?

I love how none of the other employees even looked twice.

A Ford-powered Corvette. :lolguy:

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