The Birth of Brandi's Twins [COTW 8/8/11]

[Mr Twisty]

Originally Posted by SlowLS1

Some guys here play, and was discussed this past fall.
https://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=621392

Reddit has a huge community, very active.
https://www.reddit.com/r/assettocorsa/

A lot of mod sites out there, linked from reddit, and also found in a Google search.

Steam has a pretty big community also, but I find reddit easier to deal with.

Got on Reddit and eventually got sidetracked by something shiny...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3...tto_Corsa_EVO/

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by SlowLS1

Assetto Corsa is the goto racing sim on PC. Huge community and mods.

I'll look into it. So whats preferred for a rank amateur, Single racer, LAN Friend v friend, or online unknowns. I've never even done flight sim online. Too many videos of dorks doing stupid stuff.

Originally Posted by Mr Twisty

Ben Collins is delving into the world of Sim racing, in this vid they're using Assetto Corsa, I think he's practicing so he can whoop Jimmy Broadbents bee-hind






You may have to tell us more about the mods. I've had it for years and used to play it more, but got away from it, now getting back in after I saw Roberts sweet setup.

The have quite a few new tracks I see, and got a Mustang in the software update, but it just keeps running off the track.....

Are mods paid for by earning points, or is it literally paying for it. I do a race game on my iPad where you earn points and race bucks for mods in a number of areas. I've got one car so maxed out it's purely on me if I lose a race.

Originally Posted by SlowLS1

Some guys here play, and was discussed this past fall.
https://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=621392

Reddit has a huge community, very active.
https://www.reddit.com/r/assettocorsa/

A lot of mod sites out there, linked from reddit, and also found in a Google search.

Steam has a pretty big community also, but I find reddit easier to deal with.

Can one of you or both explain Steam, an or Reddit gaming. Please be gentle.... I raced the Mile, and I knew my community, this is all Greek to me.

Originally Posted by Mr Twisty

Got on Reddit and eventually got sidetracked by something shiny...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3...tto_Corsa_EVO/

You sound like the Egyptians I worked with.... Shiny new, (SQUIRREL).... I truly believe a previous more advanced race built the pyramids, or it was aliens.... You couldn't get those guys to walk from one side of the rig to another without getting distracted, and then lost....



I think the Plug Boy and Rocket Man stories are still in this thread... Brothers, fired within a few days of each other.... knuckleheads.

[Mr Twisty]

Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS

I'll look into it. So whats preferred for a rank amateur, Single racer, LAN Friend v friend, or online unknowns. I've never even done flight sim online. Too many videos of dorks doing stupid stuff.

I did WW2 warbirds type stuff online once, the trolls would circle the spawn airport and shoot me before I could get flying. Online auto racing can be similar I hear, so I stick with A I opponents, they're better than trolls... usually lol

Are mods paid for by earning points, or is it literally paying for it. I do a race game on my iPad where you earn points and race bucks for mods in a number of areas. I've got one car so maxed out it's purely on me if I lose a race.

In Assetto Corsa there are no mods to buy, but a GT3 car will have a ton of tuning options, (tires, gearing, suspension, aero, etc.) compared to a factory stock class. A I and opponent strength have more to do with winning or losing than tuning in the beginning. It seems there are 3 different A I driver types, the rookie that doesn't want you to scratch his car, (but he's still fast) the "Dale Earnhardt" that will try to crash you if you pass aggressively, and "Shumacher" in front of the pack and you never see him again after the race start, till you start getting better at the game or crank the opponent strength down lol

Can one of you or both explain Steam, an or Reddit gaming. Please be gentle.... I raced the Mile, and I knew my community, this is all Greek to me.

Steam seems to be an online game clearinghouse for developers, rather than buying a game in store you buy thru them. I'm sure there's more nefarious reasons for Steam, but I couldn't tell you what that is. They do tend to build packages for sale, for existing games, to keep them up to date, or add new cars and tracks.

You sound like the Egyptians I worked with.... Shiny new, (SQUIRREL).... I truly believe a previous more advanced race built the pyramids, or it was aliens.... You couldn't get those guys to walk from one side of the rig to another without getting distracted, and then lost....



I think the Plug Boy and Rocket Man stories are still in this thread... Brothers, fired within a few days of each other.... knuckleheads.

Acting stupid is much more difficult than acting smart...I should know, I get caught trying to be smart all the time, just sayin'

[SlowLS1]

Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS

Can one of you or both explain Steam, an or Reddit gaming. Please be gentle.... I raced the Mile, and I knew my community, this is all Greek to me.

Steam is a company that aggregates and manages PC games. You can buy/sell/gift games and DLCs. It is community based, and serves as a front end to many games. I'd say its the largest platform for PC gaming around.

Reddit is just "forums" per se. Dedicated sub Reddits marked as r/community name serve as communities for specific topics. Every major and most minor games will have a sub reddit. It is managed by the community. Has an up/down vote system.

Easiest way to find something on reddit is to google "whatever" reddit.

[Mr Twisty]

Originally Posted by SlowLS1

Steam is a company that aggregates and manages PC games. You can buy/sell/gift games and DLCs. It is community based, and serves as a front end to many games. I'd say its the largest platform for PC gaming around.

Reddit is just "forums" per se. Dedicated sub Reddits marked as r/community name serve as communities for specific topics. Every major and most minor games will have a sub reddit. It is managed by the community. Has an up/down vote system.

Easiest way to find something on reddit is to google "whatever" reddit.

Best 3 word description of reddit ever!

[SSE 4 2SS]

Ahhhhh, some oldies but goodies...


"Gotta work on the nut behind the wheel before you start fixing bolts on the car".


"Racing makes Heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty." -- Peter Egan


Colin Chapman: Simplify, then add lightness


Roger Penske: the harder you work, the luckier you become


Jackie Stewart: It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance


When you think you know it all, it's a sure sign you don't


The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large one and work down from there


On racers that favored implementation of restrictor plates:
"If they don't want to go that fast, all they have to do is lift...and somebody better tie a kerosene soaked wrag around their legs to keep the ants from eating their candy a$$!"


As an instructor getting into a car for the first session with a student:
"don't try and impres me, you won't." "don't try and scare me, I already am."


"Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers." -Colin McRae


"It's not a throttle-it's a detonator." -Jeremy Clarkson


"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines." -Enzo Ferrari


"Racing is the best way to convert money into noise" - unknown


"To finish first, you must first finish" – unknown


Oversteer is hitting the wall with the back of the car,
understeer is hitting the wall with the front...


Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down. -Paul Newman


If the car feels like it is on rails, you are probably driving too slow. -Ross Bentley


Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall.
Torque is how far you take the wall with you.


"Cheap, fast and reliable. Pick two."


"Racing ... because golf, football, and baseball only require one ball." – Anonymous


Racing costs today exactly the same as it did twenty years ago.. it takes every penny you have.
- Unknown


I was doing fine until about mid-corner when I ran out of talent
- Unknown


Juan Manuel Fangio:
"Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio."


Mario Andretti
“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”


"If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough"
"It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down."


....it would have been cheaper to spend our money on cocaine and hookers....... ( at a bar, name unavailable)


You'll know you've made it.....when you wear out your rear tires.....before your front tires..... ( Former IP Champ and all around great fellow)


I KNOW I'm the slowest part on the car..... ( B. Wright, repeated too often....)


"Never run out of real estate, ideas and traction at the same time." - seen on a Track Daze T-shirt


"Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that." - Jackie Stewart


"Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.” - Jackie Stewart


"He who turns least wins." Ross Bentley


Poverty is owning a racecar. (bumper sticker)


Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece...but to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, and defiantly shouting "wow, what a ride." (On the back of a race car trailer somewhere).


"Here, hold my beer" - anybody before doing something arguably awesome


Wide open until you see God, then brake – unknown


Speed costs, how fast do you want to go?


Friend of mine used to say: "Hang on, saw this in a cartoon, I think I can pull it off."



“What’s behind me is not important.” — Raul Julia as fictional Italian racer driver “Franco” in the 1976 low-budget movie “The Gumball Rally.” As he utters the line, he rips the rearview mirror from his 1972 Ferrari Daytona and cavalierly tosses it over his shoulder.
“Second place is just the first-place loser.” — Dale Earnhardt.


“Ferrari’s a&$ is mine.” — The late Carroll Shelby colorfully vowing to take the world sports car constructor’s championship from Ferrari.


“Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.” — Enzo Ferrari’s response to the dawn of the aerodynamics era in racing that was ushered in by companies like Jaguar and Porsche.


“I make my cars to go, not to stop.” — Ettore Bugatti, in response to a customer’s complaint about the antiquated cable-operated brakes on the Bugatti Type 35 sports car.


“The quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.” — Sir Henry Royce on the value proposition of the Rolls-Royce automobile.


“It doesn’t cost any more to make something pretty.” — Jaguar Cars founder Sir William Lyons on the design philosophy of his firm.


A bad day at the racetrack beats a good day at the office


Racing is the constant search for the weakest link. -Duane Bailey


If everything seems to be in control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti


You show me a racer that says that he's never forgotten to tighten his lug nuts, and I'll show you a liar.


Guys, you can date whomever you want, but marry a girl who can back up a trailer. - Michael Martin Murphy


Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?


It is more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow. - Abner Perney


If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault. - Doc Bundy


Duct tape is The Force: It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.


Better to be a racer for a moment then a spectator for a lifetime.


Hands OFF the steering wheel when a meeting with the tire wall is imminent.


DNF beats DNS. (Did Not Finish beats Did Not Start)


To win is to drive as slowly as possible without relinquishing the lead.


The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line. - Stirling Moss


The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers. - Carroll Smith


You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make amighty fast pig. - Bob Akin


If a part can be installed incorrectly, it will be. - Murphy's Law


Racing ... it's life. Everything that comes before or after is just waiting. -Michael Delaney (Steve McQueen in "LeMans")


Friends don't let friends apex early.


If you spin in turn seven, and no one actually sees it ... then did you really spin in turn seven?


Oversteer scares passengers; understeer scares drivers.


If I had all the money I'd spent on cars ... I'd spend it all on cars. - Scott Fisher


Straights are for fast cars. Turns are for fast drivers.


Racing is the process of turning money into noise.


Racing costs today exactly the same as it did twenty years ago ... it takes every penny you have.


DRIVER HAS NO CASH (lettered under the driver's window on the race car)


90% of the race is half mental. - Paraphrase from Yogi


Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have. - Mario Andretti


A meteorite hitting your car is an accident; anything else is driver error.


When you put on your helmet... you're invincible. - John Force


What's-a behind a me is-a not important! - Franco Beltline (Raul Julia in "Gumball Rally")


If you can leave two parallel solid black lines from the exit of one turn, to the entrance of the next, THEN you have sufficient power. (Or you're a drifter)


Flat out 'til you see God, then brake.


Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. - Carroll Smith


Racecar spelled backwards is still racecar.


Jean-Pierre Sarti: Before you leave I want to tell you something. Not about the others, but about myself. I used to go to pieces. I'd see an accident like that and be so weak inside that I wanted to quit - stop the car and walk away. I could hardly make myself go past it. But I'm older now. When I see something really horrible, I put my foot down. Hard! Because I know that everyone else is lifting his.
Louise Frederickson: What a terrible way to win.
Jean-Pierre Sarti: No, there is no terrible way to win. There is only winning.


top ten reasons racing is better then sex
1)You're Expected to Burn Rubber
2) It's Ok to be a spectator
3) There is a pit crew to help you out
4) The faster you are the better you are
5) It lasts for several hours
6) It's acceptable to tailgate
7) You're supposed to finish first
8) Earplugs are ok to drown out noise
9)You don't have to kiss the race car
10) You get a trophy when you finish


Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Understeer is when you hit it with the front.
from the Carrera Panamericana; I think that it was Clay Smith who said, after a reporter asked him what he would do if his Lincoln were to go into the crowd; 'I'd turn on the wipers.'

[mlee]

[Mr Twisty]

Oversteer scares passengers; understeer scares drivers.

Been there!

What's that big spinny thing on the weather map that's headed y'alls way? Be safe.

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by Mr Twisty

Been there!

What's that big spinny thing on the weather map that's headed y'alls way? Be safe.

That big spinny thing isn't headed our way... Houston and North central Texas have been flooding for months, and we are still in a 5 year drought condition. Lakes are literally drying up and rivers have almost stopped flowing in some conditions.

I was hopeful a week ago, but it just drifted away. I hate to think of the potential damage, but we really need some substantial flooding to make any change to any of the lakes...


Amistad is 24% pool.
Medina Lake is 2.2 percent
Canyon Lake is 55%

The Guadalupe River, the feeder into Canyon Lake has actually stopped flowing in one area at the mouth of the lake.
We need a break... and unfortunately it will cost some major flooding....
Canyon is a reservoir for farmers downstream... It's critically low for flow out.
Amistad is on the Rio Grande and it also feeds farmers downstream.

[Mr Twisty]

kee a little water on your trees! I lost 3 mature papershell pecan trees in the last drought here, a handful of years back.

[mlee]

Originally Posted by Mr Twisty

kee a little water on your trees! I lost 3 mature papershell pecan trees in the last drought here, a handful of years back.

tough to lose a good pecan tree. We an 80 year old one go down in straight line winds back around 2001.

[Mr Twisty]

Originally Posted by mlee

tough to lose a good pecan tree. We an 80 year old one go down in straight line winds back around 2001.

Talk about throwing shade!

That's a big loss, but what's the saying about, you plant trees for the next generation?

Pecan shelled fruit is about the same price as beef now.

[mlee]

Originally Posted by Mr Twisty

Talk about throwing shade!

That's a big loss, but what's the saying about, you plant trees for the next generation?

Pecan shelled fruit is about the same price as beef now.

My mother in law used to shell pecans for us so we always had big bags of them. My neighborhood and school growing up was named Pecan Grove.

[Mr Twisty]

Originally Posted by mlee

My mother in law used to shell pecans for us so we always had big bags of them. My neighborhood and school growing up was named Pecan Grove.

Lots of native pecan trees up here but harvest is sporadic, we tend to get late spring freezes that kill the fruit flowers. Still love the trees though just for their appearance and shade.