me for the past few weeks: wonder if i should get up the gumption to try making some kind of gran turismo inspired menu frontend and possibly quest lineup for Assetto Corsa
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god these menus are so bad ;-;
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perhaps the lad will attract some art talent if he keeps at it and gets some of the implementation ideas right over time
Assetto Corsa 2 confirmed planned release date no sooner than 2024, so he’s got some time for tinkerin’
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there’s a lot going on in that picture, gonna get my 0.5% french out the closet:
loving the snail that is part of the V, aligning with the headline that riffs on the 2CV being the slowest of the world.
Not sure what the 2CV driver exactly says, from what i can gather + the subtext, considering going for doubling the distance (yet never moves one inch, brilliant 
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The DS has been associated (obvious namesake deesse, the Goddess, aside) also with a shark - at least in the German language - and the same predator-related notion is used here, its closing speed and stance are easy to understand anyway. The tiny details are lovely, like the chassis staying level (the defining trait the DS was known for, hydropnematic suspension etc blabla) or the (facelift) headlamps being used as eyes.
Lovin’ how, exiting stage left, the driver notes ‘Bad Luck for the 2CV’, and the indicated exhaust fumes are a ‘hic’
That made my Saturday 
, thanks!
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Two Subaru SVXs parking in one of the pictures there, says 'nuff.
Wild, to be precise.
btw, wild:
… think that’s crazy?
Think again!
Who doesn’t want a RAV4 looking like a retro 1980ies US jeep?
Make sure to also look at their history:
Bubu 356. Just. Epic.
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This one goes in the best cars thread, holy smokes
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I took my G27, disconnected only the power, and then stuffed it behind my guitar amp under my desk; so that I could continue using the Logitech pedals and shifter with the Thrustmaster wheel (without buying adapters).
In order to sell off the G27, I have descended deeper into the well.
One thing that I hadn’t realized about the Thrustmaster shifter: it doesn’t have any physical switches. It has a hall effect sensor that reads the position of the lever magnetically, analog…ly. They don’t allow it in software, but I guess theoretically you could use that bad boy as like a flightstick if you removed the h-gate plate. This means you can unscrew the four bolts on the metal plate and rotate the whole mechanism 360deg to fit your setup better. Even more interestingly, though, what they do allow in software is rotating the shifter 90deg, and then allowing you to pull down, in what was previously the neutral zone, for analog handbraking. Golly.
I’ve always had my side-eye on the Fanatec Clubsport pedals since the first older all-silver models. So handsome, so professional, so butch. These newer black ones are exactly the same color scheme as my beloved old stolen bicycle, so sad. They have vibration motors on the gas and brake pedals, and you can barely feel them, and they are poorly supported. The clutch has like a dual pivot cam thingy going on that releases tension after you get past a certain faux engagement point, how trick. Mr. Hall and his sensors are back again, etc. The load cell brake, even on the softest physical and software adjustment settings, is stiff enough to cause the entire fully-metal frame to fully-lift up in the front every time you try to stop. You def. gotta mount them.
And so, I consider my options, my Ikea parts stash, think about building a square frame with an elongated back to stop the pivoting. After various failed solutions, I go for the nuclear option. I screw them into the floor, please don’t tell anyone, please don’t beat my ass. They are now my permanent ergo foot rest. Previously my driving cockpit setup has been: sit in office wheely chair, put ottoman behind chair, put small side table with 30 lbs of wife’s exercise weights on base behind ottoman. It has served me well. But now there is too much force involved. A carefully engineered, purpose-built solution must be devised.
It is an Ikea picture ledge affixed to the floor with two long strips of double sided tape.
I discovered I have an automatically migrated Steam key from when I purchased rFactor 2 over ten years ago. It crashes every time I attempt to start a race.
Bonus: guy was living in this thing that I saw in the parking lot while meeting with the guy selling the shifter/pedals
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Nature is healing and it wants revenge
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this should be added to the simulations
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note that they supposedly don’t like high pitched sounds, so some people install deterring devices on their cars, i.e. don’t count on them winning easily, fwiw.
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Took ole’ GPLaps Jake here’s suggestion and drove the 1923 Delage 2LCV 12-cylinder & Bugatti Type 32 around the 1923 Terramar circuit, for a couple AI races against the other 1923 cars. The Delage wants to drift out of every corner exit when full throttle, and every crack in the road is trying to fling you off the side. Great fun, a wild ride.
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I also paid the $1 for that intro gamepass month to download Horizon 5, a few days ago, and try it out. I haven’t played one of these games since Horizon 1 on the 360. In many respects I think they are the perfect video game. It let me make matching brushed aluminum body + semigloss brass wheel '89 MR2 and '73 A110’s. The physics model is still just unengaging enough to not quite be fun enough just free ambling around, and the mountain dew bumper car battle quest stuff remains hard to swallow. They almost convinced me with that battle royale mode but also doesn’t seem to quite cut it. I dunno, maybe just not in the right mood here.
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Gotta love positive camber, zero safety equipment, and bicycle tires on an airplane engine wrapped in a sheet of metal with a seat on it.
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清秀庵’s very cool 2020-ongoing project: fictional Japanese seaside town Ugase City, for Assetto Corsa.
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There is a Discord group currently running a scheduled nightly medium/slow-paced cruise planned to drive over every road contained in Grant Hendry’s long-developed giant Assetto Corsa free-roam map Glen Sheil. The map has ~1000km of drivable roads themed around the Scottish highlands, but with a distinct raw-polygonal texture-core flavor. It is decidedly deadly with lots of points to die, get stuck, clip into the nether realm, etc., and these weirdos run it with Bazza Von Dutch’s wild and wonderful AC Legends collection of 60’s-era touring racecars.
I decided to join for a run in the 300 SL, a few nights ago, and the route took us, most notably, up and down miles of off-road, highly-vertical, N64-fidelty, zero-grip ‘rock quarry’ geometry. Many of our fellow drivers did not make it out alive. I myself was murdered in cold blood, towards the end of the run, sent off into the green abyss by an aggressive tailgater; which is also how I assume I will meet my end in real life eventually.
Edit: I drove some more with this group, tonight. At one point the leader of the run turned off onto a sand side-path as, I guess, the route had planned, and immediately was eaten up by the map. I stopped dead in my tracks. A couple more cars proceeded without realizing, all dead. “I’m not going up there” “Just stay to the left”. Every other car proceeds to fall into the sand pit death trap while I sat there and gasped. We had to start all over and go another way.
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someone caught my finest moment on film
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