the Gift that Keeps Giving a.k.a GT7 Update:
https://x.com/Nintendont_64/status/1816493729764819204
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Apparently the Japanese lobbies are now full of people just hanging out and stuntinâ in low riders instead of racing.
https://x.com/highroad_495/status/1816843719531987036
I mean, Iâm sure the stories are embellished, but thatâs a cool way to enjoy the update until they fix it.
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thatâs the kind of anecdote that makes me think the people are still alright, just wanting to hang out and make the most of the deck theyâre dealt, so coool
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been playing forza horizon 4, what a wonderful and vibrant game. steam review describing it as a âlarger, more colorful world than our ownâ was right on. this is one of the purest video-gamey video games iâve played recently. concept like, what if the entire world was about automobiles (positive)? what if you could do collecting and exploring and rallycross and street racing and photoshoots and stunt driving and Lego driving and monster trucks and ⌠girlfriend watched a few minutes and declared it âpokemon with carsâ which feels right. really wonderful and Iâm glad I picked it up on sale before they delist it from Steam. Favorite car so far is, of course, the Ken Block classic, Hoonigan Gymkhana 9 Ford Focus RS RX 2016 - âWelcome Packâ edition, which is ridiculously torque-y and grippy at the same time.
iâll say it: i love open world collectathons? like iâm one of those people that got all the little feathers and treasure boxes in assassinâs creed 1. this one is both a collectathon in the typical ways (go here, do this quest, get item) and also specifically a car collectathon, sort of a love letter to automobile history (somewhat belied by the physics). very tempting to get into completing your car-pokedex. iâve set my initial goal as collecting all the famous rally cars and ârally monstersâ. i wonder how much you can collect proper Le Mans cars and stuff like that.
the driving is very goofy; the fact you get points for destroying scenery sort of throws out any pretense of being not-arcadey, and the temptation is always to steamroll everything in front of you, but i have the âsimulationâ damage setting turned on, so while itâs far from actual damage simulation my top speed is invariably capped more and more as i bash into 20 telephone poles in a row. nevertheless you do have some passingly-realistic things like taking a proper racing line, having braking points, etc; altho the grip model is way off ofc. still very fun to literally drive a car up a side of a mountain. but generally speaking i donât love the racing, itâs way too contact-oriented and feels like a bit of a crapshoot. maybe thatâs just my lack of skill idk
multiplayer: the mp integration is really wonderful. the last festival playlist is going on right now, i just got a taste of the âforzathonâ live events, it was really fun to see a massive gaggle of multiplayer ghosts gang up and do the stupid challenge of the day like drive off a cliff as fast as possible or run through a speed zone at top speed etc. the sort of silly-multiplayer-without-actual-contact that builds a lot of camaraderie with anonymous strangers. i havenât really experienced that kind of culture since peak halo days (the mid oughts, letâs say) and so it was very refreshing to hear that a similar culture apparently developed among fh4 players. the levity of the thing really carries it.
overall just really impressed with the attention to detail and level of polish in this game, can easily see how people end up playing just this for 500 hours. Get the Ultimate Edition before itâs all delisted on December 15, the DLCs have already been delisted from Steam and you wonât get the fun Lego World and other licensed tie-ins without it.
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sidenote the way they are sunsetting fh4 seems like a really great model; basically every car that could be only unlocked via festival playlists will subsequently be available in backstage pass that you can still earn points to buy, also true for some preorder cars, all multiplayer and online preserved. the only things that seem truly out of reach (correct me if iâm wrong) is 3 playlist-related achievements, and paid DLC cars which are still available to people who were able to purchase the DLC or Ultimate Edition
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coming back to this to say that Red Bull TV has really good free 20+ minute summaries of each day of WRC rallies if you download their app
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absolutely seconded, FH4 managed to hit peak chaos multiplayer mayhem, and arguably was Turn10âs biggest hit to date, both FH5 or FM8 couldnât get close to the feeling of hanging out with total Strangers â e.g. FH5 did try changing a formula that worked well (Forzathons) and made it worse (splitting them up into multiple events, like, whyyyyyyyyy) and subsequently my siblings and friends stopped playing FH5 after a short while⌠and we didnât replace that with another game yet, so it isnât a â+1â effect of moving on to other pastures 
And FH4 managed to look good, even before you realize that it has been around a few years already!
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man, that sounds a bit like Servus TV (an austrian TV channel
that broadcasted NASCAR recaps on Monday evening (a decade+ ago) at 1030 or 11pm, meaning i dropped by my friends house in the evening to watch Nascars crashing into each other and catching up whatâs up with GFs, studying and life.
Good times 
(Car culture) nature finds a way
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at least two out of three (cars, 4th wall, story-telling) trifecta-power in this snapshot:
007 meeting 008 
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it turns out my Assetto Corsa wheel settings were a little fucked, used the configurator and itâs much more enjoyable. Lmk if anyone has good settings for a t150, Iâm new to the settings world and it seems very complicated.
trying to get my head around how to hold a force feedback wheel: 9 and 3, thumbs on the rim (not wrapped around), let go when you crash to avoid injury⌠etc. honestly really fun but freaked me out reading about people spraining or even breaking their thumbs playing video games 
Someone is selling a Fanatec CSL Elite v1 load cell pedal set for $100 within an hourâs drive of me, does that seem worth it?I donât have a rig but I do have 80 lbs of dumbbells behind my current pedal set lol. (T150 plastic junktastics)
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This guy put a sport bike engine in the back of a nissan leaf turning it into a hybrid of sorts.
These guys took a front wheel drive V8 car and put a second front wheel drive V8 sub-frame in the trunk to create an AWD twin engine car. In a later episode they turbo charged it and doubled the power again.
The lesson seems to be that to make a not-awd car into an AWD car its best to start with a FWD car as the front is the most complicated zone.
Most Corvettes use identical hardware at all 4 corners so you could turn a corvette into a 4 wheel steering car without great difficulty. To what end Ive no idea
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superfastmatt is a fun channel
he recently took his off-road viper for its first frolic in the dirt
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recaro filing for bankruptcy apparently
fading brakelights indeed, this hobby
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https://fxtwitter.com/OfficialWRC/status/1818953569858445418
sheâs adorable! and she has an amazing story too: actress turned co-driver just a few years ago, now co-driving in WRC2
very excited for rally finland to properly kick off today and especially for the legendary Ouninpohja stage making its return. still rooting for m-sport and adrien formaux / martins sesks to upset the applecart of hyundai/toyota GR, though if it has to be one of the championship leaders iâm ABN (Anybody But Neuville). even he has stopped his usual complaining though, everyone seems properly excited for finland. it will be my first time watching 
also feat. new GR Yaris Rally1 liveries:
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Re Neuville:
idk, thatâs one of the drivers whose talent would have you think theyâd be more successful/have one title under their belt (at least!) but after a few years (read: a decade), you kinda wonder what went wrong. OF COURSE, There Can Only Be One, and being born in a timeframe where talents like Ogier, Loeb, YariMattiLally⌠that Toyota Driver are blasting around, tough luck. Otoh, w/ so much change of whoâs on top, youâd think that heâd have struck gold at least once - canât think of any other world championship atm where there has been so many changes of whoâs on top (Citroen, VW, Ford, Toyota in the last 10 years iirc?)
Alex Rossi in Indycar is a similar calibre of driver, and even though they are young, Pato OâWard and Colton Herta feel like they might face the same fate (which would be a shame, because you can see how both could use a bit more tutoring and theyâd be champion-material)
Anyway, Denny Hamlin, so that Championship⌠
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something really cursed about this Rally Finland
- title challenger Ott Tänak lost it on a long left and rolled then smashed into a tree on SS3 Friday - co-driver in the hospital for observation
https://www.reddit.com/r/WRC/comments/1ei3vde/video_of_the_crash/
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Takamoto Katsuta hits a tree and rips a wheel off the car Friday and has to take the bus back to the service park - out of the running
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hometown kid Esapekka Lappi goes into a rut and bashes up his car Friday - loses a wheel, has to retire
on Saturday, restarts, lands a jump in a rut on Ouninpohja and punctures a tire - loses time fixing it
then on Ouninpohja 2 has a tire explode while going flat out in fifth gear. doesnât get a single full run on the legendary stage!
- unluckiest boy in Wales, Elfyn Evans spins and breaks a driveshaft randomly on Saturday after being in the podium chase, penalized for lateness to a stage. on Sunday, slides and crashes within 20 seconds of stage start on the penultimate stage, car parts scattered all over the road (he was a nice guy and ran out to clean it up)
- Kalle Rovanperä in the hunt for a first hometown rally win, leads the rally by a mile all weekend then rolls on the same stage as Elfyn because of a random rock in the road. car fucked
https://x.com/OfficialWRC/status/1820036177996517601
and who benefits⌠fucking Neuville
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fastest rally car ever, fastest driver, fastest stage
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curious about the virtual chicane, i wonder why they need to slow the cars down at that particular place âŚ
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