Day 28 in the Big iRacing house <-- warning, long and about iRacing

(JohnW) wrote:

> it is most certainly not the alcohol-free, what's-the-point-lager
> that the Solstice is

But lots of people love their alcohol-free lager. The forums are full of
folk telling us whiners not to be girls, and that it's good to suffer in
order to avoid the hangover which comes from actually enjoying yourself
on the track!

> If you're looking for sim crack, I would recommend sir try a seat
> in the Legends Weekly Road Racing league.

I'm on record as saying the Legends car should be the only rookie vehicle.
It might need a more conservative setup for complete novices, but it's
fun to drive and gives you an idea why iRacing can be so impressive.

> They're not tough to drive - but they're insanely
> tough to drive fast!

Yes. Embarrassing to be seen in public driving (unless at an 'I drive a
stupid-looking car' convention) but very nice to drive.

> Go on, you know you want to - all the cool kids are doing it ;-)

Hello, my name's Andrew and I've been clean for, er... <fx:counts fingers>
19 days!

Hang on, that can't be right.

<fx:re-counts fingers> 13 days!

That's better. I'm feeling distinct withdrawal symptoms, I must admit.
Which is why I worked a night's overtime last night despite saying I'd
never do another. I hate my job with a passion (everyone should have
something to loathe, it's good for the soul!), but I can listen to Radio4
while doing it, and the £50 it'll put in my bank account will go into
iRacing soon.

However I'm hoping to stay away for a while longer... at least until
Saturday, when I might get another email off them. The first was a simple
'you appear to have forgotten to renew' type courtesy email. A week later
I got a 'your cars are missing you!' type email, which made me retch so
hard I almost forgot how suspicious I am that iRacing employs someone
with the title 'vice president of marketing'.

I re-read that email whenever I weaken and want to test the Skip Barber
on my fledgling Tripleview setup. It helps quite a lot actually.

> Cheers!
> John

Welcome back. We kept a thread warm for you, but I think Mitch may have
crapped in it as some point. I'd check your shoes if I were you.

Andrew McP

PS I still get emails from the forums threads I'm subscribed to (I forgot
to change the settings before I left). It's the equivalent of sim racing
water torture watching those land regularly in my in-tray.

"Andrew MacPherson" > wrote in message
ddress_disguised...
> (JohnW) wrote:
>
>> it is most certainly not the alcohol-free, what's-the-point-lager
>> that the Solstice is
>
> But lots of people love their alcohol-free lager. The forums are full of
> folk telling us whiners not to be girls, and that it's good to suffer in
> order to avoid the hangover which comes from actually enjoying yourself
> on the track!
>
>> If you're looking for sim crack, I would recommend sir try a seat
>> in the Legends Weekly Road Racing league.
>
> I'm on record as saying the Legends car should be the only rookie vehicle.
> It might need a more conservative setup for complete novices, but it's
> fun to drive and gives you an idea why iRacing can be so impressive.
>
>> They're not tough to drive - but they're insanely
>> tough to drive fast!
>
> Yes. Embarrassing to be seen in public driving (unless at an 'I drive a
> stupid-looking car' convention) but very nice to drive.
>
>> Go on, you know you want to - all the cool kids are doing it ;-)
>
> Hello, my name's Andrew and I've been clean for, er... <fx:counts fingers>
> 19 days!
>
> Hang on, that can't be right.
>
> <fx:re-counts fingers> 13 days!
>
> That's better. I'm feeling distinct withdrawal symptoms, I must admit.
> Which is why I worked a night's overtime last night despite saying I'd
> never do another. I hate my job with a passion (everyone should have
> something to loathe, it's good for the soul!), but I can listen to Radio4
> while doing it, and the £50 it'll put in my bank account will go into
> iRacing soon.
>
> However I'm hoping to stay away for a while longer... at least until
> Saturday, when I might get another email off them. The first was a simple
> 'you appear to have forgotten to renew' type courtesy email. A week later
> I got a 'your cars are missing you!' type email, which made me retch so
> hard I almost forgot how suspicious I am that iRacing employs someone
> with the title 'vice president of marketing'.
>
> I re-read that email whenever I weaken and want to test the Skip Barber
> on my fledgling Tripleview setup. It helps quite a lot actually.
>
>> Cheers!
>> John
>
> Welcome back. We kept a thread warm for you, but I think Mitch may have
> crapped in it as some point. I'd check your shoes if I were you.
>
> Andrew McP
>
> PS I still get emails from the forums threads I'm subscribed to (I forgot
> to change the settings before I left). It's the equivalent of sim racing
> water torture watching those land regularly in my in-tray.

Lol, I knew you'd be back - they all come back.....

I haven't done so much racing since I moved to the advanced solstice league.
The races are 2hrs apart which seems to coincide precisely with my
anti-free-time. On the recent survey they sent out I begged for hourly races
in all leagues!

RobP

Rob P wrote:
>
> "Andrew MacPherson" > wrote in
> message
> ddress_disguised...
>> (JohnW) wrote:
>>
>>> it is most certainly not the alcohol-free, what's-the-point-lager
>>> that the Solstice is
>>
>> But lots of people love their alcohol-free lager. The forums are full of
>> folk telling us whiners not to be girls, and that it's good to suffer in
>> order to avoid the hangover which comes from actually enjoying yourself
>> on the track!

Alcohol free lager is for people who don't want to get drunk but enjoy
peeing....


Goy

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:56 +0100 (BST), Andrew MacPherson wrote:
> (Goy Larsen) wrote:
>
>> Good to see there's still some familiar faces around here, I'm
>> still convinced this web based forum thing is a passing fad....
>
> We can all dream! :-)
>
> I'm still waiting for someone to work out how to make a reader for forums
> which works in the same way a newsgroup reader does. I'd pay good money
> for that actually!
>
> Andrew McP
>

Web forums suck, plain and simple. People stroking their egos with
humongous, meaningless sigs resulting in tons of wasted bandwith, rows
of jumping banana smileys that give you epilepsy if you watch them a
fraction of a second too long... No, I don't see USENET or any
text-only based solution catching the short attention span of today's
internet users. Come to think of it, this might actually be a good
thing. Less posters, but hopefully of higher "quality" also.

Now get off my lawn, or grab a beer and join us at the BBQ,
reminiscing the days when all the hosts on the internet fit into
/etc/hosts and we memorized ftp server ip's by heart (dozens of them
;-)

All the best, Uwe

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> I'm still waiting for someone to work out how to make a reader for forums
> which works in the same way a newsgroup reader does. I'd pay good money
> for that actually!
>
> Andrew McP

I agree! The best I've been able to do to make web based forums more
efficient is 1. Use the RSS feed option to only see new posts (not new
replies), and 2. for threads I want to follow, use the subscribe feature
of the forum software. Together I have been able to drastically decrease
the amount of time forum software causes you to spend trying to keep on
top of things.

Wow, way off topic ... iRacing, I am taking a break from it and look
forward to coming back and being pleasantly surprised when they add new
features like ones we are used to having in other sims. Love the
driving model, love racing against people at my level, but for the
price, I want some of those other features included.

(Goy Larsen) wrote:

> Alcohol free lager is for people who don't want to get drunk but
> enjoy peeing....

:-) Of course! It all makes sense now.

Andrew McP

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:22:50 -0500, rqk > wrote:

>Wow, way off topic ... iRacing, I am taking a break from it and look
>forward to coming back and being pleasantly surprised when they add new
>features like ones we are used to having in other sims. Love the
>driving model, love racing against people at my level, but for the
>price, I want some of those other features included.

Well, they're adding the Lotus 79, which is nice.... :-)

Cheers!

Remco

no@email (Remco Moedt) wrote:

> Well, they're adding the Lotus 79, which is nice.... :-)

Apart from worrying that it's another factor diluting the driver pool, I
also wonder how different it will be from existing vehicles. Will it be
different enough from, say, the Mazda to be significantly noticeable, or
is it just a marketing tool?

I guess we'll find out eventually.

Andrew McP

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:53:04 GMT, Remco Moedt wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:22:50 -0500, rqk > wrote:
>
>>Wow, way off topic ... iRacing, I am taking a break from it and look
>>forward to coming back and being pleasantly surprised when they add new
>>features like ones we are used to having in other sims. Love the
>>driving model, love racing against people at my level, but for the
>>price, I want some of those other features included.
>
> Well, they're adding the Lotus 79, which is nice.... :-)
>

Nice indeed, but will you be able to race it in a series, with a field
full of black Loti? I think they should create some iCandy ;-) and at
least skin the cars differently with maybe a seventies season theme.

Cheers, Uwe



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Remco Moedt wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:22:50 -0500, rqk > wrote:
>
>> Wow, way off topic ... iRacing, I am taking a break from it and look
>> forward to coming back and being pleasantly surprised when they add new
>> features like ones we are used to having in other sims. Love the
>> driving model, love racing against people at my level, but for the
>> price, I want some of those other features included.
>
> Well, they're adding the Lotus 79, which is nice.... :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Remco
>
>
Let us know when they add the '67 Lotus. If I recall correctly, Dave is
on record saying GPL wasn't good, or something like that. I'd love to
see what his new knowledge of sim racing coding would make a '67 Lotus do.