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#16
Live Races / Re: Generations - (2024-03-17)
March 13, 2024, 12:14:16 AM
I'm in! I'll go for the traditional 2012 edition — I has a soft spot for the target dashboard! Purple color, please 8)
#17
Stunts Chat / Re: Peculiar track
March 13, 2024, 12:08:31 AM
@mrdries Loving these odd combinations, they gave me a few ideas for future tracks ;D  And reminded me of your awesome trial tracks, which I'll go and try again!

Could you upload the screenshots as PNGs in the future? BMP files are huge!

#18
Motor sports, Racing / Re: F1 videos
March 08, 2024, 10:03:43 PM
1:30 - Fiat Tempra! That was our family car in the mid '90s, quite impressive to see it in a list just after the Countach ;D

Indeed the Countach looked just like the part 🤩
#19
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 05, 2024, 02:27:06 PM
Quote from: Chulk on March 05, 2024, 12:45:05 PM3

March

Matei's forum access has been set to read-only for the next 30 days.
#20
Chat - Misc / Re: Association game
March 04, 2024, 05:35:34 PM
Remember one of the few rules for the Association game:

Quote* you may not post again directly after yourself or the first person who posted after you


→ Japan

https://www2.nhk.or.jp/learning/video/?das_id=D0024010282_00000
#21
Chat - Misc / Re: Distro hopping and my impressions
March 03, 2024, 05:54:03 PM
QuoteMicrosoft steals from everybody anyway, directly or indirectly, so the last thing I want is to help them.

Microsoft is a corporation with too much money, and behaves just like all other corporations with too much money*. From there to "I suggest you to not install a linux distro sponsored by a company who at some point helped Microsoft optimise a kernel" is quite the jump.


{*} Compared to others, Microsoft actually runs a number of positive initiatives (example, example). They have quite a good-will debt to pay pack, but at least they are working on it.
#22
Chat - Misc / Re: Distro hopping and my impressions
March 03, 2024, 04:47:00 PM
I'm not clear what you are against, but it seems a strong feeling. Please don't mix up projects (e.g., OpenSUSE) with sponsoring companies (SUSE) thought. Otherwise, there's not much left, as Fedora itself is sponsored by RedHat.
#23
Chat - Misc / Re: Distro hopping and my impressions
March 03, 2024, 02:11:51 PM
Wow @Cas, you have some spare time to change operating systems around like that ;D

When I refreshed an old laptop recently, I tried OpenSUSE first. It's a nice community project today, connecting them to Novell's antics in 2007 is misleading. The installer is not as smooth as others, and had some trouble setting up partititions though. So all well and usable... as long as I started in recovery mode.

Installed Ubuntu next, and that seems fine. Canonical are not my favourite company, and the first thing I do is uninstall snapd, but the rest works as smoothly as a Gnome distro can be.
#24
Useful to keep away all humans, not only thieves!
#25
Live Races / Re: Live races 2024
February 29, 2024, 08:48:47 PM
Added to my calendar, and warming up the tires!
#26
Quote from: Oneofthe8devilz on February 27, 2024, 10:54:32 AMI personally think that before any serious and 100% true to the original remake (1:1 physics behavior) can commence, the original Stunts needs to be completely reverse engineered so it can be ported to any existing engine and still behave like the original.

Yep, that is my feeling as well, with @Cas' caveats of "maybe we don't need to reverse engineer the menues, track editor, etc". But the game simulation can, in my opinion, be fully understood only by reverse engineering. Any independent reproduction will not include all the bugs and behaviours that make Stunts what it is. See the successful work around Dungeon Keeper / KeeperFX.

The Restunts effort (mirror) laid the foundations thought. With some leadership it could advance, one method at a time, until the simulation if fully translated and understood. From there, the road opens up!
#27
Looking at the video, the bounciness might be a bit excessive, and it's triggered by any segment of road (e.g., on the cork up/down).  In a way it's similar to Matei's simulator: the reactions of the cars to terrain and environment feel too extreme 🤔
#28
Chat - Misc / Re: Politics around the world
February 21, 2024, 07:47:10 PM
Quote from: alanrotoi on February 21, 2024, 01:42:52 AMI mean 2003's invassion of Iraq. You are right it wasn't NATO saying "I will invade" but it was an international coalition invading the country where half of them were NATO members: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq

Yep, I also meant that one. The article you link is to the third group, in 2004, which also included support from Jordan and UAE. All of the country involved where also UN members, but you don't say "the UN invaded".

The first (and second) forces to actually invade Iraq a year earlier where US, UK, Australia and Poland. Good chunks of of the EU (or NATO, if you prefer) at the time were going "WTF are you doing?! 😱"  And then the whole false documentation about weapons of mass destruction thing followed.

Well, the only point I wanted to make is that NATO messed up badly in the ex-Yugoslavia area, and did some work to avoid doing the same mistakes later. Iraq 2003 was a US led (misled?) thing, and NATO as a structure only participate as you described, with instructors and trainers for what (at that point, and with all caveats) was the recognised government. Happy for you to call them "invaders", but I prefer to remember the difference between 160'000 soldiers entering a country with weapons, with the idea of "we don't like what's going on here, we'll shoot people", and 160 people two years later, with the mission of "ok, there's a mess here now, can we help create some stability?"
#29
Chat - Misc / Re: Politics around the world
February 20, 2024, 08:55:47 PM
Quote from: alanrotoi on February 20, 2024, 06:09:01 PMOne different thing is when Nato invaded Iraq or bombed Serbia or Syria.

NATO as an organisation was part (cause? aggravator?) in the mess in Serbia, but was never actually involved in Iraq or Syria. That was all US and "special relations" like the UK, plus Russia and Iran 🤦
#30
Live Races / Re: Live races 2024
February 20, 2024, 12:38:06 PM
Happy with the 17th of March 👍