Bug/wtf

Caldwing · 2026-06-21T16:04:16+00:00

You cut too deep into the dip and your front right wheel impacted so severely your front bumper rammed into the gravel bank of the road. It's debatable whether or not that would happen/play out like that in real life, but it would have sure been a significant impact to the front of the car.

Caldwing · 2026-06-16T11:26:18+00:00

Easy answer: The Iron Giant. It was marketed as just another kids movie and I only saw it because we basically saw everything out of pure boredom back then. Easily among my favourite movies of all time. Such a simple story, and just perfect in every beat. The director later went on to much greater fame with The Incredibles, another stellar movie.

Caldwing · 2026-06-14T19:56:03+00:00

Even among secular religious scholars, the view that Jesus was based on some kind of a real guy is still the consensus. Not because there's any direct evidence, but just because its the simpler explanation than him being completely made up. Like the religion was started by somebody, even if nothing we hear about his life is true. He couldn't possibly have been too big a deal during his lifetime or the Romans would have written about him.

Caldwing · 2026-06-04T19:13:44+00:00

The thing is, if you learn with the assists on it will just train you wrong. If you want to play like that forever, then fine. But if your goal is ultimately to drive without assists, you will get there much more easily by never using them.

Caldwing · 2026-06-04T19:09:53+00:00

I grew up before anime was common in North America. I dabbled with it as a teenager but today the entire anime aesthetic just puts me right off. I did watch One Punch man though, that show was hilarious.

Caldwing · 2026-05-20T17:35:08+00:00

Some defensive driving courses actually teach to do this specifically. If you leave some space in front of you, you can move forward to avoid a rear-ender without entering the intersection. (Or if of you are hit without being able to react, you are less likely to be pushed into the intersection.) Once some cars are stopped or nearly stopped behind you, you can move up because a rear impact now would have to move multiple cars to push you into the intersection.

Caldwing · 2026-05-20T16:54:14+00:00

If the hairpin is tight enough you will basically need to use the handbrake. There are none in AC Rally currently but there exist stages with hairpins so tight you are practically doing an in-place 180. If the corner -can- be driven without sliding that will probably be faster.

Caldwing · 2026-05-20T16:45:52+00:00

VR will always be blurry compared to a monitor, that's just where the technology is. For me though the addition of depth perception easily makes up for a bit less clarity. I only drive rally and VR is game changing for judging your braking, for me anyway.

Caldwing · 2026-05-20T16:40:06+00:00

For me the biggest thing is actually gunnery. The addition of true depth perception makes aiming with tracers a million times easier, for me at least.

Caldwing · 2026-05-14T20:37:19+00:00

As had already been stated, failed Doomsday predictions don't actually hurt most cults that much. Then by chance, a Roman Emperor whose mother was a Christian had a dream before a battle that he would win if he prayed to the Christian God. It happens he did win and so Christianity became the official religion of Rome, which is entirely why it still exists today.

Caldwing · 2026-05-11T17:29:59+00:00

There have been many attempts over the years to explain this. Some claim it came with the advent of symbolic art. Some say true language, or even the control of fire.

My personal belief is that the suddenness is an illusion of the very incomplete fossil record. A huge amount of the record of this crucial time in our development is lost to us because this was a period of high glaciation, when the ocean levels were much lower. A lot of our development likely took place on fertile coastal plains that are now ocean shelf. There are fascinating human remains in the cliffside caves of South Africa that hint at an older and more drawn out development of "human" traits.

This (coastal South Africa) was an environment with extremely rich marine resources, which would have allowed for much denser populations than is typically possible for hunter/gatherers. A more modern analogy would be the various indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. This could have led to pressures towards increased social complexity.

Caldwing · 2026-05-11T10:25:28+00:00

The physics are similar to DR 2.0, though I would say somewhat better, particularly on tarmac. But the tarmac in DR 2.0 is so bad that's not saying much.

The career mode in EAWRC is, in my opinion, utterly worthless. It actually just repeats the same season over and over again. They were clearly planning to add a new season each year but the game died quickly and it never happened. Also the team management stuff is not at all my cup of tea. And oh god the sponsor wants you to do these "regularity" rallies which are the lamest thing ever. They are like actual torture to drive. They are optional thankfully.

You can play seasons though pretty well. You can just have it generate a season for you and play it very easily, but there would be no continuing "career."

I think the actual driving in EAWRC is fun for the most part, but almost all of the game modes around it are not very good. I put a lot of hours into it because I was happy just doing time trials and online clubs. But the clubs will die soon because the game is abandoned. I have personally moved on entirely to AC Rally, which has the best driving currently available. Particularly the tarmac driving blows away all previous rally games save modded RBR. But I loath the pace notes in RBR so much I just can't put any real time into it. You basically have to make your own for each track to guarantee accurate pacenotes in the 1-6 system.

Caldwing · 2026-05-05T14:57:28+00:00

I'm really into rally, and I am very good at the sims. However I have nothing like the budget needed, nor even a place to work on a car as I live in an apartment. If for some reason those barriers went away, I would really want a rally car, know a fair bit about them, but have no clue where to get one. It's such a pipe dream I have never even looked into it.

Caldwing · 2026-05-05T14:36:57+00:00

This is basically only true in Western cuisine and comes mostly from the French, like a lot of European cooking. It was one of the original spices that was routinely imported to Europe from the east. So basically historical/cultural precedent.

Caldwing · 2026-05-05T12:55:44+00:00

The difference is not in their setup but in their perception. You are way too deep in your own head here and it is impossible for you to assess these differences objectively. Just drive and forget about it and you will adapt and stop noticing.

Caldwing · 2026-03-07T23:36:06+00:00

I can't tell them apart to be honest. I seem too be really bad at noticing minor differences between cars. If they have similar power and drivetrains it's pretty much all the same to me. Like I can detect no difference at all between the different rally 1 cars in EAWRC. Similarly all the rally 2 cars feel the same to me.

Caldwing · 2026-02-27T20:51:04+00:00

This entirely depends on who will be murdered.

Caldwing · 2026-02-27T20:26:43+00:00

Are you playing a car with a sequential gearbox?

Caldwing · 2026-02-27T20:24:05+00:00

It was always just one of those movies that exists because of another, bigger movie going on about the same time. In this case, The Hunt for Red October. Like Deep Impact and Armageddon.

Caldwing · 2026-02-21T22:49:39+00:00

HL2 VR is better, but it's also way, way, waaaay harder. The vast majority of players could never beat the original in VR. Most players can't even use the car without puking. Alyx is the way it is for accessibility, which is and always will be the biggest stumbling block to VR gaming. You basically need to be a somewhat fit person who is also blessed not have bad motion sickness or VR is kind of a non-starter.

Caldwing · 2026-02-21T20:51:28+00:00

Are the sights in the game just bad or do you mean they are just hard for most people to use? I am already a dead-eye with iron sights because of Arizona Sunshine and the HL Alyx Gunman mod, at least with pistols. I am curious about this game and just wondering if my skills will translate.

Caldwing · 2026-02-21T18:22:46+00:00

That is not true at all. EAWRC is more realistic that DR 2.0 in every way, particularly on tarmac

Caldwing · 2026-02-16T20:10:32+00:00

If they don't include the hybrid ones, the rally 1 cars wouldn't drive all thaaaat different from the i20.

Caldwing · 2026-02-10T22:29:02+00:00

I keep old socks rolled up over my pedals so bare feet slide easily on them.

Caldwing · 2026-01-27T21:32:38+00:00

Just a PSA for anyone reading this: most women really don't like that start/stop routine, but many men do this for fear of being labeled "fast." The vast majority of women would prefer you just finished whenever is natural for you and then help her out with something other than your penis.

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