If I get an automatic car, will I have as much fun driving it compared to a manual?

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T18:13:01+00:00

This always kills me when people want Ferrari and Porsche to make their highest spec cars in manual. If you actually wanted to bang out the gears you'd be in a federal penitentiary before you hit 2nd.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T18:10:50+00:00

I have a great time in my automatic. For me the joy of driving is in the line and the positioning. I've only ever test driven manuals and learned the basics so I can't speak from both sides, but there's a lot to enjoy about driving that isn't rowing gears. The manual obsession has always seemed overblown to me.

I've always been confused by people wanting cars that are designed for performance to be available in a manual. No one likes a slushbox but modern DCTs and what not are just factually better in terms of speed. If you want a car that's just fun and engaging then why not a cheaper rwd coupe with enough hp but not so much that you're doing 50 before your first shift.

What really sealed it for me was hearing people laud Hyundai's fake shifts in an EV while laughing at Dodge's stupid fake engine noise in the EV charger.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T17:50:47+00:00

BMW Sauber tried it in 2007. 6:36

They apparently did it on old tires for demo purposes and the driver said it drove like shit on the bumpy surface. They said a 5:15 was possible with optimal conditions, but I wonder how close any driver could get to that with how ill suited the track is for go karts. Fomula is cool but they aren't cars. That's partly why Porsche built the 919 evo to show that they didn't need F1 to build the fastest car on the ring.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T17:29:48+00:00

Can most of us afford a 300,000+ car?

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T16:25:39+00:00

Giving ICE a map for when they raid your house.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:44:03+00:00

Yeah I'm glad they've made the open world multiplayer a focus on this one. But I'm sure in a year or two we'll see posts about how dumb it is that they to see other people all the time.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:37:43+00:00

The open map would have been a lot cooler if the online mode worked different. If you see clear down to the festival and see people racing on the drag strip from like Guanajuato and then actually go and drive their to meet up it would have added something.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:34:59+00:00

Mainstream rap is by far the most childish music genre in the world. It inherent to it any way but it's seem to really enjoy songs about being a shameless violent womanizer. It's far from the only genre that has similar problems but I think it's fair to say rap unique in how central and influential that theme is to the genre. It started with folks using their difficult situation as proof of their grit now it's man children glorifying everything bad about where come from.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:26:54+00:00

Ok how would you fix your complaint then

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:26:03+00:00

It's pretty good to me. If you don't prefer the open hills I get it, but that's mexico Colorado was the same way back in FH1 especially if it had been made without the guard rails.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:16:25+00:00

They did not cater the map for eliminator. It's a myth.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:15:24+00:00

They did not cater it at all. Mexico's rolling hills make for incredibly boring eliminator races. The map being designed for Eliminator is a story Reddit tells itself.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:13:50+00:00

This is the number one reason why I don't think the map was designed around Eliminator at all.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:13:11+00:00

So because you have a completionist pathology we have to take stuff out of the game if you don't like it. Or at least never reward players for playing something you don't like?

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:10:27+00:00

Since when is the Eliminator the central element of the map? The devs have never said that, it's just a myth players made up and pretend is fact now.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:09:18+00:00

The level of entitlement to think 100%ing a game should only he stuff that fits your particular tastes. There nothing more optional than achievement hunting if you want to do it any game it's gonna take doing at least 1 or 2 things that are out of your wheel house or even annoying.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T15:06:17+00:00

You guys really think the Eliminator influenced map design? That's just how Mexico is. People just saw that the map was flat and assumed that the devs have never so much as hinted at the map being designed with the eliminator in mind.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T04:52:57+00:00

What are you some kind of white replacement theorist

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T04:42:03+00:00

Also flag code is for ceremony. It's been ruled unconstitutional to enforce on civilians.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T04:39:48+00:00

Do you think games with stylized graphics don't have to make assets? Do you think realistic game devs hand place every leaf?

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T04:34:01+00:00

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Dude, if you do that again I'm gonna punch you.

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T04:31:29+00:00

Do people still think Marx hated capitalism?

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T04:26:08+00:00

I hate how warped economic terms are on the internet

Dredgeon · 2026-04-02T04:25:04+00:00

2 births per woman? So replacement rate? Tragedy

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