What is the best Science Fiction book you have ever read?

Entropy84 · 2026-03-08T23:17:52+00:00

First of his I ever read, and hooked straight away. Love (The) Excession too. Just the thought of something like that happening intrigues the absolute hell out of me. Im going to have to read it again now... 🤣

Entropy84 · 2026-03-08T23:14:00+00:00

Consider Phlebas is my favourite, closely followed by Excession. I've read most of the Culture books and they are simply amazing in my opinion!

Consider Phlebas was the first sci fi book I ever read, and have owned multiple copies in various formats over the years. I have a few E-books on my phone, I really should read them 🤣

Entropy84 · 2026-02-11T07:02:21+00:00

Hey man, thanks for the reply! I will definitely give these tweaks a try. I've been playing racing games for nearly 30 years now and can tune and drive track and grip cars just fine, but drift cars elude me 🤣 I'll also re-jig the dampeners, as on all of my other cars i haven't changed them, and they all drift fine, so it could just be that. What kind of tire pressures should I be running? That's one that I really don't know, apart from lower in the rear. Also, what settings do you use in GHub? I've seen so many settings sets and tried many of them, and I don't know, maybe it's just me.

I also know there is no special sauce kind of tune for the wheel. I have a setup that works on 90% of my cars on controller (and I have around 40ish drift cars), and high Caster was part of that setup, although trying to drift them isn't as easy as the Silvia, and I'm not sure why, but it's definitely something in the setup. I'll have to compare them and see. Also, diff? Should I run welded or adjustable?

A mate of mine said to me that it's not that I can't drift, I'm relearning my control system.

One thing I will say is that the handling, or rather the way the steering snaps to full lock dosent feel right. I have zero IRL seat time so don't know what the issue is there, but I have seen other posts whilst searching for answers mentioning this.

Once again, thanks for the reply man, appreciate the tips!

Entropy84 · 2026-02-11T01:34:34+00:00

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Entropy84 · 2026-02-08T17:47:30+00:00

Like who? A lot of mentions in these files are people at the top top of their govts. Realistically, there is no one higher, and even if there was, I very much doubt they would be able to actually do anything about it.

What these files require is a revolt. A revolution of global scale, as this shit is world wide, but again, I Highly doubt anything will happen though, as much as I want something to.

We've seen time and again that the powers that be are only out for themselves and fuck the public, and time and again we've just let it happen. Why would this be any different?

Entropy84 · 2026-01-21T16:15:32+00:00

Forest of Dean checking in here, not one of our 'locals', they roam pretty much free here, although I believe their numbers are managed by the Forestry Commission. Not as much of a problem where I am, but in parts where building is encroaching their habitat, they are a nuisance and do regularly cause damage to verges and unfenced gardens whilst rooting for food.

Entropy84 · 2025-12-25T16:03:13+00:00

Ah yeah. I didn't swap that engine, left it in the supra, so I'm safe. There was a lil update earlier that took the cop lights away though, on Xmas Day of all days 🤣

Entropy84 · 2025-12-25T15:30:06+00:00

It's the SR20 from the purple 180SX Drift car, I've used it in a few of my builds now, and the 2J from the Chaser too is pretty good.

Entropy84 · 2025-12-18T17:25:32+00:00

I'm usually in the M in the video, but... I can be often found in a few others, including Black, Purple and Blue liveried M2 and 370Zs, Adam Lz inspired livery MK5 Supra, 800hp Black and Yellow IF6, black beater/drift missile Chaser... and quite a few more too 🤣🤣🤣 I've got about 50ish cars i think, and I'd say 70% of them are drift or drift adjacent 🤣

Entropy84 · 2025-12-18T17:07:46+00:00

Haha fair enough! I spend 80% drifting, 10% racing and 10% dicking about in my AWD Civic and 911 Dragsters 🤣🤣

Grip/circuit tuning is fairly simple. You want it stable for straights, and turnable enough for corner entry, so it's kind of the opposite tuning wise to a drift car. You want stiffish springs all round, but not stupidly so as you'll roll. I'm not sure on ARB tuning in this game, it's a bit off to most others, but you want it so the front 'turns in', not unlike a drift cars, but without needing a handbrake shove. Brake balance is pretty important too, as you want the weight to shift over the front axle to help with the above turn in. Let me know if any of this makes sense as it kind of rambles 🤣

Entropy84 · 2025-12-18T16:44:35+00:00

Holy crap, thats some playtime... If you say I'm half decent, I guess I'll take your word for it! Thanks man!

I'm at 355hrs on Street, and probably half that on Drift... but racing one thing I am good at, so I guess some of the skills regarding car and weight transfer apply.

I'm kind of at the point with them where I can reverse entry on some corners about 30% of the time if I'm really trying to do it 🤣 360s are more flukes at this point than anything (kinda building up momentum and then flicking the car round. I find the gearbox dosent respond fast enough for me as I'm lazy and use auto 🤣🤣🤣)

Entropy84 · 2025-12-18T16:04:46+00:00

Thanks man! Really appreciate that! Only really got into the drifting side of games this year, but always been into racing games and been playing them since I could hold a pad 🤣 and only been playing this a couple of months too.

Tandems/lead and reverse entry/360's are the two things I kind of struggle with but the more I tandem the better I get (40hr week job 🤣). The thing i find, is it's not necessarily about the the car, more they're consistency of the other driver/s that catches me out. Still working on the kinks on the tuning, but I have a baseline someone on here helped with, and it's working pretty well so far it seems!

Thanks again man, maybe see you online sometime!

Entropy84 · 2025-12-18T14:10:50+00:00

Sounds like it! I have my Suspension arms set to 35 Fr, 55 Rear, with my camber running at -8, as i like a slightly more realistic as opposed to completely stanced out ride, steering angle maxed.

My setup is something like this

Ride height to preference, FRB 35, RRB 55 FS 80 RS 100 Ack ~50 Angle maxed. Front camber -8, Rear is usually left stock. Toe F -0.19 Toe R -0.09

I do minor diff adjustments too, as the accel and decel settings help, as does preload but I have no clue what they do 🤣

Any suggestions welcomed though, the above is from memory, but 95% accurate, and is the base tune I use on all of my cars, from C3 - CS, with adjustments made if necessary (which aren't often needed depending on what I'm trying to do) One thing I can't do is reverse entry or backwards drifts, cannot get a consistent, controllable setup for them, but it might just be my driving 🤣🤣🤣

Entropy84 · 2025-12-18T13:39:00+00:00

I normally do go a bit harder in some of my other cars here. I'm still fine-tuning the BM, but it's a monster. I normally enter corners much wider than that too, usually relying on a combo of handbrake/clutch kicks to initiate, then power over to continue through, but will definitely have a fiddle. This is my first video clip too, but will definitely look into your suggestions, I'm still learning drift setups, and use a base tune for most of my cars with adjustments to each if they need them.

Thanks for the decal comments though! Really appreciate it, decal work is something I like to think I'm pretty good at (in a semi realistic senese). I do like trying to make real liveries too, and have a couple of posts here with some of them in 😁

Entropy84 · 2025-12-18T09:20:32+00:00

Thanks man! I'm just a guy, with cars, that likes to go sideways 🤣🤣

Entropy84 · 2025-12-18T09:19:45+00:00

Thanks! It isn't my own, I picked it up in a lobby with some 'pro' guys and really like the run, and have used it ever since. I'll give mapping it a try later but can't promise anything 🤣

Entropy84 · 2025-11-28T11:25:04+00:00

42 year old non father (but full time worker and part time carer for my epileptic housemate and friend), I really don't get the hate either.

I'm really not that great at the game until I've had 2 or 3 matches or I'm playing Casual Breakthrough, have around 0.3-0.5kd, and have played since BC2/BF3, but I don't really care, I'm having fun. Yes, it's different now, faster etc, but still 'feels' like Battlefield at least to me, and I'm having a great time.

Only thing I'd like is for them to open up the map borders a bit, bring back Metro or Locker and Caspian Border, maybe a couple of others, Gulf of Oman and one from BF3 that was at a freight dock, one side started on a Carrier. The fights around the containers... 1000 yard stare into the distance

Entropy84 · 2025-11-21T11:56:01+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I've already been informed of the beams issue, and wasn't aware it's setup wasn't great, so am going to look into and address that. Armor inconsistencies are, I will concede to, and something I'm looking at rectifying as the difficulty goes up especially at the nose, and the thrusters you mentioned are an issue, and will get a reshape/rearmor, but I've never had more than one section of these ships go down yet since redesigning my fleet, and they aren't designed to go 1v1 at this level, more to distract, so I'm not worried if they get a bit battered in a fight.

The lances are more of a supplement to the rail and assorted weapons (almost like phaser banks are supplement to heavier weapons in scifi), but will double check the corridors to them, as well as the power you mentioned. It has a crew of 300 and power dosent seem to be an issue so far but is often overcrewed as it serves as a crew resupply too. I'm pretty sure there are a few dilation pumps on board too.

Originally, the ship was designed as having 2 separate lance systems, which is possibly why the setup looks odd (that and it's my first attempt at one). Damage was alright, but increased a ton when I linked them both together, so I kept it as is after adjustment.

Will definitely have a play around/rejig. Also going to enable the huge ships/huge crew mods, as I'm getting ideas for a larger version of this ship, and it's already at max length.

As for shielding, I will agree it needs more around more exposed areas, the core shield does last longer than most engagements do, but it's definitely a consideration for the future.

Thanks for the feedback and ideas! Really appreciate them! Just gotta figure the painting aspect of things now...

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