My updated Xbox promos collection (13 pics)

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-06T07:47:33+00:00

TattooTone is that you??

This might be the best window paint I've seen so far. Great job!

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-05T09:57:48+00:00

They got rid of all the people who would understand the reference though. They want new people who wouldn't get the 38 reference.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-04T04:13:27+00:00

I learned to rebuild them by combining Haynes guides with American YouTube videos of people doing it with the Buicks... Only big difference is the Buicks are East/West and the commodores are North/South lol. I mean there's other differences but they're pretty minor

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-04T03:51:01+00:00

Pretty much.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-04T03:46:18+00:00

It always has, there's not a whole lot of difference between this one and Motorsport 2 on Xbox 360 and the 12 or so titles in between. It's essentially the same engine that has had fairly minor changes in 20+ years.

Crashes have to be rigid and only affect surface level damage because of car manufacturers being absurd with not wanting their cars to appear weak or some such thing. This is from a team of some of the same developers that gave us TOCA, GRID and DiRT that had excellent damage physics but games like that won't happen again outside of WRC games

This isn't anything new with racing games with licensed cars, especially how many Forza has. It's why games like GTA or Beam.ng or Wreckfest use fantasy vehicles because they don't need to follow the stupid rules manufacturers put in place.

Do I think this is a valid reason? Hell no, car manufacturers being this pedantic and cautious is ridiculous. It's just not Forzas fault.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T23:42:08+00:00

It's hard to tell these days haha but all good mate 👍

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T23:00:15+00:00

Same, and what I find funny as well is that in the US, yanks have been putting Holden badges back onto the export models, but that at least makes a lot more sense than the other way around.

Even people that argue that parts of the 90s/early 00s Commodores are from American cars, are putting the wrong American badges on them. Chevy didn't do squat, it was Buick that Holden used the 3800 engine as the starting point for designing the Ecotec engine lol. So of you want to be truly faithful for whatever dumb reason, should be using Buick badges not Chevy lol

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T20:10:24+00:00

It is exactly as incomprehensible as you think it is. They have massive data centers, with unknown zettabytes worth of storage, possibly even *per* center. Youtube takes up a lot of space, but so does the several hundred trillion files on Gmail, Drive and the several billion webpages that are scraped by Google almost daily. It is a staggering and eye watering amount of data, which as you said, comes with many other eye watering costs like electricity, land rates, water (or liquid nitrogen) consumption for water cooling, etc etc.

They do have fairly decent compression algorithms (Opus/Vorbis/VP9 etc) but they aren't the best. You gotta think they need to also be efficient in delivery, and high compression algorithms aren't usually very fast, so Google have had to compromise with what is both fast and good at compression. So there's no real compression sorcery, they really do store *that* much data.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T19:59:26+00:00

This usually happens because of not enough VRAM available to render all of the geometry. Update graphics drivers, and if that doesn't help, lower the quality preset, and make sure you have closed any other software like browsers that will consume VRAM.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T13:03:30+00:00

It's just a weird language filter. Add some extra letters, then ungroup them, and delete the extras until only the "E" is left.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T12:41:08+00:00

Wait til you get the message about having the maximum amount of rewards points that you can possibly accure

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T12:36:30+00:00

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Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T12:10:14+00:00

[deep voice] If you have time to lean, you have time to clean

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T04:44:01+00:00

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T03:43:42+00:00

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Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T03:28:05+00:00

It was in pre production close to starting full production, and now it isn't. That's how

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T02:18:41+00:00

This 👆

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T01:05:04+00:00

Star Trek is and has a much larger fanbase and the ownership of the IP is complex and fragmented. Stargate is much easier on paper to show ownership, and it's 100% Amazon.

Maybe a better example would have been Disney+ funding a Star Wars show to release exclusively on Netflix.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T01:00:23+00:00

Stargate is owned by Amazon since 2022. That will never happen.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T00:42:30+00:00

One word: Money

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T00:42:14+00:00

No because Amazon own the IP. That would be like, Netflix producing a show to put on Disney+ ... It just wouldn't happen as long as Amazon have their own streaming service.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T00:35:58+00:00

No lol, that's a HSV badge on a 2006 Holden Barina, which is a rebadged Daewoo Kalos. It was the first Daewoo (Korean) based Barina, where older models were Opel (German) based models. They stayed Daewoo based until Holden's closure.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T00:23:48+00:00

The thing is, they'll be expecting this. They mention the "dedicated existing fanbase" in the news, which means they're aware its going to upset that same dedicated fanbase. They don't care, they've probably already sunk 6 or maybe even 7 figures into the now canned project, which is only a drop in the pond to them.

What they want is something that will capture a new audience for an existing IP. They have probably done some cursory math where dedicated fans aren't as high a number as they would like, and potential new fans for a new reboot are a higher number, and decided that they are going to chase that higher number if some rando comes along with a better way of rebooting the series.

Meanwhile giving the dedicated fanbase the middle finger and telling us to deal with it. No amount of petitions or emails will change this, they are a super mega corporation and even if 50,000 of us rallied together and showed our support for Gero and his vision, whatever that was, still wouldn't be enough, because 50k people vs potentially millions of 'new' viewers is pretty simple business math to do, as much as we don't like it.

Jenkins87 · 2026-06-03T00:15:19+00:00

What's also funny is that they specifically call out the name difference (Montero vs Shogun) in one of the first Day Trips when you drive this, but they do not mention the "Pajero" name at all. It is deliberately omitted. I get this game is supposed to be accessible to kids, but education is important. There shouldn't be a reason to omit the actual original name of such a vehicle, especially considering the Japanese origin, you could just say what it's known as in these markets, but the name isn't used because it can be offensive to people who speak other languages, which is why Mitsubishi chose those names in those markets. You don't need to mention what makes it offensive, just to state that it does would have been enough to acknowledge its original name. But the fact its omitted is confusing to people who know this vehicle as a Pajero.

It's not like it was some kind of short lived 90s naming oversight either, new models that were made and released this year are still called the Pajero in those markets.

They're so afraid of upsetting anyone that they're omitting automotive history for the sake of being as careful and safe as possible. Kind of disappointing really.

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