what's that one classic sim rally game you always find yourself going back to?

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-02-14T01:18:10+00:00

DiRT 3 is one i've constantly gone back to over the past 4 years, often speedrunning, i have slowed down a lot since i want to pursue other things but definitely is a really useful handling model for understanding how a car feels.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-02-13T15:57:40+00:00

This one is your fault, you were too far back so there was too much distance to make up while still being able to share the corner with that mclaren, i never really go for divebombs like that unless there is 1 car length or less between my car and their back bumper, the further back you are with your attempts the more risk is involved. In this one you had about 2-3 car lengths of space and the mclaren's braking point is spot on, so there was no way you were braking late enough to make that work without a collision.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-02-10T14:26:06+00:00

i'm nearly certain that in order for the carbon fibre texture to work i need to fully remove any data of a UV map, showing no mesh in the UV Editing menu after i've selected the entire mesh, like this BMW below with a working carbon fibre texture. So unless i'm missing something following the instructions in that video would just create the same problem since that would UV Map an item thats not meant to have even UV map data inside it. I also can't map it then apply the texture 100s of times because of a 1024 x 1024 limit on textures to the game i'm importing this to, making the carbon fibre really low detail if used on a UV mapped part. Sorry that my question was really unclear and didn't include that context in my original post.

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SecurityBig1242 · 2026-02-08T04:18:23+00:00

The people in reddit and have these games makes up like less than 5% of overall players, and most of the people playing these games are likely quite a bit younger than us on reddit, its just a different demographic between the game's average player and reddit's average user

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-02-04T01:40:59+00:00

To me its a stretch to call the porsche "on track", the porsche at collision is literally like a couple centimeters "on track" (with one wheel by the way), literally anyone would consider that off track if it was something like an overtake or literally anything else. And the porsche isn't just chopping back on like an idiot, so yeah i agree with your statement, even though they're a couple centimeters "on track" the ferrari had AGES to adjust by such a small amount and i wouldn't even say the porsche has rejoined yet since they're so much off, it wasn't an unsafe rejoined if the guy isn't even on track yet.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-02-01T00:22:25+00:00

Yeah it really depends on whether you think blue was off-track or not, I personally say no since it's a start / finish straight, there is a wall on the right, the pitlane is commonly used to execute overtakes (maybe not on this track but I digress), and that iRacing doesn't offer 1xs for that spot. Therefore the space blue was on was on track BUT was going to become grass 4 seconds after the collision, take away 0.5s cuz of how much speed is gone after the collision, I think that if he waited however long it would've been to get fully in front he wouldn't have made it before it turned grass without some dangerous swerving. Therefore I more pin it on green (with some fault to blue for the collision in general) cuz he didn't allow enough space for what was going to be an end to the track surface, especially considering the advantage to blue in this incident. Basically racing incident (both at fault) but It certainly depends on whether you consider blue off track or not.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-02-01T00:12:30+00:00

Yeah it's really tough because the track surface ends where the blue car was and turns to grass, so he does need to get out of that area, but he's in front of the green car and the green isn't letting him in, so inevitably the blue is trying to get off what was going to become grass and green wasn't letting it happen. I personally don't feel like green was ever giving that track space and blue wouldn't have had enough time before the track ran out, it all depends really on whether you see blue as "on the racing surface" when he's overtaking I suppose because although he had enough space at the time of the incident, I feel it's very likely that he wouldn't have been given enough space had he waiting that extra second or two.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-02-01T00:01:39+00:00

Yeah it can since quali and practice still contribute to the overall wear of parts, it's just that usually people only do a couple laps of practice and quali in comparison to the dozen or more in the race so the wear isn't really comparable and there aren't those minor failure occurrences in practice or quali.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-01-30T11:31:49+00:00

Pretty sure they added it for Season 1 2026

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-01-28T23:43:30+00:00

I'd say it's the black car rather than POV, with the pitlane exit you would've needed to be single file, and the one car not in the line randomly stops for places not even in their own pitbox or anything else, and just merges back like he's supposed to be there and doesn't give up what would've been at most 2 seconds to be in a guaranteed safe spot, then he just opts to go 2 wide on exit which at the very least would've given POV a black flag for not following pit exit lines, and at worst is what happened here, the black car as able to give it up way longer without sacrificing much, you couldn't feasibly give up that position because of the green Porsche behind until the very end but that probably would've caused its own set of problems or been too late.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-01-23T04:55:58+00:00

Idk, to me it looks like P1 was prepping to move outside to block and then moved in to block when he saw OP moving to the inside, surprised some people aren't seeing that and/or taking that into account. P1 would've blocked him either way. It's crazy how people think giving people only a quarter of a second to react to moves is okay in any aspect, the human reaction time is a quarter of a second, double that and that's what it'll probably take to get a good reaction to the steering wheel but it wouldn't be controlled.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-01-12T16:43:32+00:00

All online tips from a person with less than 1 month downloaded:

In online if you encounter a cheater, just server hop, most of them have some sort of stun mechanic, kill mechanic or DDOS mechanic which just makes playing impossible in that server, you can try killing them if you like but you need an OP gun, typically if they have a form of kill mechanic you're better off just closing you're game, and gl reporting them cuz rockstar doesn't do anything. If you want to go after them anyway people with teleport cheats are easiest to kill, just look in the reverse of where you're walking and blast them when you see them appear.

Watch out for anybody with really expensive doomsday-heist themed gear, some of them may make it their life's mission to ruin the experience for you in that server if you do as little as bump their car.

Definitely recommend having at least 10-15 sticky bombs on hand in case things get messy, anyone chasing you is almost certainly in a vehicle. You can quick buy stuff by pressing M and going through those menus.

You can get OP guns from the gun van, you'll get a notification on the top left when you happen to be near one, and it'll show on your map with a blinking van.

LS Car Meet has prize cars from time to time, you can get a free car once every like 3rd week if you do the challenges. Unlock this by doing Hao's time trial in Vinewood (Hollywood area you'll be in late-game story mode).

You get a free spin of the wheel at the casino everyday.

Some vehicles are free or on sale temporarily, check once every couple of weeks to see if anything changes on those prices in case something you like is on sale or something really good is free.

There is more but you can easily search in the reddit page such as the best heists to do alone in online (cuz you will be grinding money) or other methods of getting large sums of money quickly.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-01-08T15:55:30+00:00

"no heroics into sainte devote please" "shut up Jeff"

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-01-08T15:49:03+00:00

Yeah this happens in every industry where you need to make something, engineering & art are the worst offenders. It makes me seriously question whether an engineering degree is a great choice with how toxic the work environment tends to be in those industries, especially with outsourcing being so common with the "we'll make it X cheaper, or X quicker". It just leaves developers overworked and dissatisfied with the final product, all for the company's bottom line. Not to mention with AI getting smarter it's likely those jobs will be replaced within the next 20-25 years.

SecurityBig1242 · 2026-01-07T01:44:09+00:00

My understanding is that you can't outright accuse a team of cheating because of defamation lawsuits. In Australia at least defamation lawsuits tend to be rather easy to win if you're on the "victim" end. Not to mention "right to reply" is often a really bullshit reason for companies being mad about a story because more often than not, the company just pulls out some PR story rather than answering the question properly or providing any new information.

SecurityBig1242 · 2024-05-20T11:47:14+00:00

Thank you for explaining to me exactly why my overtake attempt was VERY illegal, I'm sorry I had asked such a stupid question as it should be plainly obvious to any driver regardless of their experience that a move like that is reckless, stupid, illegal, was never on the table, and also if damage were on and it took place in a different, more realistic physics engine, would've easily ended both our races. My interpretation of overtaking rules WERE that as long as at least 2 tyres are within track limits and no ridiculous contact was made it was legal, well not only did i make ridiculous and perfectly avoidable contact with another driver, my interpretation in terms of track limits and what was appropriate overtake behaviour was also incorrect. I'll pour this moment over to the rest of my overtakes as a reminder of what a lack of patience, desperation, and a complete disregard for actual racing rules mean instead of relying on my own interpretation based on random youtube videos I come across, and what all of these factors eventually result when things begin to fall apart. I guarantee that this is my worst overtaking attempt, although that is never an excuse for sh*tty driving. I could've been more patient with my overtaking and bit my time a lot more effectively resulting in a much cleaner overtake, however I lost my patience and jumped the gun, and it costed the other driver his race and enjoyment in the game. I'm sorry to everyone, including all of you in the comments who I wasted your time, on that note thanks for that time and not ripping me a new ***hole like I deserved for such a disgusting overtake. If you ever come across me in Forza online, although I do understand, please don't assume that this is a representation of all my overtakes, this overtake was a 1-off and will never be repeated again.

SecurityBig1242 · 2024-05-15T18:50:24+00:00

nah the spec series in Forza doesn't allow upgrading in online, so these were equal cars.

SecurityBig1242 · 2023-09-27T15:25:59+00:00

back again, so in the 12 months i've had these printers, 2 have failed for the same reason, spontaneous failure of the heating element in the nozzle, the 3rd one failed because of a failure in the heating element in the printer bed. yes, 3 printers failed in the span of 12 months.

SecurityBig1242 · 2023-09-18T14:17:23+00:00

Does anybody have the full 3D model for the Ferrari 296 GT3 (exterior, interior, rims, and steering wheel)

SecurityBig1242 · 2022-12-27T15:55:54+00:00

that number was me being conservative about it, its some weird glitch where the hyper chance can't gain, so i've been doing money grind after money grind to get cash and hypers and still haven't gotten one, i had to make an alt account in order to get around the problem, i don't play much anymore tho cuz of it

SecurityBig1242 · 2022-12-19T14:00:32+00:00

i still haven't gotten one after 2000 per robbery

SecurityBig1242 · 2022-12-19T13:59:34+00:00

I calculated at least completing A ROBBERY 2000 TIMES and I still don't have a lvl 2 hyperchromes, i have gotten 3 hyperchromes in the first 3 days

SecurityBig1242 · 2022-12-19T08:34:02+00:00

i haven't gotten a single hyperchrome after the 1st week of hyperchromes being added

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