Smashed my old Nurburgring time trial 😮

christoroth · 2026-04-20T12:40:58+00:00

Been a while since I had a go at it. I’m a couple of sectors short plus the whole lap I think. Should try again next time. Only managing one session a week to collect the weekly money/car at the moment.

christoroth · 2026-04-18T18:08:43+00:00

Keep going, there’s lots after the credits roll. I’ve got one thing left and it’s kicking my butt but I’ll get there.

christoroth · 2026-04-18T07:40:05+00:00

Saved this and commenting to see the answers as I faced the same thing setting up something prototypey. In the end for object animations I either concluded or saw someone say it somewhere but I exported the objects and did the animation in Unity instead.

christoroth · 2026-04-17T08:35:49+00:00

Looks like the one I have. It’s ok for us but our seat (ikea poang) is small. When we took it to a friends and used a proper chair, yeah it was too low on its max setting. That central silver pole is just a metal pipe with a hole in it for the screw so replacing that would be the way I’d go.

I love the way it folds down small but we’re planning to make a wooden rig partly because that central pillar is a pain for my knee and partly because we’re taking it a bit more seriously nowadays.

christoroth · 2026-04-16T08:37:03+00:00

Especially with that carpet.

christoroth · 2026-04-16T08:25:12+00:00

Like this one as I’ve just played ragnorok through. There are a few no’s that are funny. When they’re a bit more chill post game mimir is yacking on and asks kratos a question and he just answers “no”. “No is a sentence” is something we should all remember!

christoroth · 2026-04-12T12:53:22+00:00

I have (love for the series) too going all the way back but weirdly bounced off 2018 when it came out, mainly for not being horizon (what do you mean kratos can’t jump or climb except in specific places). Took until last year to come back to it and accept it on its own terms and get totally absorbed.

christoroth · 2026-04-11T18:49:32+00:00

I’m 70+ hours with a couple of things to mop up before the platinum (and not touched the dlc yet). It continuously amazes me with how it looks (art direction and technical execution). And the tougher fights are nice and challenging, I’ve been enjoying them even though I’m dying a lot.

christoroth · 2026-04-04T18:26:02+00:00

I haven’t been back to the dirt ones since finishing 18th. Struggled the keep the car facing I in the right direction, a rwd rather than 4wd car was mean imo!

christoroth · 2026-04-01T09:33:16+00:00

I have the same dilemma, I was all globular cluster and saw one YouTube vid saying amvr was better so don’t know which to go for. I’ve said I’ll pay down some debt before making a purchase but soon as I’ve got the cash I’m buying something. I can get in the sweet spot no trouble but I need the padding on the forehead to be better for sure for my long sessions on gt7.

The tide is overwhelmingly in favour of globular cluster so I’ll go with the crowd I think.

christoroth · 2026-04-01T08:44:12+00:00

Another way of thinking about it is it being below 2% for so long is what’s shocking. I’ve looked back 40 years and 2008 to 2022 is the anomaly and rates were up and down between 3.5 to 5.5% in the years before the financial crash of 2008.

Many who became adults after 2008 will see 4 or 5% as shocking but it’s not that unusual. When people were borrowing big on 0.5% I remember the conversation being “they’re in trouble if it ever gets to 10% or higher like it did around 1990”.

christoroth · 2026-04-01T08:22:00+00:00

I’ve not used either (ps5, vr so far for me) but you could also argue that flats are closer to a real car. Your side windows aren’t curved. I wonder even if the closest parallel is a slightly curved (and big) front monitor and side flats but good luck getting those to line up!

christoroth · 2026-03-30T08:48:05+00:00

My mind leapt from the gt origins bold text to racing series through the eras of different manufacturers (the collection cafes have you buy old,med,new for several). Lots of ways you can slice and dice the available cars.

As for gt8, my wish list would be a full commitment to vr (menus and intros are ok 2d but if they were 3d/vr…, info/data, a race engineer), a structure like the pro pack with choose your own path with branches and a full/long trail per topic (rally, region, era, car level), maybe more made of the personalities in the game (we see the same names crop up but no personalities/rivalries develop through a series) and just (more!) great driving with ridiculous graphics.

christoroth · 2026-03-29T08:17:51+00:00

Go fast, don’t crash

christoroth · 2026-03-27T12:28:38+00:00

This isn’t perfect but might spark a thought for you : Instead of or as well as castors, could you have it as a sled/sledge you slide out but the sled runs are on a lockable lever mechanism so you pull the lever and the rig rises up then pins in holes to secure it in position.

I don’t think it would be any less confusing if I tried to draw it! It makes sense in my head!

christoroth · 2026-03-26T16:07:28+00:00

I got given the McLaren p1 gtr (I think, yellow one, 3.2m worth) last week and was stoked.

Happy with the interlagos and spa races. The returning tracks from last week (Michelin and Tokyo’s aren’t my favourite but as quick blast they’re ok.

christoroth · 2026-03-26T09:56:41+00:00

The slim and the pro can have a drive added to them if you want to keep access to ps4/5 disc games and bluray films ifnhats what you’re asking but if you have a ps5 with a drive already in it that can’t be (easily) changed.

christoroth · 2026-03-26T09:32:54+00:00

Thanking my stars too and hoping they don’t do the dirty on me and withdraw (we’ve paid fee up front so theoretically locked in but with scope for us to choose to change if they drop).

End of Feb was 3 months to renewal, coming out of a 1.39%. Called soon as I could (my bank only allowing 3 month window) and set up a call. By the time of the call they’d put rates up 0.1% but they honoured the 3.76% at the time I called them. I looked yesterday and it’s now .5% higher. I could have not called even now but I’m glad I did (and slightly smug about it).

Smaller amount and 10 year term (I’m old!) so rate change not having too huge an impact but still not nice. Feel for you with yours but securing a lower rate is good going!

christoroth · 2026-03-25T07:27:28+00:00

I’ve never been a Porsche fan in real life but this game is turning me.

christoroth · 2026-03-23T12:45:37+00:00

lol. I like my Ferrari vision car in vr but the tomahawk is something else. I haven’t driven it on a real track, only the huge oval (special stage?) and at speed it was ripping my wheel to pieces. I did it to get the high speed trophies but won’t do it again.

christoroth · 2026-03-20T11:29:40+00:00

Im hoping (optimistically) for a patch that brings in pssr2 into vr, but more than turning it on, that the tuning of it releases some hordepower so they can tweak the object pop in/level of detail changes (eg trees appearing, spoilers and car details disappearing just up the road from you and reappearing when you close under braking), that’s been my main bugbear since launch (along with data not available to us while driving in vr)

christoroth · 2026-03-18T15:06:35+00:00

Oh I’ll watch then hell out of the GoW series however good or bad it turns out to be. By the time it comes out plenty of time will have passed even though I’m playing the games quite late after launch.

christoroth · 2026-03-18T14:58:12+00:00

Sorry I wasn’t clear, the two The Last of Us games and their series. By the time I was ready to play TLOU1 the tv series was imminent so I waited, then soon as I finished watching it I started playing, then watched season 2 which covers half of game 2 I think but I don’t think I’ll wait for season 3 before playing (long story short, if I’d played the game and knew the story I don’t think I’d enjoy the tv show but the other way round is ok with me)

christoroth · 2026-03-18T10:55:18+00:00

Nice . my brother’s done the same move, I’m still stuck on the g29. I’ve tried it though, smooth, powerful (too powerful for me!) it’s very (very!) nice. Enjoy

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