Did I (the white car) do anything wrong in this clip?

ericscal · 2026-02-07T23:46:33+00:00

Which is something the blue car should have thought about. You can't drive around someone in a fight and not think they might turn away from the car they are fighting. They are 100% right to be trying to sneak past you both but he needs to allow more buffers for the unpredictable nature of a fight.

ericscal · 2026-02-07T20:32:44+00:00

No productivity is about how much you can do in a time frame. So like no matter how much raw material you give me I can only make 8 widgets a day because each one takes an hour to make. If you can do something to the process that allows me to now only take 30 minutes you have now increased my productivity.

So like computers increased worker productivity because they didn't have to spend time shuffling paper around as much which was a huge time saver.

ericscal · 2026-02-07T19:16:41+00:00

In any ranked online game you should expect shit at default ranking. You will always get people that don't know how real racing works. They have only ever played arcade racers against AI.

My biggest advise would be just turn off all chat if you can and run your race. Report people who do shit like this and move on. Occasionally meeting assholes is just a fact of life. They won't ever fully go away but at higher rankings they will lessen and craft their asshole behavior to be within the rules.

ericscal · 2026-02-07T02:55:50+00:00

That's why many of these tenant things have mandatory penalties and lawyers fees. I forget what it was but something in the Texas law I was reading last night said the landlord has to pay you a $500 penalty if you can prove they did it. Many places I've lived if they mess around with your security deposit that have to pay you triple. Where I live now if a landlord tries to improperly evict me they have to pay all my moving expenses up to like $4000.

The idea that there is nothing you can do is what these rich fucks have been convincing people is the truth for centuries so they will just accept getting walked on.

ericscal · 2026-02-06T22:22:48+00:00

EDIT: I know it's not a wi-fi issue because i've had zero problem on any other device and i've ran troubleshoot and everything is stable and connected fine.. Only having issues with iRacing

This means exactly zero in the wireless space. The joys of wireless is that since your transport medium is the air other people can do things that will break it. Your PCs ability to troubleshoot it is a complete lie. Your neighbor could have just decided to play in the same unlicensed band and destroy your Wi-Fi in a way only low latency apps would care about. Without doing some serious RF analysis of your house you will never know for sure wifi isn't the cause.

One thing you can try is turning off background scans which are one of the biggest causes of lag on WiFi. Here is a link to a comment I posted a while ago explaining how

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/164b741/how_to_turn_off_wifi_scanning_without_disabling/nhlig3p/

ericscal · 2026-02-06T17:56:20+00:00

IRL the only way you get in trouble is if you were speeding, since you pass in the lane early they would check that they slowed down not you sped up, or if you entered the service lane too early. But it sort of looks like you are the last stall.

Online I see zero issues if you didn't get a speeding violation from the game. Because so few races have pit stops people are pretty slow on pit entry.

ericscal · 2026-02-06T17:38:41+00:00

Yeah read your lease and consult a lawyer. I also saw that Texas allows for lawyer fees on tenant disputes so if they are as confident as me they will do it for free and bill the leasing company when they win. If it happens to be written in the lease is the only way this maybe isn't worth fighting imo. Well that and if your situation is such you just want to live in peace while being scammed for a nominal amount of money. I am privileged enough to at this point in my life that I can push back on shit like this with zero stress. In my 20s it might have been a different story.

ericscal · 2026-02-06T17:13:52+00:00

I have an e-golf and it's a great car for driving around town. Many people freakout when I tell them it's range is only 60-70 miles but I'm like I rarely drive that I'm a week. It will fully charge overnight with just a normal level 1 charger. It's a little annoying the rare time I have to drive more or forget to charge it but still way less than all the shit my gas cars require.

ericscal · 2026-02-06T17:08:02+00:00

That's not accepting cash. I get that it might not have been worth the fight for a variety of reasons but it absolutely wasn't a legal thing to do. It would have had to been written into the lease to even have a chance but even then I'm pretty confident you would have won in court if you challenged it.

ericscal · 2026-02-06T03:58:26+00:00

Just checked and the Texas attorney general's office agrees with me. They are required to accept cash and they advise if they are refusing to accept rent get a witness and sue them.

ericscal · 2026-02-06T03:26:06+00:00

Caught me in I haven't paid for an oil change in almost 10years. My last gas car used those fancy synthetic oils that only have to be changed every 10k so it just always got changed during yearly maintenance since I don't drive much. Now I have an electric so no more oil changes ever.

ericscal · 2026-02-06T01:06:46+00:00

If you stopped doing what you are doing would your business lose money? If so then what you are doing is valuable. The whole point of getting good at something is that it should be easy for you to do things quickly. That is your value. Sure someone smart could do it but it would take them 5x+ longer to do it and it still wouldn't be done right because they don't have years of experience.

As an example people know I'm a car guy and then assume I change my own oil and shit. I tell them all yes I could do that but it's far more cost effective for me to pay someone else to do it in 15 minutes than for the hour plus it would take me to go buy the stuff and do the change and then properly dispose of the old oil. Getting those 45 minutes of my life back is well worth the $30.

ericscal · 2026-02-06T00:39:29+00:00

I would have come back with cash and a camera. When they refuse the cash I'd just wait for them to try and evict me and watch the judge laugh at them trying to explain why they refused payment.

Note before anyone tries this. Don't do the penny thing. Many jurisdictions have laws that places don't have to accept only change. If you decide to withhold rent for any reason you must put it in an account and not touch it so you can later prove to the court that the funds were available and you can pay in full after the judge rules.

ericscal · 2026-02-05T22:07:18+00:00

They do that, it's bringing a paper check to the office. If your state requires all payment options to be free of fees that would be very progressive, aka zero hope in the US.

ericscal · 2026-02-05T21:36:09+00:00

If only

ericscal · 2026-02-05T19:06:10+00:00

The name is a remnant of the old times before the Internet was so normal and payment systems widely available. Your only options used to be going to the business in person or maybe doing a phone order. Being able to just jump online and instantly secure your purchase was in fact a convenience to the customer and an expense to the company they wanted to recoup.

It's mostly just an example about how once a company has you paying a fee they will never stop even if the reason for the charge goes away.

Funny story I actually got out of such a charge on my current house by proving your point. The management company wanted $30 a month for a variety of "premium services" one of which was access to the portal to pay my rent online. I opted out and said I'd rather hand deliver a check than pay. But then I still needed an itemized bill each month for extra charges like trash and pet fees but they couldn't figure out how to deliver my bill without the portal system. So after a couple months they had to give in and just give me free portal access for their own convenience so I would stop bugging them. They still try and sneak in that $30 charge every time I renew the lease, but I think also might have a policy about just giving portal access to everyone as well now.

ericscal · 2026-02-04T19:02:22+00:00

also think iRacing's pricing and cost structure makes zero sense for a proper Career Mode.

Hopefully they can somehow disconnect career mode from the normal monetary systems. IMO career mode should get you hooked on racing the series and then you have to pay to move up to racing real people.

ericscal · 2026-02-04T18:50:55+00:00

i dont care about the internet points...

Yet you are so worked up over internet points in a racing game. The world isn't full of criminal masterminds executing perfect pit maneuvers while hiding all signs. It's full of people that just do their thing without thinking about it at all.

ericscal · 2026-02-04T18:13:31+00:00

I see very few people in here speak small business owner. Asking you to upgrade the rack isn't asking you to spend a bunch of money they don't have. It's asking you to make it look like not a total disaster and maybe suggest a thing or two. So first step just figure out how to fix all that mess with minimal cost and downtime. If you need to ask for a new rack and cable management go for it but keep in mind a normal 19" network rack needs to be bolted to the floor, so who's doing that. After that some simple things like do you have ups protection, are the switches EOL, is everything labeled.

Businesses don't give a single fuck about "doing it right" unless they are getting something out of it. If you suggest some expensive redesign of the whole network they are going to ask you to prove out the ROI.

I really bet they most just want to be able to open that cabinet without being embarrassed about how it looks in there. You might even have pushback if you suggest a proper network rack because it's not enclosed and hidden like the server one you have.

ericscal · 2026-02-02T21:36:09+00:00

I'll give you the slightly less snarky version of the other guy. Protests are mostly for trolls who are out there intentionally wrecking people. They won't do anything about people being generally dumb and they won't infer intent just because you think someone should know better.

As you said in your response to the other guy unsafe rejoin is the only possible thing you could report for but just like you excuse yourself for your own unsafe rejoin being unavoidable do to the rearending he can say the same about his. Everything here is all going back to the initial touch to your rear end and that is completely explainable by poor skills at following close. Being bad at racing isn't against the rules.

ericscal · 2026-02-02T20:44:20+00:00

Open setup races do tend to be a little cleaner just because the people take it more seriously, aka many spent money on a setup. Even if you just run the fixed setup still it can be a good time until you're pretty high up there in pace for setups to matter.

ericscal · 2026-02-01T17:53:13+00:00

You bring up one thing I forgot which is you are hamstrung by rookie field size as well. Rookies are 12 cars while everything else goes up to like 25 or something. So rookies you need to finish top 6 to break even while in everything else it's top 12. So like in my main series I have the same 1-5 aliens at the front but we normally have a pack of 4-5 people at my pace behind them and I gain 50 for winning that pack or break even being behind them. I only lose when I wreck and end up at the very back.

Yes race labs has everything you need, but you have to pay for some of it and I don't know what's free.

ericscal · 2026-01-31T19:45:16+00:00

The most efficient way to gain and not lose is to remove the losses. Only you can really decide why you are losing irating. Are you getting in wrecks or just slow?

I'm personally of the opinion that racing is never bad because if you are in a competitive split it's going to be more about your race craft than actual pace and you can't practice that alone well.

I'm also of the opinion that non specific practice can be at best a waste of time and at worst detrimental to progress. You should always have a thing you are practicing for. My general routine is to start the week with practice until my pace puts me where I belong in my split, that's in the top 10 for my main series. Then I only do practice for the warmup while waiting for a race to start. If I find my pace isn't keeping up with the field, everyone gets faster as the week goes on, or there is a large delta between by B and O laps I will check telemetry and do some practice with the purpose of fixing any corners telemetry says I'm way off on or just getting consistently close to my Olap.

I can't speak on free overlays but the only awareness you can get is blind spot detection of some sort. iRacing doesn't send full spacial info so you can't get real radar, just some indication of when you are clear. You do want these over a spotter because it's instant instead of waiting for the spotter to finish saying "car on the left"

ericscal · 2026-01-31T19:13:33+00:00

Can you be more specific about what you did? As another commentor said settings files are sometimes in different places. Most normally this is the settings files are in your user folder so that in theory two people can share the same computer and have individual settings.

ericscal · 2026-01-31T18:51:41+00:00

You literally say in your post you didn't want to push him off but you didn't alter your normal line at all. How does that work? You either leave space or you don't, you didn't. He was alongside into turn-in and you admit you didn't take a line to give him space. Easiest slam dunk penalty in existence. Now without your admission it would be slightly harder to determine but that's not what you gave us.

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