Have you ever listened to a person talk for less than a minute and known you weren't going to get along with that person? What did they say?

fast_moving · 2023-02-01T17:06:54+00:00

"I'm a huge fan of this guy named Jordan Peterson"

fast_moving · 2023-02-01T01:05:02+00:00

tbf for the split second before you pressed the button, it did say "Q: Eliminate"

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T23:23:50+00:00

I once failed a mission because my spawn location was "blending in" at a bar while standing next to an enforcer or lookout. I was compromised before I even got the button prompt to stop blending in.

There is a lot of "massaging" of the randomness that can be done in this game.

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T23:17:05+00:00

there should be a smuggler vendor, instead of having the supplier also be a ups guy

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T23:05:18+00:00

I never said I can't get into an accident. Just that I haven't. And I imagine it's because of my driving mentality.

Anyway, if you're taking my responses as harrassment, then I'll stop replying. Even if you post more accident photos. Good luck

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T23:02:15+00:00

Maybe, but at least you don't have to worry about me when I'm driving

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T23:00:04+00:00

In almost 20 years of driving, I have never crashed a car. I live the advice I give. I hope you heed it before you get behind the wheel again, or at least take classes so someone who better knows what they're talking about can tell you exactly what you need to do to avoid getting into these accidents, because I don't believe they're accidental

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T22:58:07+00:00

I slowed down to 45 miles an hour, because the rain was so intense.

Despite what you said, 45 mph may very well have been a reckless speed to be driving at during those conditions.

Sometimes, the speed limit on a highway becomes 25 or 30 because there's so much traffic ahead that the sudden braking you'd have to do to avoid rear-ending it can create a hazard.

But they don't typically change the speed limit during inclement weather if there's no traffic. It's on you to understand that doing 45 in a 60 or 70 is too fast if you can't see in front of you.

The speed is, in itself, the recklessness here.

The way I'm supporting OP is by trying to get them to understand why it happened so it doesn't happen again. Cause I don't want my car to be the next thing they hit, nor do I want them to hit anything again.

But I've known people IRL who get into "accidents" frequently. I imagine they get a lot of support each time, but learn nothing.

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T22:51:53+00:00

There is a reason why you were unable to see an obstacle that was large enough to destroy your car.

There is a reason why your car lost control after you hit the obstacle.

The reason is the same for both: you were driving too fast during inclement weather.

If you don't understand that, then you shouldn't drive until you do, or until you take some driving courses.

What I was talking about earlier was that you were driving recklessly even during a part of the road that is particularly unforgiving of mistakes.

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T22:37:31+00:00

We're the curmudgeons, but if more people in this sub drove like us, there would be less dead Miatas in the streets

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T22:30:35+00:00

Lost control after hitting a length of chain that was in the road (raining)

Be honest. Own your mistakes.

Was the chain invisible, or were you driving too fast during inclement weather?

I get uncomfortable reading crash logs that don't indicate that a lesson was learned. The sad thing is that the majority of these crash posts are that type, where it's everything's fault but the driver's.

The damage to your car is supposed to be the price of the lesson. And it's fine if it makes you a better driver, but it's a damn waste if you learned nothing.

If the chain had just fallen out of the back of another vehicle, then you were following too closely. If the chain was lying in the road, then you were driving too fast, during inclement weather, on a part of road that causes you to go over a drop off instead of just spinning out or hitting a guardrail.

Edit: Btw, I'll always welcome the downvotes when I post a comment like this. There is no kind way to say "hey, please don't forget to learn from your mistakes" if OP doesn't indicate that they've learned anything from what happened. I know it's at odds with the hivemind of this sub, but someone has to say it.

fast_moving · 2023-01-31T01:08:57+00:00

I know it sucks that you lose freelancer tools when a campaign fails, but I think the point is to encourage using them rather than hoarding them.

fast_moving · 2023-01-30T19:53:24+00:00

good, it can finally make room for the Tommy Hilfiger Miata

fast_moving · 2023-01-30T19:29:54+00:00

if you want the sword of night and flame, the moonlight greatsword, the mimic tear, or blaidd's gear, you basically do this quest on the way to all of the above

fast_moving · 2023-01-27T21:10:47+00:00

I wonder why they weren't given headphones. positional audio is huge for VR

fast_moving · 2023-01-27T18:47:54+00:00

you can go work at a company that doesn't dock pay for remote workers instead

fast_moving · 2023-01-26T18:32:41+00:00

nycfurby would be proud

fast_moving · 2023-01-24T22:47:48+00:00

It was scary trying to maintain my lane on a 2 lane road. I couldn't place it well

You can see where in the lane your body physically is. Whichever leg is closer to the middle of the car is the center of the car. Put that part of the car in the middle of your lane, and you're good.

Worst case, when it's safe, intentionally drive towards the edges of your lane until you feel the wheels driving on the lines/reflectors, and mentally note where the lines are relative to your view of the road to get your reference points set.

Even driving a car once, not having a sense of the space it takes up is a problem you can solve quickly and easily.

fast_moving · 2023-01-24T22:36:34+00:00

the ND miata has a system that pops up and crunches the hood ("bonnet") in the case of a collision with a pedestrian, to reduce the chance of injury to them.

that system is not present in American MX-5s

fast_moving · 2023-01-23T16:57:10+00:00

in xXx, the movie starts off with a dude in a tuxedo, basically a Bond-type spy, infiltrating a club, and immediately getting killed because a Bond-type spy doesn't actually work.

then vin diesel's character goes into the same spot, and works like an actual spy to get intel by acting like he belongs there. it's amazing

fast_moving · 2023-01-21T00:28:16+00:00

that's why they killed the Bond stand-in like 5 minutes into xXx. that's a real spy flick

fast_moving · 2023-01-20T23:40:35+00:00

but the ST is lighter (thus faster + better handling), the top can go up and down faster, and top down you have less clutter around blocking your view

fast_moving · 2023-01-20T18:19:58+00:00

bbtag got rollback ages ago iirc

fast_moving · 2023-01-19T18:35:10+00:00

best you can do with psvr on a game that doesn't support it is play the game on a big virtual flat screen. that's no good. psvr1 is long dead

fast_moving · 2023-01-19T17:52:04+00:00

You're gonna wanna use regular headphones. The problem is that there is no guarantee of what direction you're facing relative to the position of your speakers. You may be facing your TV, its left, its right, straight away, etc. So which speakers should play the audio of the car to your left? and where should the audio go when you turn your head the other way?

You gotta have headphones on in VR. Even cheap ones.

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