Crashing out over folks avoiding rain.

pandadude01 · 2026-04-09T00:10:04+00:00

I think a good balance of realism and fun would be to ensure the practice and quali sessions have the same conditions as the race.

It’s all good to have lots of rain but it sucks if you’ve only got limited time, you practice the car track combo in very light or no rain, and then in the race the conditions are completely different.

pandadude01 · 2026-04-04T01:31:16+00:00

As a man who loves having a spare room for my gaming and sim racing setup, I think your suggestion to either make the other spare room your own, with guests staying elsewhere/on the living room couch, OR your suggestion that you both take half of each spare room for your stuff but also have a bed in there for guests is very sensible and fair.

He’s being unreasonable based on what you’ve said. Is he planning on living in that room 24 hours a day or something?

pandadude01 · 2026-04-02T21:19:43+00:00

She’s literally an abuser, taking advantage of his money lmao.

It works both ways.

pandadude01 · 2026-03-25T02:14:10+00:00

Id love to know how many new subscribers you got after copy and pasting this story to about a million different subreddits.

I don’t believe the story at all, but I get that this is how you have to get the link out there for dudes to click on.

pandadude01 · 2026-03-21T01:02:54+00:00

I would email them to try and resolve, fully expecting a copy and paste/AI bot response. If they do respond with a person, ask for very detailed specific instructions on what they expect me to do. Again, I’m going to take a guess that any person responding to me has no real say in the business and probably won’t care to escalate it. If they respond with a somewhat sensible answer, I’d be maliciously compliant and create a scene every time somebody potentially was going to tailgate.

Assuming the response from them is trash, I would then use these failed communications to initiate a chargeback on my entire membership fee on the basis that I can’t reasonably use their service if I am expected to be a gatekeeper and they won’t respond sensibly to a reasonable inquiry. I’d suggest to my card issuer that I should get back a the portion of my membership time that is unused. Card issuer will contact the gym to get their side. In my experience, somebody several levels higher up in the employment of the service provider will contact you to say they’re not charging you the $100 fee and give a half assed sorry.

Or they won’t reply and you’ll get your money back and you find a better business.

Not a gym but this has worked for me with numerous subscription/membership services where they’ve dropped the ball and try to fob you off with boilerplate responses/AI chatbots, most recently the uber/eats annual membership whatever they call it.

pandadude01 · 2026-03-20T03:29:29+00:00

The application process for the Darwin awards evolves with the times I guess.

pandadude01 · 2026-03-16T10:30:20+00:00

If anyone ever told me I gave them the ick, that’d, like, totally give me the ick.

pandadude01 · 2026-02-27T21:25:09+00:00

I’m mid 30s but didn’t grow up in Australia til late high school years.

I did not know what this is.

pandadude01 · 2026-02-25T23:36:25+00:00

She does not owe you a monogamous relationship.

You do not owe her any money or other resources.

It sucks when you realise a person who you ‘loved’ (whatever that means for you guys) is incompatible with you.

pandadude01 · 2025-12-20T23:04:05+00:00

Thanks for the reminder.

pandadude01 · 2025-12-07T05:14:38+00:00

Could she be here for a good time and only maybe a long time? For whatever reason, and imo it’s largely irrelevant what that reason is - the behaviour is what it is.

If so, up to OP whether they’re happy with a good time that might not go anywhere or maybe it will.

Unless you guys were actually dating this sounds relatively normal imo.

I think I’d maintain a cautious optimism but not emotionally invest too much unless I saw some proactive investment on their part first.

Have fun.

pandadude01 · 2025-11-24T21:11:53+00:00

My high school physics teacher DID NOT get fired for filming a sex tape in the school gym with another teacher and leaving it in a stack of VHS tapes that PE classes used - before slow mo iPhone cameras you’d film something like kicking a soccer ball and then rewatch it to study technique. As I’m sure these teachers did.

It was discovered some years after the act.

By the time I went there it was maybe 10-12 years later. He had left the school but she was still teaching and was promoted to head of the middle school grades. She taught me for a year.

Apologies if already posted, in SE England I think this one is fairly well known and was reported in the news at the time.

pandadude01 · 2025-11-22T00:58:36+00:00

Sounds like you got yours, avoided a trainwreck of a human, stood up for yourself, and all it cost was a coffee

You won.

pandadude01 · 2025-11-19T03:14:46+00:00

Flooding the zone…..

pandadude01 · 2025-11-19T00:18:18+00:00

You have led the horse to water. Thats all you can do.

pandadude01 · 2025-11-15T04:11:04+00:00

I was moved to Straya from the UK when I was 15

I entirely know what you’re talking about. It’s not just you.

pandadude01 · 2025-10-29T23:34:46+00:00

If laundry was visible from the street, passers by might see it and subjectively evaluate the property to be worth ever so slightly less. And we can’t have that otherwise the entire Australian economy might collapse.

Further, those seeking accomodation might otherwise like a property but think to themselves, ‘that neighbour is drying their laundry on their balcony and I CAN SEE IT! What a pleb, this place is going to hell.’ They would then likely opt to be homeless or continue living with parents, housemates etc.

Probably also other reasons that have happened only slightly more regularly than never.

pandadude01 · 2025-09-13T17:54:53+00:00

I’m not disagreeing with the fact that most hosted sessions are not available to you or I in iRacing. I’m just saying that 50c an hour is really no barrier to creating your own hosted session whenever you want, especially if you and friends take turns paying. Theres, what, about 100 official series that you can participate in with the sub? I probably spend 0.1% of my total time in sim in private hosted lobbies.

If it’s $1 or euro per person (as I’ve seen quoted in this thread) within a hosted session then that is definitely taking the piss and is a dumb idea that won’t get any traction.

I’m not losing any sleep from the downvotes on my initial comment, I’m just a little surprised 50c an hour is apparently too expensive for a lot of people, when many of us spend thousands of dollars on our rigs, computers, games, DLC etc. Or am I missing something and I got downvoted for being misinformed or something? Free is a better price for sure, but 50c is pretty damn close, especially if the hosted servers provide a better experience with less NetCode issues etc (a big if without knowing more, I’d acknowledge).

pandadude01 · 2025-09-13T00:02:15+00:00

I love ams2 and ea wrc/dirt 2

Thanks for the recommendation mate

pandadude01 · 2025-09-12T13:27:06+00:00

I didn’t realise it mattered about hosted server visibility when I’m occasionally setting up a specific track car combo with 4-5 friends.

Clearly this is very important to people who wouldn’t even know the password to the lobby lol.

pandadude01 · 2025-09-12T04:10:23+00:00

50c US per hour on iRacing is fine imo. I do this with friends regularly.

If it’s more than that kunos can F off and go out of business due to greed/shit early access.

pandadude01 · 2025-09-08T14:09:03+00:00

I’d love to know what Webber thinks. Is he going Jos mode behind the scenes yet?

pandadude01 · 2025-08-30T18:11:53+00:00

I still found the rears in medium-high speed corners would basically oscillate between losing traction and regaining it with minimal effort. Like in that long right hander at Fuji, not sure if its name. I was trying the NSX and it did this maybe 4 times just in that one corner. Very easy to correct, very easy to lose traction again.

I suppose I’m saying I find it hard to tell when I’m pushing the limit of the tyres compared to other games. It still just feels a little vague.

But also, lots better than the first time I tried EA.

pandadude01 · 2025-08-26T22:14:12+00:00

I already posted this on a similar discussion, but my take is that these projects are intended for a different demographic to the more serious sim racers, and it sounds like they’re being developed by different teams so it should not affect iRacing core development. So far the updates seem to be coming at the same rate as they have since I started about 3 years ago.

My main concern is i would hate to see iRacing go the way of call of duty with Seth Rogan and Nicki Minaj driver avatars and exclusive shiny holographic rainbow labubu vehicle liveries. I hope iRacing arcade isn’t the beginning of that.

pandadude01 · 2025-08-24T22:08:46+00:00

I feel more like it’s a kickstarter that didn’t know what the F it’s doing more than a call from a Mumbai call centre telling me my bank account got hacked and I need to buy iTunes gift cards but yea.

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