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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
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The past couple of months have been a wild ride with the platform change and so much growth. The dust is has started to settle and the S.N.A.I.L. community is even stronger than ever. It should not be a big surprise that GT6 is still monking up the works. I am not going to beat up on what is still wrong with our game but more focus on how far we have come in spite of a few broken promises.
Missing content, settings that don't function and the amusing little glitches are just little inconveniences. The lack of community features and the connectivity issues are a horse of a different color. Our world has been complicated by a factor of 10 with trying to run open or friends only lobbies for race night. Multiply that by a factor of 100 when you add in the serious connection issues we have endured. Nothing that has been thrown into our path has slowed us down. It has made us stronger. All of our members working together to overcome disconnects, random idiots, entire rooms imploding and all other sorts of chaos.
Everyone, whether a seasoned veteran or a first night driver, pitched in and helped out to make sure that race night stayed on track. There were nights that went almost two hours over scheduled time. No one was willing to just lay down or give up. We will race no matter what the circumstances are. We are S.N.A.I.L. The first quote says it all. Even though we all know and expect race nights to get out of hand, we keep coming back. Nothing is going to stop us from racing.
The new generation of S.N.A.I.L. I am just so impressed with our "new" drivers. The level of passion, dedication and talent is fantastic and dead on with our Leagues values. With 9 divisions to run, it takes a huge amount of people to pull it off every week. This new part of our League is not only stepping up and filling important jobs every week, they are changing the way we do business. Team S.N.A.I.L. is filling up very nicely. The talent and fresh thinking is going beyond the duties of Team S.N.A.I.L. and finding their ideas on the thread. We are enjoying more and more race photos and everyone is putting a lot of heart in their work.
One of the coolest and most notable is our new "comic strip." @
LoganMichael has taken division photography to a whole new level. It is this kind of thinking that is going to keep our League going for years to come. @
nmcp1 isn't new but he is also riding this new energy. I have been a data specialist for a very long time now and have always considered myself to be an authority on the matter. Well, this old dog learned a new trick! @
nmcp1 has changed how we data guys make our posts. His unique approach to getting the data noticed is just awesome! It should be the standard.
There are many other new ideas bouncing around the thread as well. Even the old timers are springing into action by helping to usher in the new era of communicating with each other with an updated and more accessible directory. On top of everything else, the single coolest thing I have been seeing is the crowd that always seems to be lurking on the Results Doc. Every time I have gone these days there are at least a half dozen members there soaking up the data. Pretty damn cool...
Speaking of Team S.N.A.I.L... There are still many positions that need to be filled but this isn't and advertisement as much as it is a testament to why back ups are needed and so important. Last week in division 6, our primary host had technical issues right before race time and left without an internet connection. We had no idea until later. When the flag was supposed to be dropping, we still had no host. Within minutes of figuring out that we had a problem, there were 3 rooms ready to go. All rooms had a League approved host. We settled on one and went racing. We are S.N.A.I.L...
Although the ride has been more than just a little bumpy, the spirit of our League has persevered. Things will work themselves out in time but as we move into the future, our little place in the sim racing world will continue to grow and evolve in spite of what danger lurks ahead. We are a truly special and unique group of people and with a little hope and patients, we will have our world will be back to normal. @
zer05ive has been thinking of ways to communicate how important a functional GT6 is to our League. I hope his efforts find an open mind. Maybe if we could find a way for Kaz to come
here and see what his vision has helped create it would make a stronger statement for fixing a few things. Stranger things have happened. We are S.N.A.I.L. dammit!!
Race Clean, Race Hard, Race S.N.A.I.L.
