You know you're playing GT4 too much when...

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I always do weird **** when i'm shopping with a cart. If there's nobody in the aisle, i like to scoot the cart somewhat hard, and hang on to the back, letting my feet drag on the floor! I'm positive i'm the only adult in my town who does anything odd like this while grocery shopping...
 
I drift my shopping cart when the girlfriend isn't looking. Sometimes i almost very nearly hit the stocked items in the grocery aisles :S

In D1 i'd get extra points ;)
 
You know, I might be holding a trump card here…

I'm a couple of pages into a draft of a race report of the GVS 300 written in Chaucerian English. Yes, I am serious. I've been reading Chaucer (for the first time in years) and making notes for about a week. The really sad bit is that I tend to go overboard with things like this, and am likely to write 3000 words over six months but never show anybody, not even my wife. It would be pointless posting it cause no one is likely to understand it, but I might post it anyway. I don't know how or why I decided to do this; my field is nineteenth-century history, not fourteenth-century literature, but the decision has been made and therefore it will be done.

Strangely, the difficulty for me is not the rhyming couplets or the 'forced' iambic pentameter, but coming up with ways to say things like 'car'. I've got some great sentences so far: 'yon ironed dexter, as swifte as fowle in flight' rushing past the 'povre amblere' for example, but need more than the 'iron horse' metaphor. I think I'll assign the other cars names based on the characters in Canterbury Tales according to the cars' colour, characteristics or place of origin

I'm thinking of doing Milton and Shakespeare next. The Bard first, cause I could write that stuff in my sleep. But no Joyce, no way ever ever. Sorry to any Paddies reading this, but that's way out of my league. I might do one based on communist theory, running the DTM with the cheapest car I can find to display a great victory of the proletariat over the evil capitalist oppressors, but the bourgeois concept of prize money could interfere with that one.
 
...When you male a competition go-kart, and when placing an engine think that the kart will be quieter if you place the engine in the back. Unless of course you look behind you, where all you hear is the engine!
 
senamic
...When you male a competition go-kart, and when placing an engine think that the kart will be quieter if you place the engine in the back. Unless of course you look behind you, where all you hear is the engine!
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And you try to find the R2 button in order to look back :lol:
 
hell, I try and drift the push mower!

when you jam the lawn tractor into 6th to mow the lawn! (try that on a hilly twisty yard!)
 
911~Lad
They should do that! It would be ten times easier!
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No, it wouldn't. Cars have steering wheels and pedals for a reason. They work.

Cars controlled by joysticks have been tried, and none of them work very well.
 
MercuryCity
Dude, what are you on about?
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Please read the post again and think about what I have written. Even if you have not finished school yet you should be able to gain some understanding of what I'm on about.

While I understand this site is not meant for the dicussion of literature, surely we can talk about something more meaningful than supermarket shopping trolleys.
 
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PF, sorry mate but nope. Trolleys > Chaucer. ;) Most kids can relate to causing chaos around the supermarket, they can't relate to a dead form of English, basically a dead tongue. :sly:
 
in.s@ne
Oh god I read a book once that had its own language in it, it was soooooo difficult!
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A Clockwork Orange, By any chance? I suggest that book to everyone I meet. Edit: Wrong thread
 
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senamic
A Clockwork Orange, By any chance? I suggest that book to everyone I meet. Back to sounds. XKR with a racing exhaust
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Uh...think you got the wrong thread there, buddy. This is the "YOu've been playing GT4 too long" thread....
 
PF
You know, I might be holding a trump card here…

I'm a couple of pages into a draft of a race report of the GVS 300 written in Chaucerian English. Yes, I am serious. I've been reading Chaucer (for the first time in years) and making notes for about a week. The really sad bit is that I tend to go overboard with things like this, and am likely to write 3000 words over six months but never show anybody, not even my wife. It would be pointless posting it cause no one is likely to understand it, but I might post it anyway. I don't know how or why I decided to do this; my field is nineteenth-century history, . . .
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Or, instead of all that, and instead of [size=+1]GT4[/size] at all, you could get back to finishing your real thesis.

Please tell me you're not an accredited academic already? And assuming you're not, but if such is your goal, then steer clear away from [size=+1]GT4[/size] immediately. (pressing the handbrake while turning might help...)

P.S. Have you considered Burns?

P.P.S.
http://www.geocities.com/gt2toxs/gt/diary/2004-01-13.html
Sorry, it's [size=+1]GT3[/size], but the obsession theme is still there . . .
P.P.P.S. Those diaries are mine. I occasionally obfuscate my identity.
 
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Now for something nobody has heard in this thread before.

When you played it so much you did all you wanted to accomplish in GT4, and have since sold it while you play GT5:P in wait for GT5.
 
...when your sitting infront of your PS3 (which is not PS2 compatible) and you day dream about those days where you had a ps2 and you were giving it on the Nurburgring and Le Mans! :D

Chris
 
You know you're playing GT4 too much when you think a dude beside you is an AI you call him a :censored:head and decide to crash him... EPIC PHAIL
 
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... you're walking behind someone (thinking you get slipstream!) and then before "crashing" him, you go to the left and overtake him :lol:
 
I don't drive but do a bit of bike riding, at least 60km per week, using a 12km bike route that is rather similar to the 'ring in width, corners etc. I constantly try new approaches to hitting apexes and have recently started to stagger the tyre pressure to simulate soft/hard tyre choice etc and the effect on turn in and exit speed.

So far I've resisted the urge to go 'brrrrm brrrrm' while pedalling....
 

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