Mike Dragon

I just found this and I thought about sharing some thoughts. I actually commented about this sort of thing a while back but it's always good to reinforce the idea.

People are so dumb. These brave folks are not racing or simply "having fun" in the traffic with their big flashy trucks. They are trying to help people, maybe even safe one's life. You see an emergency vehicle coming your way with the sirens and lights on then simply MOVE OUT OF THEIR WAY! These are called "emergency vehicles" for a reason. You do not get the right to complain or be mad at these men and women. They are not getting in your way; it is you who is getting in their way! You getting in their way could be the decisive factor between someone living or dying. Literally. Who knows what sort of emergency they are attempting to respond to? One should be happy to let emergency vehicles through. You are potentially helping save someone's life! And who knows... maybe one day it is you who will need a fire truck, an ambulance or a police car to get to you as quickly as possible for whatever reason! I don't know, maybe you will be trapped in a burning building, had an an accident and is bleeding badly or is hostage to some criminal? What if some moron keeps them from reaching you in time? I honestly feel happy when I give way to an ambulance or fire truck. It happened at least twice that I was in traffic, at a red light, and an ambulance came up behind mine and other cars. We all put on our hazard lights and carefully (but quickly) drove away to the sides as we could to make room. Did it make a little mess of the traffic? Yes, absolutely. But it was for a good cause. And I liked it.

How my Rocket League matches usually go:

65% of the time my team is bad and either do nothing useful or simply get in my way;

18% of the time my teammates steal my goals or prevent the ball from scoring when I am about to score;

4% of the time I am being targeted by a "terminator";

2% of the time there is that one person in my team who does jacksh*t and blames me for our losses;

10% of the time I am the one who, alone, carries the team to victory;

1% of the time I actually have a good team.

Just a day in the life of a lonely Rocket League player, I guess!

Might use this thing for the event on the 13th (and 14th if I can make it).

I just uncrated a second Furry Paintjob on Rocket League. I already got one and wish I could trade it for something else with someone but I've no one to trade with.

I just had a match of Rocket League where there was nothing but DeLoreans, including my own car. lol I lost the match thanks to a crappy team (as usual :\), but it was fun hearing and seeing all those DeLoreans boost all over the place. XD

The tests, so far:

Volvo FH16 4x2

0 to 100 KM/h: 10.79 seconds

100 KM/h to 0: 3.49 seconds

Top speed:  152 KM/h

Sharp cornering at 50 KM/h: 5/5

Sharp cornering at 80 KM/h: 5/5

Sharp cornering at 90 KM/h: 3/5

Sharp cornering at 100 KM/h: 0/5

Wide cornering at 50 KM/h: 5/5

Wide cornering at 80 KM/h: 4/5

Wide cornering at 90 KM/h: 3/5

Wide cornering at 100 KM/h: 5/5

Volvo FH16 6x4

0 to 100KM/h: 12.09 seconds

100KM/h to 0: 3.66 seconds

Top speed:  152 KM/h

Sharp cornering at 50KM/h: 5/5

Sharp cornering at 80KM/h: 4/5

Sharp cornering at 90KM/h: 4/5

Sharp cornering at 100KM/h: 0/5

Wide cornering at 50 KM/h: 5/5

Wide cornering at 80 KM/h: 5/5

Wide cornering at 90 KM/h: 4/5

Wide cornering at 100 KM/h: 4.5/5

Scania Streamline 4x2

0 to 100KM/h: 10.73  seconds

100KM/h to 0: 3.52 seconds

Top speed:  166 KM/h

Sharp cornering at 50KM/h: 5/5

Sharp cornering at 80KM/h: 5/5

Sharp cornering at 90KM/h: 0/5

Sharp cornering at 100KM/h: 0/5

Wide cornering at 50 KM/h: 5/5

Wide cornering at 80 KM/h: 4.5/5

Wide cornering at 90 KM/h: 2.5/5

Wide cornering at 100 KM/h: 1/5

This is an interesting development!

Someone suggested me to check if different tires affect the top speed (for that performance test thing I am working on) and I just did. I tested two different tire sets on the same flat and straight stretch of road.

I got the top speed I collected from the first test I did with a Volvo FH16 4x2 using a certain specs configuration and equipped with the 385/65 Michelin X Line Energy F tires set on all wheels. That gave this Volvo a top speed of 152 KM/h. Next I swapped the tires for the base-game 315/70 Runner tires set (which are smaller than the Michelin I chose) and that gave the exact same Volvo with the exact same specs but different tires a top speed of 143 KM/h.

Isn't that interesting!? Who would have thought! Turns out the DLC tires aren't simply an aesthetic thing. They actually do have physics/mechanics of their own!

Advice for all the players who will participate on the anniversary races on the 13th and 14th:

Be aware of the train tracks. If it is already flashing red when you approach it, do not think you can make it and try to race through.

I never knew the human body could bend and twist like THAT!! Holy cow!!! 0___o

This guy deserves a buyer just for the effort he put into making this amazing video to sell his car.

Do not question this video. Just bear in mind that today's Friday.

To all of you Scania fans, be rejoice and be happy!

http://blog.scssoft.com/2017/04/scania-s-and-r-truck-models-development.html

Here we go. It's up. I am fairly certain this person is using a speed hack. That acceleration seems abnormally quick. Even for a Volvo.

I have strong reasons to believe I have just caught someone using a speed hack on ETS2. Evidence is being uploaded, right now.

What I think when I'm on ETS2 or ATS and I hear someone honking for no actual reason:

Oh yeah. It looks much better, now.

Not gonna bother with changing how Explorer looks, though. It can be done and I know the means to do it. Just don't want to bother with it.

Welp... been playing around with making Windows 10 look more like Windows 7 for the past three hours and I think I just broke it completely. lol

But it's ok. It's just a VM and I have a snapshot.

A friend gifted me Yooka Laylee on Steam a couple days ago. I'm enjoying it quite a lot! It's a fun game. My one and only complaint so far, which also seem to be the major complaint of most, is the camera.

They could have done a better job with it or at least have added the possibility to control it manually if the player so desire. It can be played with keyboard and mouse and with a controller on the PC. I'm using a controller and that right analog stick could very well be used to control the camera manually like most other games of the genre do. But as it is for now, the right analog stick does absolutely nothing and cannot even be set to do something. At least the camera is not too bad. *shrugs*

I just finished a delivery to a town in France (DLC region) and I gotta say... if it wasn't for the fact that people speak French, the signs are all in French and it's full of French cars, I'd live there. It's so pretty!

Today's Saturday and I am installing Windows in a Windows that is running in Windows. :I

In other words... I'm installing Windows 98 under Windows 2000 while it runs under Windows 7. And it's fun.

So, about that performance test video I plan on making. I've already selected a few trucks, all with similar specs of my choice and right now I was planning the tests. The following are what I came up with:

- Acceleration time (0 to 100 KM/h in ?? seconds);

- Top speed;

- 90° cornering at 50KM/h;

- 90° cornering at 80KM/h;

- 90° cornering at 100KM/h;

Am I missing anything?

So I bought a second monitor. Simple stuff, though. LED, 18.5' and only a single VGA connector. No HDMI or anything. I bought it mostly for work so I can work on a client's computer (whenever I have one over for maintenance) and keep doing my stuff on my own while still being able to see what is going on with the other PC without having to switch display modes on my current monitor. A second screen will be really practical for me work-wise. And when I'm not using it for work, I can simply hook it to my own PC and get some extra space to work with.

Say for instance... I want to play with a VM while watching a video on YouTube. I can have the VM in a screen and the browser in another so they won't overlap and block my sight.  Well, you know well how a dual screen setup works. lol

Now I'll just need to buy a active displayport to VGA adapter and figure out how to "install" the new screen above my current one. That bit's gonna be tricky. :\

So. April 20th, huh?

Friday's coming and the best part is that it's gonna be a holiday for me so no work on Friday!

Good thing a fix for MP is being worked on. I just tried the latest update and MP crashed so hard, but SO hard, that my whole computer froze, leaving me no alternative but to force a reboot/shutdown. Though it crashed SO hard that not even the Reset button on the computer case would respond. I had to unplug the thing from the power. O__o