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  1. RIP old PC's primary hard drive. :'(

     

    Now I gotta find another IDE hard drive to replace it.

  2. I'm feeling bored and I've got a light headache that some people with bad mics gave me on ETS2, earlier. :( I have a commission to work on but I am not in the mood for that. I might play around with some old operating system in a VM for a while, I guess.

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    2. LordBenji

      LordBenji

      I never understood why sometimes it sounds like they have super bad quality mics... But I'll tell you a quite interesting scenario:

      I was once driving on ATS with a guy who speaks French. Being in a Skype call, sometimes I could hear echos and some sounds that came from his speakers. There was another guy speaking French in the CB, but for some reason, it was loud and unclear. Although... I could hear it better from the speaker of my friend via the Skype call.

       

      So that makes me think the "bad quality" might have something to do with different locations... Although, quality vary, and there was times I could clearly hear and understand people from France, or Australia for example.

  3. Got two new ATS videos uploaded and ready to be watched. Though I'm keeping them Unlisted for now. I still need/want to make their thumbnails. :\

  4. I haven't reported anyone in a while. Hmm... I think I will go to Death Road, tonight.

    1. JeKnYan
    2. LordBenji

      LordBenji

      You should get on earlier tomorrow ;) plenty of impatient and reckless drivers to catch

  5. I decided to try out recording directly to .mp4 instead of .avi to see how much of a difference that would make on file size, frames and overall image quality so what best way to it than with some high speed on an empty server with several changes of camera while keeping an eye on that Players Near You list for safety, hm? What could possibly go wrong, again?!

     

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    2. Zebulink{aus}

      Zebulink{aus}

      I suppose the real question is: What worked better, AVI or MP4?

    3. LordBenji

      LordBenji

      I always record and render videos in MP4. But I usually don't go that fast with the cinematic camera on...

    4. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      @Zebulink{aus}

      MP4's fine but AVI still seem to be the better choice when it comes to image quality. I couldn't help but notice some blurs/smudges here and there on tests with MP4 while AVI keeps it all really clean and sharp, though at the cost of extra weight in the file.

       

      @LordBenji

      I don't, either. Only on specific occasions and only IF I deem it safe enough. That's why, whenever I do do it, I either keep the players list on-screen all the time or I check on it constantly. That way, if someone comes into my range, I have enough time to slow down to a safe speed in order to avoid any potential accidents.

  6. SCS missed a pretty good opportunity to do on France what they did on Arizona, in ATS: Hide a race track. Tucson has one. The France DLC would be the perfect excuse to hide a track near Le Mans. 'Cause you know... the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans. I don't mind not having a track in ETS2 and don't really care. I'm just saying they missed the opportunity to do for ETS2 what they did for ATS.

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    2. NoTime4name

      NoTime4name

      It would've been cool, it's one of my favourite tracks. There's still lots of opportunities for them to add famous tracks in ATS if they keep their promise to have all of the States in the game eventually

    3. LordBenji

      LordBenji

      There's a lot of race tracks in Europe and America. I would also understand if SCS didn't want to add more of them as it's a truck simulator, not a racing simulator.

    4. SgtBreadStick

      SgtBreadStick

      i wish it was both :P

  7. The new game mode looks so cool!! :D

     

    1. Zelcrum

      Zelcrum

      wow - one more mode which will make me rage :/ 

    2. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      But isn't that what online games are for? :troll:

  8. Help me, please?

    I was browsing through my music folder and I found this MP3 named "Raimbow" (yes, with an M) and upon listening to it I remembered it was a song I had on a cassette tape many years ago. To be exact, I put the song to play and with a cable hooked from the headphones jack in the cassette player to the mic jack in the computer, I recorded the song to MP3 but that's as far as my knowledge about this song goes. I have absolutely no idea whatever happened to that tape and I would like to know what this song is actually called and who made it.

    So my question is... do you have ANY idea what this song might be and who made it?

     

     

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    2. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      Good taste, my friend! I dare say I do have a pretty good taste for music! *smug grin* XD

    3. SvenCRO

      SvenCRO

      Very nice song :)

    4. gwait

      gwait

      @Mike Dragon sorry got a bit mixed up.. it's meant to be spelled "Shazam", not "Shahzam"... I suppose I watch too many CS:GO matches because there is a professional player by the nickname of "ShahZaM" :D 

  9. T'was a fun convoy! But very weird. NCZ all over the map! It was good for there have been bumps and whatnot but honestly? I didn't really like it.

     

    Anyway, here's some screenshots of the event! I got lost at a roundabout, and saw lots of familiar faces and smashed my face on a toll accidentally.

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  10. In position and on my way to MP. I am pretty certain I will have to find somewhere else to park, though, for that area will be crowded.

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  11. About to get ready for today's convoy. :)

  12. Have any of you ever read any of the books from the Wings of Fire series? If so, did you like it? Would you say it's worth the money and recommend me? I haven't read any good book in years and these seem interesting.

  13. A little photo shoot after a very nice drive from Osnabrück to Sheffield through Europoort and then to Manchester with @HerrSwizz.

     

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    I took a couple more from other angles but I got distracted and forgot I was in Photo Studio mode so they ended up messed up a little. How, you may ask? I pressed F12 instead of clicking on the Take Picture button. :I How dumb is that!?

     

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    Get better soon, man! :)

     

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    2. Mike Dragon
    3. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      Oh my God! I simply can NOT find these trucks good looking at all! XD

    4. LordBenji
  14. It's Friday, my working day is technically done. I think I will chill on ETS2 for a while after I am done slipstreaming some updates into this Windows 7 ISO. Would rather chill on ATS but servers are quite empty at this hour. :\

    1. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      That would be fun, I guess. I rarely ever drive with anyone. Will depend on my ping, though. Usually around this hour my ping spikes up a lot on EU2 for whatever reason. :s

    2. LordBenji

      LordBenji

      One of my friend told me his ping gets high too during certain time of the day, and he's from Netherlands... For me, I never realized any ping spikes except for only one exceptional day when I was on ATS. I was driving with another friend and we both noticed our ping would get very high for very short period of time, but we didn't get kicked surprisingly.

  15. Steam bugged out pretty bad, this morning. After the last update it required me to login again again (I had it set to autologin) but it refused my Steam authenticator codes. D: I had to cycle through several codes until it accepted one.

    1. RadioactivePotato

      RadioactivePotato

      Let's hope that doesn't happen to me because i use the Steam Authenticator too B)

  16. WHY IS THIS SO PERFECT?!?!?

     

    1. Save

      Save

      i've seen this.. amazing

  17. Remember when I mentioned I wanted to do a short playthrough of Gulman? Well, I did. :I

     

     

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    2. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      Nah. It's just a VM.

    3. krypto_one

      krypto_one

      I know you said it was a VM but it looked like it wasn't a VM.

    4. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      Quite convincing, isn't it? Here's the final proof that will eliminate any remaining doubts you may have.

       

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  18. I just found this video and for whatever reason, it made me a bit emotional.

     

    And to think that on the one day that guy decided, for the first time ever, to overtake his friend, such action was the defining move that decided whether his best friend could die or not. I know this is a old thing but God bless these two!

  19. I wish SCS would talk about the bus/coach simulator DLC for ETS2. Either news on the progress of the project or to inform if it has been cancelled. :(

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    We've had the stations and stops for ages, now, but no word on the buses since way before ATS's development was announced. (Don't even think about suggesting bus mods, please. I don't care about mods. I want the real deal.)

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    2. Killua  // Ireland ^_^

      Killua // Ireland ^_^

      seeing as u work for SCS :P 

    3. LordBenji

      LordBenji

      List of things I want: Buses, Oversize loads, Food, Tandem trailers, Company skins on trucks

    4. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      @RootKiller, my good sir... that smile better mean something really good!! O-O

  20. I've got Gulman (yes, that awful and weird Russian game) to work a couple weeks ago. I want to make a little playthrough video on it with commentary/my reactions. What do you think?

  21. One of my favorite songs from one of my top-favorite musicians. <3

     

    1. SvenCRO

      SvenCRO

      Wow nice songs :)

  22. If the cars on MP had a promo ad when they were released, this could have been it.

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    Kudos to whoever catches the pun I made there.

    1. grizzbear
    2. LordBenji

      LordBenji

      Never stop having fun!

  23. I've done a delivery to Tucson then I decided, as per usual, to hang out and chill by the race track a little. Little did I know this was going to be track day so I spent the following three hours racing around the track with some random people. It was fun. :)

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    1. Killua  // Ireland ^_^

      Killua // Ireland ^_^

      I haven't been there for months :unsure:

    2. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      You're missing out. You should get your head out of Death Road, more often! I recorded many of the races. There were some crashes and spin outs. It was super fun. I even won some. :D

    3. Killua  // Ireland ^_^

      Killua // Ireland ^_^

      I just assumed that was empty now :P Haven't even explored the map since the rescale :unsure:

  24. For whatever reason I decided to deliver through Death Road (Brussels-Hannover). Though I had many near-misses and several moments in which I had to "throw" the truck off road, I am I surprised that I actually managed to finish the trip with 0 damage to the trailer and the cab.

    1. LordBenji

      LordBenji

      Lucky.. I went through a few times, flipped once because of a truck undertaking on shoulder, lots of bad selfish people overtaking.

    2. Killua  // Ireland ^_^

      Killua // Ireland ^_^

      Lucky :P I was there with some other APL drivers and got hit twice :rolleyes: had to f7 due to engine mals :rolleyes: Loads of crazy drivers :lol:

    3. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      Yeah, I too would say I got lucky, this time. I like that road but I no longer like driving through it. Too much madness. Good for getting footage for my series, though. But it can provide too much footage. I need/want variety. Definitely not going to fill up an episode with a bunch of DR clips. Booooooooooooooooooring!!

  25. Every time I DON'T want to drive through Death Road, all the loads I want to take will always have their suggested route going through that road. Every time. But when I DO want to drive through Death Road, I can never find a single load that will suggest that road as a route. Every. Single. Time.

    1. LordBenji

      LordBenji

      You don't always have to follow the suggested route. A friend of mine always love to take a small detour when he takes a load.

    2. Mike Dragon

      Mike Dragon

      I'm the one in here who best knows about that.

    3. chipmunk197

      chipmunk197

      i go by Switzerland to go to Calais or into the France dlc  

       

      i avoid Brussels and that road 

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