naska90 I appreciate your not from a English speaking country mate but it’s obvious what carbonfibre is saying in regards to quotes like: “this is not my best lap, i could be 0,5s faster. I just recorded the first good lap i made”… You beckon to be poked fun at when you’re clearly an excellent driver and quite the happy chap about your achievements, which distracts from the actual point of the video I think. Talk about being blown out of all proportion over a misunderstanding.

This has nothing to do with policital correctness either because I dont subscribe to that lunatic concept where people have to tip-toe around and reorganise the English language.
Like chairman now being stated as chairperson in case it offends those of the opposite sex. Mankind being changed to Humankind because some idiots (not retards) don’t see thate that ‘man’ was already a shortened version of HuMAN in that context. Who are these over-sensitive loons anyway ?
These are the people who need to get a grip.

This is about context as you said. Calling a guy a retard because he posted a fun video. I just see that as wrong.
Nothing to do with being offended or sensitive to it. It just ain’t cool.

Just needed to clear that up.

This whole thing ran wild to the state of a debate… To start with I just posted a short, non-to-it other than a quick question towards some part of the “layout” of this youtube video… Nothing I ever imagined would set fire to this blaze of a debate. It just escaladed.

On one side I regret posting that short remark, but on the other hand it’s fine discovering that there’s still differences in this globalized world.

this was quite CLEARLY a light hearted piece, suggested by the title itself, and who cares if he’s trying to promote? why do you care? do these petty things really affect you that much?

its good to be skeptical of course, but not for something as trivial as this, who the hell cares. the fact is, i’ve never seen it being done before, and it really showed the connection between the car ingame in rfactor, and the steering wheel, compared to when you see shots of people playing crappy games like forza with a wheel.

anyone who criticizes this vid on things like merit, artistic value etc… is being pathetic. get over it.

on the flip side i have no problem with using the word ‘retard’. its not that bad. i have no problems with any words really, people can use what they want. so if people are getting annoyed because of the language used in the first 4 posts, thats their problem, and their being petty and pathetic if it offended them in any way. get a grip.

Personally I like to have hint of sceptic view upon a lotta things, and then if I get possitively surprised by these “lotta things” because they weren’t so bad in the end, that’s a huge upside. That’s the way I look at it, keeps me up to have these “up-tours” (and no I don’t find I use too much energy being sceptic ;) )

Whatever dude, let’s just agree to disagree.

I agree that some of the first comments were uncalled for, but being sceptic is not going across the line or is it???

Naska: Again, has being sceptic become a sin? And no I’m not one of them who have said you’ve wasted your life ;) Obviusbly not cause your english is fine for example, so don’t say “sorry for my bad english”. Nothing to be sorry for, dude :)

it’s not a demonstration of “my incredible talent”.
it’s simply a demonstration of how realistic is rfactor, and how hard is going fast.

just one consideration: this is not my best lap, i could be 0,5s faster. I just recorded the first good lap i made..

@carbonfire: i didn’t waste my life, it was just a funny experiment. probably, posting your comments here, you waste more time than me
anyway
show me your driving skills, before calling my driving “rubbish”

(sorry for my bad english)

I fail to see what, in this video, justifies the comments in the first few posts. I saw this video as nothing more than a bit of a laugh.
In no way at any point was I watching it thinking of ‘ego-pumping’ or self promotion. I just saw it for what it was.
And who cares if he used the word demonstration ? Save your nit-picking for something relevant like tracks and cars like any normal sim-racer.
It was certainly a demonstration of a method of how to composite a real sim driver onto a replay of an rfactor lap.

@FooAtari: sorry to burst your bubble, but freedom of speech is an illusion. You think you have it but you don’t.
Which is good for placating the people who think they do.
For example, Americans like to play the freedom of speech card but try going up to a policeman for a laugh and saying you’re going to kill the President. Then see how free your speech is :)
That blog system sounds interesting. I think Ive seen the ting you mean where you get thumbs up and thumbs down icons on comments.
Deleting comments don’t bother me one bit. I`ll know if one is deleted its for a good reason.
I wont go around shouting that my liberties are being violated or any of that type of nonsense. Some ppl here need to STFU before they say something that degenerates into a proper argument and then people will soon start complaining that they dont want to read all that stuff. So stop it before it starts, I say.

End of Demonstration.

F1Racer:

By over negative, I mean things like calling the guy a retard etc. There’s no call for that. Besides, freedom of speech is way overrated.

Overated? All kinds of wrong. I agree the first few comments were uncalled for, and posts like that do make reading comments a pain in the ass. But the minute comments start to getting deleted is when I stop using this site.

Best thing would be to implement a vote system that many sites and blogs use now so coments can be voted down and hidden, but still viewable should you want to read them

That said I didn’t rush the guy with words as retarted and rubbish ;)

Have a great evening!

eiwfihaaa:
i strongly disagree about getting an admin to ban over-negative comments, jesus. this isn’t Stalinist russia. theres nothing wrong with banter, i dont care what the level is.

By over negative, I mean things like calling the guy a retard etc. There’s no call for that. Besides, freedom of speech is way overrated.
Its not nice to sift through comments like that. Theres other places for that crap.
Personally, if I see a news item posted that I may not like or have no interest in, I don’t take the time out to actually post just so I can berate and/or insult those involved. I just move on to the next item.
Getting into a debate is a whole other thing ;)

@Pugamall: Yeah whatever happened to having your name on cars and side windows etc ? I’m sure they could make that happen these days and its a small detail that really adds to the atmos. Face Factory sounds cool.
Would have been better if Face Factory was one of those products that could be used in multiple games if they had support for it. Companies are missing out on cool stuff here :)
On a slightly different note I wanna know why GTA IV has more driver to car animation that any sim out there ! :)
Getting in/out, body movement when you turn, hit something or steer. Hell you can even get blasted out of the windscreen :) Come on NFS:Shift, let Nico Bellic drive ! :D

Johnny Dangerously:

Heh, I’m not sure *who* jumped the shark here; Virtual-R or Mr. Fontana. Amusing video nonetheless.

Slow news day?

Not really, good and creative ideas always deserve to be featured though. I figured the video would be something others would enjoy as the idea is pretty clever.

If you come up with something equally creative, I´m happy to cover it too

It actually looks surprisingly realistic if you are willing to ignore the rough edges and squint a bit. The angles are good. Fun.

Also, asshats et. al. : Yo’ momma.

however – i can’t believe people were criticising this vid, wtf? It was interesting to watch, purely because you got to see the future – i.e. what it will be like when we all have cube wraparound displays so we’re in the game – i thought it was an interesting glimpse of the future. the car looked so much more connected when you’re looking at the actual steering wheel turning, rather than the crappy ingame wheel in replays.

cool vid, and who cares if its self promotion? how ridiculous.