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by **Dave Henri** » Thu, 06 Jun 2002 15:42:58

......this is an ontopic discussion as you will see...

I'm trying out the n2002 patch, running offline at pocono. opengl
framerates seem good. AI is scaled way back so I get pole and drive away.
20 laps in I catch the tail of the pack and start lapping a couple of cars.
AT THAT POINT my wife needs me...stupid cus that I am I pause the sim and
head up stairs..1 freakin hour later I get back and unpause the sim...and
immeadiately pile drive a lapped car. 1st yellow...
pit first but repairs slow me down and I come out in 5th...On the restart I
lose one posistion and then swing just wide in turn 3. An AI car drives for
the opening and we touch...I save my car but the AI bangs into a couple more
cars and yellow returns...I start noticing the screen hiccupping. nobody
pits under this yellow and we resume. on the long pond straight, somebody
behind us wrecks and we go right back to yellow...the screen hiccups are
still there and the hard drive light is flickering like mad. Exiting turn
3 I'm behind a almost all the leaders as they have bunched up, I drive for
apex get what appears to be a good launch for the straight...I figure I can
pick up several posistions racing back to the line...but I get another
hiccup and my car lurches into the pack...after watching the hood get peeled
back and shoved in my face I quit in disgust...all because I chose answer my
wife instead of the proper course of action which would have been to IGNORE
her til AFTER I finished the 50 lap event.
dave($*&#!!)henrie

by **Chris H** » Thu, 06 Jun 2002 16:50:14

Ah, yes. However, you lived to tell about it. Whereas automatically
pushing the ignore button may have had the opposite result. "Can't you see
I'm racing," doesn't catch any concessions from the Wife here either.
--
Chris H.

by **Steve Whitt** » Thu, 06 Jun 2002 17:40:58

man, don't I know where you're coming from!!!
Even more frustrating after 166 laps at Daytona, in the lead, amongst lapped
traffic....

we need a save game option (for us married guys)

Steve

by **elrik** » Thu, 06 Jun 2002 17:48:25

Women have to be "broken in" correctly right from the start when it comes to
our computer time. They have to be consistantly shown that when we are on
the computer, intensily engaged in whatever our current hot game (sim) is,
that we are under no circumstances to be interfered with. (ie. call me when
the fire gets close to THIS room. etc)

If this attitude is consistantly drilled into them from the very first date
right on through the courtship, wedding, kids etc. then they should easily
become accustomed to the idea and soon stop any complaining and take the
whole "nothing comes between me and my computer" thing as being completely
normal.

At least that's the way I handled it with my ex wife. ;o)

Elrikk

by **JTBur** » Thu, 06 Jun 2002 21:50:17

You said it, Dave. It can be like a morgue around my house, but as soon as
I really get into a race, the phone rings, someone's at the front door, my
wife decides she needs to talk, the kids want to play, my dog wants out,
etc, etc ....... I guess timing is everything!

Todd

by **Kerry Gran** » Thu, 06 Jun 2002 22:25:09

ROFLAO

Kerry

> > ......this is an ontopic discussion as you will see...

> > I'm trying out the n2002 patch, running offline at pocono. opengl
> > framerates seem good. AI is scaled way back so I get pole and drive
> away.
> > 20 laps in I catch the tail of the pack and start lapping a couple of
> cars.
> > AT THAT POINT my wife needs me...stupid cus that I am I pause the sim
and
> > head up stairs..1 freakin hour later I get back and unpause the
sim...and
> > immeadiately pile drive a lapped car. 1st yellow...
> > pit first but repairs slow me down and I come out in 5th...On the
restart
> I
> > lose one posistion and then swing just wide in turn 3. An AI car drives
> for
> > the opening and we touch...I save my car but the AI bangs into a couple
> more
> > cars and yellow returns...I start noticing the screen hiccupping.
nobody
> > pits under this yellow and we resume. on the long pond straight,
somebody
> > behind us wrecks and we go right back to yellow...the screen hiccups are
> > still there and the hard drive light is flickering like mad. Exiting
> turn
> > 3 I'm behind a almost all the leaders as they have bunched up, I drive
> for
> > apex get what appears to be a good launch for the straight...I figure I
> can
> > pick up several posistions racing back to the line...but I get another
> > hiccup and my car lurches into the pack...after watching the hood get
> peeled
> > back and shoved in my face I quit in disgust...all because I chose
answer
> my
> > wife instead of the proper course of action which would have been to
> IGNORE
> > her til AFTER I finished the 50 lap event.
> > dave($*&#!!)henrie

> Women have to be "broken in" correctly right from the start when it comes
to
> our computer time. They have to be consistantly shown that when we are
on
> the computer, intensily engaged in whatever our current hot game (sim)
is,
> that we are under no circumstances to be interfered with. (ie. call me
when
> the fire gets close to THIS room. etc)

> If this attitude is consistantly drilled into them from the very first
date
> right on through the courtship, wedding, kids etc. then they should easily
> become accustomed to the idea and soon stop any complaining and take the
> whole "nothing comes between me and my computer" thing as being completely
> normal.

> At least that's the way I handled it with my ex wife. ;o)

> Elrikk

by **Eldre** » Thu, 06 Jun 2002 23:45:25

>Women have to be "broken in" correctly right from the start when it comes to
>our computer time. They have to be consistantly shown that when we are on
>the computer, intensily engaged in whatever our current hot game (sim) is,
>that we are under no circumstances to be interfered with. (ie. call me when
>the fire gets close to THIS room. etc)

In one of my GPL leagues, a wife caused a problem. The guy involved was 2nd on
the grid. His wife comes in right as the green flag is about to drop and asks
him a question. Scares the hell outta him, distracts him from the start, so he
doesn't move when the flag drops. Of course, the guy behind him on the grid
expects the 2nd place guy to go, plows into the stationary car, and chaos
ensues... Yelling back and forth in chat and e-mail, and the same between the
guy and his wife(so we heard later). Whew...

"Ex"...?<g>

Eldred

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by **Eldre** » Thu, 06 Jun 2002 23:45:25

>man, don't I know where you're coming from!!!
>Even more frustrating after 166 laps at Daytona, in the lead, amongst lapped
>traffic....

>we need a save game option (for us married guys)

The 'save game' feature would have had you in the same spot, maybe a lot later
in the day(or the next). How would you have been able to jump back in the same
spot, and not have the same result?
I agree a save game should be there, but not for the reasons you and Dave
give...

Eldred
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by **Dave Henri** » Fri, 07 Jun 2002 01:05:53

> x-no-archive: yes

> Whitty"

> > >man, don't I know where you're coming from!!!
> > >Even more frustrating after 166 laps at Daytona, in the lead, amongst
> lapped
> > >traffic....

> > >we need a save game option (for us married guys)

> > The 'save game' feature would have had you in the same spot, maybe a lot
> later
> > in the day(or the next). How would you have been able to jump back in
the
> same
> > spot, and not have the same result?

> I've done it with the GPx series. I paused the game 'casue the phone rang,
> or some other interruption. On return I saved the game to disk then tried
to
> resume.

> Often it would take 2 or 3 attempts to resume correctly without a crash,
but
> it could be done.

> That's why they should _all_ have a save game option.

> Hey! Aren't there any clever little utilities out there that would allow
you
> to save a paused game?

> There must be one!?

> R.

It wasn't so much a save game I was after, but I can't for the life of me
figure out why the program would be continously accessing the hd after the
long pause...the graphic pauses caused intermitently by this really made it
undrivable. Kinda wonder how folks who have tried the hibernate feature or
just minimize it for days get by without that occurring.
dave henrie

by **bertr** » Fri, 07 Jun 2002 01:19:13

...........As one of my friends has said......... "Women -- Can't live with 'em,
Can't live with 'em" (No that's not a typo.....)

Or another good one: "Time away from the wife makes you appeciate time away
from the wife."

> ......this is an ontopic discussion as you will see...

> I'm trying out the n2002 patch, running offline at pocono. opengl
> framerates seem good. AI is scaled way back so I get pole and drive away.
> 20 laps in I catch the tail of the pack and start lapping a couple of cars.
> AT THAT POINT my wife needs me...stupid cus that I am I pause the sim and
> head up stairs..1 freakin hour later I get back and unpause the sim...and
> immeadiately pile drive a lapped car. 1st yellow...
> pit first but repairs slow me down and I come out in 5th...On the restart I
> lose one posistion and then swing just wide in turn 3. An AI car drives for
> the opening and we touch...I save my car but the AI bangs into a couple more
> cars and yellow returns...I start noticing the screen hiccupping. nobody
> pits under this yellow and we resume. on the long pond straight, somebody
> behind us wrecks and we go right back to yellow...the screen hiccups are
> still there and the hard drive light is flickering like mad. Exiting turn
> 3 I'm behind a almost all the leaders as they have bunched up, I drive for
> apex get what appears to be a good launch for the straight...I figure I can
> pick up several posistions racing back to the line...but I get another
> hiccup and my car lurches into the pack...after watching the hood get peeled
> back and shoved in my face I quit in disgust...all because I chose answer my
> wife instead of the proper course of action which would have been to IGNORE
> her til AFTER I finished the 50 lap event.
> dave($*&#!!)henrie

by **Philste** » Fri, 07 Jun 2002 06:15:14

LOL. I know the feeling, happens to me all the time. That's why I
usually wait until she's sleeping before logging on.

> ......this is an ontopic discussion as you will see...

> I'm trying out the n2002 patch, running offline at pocono. opengl
> framerates seem good. AI is scaled way back so I get pole and drive away.
> 20 laps in I catch the tail of the pack and start lapping a couple of cars.
> AT THAT POINT my wife needs me...stupid cus that I am I pause the sim and
> head up stairs..1 freakin hour later I get back and unpause the sim...and
> immeadiately pile drive a lapped car. 1st yellow...
> pit first but repairs slow me down and I come out in 5th...On the restart I
> lose one posistion and then swing just wide in turn 3. An AI car drives for
> the opening and we touch...I save my car but the AI bangs into a couple more
> cars and yellow returns...I start noticing the screen hiccupping. nobody
> pits under this yellow and we resume. on the long pond straight, somebody
> behind us wrecks and we go right back to yellow...the screen hiccups are
> still there and the hard drive light is flickering like mad. Exiting turn
> 3 I'm behind a almost all the leaders as they have bunched up, I drive for
> apex get what appears to be a good launch for the straight...I figure I can
> pick up several posistions racing back to the line...but I get another
> hiccup and my car lurches into the pack...after watching the hood get peeled
> back and shoved in my face I quit in disgust...all because I chose answer my
> wife instead of the proper course of action which would have been to IGNORE
> her til AFTER I finished the 50 lap event.
> dave($*&#!!)henrie

--
Philippe "Philster" Sergerie

by **Edward** » Fri, 07 Jun 2002 08:08:27

I thought it was, You can't live with 'em and you can't shoot them! :-)

--
Edward
Commissioner
MARA Middle-Aged Racers Association

by **guod** » Fri, 07 Jun 2002 08:46:04

A suggestion: earphones with heavy insulated covers. "Dear, I don't want my
loud sims to bother you so I got these earphones.....".

| ......this is an ontopic discussion as you will see...
|
|
| I'm trying out the n2002 patch, running offline at pocono. opengl
| framerates seem good. AI is scaled way back so I get pole and drive
away.
| 20 laps in I catch the tail of the pack and start lapping a couple of
cars.
| AT THAT POINT my wife needs me...stupid cus that I am I pause the sim and
| head up stairs..1 freakin hour later I get back and unpause the sim...and
| immeadiately pile drive a lapped car.... <snip>

by **John Metco** » Fri, 07 Jun 2002 10:41:45

ride 'em
cowboy!!

you are sooo funny
but to a degree you are right
hope you land a better one next time

start when it comes to
shown that when we are on
current hot game (sim) is,
with. (ie. call me when

by **Joachim Trens** » Fri, 07 Jun 2002 16:43:16

Why blame your wife? It was you who pile drove the lapped car, not your wife
;-)

Achim

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