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Well I've got two weeks left in my Christmas vacation and I need something to do. Something fun. So I asked myself, "what are fun things?" and immediately to my mind leaped the RRU Racers tournament of a while ago. So let's have a LEGO racing tournament! Since we've already had a fair bit of fun with LEGO Racers, this time around we'll give LEGO Racers 2 a spin. Anyone reading this can enter, so long as they have a copy of the game to enter with! HOW TO PLAY: There are six rounds. In 24 hours I will post in this topic announcing the beginning of the first round, including the answer to the crucial question "what track is the first round on?" You will then have the next 24 hours to race around the specified course IN TIME ATTACK MODE to your heart's content. Upload a video of your best time to submit. "But Pereki!" you say. "How can I record my race?" If you don't have recording software on your computer already, I recommend Open Broadcaster Software. It's free, fairly straightforward and records LEGO Racers 2 like a charm. If you need to cut parts out of the video you make, try the free trial version of VideoPad if you don't already have video editing software. Once you've got your race recording ready, upload it to YouTube as UNLISTED and PM me the link. If you'd rather upload the video to an alternative host, that's fine too, just make sure it can't be found by any of your fellow competitors. They're all lying cheaters! Once the 24 hours of the round are up, the times of all of the competitors will be announced, and you can make public your recording at your leisure. To change things up from the official RRU Racers competition, we're going Mario Kart style (see how much i know about racing) as opposed to elimination style - you get to compete in all of the rounds, and are awarded points each round according to your placing amongst the other competitors. THE COMPETITOR WITH THE MOST POINTS AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE COMPETITION IS THE WINNER. 24 hours after the end of a round, the next round will commence. COMPETITORS THAT DO NOT SUBMIT AN ENTRY FOR A ROUND ARE NOT ELIMINATED, BUT ARE AWARDED ONLY 10 POINTS (equal to a last place ranking). HOW TO JOIN: Post in this topic saying you want to join! NO LATE ENTRIES, YOU MUST JOIN WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS, OR BY 12:00 PM PDT TOMORROW. WHAT DO I WIN WHEN I BEAT EVERYBODY? The undying love and gratitude of me, Pereki. Rules can be clarified upon request. I'm not some hack who's going to refuse to unambiguate something for no apparent reason. Good luck and have fun!

Episode 4 is up. EDIT: Or maybe it was just taken down? Link was working literally a few seconds ago for me.

Thought reading technology is extremely dangerous, I would hope science would know bounds, but it is not guided by morality and thus there are people who will strive to develop it regardless of danger. It will be applauded right before the realization of what they have created. We are slaves to our own creations and we're slowing making ourselves irrelevant through technology. Unfortunately this problem is at the very core of humans and is at the heart of the saying "if we don't do it someone else will [someone bad]". Which is funny because out of fear of ourselves, we create, however our creation creates fear. This puts us in an inescapable black hole of fear, we're basically putting out a fire with petrol. Anyway, thats enough gloom for tonight.

[21:13:03] Will Kirkby: I'm an idiot [21:13:10] Will Kirkby: I found a struct with 16 floats [21:13:18] Will Kirkby: and didn't immediately assume it's a 4x4 matrix [21:13:22] Will Kirkby: even though it obviously f@$@@#%@ is [21:16:07] A Name: Well, you're doing better than me [21:16:13] A Name: I don't even know what a Matrix is [21:16:15] A Name: Except for the movie. [21:16:33] Will Kirkby: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. [21:16:59] Will Kirkby: and if that doesn't make it to the quotes thread I will be sorely disappointed.

Confirmation that the Speed Champions theme is the result of all this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7YDMt7jOfU Like the Exo-Suit video, this was created by 0ldScratch/Chris Salt, and published officially. https://www.youtube.com/user/0ldScratch https://twitter.com/oblongpictures There's quite a few little easter eggs to find - like LEGO Dane Cook and Chris's avatar at 1:39 (and the video thumbnail). Also, while the main characters appear to use official LEGO models, the crowd's models appear to be from LDraw.

Extracted from Human QA for aliens:

Just a small nibble (no post in here for two weeks!). There is no real light - so no real shadow. The insides are left away. The model was rebuild with the LDD.

I resent that! I am an honest, upright racer! This contest would be a great break from my mounds of work, but I have so much work that I doubt I have time to race so aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

Nice! And no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCL51AA5K8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYPXVcgZo-U ft. was a coincidence.

Is that... Iron Man fighting Skywarp? I want that comic now. Regarding the blatant trace-over, it's not unheard of for comic book artists to do that. Here's some more examples. http://jimsmash.blogspot.com/2008/02/david-mack-loves-tracing-paper.html http://jimsmash.blogspot.com/2008/02/renato-arlem-loves-john-buscema.html http://jimsmash.blogspot.com/2008/02/more-greg-land-ripoffs.html (possible NSFW) http://jimsmash.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-greg-land-tracing.html

It's easy. Furthermore, it's pointless way to die. (There is also a triangles at the end of this stuff, so le717 might like it ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkMh-gNpk14

So you could build a model with your left hand and another model with your right hand and a virtual model with your eyeballs. You could totally have convention contests like that. Future's gettin' pretty weird, man.

I hope I'm not the only who often listen to Excision's tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2hT7-XVQuQ UPD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzG_jqA0rgM coveres with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgPk-kyOfG8