Racing Simulators

[zourtney]

We could race the Suburban, perhaps...

[Nick]

Haha. It would lose. And the steering wheel is off at the moment.

[zourtney]

The steering wheel is off? That brings up some old childhood memories:

My Dad used to own an early 70s BMW Bavaria. I don't remember much about it mechanically, but I do remember that it was his daily driver for many of my childhood years. However, it must have had some problems because he also had a very similar car parts car. We called it The Green Car because of its exterior was a nasty mix of green and primer (if I remember correctly). It never ran, but Cody and I would play in that thing for hours.

For whatever reason, the steering wheel had been unbolted and set back in place. It was always a fun scenario to pretend like we were driving along and OH NO! the steering wheel popped off! 

...Just as an aside

[Nick]

Hahahah! I think you had an awesomer childhood then I did. I had to wander the neighborhood hoping to  find someone to play with.  You just had to wander out to the broken car/play house.
Oh what a power force, nostalgia. So much so that it can make men envy children.

OH NO! the steering wheel popped off!

That should be your catch phrase

[zourtney]

Ok!

We should get a video camera and make a 2 second video of "OH NO! the steering wheel popped off!" We could throw it on the end of videos we put on the interwebs.

[Nick]

OK! Lately I have been wanting to play with video. I keep wanting to mount cameras on things that don't normally have them...

[zourtney]

Sounds good to me. We have more than enough video capture devices around. Francine?

[Nick]

We did make that camera mount on the dash in there. Its too bad that she is mostly dead. We need to sell her I have no monies to make her work again. The go carts could use some camera mounts though And every other vehicle I have access to. Maybe find a way to do some aerial photography. Hey... I think brad just got a helicopter. 

[zourtney]

Man, I haven't played my racing games in a long time. I think it's about time to do some racing.

[Nick]

Yeah, me either. Gt2 and a playstation can come play any time you like. Or your xbox racer isn't bad either. Now when will the PS3 be less the $100......

[zourtney]

Hmmmm. Let's see... [crunch, crunch...crunch]

Uh, 2022.

And I'm not really joking. I think the PS2 came out in '98.

[Nick]

Thats so sad. And they still cant emulate the PS2 very well. I don't think they will ever do it with the PS3. All I want is gran turismo man!

[zourtney]

How odd. It's such old technology. It doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to emulate, even if there is some proprietary junk in there. And knowing Sony, there probably is.

[Nick]

Its because they use a cell processor. And emulating all the cores is easy, its keeping then in sync and doing it at an acceptable speed that is hard.