Case in point: Pneumothorax. Sharp chest pain, slight impediment to breathe at the start. Could think that you broke a rib or something at first, in fact it is your lungs collapsing. You will die from this if not treated, in most cases within 24 hours, in severe cases you have less time. But especially when you are…

wrong, it helps against most severe cases, but it doesn’t help that much with the current omikron variant against infection itself. For that to be partially effective, you’d have to get a booster shot about every 4 months at the time, until we have newer vaccines who cover more variants.
Dying from covid when fully…

Vaccines won’t protect you from infection per se, but they lower the risk for severe cases by 4-6 times (depending on age and general fitness) with the currently dominant covid mutation.
Also, the peak virus load of vaccinated and non-vaccinated people who get infected is about the same, but it drops of dramatically…

Carefully optimistic here, still remembering the last Robotech board game kickstarter, and what a shitshow that was. A lot of people got badly burned on that one.

Sorry, but no. Give me well-designed reflectors and good and bright light over that shit any time of the day.
Plus, changing a bulb ob a 996 Porsche p.ex. needs one single tool, and about 3mins tops. No matter whether you change a Xenon lamp or a parking light. So it is down to the car designers to make this process…

and here I was thinking that this was a copy protection thing, only occurring on pirated versions, and the name, Torrent, was a sly nod to “bittorrent”.

100% no. You just needed an original game, the swap trick was even easier to pull of than on PS1.
Also, it was easier with an early model due to the disc access light (left out in later round button models). There are lots of videos out there showing how to do it.
Afaik it doesn’t work with multi-disc-games, unless…

Isn’t this basically the same as Liftoff! from Task Force Games / Fritz Bronner?
The same guy who later made the computer version, also known as Buzz Aldrins Race Into Space (a great game btw).

A few years ago, Fritz Bronner still sold copies of Liftoff! directly, don’t know if he still has some.

Sturmwind and Geist Force are missing. Thought the latter one sadly only got a fan release, it feels like a modern Panzer Dragoon though.

nah, you didn’t need a bootdisc or a modchip to copy games on PS1 and Saturn (google “swap trick”). And the Ps1 thrived especially because of the copies - as you still needed the console, Sony could boast that it sold millions of them, so any developer would develop for a huge audience and probably high sales numbers.
T…

No mention of Master of Orion II ?
Seriously, that series had a good start, then got an excellent, almost perfect sequel (with the balance patch for faction cost points it got a lot better), before it all went to hell with the third part and its hyper-micro-management - which was on standard setting automated, so that…

Regarding that we had positive cases after some bright people insisted on an on-site-meeting where everybody tested negative just the day prior, I’d say: Get tested before AND after any event you attend at the moment!

Sorry, but no. The rain physics in GT7 are rubbish.
The video above from the AC mod more realistically depicts a fast drive in rain conditions. You HAVE to know the track, you HAVE to anticipate corners, you are really mostly driving blind - that’s why professional racing rarely takes place in this kind of weather.

Just…

where in the world are cars without basic coverage still allowed on the road? The insurance is normally tied to the vehicle, not the driver. The insurance company has to pay out to the victim first, but if p.ex. somebody was driving who was not allowed to do so under the clauses of the contract, they can get the money…

why did your insurance pay? That’s just plain wrong. HER insurance should have had to pay everything, yours shouldn’t have had to pay a cent.

More than that, under the laws in my country, the insurance of the rental company HAS to pay me for the damages my car sustained during that stunt. THEN they can go after the f***wits who did it, and get their money back from them. But without this basic insurance that covers the damage done to OTHER cars/persons, no…

what upgrade?
The Fiesta XR2i 16V hat an 1.8 litre engine with 130hp as stock - I assumed it was quite a similar engine?

With its 950kg it went from 0-60 in 8 seconds flat, faster than the first Focus ST (which had 170hp iirc). And it went to 200km/h - if not for the gear ratio and limiter, it could’ve gone much faster.

The Cossies were no Escorts though. Yes, I know, Escort RS Cosworth it says on the badge. But the engine is bolted in longitudinally, because what you have is a Ford Sierra with a shortened wheelbase, on which coachbuilder Karmann had planted an Escort shell.
Drove one once, it is one of the best cars I ever had the…

The thing is: We do NOT want reality here.
This is a Game. Gran Turismo was always famous because we COULD race those exotics WHENEVER WE WANTED. Alongside with more mundane cars nobody in their right mind would want to take on a track.
That is what made the Gran Turismo series great. That is what is missing from this…

I think he still holds a grudge from when he tried to buy engines off of them and they told him: “njet”.
That was one of the reasons why SpaceX (had to) developed all of their stuff on their own. And now it is one of their greatest assets.