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Anyone Play Video Games?
Spun up another classic banger on Dreamcast the other night, in Test Drive Le Mans: Dusk falls & the lights turn on at 7PM: Driving through the night: Tire smoke & glowing rotors: Was hoping to catch a big back-fire in the pic, but I missed them all. Sunrise with some nice...- balkisobrains
- Post #522
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
Spun up some of that REAL driving simulator: Was turning about four seconds slower than my fastest recorded lap here at Suzuka, because this game is challenging. That's why it's called 'Ferrari F355 Challenge'.- balkisobrains
- Post #519
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Anyone Play Video Games?
Spun this up to unlock the duck-racing challenge & collect the Big Bronze, Silver, & Gold Medals, & also to walk around a bit: Lets go! Always fun to trigger the '747 on final to Kai Tak' animation: Walking down this alley brings you to a shop with a back doorway hidden out in the open...- balkisobrains
- Post #515
- Forum: General Discussion
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Just A Thought on New Member Introductions!
"What's New" is set as my bookmark & it's the only way I'll load here, because it will always show me all posts including every new thread & threads with new posts in chronological order, even after having already viewed them & then refreshing/ going back. I never click on the 'Hello' threads...- balkisobrains
- Post #23
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Just A Thought on New Member Introductions!
The New Member Intro posts really should have a single thread. IIRC, like it had been before. Much more chill. I suspect at least some of these "new members" are actually external scam/info bots, or internal "traffic bots". Not saying that they are traffic bots, but most web developers offer...- balkisobrains
- Post #17
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It's Time For A Jeep Build and A Pipe!
Good ol' Airbag/ Clockspring. That might be a recall item. Used to write service at a five-star dealer 20 years ago, & it was back then. =)- balkisobrains
- Post #16
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
Hit 2000 kills with my M40A5 in Battlefield3 (PS3) tonight, so checked my M40A5 stats again: M40A5 (12x Scope, no other upgrades) Shots Taken: 8591 Hit Percentage: 47% Kills: 2000 Headshots: 1648 (82.4% headshot kills) Longest Headshot: 1266 meters Compared to my numbers at 1500 kills...- balkisobrains
- Post #335
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
You have years on me, but you'll want to get these guys on your squad. I had trouble going back to an old FPS/ThirdPS game (SOCOM1 Online revival servers) because the old control scheme that I used back in the day (Sure Shot) no longer makes sense, & what would probably be viewed as the...- balkisobrains
- Post #304
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
Just crossed 1500 kills with my M40A5 in Battlefield 3 online, so I figured I'd check my M40A5 stats on battlelog: M40A5 (12x Scope, no other upgrades) Shots Taken: 6528 Hit Percentage: 46.6% Kills: 1525 Headshots: 1266 (83% headshot kills) Longest Headshot: 1266 meters Compared to my original...- balkisobrains
- Post #295
- Forum: General Discussion
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Missed Out On Syrian Latakia
3 Oaks Syrian or Syrian Star have big Syrian flavor. That's what I would suggest going for, if you're going to hunt some down. I have some stuff tinned almost 10 years ago & jarred around 3 years ago, & it still has big Syrian flavor.- balkisobrains
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Anyone Gonna Watch The F1 Decider?
Grassroots small-tire no-prep vids are the best. Most everything else that used to be exciting is now a yawn. IOMTT is still bad-ass.- balkisobrains
- Post #27
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
Edit- my longest BF3 headshot as described above was 1790m, not 2790m. Funny how my memory added 1000m. It's basically one of the longest shots you can take across the Operation Firestorm map without landing a transport heli somewhere further out to shoot from. My longest with my new account...- balkisobrains
- Post #292
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
Went back to Battlefield 3 online (PS3) after a long break due to my PSN account getting nuked & me not being able to figure out how to make a new one that would work on BF3 online. Eventually I found out a trick that I read about online & initially had dismissed it as nonsense. Turns out it...- balkisobrains
- Post #290
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
Picked up some stuff for the winter, although I played Confrontation over the weekend on the revival servers & it wasn't that interesting. Too bad BF3 official online servers are shutting down soon. Also spent some more time running the Dreamcast through the MClassic & dialing in the dedicated...- balkisobrains
- Post #263
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
New OSSC got here so I installed it, along with audio adapters for the PS2 component cable & Dreamcast VGA box, & an HDMI cable. Old OSSC with old DVI-HDMI cable, & the old analog audio cable. New cables installed alongside with what is staying. I put some color-coded stickers on the audio...- balkisobrains
- Post #258
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
In practice I found that the PS3 Wipeout title (Wipeout HD Fusion) ended up looking better when locking the PS3 at 720p & letting the MClassic upscale to 1080p. It also seemed to help out with eyestrain, which I had noticed when running WipeoutHD in 1080p mode. I found out that it's not...- balkisobrains
- Post #257
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
Multi-player Goldeneye was a lot of fun. The rule here was 'No Oddjob', since he was so small & hard to target. He might have been faster than everyone else as well, I forget exactly. One thing I got wrong above about GT5 with the PS3 set to 720p vs. 1080p, is that I mixed up the...- balkisobrains
- Post #256
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
I've done some more experimenting with the MClassic & the PS3, & I think the best way to set up the PS3 for this is to lock its output resolution to 720p & let the MClassic do any further upscaling. This seemed to give me better results with GT5 since it is really a 720p-native game & the PS3...- balkisobrains
- Post #254
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
It also upscales, I wanted it for both of those things. It also does the weird dynamic contrast or black adjustment, which I could do without. One thing I misconstrued above is that GT5 already runs at 1080p native out of the PS3. But the MClassic still seems to help it due to the...- balkisobrains
- Post #253
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Play Video Games?
Had some time to test the MClassic. I've tried it on PS3, PS2, PS1 games on PS3, & Dreamcast. The complaints of it 'crushing' the blacks is true, but I was able to adjust my TV & in-game display settings to rectify that for the most part. However, each game system seems to want different...- balkisobrains
- Post #251
- Forum: General Discussion