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Went drag racing again this weekend... got a better shot of more races... unfortunately the timer in the right lane was messed up so half the time the ET's I got were all messed up.

My last run against an Evo I lost... but it said I won and I did the whole run in .4 seconds somehow... yeah... no.

 

off topic but why not leave it in drive instead of manually over-riding. Then surely if your on full throttle then it will shift as late as possible anyway. ( i think you missed the shift out of second on first run, i heard a rev limit)

 

Because it's an old, clunky, Chevy transmission that likes to shift way to early. If I punch it in drive, it would have shifted into second at about 2000RPM and third at about 2200 again... so instead I just hold onto it a little longer myself since it doesn't want to do it and it wants to try and be a Cadillac.

And as far as the rev limit is concerned, its not so much I hit the revlimit as the thing just ran out of puff... the Crossfire engines were so choked down by the intake that when you get above about 4500RPM it actually creates a small vacuum in the engine as it just can't pull air into it fast enough. That means that they don't even need a rev limiter because physics kinda takes care of the job anyways... plus if it got above about 5200RPM it would just end up floating the valves anyways

 

ahh good ol' GM

 

I wish I was gonna be in town for when this happens, just to walk past it and see it from afar. Presumably a super classy event.

 

I'm doing some updates for my very own circlejerk subreddit, r/AyyyyyyMG. Yeah, as the name implies, it's a AMG-themed circlejerk subreddit.
(I know the name is just a AyyMD reference lol)

It's free to join. And if you joined this subreddit, you must pledge your soul to the mighty AMG gods!
Link

 

Before sunrise, I did measure temperature of balcony concrete structure, 32C, no wonder it is instant sauna if I close doors and windows.

Thankfully it should soon get rainy and below 20C.

Desk fan has been running non stop more than a week as without airflow I would melt to shapeless blob of goo.

Tomorrow should get gtx1080 to borrow and certainly I hope cooler temperatures for testing that, M2 slots are under GPU and under CPU heat sink, so this heat tends to put SSD temp over 40 when Beam is running, can't remember what was point when Samsung started thermal throttling, but seeing up to 46C is about 10C higher than normal highest temp, as is preferable room temperature.

As a bonus, wasps start to get indoors, had argument with one of them over a sandwich, he decided to swiftly exit from apartment after I stated it is my sandwich and told him to find his own, for once wasp did listen. It would of been Mr Hoover time if he had not!

Right, I think it is just too darn hot in here, the wasp seemed not to mind the heat though

 

Today has been spent packing all my stuff and getting ready to move out of my flat. Crawling under a bed to get everything out and cleaning it all is pretty hard work.


So how exactly does this vacuum bag save me space again xD [I am joking ofc]

 

I made this, lol

 

Still finding ways to promote my own AMG circlejerk subreddit.
At the end, I only got an upvote from one of my posts.

 

As it turns out, Half-Life 2's soundtrack is really fun to play on the guitar. I'm working on "Last Legs" right now - kind of an underappreciated track. Here's the original:

 

32° C? That’s about 90° F, which isn’t incredibly hot here in the states, especially down south or far up north. I live in the northern states and 90 isn’t exactly common, it isn’t unheard of either. Down in Texas it can get up to 120F. Plus, the temperature of the concrete is likely higher than the air temparature. 90 isn’t very comfortable to be out in, but I suppose if you don’t have air conditioning 90 really sucks.

 

Thankfully there has been bit cooler nights now, but sadly those smokers are preventing proper ventilation of the heat, but it is more manageable now already.

However it is still bit hot for the properly fast drives in BeamNG as my seat ends up rather wet still if I do few quick runs. I have always sweated a lot and much prefer below 20C for any movement.

These buildings are also indeed made to retain heat, so to get temps lower requires lot of cool air, people should really ventilate their apartments instead of smoking at balconies, but I guess they don't mind the heat. I didn't have even heating on during winter, still temperature did not drop below 20, others have around 25 in their apartments and are complaining how cold it is.

Some arctic blood here I guess

 

That sounds painful. It gets really hot where I live, but it is also very humid, so it always feels like it is about 20°-30° F more than the what the thermostat says. Occasionally we also get storms that knock out power for a day or two, but opening the windows doesn't do much because there isn't much wind most of the time. There have been a few times when power was lost for a week and a few people died from heat.

 

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All of sudden I don't feel it being so bad here at all, your climate sounds quite horrible :-/

Tomorrow is again hot day, but then it should get below 20C which is really nice.

It was enough low temps today that I could bake some bread

 

temperature isn't that much of a factor to how hot you feel. Humidity is the killer. And being an island, we get a decent amount.
There's countries with more humidity, but they usually have air conditioning.
Thankfully, our power network is more robust than other countries, and we rarely have bad storms.

 

Played some more Pokken Tournament (because I need to atleast stray away from continuously using the XBOX One (since that was my main gaming console for a while).

I also kicked Mewtwo's ass with Braixen (though I did upgrade her the most, so maybe that's why I was able to do so, plus the fact I was fighting against a CPU on Normal).

 

literally only just realised that if you open the little windows (see on the photo)
you can still let some air in, but less noise comes in too! my house is right on a hill where cars do hillstarts and it's so loud! always diesels, and work vans where people rag them up there, doing hill starts at 4000RPM!

 

In recent days, still working on the MMClone project


Also did multiplayer testing


Most of the work has been behind the scenes though. I'm quite surprised how far I've come with this project, it's actually not too far from being complete