Board Thread:GTW Weekly Downshifts/@comment-294719-20130723212356

Welcome to this week's (not particularly) Testament-themed downshift! In case you're wondering, I'm referring to a particularly sweet song by an amzing thrash metal band that (apparently) nobody's ever heard of.

Anyway! So I've been a bit busy around the wiki lately, mainly touching up the main page by replacing the vastly outdated "Motorsports News" box with several motorsport-related RSS feeds. The advantages of these are twofold: one, they update automatically with all the latest news from the racing world; and two, we're not just limited to one or two items in a tiny little box in the right sidebar. While I was at it, I've placed a hard limit on the size of the activity feed (so it doesn't create a vast empty space to its left during times of high activity) and updated the "New at the Forums" widget to display all the latest activity on the new Forums.

But you didn't come here to watch me ramble on about technical stuff, did you? :D You came to watch me ramble on about whatever else comes to mind. In that case, I've got quite a few topics to chat about.

The first one is the fact that, over the next few weeks, I'll be moving. Even as I'm typing this, I'm in a hotel room in my destination city, here to look at a prospective place. That means that I probably won't be as active as I've been over the past few days, but I'll still be online most of the time.

"But GP!" I hear you say. "What about your latest gaming escapades?" Well, I'll be honest, I don't really have that much to say. Although I did find some time to enjoy a few minutes in this beast:



That's right, the Ferrari F2007! Man, do I like this car. It's (rather obviously) Ferrari's entry into the 2007 F1 World Championship, and it is insanely quick, especially around the bends. The first race I did in it was a short 25-lapper at Deep Forest Raceway, during which I trounced the competition by over a lap, although on watching the replay back I discovered that the AI racing was really quite good; in fact, if you're into excellent racing, I'd suggest a Ferrari F1 race at DFR. What I wouldn't suggest is an F1 race at Suzuka, because - and I swear I'm not making this up - literally every lap at Turn 15 at least one car (usually more) goes off and ends up pointed a$$-backwards at the Casino Triangle chicane which leads to the main straight. It's quite comical, really. I tried a 5-lap race at Suzuka, and the only cars to avoid losing it bigtime there were myself and second place.

So that's it! I hope you enjoyed this downshift as much as I did writing it. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go and listen to some Testament now. :) Cheers, guys, and I hope to see you around the wiki!

--Gp75 