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12 hours ago, steiale said:

Quad Chaos will be running at Ford Field this weekend with Monster Jam

Awesome, those guys have worked hard, and really deserve it.

8 minutes ago, Outlawed said:

You guys make it seem like he knew each of you by name and was just waiting around for you to go through his line, like "yep, time to be a dickhead to this guy". No he was not the most engaging driver to converse with, but you knew serious time for him was when he was strapped in and driving. I never had an issue speaking with him and he was appreciative of acknowledgement of his ability to drive a monster truck. His truck control was arguably the best monster trucks have ever seen, his in air control is still to this day imitated by top tier drivers. 

Yeah I never had an issue with him. I don't doubt other people could have, I've even seen the nicest person I've ever met be called a dick online before. Damon was quiet and not too talkative, but never an asshole to me. I tend to get pictures I take signed and he always at least acted like he liked them. He even gave me his e-mail to send him a picture I took in Indianapolis for him to use.

He never responded to the e-mail nor did he use the photo but y'know. 

22 minutes ago, Jack Merkle said:

Matt Buyten will debut next week in Detroit in Metal Mulisha.

I guess I'll have to Buyten tickets.

Eradicator in Atlanta that one year was the most nail-biting one. Even though it was mostly luck.

5 hours ago, TheCrypticMessenger said:

John Wes Townley retiring as well as Carl.

Who will aggressively hug men when he gets in a wreck now?

Not quite on the same page as everything else here, but Toyota's new designs are proving to break the mold of being boring commuter cars. This is the new CH-R

And This is the 2018 Camry that was announced today.

Even the Interior looks tasty.

Honda is also doing a good job in the design department lately, at least on the Civic.

6 hours ago, steiale said:

Landon Wells never drove Doomsday for a season. I believe he might have drove during the WF Encode but that was it. It was only rumored that he was the driver, but it was quickly debunked.

Really from what I know it was a joke between MJ workers that spread to facebook. I don't think he has ever driven a truck in an event.

If I had set new years resolutions I probably would have already broken them.

1 hour ago, Mr. Self Destruct said:

Okay so I wanna learn how to animate on a computer. I have a drawing pad and GIMP, bad at the pad, but I need some tips if anyone has any.

You probably want to learn Adobe Animate (formerly flash). I'll warn you it isn't all that easy or free, but your school might have a class where it's taught. Look into it when you go to choose classes next time, or ask a counselor/computer teacher about it. I never had much ambition to Animate so I'm kind of burnt out on it after a semester of College animation classes, but If you apply yourself you might be surprised with what you can do in a short amount of time.

4 minutes ago, Jackattack29 said:

Islanders fan? I don't think we'll be getting along lol

I meant Islander the band, sorry xD

• Cool Jacket
• Wage War's Blueprints and My Chemical Romance's Welcome to the Black Parade on Vinyl
• My sister got me an Islander windbreaker
• My grandparents got me a Yeti drink holder thing.
• A Few food gift cards

8 hours ago, LeMaddog said:

rofl, excuse me, but it was less bias back then.

i honestly wish i could post my whole crap view about this whole this on this thread but wuteva.

I mean you can. People might disagree with it, but the only person I see calling other peoples opinions "jokes" and laughing at them is you so you might be the problem here.

I like when heavy bands can dial it back sometimes.

7 hours ago, RKM said:

I honestly have no idea how some of you guys can tolerate having such large desktop icons or so many of them, I just keep mine around the edges of the screen otherwise it drives me crazy.

You'll like mine

38 minutes ago, Durham said:

FELD has all the money in the world

You say that so matter-of-factly as though you know specifically how much money they have. So what are you even basing this information on? Is it because they're a huge, worldwide company that a large amount of people know about? Because based on that logic, Ford, Chrysler, GM, and the American government would never have been in any debt and they would be just peachy. Is it because they sell tons of tickets? Because all the assets of all of their shows cast money, they don't just pocket everything. On top of that, they have to pay a huge crew, and the venue. They have to transport all of these people, and their assets to every single show. Plus, from what I'm hearing there's been budget cuts in Monster Jam resulting in multiple changes this year, including the end of the Yellow El Toro Loco. 

If Feld had endless money to throw around there wouldn't be tons of sponsors that everyone loves to complain about, and they wouldn't be low on Stadium show field sized just so they could leave trucks in Australia permanently.

1 hour ago, Mr. Self Destruct said:

But yet even going straight into breaking or turning can cause a fishtail maneuver into the stands *ahem Captain's Curse*. But your point is valid.

Last I heard Captains Curse didn't have any brakes going into the turn so that was a sort of last resort decision to swerve at high speed because it's really the first time something like that happened. Also the stadium shows run for the majority of the year mostly don't even come close to the speeds the trucks hit at Vegas, so a roll like that into the turns at a normal stadium is nearly impossible.

1 hour ago, Mr. Self Destruct said:

The 2 day thing is just to spread out racing and freestyle, and I'm pretty sure they always did it, since World Finals 1. It also gives time for drivers and their crew(s) to fix up their trucks for freestyle. Sometimes they even added an extra day for pit parties and Young Gun Shootouts.

The world finals has been two days (Double Down package day, and event Day) since WF 6, but the three day format (Double Down Day, Racing Day, and FS Day) has only happened since World Finals 15.

1 hour ago, Mr. Self Destruct said:

That's because they were used more or less like the turning poles. Guidelines or whatever. You weren't supposed to crush them, pretty much.

If you're talking about the turning cars, they're used in Freestyle as obstacles. I think the original post was talking about when monster jam was putting already crushed down cars into the obstacle for no reason because they didn't even server a purpose there.

2 hours ago, Ram27 said:

Look at this:

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look at this:

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Why does Feld think this is better? Don't say competitve advantage. a] MJ is a glorified circus now b] in the old days, better drivers would go last; it actually leveled the playing field if they had less obstacles

Are you looking for serious answers? Because I would sure as hell prefer World Finals 16 to Worlds Finals 2. I'm going to throw this into perspective. If I'm travelling cross country to pay for a 3-day "Greatest Monster Truck Event on the Planet" event with a full day to prepare the track between racing and freestyle, then I'm going to be pretty disappointed if it's some bus/container stacks sitting on the floor in the same way as it was 16 years ago. With time comes changes, and as long as you aren't AC/DC you understand that (sorry/not sorry). Like think about it, if the tracks didn't evolve at all in the past 16 years, don't you think everyone would be complaining about how this sport is so damn stagnant and whatnot? Interest would fly out the window on mass scales. Don't get me wrong, I don't think that the best tracks in all of history are being thrown in front of us (unless we're talking arena-wise, in which case these are very much the best tracks we've seen). But there's not doubt that shows have the highest potential of entertainment in years because the drivers are experienced on the tracks, and know what to expect, and can learn week-to-week on how to get better.

1 hour ago, Mr. Self Destruct said:

The fact that they still can't afford cars is ridiculous, at the junkyard, because they charge so much for a broken car that's coming back to you anyway. At least just sell the shell and keep whatever mechanical parts you want to. The audience can't see what's under the hood.

There's a difference between being able to afford something and a purchase being reasonable. I'm in a small band that would one day like to tour, and I also have money in a savings account, so why not buy myself a $1500 van so I can tour? Because I can use my money for more reasonable things (college textbooks are hella expensive), and can also keep it in case of an emergency. It's the same thing with FELD. Why put money into cars that aren't necessary when they already own dirt, and can put the money into expanding their shows and their brand into more countries, and build more trucks? They'll make way more money from expanding into new markets than they would from bringing back cars. Also if the junkyard could pull everything off the car that they could profit from then you'd be left with the subframe if even that. Places like Pull-A-Part have a list of basically every component of a vehicle online and you can buy all of it. This is more than the engine/drivetrain, this is every suspension component, brake component interior component, body panel, and literally anything else on the vehicle. I mean just as an example, Here's a Malibu that was a crush car in Cincinnati a few years back.

This car has been stripped of quite a bit I'd say, at least the front Fascia, headlights, and rear bumper cover. A lot of parts are dinged likely from the loader putting it into place, but there's still money in this car (well if it hadn't been painted and attacked by the loader.) Just as an example, the rims on this 12 year old economy car could still have brought in about $200, and I'm betting the suspension and axles/suspension arms were still in usable condition at minimum. I bet the interior was fine, or usable before monster jam got ahold of it too.

You also mention that the junkyards get the cars back right after, this is true, but after a Monster Jam show, what's the point? Let's be honest, if you saw a car that was clearly used at a monster truck show, even if it doesn't look that bad, you still probably wont pull a part from it because you know that 10,000 lb vehicles have been driving on/over it, and it's painted an obnoxious color. At least I wouldn't. Most of these cars are probably recycled after the show. Whether they sit in a junk yard for a bit beforehand or not, they're only going to pull in about $300 based on their weight, and the steel market has been anything but steady from what I've seen so that's a risky one. It's surely affordable by a company like FELD, but not reasonable.

Business choices are more than what you can afford, but rather what would be best for the expansion, and overall view of your company as a whole.

16 hours ago, Helen Weales said:

So all of these were made using RoR models and textures, no?

Also, how is it performance wise compared to RoR? Does it use more or less system resources? RoR seems to hog a lot, but gives little in terms of graphics (IMO). My computer seems like it would fit the mid-performance requirements. The reason I ask is I haven't yet put my stage 4 trucks in RoR, so I'm wondering if I should bypass RoR and convert to BeamNG when the models are ready.

I was able to run the game at decent settings with a GTX 650, 8 GB of RAM, and a 3.0 GHz i5 Quad-Core if that's of any help. It definitely requires more than RoR, but not as much as you would think it would.

So for MADUSA's farewell tour she isn't even driving.

7 minutes ago, LordFrosting said:

Yoooooooo. You should totally send the new CRD to me if you get permission to. Or notify me when it's public. Beamng has a lot of potential and I can't wait to see what comes of it

16 minutes ago, rockgod88 said:

The latest CRD development is wayyyyy better than the crappy Russian one. oh and its private only atm.

 

Julio that looks great for just the map editor

The newest version is actually out on the thread right here: http://www.beamng.com/threads/crd-monster-truck.24742/page-49#post-490266

I never liked the old design all that much tbh. The new one looks awesome though

Saw the debut of this truck and tried my best, I've got an album posted below of what I've got.

http://imgur.com/a/zdowK

Redesign of BKT's 

Sexy.

(Might be old but I never saw it here)

3 hours ago, LeMaddog said:

i would donate but idk if they accept cad

Paypal lets you pay in any currency and it will convert over on the other person's end.

1 hour ago, RockCrwlr said:

Really digging this song. Sounds like a mix of From Ashes To New and Linkin Park

Dude Sylar is awesome. If you like heavier stuff then I'd really recommend more of their music. I actually found out that their current touring drummer is from my local scene, so that's kinda cool.

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On a side note, I've really been getting into Wage War and Make Them Suffer Lately.