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Did you miss the part about a dog chasing her? The quality of a child's parenting has shit to do with how she reacts in flight mode when a scary animal that weighs almost as much as she does comes charging at her.
- May 3, 2024
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Ohh, come'n brother. V is an old woman, go easy on her. We can't expect her to change her clothes as fast as Jasmine or Natalya, can we?
You're not alone lol I can assure you that the vast majority of ppl here agree with you. I think our english professor is kinda meme character at this point.
- Jan 3, 2021
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The more this game talks about cars, the more it upsets me.
No joke, your enjoyment of this game will be inversely proportional to your car knowledge. The more you know, the more this game will irk you. The less you know, the less there is to be bothered about.
This person is pulling car words out of their ass, and gets the basics or context wrong like half the time. No, you can't just drop in a variable cam system into an engine. Variable valve timing is something you build an engine around. It also needs things like a properly setup ECU to handle the different fuel-air mixture the engine will need when it changes from one cam set to the other. A simple drop-in aftermarket swap this is not.
No, a leaking brake line will not cause that one brake to fail while the others work and comically hard turn the car. Brake lines are linked into a single system (at least on passenger cars), with the entire system being supplied fluid from a single master cylinder. So that when you press on the brake pedal, it operates all of your brakes at the same time. A leak in the brake line going to one wheel will slowly bleed the whole system. This will initially cause the brakes to become less responsive and feel very 'squishy', before eventually enough fluid drains that the system loses all pressure and stops working entirely. Which means you have zero brakes, not one bad brake and three working ones.
No, you don't just use old brake pads with fresh rotors if you know anything about car maintenance. Pads and rotors wear together and will form patterns. Matched grooves and crevices where they touch each other, creating a unique wear pattern akin to a fingerprint. If you put old pads on fresh and perfectly flat rotors, initially only the highest peaks are going to make contact when you apply the brakes. In practice, that means that you only get a fraction of the contact surfaces meeting, resulting in less braking force. It throws off the brake feel, and it is very not safe. This is why shops will resurface old rotors on a lathe (when they don't just replace them) when they replace the pads, so there is a fresh set of clean surfaces interacting.
Nobody cares that the leaking brake lines are dripping onto the paint of Jasmine's motorcycle, despite brake fluid being a notorious eater of paint. Then again, it was leaking onto the paint of the 'rear cowling', which is bodywork that simply does not exist on the British café racer they're looking at. It's a naked bike, with literally zero cowling or bodywork. It has a frame, engine, tank, 2 wheels, 2 fenders, some lights, gauges, and handlebars. Zero cowling. No worries though, the model doesn't look like it even has brakes (no rotors or drums), let alone a master cylinder to hold any fluid to leak out of. Also, it does not need to 'settle'. You bleed the air out of the system with force.
Want the British roadster to be a rear-engine race car? Fine. Don't use a model that looks like a Wish.com version of a Shelby Cobra (with a milky white paint finish on all of the chrome, for extra awfulness), get one that looks like an actual rear-engine car (like a Porsche). Also Delilah looking like a bootleg 70's Toyota Celica GT while having a massive blower air-scoop just looks really silly. It works for Toretto's Dodge Charger in The Fast & The Furious, because that was an actual classic muscle car. Delilah is not a muscle car. Again, she looks like a late 70's JDM fastback, just with a ridiculous overcompensating engine sticking out of the hood.
There's a lot of things to like about this game (MC's babyface notwithstanding), but this car shit just really gets to me.
No joke, your enjoyment of this game will be inversely proportional to your car knowledge. The more you know, the more this game will irk you. The less you know, the less there is to be bothered about.
This person is pulling car words out of their ass, and gets the basics or context wrong like half the time. No, you can't just drop in a variable cam system into an engine. Variable valve timing is something you build an engine around. It also needs things like a properly setup ECU to handle the different fuel-air mixture the engine will need when it changes from one cam set to the other. A simple drop-in aftermarket swap this is not.
No, a leaking brake line will not cause that one brake to fail while the others work and comically hard turn the car. Brake lines are linked into a single system (at least on passenger cars), with the entire system being supplied fluid from a single master cylinder. So that when you press on the brake pedal, it operates all of your brakes at the same time. A leak in the brake line going to one wheel will slowly bleed the whole system. This will initially cause the brakes to become less responsive and feel very 'squishy', before eventually enough fluid drains that the system loses all pressure and stops working entirely. Which means you have zero brakes, not one bad brake and three working ones.
No, you don't just use old brake pads with fresh rotors if you know anything about car maintenance. Pads and rotors wear together and will form patterns. Matched grooves and crevices where they touch each other, creating a unique wear pattern akin to a fingerprint. If you put old pads on fresh and perfectly flat rotors, initially only the highest peaks are going to make contact when you apply the brakes. In practice, that means that you only get a fraction of the contact surfaces meeting, resulting in less braking force. It throws off the brake feel, and it is very not safe. This is why shops will resurface old rotors on a lathe (when they don't just replace them) when they replace the pads, so there is a fresh set of clean surfaces interacting.
Nobody cares that the leaking brake lines are dripping onto the paint of Jasmine's motorcycle, despite brake fluid being a notorious eater of paint. Then again, it was leaking onto the paint of the 'rear cowling', which is bodywork that simply does not exist on the British café racer they're looking at. It's a naked bike, with literally zero cowling or bodywork. It has a frame, engine, tank, 2 wheels, 2 fenders, some lights, gauges, and handlebars. Zero cowling. No worries though, the model doesn't look like it even has brakes (no rotors or drums), let alone a master cylinder to hold any fluid to leak out of. Also, it does not need to 'settle'. You bleed the air out of the system with force.
Want the British roadster to be a rear-engine race car? Fine. Don't use a model that looks like a Wish.com version of a Shelby Cobra (with a milky white paint finish on all of the chrome, for extra awfulness), get one that looks like an actual rear-engine car (like a Porsche). Also Delilah looking like a bootleg 70's Toyota Celica GT while having a massive blower air-scoop just looks really silly. It works for Toretto's Dodge Charger in The Fast & The Furious, because that was an actual classic muscle car. Delilah is not a muscle car. Again, she looks like a late 70's JDM fastback, just with a ridiculous overcompensating engine sticking out of the hood.
There's a lot of things to like about this game (MC's babyface notwithstanding), but this car shit just really gets to me.
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- Jul 12, 2020
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100% this, from someone who has been around motor racing most of his life (not illegal street racing, actual motor racing) and who had a father who actually worked in professional (F2/F3/BTCC/WTC/WSC) motor sport for 20+ years...
it almost made me drop this originally (i was downvoted to hell for my original comments) but like pretty much everything in this story, it's a lot of wish-fulfillment and far better enjoyed if you just turn your brain off at the start screen heh.
- May 8, 2022
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Well, like a lot of the F&F movies...you sometimes have to just go along.
Because family.
- Jul 12, 2020
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Eerily similar actually rofl. When Jake, Coop, Jas and Nat all race off somewhere in their own cars and start jumping off cliffs and driving through high-rises and shizz, then that is the update I'll just forget this exists lol.Because family.
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My father was an old Mopar guy. Had at one time or another a Challenger, Charger, Roadrunner, and Super Bee. Then got into boats, and put a 440 Hemi with open headers into a 18ft long jet-drive speedboat (like a jet-ski, not the flying kind). Neighbors would call the police blocks away over the noise when he'd be tuning it in the driveway on the weekends, but the cops that showed up would just lollygag and talk shop with my father before leaving. I myself have been riding motorcycles for almost two decades at this point, and my daily driver (a 2018 Honda Fit Sport) is a 6-speed, because my mom taught me how to drive a stick. So I'm not an expert by any means, but I do know enough to tell when this game is talking bollocks.
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Now I don't feel so bad about NOT knowing any car stuff playing the game and having to just randomly guess at the maneuvers during the racing and reloading if I screw up too much. Fun to see someone nerd out about a topic I am completely ignorant of. Although I didn't understand most of the words, it read like how I feel watching TV/movie characters talk about anything regarding computers.
Fun to see someone nerd out about a topic I am completely ignorant of. Although I didn't understand most of the words, it read like how I feel watching TV/movie characters talk about anything regarding computers. 
- Mar 9, 2020
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I honestly just treat it like Star Trek jargon, a bunch of words thrown together that sound like they mean something but it's all just nonsense.
- Apr 8, 2024
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Kind of the same. It doesn't have to be perfectly realistic because I can just blow over the details and focus on the character and story aspects. If I wanted something that was 100% accurate in these technical details, I'd read the car manual.
- Apr 25, 2022
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Yeah its not really a big deal. This is fiction, and you'll find artistic license in just about all of them. The jargon, whether it's correct in the real world or not, just serves to authenticate the character as an expert to the reader.
We can't really expect authors to be true experts in all of the fields his characters are experts in. That would be pretty limiting on fiction writing. So it just has to be convincing enough to fake it for the layman. I think Race of Life does that just fine. It's certainly done better in RoL than other porn games, at any rate.
- Jan 3, 2021
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Yeah, it's like law or medical procedurals. You can't watch an episode of E.R. or Law & Order with anyone who actually knows anything about medicine or law, without them rolling their eyes in exasperation or pulling their hair out in frustration.
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This also isn't a new phenomenom either. I love the film Vantage Point...a classic and one of my faves, but the scene where they are both going flat out next to each other (which for his car is silly enough to begin with) and then the E-Type 'downshifts' and accelerates away (without blowing numerous holes and bits of metal through the bonnet) is one of the absolute silliest things I've ever seen on film lol.
As was said earlier, sometimes you just gotta roll with it hehe.
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- Jul 25, 2017
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guess im making a folder now just have to skip all the V wallpapers
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Wallpapers don't talk, you can just appreciate her without her personality.
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well I don't really find her that attractive with or without it haha She was only ever okay at best when it comes to looks for me before her character made me dislike herWallpapers don't talk, you can just appreciate her without her personality.
You don't have to pretend, it's fine if you want to enjoy them! No judgement on our side!