Disagree.
Oh god, I've got a friend who's into simracing.Oddly for someone who hates cars, OP has a very expensive simracing setup:
The brake pedal alone is $2300:
The full setup probably costs more than a new car:
and despite all this investment, he's a mediocre driver:
No, if you were actually good enough to race 5k rated drivers, you would be rated 5k as well.
When professional race car drivers join iRacing, their iRating chart looks like a vertical line because the ELO system quickly boosts their rating up to their actual skill level:
I'm seeing $2300, and that's only a few hundred short of what I paid for my 03 Chevy Malibu. As in the entire fucking car. And that brake pedal actually works and shit. Ridiculous. And the guy hates cars apparently! Why drive in a vidya when you hate what it's based on???
I bet your car cost less than his bicycle, yet according to urbanists, the poor can’t afford to drive because a brand new luxury car costs $75k.
Listen, I had to put some work into my car, but even with that you're looking at $2900+ roughly 1000 in repairs, and even then, with gas costs... I'm no where close to 75k. Even LIFECYCLE COSTS, the car from my research is basically dead at 180k miles, and I'm just barely half way to that, and plan on getting something better before then, something old but solid like a old Lincon for 5-6k. Even then, I could always overhaul the car at 180k miles and keep it running, it's just a machine after all
What's the joke with these guys?Actually in the US this is the equivalent to your "P" plate.
What does a $2000 bicycle do that a normal bike can't? Or a £1000 second-hand Peugeot for that matter?
I've seen them mention Forza and Mario Kart by name once or twice on their subreddit, but not frequently. I could definitely seem them being into racing games in general because at their core they are guys who like cars that are coping with the fact.
I think it's their equivalent of a flex. In their minds they think that spending absurd amounts of money on something justifies demanding admiration from people. This is going to sound autistic, but I remember there was a joke in an anime where a cyclist says to himself how superior he is for spending several thousand on a bike only to get blown away by a high school girl on a cheap Yamaha dirtbike.
Usually it's to save money, but that applies to people who are using the base model Logitech/Thrustmaster steering wheels. Not the extreme setup he has, which could probably pay for a cheap car to be used for autocross or an actual track day. Sims are good for training on off days where you aren't driving, but cannot replace the experience of the real thing. Edit sorry I read your post again: As I said above fundamentally they're guys who like cars but feel guilty about it so they come up with these weird copes about why this is ok.
It's not even that simulators can't be important, ask any jet pilot, but eventually if you want to fly a plane, you gotta get in a jet. And you're right about the cope. Excusing it with "its just a game" would work if, you know, you didn't spend the money to buy a car to play said game
Don't you dare smile at me!
They hated him because he spoke the truth:
This confirms that the FuckCars people all see themselves as deserving of Chauffeurs while they tax the ever living shit out of the people transporting them around.
I'm coming from a sport perspective (mountain biking) not a commuting one but a $2000 bike is vastly different from a $100 bike from Walmart. With a $2k bike it's going to be significantly lighter & stronger, you get disc brakes which stop better than cheap V brakes, you probably have clipless pedals which makes pedaling more efficient, and handle bars that let you lean forward into a more aerodynamic position for descents or headwinds.
How expensive a bike is is definitely a flex but it's also a show of how skilled you are and how much time you put in to the hobby. For road biking if you're just commuting you can be perfectly fine with the $200 you spent on your bike and panniers to get around. But if you're into the sport, you're chasing times, doing centuries, or just picking somewhere nice you like to ride the $200 bike is going to be inadequate for doing it. But with that you have complete Fred's who want to be seen that way and drop $10,000 on an S-Works bike to pose.
Normally I wouldn't be too critical on what people spend their own money on, but we're talking about the same people who would criticize someone for spending "too much money" on a truck and make the cliche comment about the size of their genitals. I'm just saying something something glass house something something stones.
This is almost the perfect definition of double think. Say one thing, do another, and somehow make it into some hybrid third fuck up thing. I am somewhat impressed this person can go this far into their own bullshit.
As I understand they do the training in-house and as soon as they can pass the CDL (Commercial Drivers License) exam, they're stuck in a truck and sent off into the world. I assume they train in cities and places without hills. So they get out here to the rural west and end up stuck on roads that trucks can't go up or curves too sharp, or overpasses too low. It probably also doesn't help they're one of the 5 largest carriers in the US, so just statistically they're going to show up in the news more.
while back i saw a joke saying Swift stands for "Sure Wish I Finished Training" and this clarifies that lol
That's really just wealth and even more wealth. Jason didn't truly leave behind his family and friends, he frequently flies to Canada to visit them. But Jason is part of the techie laptop class that can afford to spend that kind of money.
Again, really weird that basically every urbanist will wax poetic about the externalities of cars (and only the negative externalities), but never the negative externalities of trannies, of which there are many.This is why Jason's fan doesn't like Chuck:
I figure I should post the photos of my time on the LA Metro in Downtown LA so we can see how they factor in.He says that the paper is conservative and under estimating the benefits of non-car transportation because it ignored these ridiculous externalities:
I wonder if r/fuckcars is ever going to explore the socioeconomic factors that lead to some cars having windshields so tinted you can't see the driver.Don't you dare smile at me!
