doug

Are you serious? A guy foolishly supports a player who doesn't make it big, spends $150 on a jersey of said player, and then the guy is just supposed to throw the jersey away because a not-very-talented photoshopper on the internet doesn't like it?

Maybe the guy is a Panthers and/or general NFL fan, and lives in Houston? Is that so incredible to believe? Or is it retarded for people to wear jerseys of players that no longer play for the team, because THAT never happens in an era of free agency, oh no.

This entire post is borderline youtube comment-level in its quality.

It was more a "I can still win it, I'm racing against junior high schoolers" moment, you saw the realization in her eyes that this was the f'n olympics when she turns around and sees the world class sprinters have left her behind.

The thing is, it is the end-all. It's 13 miles of varied track surfaces, cambers, elevations, and weather. It is hell on cars, and you can drive 100,000 miles on it straight and be pretty sure it's the hardest 100k a car will ever see. The weather in the Eifel mountains in that area can be 6 separate microclimates, and you can see sunny skies on one side and running rivers pouring down the track from torrential downpours on the other. It's the most challenging and demanding track in the world, and that's why manufacturers are proud to show off times there.

They've only been testing the best cars in the world there for what, 90 years? Obviously it's Gran Turismo and Forza's fault that America noticed it existed.

The 'Ring was purpose built as a test track for German automakers, so yeah, I'd say it does a pretty good job of defining a good car simply with a lap time.

The best current Ringmeister:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E93ag4Rp-Gg

Photos I referred to:
Prior to the crash:
http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2008/05/242-Volvo-Gulf-Oil-39.jpg

Hood after the crash:
http://jalopnik.com/photogallery/24HoursLeMonsCrash/1001434232?viewSize=thumb1280x1280

As unfortunate as this incident is, it's not the first time that someone has died racing cars on a race track, and I'm sure there are lots of safety forms and releases to be signed before you're allowed to compete in these events.

So I'll be surprised to find out that race tracks suddenly stop allowing private race events to take place because something unpleasant like this happened.

Like Phillip said, there is no scrimping on the safety enhancements of these cars, so to state that it's unsafe to race cars that weren't originally intended as racers is just silly and shows no understanding of the true nature of most people's participation in motorsport.

Add a helmet, cage, harnesses, and full race brakes and tires to any vehicle that's been race-prepped and you have... a race car. Doesn't matter what the original shell started life as.

Additionally, and this is just speculation at this point, but it seems like there may be unrelated health problems that are the cause of this death, the pictures of the front of the car post-crash do not show much damage to the hood - there seems to be at least as much crimp to that hood in the "prior to the crash" action shot so I wonder if the wall did not cause this fatality.

Condolences to the family and teammates.

I'm going to agree with other comments that the first game was perfectly acceptable, and no more buggy than any open-world game is going to be. Especially considering how early in the 360 cycle this game came out (and two years later has yet to be bettered, in the open-world gangster realm) this was a pretty impressive title.

I think everyone who only played the demo thinks the game was buggy, because the finished game had considerably more polish and smoothness than the demo.

Yeah, this artwork is actually pretty well done, and as tasteful as such a thing can be...

If this had been done in Forza Motorsport 2, it'd be winning all sorts of awards for best livery.

www.forzagallery.com

if the disease is "He runs ridiculously precise routes and almost always makes every catch thrown his way that he can reasonably catch" then I guess he's a sick sick man.

(And Tim Dwight had skills. I played against him in HS, and he was quick as hell despite being a midget.)

Welker is a fantastic complimentary receiver and I think most teams in the league would be more than happy to snag him. If that doesn't place him in the top tier of receivers in the NFL, I don't know what does. I can't say that about TO, or Marvin "End of Career" Harrison, Chad "Paid Too Much" Johnson or a lot of the other "Best" receivers currently playing.

Why are the poor malaysians being blamed?