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Bit late to the party, but I've been diving into wrestling romhacks and texture mods for a while, and I've been playing lots of ECW Born To Be Wired for the past couple weeks, as someone who gets bored of things quick, the new features breathe new life into this game for me. I love being able to set up tables and put my opponents through them at will, barbed wire matches are a blast, and not to mention I LOVE the 5 count pin because it can make matches go a lot longer if you're doing a Pay Per View or a big main event, and I love a good 30-50 minute clinic without any reason once in a while. Can't wait to play WWF Backlash whenever that comes out publicly, and I hope that RetroRandyPrice and his team keep developing this stuff because I'm really blown away.

Now onto WWF Warzone Badd Blood, which is also top tier, because I always for some reason had a soft spot for the late New Gen/early Attitude roster of the mid-90's. And the nostalgia from playing WWF Warzone looooong ago. It's nice to have a new way to experience that, and I'm also stoked to see what RRP, SSJ_Kratos, Wallywood and BAMP among whoever else comes up releases in the future.

No Mercy and Wrestlemania 2000 are my favorite video games of all time, and it's amazing to see what people can create with these games. I've also played a bit of Prime Time Wrestling and Saturday Night's Main Event plus some of the other ones, and everything about every romhack I've tried has something amazing to offer. I'm very optimistic about the future of N64 wrestling mods.

And that's the bottom line, because I said so.

Jokes aside, what music do you think is the most badass piece of music ever?

He was probably one of the most honest and caring television personalities of his time. Imagine if we had a show like Mister Rogers Neighborhood for this generation.

Got a couple fun tweaks that I want to share with you guys that improved the quality of life of this sim for me to the extent of what I've found capable so far.

First, if you convert the PWF CTS (or the highly underrated CTS07) mod to GNS physics, then convert your truck sets to GNS as well, and raise all track grip levels for testing by a tenth, it will drive so much more like pre-2008 trucks with them being really fast in the corners and faster on the straightaways before they put the tapered spacers on to slow them down. I've found that the 670 HP of GNS physics simulates this era of truck better for me because as I said, they were faster in this era. And I find it absolutely perfect for the mid-2000's style of racing.

Second, it may be the ratings I use which is an older version of ai_line_modifier's formula, but I find that for intermediates and big non-plate tracks like Michigan, if you use a combination of that, and then go into track ini, change track grip for a slightly stronger high line by about 3-5 tenths, change the drafting distance to 1.7 and set the dlat_pad to 0.65, you will get much more field spread and breakaways after a few laps and multi-groove racing in a long run while still having lots of fun on track battles. I've had many races where the AI actually passes on the high line on their own merit or even sometimes gets loose, and seeing both lines work is really cool. Everyone may have different experiences, so if you try any of this out yourself, please let me know your results or if you added or changed anything to improve upon it.

Now I have a question. What realism tweaks in terms of the racing itself did you guys make to further immerse yourself into the game? I'm very interested and I would love to try your ideas out!

They were all posted on Stunod Racing but now the that site's gone and the new site doesn't have any of them besides 1997 Winston Cup, the download pages as well as the Mediafire links for them are potentially lost media. Same with the download links for LarryFoyt50's full carsets from Stunod also not being archived.

You name it. Banana bread, brownies, pancakes, waffles, or warming it up then using it as melted dip for french toast sticks.

Even on a pound cake or just a regular old peanut butter jelly sandwich... ohhh yeah most times more often than not you really can't go wrong with peanut butter. I rest my case.

Those of us who have those special kinds of people who love nothing more than seeing us smile over our favorite stuff are absolutely the luckiest. Please cherish those people if you have them in your life and don’t take them for granted because life doesn’t last forever.

Smoking alone gets lonely for me, and I like being able to have someone on the other end sometimes. Especially when I can share my interests with them without them getting overwhelmed. And I don't even blame people who get overwhelmed by my interests, I do too sometimes.

I've also always been the sounding board for everybody else my whole life, I'm always braced for some sort of impact, and on top of all that I'm way too socially anxious to go out and seek smoke buddies myself.

It would be nice to have something a little more low pressure, but I don't want to ask anyone out of nowhere, so I'm in a bit of a ditch here. I'm sorry, I'm not asking for advice or help or anything, I just wanted to vent somewhere where I can feel like my thoughts are safe.

If I somehow a broke a rule, it's 100% alright to delete this post, I won't get mad over it. I'll probably end up regretting this and it'll be deleted by me in a day or two anyway.

For me, setting the difficulty at a more challenging rate, and trying to compete for upper midpack finishes without caring about winning is a lot more fun than just blitzing everyone race after race and getting bored. Like I’ve gotten a lot more serious about it than just running with the lead and logging laps.

I do love that at certain tracks I’m just good at, I can usually find a line, get to the front, lead a solid amount and win or go for a top 5 if the other leaders are too far away.

Everyone of course plays racing games different, some like a more easygoing casual session, which to each their own, I did too in the past, but I’ve recently grown more to be comfortable racing in midpack traffic and trying to get top 15’s, top 10’s, top 5’s. The wins just feel a lot more rewarding that way when they come.

What's your favorite video game opening, or alternatively, which one hits you the most while you're high? Let's discuss.

He was the undisputed NASCAR World Heavyweight Champion of my era if they had title belts. Championships be damned, he was statistically unstoppable.

I was never the biggest fan of him until the 2020's, but I had no idea back in the day I was witnessing absolute greatness. Dominating Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings in Truck and Nationwide/Xfinity, having at the time in 2010 the single most wins in a Nationwide season, to 2 Cup Series titles and 234 wins across all 3 divisions.

Whether you loved or hated him, you cannot deny that he was one of the greatest to ever strap into a race car in the history of our sport. I had no idea Dover last weekend in Trucks would be his final win. It looked like he was getting ready to make a comeback.

I'm shattered we didn't see that comeback happen, but he's in Heaven, racing with some other NASCAR greats now. Red Byron, Lee Petty, Cale Yarborough, Rex White, Benny Parsons, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Alan Kulwicki, Bobby and Davey Allison, Adam Petty, Blaise Alexander, Greg Biffle, Bobby Hamilton, and Tim Richmond, I may have missed some, but the list goes on, and 2009 Nationwide Series Champion as well 2015+2019 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kyle Busch, is now on that list.

Godspeed, KFB.

The 2000’s was great too but I have a massive soft spot for the stuff that came out before my time.

Mm. It feels absolutely amazing. Hope yall are having a fantastic day or night wherev'yare. Also yay! I came up with a neologism out of nowhere, "wherev'yare!", writing this. Go me! LMAO

I know this question is a longshot but does anyone have a post-reconfiguration Atlanta Motor Speedway night version with Winston Cup logos on it? It’s not a big deal if not, but it would be a cool version of the track to have.

Getting stoned during sunrise... for me, it cannot be topped. This is like, the only time I ever actually feel in tune with the universe. And damn, does it feel nice. I'm absolutely skipped out right now. I hope everyone has a very splendid day and a very splendid night!

I get it stuck in my head at least 5 times a day. Maybe more. xD

Even Kane's theme to an extent feels like a sludgy Metallica song. Just the idea makes my spine chill in the best way. Hope you all are doing fabulous this afternoon or whatever timezone it may be for you! :)