Posts by darkmarlin16

Is there any way at all to make an internal hard drive act like a USB stick?

Like, maybe some kind of cable you could just plug into it so it basically functions as a USB drive.

The thing is, I’ve got these two ancient PATA hard drives lying around, but my PC has a modern SATA motherboard, so I’m totally stuck and can't connect them to anything.

ruggedhawk20 said:You’re just being dense because you don't get it—simple as that. You stared at the screen, saw the guy in third crossing first, and decided to come here and cry about it. Listen, thousands of people watching the race twenty years ago knew exactly why the leader was technically third—it was crystal clear—but since a few thousand people today are just as clueless as you, Bernie decided to play hero and simplify things for the masses, even if it meant screwing over the leader.

That’s exactly my point—F1 races used to be these niche little events that only a tiny handful of people actually cared about. For every fan watching, there were like a hundred others who didn't give a damn.

Look, I don't follow football—I have no clue who Arsenal is, how they ended up named after some coach, or what a corner even is... whatever. All I know is it’s basically 22 guys chasing one ball while only two wear gloves, and everyone else just wears cleats. Also, a 0-0 tie is mind-numbingly boring. So, if someone actually fixed the game for me—like, making the goals the full width of the field, killing off the offside rule, and getting rid of goalies entirely just to stop those zero-score snoozefests—what would a "real" fan think? Would they actually have a point if they told me to go jump in Lake Tahoe?

I’ve been obsessed with F1 since back when it was actually just a rulebook for building cars—not this circus we have now. Back before Google existed, before all the cheating, and before the constant drama—it actually made sense. If you started on pole, you won. Simple. You were the fastest in qualifying, so obviously, you were the fastest on race day—and if you're the fastest, nobody's passing you. It was common sense, period.

Then the Disney crowd showed up and decided the race was "boring." Those are the people who ruined my sport—I didn't change theirs, because honestly, I never even bothered to change their sport—since their version was boring to begin with, just like mine was to them from day one. Truth is, I never even noticed their sport existed, and I still don't.

It’s all just a mindset thing—honestly. If I don't like something, I just stop watching; if they don't like it, they go ahead and change it. Some people call that progress, others call it aggression—it’s a total gray area. Look, I’m not claiming I’m right, I’m just saying you and I aren't cut from the same cloth. You like one thing, I like another. You’ll probably call me a bully, and I might just call you some stuck-up, old-fashioned dinosaur whose time has passed. Maybe. Who knows?

Maybe my era is over—and yeah, it is. Was it better? Who knows. If F1 looked like this back then, I probably wouldn't have even noticed—actually, I’m pretty sure I wouldn't have given it a second thought.

I’m watching F1 today mostly because it reminds me of a sport I actually used to give a damn about—back when it was fun. One of my favorite things about following Formula 1 was being seen as a total weirdo for staring at cars driving in circles—and honestly? I loved that little bit of eccentricity. But nowadays, if you watch F1, you aren't some oddball anymore—you're just one of the masses—and that's where all the soul goes to die.

Then you get one of those days—totally polar opposite to how things used to be—where it actually hits you just how much the world has shifted. You’ve got two drivers, basically neck-and-neck in terms of talent and trophies, yet they trigger completely different vibes today. One guy practically breaks the internet, while the other is mostly just a niche topic for the die-hards.

and honestly, in the context of F1, they're basically the same guy

Look, you only think it’s stupid because you can't wrap your head around it. You stared at the screen, saw the guy who crossed the line finish third, and instead of thinking, "Huh, that's weird," you just hopped on here to complain. Thousands upon thousands of people watching the race twenty years ago understood perfectly well that the first-place finisher was actually third, but clearly, just like you today, they were confused—so Bernie decided to simplify things, even if it meant screwing over the leader just to make it easier for the masses of people who don't actually understand how racing works.

It makes total sense to me. Can you even read?
And it's precisely *because* it makes sense that I find it absolutely moronic.

Take me, for example; I don't follow football, I have no clue who the Dallas Cowboys are or how a team could be named after a coach, and I don't know what a corner kick is... all I know is that football is a sport where 22 guys chase one ball, two guys wear gloves, and everyone else wears cleats. And I also know that a 0-0 tie is a boring game. So, if someone "adjusted" football just for me by making the goalposts stretch across the entire field, got rid of offsides, scrapped the goalie entirely, and did all this just to kill off those 0-0 draws—well, tell me, what would a real fan who loved the game before these ridiculous reforms think? Would they be right to tell me to go jump in a lake or fly off to Disney World?!

completely wrong

those 0-0 stalemates were, in many cases, way more interesting than games packed with goals.

I mean, I totally get how that race played out, but let me be crystal clear: it was stupid. Just plain old stupid for all those same reasons I already laid out. It was dumb, it was unfair, and there's no way around it.

And honestly, the way you’re acting like everyone who disagrees with you is just living in some freaking Disneyland is ______.

stormybadger8 said:So, what's your big idea? What would actually be fair and logical in your book?🤷

Look, I can see you’re totally out of the loop here. We’re actually deep in a debate about what happens when the red flag drops—you know, when they have to kill the race entirely.

silvercobra68 is honestly obsessed with this whole idea that everyone should just gun it at the exact same moment while the stragglers just sit there waiting, which is such a joke because it basically invites disaster. I mean, think about it—you’d practically be begging for two cars to absolutely wreck each other on the track just because they happen to be twenty seconds behind the leaders, and honestly, the sheer amount of illogical nonsense baked into that logic is enough to give anyone a headache.

Look, I’m telling you right now, if he’s honestly that obsessed with keeping everyone at such a massive distance that we’re talking about these ridiculous gaps, then fine—why don't they just line up and start one by one? Just go out there and trigger the starts in a single file line based exactly on how far behind they are, since apparently, that's the only way this guy can handle his ego.

Look, let’s just get this straight right out of the gate—we're talking about a red flag here, not some SC nonsense, okay? I’m saying this now just so we don't spiral into another one of those endless, circular arguments that go absolutely nowhere.
Look, I’m just gonna say it because someone clearly needs to call a spade a spade here: we are staring down the barrel of a massive red flag situation. Like, if you aren't seeing the warning signs flying right in your face at this point, you probably aren't even looking, or maybe you're just willfully ignoring the giant neon sign telling us everything is going sideways. It’s one of those "if you know, you know" moments, except everyone *should* know, yet here we are, acting like nothing is happening while the whole thing starts smelling a bit funky. Honestly, it's almost impressive how much people can ignore when things start hitting the fan, but yeah, consider this my official, unsolicited heads-up that the vibes are officially rancid.

dustycyclist19, you get it. 👍

@stormybadger8
You just don't get what I'm saying, man.

ruggedhawk20 said:darkmarlin16, censorship basically did you a favor there. It’s the same damn censorship you’re whining about almost every single day.

I'm dead certain that 90% of the people on this forum think what I just laid out is way more logical, way fairer, and just plain better than the nonsense you're pushing.

And they're right.

The way you want things done is just like DRS in Formula 1—you can only use it in specific spots under very specific conditions, which is just straight-up stupid.

Just hit me up in a DM if you're too terrified of the censors to say it here.

ruggedhawk20 said:Thanks, darkmarlin16—and let’s use the subforum's official terminology here—for spending this holy day trashing one of the greatest F1 races ever run and basically exposing the biggest fraud in this entire community.

Man, I feel bad for calling you out like that, 😢

Because up until this point, I actually thought you were a halfway decent thinker.

ruggedhawk20 said:I don't know if you even realize—your exact way of thinking is the reason we're stuck with DRS, mandatory two-compound tire changes, and all that other nonsense.

You guys should've just sent everyone to Disneyland years ago. Too late now. 😍 instead, you went and turned F1 into a freaking theme park.

It’s actually the exact opposite—your logic is just as brainless as these modern-day gimmicks.

You aren't actually rooting for real racing where things happen on the track and gaps stay honest, like when a race gets red-flagged.

No, you’re all about those restarts where everyone just mashes into each other, resetting everything back to how the gaps looked before the flag even flew.

ruggedhawk20 said:They're the kind of questions that—to put it in terms this forum can actually grasp—expose all the scams going on...

Exactly, they expose how stupidly illogical and totally unfair the whole race was.

And honestly, it’s pretty obvious there was a much more decent way to handle the whole thing.

What kind of questions even are these? 🤣

So you're telling me it makes sense for everyone to just line up at the same time after a red flag, ignoring all the gaps and advantages built up during the race? Like, if Driver B is sitting twenty seconds behind Driver A, he could totally wreck Driver A's entire race by slamming into him, and honestly, twenty seconds is a massive gap to just ignore in this absolute circus.

It’s way more logical to just have them restart in their actual order, keeping those time gaps intact from when the race was halted, so we actually have a legitimate running order on the track.

There is absolutely no way the first option is more logical or fairer than the second.

You typed out a bunch of words, but honestly? You didn't actually say anything at all.

ruggedhawk20 said:You’re clearly still pretty green—honestly, it was just standard practice for almost 50 years. They didn't even start making a distinction between trail order and official order until the late 90s.

Before that—after every single restart—it would always recalculate everything just to make sure nobody got screwed over.

That's what I call clean racing—pure class.

Look, you kids just don't get it—honestly. It’s your fault we’re stuck with all this modern nonsense anyway, since you didn't understand a damn thing to begin with.

Guess I’m just not old enough for you.

Before that, after any red flag or restart, they always recalculated everything so that absolutely no driver was getting screwed over.

Terrible way to handle it.

That’s what we call racing integrity.

Nope. You can't call that racing integrity under any circumstances.

There was—and still is—a dead simple way to actually maintain some level of integrity:
They could have just started in intervals, you know, one after another based on their actual gaps. Kind of like how they do it in Olympic biathlon.

It would be fair, and it would keep a normal order on the track.

But you kids don't get it anyway. It's because of people like you that all this modern nonsense was introduced—because you just didn't understand the old ways.

So you're calling someone younger than you an idiot just because they think it's stupid that the guy who is actually in 3rd place is effectively in 1st. 😕

George Ramos15 said:It reminds me of the 2007 European GP. Remember when Markus Winkelhock was leading? I think something similar happened there. Correct me if I've got that wrong.

Nah, there wasn't any actual coordination happening back then. It was just a couple of guys like Miller and Davis thinking they could pull it off.

I’m sitting here rewatching the '94 Japanese GP.

Honestly, even the geniuses running things today couldn't dream up something this ridiculous.

So the race gets red-flagged, right? But once they get things moving again, they start calculating all those gaps from the moment the flag actually dropped, which is just wild. 🙏 🤦

Then you see Hill pulling out of the pits behind Alesi and Mansell, even though he was actually leading them on track before the chaos.🙏

And then Mansell breezes past Alesi, yet somehow he's still trailing him by five seconds? Makes zero sense. 🙏

The rulebook 🙏
is a total joke.

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Nico Rosberg
3. Fernando Alonso

4. Sebastian Vettel
5. Daniel Ricciardo
6. Felipe Massa
7. Hulkenberg 7th
8. Jenson Button
9. Kimi Raikkonen
10. Kevin Magnussen

The Mini Bikers - Vietnam

If it weren't April Fools' Day, I’d actually believe you were being serious for once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngWhFrQdIYA

Man, watching Massa 😍
just hits different, you know?

So I’m sitting here watching the race again, and I just noticed that "F1 visits USA" sign on that hill looks totally fake, like it was just slapped in there with CGI.
I had a hunch right from the start, but I wasn't 100% sure until now.

cosmichawk12 said:Anyone got some race highlights? I totally missed the whole thing.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k2ROb4QRfAlEBF6rv0P