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Reppu
20 September 06, 09:19
Hi all
I have reviewed the profiles of all you usual league attendants, and i have found to my surprise that many of you are well inside your 40s. Somehow i thought i would be one of the oldest around but it turns out to be the opposite, with one outstanding exception: Pero is only 25!!!!. Shame on all of us. Some of you have that info hidden, maybe you would like to share your age with us? You know, i like to know who am i racing against.
BTW, i'm 32.
Roger
20 September 06, 09:49
Yeah, the kids of today haven't found computer games yet :D
Keep it a secret...........
Reppu
20 September 06, 10:05
Kids of today are more interested in Need for Speed Underground and similar crap. That goes to the advantage of proper racing gentlemen like us :trophy:
Bill Guillaume
20 September 06, 10:42
46:d
MAD-MINI
20 September 06, 13:29
18 years old, Not racing online with you guys at the moment cause of driving tests, Screwed up desk and emmigrating but in a month or so I should be good to go
Bob Dunlop
20 September 06, 16:10
44:d
bobken
20 September 06, 16:26
63 next month but feel 20 when racing!
Anton Animal
20 September 06, 17:22
:cool::39:cool::
Dan
20 September 06, 17:52
hehe now I dont feel so old.. 35 here
Ralph_B
20 September 06, 19:14
Hehehe - how times have changed! In earlier days it was the fun of upgrowing teens to play computergames - today its the pleasure of old men!;) A 47 year old adult like me should be more serios - but who cares!:D And obviosly I'm not alone. Welcome to the oldies-league, Gentlemen!
HeebyJeeby
20 September 06, 20:13
Take Anton and Dan, split the difference... 37! :)
Does that make me one of the young ones? Cool! :cool::
Dan
20 September 06, 21:00
you know I never realised that everyone was so old :)
Joel
20 September 06, 21:03
you know I never realised that everyone was so old :)
Me neither. I always thought I was a quite old for a sim-racer at 31, until I came in here :)
Bill Guillaume
20 September 06, 21:41
Well, I had a very good and long moto-cross racing career, from 1969-92 when a broken pelvis and tailbone pretty much sidelined me(I still play ride). So this is the replacement for that organized competition feeling you get in real life. I has been a great replacement for this aging racer.:D I just don't have to find the porta-potty before the race anymore.....just my throne a few steps away:roflmao:
Reppu
21 September 06, 05:00
What a wide spread, from 18 to 63. I bet you won't see anything like this anywhere else.
MAD-MINI
21 September 06, 07:43
I must be the Baby here :D
Ralph_B
21 September 06, 09:41
What a wide spread, from 18 to 63. I bet you won't see anything like this anywhere else.
No, not quite - if you're looking at the famous GPL, you'll notice a incredible wide spread in the age of fans, too. The fact that you find more elder people driving those sims is resulting from their very special structure and period they represent. Most other racinggames and -sims represent cars from nowadays. And this is, what younger people and teens are grown up with. If you are driving sims you mainly are fixed on that you know from reallive and you can identify with. Most of our "youngsters" haven't ever seen most of the cars represented in GTL or GPL in reality. But us oldies around 40 or older have grown up with those vintage cars. This was the stuff many of us have made their first experiences, and perhaps one ore annother raced himeself. We have spend day and night in improving and tuning those cars - right as the kids do today with modern cars. And this is still present in our heads. Playing GTL brings up thouse memories again, lets remember us the glory days of motorsports, where skill and a powerful engine was more important be successfull than expensive electronics, aerodynaics and minutious planned strategie. We haven't heard much about noiselimitations, poison in exaustsmoke, endless safetyreglementations or other things that have to be considered very well today, when planning a motorsport-event. Nearly each weekend you could find little races organized by the local motorsports-clubs, where even drivers could take part with their streetcars, that hadn't a official racing-licenz. You could buy a lizenz for this event for a few bucks. It was much easier in those old days and motorsports was open for nearly everyone, who had some talent and a slightly tuned car. And many of us had dreamed about driving a GT40, a Cobra or whatelse one day. Making it for real never happened, but the old dream often is still present deep in our brains until today.
All those good memories come up when driving those cars represented in exeptional-sims like GTL or GPL. And it is possible to make our dreams of the past come true - even it's only virtual in front of our monitors. It's not a perfect fullfillment, but for a minimum a big part of it.
Younger people also play sims of course, but they are heading to GTR or NFS. They also try to do something as a replacement for things, they can't do in real-live, because they are to expensive. But their dreams are different. They are dreaming of a GTR4, a Muciellago or a AMG, as this are the mighty representants of the time, they grow up.
Well, I also drive those cars and know them. They are stronger, faster, saver and for a hundred times more perfect than the old cars of GTL, but somehow I don't like the perfect aerodynamics and downforce, making them stick on the road like glue. I also don't like the often upcomming hectics because of their incredible fastness. And I don't like the extremly small boarder until you have overdone it - no real drifts or struggling on the limit - simply drive like on rails or take off. Simply said, I miss the flair of the vintage-cars of GTL or GPL. They weren't only perfect machines - they had a charakter, a live of their own. Maybe, this flair only exists in our brains, but it still comes up when playing GTL. And it's a good feeling!:)
Last not least todays motorsports is only for money and success. It's less fun than bussiness. The idea of sportive fairness and beeing comrades with an equal interest is pushed more and more into background. Idealism isn't asked anymore. The only thing what counts is faster, far and higher and only who's more recless than all others will be sucessfull. Maybe another reason, why many racers in our league are 40+, is to recreate our old ideals of fairness and beeing something like a big family. Have to say, I don't care to much if I'm winning or not. It doesn't play a role, if I sometimes choose a car, which isn't competetive - what counts is the nice drivingexperience and having a nice battle with someone, who thinks equal and gives you a hard but fair challenge, even it's only in the midfield or at the end of the grid.;)
Ok, maybe this all was a bit OT, but I think, it would be interesting, why specially in GTL-leagues the older agegroups are represented much more than in other, modern sims.
marty351
22 September 06, 01:42
43 here
psyfungi
22 September 06, 20:50
Sounds like I'm "middle of the pack" yet again: 38
My first car was a crappy '69 1600cc Cortina, but I can't say GTL brings back memories! Now, does any game model a '73 Mazda RX4 13B?
Snowcat
25 September 06, 01:27
One of the relative youngsters here @ 25 years old.
Been messing with cars and vehicles for nearly 20 of those years but I still can't seem to keep up with you guys at the inter-league races! :roflmao:
mississippi
2 October 06, 12:16
Reppu Kids of today are more interested in Need for Speed Underground and similar crap. That goes to the advantage of proper racing gentlemen like us I'm 38 and i play NEED FOR SPEED MOST wanted its a fun game and i'm not a kid Reppu you need to try it i thank that you like it :D .
I confess i played the NFS Underground and enjoyed it...quite. But it was pure arcade. I've got nothing against it or the people that enjoys it, i just think that the more youngsters playing NFS, the less wreckers in GTL. Obviously, that do not mean that anyoen who plays NFS is a GTL wrecker.
stefanroess
2 October 06, 13:42
What a wide spread, from 18 to 63. I bet you won't see anything like this anywhere else.
As Ralph said before, you can find it at GPL.
The youngest driver at our GPLRacer league is 16, the oldest almost 60 and they are both fast as hell. Even hard for me to keep up with them :D
Btw I am 34
bobken
2 October 06, 15:59
Im 63 next month, not so fast,keep spinning but its a challenge every week I look forward to. Keep it going. Bob.
Hakker
2 October 06, 22:48
40. It does hurt but my beauty compensates it all.
billsmithem
10 October 06, 11:57
Seems I'm up near the high end at 51.
And Ralph_B hit the nail squarely on the head. I've been playing around with GTR2 since it came out, but the cars in GTR/GTR2 just don't have the character of the cars in GTL.
Bloody hell.. what a bunch of old farts populate these forums...
... uhm.. 38 here.. ;)
pmcclarnon
14 October 06, 20:55
46 this coming thursday
lowndes888
1 August 07, 08:40
Bloody hell.. what a bunch of old farts populate these forums...
... uhm.. 38 here.. ;)
:lol:
And BTW kids aren't always wreckers;)
sunalp2
1 August 07, 09:51
56. :p
My wife watches Sex and the City over and over again on cable :cool:,
I'm up the other end of the house playing GPL, GTL and Photoshop (making skins for GTL :D )
Only 34 here :)
Given the 2-second attention span of the current MTV generation, I'm not surprised that most (but not all) of the sim racers are old farts :D
Do I have a biased and stereotype view of teenagers? You bet, and it gets confirmed every day! :D
(Ducking for cover ;))
lowndes888
1 August 07, 10:42
Only 34 here :)
Given the 2-second attention span of the current MTV generation, I'm not surprised that most (but not all) of the sim racers are old farts :D
Do I have a biased and stereotype view of teenagers? You bet, and it gets confirmed every day! :D
(Ducking for cover ;))
Fire in the hole!!!:roflmao:
Pizzaman
1 August 07, 11:29
I agree with Redi, 36 here, but must add that this is probably the result of parents not teaching their kids like they used to...
Some things WERE better in the old days. Bet we 30-40 y.o. can still remember doing things with mum&dad and learning a wee bit about limits and values... Think (most of) the current generation of 15-25 y.o. can only remember MTV, Rambo and Pokemon because mum&dad weren't home, working on their most important bloody careers and the 'social events'.
Then, in the Netherlands, seems we got an immigration-adaptation-problem but that is better left alone, we're racing here and not messing with any stuff like that:p
Fortunately, there are still young ones who think further than their Nikes and latest model mobile-phones and develop brains and thoughts of their own. Now I hope that this will change society but I don't count on it too much...;)
BTW, have you noticed that your mothers washing-machine (toaster, vacuumcleaner, whatever) lasted ten years, and when it broke down it was (economically and feasibly) repairable... Nowadays when something breaks down it usually is just replaceable! :rolleyes:
Too funny.
I am 45.
Yesterday, I notice the new guy in the office (25 yrs old) drives a Celica. So I ask him about racing... Turns out the extent of his car knowledge is "Porsche Good".... So I start showing him pix of the Lotus 7, a Europa, and MGA, and 20 others... 15 minutes later he looks like... well you know the look....
Kliest
I agree with Redi, 36 here, but must add that this is probably the result of parents not teaching their kids like they used to...
Some things WERE better in the old days. Bet we 30-40 y.o. can still remember doing things with mum&dad and learning a wee bit about limits and values... Think (most of) the current generation of 15-25 y.o. can only remember MTV, Rambo and Pokemon because mum&dad weren't home, working on their most important bloody careers and the 'social events'.:
Well I should admit that during my teens I spent a lot of time behind my C64 :D
But at least I thought learning things was important, just as developing physical skills, i.e. sports in my case (I even did selection training for the Dutch national volleyball team :)).
Then, in the Netherlands, seems we got an immigration-adaptation-problem but that is better left alone, we're racing here and not messing with any stuff like that:p
Fortunately, there are still young ones who think further than their Nikes and latest model mobile-phones and develop brains and thoughts of their own. Now I hope that this will change society but I don't count on it too much...;).:
Sometimes I worry about the apparent lack of mental skills of teenagers, but then I'm also comforted by it since because of that I won't have to fear for not having a job until I'm 85 or so :D
BTW, have you noticed that your mothers washing-machine (toaster, vacuumcleaner, whatever) lasted ten years, and when it broke down it was (economically and feasibly) repairable... Nowadays when something breaks down it usually is just replaceable! :rolleyes
And let's not talk about modern cars! Switching a light bulb these days requires you to take apart half of your car to get to the light fitting...
I even heard that these days designer clothes are purposely made of such poor quality that they will only last one season so you HAVE to buy new clothes the next year...
Whoopster
1 August 07, 16:24
Lookie lookie i'm still a young god.......:D
33
Wonder Warthog
1 August 07, 18:45
Great.. at 38, I'm still a whipper-snapper... good ammunition for when my wife next tells me I'm too old to be playing computer games :-)
... and agree with previous comment.. none of the old cars in GTL bring back memories for me, but they do seem to be more fun to drive, and they're pretty too.. my first car was an X reg Volvo estate... I reckon there's a niche right there ;-)
Kids of today are more interested in Need for Speed Underground and similar crap. That goes to the advantage of proper racing gentlemen like us :trophy:
Guess that'd be me LOL I love the NFS games, sooo fun...But mostly cause of the cars and the painting.
Play some of the others, Underground was too bling and too many Tuner cars too, they are more removed from that now and have gone into Muscle / Super / fantasy cars.
Play Most Wanted, the best fun AND it's in the day!
Anyways, as you can see I'm 20! Not much car experience at all, can't drive, minimal mechanic skills...and a head crammed full of car knowledge LOL!
Think I may be up at the top end, just short of 63. But then again age is an issue of mind over matter, I dont mind and it doesnt matter!
BTW, have you noticed that your mothers washing-machine (toaster, vacuumcleaner, whatever) lasted ten years, and when it broke down it was (economically and feasibly) repairable... Nowadays when something breaks down it usually is just replaceable! :rolleyes:
:headspin::crackup::roflmao:
That's jus happened here LOOOOOOL!
Our Dryer is as old as me and still runs...the washing machine, 3 - 4 years old, has jus broken down. I think the bearings have gone but still, it's being replace by...well tomorrow actually. LOL!
racing_eagle_94
2 August 07, 20:30
hay guys im 13 haha
analogkid66
2 August 07, 20:30
Think I may be up at the top end, just short of 63. But then again age is an issue of mind over matter, I dont mind and it doesnt matter!
Heeehhee! Thats right Bob!....:roflmao: :crackup:
racing_eagle_94
2 August 07, 20:33
dont have gtl
do have gtr2
can't join in online racing yet
dont have a good graphics card
and every 15 min. my wireless internet thingy reconnects
so i dont think that would be a good thing during a race
psyfungi
2 August 07, 22:36
dont have gtl
do have gtr2
can't join in online racing yet
dont have a good graphics card
and every 15 min. my wireless internet thingy reconnects
so i dont think that would be a good thing during a race
Racing_Eagle, tell me how to setup my external ADSL.2 24Mb modem connected with with my internal NetGear 108Mb wireless setup and I'll send you a free copy of GTL, postage paid.
Jings, bob-a-job in the 21st Century! :eek: ;)
Gee... I'm thirteen and I dont have a car... What do you have for me Psyfungi?
Kliest
***disregard age to left, I made that up to gain respect***
Pizzaman
5 August 07, 09:22
Kliest
***disregard age to left, I made that up to gain respect***
I was already thinking: 'Oh my, that old fart has the pedal to the metal...' :D:p:up:
63 next month
Im 63 next month
just short of 63
Hey bob, you know one of the first signs of senile dementia is when you start posting the same thing over and over.. :D:p
Although i'm 44 and am forever forgetting what i was doing 5 minutes ago :rolleyes:
Mark Jonzo
7 August 07, 09:47
Phew, i almost feel young again. I'm a sprightly 39....very soon to be 40....gulp.:cry:
36, that makes me younger than average......;)
Nothing better than racing mature guys though, no-one's desperate to win, just want to have a good clean fun race.
But respect to the young guys for 'discovering' GTL, and usually being so damn quick!
First race meet I went to was a GP in 1983, I can just remember Capris in the touring car support race, but really I just love the GTL cars for their chuckability. Have GTR, didn't like it much, and haven't even bought GTR2. Probably time to get back into GPL too. Makes me a young old fart I guess.
psyfungi
7 August 07, 19:20
Phew, i almost feel young again. I'm a sprightly 39....very soon to be 40....gulp.:cry:
40 heading my way next year so I'm planning a Monaco Grand Prix weekend followed by a day at Nords with a freshly purchased Porsche!
We'll see what actually happens...
Fool_1njection
7 August 07, 19:34
16 here, enjoy most games even NFS not Carbon.
Love GTR2, only game I play really.
I'll stop and leave some space for the golden oldies here.
Gaiajohan
7 August 07, 19:42
I'm 20 years old. And yes, the Netherlands sucks since a couple of years. I'd say before 2000 it was cool, after that it became much worse. Though fortunately here in the north of the Netherlands we don't have much immigrants, but yeah, they're really a problem in the other parts of out country.
Maybe I'll be moving to Sweden or Canada in a couple of years.
Best time I've had here were the mid 90's... Though I was only 8 years old then.. no sorrows, just playing some games on an old 80486, and of course gabbermusic.
And I've had the luck my mom was always home when I was out from school.
And no, I'm not a racist or what, it's just a fact that people from only 1 country are the biggest problem... I have my friends from the Netherlands, and also some from the university who are from the Netherlands Antilles, also have a good friend from Bosnia..
16 here, enjoy most games even NFS not Carbon.
I really hope they make the next one similar to Most Wanted.
I like carbon only for the muscle cars. The game itself is WAY too easy, specially the last boss race, over too quick.
Gaiajohan
8 August 07, 14:20
I really hope they make the next one similar to Most Wanted.
I like carbon only for the muscle cars. The game itself is WAY too easy, specially the last boss race, over too quick.
They should make something like Porsche 2000, but then the fight between Ferarri and Lamborghini, so you can also drive all those classics
KL Mallender
8 August 07, 17:27
True age: 46
Mental age since aquiring GTL & GTR for my son Kyle (13) I now profess to
needing my diaper changed, yuk-yuk.:p
quote: "Life`s been good to me so far"- Joe Walsh.
KL Mallender.:roflmao:
They should make something like Porsche 2000, but then the fight between Ferarri and Lamborghini, so you can also drive all those classics
Oi, the memories of playing NFS Porsche 2000/Porsche Unleashed for hours on end :bowdown: Now that was a cool driving game with sim aspirations. Sadly, they didn't continue on that road :(
KA Mallender
9 August 07, 06:34
True age: 46
Mental age since aquiring GTL & GTR for my son Kyle (13) I now profess to
needing my diaper changed, yuk-yuk.:p
quote: "Life`s been good to me so far"- Joe Walsh.
KL Mallender.:roflmao:
*coughs* Post date: 8/8/07. Birthdate: 8/7/07.
*goes and plays NFS: Rice your car out and take corners at 250mph VIII*
:P
I've got Porsche Unleashed, and I LOVE it. Gotta try it with my DFP in 900 mode. I love driving 356 pre-A's, and the Carrerra RS is incredibly tough to drive.
Whoopster
9 August 07, 17:46
so this thread makes it al clear for all the people complaining about our addiction....(gaming together having fun!!)
That GAMING makes us YOUNG :D:p
Or is it just around me that people don't understand what this is about.
And seeing Frank (Prof_Fate) gaming at his age and having fun with us. :up:
I'm sure i will be gaming untill i'm 100 years old, with my over, over, over grandson. :D
analogkid66
9 August 07, 17:59
This is GREAT!...Father and Son both posting on NoGrip!
Yes i can confirm, GTL, WILL make you live longer!...and feel great!
analog.
KA Mallender
9 August 07, 18:29
I gots to gets me more RAM. Until then, I can try my hand at skinning and attempt to squeeze more and more outta my Celeron (I'll never kill it)
Buh, guh, if gaming makes us YOUNG, I must be about fourteen MONTHS old...
GTL: GIMMIE! Mine! Ahaha! The power is MINE, all of it! Ahahaha! *says in truly high-pitched voice*
Truthfully, I suck at GTL/R2. Hopefully, being able to use my DFP will help. Dang MOMO was too quick ratio, for me at least. I prefer to have a decent bit of max lock available to me for hairpins. To get the MOMO reasonable, you had to turn the max lock WAY down. (My dad's computer desk is too thick for my DFP's clamps)
Oh well. As soon as I talk my mom into getting a router, I can stop dialing Seattle, and maybe start playing GTL online (By then I hope to have the RAM I need. And the skills I need. Well, we can always do Laguna Seca, Grand Valley, and Infineon Raceway ;))
KL Mallender
10 August 07, 14:17
Mello, Kyle, Mello,
Please be respectful to others, Learn to walk- Then lay it down,
dont let mom catch you up too late and on pc, she will have no choice but to rip off what little balls I have left, with the info you can accuire, we will
be able to get the best system that can be afforded, OK . do your homework, we need performance upgrades, not tricks from last week.
talk to you soon.
kliest
11 August 07, 15:34
Hey KL, do you know anyone from Sandusky?
My Mom's family lives all around your area. My Dad's is from East Lansing and west.''
Actually.... on the Cuda/Challenger (different thread I know)... I remember my Grandfather's car dealership in Sandusky having a Hemi Cuda on the lot... it sat there for months. Finally someone bought it. Hope that guy stored it away.. worth a mint now.
Kliest
so this thread makes it al clear for all the people complaining about our addiction....(gaming together having fun!!)
That GAMING makes us YOUNG :D:p
Or is it just around me that people don't understand what this is about.
And seeing Frank (Prof_Fate) gaming at his age and having fun with us. :up:
I'm sure i will be gaming untill i'm 100 years old, with my over, over, over grandson. :D
You shoulda seen the amount of Adults when I went to the Pokemon Day Camp yesterday. The amount of Adults to kids that PLAY the game (Not jus takin thier kids) was phenominal......as was the line to download Mew :D I got there early and boy was it packed later on.
It's official, adults play games MORE than kids...Even Pokemon!!!:):up:
KA Mallender
13 August 07, 21:53
Mello, Kyle, Mello,
Please be respectful to others, Learn to walk- Then lay it down,
dont let mom catch you up too late and on pc, she will have no choice but to rip off what little balls I have left, with the info you can accuire, we will
be able to get the best system that can be afforded, OK . do your homework, we need performance upgrades, not tricks from last week.
talk to you soon.
I know, I know...
Ram's cheap, and I've got the $$ for it, so why not? I'd like to get into this stuff a little more.
I'm going to look around, but I figure you can do a little looking as well. This site (http://www.tigerdirect.com) has a bunch of decent deals on barebone kits, complete towers, etc. I haven't checked it lately, but I saw some NICE kits going for around 1-250 bucks last time.
Methinks we should move this to Personal Message?-
Methinks we should move this to Personal Message?-
Please do so we can get back on topic. :)
KA Mallender
15 August 07, 06:20
Yeah, sorry 'bout that.
That's hilarious about the Pokemon Day Camp.
Ask most kids my age what they'd expect to see there and they'd say "A bunch of little kids and their moms" and that would've included me. Well, see y'all around!
Yeah, sorry 'bout that.
That's hilarious about the Pokemon Day Camp.
Ask most kids my age what they'd expect to see there and they'd say "A bunch of little kids and their moms" and that would've included me. Well, see y'all around!
No worries mate.:)
35 here, been driving since gpl....
how does one go about joining the gpl league? I only ask because the gtl league section seems to be about upcoming and past races - would love to make a regular thing out of it.
how does one go about joining the gpl league? I only ask because the gtl league section seems to be about upcoming and past races - would love to make a regular thing out of it.
Not sure about that. I don't think we have one...Best go to the GPL section and ask away. :)
psyfungi
19 August 07, 21:51
...I only ask because the gtl league section seems to be about upcoming and past races - would love to make a regular thing out of it.
Keep thinking GTL Flint ;) - great fun. As a start, check out the Wednesday Night Racing league (http://www.nogripracing.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=82). Probably no good if you are US based though (which I can't tell from your details)
Currently on a bit of a break, but there will probably be fun-run style races arranged before the next "season" begins in about 4 weeks.
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