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Rfactor 1 mods11/12/2022 ![]() ![]() With gaming, we can recreate a new past for ourselves. I always thought: 'But if you are unhappy not because you are closer to death than ever, but because you have the feeling your past is not as great as you hoped it would have become?' and thanks to advancing technology the difference between the real past and our invented past become thinner and thinner.Ī psychiatrist I once interviewed told me that comfort for old people can be not to think how little future they have left, but to think about the long past they had. When I and other gamers (who are so frank and open here, thanks), imagine racing Michael Schumacher or Aerton Senna, we are recreating an alternate past. We do not only create a different reality, we create a different PAST. What I've never realised in all those years of playing games (from GP2 to GP4, from Call of Duty to Gears of War) that I and any other gamer have taken (digital photography) a step further. We make a photograph of ourselves, to prove (perhaps) our existence and then we derive pleasure from the way we look (and if we don't like it, we delete it). Somehow, we have become voyeurs - of ourselves. Susan Sontag wrote in a famous essay that photography (and video) has changed not only our perception of our world, but more precise the perception of ourselves. ![]() This thread has become fascinating for me, because with games getting more and more immersive, it seems that images (in fact 60 images per second, thus: video) have gotten a new iteration I never thought of before. ![]() So I'll try asking here to see if anyone knows of such a gadget for the sim? I have searched the net for any kind of mod that might deal with this for rFactor, but haven't found any. You'd get the "newspaper clipping" with text and your place and time, which was brilliant. I remember from GP3 that you got the cup and place if you finished top three. ![]() That feels somewhat empty after a stunning drive. No chance for even a screen shot of the lot. And if you race with more than 13 AI cars you have to scroll to see the full list. When you've raced the race of your life, sweated your way down one size in pants, and worn out your hands on the wheel all you get is a screen showing the result of the game. This is the same thing I have in rFactor. nothing, just went straight to the main menu once you finished the last race of the 10th season. Last F1 racing game I played was F1 2018, I finished a 100% race distance career months ago and was so cheesed off at the end (no ending, no tally of titles/wins/etc, no retirement screen, no congrats. I was just reading through the "Your First Racing Game" thread when a comment by forumite BuddyHolly hit me. ![]()
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