Playdate: American Truck Simulator (11/17/2017)

omg Dan driving manual is the best!

Watching them try to explain how transmissions work and seeing Dan's brain break, while figuring out how to shift was amusing. "Are the gears in the pistons" and then them using engine noise to explain when shifts happen... oh man.

Awesome Dan is still making broad generalizations based off one piece of content from a Network...if I was like him I would hate GB just based off Danswers.

@kevin_cogneto: I feel bad because I did Steve Buscemi > ARMAGEDDON > Bruce Willis > GI JOE: RETALIATION > The Rock.

I did it with bad movies ?

@shakeitbaby said:

Uhm, can you elaborate? I have a ten year old Sebring, the little beast only has 70k on it but if I give it trash it shows it's sass. Mid-grade is a fair trade for a smooth sail without fail.

AFAIK it was common knowledge that higher grade fuel helps old engines last longer and a lot of people who do cars for a living reccomend running mid/high tanks once in awhile if you run cheap to "clean out the pipes", despite vehicle age.

As soon as I was going to comment about Radio Lab Abby, mentioned it .. More perfect is also a good NPR show.

Edit: The Flagstaff is pretty good in ATS.

Hooray trucking! I was just thinking about playing some Euro truck.

@castiel: Correct.

I don't understand Vinny's NPR logic. The quality and/or enjoyment of a radio station is based on its inoffensiveness?

I found a vid of a guy driving into the Grand Canyon.

These types of streams are some of my favorite. That was great GBEast. I would very much like a Flight Club style show with Abby and Dan on the controls.

I love the 24 hour truck marathon they were talking about. Maybe they could work out a sponsorship thing with thrustmaster to get everyone sorted out with wheels.

I love watching y'all play this game, especially with the Track IR and the rest of the set-up.

@castiel: Yeah, looks like a word was dropped or there was an incomplete revision. "Starts preparations" would be grammatically correct. You could also say "starts preparing" (gerund form) and "starts to prepare" (infinitive).

Every Sunday I watch a guy on twitch do nothing but play Euro Truck, though occasionally he pays ATS. It’s just so damn relaxing, it’s great no matter if I’m chilling or cleaning.

On a random side note: Anyone kno wwhat song is playing around 35:50 mark?

Now do Elite Dangerous in a Hauler! Basically the same thing.

@deimosreign said:

It was so funny, I live in Finland where manual transmission is the norm (mostly cabs use automatic), and my father literally tried to explain to me in the way Vinny went with the engine noises how you know when to shift gears. But I was 12, not Dan age.

That multiplayer truck stream needs to happen!

@jrocha93: they should rename it to cross country Canada

My room mate been asking me what I want for Christmas and I told her the only thing I really want is a driving wheel for dirt rally and forza horizon 3 on pc. Is that a g29 the guys are Using? I've done some research and that seems to be the best mid range wheel choice.

@danryckert check out the Brazilian action movie Elite Squad II: The Enemy Within

Where is the Track IR sensor on ALex's Hat?? I always have the most trouble placing that stupid thing...

I love how proud Dan is of being ignorant. Always a sign of a great mind.

Fuck clutch. I had to learn it when i started driving but when i got an automatic car, its so much better not caring if i should change gears.

Knowing how to drive manual is a potentially valuable skill, yes. But I'm kind of with Dan on the "But why though?" for every day use. I'd much prefer to drive an auto and not think about it. Then again people who've done it forever probably don't really think about manual shifting at all.

Is this the Citizen Kane of playing Canasta?

I'm upset no one knows who Portugal, the Man is.

OH hmm. In the description they had VIRTUAL getting my hopes up they would be playing this in VR :(. (it has vr support)

Flight Simulator + Dan.

Now that I wanna see!

Did Vinny just make some sort of weird big-ish deal about people in the desert having water and ice machines? What? Why would any of that make you feel like a dick?

Yes, the water has to be piped in. Just like the gas in your car has to be piped in, Mr. Caravella.

The Raid 1/2 have subtitles. Dan is ridiculous

Sandra Bullock to Dennis Leary (Demolition Man)
Dennis Leary to Emma Stone (The Amazing Spiderman)
Emma Stone to Ryan Gosling (La La Land/Crazy Stupid Love)
Ryan Gosling to Albert Brooks (Drive)
Albert Brooks to Ellen DeGeneres (Finding Nemo/Dory)

Steve Buscemi to Antonio Banderas (Desperado)
Anthonio Banderas to Jason Statham (Expendables 3)
Jason Statham to The Rock (Furious 7/F8 of the Furious)

It took me longer to type that out than to work them out so seeing Abby and Dan struggle so much drove me kinda fucking insane.

Because if you ever enjoy driving aggressively, slamming up a gear in a single fluid movement is about the most fun thing you can do whilst driving.

You ever see DK slap his gearstick in Tokyo Drift? I can't do that (I assume you need a specialised lightweight stick) but with a little practice you can do just about the same thing with the ball of your hand and it feels baller as fuck if you get the timing right to slap up a gear whilst coming off a roundabout at speed whilst managing your indicators (just because you're being a cool driver dude doesn't mean you can't also be safe!)

It made me think of the 90s more than truckin' but works for either.

You put Giant Bomb in a truck and it's magic every time.

@ltsmash:

No, not much has changed in the basic workings of a gearbox. Just layers added.

I don't necessarily dislike NPR but it's definitely not go-to station for me. Honestly with the advent of streaming music I've all be completely abandoned radio.

Oh my word, Dan learning to drive a manual vehicle and forgetting to not move his head around is one of the best moments of 2017.

Maybe it's because I'm in the UK and driving manual is standard, but Dan was making this way harder on himself than it actually is. Also known as "classic Dan mentality".

The time when dan got the shifting up from second to third to fourth somewhat smoothly done the first time... I was a little proud of him! Great stuff.

Next time, do Assetto Corsa with Dan on the wheel with H-pattern shifter. Just "hotlapping" a 5 corner course. (Or pcars2, but Assetto is better, don't do GTS or Forza for that, the steering force calculation is artificial there and the clutch is completely wrong)

Edit:

@LTSmash and @Mctittles, modern gearboxes are constant-mesh(synchromesh), the gears themselves are not moved along the shaft and into a gear on the other shaft, instead you have free and fixed gears that the gear lever switches the configuration between. (Bad explanation, sorry, just look it up if you're interested).

Fake edit 2: Automobilista is a very fine sim racing game (based on rFactor, which current Formula 1 simulators are still based on) that features racing trucks like the one in Forza, but realistic (at least as soon as the turbo update arrives next week).

That Josh Brolin joke was fantastic. Good work Dan.

That was all worth it just to watch Dan learn to drive a manual. Loved it.

One of them needs to bring in Big Motha Truckas for an episode of Bring Your B-game

@lanechanger: Yep. That would work as well. Having a sentence that didn't have an obvious error would just be stellar.

Harry Potter had a lot of phenomenological and cultural research done for its writing.

As for black dogs.

Cerberus guards the greek underworld

Anubis is a black dog I think, or he has one, or he turns into one.

VINNY CARREVELLA THIS GAME HAS A MULTIPLAYER MOD WITH EXTREMELY ACCOMODATING MODERATORS WE CAN REALIZE YOUR DREAM. I WANT THIS MORE THAN ANYTHING PLEASE DO IT