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[mrray13 30]

I bet that gets him an extra 5hp

15hp!! it's still got da stock wheels!!! and it's a subaru scoop. gotta be worth 15!!

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[///M5 2,833]

wow, just wow

[Adrian_D 520]

Ah, this is great. A joke pushed too far and I totally messed up with a girl

Damnit

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

morning

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

Traditionally Outside receives extremely high ratings by those who like to see others play it, and these people are in many cases comfortably ensconced Inside themselves. Outside was released many years ago, it was in fact the first massively multiplayer game, and yet it has always managed to avoid the double-edged Retro tag. In its favor, continual user updates have kept Outside current; there are always new things to see and do Outside. Participants are permitted, to some extent, to modify their own areas of Outside, which is a large part of the fun of the game. However it seems that in the end one is modifying Outside largely for the sake of it, and having done it, there is a distinct feeling of "now what?"

In terms of the traditional target age content metrics, Outside is remarkably high in sex, violence and challenges to traditional values, despite the strong child-focussed marketing it receives. Many would go so far as to say that for a child to develop the ability to cope with Outside is essential, as long as the harm incurred is not too debilitating. Children injured playing Outside are usually comforted by parents, and soon encouraged to go Outside again; this leads to the conclusion that somehow Outside has escaped any and all of the usual moralizing that surrounds the videogaming industry. One might say that Outside gets a free pass from the Jack Thompsons of this world.

That aside, how does Outside actually rate? The physics system is note-perfect (often at the expense of playability), the graphics are beyond comparison, the rendering of objects is absolutely beautiful at any distance, and the player's ability to interact with objects is really limited only by other players' tolerance. The real fundamental problem with the game is that there is nothing to do.

In terms of game play the game sets few, if any, goals: the major one is merely "survive". What goals a player sets, are often astonishingly tedious to actually achieve, and power-ups and gear upgrades, let alone extra weapons, are few and far between. Some players choose accumulation of money, one of the many point systems in the game, as a goal, but distribution of this is often randomized and it can be hard to tell what activities will lead to gaining points in advance, and what the risks will be.

Other players choose to focus on accumulation of personal abilities, the variety of which greatly exceeds the capacity of any individual to accumulate; again, the game requires players to engage in years of grinding to achieve any notable standard with a skill or ability. Players are issued abilities and characteristics largely at random, and it is entirely possible for a player to be nerfed beyond any reasonable expectation of being able to play the game, or to be buffed to the point where anything he or she does is markedly easier. Unfortunately over time, player abilities tend to degrade, unless significant effort is made to keep skills up. This reviewer cannot emphasise this enough: Outside requires a huge time investment to build up player abilities, exceeding any other massively multiplayer game on the market by some three orders of magnitude.

Players are encouraged to focus on social interaction, which can be engaged in in a variety of ways. In fact it's extraordinarily difficult to solo anything whatsoever in Outside, apart from basic skill and knowledge accumulation quests. One of the major forms of social interaction in the game is based largely around the addition of new players to Outside, and is both complex and, in comparison to the storyline-driven romance quests of, say, Baldur's Gate or Mass Effect, they are immensely difficult. Dedicated players of Outside, however, report that the romance quests are among the most rewarding the game has to offer.

The game world is immense, perhaps unfeasibly so. The sheer amount of resources that went into development of the Outside environment is staggering to consider. Outside is a world of tremendous size, containing examples of every known real-world terrain type and inhabited by every known real-world animal. On the other hand it is somewhat lacking in the traditionally expected, more interesting, zones where the developers would be given the opportunity to show off their skills in varying the physics and graphics of the game. There are, for instance, no zones where gravity varies to any significant degree.

The respawn rate of objects and players is ridiculously slow. A dead player can expect to wait for years to respawn, and will be set back to zero assets and a tiny, nearly helpless form. Death is hardcore, and resurrection all but impossible. Outside is not a game for the QQers out there!

In terms of the social environment, almost anything goes. Outside has a vast network of guilds, many of its players are active participants in designing the game's social environment, and almost any player will be able to find company to undertake their desired group quests. On the other hand, gold-buying is rife, the outskirts of virtually every city zone in the game are completely overrun by farmers, and the developers have so far proven themselves reluctant to answer petitions, intervene in inter-player disputes, or nerf broken skills and abilities. Indeed this reviewer will go so far as to say that the developers are absent from the game entirely, and have left it to its own devices. Fortunately, server uptime has been 100% from day 1, despite there being only one server for literally billions of players.

On the whole, Outside is overrated, and many gamers will find themselves forced by friends and family to play it against their will, but it still deserves a high rating. I give it 7/10, and look forward to improvements in future patches.

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[Tmax98 3]

I bet that gets him an extra 5hp

15hp!! it's still got da stock wheels!!! and it's a subaru scoop. gotta be worth 15!!

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

man i got 25 out of the lil beast!............................................

not lol my friend had it on his sentra and took it off and then just set it on my car just for shits and giggles

[ford302redneck 15]

:post:

[ford302redneck 15]

Man, I woke up this morning to some helva rain.

So I rolled back over and went back to sleep.

[ford302redneck 15]

Hmmm, I wanted to go fishing today.

To bad its still sort of maybe raining.

[Acidburn 10]

gah, I have too many ideas for what engine to put in the Camaro

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

VW Baja engine

[Acidburn 10]

VW Baja engine

that is not one of them.

[///M5 2,833]

VW Baja engine

You mean with the Pinto Bean mod right?

[///M5 2,833]

LQ9, bang for the buck it is your choice.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

VW Baja engine

You mean with the Pinto Bean mod right?

:pukedesk:

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

Apparently when Microsoft puts $44.6 billion on the line, it really means it, and the company just sent an open letter to Yahoo's board of directors stating in no uncertain terms that the 62% premium over Yahoo's closing price on January 31, 2008 was more than fair. The word is now that if Yahoo can't see that, Microsoft will be compelled to take its case "directly to [Yahoo's] shareholders." Microsoft is giving Yahoo three weeks, and then promises to try and start a proxy contest to elect an alternative set of directors to the board.

:ready2go:

[Acidburn 10]

LQ9, bang for the buck it is your choice.

that's actually my newest idea

LQ9 crate engine is almost half the price of a LS2

carb + MSD's ignition controller

only issue is I'm not sure what manual transmissions will bolt up to it

[///M5 2,833]

LQ9, bang for the buck it is your choice.

that's actually my newest idea

LQ9 crate engine is almost half the price of a LS2

carb + MSD's ignition controller

only issue is I'm not sure what manual transmissions will bolt up to it

Get a used one from a truck for $800. Some L76 heads and run with it.

As for tranny are you shifting yourself?

[Acidburn 10]

LQ9, bang for the buck it is your choice.

that's actually my newest idea

LQ9 crate engine is almost half the price of a LS2

carb + MSD's ignition controller

only issue is I'm not sure what manual transmissions will bolt up to it

Get a used one from a truck for $800. Some L76 heads and run with it.

As for tranny are you shifting yourself?

If I find a used one from a truck that I feel confident about not having to rebuild, then I'll definitely go that route. I wouldn't even change the heads/cam for a while, stepping up from ~100hp to ~300hp will be enough of a jolt. Don't need ~500hp

yep

[///M5 2,833]

For the same price as the crate you could do the truck engine and a TKO.

[///M5 2,833]

I'd do the heads right away, they practically give them away.

[Acidburn 10]

I'd do the heads right away, they practically give them away.

I know, the price for those is ridiculous. We'll see. This probably won't even happen any time soon.

[Acidburn 10]

For the same price as the crate you could do the truck engine and a TKO.

That'd be my guess, I haven't looked into it yet. The TKO stuff I was looking at before was all for SBCs.

[///M5 2,833]

LQ9 $1000

L76 $1500

Carb & Intake $800

TKO $4500

or

LS2 & T56 from a GTO $8000

Controller $800

Modding the trans tunnel $?

or the cheap option

LQ9 $1000

L76 $1500

Carb & Intake $800

with inlcluded auto tranny +$600

[///M5 2,833]

/\ oops forgot the stupid trans controller $800 more