This is from a thread on RSC. I had to post it. BTW I fit most categories there.
Read them all. Some funny stuff there.
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1. You've spent so much time on your computer racing, your family has no idea who you are any more when you sit down at the dinner table!
2. You spend more time racing online than a skateboard gets air time at the "X" games!
3. You've spent more money on your custom built wheel/pedals/racing simulator setup than it did to send your first born to college...who went to Harvard!
4. You've mapped so many of your favorite sayings to your keyboard that you have now perfected the ability to drive with one hand while chatting with your fellow racers online...and you're still able to use complete sentences!
5. You spend hours online looking for the perfect racing seat and suede/alcantara steering wheel for your sim "cockpit".
7. You have perfected the art of the heel-toe downshift, but have never had a chance to try it on a race track.
9. You tell your friends that you've added a real racing seat to your "cockpit", and they look at you and each other with puzzled faces.
You use a racing suit, boots, gloves and helmet and you strap yourself properly to the racing seat
18. When you go to a car accessories store to buy a seat, the salesman canno understant what you mean by "I want the seat for my bedroom"
20. You pay 3 months' salaries for your new cockpit setup
23. You know every little corner of Nordschleife without actually having ever been there
25. World War III brakes up when someone enters your room when the sign says "Do no disturb. Racing inside"
26. You're lazy enough to go and do some shopping with your wife (half an hour maybe), but you work hard 3 hours for the perfect pedal (brake/gas) configuration changing hundreds of times the springs, and the positions to get just the right feeling!
29. You keep telling your friends "I won the championship!", and they look at you strangely...
30. Your friends are starring at a psx2 with GranTurismo4 playing and you just go ahead mumbling "pfuaa arcades..."
31. You go out to eat and start talking about differentials, dampers, car behaviour and track duels with pilots... people from other tables look you with awe and think you're a real pilot...
You never simrace right before getting in your real car, because you know that would be a bad idea
People ask how your league race went, and you give them a TV style interview with lap by lap details.
"Well, the car was great early on in the race, but after I tangled with that Corvette on lap 28, the left front just wasn't right. The boys tried all race long, but they just couldn't completely fix it. It's a shame, too... We easily had a top 5 car today. Hi, mom!"
when you 4 point harness yourself into a car seat before you turn on your PC
12. You try to hit the apex just right with your grocery cart turning onto the cereal aisle.
You're driving along in traffic, and wonder why everyone else doesn't bunch up behind the safety car for the restart.
You try to slipstream on people when driving on the highway
Each time you get pulled over by the police you say you were bumpdrafting the car in front of you
When your girlfriend yells "CLEAR HIGH" (or LOW) when changing lanes on the highway
- When you blip the pedals while downshifting on your bike.
- When you try to bring up the pit-menu when driving to the gas station.
When you define the fuel quantity at the gas station by laps number instead of litters.
You pull into a gas station & expect to do a 'driver change'...
When you "late-apex" highway onramps to get a better run on traffic
you always hug the line on the side of the road when taking curves
Here is my'n
you spend more time reading the telemetry then reading EVO.
Signs Of A Sim Racer
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