HTML coding has, unfortunately, forced 'center' into my head as the correct spelling.

It's what, on typewriters, used to send the bit which, when it reached the end, going ding, all the way back.

Am most sad because I wanted to read the Titler thread



What? No it isn't, that's a carriage return. Which looks like this

7 years, man, 7 years!

I for one miss his diatribes against crap games. I always remember one post he did in UGVM (I think) about Vanishing Point where he kicked the fuck out of it the way only Stu can.

Later, Lara finds herself standing on the roof of a flatbed truck which is thundering along a desert canyon in pursuit of her friend Anaya's jeep. Lara leaps off the cabin roof and, in a Matrix-esque bullet-time cut-scene, somersaults and spins through the air ahead of the lorry, shooting its driver through the windscreen and landing neatly in the passenger seat of the jeep. Never mind the fact that the instant her feet left the roof, what would actually happen would be that gravity and physics would catapult her "backwards" like a Wile E Coyote contraption gone wrong, at an effective reverse speed of 50 mph (depending on whatever speed the lorry was doing, given that unlike Lara it's still having forward-propulsive force applied to it) and smush her messily all over the canyon floor. Don't try this at home, kids.

“Can a physicist come and explain this, please? As far as I can tell Stuart has this dead wrong. She’s travelling at the speed of the truck, and she doesn’t magically lose that speed when she loses contact with the truck. She’ll slow down because of air resistance, but surely that’s not enough to bring about the situation Stuart describes.”

Oh boy. What Lara does in the game is actually magically accelerate when she jumps, so that she’s going FASTER than the truck and is therefore able to smash through the windscreen and land in the cabin.

If you think air resistance is trivial, climb out of the sunroof next time your friend’s driving his car down the motoway and try to stand on the top. If you can manage that, then jump forwards at a 45-degree angle, and see if (a) you overtake the car and crash into the windscreen, or (b) the car shoots off into the distance – since it has the same forward momentum you do PLUS a continuing forwards force of 50mph or whatever being exerted by the engine – and you get smeared all over the tarmac some way behind it.

(If you’d rather not die, just wind down the window next time you’re moving at speed and stick your hand out, flat against the air.)

At very low levels of schooling, children studying physics in this country are taught to regard air resistance as zero because it simplifies the understanding of some principles. In fact air resistance is a very long way from being zero, as any pilot will tell you.

“The Rev is wrong – you’d maintain your forward momentum and indeed could slightly increase it by leaping.”

Sigh. You: momentum plus leaping power. Truck: momentum plus engine power. If you can jump forwards at more than 50mph, you may want to get yourself down to the British Olympic Association pronto. And obviously, jump there rather than taking the car, it’ll be faster.

I wonder how his tiny brain deals with footage of people in action films running along the tops of trains where their feet leave the ground.

, and then hold a grudge about it for years later,

Ahhh yes, holding a grudge for many years - that's what marks him out as the bastard here.

I know this is a "Say nice things" thread but honestly I can't think of one fucking nice thing to say about the guy. He should host a chat show or something like Katie Hopkins, as he seems to be a lot like her in many ways.

I don't mind him but that's because I was a member of his forum and managed to get about £600 worth of stuff off his gambling scam.

Good times.

The being nice thread, remember chums?

I was lucky in that I never had to do that. They all paid me exactly what they said they would and I only had to chase one. I thought I'd have problems with that but they apologized and then paid it.

If it wasn't for Stu and his site I might never have met you guys.

BEING! NICE! THREAD!

BEING! NICE! THREAD!

So you like a guy because he showed you a way to make money.

OOOOO K.

And you say he writes about politics now? Fucking shocker.

Whilst I disagree with him entirely about Scottish secession, I can't help but be impressed that he's been able to make a career out of this. Wonder if he'll ever run for office?

Does he still live in England?

Ahhh yes, holding a grudge for many years - that's what marks him out as the bastard here.