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| 547984 |
Posted on 29-01-2014 21:29
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What's with the getting 8GB of extra storage when you use Photobucket with the mobile app?
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 29-01-2014 21:37
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Also, i'm having big plans for my future story. It's going to be something new definitely, but something that needs alot of work on it. It's going to be connected to Serbia , for the first time in my stories. Started planning it and making background story for it tonight, but it won't be finished any soon.
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 30-01-2014 07:03
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TheManxMissile wrote:
@Hobbit
What exactly happens with Photobucket? I know the site really well and (for me and many others) it really is the best out there for free image hosting.
Tinypic is good for hosting, but doesn't hold up as well for the whole sharing thing because of the way it links to the images. Similar to Imageshack in that aspect except a bit worse (imo)
The problem with photobucket is that when I upload the images, whenever, wherever, half of them fail. Then I go put them in imageshack and they all succeed, first time. |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 30-01-2014 07:05
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The Hobbit wrote:
TheManxMissile wrote:
@Hobbit
What exactly happens with Photobucket? I know the site really well and (for me and many others) it really is the best out there for free image hosting.
Tinypic is good for hosting, but doesn't hold up as well for the whole sharing thing because of the way it links to the images. Similar to Imageshack in that aspect except a bit worse (imo)
The problem with photobucket is that when I upload the images, whenever, wherever, half of them fail. Then I go put them in imageshack and they all succeed, first time.
I've had that. Also, Photobucket's band size is ridiculous at times. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 30-01-2014 14:14
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I have had that on numerous occasions too, but i just re-download and there they are  |
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| Shonak |
Posted on 08-02-2014 21:32
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I was wondering: Do people who write One-rider stories play only the races where their main rider participates (and thus quick-sim all other races) or do you also play other races now and then but just don't report on them in such detail?
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 08-02-2014 21:33
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Shonak wrote:
I was wondering: Do people who write One-rider stories play only the races where their main rider participates (and thus quick-sim all other races) or do you also play other races now and then but just don't report on them in such detail?
I quick-sim 
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 08-02-2014 21:47
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Although I want to play them because quick sim always means we lose horribly, I want to keep the story going quickly so I don't.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 19-02-2014 21:29
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It won't be long now with the 2014 DB out. Maybe I'll start the first day of march so if I do well enough I can be nominated for new story. 
But in all seriousness probably this weekend.
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 22-02-2014 06:53
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Not to sound cocky or anything but I think that with A Day in the Life and Nordic Cycling finished I may have a shot at Story of the Month. Of course Karl Hammarling is still the favourite, and I'm not even sure I'll get nominated because of slowness, but still. Thoughts on other nominees?
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 22-02-2014 07:47
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Well, the Comeback can be nominated this time, but with so many people raging at Mre and sabotaging, you never know |
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 22-02-2014 08:34
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Shonak wrote:
I was wondering: Do people who write One-rider stories play only the races where their main rider participates (and thus quick-sim all other races) or do you also play other races now and then but just don't report on them in such detail?
Depends on how much time I have and how I feel about the race
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 22-02-2014 10:13
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Shonak wrote:
I was wondering: Do people who write One-rider stories play only the races where their main rider participates (and thus quick-sim all other races) or do you also play other races now and then but just don't report on them in such detail?
There's been a lot of variation over time and no "proper" way to do it.
Most of the times it's quick-sim then written up as either just a result or as a couple of sentences.
Sometimes it's quick-sim but people expand it to longer piece fleshing out the result with imagined events to make a more normal report.
Some people will still play the big races in 3D like they always do but just post the result or very quick summary. Others will expand that to a more normal report that just doesn't include the focus rider.
Equally there is no reason why you have to play all the focus rider races! If it's a warm up or a race/stage that doesn't suit them it's perfectly ok to sim it to keep things moving and preserve the motivation/excitement.
You'll know what works best for you pretty quickly and that is the best way to do it.
Cycleman wrote:
Not to sound cocky or anything but I think that with A Day in the Life and Nordic Cycling finished I may have a shot at Story of the Month. Of course Karl Hammarling is still the favourite, and I'm not even sure I'll get nominated because of slowness, but still. Thoughts on other nominees?
I'm never going to be "favorite" for that competition, because i only have like 10 readers compared to The Comebacks/Euskaltel/Novo with 1000 readers ()
If want an idea on nominees: The Comeback (probably 4/1 favorite), Gora Euskadi, Novo Nordisk, Karl and J.H.B. along with Melani or even O'Connor (February surprisingly quiet for some stories). Yes that's 6 stories but i'm not the one who makes the decisions.
New Story could be have been interesting though. Marko died out, Sagan very slow, Take Down and the 2014DB ones are very new. I guess it's going to be either Wallin or aCross the road.
Put it this way, we will most likely have our first Double winner! I think two of them (Mre and either Shonak or Atlantius)
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 22-02-2014 10:16
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In New Story I think it's aCross vs Young Cyclist.
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 22-02-2014 10:17
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You can always vote for Radenska in that case.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 22-02-2014 10:22
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Sub-plot to the competition!
We all know The Comeback is coming to it's end in about 20 episodes. That puts it ending sometime in mid/late March (roughly). Now if it wins this month (as i think it would do under normal circumstances) it can't be nominated when it finishes, and we all know that final season is going to be very good. So does it win February or do people hold it back until March and it's grand finale?
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 22-02-2014 10:25
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No-one vote for Comeback!
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| Shonak |
Posted on 22-02-2014 11:52
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Thanks guys! I have raced some and did some reports and it's honestly quite different from a team-story. However, it's kinda nice to skip some events and stages again. Reminds me of the good old days of just playing the game.
Honestly, I wouldn't like the Grand Tours to turn into a quick-sim festivity, so I'll probably have to find some balance for that though.
@TMM: Nice observations there on the different reporting styles.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 22-02-2014 12:04
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Shonak wrote:
Thanks guys! I have raced some and did some reports and it's honestly quite different from a team-story. However, it's kinda nice to skip some events and stages again. Reminds me of the good old days of just playing the game.
Honestly, I wouldn't like the Grand Tours to turn into a quick-sim festivity, so I'll probably have to find some balance for that though.
@TMM: Nice observations there on the different reporting styles.
Sounds like you've got it figured out nicely there. I would play a lot more 3D stages if they didn't take 15minutes to load on my decaying laptop
I do a lot of reading and re-reading in the story section cause i love so many stories and the writing. Allows me to get some nice overviews of how things differ and evolve. Recommend going back and picking out random stories to anyone as it really helps me out
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 22-02-2014 12:16
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NOOOOOOoooooo...... Two months in a row my photobucket account gets over the bandwidth. Won't be until the 27th when I get the pictures back. I blame this on the man-game off-season starting up.
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