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[Yeah, I'm talking about that damn truck game again.
Skip to the next post if you (understandably) don't
care about this game. Or don't, but don't say I didn't
warn you. ;-)]


#


I've been doing 80 down Interstate 40 for the last two hours. I've
plowed my way through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona carrying 20 tons
of who-knows-what (I don't ask and I don't care. Just give me a cargo,
its tonnage, and its destination and I'm on my way. Pay me when I get
there). I've been pushing the speed limit as far as I dare, keeping
just under what the police will tolerate and winding my way around
slower traffic in a way that's /mostly/ legal. My arms are tired from
keeping the rig on track, feeling the engine shuddering beneath me,
but I got cargo to deliver and a schedule to keep. Going slow isn't
really an option.

Then I see it; a sign pointing towards Barstow. I'm coming up to the
California border, and I know that just as soon as I cross that
invisible boundary, my reckless speeding is coming to an end.
California mandates a limit of 55mph for trucks, and maybe I'll be
able to push that to 60 if I'm lucky, but no faster. This lead-foot is
going to have to hit the brakes.

Now, maybe some drivers might take offense to this, and I get it. I
certainly used to feel the same way. Fifty-five seems abysmally slow
after the freedom of the desert highways. The faster passenger traffic
whizzing by doesn't help that mood either; nobody likes getting passed
all the time. I used to hate driving into California, and always did
my best to avoid the state if I could. But no longer.

California is my Sandwich Time. After the exhausting haul through the
faster states, it's almost relaxing to slow down. Don't blame me,
dispatch; it's Sacramento that's delaying my deliveries with their
laws. I'm just cruising along as fast as I'm allowed to go, and if
that's slower than you'd like, well, it ain't no never mind to me.

"But what's it got to do with sandwiches?" you ask.

It's all about the lane-assist and adaptive cruise control, you see. Lane-Assist is nice, but it really struggles at higher speeds. You
start pinballing between the lane markings, and it takes a steady hand
to even out those oscillations. It takes a lot of effort to wrestle 35
tons of steel and cargo into a narrow lane when hurtling down the road
at unsafe speeds. But at the legally mandated fifty-five, Lane Assist
doesn't have any of those problems. It keeps right in the middle of
the lane, steady-as-you go.

"But I still don't see what it has to do with sandwiches," you say.

That's because we need to turn on adaptive cruise control too.
Fifty-five is nice and all, but sometimes traffic does slow down a
bit, and it's neat that your truck can now slow down (and, as
importantly, speed back up!) as the traffic flow demands. It really
takes a lot of pressure off the driver, you know?

"Yeah, but the sandwiches?" you cry.

Plus, there's this nice thing about California. It's long, and its
interstates are equally long. They go right up the length of the
state, and they're generally pretty straight and flat. Oh sure, there
are some twists and bends here, but overall the traffic is fairly
regular and not too troublesome to drive (somehow I suspect this may
be one of the biggest departures from reality in the video game, but
I'll forgive SCS Software this slight flaw. Sandwich Time wouldn't be
possible otherwise).

"But. What. About. The. Sandwich?!?" you demand.

See, here's the thing. You got a long straight road, with an unbroken
55mph speed limit, and you add in some adaptive cruise control and
some lane assist... and well, what you get from that mixture is a
drive which needs very little effort from the driver. I mean, the
truck can practically drive itself. So if got just the right stretch
of road, and if you're fast, and lucky (and made a quick-save right
before you start!), it's possible --if you don't dally, and if your
kitchen is right next door-- to dart away from the computer, slap
together some bread, cheese and lettuce-- and get back to your seat
before you run off the road or hit another car. Maybe. I don't
recommend it, but take it from me: IT CAN BE DONE.

And after a two-hour session in ATS (and who knows how long until the
cargo gets delivered), that's not a benefit to be ignored.

And that's why I love Sandwich Time. May SCS never change the rules of
the game and take it away from me.



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On 10/21/2026 8:34 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

<massive snippage>

And after a two-hour session in ATS (and who knows how long until the
cargo gets delivered), that's not a benefit to be ignored.

And that's why I love Sandwich Time. May SCS never change the rules of
the game and take it away from me.

You can't just pause the game?
--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:31:51 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/21/2026 8:34 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

And that's why I love Sandwich Time. May SCS never change the rules of
the game and take it away from me.

You can't just pause the game?

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go
to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the
road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)







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On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:31:51 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/21/2026 8:34 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

And that's why I love Sandwich Time. May SCS never change the rules of
the game and take it away from me.

You can't just pause the game?

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go
to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the
road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...?
--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.
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Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:31:51 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/21/2026 8:34 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

And that's why I love Sandwich Time. May SCS never change the rules of >>>> the game and take it away from me.

You can't just pause the game?

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go
to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the
road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...?

He's not lying. A guy with a van did this. I guess he was from another country. He went in the back to make a sandwich... It's cruise control!
--
Can you strip away so we may start again?
"There’s a switch and they don't
seem authentic or themselves. It
feels like I’m an unnecessary
body and it’s a waste of time to
even be there." -- Grim, playful Blaine.
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:17:25 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go
to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the
road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...?

Oh, no worries there. People in American Truck Simulator don't show up
in mirrors (and presumably cameras).

It's true1 If you ever play the game, look at a car in your rear-view
(or wing) mirror. Although you'll clearly be able to see them if you
lean out the window and look back at them, there's nobody visible
through the mirror.

The only reasonable assumption that can be made is that everybody is a
vampire.







(which isn't as far-fetched as it initially sounds. After all, there canonically are UFOs in the game, so why not vampires?)



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On 10/23/2026 11:48 AM, Blaine wrote:

Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:31:51 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/21/2026 8:34 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

And that's why I love Sandwich Time. May SCS never change the rules of >>>>> the game and take it away from me.

You can't just pause the game?

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go
to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the
road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...?

He's not lying. A guy with a van did this. I guess he was from another country. He went in the back to make a sandwich... It's cruise control!

Oh, there's an even older story from the 1980s of some Arab oil tycoon
turning on the cruise control of his Rolls Royce and climbing into the
back seat to take a nap....
--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.
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On 10/23/2026 5:08 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:17:25 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go
to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the
road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...?

Oh, no worries there. People in American Truck Simulator don't show up
in mirrors (and presumably cameras).

It's true1 If you ever play the game, look at a car in your rear-view
(or wing) mirror. Although you'll clearly be able to see them if you
lean out the window and look back at them, there's nobody visible
through the mirror.

The only reasonable assumption that can be made is that everybody is a vampire.

(which isn't as far-fetched as it initially sounds. After all, there canonically are UFOs in the game, so why not vampires?)

Who else is going to have the natural instincts to fly the UFOs?
--
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dirty old man.
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I can't figure out how to get the Ford thing running Spalls! I do not
see it under DLC or Extras. Only a little window on the bottom right
hand side that says open beta for it. I bought it and it is
installed!

What do I do?!
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Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/23/2026 11:48 AM, Blaine wrote:

Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:31:51 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/21/2026 8:34 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

And that's why I love Sandwich Time. May SCS never change the rules of >>>>>> the game and take it away from me.

You can't just pause the game?

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go >>>> to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the
road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...?

He's not lying. A guy with a van did this. I guess he was from another
country. He went in the back to make a sandwich... It's cruise control!

Oh, there's an even older story from the 1980s of some Arab oil tycoon >turning on the cruise control of his Rolls Royce and climbing into the
back seat to take a nap....

Ditto the tale of some immigrant to the USA travelling cross country in
a Winnebego, and setting cruise control then going in back to make a
sandwich. He literally thought cruise control back in the 80s was the self-drive of today.

He crashed, the cops found that out questioning him after.

Stupid people do stupid stuff, and refuse to read manuals.
Even those for their vehicles that were not imports from Japan with
horrible machine translations.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/23/2026 5:08 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:17:25 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go >>>> to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the
road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...?

Oh, no worries there. People in American Truck Simulator don't show up
in mirrors (and presumably cameras).

It's true1 If you ever play the game, look at a car in your rear-view
(or wing) mirror. Although you'll clearly be able to see them if you
lean out the window and look back at them, there's nobody visible
through the mirror.

The only reasonable assumption that can be made is that everybody is a
vampire.

(which isn't as far-fetched as it initially sounds. After all, there
canonically are UFOs in the game, so why not vampires?)

Who else is going to have the natural instincts to fly the UFOs?

The Aliens that built them?

Your argument is the equivalent of putting birds in the cockpits of
passenger jets instead of pilots, cause of their "natural flight
instincts".

Maybe you want to fly on Cockatoo airlines, but I'll pass.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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On 10/25/2026 12:38 AM, Xocyll wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/23/2026 5:08 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:17:25 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go >>>>> to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the >>>>> road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...?

Oh, no worries there. People in American Truck Simulator don't show up
in mirrors (and presumably cameras).

It's true1 If you ever play the game, look at a car in your rear-view
(or wing) mirror. Although you'll clearly be able to see them if you
lean out the window and look back at them, there's nobody visible
through the mirror.

The only reasonable assumption that can be made is that everybody is a
vampire.

(which isn't as far-fetched as it initially sounds. After all, there
canonically are UFOs in the game, so why not vampires?)

Who else is going to have the natural instincts to fly the UFOs?

The Aliens that built them?

Your argument is the equivalent of putting birds in the cockpits of
passenger jets instead of pilots, cause of their "natural flight
instincts".

Maybe you want to fly on Cockatoo airlines, but I'll pass.

What natural flight instincts do human pilots have? ;)
--
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dirty old man.
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On 10/24/2026 9:44 PM, PW wrote:

I can't figure out how to get the Ford thing running Spalls! I do not
see it under DLC or Extras. Only a little window on the bottom right
hand side that says open beta for it. I bought it and it is
installed!

What do I do?!

You're like a helpless little girl.
How many times were you raped in
the boy's room in high school?
Retard faggot.
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Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 10/25/2026 12:38 AM, Xocyll wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/23/2026 5:08 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:17:25 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save
and go
to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the >>>>>> road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...? >>>>

Oh, no worries there. People in American Truck Simulator don't show up >>>> in mirrors (and presumably cameras).

It's true1 If you ever play the game, look at a car in your rear-view
(or wing) mirror. Although you'll clearly be able to see them if you
lean out the window and look back at them, there's nobody visible
through the mirror.

The only reasonable assumption that can be made is that everybody is a >>>> vampire.

(which isn't as far-fetched as it initially sounds. After all, there
canonically are UFOs in the game, so why not vampires?)

Who else is going to have the natural instincts to fly the UFOs?

The Aliens that built them?

Your argument is the equivalent of putting birds in the cockpits of
passenger jets instead of pilots, cause of their "natural flight
instincts".

Maybe you want to fly on Cockatoo airlines, but I'll pass.

What natural flight instincts do human pilots have?  ;)

They have a natural 3 dimensional sense from long generations of flight
on their homeworld of Altair. I suppose a goldfish could pilot it just
the same.
--
Can you strip away so we may start again?
"There’s a switch and they don't
seem authentic or themselves. It
feels like I’m an unnecessary
body and it’s a waste of time to
even be there." -- Grim, playful Blaine.
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On Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:44:08 -0600, PW <[email protected]> wrote:

I can't figure out how to get the Ford thing running Spalls! I do not
see it under DLC or Extras. Only a little window on the bottom right
hand side that says open beta for it. I bought it and it is
installed!

What do I do?!

* --

I found it - need to switch from Truck to Car in the career mode. And
I just saw the new Halloween theme! LOL! This company thinks of
everything. I was even told that it saw that I haven't played it in a
while and asked me whether I would like hints, etc.... displayed
again! Of course, I said YES! lol!

-pw
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On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:36:55 -0400, Xocyll <[email protected]> said this
thing:

Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/23/2026 11:48 AM, Blaine wrote:

Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:31:51 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/21/2026 8:34 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

And that's why I love Sandwich Time. May SCS never change the rules of >>>>>>> the game and take it away from me.

You can't just pause the game?

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go >>>>> to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the >>>>> road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...?

He's not lying. A guy with a van did this. I guess he was from another
country. He went in the back to make a sandwich... It's cruise control!

Oh, there's an even older story from the 1980s of some Arab oil tycoon >>turning on the cruise control of his Rolls Royce and climbing into the >>back seat to take a nap....

Ditto the tale of some immigrant to the USA travelling cross country in
a Winnebego, and setting cruise control then going in back to make a >sandwich. He literally thought cruise control back in the 80s was the >self-drive of today.

He crashed, the cops found that out questioning him after.

There was a movie that had a similar scene that I've been trying to
recall for days. A group --friends or family-- are tooling about in an
RV; one of the passengers in the back wakes up to find the driver
making some food. "Who's driving?" "Oh, I put it on cruise control."
"That's not how cruise control works!" Pan to terrified faces. Fast
cut to the RV deciding at that moment to drive off the road.

Of course, that joke has probably been done in a dozen movies and TV
shows since the technology debuted. And these days it's almost
real-life with people mistaking driver-assists like lane-keeping for full-self-driving (I can't imagine why ;-)

Which is why I always quick-save before attempting something so stupid
in real life ;-)





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On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:19:45 -0600, PW <[email protected]> said
this thing:

I found it - need to switch from Truck to Car in the career mode. And
I just saw the new Halloween theme! LOL! This company thinks of
everything. I was even told that it saw that I haven't played it in a
while and asked me whether I would like hints, etc.... displayed
again! Of course, I said YES! lol!

Heh. Couldn't resist buying it despite advice not to, eh? Well, who am
I to talk! And it's not that I think the expansion is terrible; it
just seems a bit half-baked as yet.

#

Meanwhile, the release date for the Iceland expansion for the "Damn
Truck Sim - EuroPop version" just got announced. Something I'm both
eagerly anticipating and dreading. Eagerly, because Iceland is
beautiful and I can't wait to drive its scenic roads. Dreading because
the official version is going to overwrite the version found in the
ProMods map (a fan-made map which added Iceland years ago), and its
rendition of that island was one of the best parts.

The Iceland expansion is being released on 10 November, but I suspect
I won't be playing it until some weeks afterwards because it always
takes that long for the various mods I use in ETS2 to get updated. So
y'all may get a break from me talking about truck sims for a month ;-)


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Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/25/2026 12:38 AM, Xocyll wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/23/2026 5:08 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:17:25 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go >>>>>> to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the >>>>>> road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...? >>>>

Oh, no worries there. People in American Truck Simulator don't show up >>>> in mirrors (and presumably cameras).

It's true1 If you ever play the game, look at a car in your rear-view
(or wing) mirror. Although you'll clearly be able to see them if you
lean out the window and look back at them, there's nobody visible
through the mirror.

The only reasonable assumption that can be made is that everybody is a >>>> vampire.

(which isn't as far-fetched as it initially sounds. After all, there
canonically are UFOs in the game, so why not vampires?)

Who else is going to have the natural instincts to fly the UFOs?

The Aliens that built them?

Your argument is the equivalent of putting birds in the cockpits of
passenger jets instead of pilots, cause of their "natural flight
instincts".

Maybe you want to fly on Cockatoo airlines, but I'll pass.

What natural flight instincts do human pilots have? ;)

None, but humans built the things and know how they work and are trained
to fly them.

The Cockatoo may have natural flight instincts, but it's going to be
useless at flying a Boeing 767.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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On 10/26/2026 10:21 PM, Xocyll wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/25/2026 12:38 AM, Xocyll wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/23/2026 5:08 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:17:25 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go >>>>>>> to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the >>>>>>> road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...? >>>>>

Oh, no worries there. People in American Truck Simulator don't show up >>>>> in mirrors (and presumably cameras).

It's true1 If you ever play the game, look at a car in your rear-view >>>>> (or wing) mirror. Although you'll clearly be able to see them if you >>>>> lean out the window and look back at them, there's nobody visible
through the mirror.

The only reasonable assumption that can be made is that everybody is a >>>>> vampire.

(which isn't as far-fetched as it initially sounds. After all, there >>>>> canonically are UFOs in the game, so why not vampires?)

Who else is going to have the natural instincts to fly the UFOs?

The Aliens that built them?

Your argument is the equivalent of putting birds in the cockpits of
passenger jets instead of pilots, cause of their "natural flight
instincts".

Maybe you want to fly on Cockatoo airlines, but I'll pass.

What natural flight instincts do human pilots have? ;)

None, but humans built the things and know how they work and are trained
to fly them.

The Cockatoo may have natural flight instincts, but it's going to be
useless at flying a Boeing 767.

Xocyll

Speak for yourself. I'm not a pilot, and I have never been /trained to
fly/, but I have an instinct for the air pressure below the airplane,
when I'm a passenger, and I know it's not going to just fall down.

So, you can call that /mistaken instinct/ if you want, but it's still my instinct, so there!
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On 10/25/2026 8:20 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:36:55 -0400, Xocyll <[email protected]> said this
thing:

Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 10/23/2026 11:48 AM, Blaine wrote:

Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 10/22/2026 6:49 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:31:51 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On 10/21/2026 8:34 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

And that's why I love Sandwich Time. May SCS never change the rules of >>>>>>>> the game and take it away from me.

You can't just pause the game?

Real Truck-Sim Drivers (tm) never pause the game. We quick-save and go >>>>>> to the kitchen attached to the side of the cab as it hurtles down the >>>>>> road... just like you see them do on the highway ;-)

So what happens when the Flock cameras see an empty driver's seat...? >>>>>

He's not lying. A guy with a van did this. I guess he was from another >>>> country. He went in the back to make a sandwich... It's cruise control! >>>>

Oh, there's an even older story from the 1980s of some Arab oil tycoon
turning on the cruise control of his Rolls Royce and climbing into the
back seat to take a nap....

Ditto the tale of some immigrant to the USA travelling cross country in
a Winnebego, and setting cruise control then going in back to make a
sandwich. He literally thought cruise control back in the 80s was the
self-drive of today.

He crashed, the cops found that out questioning him after.

There was a movie that had a similar scene that I've been trying to
recall for days. A group --friends or family-- are tooling about in an
RV; one of the passengers in the back wakes up to find the driver
making some food. "Who's driving?" "Oh, I put it on cruise control."
"That's not how cruise control works!" Pan to terrified faces. Fast
cut to the RV deciding at that moment to drive off the road.

Of course, that joke has probably been done in a dozen movies and TV
shows since the technology debuted. And these days it's almost
real-life with people mistaking driver-assists like lane-keeping for full-self-driving (I can't imagine why ;-)

Because a muskrat keeps telling everyone it is.
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On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:26:43 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:19:45 -0600, PW <[email protected]> said
this thing:

I found it - need to switch from Truck to Car in the career mode. And
I just saw the new Halloween theme! LOL! This company thinks of >>everything. I was even told that it saw that I haven't played it in a
while and asked me whether I would like hints, etc.... displayed
again! Of course, I said YES! lol!

Heh. Couldn't resist buying it despite advice not to, eh? Well, who am
I to talk! And it's not that I think the expansion is terrible; it
just seems a bit half-baked as yet.

#

Meanwhile, the release date for the Iceland expansion for the "Damn
Truck Sim - EuroPop version" just got announced. Something I'm both
eagerly anticipating and dreading. Eagerly, because Iceland is
beautiful and I can't wait to drive its scenic roads. Dreading because
the official version is going to overwrite the version found in the
ProMods map (a fan-made map which added Iceland years ago), and its
rendition of that island was one of the best parts.

The Iceland expansion is being released on 10 November, but I suspect
I won't be playing it until some weeks afterwards because it always
takes that long for the various mods I use in ETS2 to get updated. So
y'all may get a break from me talking about truck sims for a month ;-)

*---

I haven't booted up ETS in a couple of years. Is there a Greenland
expansion? Are there enough roads there to warrant one? ;-)

Yes Spalls, I just had to get the Ford one! Curiosity and not much
money for it.

-pw
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