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Welcome back to the Papa Meat channel.

How you doing?

Come on and sit down because today we're going to talk about game simulators.

Simulation games, or sims, are a beloved, often misunderstood genre of video game.

We've all seen social farming sims like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, but in recent years, sims have started to focus on more of the mundane tasks of everyday life.

You've got your driving sims, your power washing sims, hell, they've even got sims for the day job you slaved away at 8 hours earlier that day.

You're doing the same job 16 hours a day!

Despite that, even the most niche sim has a die-hard fanbase behind it.

And while most fans just like to sit down and relax after a long day with one of these games, there are outliers willing to jeopardize their finances,

relationships, and even their lives if it means experiencing a better simulation.

So, join us as we delve into what makes these sims so addictive, and the crazy lengths some will go in order to blur the lines between video games and reality.

Which I will say, I think that first and foremost, a lot of these games starts off with its dissatisfaction.

Like when I look at stuff like the power washing simulator and the farming one, the farming one is cutting down the crops.

It's like satisfying.

What kind of, is that, is that a kind of, like, I know I'm saying satisfying, but is that a type of game style?

Like the power washing thing where it's like, ah, it feels like something's dirty and I get to clean it.

It's the same with even ingesting that kind of content.

Like when I'm watching verticals or something, I'll watch stuff of people cleaning cars.

It's a very simple process of like dirty to clean.

It's like that satisfaction.

But is that called anything in particular?

Oh god, I feel like there is, I just can't think of the word. But that's...

Maybe?

I don't know.

But yeah, you know what I mean?

I feel like there's gotta be something.

There's something about the before and after.

And also, a lot of these games, people complain, like, you're not actually doing the job.

You're literally just sitting there doing this.

So it's a very easy task, and you're seeing instant progress.

Well, it feels like it's obviously a dopamine hit of some kind.

But it's a different kind of, like, I played that game Vampire Survivors, where you're not, I mean, you're just moving your mouse and it's just shooting for you.

But it's like seeing the waves get cleared.

It feels like it's the simplest form of storytelling, the simplest form of doing A to B and being like, ah, that was nice.

I completed that.

Versus having to labor over something.

Yeah, 100% completion.

That's a thing too.

Yeah, people just knowing that it's just done.

You can be like, ugh.

It's weird.

It's a psychological thing.

I don't know.

Even the guy who made Vampire Survivors, I'm pretty sure that guy was like, I think he made slots or something.

Yeah, he did slot machines and then he tried to translate that into this game and it worked.

I wonder how much that's true across all this board or people that know how to just tap your dopamine.

Mobile games.

Or I just mean even the death simulators, like farming or even pilot simulator and that kind of stuff.

What I was gonna say just to have for the video, but I think that even some of these simulators are

so realistic that don't people use the flying simulator as an actual practice for landing and stuff, an actual plane?

It just goes to show too how that line between reality and video games is, there's such a crazy crossover.

Like this isn't a simulator, but Notre Dame is on fire.

And the only thing they had that was for the blueprint plans was the Assassin's Creed 3D scan they had of it.

How insane is that?

It's fucking incredible.

They also, in the army, they now use Xbox controllers for drones.

I have a feeling that before too long, it's going to go to all remote-controlled warfare.

Like, no humans and people are using robots or, like, 3D-printed fucking drones, robots, all that stuff.

You've got to attack the data centers.

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It's going to be like Helldivers.

That's what's good.

That's the future.

The first question you might ask yourself as you watch gameplay of a simulator is,

Why spend this much time simulating the life of a Trader Joe's employee when you could be playing literally anything else?

Turns out our cranky little chimp brains are pretty easy to understand.

Game publishers have long since cracked the code to creating addictive gameplay loops.

Give a gamer a challenge, a way to complete it, then reward them for completing it, and they'll be drooling into their laps and sinking hours into the screen before you know it.

And this doesn't just work for AAA games either.

Slap the basic loop into almost any mundane task and you could still come out with a pretty addictive game.

Enter the sim games.

In a lot of these games, you're not playing an action hero or a super-powered protagonist.

You're an everyday Joe, like a truck driver, farmer, or even a bureaucrat.

Even a Democrat?

Ew!

And more often than not, people who already have these jobs in real life are the ones playing them in their off time.

And it's easy to see why.

Unlike in a day job, a game's progress is guaranteed.

There's no piece of shit manager stiffing you from a promotion.

there's no distracting co-worker sucking away at your time

and fucking killing your vibes at the work

if you put in the hours in a sim you will

be rewarded in game take fishing for example anyone who's gone fishing is no stranger to the possibility

that a multi-hour trip can result in literally no bites zero fish right

and then you're just like well i got at least got to go out

but in a sim fishing sims have gotten

so advanced in recent years many of them actually allow you

to play with real rods the company scottry for example offers a product called the Simfish,

a motorized device you can connect your actual fishing rod to that simulates the feeling of a fish tugging on your line.

The product even plays videos caught from a submarine of fish during an actual fight

and syncs it up with movement done on the line.

What's insane about that bridge, and it's really interesting, is that how many times have you wanted to do an activity

but it's not the season for it or whatever?

Now it's like if it's winter or cold or a shit day out, you have the familiarity of the thing that you use.

You know what I mean?

Also, you can be really good in the him and suck in real life.

And that's what I want to do.

I want the satisfaction of just being like, out here in the real world I'm terrible but in here I'm the master of fishing.

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This isn't a cheap hobby either as many of the more casual sims can run a few thousand dollars.

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For pros looking to get some practice in, more intent simulators costing five or six figures exist that emulate catching the fish that weigh hundreds of pounds.

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The company, Auti Concepts for example, offers one that simulates catching sharks that weigh up to 880 pounds.

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And this is where we get into another shockingly addictive part of sim gaming.

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The Rigs.

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Across all kinds of sim game fandoms, gamers are willing to drop serious cash into making their simulations feel as close to the real deal as possible.

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One trucking simulator fan, for example, purchased an actual truck cabin to house his rig in.

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It looks fucking insane.

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It's awesome.

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Watching his videos documenting the process, you can see him do everything from stripping the cabin's interior to replacing the mirrors with four widescreen television.

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The man even plans to replace the bed in the truck with something more comfortable

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so he can have a 24-hour trucking live stream, copying the entire long-haul experience, minus the occasional shameful dry tug from a lot lizard, which maybe one day.

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You could call them up.

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You literally could.

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If you are doing a role-playing live stream.

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I don't know if they actually have sex, but I'm just saying if you had that thing, people would be like, yo!

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If I was married, I'd just have my wife role-playing.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Just be like, come on, babe.

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Your wife just becomes your online prostitute.

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Do you think it's truckers that are watching this too?

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I think so.

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What do you think it is about...

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I mean, I know we just said that people are into it because there's less risk, but that's like participating in it.

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A lot of these simulators that are doing these big rigs and stuff, yes, there's people that do it, but a lot of them do stream, and there's a fandom out there for it.

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What do you think it is about watching?

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I mean, you gotta really, I guess, enjoy it.

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Because if you're in the profession, you think you'd want to take a step back from it and do something else?

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I would assume that it would be people that aren't in that profession, or there's something chaotic about...

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Like, I've always found that, like, if you're really into super fast-paced games, that's what you like playing,

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I've always thought that people that watch slower-paced stuff watch that because it's the opposite of what they participate in.

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So it's like a detox or something.

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If you watch this shit in the comments, I would love to know.

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I could see someone who has a 9-to-5 in an office.

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Like, man, what I wouldn't do to be out on the road right now.

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There's some things I see where it is, like, some of these simulators do look difficult.

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And there's terrain you have to do.

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So I'm sure there are people who are just very good at the game.

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But if you play League of Legends, of course you're going to watch some guy that's amazing.

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Because you're like, I can't do that.

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But the farming simulator, it's so mundane.

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And it's so accessible.

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Which obviously, besides the point of the personality of the streamer and all that, I just mean the actual gameplay itself.

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The farming sims, I think, are very...

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Because I've seen the guys who do, like, the crop harvesting with their tractors.

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That, to me, is a stim.

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I see it all the time.

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People do it with, like, Dave Ramsey videos.

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They have Dave Ramsey up top and then the farming sim on bottom for slop content farming.

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But it's just...

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Like, I'm watching that.

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I'm not watching Dave Ramsey.

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So it's just satisfying, I think.

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And then you're hearing something.

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Yeah.

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Exactly.

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It's just fascinating how people have cracked the fucking human brain you know i mean

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when i played minecraft i would only listen to podcasts that's the only time i'd ever listen to a podcast

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because minecraft is i'm doing boring but i like doing it like

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if you're playing a game of any kind even

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if it isn't mundane i say mundane is in like minecraft

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because there isn't a ton of noise or whatever

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so then you can still listen to something

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and ingest it i've always found that people

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that aren't playing with friends do that

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so it feels like there's a social kind of interaction going

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or you feel like like you're a part of a conversation even

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if you're not participating in it you know yeah it's weird

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watching you describe all the custom modding plans it's hard not

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to be impressed it's clear fans like these have a deep

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love for the tasks they're trying to simulate some people however

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can easily take things a bit too far even risking their

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own bodies for the sake of a better immersion for fans

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of vr shooter sims it's not enough to have an impressive

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rig they need to be able to feel the action

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and one chinese engineer took this to the absolute extreme with building his shooter sim setup.

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What started as a simple mounted gun controller with realistic recoil quickly became a machine loaded with pyrotechnics

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that would shoot back at the player whenever they took incoming fire.

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Not only that, the modder even created a suit

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that would shock him in this exact spot where his character would be shot in game.

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On a video he shared online, it doesn't take long for him to receive so much fire that he's left convulsing on the floor.

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stop even with these more niche examples it's clear to see

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just how passionate sim game fans can get take a peek at a more thriving sim game community however

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and you begin to see how passion quickly warps into something more destructive

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which i will say that's the ingenuity behind that's insane too

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what are the are those accessible have you seen the ones where it's like i've seen in some videos

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but it's like a you can run in a similar game

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you yeah there's like the little trackpad it has like a guard around it

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that you can just buy that you can buy

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that disney has like one of the best ones they released I think like five

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or eight years ago haven't used it at all it's supposed

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to be like this no guardrail no special shoes you just walk and it's like a

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multi treadmill

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but yeah those are just proprietary shit they're trying to use

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for creative stuff oh yeah I think it's for like probably blue screen technology

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because I've seen some of them it was like I feel

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like we're the VR headset stuff I feel like it's not they always over promise under deliver or whatever

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but it seems like some of the stuff I've seen with

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like like the game there with the guy attacking like the people running

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and stuff that's the closest i've seen to where i'm like that's pretty crazy i don't know how

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if i've never obviously used it

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but i don't know how realistic it feels unlike more day-to-day

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task sims it's easy to see the appeal behind racing simulators

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these games are an easy way to experience the adrenaline rush

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of speeding down a track without exposing yourself to all the danger

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and training many fans of these racing sims are also self-admittedly

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hopelessly addicted everywhere online you can find players outfitting home desks workstations

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and more pretty impressive racing sim rigs

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and one truck driver shared a video of himself

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and his big rigs being stuck in a bumper to bumper

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traffic realizing he hasn't moved in a few minutes he gets up

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and sits in the passenger seat that's been rigged out as

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a racing sim complete with an obnoxious looking gamer chair

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and an ultra wide monitor he even mentions in his post

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that he looks forward to traffic so he can tumble over into his rig

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and get a few laps in

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which some of these i will admit out of all the rigs

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and all the simulator things the racing ones i feel like i'd be like i feel like that's

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when i'd be like

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that would be the most immersive i've seen somewhere they even

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have it to wear multi monitors the other thing there they

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have it even in wraps around the sides where your sides you're looking out your passenger window

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but they have your dash so you're doing first

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so it looks like yeah you're driving a car it's crazy it also has like hydraulics too

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so you get bumps

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and are we talking about the guy who has a sky

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like the sky citizen rig oh no have you seen

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that one i haven't seen that one it's insane it looks

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so cool it's like this guy is he like wears like

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a spaceman's outfit like a role-playing outfit basically he has this rig and and when he flies his ship, it can move and contort.

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It looks fucking insane.

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And it can look up and down, too?

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When he is flying, so he's looking at his screen, but when he's flying, he goes down, and the chair will actually move around and stuff.

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It's crazy.

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It's really cool.

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Goddamn, how much does that cost?

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I can only imagine.

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This truck driver is by no means an exception.

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If there's one subgroup of Sim game fans that takes pride in the ridiculous rigs, it's racing Sim fans.

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Oftentimes, this comes at the expense of both their bank accounts and their relationships.

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Online, you can find dozens of passionate racing sim fans flexing their high-end rigs, while simultaneously trauma dumping about the negative effects the hobby has had on their relationships.

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More often than not, both the flexing and the venting can be attributed to one thing, the insane cost of some of these rigs.

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In the online community for iRacing, one of the most well-known simulator games, one player comments that sim racing has, quote, taken over his life,

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actively pulling him away from his wife and job.

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And by his own admission, he spends nearly six hours a day racing and blowing money on his rig, as well as online cars, instead of focusing on his wife or work.

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He caps off his post by saying, quote, it's tough to be poor and have sim racing as your hobby.

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First off, relatable quote, but also how many, I mean, with every hobby, I feel that with magic even.

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It's like, it's just a thing of like, it's tough to have this as a hobby because just the amount of money it takes to put into it.

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It's never ending.

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There's never enough.

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Is there ever, is there really any hobby that nowadays that doesn't require you just to dump a shit ton of money.

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There's cheaper hobbies.

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I mean, I'm sure there is.

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I just feel like it comes at a cost now.

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I feel like everybody knows you can make money off shit, so there's a premium on everything now.

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You know what I mean?

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Even free stuff like gardening should be a cheap thing.

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But with anything, the deeper you get and you're like, well, i need x y and z yeah

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but i just even think now people like with the internet there is no niche anymore

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so it's like even with gardening now it's like oh well

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it costs more to make things like i just feel like there's just there's just

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so much more you have to invest into now with hobbies

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i don't know stargazing's free it's true well where's the land

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did you buy the land no yeah you have to to go out drive

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if i had to drive to go drive somewhere it's gas

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okay i'm just being a dick on a similar page another

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long-distance truck driver vents about the stress the hobby has put on his relationship with his wife

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and kids married for five years

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and with two kids he opens up about his 50 plus hour work weeks

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and how he likes to spend all his free time outside of work burning virtual rubber

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and naturally his wife had something to say about

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that even more naturally she didn't take it well

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when the man pitched the brilliant idea of spending nearly four

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thousand dollars on on a brand new racing rig for his work truck.

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Despite her objections, the man ends up going behind her back and paying for the custom rig anyway.

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Oh God.

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His wife picked him up from work one day and when he showed her the rig, she went ballistic and left him to walk home alone.

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When they finally got home, the place was empty.

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She had taken their kids and went to live with her mother.

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God damn.

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Can't a brother spend 4K on a racing rig?

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It's just, if anything, I feel like you gotta find a common ground with being like, okay, well, what if we put a hundred bucks a month away?

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And then it's like, it's gonna take a while Or like there's some months you might be able to put back more, but going behind someone's back and doing that...

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Never bueno.

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Aw, who made the money?

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Who made the money?

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This is coming...

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Well, you're saying this as a man who's not married.

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As a man who's married, let me tell you, that goes out though.

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That.. it's irrelevant.

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My money's her money.

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Exactly.

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It's a joint thing.

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You know what I mean?

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My money's hers.

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Very nice.

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My money's her money and her money is.. her money.

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One of the largest appeals for a racing sim fan is finding unique

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and interesting ways to further blur the lines between reality and the simulator.

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There's no limit to what a racing fan will do to emulate the true feeling of racing a car, aside from actually, you know, getting inside a car and racing an actual car.

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One racing sim fan mentions he spared no expense at making the perfect rig.

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He's got the VR, he's got the haptics built in, but the one thing he hasn't been able to get is just the right smell.

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According to him, the inside of a race car has a unique smell, a mix of exhaust, hot oil, and the tire rubber.

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And unfortunately, he comments, the only smell close to real deal he's been able to

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replicate is the smell of swamp ass in the seat after he's done with the session.

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Tips from other Sim fans range.

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Some mention he should just buy a race fuel scented candle or smear a little motor oil inside his mask.

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Others suggest unplugging the game entirely and going the fuck outside because he's clearly lost the plot.

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I think the candle sounds like a good idea.

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If it's something I love and I want a simulation of it, I need the smell.

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Unfortunately for those hoping to pinch pennies by not building out an insane rig, the actual software ain't cheap either.

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iRacing is widely accepted as the gold standard when it comes to racing sims.

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Not only does it provide realistic gameplay, it offers a massive selection of tracks actually modeled after real racing roadways driven on by the pros.

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Now, you would think a sim of that quality wouldn't come cheap, and you'd be right.

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The game can only be purchased through a subscription service, and each individual car and track is separate charge on top of that.

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In 2013, motoring journalist Glenn Butler experienced the sneaky nickel and diming pay model of the game firsthand.

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Glenn was tasked with writing a feature on online racing, so naturally he decided to hop onto iRacing so he could experience the most authentic version of the hobby.

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At first, everything was smooth sailing as he would offer a complimentary 12-month subscription of the simulator.

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After finishing his feature, however, Glenn found himself wanting to keep the subscription going.

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He also found himself regularly dropping $11 to $15 per track and car.

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Eight years following the end of his free subscription, he even admits to spending several thousands of dollars on a custom rig for his expensive new hobby.

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In his post opening up about his addiction, he refuses to admit exactly how much he spent for fear of leaving a paper trail his wife can find.

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But he does admit

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that he could have easily purchased a real race car with the amount of money he spent on the software, add-ons, and physical rig, which, I mean, you'd have to assume, what, hundreds of thousands of dollars?

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Or actual race car?

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Unless he's being cheeky about it and it's like 30 or, you know, or something.

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Well, it's not a Formula One car, right?

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Well, no, but even like a race car souped up, I mean, that's still hundreds of thousands of dollars with the custom modification and all that kind of stuff.

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An F1 car is millions of dollars.

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That's a total different breed.

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Based on that admission alone, it's safe to assume that he spent at least five figures.

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I mean, if not six.

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It makes sense why so many spouses would be upset to find a multi-thousand dollar fake race car in their home.

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Outside the cost, the amount of noise these things make is a whole other downside to consider.

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One man, at least, tried to be courteous when he decided to buy a shady looking police riot van through an auction.

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He figured he could house his rig in the van outside of his home to spare his wife

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and kids from the noise.

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Things were going well until one day when he and his team of other sim racers entered into a 24-hour race competition.

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When it was finally his turn, he couldn't get 15 minutes in before the power of his van was completely cut off.

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Furious, he swung open his van door only to be met with 12 police officers.

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Immediately, the man was pinned against his van and handcuffed as the police flooded into the vehicle and began searching his belongings.

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Apparently, the police caught the scent of weed coming from the van and approached it to investigate.

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When they knocked and nobody answered, they noticed the van was violently shaking.

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Not knowing the shaking was coming from the expensive racing rig inside, the cops thought the man was frantically trying to destroy evidence of the mobile drug lab.

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Eventually, after they searched his van and found nothing, they let him be.

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Not 30 minutes after the man was slammed into and handcuffed against his own van, he returned to his rig and continue the race

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which i will say the guy the journalist does

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that not speak to how good the simulator is

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if you got a free 12 month thing you wrote a review

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and then you're playing it a decade after i was gonna

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say yeah that's it makes me want kind of want to

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try it i want i would love to try one oh yeah i wonder

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if there's any places with a sim there's gotta be some sim

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or something i would love to know somebody who has one

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their house to be like do experience it in a home

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because the thing it's like when you go to dave

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and busters and you play a game like

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that it's not like you take that you can take that

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and experience the same thing at home i'd like to see somebody's rig at home yeah

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and see how

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that feels yeah custom rig that's what i'm saying they're they're making it way better than dave

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and buster's you would have to assume

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and it's something you could be like i could put this

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in my own house just like any hobby sim racing has the potential to get crazy expensive

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if you decide to full send on it

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but there's still one more genre of sim game

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that can get even more expensive

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and throw its fan even deeper into a pit of obsessive

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delusion flight simulators flight simulators have come a long way since

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the first one dropped in 1980 what's once started out as a pretty crude imitation of piloting has become anything

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but in the modern day.

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Even pro pilots marvel at how accurately games like the most recent Microsoft Flight Simulator have captured the actual feel of flying.

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Using satellite images, the game allows pilots to navigate flights much like they do in real life by spotting actual landmarks like lakes,

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trains, buildings, and more that exist in real life.

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It's not just stretched to say

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that you could even chart a flight to your exact home address using one of these flight sims now.

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In fact, Microsoft flight simulator has gotten

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so true to life real pilots use the game to practice unique

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and dangerous scenarios they might experience while on actual flights like i think

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that they set the they set that game up

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and they have like uh the quarter of they have a caught like a full-fledged cockpit built

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and it's like a thing that moves i think that's something

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that they train like that's a huge rig they've built

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but i'm pretty sure they're just using microsoft flight simulator as the game

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because the sim is often updated with satellite imagery and real-time weather

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and traffic pilots and non-pilots alike can practice flying on real runways by using real airplane control panels.

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Couple all that with the fact that the sim only asks you to pay for the game once up front, and it's easy to see why the flight sim community is thriving more than ever, more than even racing sims at this point.

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Just like the racing sim community flight sim fans are just

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as capable of going balls to the wall with their rigs

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if left unchecked and

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if you thought racing sim rigs got expensive that's chump change

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compared to the amount of money flight sim fans drop on

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their setups some fans admit to spending more than the cost

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of their car on their individual rigs back in 2021 nvidia's

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modding team also found a way to dump 20 grand on their rig pouring cash over a comedically powerful computer

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and motion platform that roll the cockpit as you fly.

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Now, there's nothing wrong with doing whatever you can to immerse yourself in the game you're playing, right?

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Problems arise, however, when that passion for realism veers into toxicity against other players.

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A streamer on Twitch was faced with toxicity when a flight didn't go their way.

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While approaching an airport, he decided to take a shortcut that ended up being a little too extreme.

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Desperate to avoid a crash, the player took manual control, slowed the aircraft, and safely landed.

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After the pretty uneventful stream, he was surprised to see a viewer report him on twitch

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they claimed his flying was disrespectful to the aircraft to boeing

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and the aviation community as a whole because it wasn't realistic or professional

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man the viewer also ended up threatening legal action against the streamer unless they followed a list of conditions

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that included never streaming microsoft flight simulator again

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never flying a boeing aircraft again unless they earn respect from boeing

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which is ironic and funny And taking and completing three years of flying lessons.

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Which I would say, that's such a level of delusion.

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See, that's the problem too with simulator things, is that kind of participant.

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The diehards.

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I mean, the fucking crazy diehards.

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Is this like a 30-year-old man-child, or is this a 12-year-old?

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I think it's like 40s.

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I think it's a 30s to 40s guy, for sure.

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I could see like a 14-year-old who really got into it over the year, and he's just like, you disrespected Boeing!

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You don't treat Boeing like that, ever!

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You hear me, mister?

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20 years and you bet I shall prove.

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I can see that too.

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Many of these delusional flight sim fans eventually get humbled, whether it's by actual emergency situations, their loved ones, or strangers online.

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Unfortunately, this isn't the case for everyone.

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Some fans end up taking their delusions too far and in some cases even go to their graves.

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In 2018, airline worker Richard Russell ended up stealing a commercial airplane from SeaTac Airport in Seattle

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and taking it for a 73-minute joyride.

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Even now, the president and CEO of the airline reports, No violations of security regulations, making unclear just how Russell was able to steal the plane.

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He simply arrived in a tow vehicle in the cargo area and climbed into the Horizon Air Q400 plane.

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Starting the sequence to start aircraft, a few minutes later, the plane had taken off.

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For the next 73 minutes, Russell flew the plane and even began pulling off several stunts.

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During his flight, he would have several conversations with air control.

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In one conversation, the controller begins talking to the radio pilot saying, right now he's just flying around and he just needs some help controlling his aircraft.

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To which Russell commented, Nah, I mean, I don't need much help.

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I've played some video games before.

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As conversations continued with air control, it became increasingly clear Russell didn't plan on surviving this flight.

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He started obsessing over pulling off a barrel roll, and he starts by bringing up the idea to the radio pilot.

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Alrighty, uh, hey, pilot guy, can you, uh, can this thing do a backflip, you think?

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Again, the controller tries to talk Tim out of it, but it falls on deaf ears on Russell continues.

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Despite advice coming from pilots and air control, Russell ends up attempting and actually performing the barrel roll, just barely missing the water underneath him by 10 feet.

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Probably just relieved the stunt didn't end up killing Russell, a pilot ends up congratulating him for the maneuver.

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Instead of celebrating, Russell seemed upset or kind of disappointed that the barrel roll didn't end up doing him in, right?

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He was kind of, I mean, like, even what he says, it's pretty sad.

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He's just like, oh, I thought that might be it.

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I don't want to.

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I was kind of hoping that was going to be it, you know?

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Unfortunately, the flight would end shortly after Russell expressed concern over one of his engines possibly going out, and he would end up crashing into the woods around 8.46 p.m.

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While nothing was 100% confirmed, after an FBI investigation, they concluded, and I quote, the airplane appears to have remained in control

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and the final descent to the ground appears to have been intentional

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if the pilot had wanted to avoid an impact with the ground he had time

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and energy to pull the column back raise the nose

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and initiate the climb ultimately russell's joyride was treated

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and documented as a suicide damn they had to put

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that fucking photo at the end of him holding the puppies

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yeah we can make you feel even worse by it

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which i've seen a lot of people like it's extremely dangerous innocent people could have gotten hurt

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but there is such a almost like the way

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that people have edited these videos before it really is just a sad it's just a sad way to go

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and it's the the very human like back

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and forth you know like how compassionate even the air traffic

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air like the air traffic control guys were with him and stuff

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and it's just it's such a fucking tragic story do you

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think he always intended like he wanted to go out with a bang

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and he was just like i'm gonna do this and kill myself

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or do you think he got in the air

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and he's just like i'm gonna be in

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so much trouble i'm just gonna end it even just the

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conversations it feels like it's a premeditated thing whether it was to be a spectacle

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or something i don't know i mean with stuff like i

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mean suicide i i it's just literally the day who knows you know i

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if if he didn't do it

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that it might have been a different way another day you know it's insane

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and also just the fact that you have the audio log

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and this conversation is it makes it

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so almost like not real yeah you know like it's it's almost

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so fantastical in its approach and just having that documentation is just crazy.

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There's nothing wrong with enjoying a low-stakes sim game.

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If there's anything some of the earlier stories we covered show, it's that the hobby has the potential to be incredibly enriching, as is the case with most hobbies.

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However, know that simulation games have the potential to get insanely expensive and time-consuming.

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Right?

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I'm waving my finger.

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If you know you have an obsessive personality

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and would struggle with not blowing all your money on the sick rig or alienating yourself from your friends and family, maybe consider something else, right?

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Or just do it anyways.

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I don't give a shit what you do.

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I'm fucking whatever.

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Going to debt for your hobbies.

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You're going to debt for your hobbies.

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Who gives a shit?

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Otherwise, go off!

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You may just find yourself a fun new way to kill some time.

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Which I gotta say, all these things, I think it's uh, it's fascinating.

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Going in and like looking at some of this stuff, because you look at you look at some of these games, they're almost like joke titles.

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Farming Simulator.

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And you look at it, you're like, who the fuck would want to play that?

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But then you like start looking at these streamers, these communities and stuff.

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It's just so like enriching.

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When you you go in like i'm sure i mean like listen have i seen every single streamer no

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but i will say these communities

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and stuff it's less about the experience of the game

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and more so about the community

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and just like the hobby as itself it's people who are like i love farming

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but i have no ability to do it

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so i get my rocks off doing this you know you find it's just another way of finding community

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or even finding something new about yourself

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that i feel like what's the harm in it you know

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yeah yeah do people spend a little too much money on stuff sure should you financially put yourself

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or your family in stress?

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Of course not.

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But, fuckin' I don't know man.

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Get one go around the sun, live it how you want.

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And if you want to simulate being a fuckin' airplane person, racing cars or farming, I'd say fuckin' get at it.

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Also, yeah, there's no danger to it.

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Like, it's- you're- it's safer to just have a simulation and, you know, do the dangerous shit.

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Like driving high-speed cars, trucks, airplanes- I- I- I legitimately, I will say, this has made me want to get some kind of rig.

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Like the ingenuity some people have is so impressive.

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And these rigs are so enthralling.

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Like, I mean, we talk about, me and Nick will talk about new cameras and just like gear.

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And this is like in that category where I'm like, that's so sick being able to get these monitors.

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Like, I'd love to see conversations of even people like, which monitors are the best one?

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Which are like, what kind of, what kind of cables?

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What kind of like, like actual frame?

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Like those kind of conversations I love having and seeing and like testing and looking at people's reviews online.

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All that stuff.

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I eat it up.

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So, I don't know.

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It's pretty good simulators who would have thought am I right we'll see you next time guys yeah

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This video has 560 sentences and 6899 words to shadow. The speech runs for 30:21. The speaker talks fast, about 227 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

simulator /ˈsɪmjəˌleɪtɚ/ (noun) — One who simulates or feigns.
hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/ (noun) — An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
sim /sɪm/ (noun) — A simulation session or scenario.
insane /ɪnˈseɪn/ (adjective) — Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
custom /ˈkʌstəm/ (noun) — Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.
realistic /ˌɹɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/ (adjective) — Expressed or represented as being accurate, practicable, or not idealistic.
simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/ (noun) — Something that simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.
monitor /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/ (noun) — Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/ (noun) — Access to a resource for a period of time, generally for payment.
gameplay /ˈɡeɪmˌpleɪ/ (noun) — The totality of player experiences during a game, such as the gaming environment and the competitive interaction with other players; often with reference to a…
airplane /ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/ (noun) — A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
addictive /əˈdɪktɪv/ (adjective) — Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ (adverb) — In a natural manner.
impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ (adjective) — Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
wash /wɑʃ/ (verb) — To clean with water.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

end up (verb) — To bring to a conclusion.
look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
talk about (verb) — Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
come from (verb) — To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
come at (verb) — To get to, especially with effort or difficulty.
come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — Come along with me; join me in going.
go in (verb) — To become obscured by clouds.
go out (verb) — To leave, especially a building.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 149 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thrive /θɹajv/, smooth /smuːð/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/, wash /wɑʃ/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
Long words — get the stress right: simulator /ˈsɪmjəˌleɪtɚ/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/

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Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like simulator, hobby, sim.

Grammar in this video

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Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	If I'm feeling sick, I'll just · if you had that thing, people would be · If I was married, I'd just
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have started · have gotten · I've always found
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is guaranteed · be rewarded · are highly rated
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	guy who made · people who already · people that do

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