#road champs

[perryvonvicious]

You can rewatch my livestream from 5/15/23 anytime on my YouTube channel! Join me as I work on 3D prints of titanaboa vertebrae, restore some vintage monster truck toys, and do some basic maintenance on my 3D printers.

[doccywhomst]

ruby sunday is so bright eyed and bushy tailed and kidnappable, like i love it but buckle up girl, he’s abt to send ur ass to Hell World…. wait does she know he can travel anywhere in space?? ppl know about aliens in the show, but how will she react though - she has no idea that he’s like this …..ancient alien entity of life and time ??? i hope their reputation unfolds slowly and ominously as they visit other planets. i wonder when she’ll ask about the flux. i hope she starts connecting the dots, and i hope the sheer scale of it scares her

[rb9]

in honour of brazil race week ✨

[in-tua-deep]

Child in the little crocheted hat my old roommate made for her appreciation

[frogshunnedshadows]

Retro Arcade Afternoon Write-Up Part II

Electro-mechanical Boogaloo!

The madness continues!

They had a Root Beer Tapper, which I tried and did not get very far with. And right next to it:

720, a skateboarding video game by Atari. Odd play controls on that, and a weird cabinet, but I like the fake cassette tape in the fake boom box. Nice touch & nice art. I see what you did there, Atari.

Then there was this guy, Circus Charlie. This had the vibe of a fake 80's arcade game for children that you'd make up for a movie. Cute marquee art, though.

And they had an Arkanoid! CRT was not in great shape. It is a slow game, but I do like it. Nice sounds & music. This one was on an awkward and slow level (28?).

Elton John's Capt. Fantastic pinball machine by Bally. Possibly the most self-referential pinball machine ever made. It's pin-ception.

Couple more electro-mechanical pinballs: Surf Champ and Paul Bunyan. Pretty old, and sadly, not working at this time.

But Road Race was working! The flipper action seemed a little weak, but I recall this having a particularly nice dinging bell / chime sound every time the score increased.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Centipede. Which I haven't touched in forever, but I got a decent score on! Made the high scores list! Which was exceedingly difficult to photograph!

Missile Command! A major historical, early and intriguing game that I don't think I'd played maybe more than a few seconds of before. Also seen in Terminator 2, I believe. Fitting. I did not get a decent sore on this. That is one super chonky trackball, too.

To be continued!

[lukas-crowsong]

i was inspired by @natduskfall, so i sketched up a VERY rough, from-memory Silverglade Village. i wanted to capture a small, close-knit farming community sprawling over the surrounding hillside, the castle the main feature of the landscape with a cheery village nestled at its feet

[acebender]

Road 96 (2021) did Trombone Champ before Trombone Champ (2022)

[cat-winterfield]

star UNstable

[sportsallover]

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[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

Console Racing Driving Games of 1993 - Compilation Part 6

Compilation of Racing and Driving games released on consoles in 1993, this compilation is part 6 of 6 and features Super Off Road for the Sega Master System, Super Off Road The Baja for the SNES, Top Gear 2 for the SNES, Zero4 Champ II for the TurboGrafx-CD and Zoku The Legend of Bishin for the SNES.

Part 6 also included an Honourable Mentions section which features Suzuka 8 Hours for the SNES, Crash 'n Burn for the 3DO and F1 Grand Prix Part II for the SNES.

0:00. Intro 0:15. Super Off Road 10:50. Super Off Road The Baja 17:02. Top Gear 2 21:11. Zero4 Champ II 31:30. Zoku The Legend of Bishin 40:31. Honourable Mentions 41:31. Outro

For Other Compilation videos check out this playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CEjFei9KXJ8xDIChQB8WLJd

[rainerbayer]

rb's Free Rider's Motorcycle Memories (2 / oo)

On the Route des Grandes Alpes (Maritime Alps, France) – and some thoughts on the age of 60

First picture: Me and my Triumph Tiger Sport 1050 on a pass on the Route des Grandes Alpes towards Nice via Valley of Isere (Val d'Isere): Col d'Allos.

With my type of motorcycle clothing 8-) , it was also possible to hike up to the managed lake d'Allos (Lac d'Allos) without any problems. It's about 30 minutes (one way) from the parking lot further up, which is subject to a fee in the high season. The path runs partly on a rocky track next to the meandering stream bed. The path is marked with information boards explaining the formation of the stream and the peculiarities of the lake and its surroundings.

However, I don't want to give a description of the Maritime Alps (discover them for yourself!), but rather make a few comments on how traveling by motorcycle has changed for me with age.

So, let's go back to the first picture: A good 10 years ago in a somewhat freer and simpler world (also for motorcyclists): less complicated, less regulated, more light-hearted than today.

When I was younger, I wished the journey would take forever, and I could well imagine living in this fantastic mountain world: right on the spot, so to speak, without the tedious approach route of hundreds of kilometers.

The latter is still the case today, although in view of developments in Europe, the question arises as to whether I am far enough away there from growing madness …

In the early years, I also savored the trip to the hilt and always returned well after midnight or in the early morning, usually in pouring rain.

Nowadays, at the beginning of my 6th decade of life, it's the growing feeling: "I'm here and it's still nice, the routes are still fantastic to ride; I've seen a lot again and also new things, but now it's also good to go home again". Today I usually stay overnight again on the route back - due to my age. One positive aspect of getting older is that the feeling of being back home becomes stronger. By "home" I mean the people and the landscape: the environment in which I grew up. People and landscape are interwoven in a special, almost mysterious way; a realization that takes time.

The last two pictures: So I usually come back in the early evening nowadays. If the weather is not too bad, I take off my luggage and immediately cycle up a few more 10 kilometers to our "small" mountain and forest landscape here; in good weather bathed in the almost golden light of the evening sun in late summer and early autumn. And I am enjoying our narrow mountain roads through our mixed forests, our green meadows and our gentle to rugged (steep) slopes of the vineyards.

Here it is the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, not the "far" south of europe. It is not the fantastic mountain and rock world of the Alps with its (drivable!) passes up to over 2700 m altitude, its deeply carved gorges, its mountain lakes and streams, its alpine farming areas, its often grotesque and "dangerously" narrow roads, with their different people, their slightly different way of life. (You see, I'm already starting to miss that again.)

But it's my home and it feels good to be back.

And to get ready again for the next trip.

(Tanslated from German with DeepL - free version.)

[brannewjoint]

~Lyric's last day in Champ Les Sims ended with her finding this forgotten burial mound.

[estelleoakland]

Another Peepy Adventure (aka Mistakepy goes to Maryland)

[appoarsin]

Dang, this is kinda funny. I didn’t even get back into Halo until, like, late March. In all fairness though, Halo music is always great.

Don’t know how Les Champs-Elysées got 4th though. Great song, but no way I listened to it more than 1484 other songs. How dare the damn French take my #4 instead of something else from ODST.

Then there’s also my top songs playlist for anyone curious

[sportsallover]

If you had to get a tattoo from the last show you watched, what would it be?