KingsbayYHPE

I was talking to Doug (Guinness) the other day and we were discussing CM, as one does, and I made the following observation.

Have you ever aquaplaned in your car, or hit black ice?

You know the bit, just after driving along in total control, when the back wheels, or the front end, starts to slide, when you lose control completely, you can turn the wheels or brake, or ease off the power, and you have no control of the direction of the car until gravity and friction and the Good Lord decide to supply some grip and you regain control and drive off...until the next water or ice patch.

CM 03/04's like that.

You play away, tinkering with tactics, changing players and formation, you eke out the results, and then you hit the six-game streak where nothing you do has any relevance on how the games go. It can be five games, it can be many more, but no amount of tinkering or changing can affect how the results go, until gravity and friction and the Good Lord decide to let you regain control.

I finished nightshift at 0700 this morning, got into the house about 0715, showered and ate, then about 0745 decided to play CM, in the quiet of the absence of the wife and kids.

Apart from about 30 minutes when my uncle arrived for his cup of tea and chat I've played since. 13 games. We've won 6 drawn 5 and lost 2 and I feel it's had absolutely nothing to do with me.

It's been a wholely unenjoyable experience.

The main difference between aquaplaning and CM is that with CM you don't end up in A&E.

retired_ms.jones55

Hey, Ian! That's exactly the same problem i've tried to describe in my recent thread, though i was told to feck off and enjoy what i have

Have to disagree though. Aquaplaning has to do something with emotions. You cannot seat in your car and watch it floating into some brickwall with boring face. I'm almost sure y'd say something like "@#$@" or even "&$^%@( @%^)@ _@%@_", which is more probable.

When you CMing like that, there's no emotions. There's only emptyness (or emptiness, my grammaticks sucks arse).

One thing to tell is "have a sleep/walk/drink and it will pass by"

KingsbayYHPE

Aye, I know that - using different words - you probably all know what I'm talking about

By the way, I feel no emotion when I slide a vehicle because it's the "company car"

retired_mrsjb

Whenever I spot CM aquaplaning I close CM to go do something else. I have much less available time for CM than I used to and I refuse to waste it on the wholly unenjoyable experience as you describe.

I firmly believe it is something to do with the random number seeding process, so I'll go do something else and have another go later.

retired_ms.jones55

Yes, Ian, it's less emotional being in the "company car".

But, still, the person in the car is not that virtual "company", but absolutely real "me", that's what produces most of emotions

retired_mrsjb

I agree with Andy. It's not the company car or otherwise that bothers me, it's the A&E bit

retired_sandra

I've aquaplaned on the A500 (dual carriageway) before in torrential rain at about 60mph. Even though I ended up hitting the kerb sideways (which fortunately did more good than bad as it somehow straightened the car back up) I actually thought it was pretty good fun!

Handbrake turns are the best though. I remember when I last went the Snowdome in Tamworth a couple of months ago, I handbrake turned round a small roundabout near it and completely **** up my passenger. \o/

KingsbayYHPE

My "Company Car" generally takes guys to A&E

retired_sargent

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nobby_McDonald:
I've aquaplaned on the A500 (dual carriageway) before in torrential rain at about 60mph. Even though I ended up hitting the kerb sideways (which fortunately did more good than bad as it somehow straightened the car back up) I actually thought it was pretty good fun!

Handbrake turns are the best though. I remember when I last went the Snowdome in Tamworth a couple of months ago, I handbrake turned round a small roundabout near it and completely **** up my passenger. \o/ <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

One of your harem I presume

retired_ms.jones55

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by iajafer:
My "Company Car" generally takes guys to A&E <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

So all you have to take care of is that you're on the right place when the aquaplaning starts, yup?