@Jeff Goldstein, what exactly is your "problem with the dude on GTP?" It is only you and 2 or 3 other users that are the people constantly whining lke 3 year olds - first you almost burst into tears because you couldnt buy 1 and I happened to walk up and find 2, then you stop just short of calling me a liar for IDing some issues that other people found as well - Where you picked on as a child and now have a complex? There might be medication for all that projected frustration you have. Doesnt it get tiring acting as the "self appointed" FaceBook gossip? Note how almost all your posts over at FaceBook include a borderline personal attack - isnt that in violation of FaceBooks AUP?
Hiya, drama queen!
No, I wasn't picked on as a child. And I'm not frustrated, nor do I require medication, nor was I "whining, or "gossiping," etc. Truth is, I wasn't a member of this forum -- but was a member of facebook -- so I posted on facebook a link to this forum and to the impressions its members had of the T500 because this is the forum where the wheel was being discussed most consistently.
In doing so, I realized that I'd be subjecting people to a host of posts highlighting your annoying self-importance and obvious attention-seeking, and so I was careful to warn people who might be tempted to click over and read your firsthand accounts (rather than take for granted that I was summarizing them accurately; which I was, incidentally) what they were in for.
I for one am glad others finally have a wheel in hand. And I said so. Because reading your self-congratulatory posts -- frequently festooned with proud pronouncements about how "independant" [sic] you are as a thinker (compared to all the lemmings and fanboys out there who you seem to define as "those who aren't RC45, the most honest, unbiased, independant [sic]-thinking wheel user EVER!) -- has been nothing short of excrutiating: yes, I appreciate that you have taken the time to take photographs and give your opinions. But being appreciative and being
beholden to your graciousness and forbearance -- which you so regularly remind all of -- are two different things.
That you would in fact call me out by name here -- on a forum I didn't belong to -- because I didn't, on a
separate forum, show the requisite appreciation of your tremendously charitable acts (you played with a freakin' wheel and reported back -- a feat worthy of the highest regard), suggests to me that I had you pegged right from the get go.
If you don't like MY take on YOUR impressions, that's okay with me. Why it isn't okay with you that some people might be bothered by the self-important and smug way you've pronounced on the item under review, is for you to wrestle with.
In other words, it ain't me who needs some time on the couch, or any pills, brother.
So: To distill your various impressions down, here's what we're left with. Tell me if I'm off: you like the wheel but aren't overwhelmed by it (at least, not
consistently: you seem to go back and forth, in some posts trumpeting the wheel, in others leaving the impression it isn't a significant upgrade over the Fanatec); you're disappointed with the quality of some of the fasteners and the allen wrenches; you think the pedals are pretty good but are disappointed with the mod; and if TM doesn't get you a stick shift quickly you'll sell the wheel on eBay. Also, you don't much like where the mode button was placed, and you had trouble with a fan and were forced to return the item for a replacement, which thus far works just fine.
That about it?
A simple yes or no will do. No need to tell me and everyone else yet again how thankful we should all be that you shared your wheel with us. We're already all really really super dooper thankful.
You're the bestest!
but do you get ffb effects from curbs on either wheel?
eheh
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