Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn

Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by BitwiseFool on Thursday July 10, 2025 @12:46PM (#44522927)

Personal anecdote: As a child I played a lot of Sim City. In those games bridges must be perfectly straight and as a result I developed a mental model that curved bridges simply don't exist. When I first drove over a gently curved bridge in my late 20's I felt a serious disturbance to an irrelevant worldview that I never questioned.

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by scubbo on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:02PM (#44523085)

I first got hold of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas early in the summer holidays during my school years, which meant I was able to play nearly-uninterrupted (save for pesky things like sleep and food) for several days straight.

When I finally surfaced, and Mum drove me into town for something or other, I felt visceral panic that she was driving on the "wrong" side of the road.

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by senkora on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:27PM (#44523335)

I wonder if you could simulate driving on the left by 1) flipping the entire screen left-to-right, 2) flipping the controls left-to-right, and 3) getting really good at reading mirrored writing.

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by ok_dad on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:50PM (#44523610)

If you know how to mirror a display in Windows 11 I can try it in my sim rig and see if it works. I actually thought about doing that the other day for some reason, I think it would work.

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by zrobotics on Thursday July 10, 2025 @02:01PM (#44523751)

It would be a super hacky way to just test, but you can do that with OBS set to capture the game output and then displaying the OBS capture. There's probably multiple other ways, but that would be a quick and easy way to test if you already have OBS installed

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by ok_dad on Saturday July 12, 2025 @06:48PM (#44545859)

This didn’t work out, I crashed my PC somehow trying it with RFactor2 and AC a few times. Sorry to everyone who was curious like me, but in going to continue trying in the future.

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by duskwuff on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:02PM (#44527756)

On a somewhat related note: the Game Cube and Wii editions of Zelda: Twilight Princess are mirror images of each other. If you're playing on a Game Cube, Link is left-handed, but he's right-handed on a Wii.

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by ffsm8 on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:57AM (#44532219)

Or just buy a truck simulator on steam and experience it without hacks ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by Tade0 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:46PM (#44523567)

Shame only the first installment of the series had an expansion pack set in London.

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by sidewndr46 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:14PM (#44523190)

You must be in a left hand drive country?

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by christianqchung on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:17PM (#44523222)

Based on the use of "Mum", very probably.

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by Agingcoder on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:39PM (#44523486)

Coming from the same area, I didn’t even think that it might look odd to folks in other parts of the world …

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Re:Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-... by bombcar on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:30PM (#44525218)

See I'm familiar with California and their "flying" interchanges which are often banked pretty substantially - having to walk along one once was an eye opener, they're really banked!

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