But its RED and she has a bow and she's not painted blue and she has the crazy eye thing going. Side note. Why is the horse so damn big? It looked like what I would expect a jockey to look like sitting a Clydesdale.

I'd love for real jockeys to respond that way after a race:

"How did you pull off such an amazing run today?"

"Good!"

"And I hear that your ride wasn't feeling the best this-morning, how did you get him back on track this afternoon?"

"Because I wanted to!"

"Thankyou for your time, any final words?"

"Good!"

>> ^SwimWithSharks:

the drafting comes into play when people are actually pushing the 200m, the positional jockeying is part of the overall strategy for the race, just like running the clock down to prevent your opponent from responding is in others. Once the "race" portion of the race starts in the final half lap there is definitely no looking back and people are definitely pedaling as hard as possible.
You might prefer to watch "individual pursuit" if you just want the racing without the strategy, in that format the riders start on opposite sides of the track and who goes fastest overall wins, there is no jockeying for position since you're never going to get close enough to each other to draft or influence each other's race in any way.
>> ^possom:
There is no drafting effect in play when moving this slowly and at some points STOPPED.



I second watching Pursuit, love that. Pity they got rid of the 1km pursuit in the Olympics. I recall Chris Hoy's run a few Olympics ago being incredibly thrilling.

I still don't get this event though. You'd think with any kind of distance event it would evolve so people maintained an optimum pace until they felt the need to sprint.

the drafting comes into play when people are actually pushing the 200m, the positional jockeying is part of the overall strategy for the race, just like running the clock down to prevent your opponent from responding is in others. Once the "race" portion of the race starts in the final half lap there is definitely no looking back and people are definitely pedaling as hard as possible.

You might prefer to watch "individual pursuit" if you just want the racing without the strategy, in that format the riders start on opposite sides of the track and who goes fastest overall wins, there is no jockeying for position since you're never going to get close enough to each other to draft or influence each other's race in any way.

>> ^possom:

There is no drafting effect in play when moving this slowly and at some points STOPPED.

>> ^radx:

That's even more wtf than the other one.
0:42 -- is the commentator really saying "ninja sniper"?


Yeah, that's the ninja horse's name.

Play the game yourself here!: http://www.jra-jwc.jp/win5/

My first race I had a horse with a mohawk and a horse with an afro. Halfway through the race all the horses got power-ups... one was on skis and another tried to run on top of a giant tire! The winner was a horse that rode on a swiveling chair. All the horses have hilarious gag names to match their looks.

How to play (if you can't read Japanese): [NOTE: You can only purchase 20 tickets per day unless you delete the cookie from your browser history]

1) Go to the website (http://www.jra-jwc.jp/win5/)
2) Click the red "skip" button in the lower right to skip the intro.
3) Click the red button again: Japan World Cup 3 Wins を始める！！ (It now says "Begin Japan 3 World Cup Wins" in Japanese)
4) Click the first yellow tab next to the red button that says "馬券購入" (purchase tickets)
5) For ease of play, I suggest clicking the yellow button on the far right that says ランダム (randomly choose horses)
6) Next, you have to decide how many tickets to buy... you can only buy 20 tickets per day (unless you clear the browser history/cookie cache). I suggest you pick 20. When you're ready, click the button that looks like this: 購入 (purchase)
7) The next screen shows you your picks for the races (there will be 5 WTF races--remember, these horses have been randomly picked for you). Click the yellow button that looks like this: 決定 (confirm)
Click the red button that looks like this: 出走 and has a picture of a jockey riding a horse (begin run)
9) Click the red button that looks like this: レースに進む！！　(start the race)
10) Enjoy your WTF race!

In fourteen years of software development, for companies large and small, I've never worked with a female programmer, developer, or engineer.

I've had female coworkers who were analysts, graphic designers, quality assurance, technical writers, IT jockeys, program managers, project managers, and "normal" managers of various levels.

There's definitely a male bias in the programming fields, so I'm not surprised that they're under-represented in open-source projects as well.

how can jockeys have any ounce of self-respect riding on horses with such names
"Somedickonahorse comes in 3rd"

>> ^Raaagh:

My mind implodes as I try and understand how you linked atheists to fundamentalists, until I realise you are not being fair.
Dawkins swatted away attempts to evade/sugercoat, and got a British muslim to staunchly state that Shaira law is clear - leave islam = death. And more telling, was the British muslim seemed to have no problem with human rights violations and the general hypocrisy of islam...because it was islam.
I saw an interesting exposure of islamic hypocrisy, but you became fixated with the stance Dawkins had to adopt to get the facts.
Is such a passive/"dont rock the boat" attitude really what you want?
I am by no means defending islam. it is hypocritical. but islamic nations are sovereign are they not? and as such if they wanna do fucked up shit and have that be a part of their own governmental laws fine. I'd probably lobby to get that shit stopped if only because of the gross raping of basic human rights. What i wouldnt do is what dawkins does every fucking day:

"lets make fun of religious people cuz i find them silly and absurd and lets not actually have discourse over legitimate issues and create progress lets just be completely dismissive and have pissing contests with these dark age camel jockeys"

or we could bomb em back to the stone age eh? ......oh, shit, thats not any better really

>> ^Kevlar:

The "normal" (meaning cheap but not outside game rules) way this is done in Versus mode (at least as far as I do it and normally see it done) is to spawn the Charger on the roof the instant the first survivor runs into the building, thus leaving the 'safe room' which consists of the outside area. If the team is unprepared for such an attack or if one person simply runs ahead (which allows the SI to spawn), you can immediately jump down and charge anyone still standing outside and picking up weapons/kits off the pier and into the ocean. Using a Jockey or a Smoker to hold the person still also helps, or helps to drag them back into position for the death charge. However, I've never seen the death charge occur while the opening intro is still going - that shouldn't technically be possible due to everyone still being in the safe room and thus disallowing the charger spawn.
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Thanks for dropping some science.

The normal way this "death charge" is accomplished in Versus mode - meaning the cheap, but within-the-rules way I regularly do it - is in the following manner:

1. After the survivors' cutscene has ended, wait for the first survivor to walk from the pier into the building. As soon as one survivor does so, all the survivors have officially left the 'safe room' (in this case, the pier is the safe room) which allows the special infected to spawn (so long as it's out of sight).

2. The instant the first survivor has entered the building, have the charger spawn on the roof. If any straggler lags behind to pick up weapons and health kits on the pier, immediately jump down and charge the survivor straight off the pier and into the ocean. Instant kill. This technique works if the survivor team is uncoordinated, someone is a straggler or one idiot survivor runs off ahead of the others which then allows the special infected team to spawn.

3. If the survivors are well-coordinated and move as a team into the building, have a jockey or smoker spawn on the pier and drag one backwards toward the pier. Let the other infected hold the survivor still and charge right through them both and off the pier. Instant kill.

4. If the survivors are well-coordinated and *prepared* for the death charge, they may send a survivor onto the roof to prevent special infected from spawning there (as specials cannot spawn where a survivor can see them). In that case, spawn whatever you can wherever you can and harass the team until someone can pull a survivor back.

In the meantime, this particular video should not technically be possible since the opening cinematic is still playing, thus proving the survivors are still on the pier and in the 'safe room' (meaning specials should not yet be allowed to spawn). We're seeing either bugs, hax or 'sploits.

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Yeah, I had a friend he was 6'10". When people asked him if he played basketball, he'd always reply, "No, are you a jockey?"

>> ^oxdottir:
So, the legs are fake, but are the arms on the reigns fake too? Where is his waist? I wish there were a standing person in there for comparison.


The tricky part is that he's on stilts, that's the creaking noise. As for his arms, I'm not sure, but I'd guess the jockey's arms are fake, and that his actual arms are inside the costume helping to hold it up, so that the whole weight isn't on his shoulders.

I completely disagree, westy. How can this sport be equated to rolling dice?

Yes, training is very much a part of it. What sport isn't? In fact I'd say training factors a lot more in to it than breeding. How many great horses sire other horses with great expectations that simply fizzle out? Plenty.

And how many horses come out of nowhere to give us wonderful stories - frequently.

Besides the point, when you get to these big races like the Triple Crown races and the Breeder's Cup, ALL the horses have strong lineage. So it really comes down to training and, to some extent, the cunning of the jockey.

This is a beautiful sport that, frankly, has eaten itself alive over the past couple decades. They haven't marketed themselves well to the public like other sports (see: NASCAR) over the years. And that's a shame. But I see a huge resurgance in popularity. Unfortunately, the sport won't see a big resurgance until there's a Triple Crown winner. And who knows when that'll be.

"this -is un-b-livable"

not something I find particular interesting sum one bred a strong horse well done.

I don't know how it brakes down 60-70% breeding 20% training 10% jockey ?

granted it dose appear in this race that the jokey spurred the horse on at the right time but this is really rare iv watched a fair bit of horse racing and 90% of the races are pritt much predetermined by breeding or complaty random factors outside of the jokey and the horse owner and trainer.

Its like F1 its just a case of who has the most money to buy the most expensive kit/horse the rider/driver is quite negligible so long as they are up to a reasonable skill level.

I can see how people can get worked up when wanting a horse /car /dog to win and the dynamics of the position changing and expectation of who will actually win, but its exactly the same as rullet or simply rolling dice.

1. I was sent to a behavioral hospital for saying I would kill myself and stabbed the table with a large kitchen knife.

2. I thrive to be the kindest person I know but still end up being an ass without even trying.

3. I'm Socially retarded. I have trouble talking to friends I've known for years.

4. When I was 19 I had an affair with a twenty year old woman. I felt guilty about her husband but I was in love.

5. I often feel my social awkwardness is the #1 contributer to feeling that my life has been kind of dull.

6. I work in the IT industry and I'm building a web site for my dads company which I still have no confidence in.

7. I love everything French and wish there was a French channel. Although I cannot speak French fluently even after studying three years of it.

8. I play piano and guitar.

9. I adore women.

10. When I was young I told my brother that there was a twenty dollar bill behind a fence in a coke can so I could steal the front seat of my moms car. He came back with a twenty dollar bill and a coke can.

11. I used to work security for a event arena. I sat next to Lars Ulrich all night and did not recognize him. I've also said hi to Phil Collins, Eddie Van Halen, Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Merchant, Ericah Bahdu, and the guy from Matchbox 20.

12. ^ I've also been back stage and watched Metallica warm up for the show and was the sole reason a popular disc jockey was thrown out of the same concert.

13. I have celebrity crushes on Drew Berrymore, Dolores O rirden (I know I did not spell that right), Kelly Osborne, Audrey Tautou, Natalie Portman, and Lisa Loeb.

14. I always stick up for Jewish people when the chance arises.

15. When I was young I cried because a younger man was picking on and beating up an older man in an old western movie.

16. I always wanted to be famous but only because I wanted people to like me.

17. I did not have sex until I was 19. (and it was the affair 4.)

18. I married the second person I had sex with.

19. I once had a beagle named Snoopy. (I know so original)

20. I wish I worked for a gaming company.

21. I still feel like a kid.

22. I spent two weeks in France.

23. I kissed a girl I barley knew in Paris, she was from Richmond Virginia. I also was became lost there with two others who did not speak French and between the three of us had to find our way to the hotel. Luckily I know how to say where is the Metro?

24. I just recently purchased a house.

25. I cannot seem to be able to turn off love. Once I've fallen in love with someone I always love them.