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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Series/GomerPyleUSMC Back home again in Indiana.]]]]
Indy Car (Known formally as the Indy Car Series), is perhaps the greatest racing series in America... that everyone forgot.
The series is named for the annual UsefulNotes/{{Indianapolis}} 500, [[OlderThanRadio which has been running every year since 1911]] (With the exception of during World War I and II). The cars are open-wheeled, open cockpit single seaters, very similar to UsefulNotes/FormulaOne, although the differences between the two are many. Indy Car, once the pinnacle of American motorsport, has slowly seen a decline in ratings and popularity over the past thirty years as {{NASCAR}} became popular for its wild, down-to-earth appeal. Even today, the Indianapolis 500, the crown jewel in the series schedule, is normally [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowed in the ratings by just about any NASCAR race during the year.]][[note]]with special mention to the Coca-Cola 600, which NASCAR runs in primetime on the same day as the 500.[[/note]] The Indy 500 is still, however, the largest single-day sporting event on the planet in terms of live attendence. Yes, even bigger than the Super Bowl. Permanent seating capacity at the Brickyard is just over a quarter of a million seats, but with extra infield capacity that's put into place for Raceday, attendance of the annual event routinely tops 400,000.
The reason for the decline stems from a split within the series itself back in 1979. Back then, the United States Automobile Club (USAC) had organized and run the Indianapolis 500 as well as other American championship car races since 1956 (when the original sanctioning body, the American Automobile Association - yes, the stranded-by-the-side-of-the-road AAA - withdrew from racing). However, many prolific team owners such as Dan Gurney, Roger Penske, and U.E. "Pat" Patrick had long disagreed with USAC due to alleged ineptitude on the organization's part. As a result, they formed Championship Auto Racing Teams, (CART) which was founded as an advocacy group to keep USAC in check. However, such an agreement was flat-out denied by USAC bigwigs, which then led to CART becoming a breakaway series. After several years of legal battling, USAC finally allowed the Indianapolis 500 to be part of the CART calendar, and all was good. CART enjoyed immense success in America as drivers such as Emerson Fittipaldi, Mario Andretti, and Nigel Mansell, coming off of highly successful Formula One drives, touted its competitiveness.
But then things changed.
In 1994, Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony George became dissatisfied with CART's [[ScrewtheRulesIHaveMoney arbitrary rules]] (CART was often charged with changing rules to benefit certain teams), [[NewTechIsNotCheap escalating costs]] (Which squeezed out small privateer teams who could not afford to race), lack of opportunities for American drivers (Only 10 Americans raced in 1996), and increasing emphasis on road course racing. In response, he teamed up with USAC and created the Indy Racing League (IRL), using the Indianapolis 500 as leverage to get the series off the ground. IRL was created to be a cheaper, all-oval, all-American alternative to CART, and George enforced it by allowing the top 25 drivers in his series a guaranteed spot in the Indianapolis 500, leaving only eight spots on the grid to CART regulars. This so-called "25/8" rule was very controversial as it was the first time since the Indy 500 began that the race would not necessarily start the fastest qualifying cars.
CART, outraged, filed a lawsuit in 1996, which ultimately ended in a settlement and the legality of the new series. In response they created a race called the "U.S. 500" to be run at Michigan super-speedway the same weekend as the Indianapolis 500. The US 500 was touted as the 'real' 500 where CART teams would show their technical superiority to the "CART rejects series". [[BackstabBackfire However, this boast backfired]] when, in the very first U.S. 500 race, the front row drivers collided on the pace-lap -- leading to a multi-car pileup before the race began and a major delay while backup cars were prepared and the race re-started. Over at Indy the race ran smoothly (although the qualifying had been tragically marred by the death of veteran driver Scott Brayton) but was severely [[TheOtherDarrin lacking in star-power]] and was won by by a relative unknown driver (Buddy Lazier, who had been a makeweight in previous races). Most pundits observed that for all intents and purposes neither side had really 'won' anything and that some kind of peace deal was urgently needed. The U.S. 500 was never run again.
However in 1997 George and IRL announced new technical regulations and commissioned new car and engine designs [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem effectively outlawing CART-spec cars from competing at Indy]]. The impasse remained throughout 1997 to 1999 as few CART teams were inclined to invest in new cars purely for one race. In 2000 however, the CART champions Target Ganassi racing did purchase cars, entered Indy and CART champion Juan Pablo Montoya walked the race - the first time since 1966 a first time starter had won. Then a year later the CART Penske juggernaut followed suit and won with another first-timer, Helio Castroneves. Although the crushing superiority of Montoya and Castroneves's wins were somewhat embarrassing for the IRL teams it was something of a PyrrhicVictory for CART as the IRL held the one card the CART series couldn't; the Indianapolis 500. The tradition and prestige of Indy completely overshadowed everything else and CART's leading teams, Penske, Ganassi, and Andretti, found it increasingly difficult to justify staying away from the big race to their sponsors. Eventually they bowed to the pressure and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandoned the series for IRL.]]
Now on the decline, CART began to get desperate. Trying to outdo IRL with a race at Texas Motor Speedway in 2001, [[ThreatBackfire they found that the greater performance of the cars led to many drivers coming close to to blacking out under the extreme g-forces imposed.]] Forced by the series doctors to cancel the race for medical reasons, CART took a huge blow in prestige, which was then compounded when a row over engine rules resulted in key engine manufacturers Honda and Toyota defecting to IRL. CART tried to pick up the pieces in 2003 by reforming under the name [[BrandNamesAreBetter "Bridgestone Presents]] The Champ Car World Series [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Dualvertisement Powered by Ford]] (Champ Car)." After declaring bankruptcy in 2003 and again in 2008, Champ Car was finally bought out by IRL.
In a final twist of the saga George was voted out of his position at the head of the series by his own sisters, allegedly angry at the amount of family money that had been spent over the years, and a new boss was brought in (Randy Bernard, a former head of Professional Bull Riders). [[ShaggyDogStory Now the 'IRL' name is largely history too, and the series is officially the 'Izod Indy car Series']], a series [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks contested between US and non-US drivers on oval, street and road courses.]]
[[folder: Current and Former Drivers]]
'''Chip Ganassi Racing:'''
* ''Charlie Kimball'' - HandicappedBadass. Although 2011 was his first time in the Indy 500, he deserves recognition as being the first ''ever'' driver at the race with Type 1 Diabetes. He didn't get a podium finish but for him to complete the race ''at all'' (which he did handily) was a noteworthy achievement. Due to his condition he needed to have ''two'' drink reservoirs, one with water, the other with a high-glucose drink, and a switch to let him select which reservoir he'd be drinking from, chosen based on a blood-sugar-level gage integrated into his car's custom steering wheel. In the event that an insulin shot was needed, his pit crew included a doctor who could provide him with the needed injection on the next pit-stop.
* ''Scott Dixon'' - A divisive figure. To some an Indy Car legend, to others unskilled driver an who drives with no respect for anyone else.
* ''Ryan Briscoe'' - Debuted at Ganassi in 2005. Seems to have fallen victim to {{Always Second Best}}, on the team and on the racetrack. It's not that he's bad, but he seemed to be perpetually overshadowed by Will Power at Penske. Picked up a part time ride for Panther Racing (and an Indy one-off with Ganassi) in 2013 before returning full-time to his first team to pick up the car vacated by...
* ''Tony Kanaan'' - {{The Stoic}}. Many TV commentators are quick to note TK's lack of emotion whenever he is injured or suffers a heartbreaking failure, although there have been times when he succumbs to {{Not So Stoic}}. Seems to have inherited the "Best Driver Never To Win At Indianapolis" title until he's finally put his face on the BorgWarner Trophy in 2013.
** Kanaan signed with Ganassi late in 2013 to drive the car Briscoe ran at Indy. That plan changed when Dario Franchitti announced his retirement. As a result, Kanaan will now drive Franchitti's old car and Briscoe will drive his Indy 500 car.
'''Team Penske:'''
* ''Helio Castroneves'' - [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]. Some say he's a very credible driver. Others say he only wins when he feels like it. But you can't deny that when he wins, he does it like a true champion. Too bad he can't do it every time. Current holder of the "[[EveryYearTheyFizzleOut Best driver without a season championship]]" label - which is astounding given his overall resume in open-wheel cars, both in CART and the IRL. He was leading with two rounds to go in 2013 - until gearbox troubles at both Houston races led to him finishing runner-up to Scott Dixon.
* ''Will Power'' - His successes on road course tracks are balanced by his failures on oval tracks, usually due to outside circumstances. He always is competing for the title, but his failure to get results on oval tracks means that he kept losing to the more consistent Dario Franchitti, until he finally pulled it off in 2014, beating his own teammate Helio Castroneves, for the championship. Somewhat [[SixthRanger incidentally]] got his ride with Team Penske.
* ''Juan Pablo Montoya'' - The modern day renaissance man. He's won in CART, Indy Car (his one-off at the 2000 Indy 500), Formula One, the 24 Hours of Daytona, a few road races in {{NASCAR}}, and as of 2014, returning to single-seaters with one of the best teams in the business.
'''KV Racing Technology:'''
* ''Sébastien Bourdais'' - {{The Bus Came Back}}. After winning four straight Champ Car championships, he was {{Put On A Bus}} and left for Formula One. His failure in the series meant that for the 2011 season, {{Hes Back}}.
* ''Simona de Silvestro'' - This [[IncrediblyLamePun Swiss Miss]] is considered by many to be {{The Rival}} of Danica Patrick: She doesn't prefer to be in the spotlight and is a road course master. Her ability to shake off horrific crashes one after another have solidified her as {{Made of Iron}}.
'''Andretti Autosport:'''
* ''James Hinchcliffe'' - {{Canada Eh}}. Landed with Andretti Autosport under the worst possible circumstances, because his ride belonged to Danica Patrick before she left for NASCAR and was going to be Dan Wheldon's before he was killed at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Despite all the baggage, has been very competitive now that he has better equipment to run with, and won the series' Most Popular Driver award in 2012.
* ''Marco Andretti'' - [[SpoiledBrat The Spoiled Brat]]. Despite having raced for several years with limited success, he still manages to be the epitome of immaturity when things don't go his way. Of course, following in the footsteps of your legendary father ''and'' grandfather must be no easy feat, considering many people believe he's {{curse}}d.
* ''Ryan Hunter-Reay'' - Often a midfielder during his early CART/CCWS and Indy Car career until he won the series championship in 2012, a year after technically failing to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. 2013 started out pretty well too, and in 2014 he became the first American to win at Indy since 2006.
* ''E.J. Viso'' - Fair-to-middling driver who doesn't cause too many problems but doesn't stand out either. Post-2013 status unknown.
* ''Carlos Munoz'' - Made an impressive series debut in the 2013 Indy 500, starting and finishing second before making a couple more starts that year and being signed full time for 2014. Many are already comparing him to former 500 champ and fellow Colombian [[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Juan]] [[{{NASCAR}} Pablo]] [[HesBack Montoya]] (see above).
'''Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing:'''
* ''Graham Rahal'' - [[WildCard The Wild Card]]. Because his successful father refuses to let him ride on his coattails, Rahal is known for signing with many teams simply so he can race (In 2010, he raced with ''four'' different teams). However, when he does race, he is ''extremely'' competitive. His first career race was a SecondEpisodeIntroduction in 2008 at St. Petersburg, and an instant win.
* ''James Jakes'' - another Wild Card, and a pay driver to boot. He struggled at Dale Coyne for his first two seasons and continues to race midpack for RLLR in 2013, but he did have a very impressive 2nd place finish in the second leg of the Detroit doubleheader.
'''A.J. Foyt Racing:'''
* ''Takuma Sato'' - TheKlutz. 2011 was one accident after another on the track for him, though he has enough raw speed and raw talent to be as competitive here as when he was in F1. In 2012, he spun out on the final lap of the Indy 500 trying to make a pass for the lead. OddCouple pairing with Foyt has worked well in 2013, giving Sato his first career win and Foyt his first win as an owner in over a decade.
'''Team Barracuda - BHA:'''
* ''Alex Tagliani'' - The Older Canadian. 'Nuff said.
'''Dragon Racing:'''
''(currently a vacant team)''
'''Ed Carpenter Racing:'''
* ''Ed Carpenter'' - Currently the only driver/owner in the series. While he's admittedly lackluster on road and street circuits, he's made up for it on the ovals, giving Sarah Fisher her first win (as either an owner or driver) at Kentucky in 2011, following it up with a win for his own team at Fontana in 2012, then the Indy 500 pole in 2013. Retired from road and street circuits after 2013, and so he now shares his car with...
* ''Mike Conway'' - Got squeezed out of Andretti Autosport and ended up with Indy Legend A.J. Foyt's team. Retired from ovals after two horrifying crashes hitting the catch fence during the 2010 Indy 500 and nearly repeating that in 2012, but would return to win on the Belle Isle street course in 2013 for Dale Coyne before being hired by Carpenter to share the ride.
'''Part-time and Retired Drivers:'''
* ''A.J. Allmendinger'' - former Champ Car driver that switched to NASCAR before getting a second chance in open wheel with Penske in 2013. Surprisingly, his best result in 2013 was at the Indianapolis 500, and he's continuing to bounce between stock and Indy cars. He is shifting back to the Sprint Cup Series, having received a full-time ride there for 2014.
* ''Rubens Barrichello'' - A CoolOldGuy (he turned 40 during the 2012 season) who came to Indy after [[LongRunner becoming the pilot with most races on F1]] - [[ButtMonkey a career marred by bad luck]] and [[ToughActToFollow failing to become Brazil's champion after Ayrton Senna died.]] At least he beat [[TopGear the Stig]]. Left the series after 2012 to race stock cars in Brazil.
* ''Dario Franchitti'' - JackOfAllStats. He didn't specialize in road course or oval track racing, but he is still amazing at what he did - and that's racing. The result is that he is a three time Indy 500 winner and has three Indy Car championships. He retired after the 2013 season due to suffering a CareerEndingInjury in the penultimate race of the season. Also known outside of racing as the former husband of Ashley Judd.
** [[{{Flanderization}} Started out]] as a road course specialist in CART.
* ''J.R. Hildebrand'' - Became a minor celebrity after his heartbreaking crash at the final corner of the 2011 Indianapolis 500 while in the lead, giving the win to Dan Wheldon. Fired from Panther Racing after the 2013 Indy 500.
* ''Alex Lloyd'' - [[KidSidekick The Kid Sidekick]]. His 4th place finish at the 2010 Indianapolis 500 meant that he would live to race another day, but his form is still to be seen.
* ''Tomas Scheckter'' - {{Glass Cannon}}. Son of former UsefulNotes/FormulaOne champion Jody Scheckter, Tomas is best known for his spectacular outside lane charges on the ovals...and his spectacular wipeouts that often result from it (especially when he drove for Red Bull in the early 2000s). Unoffically retired from the series after 2011.
* ''Paul Tracy'' - [[SmallNameBigEgo Small Name, Big Ego]]. While definitely a former great, his form has not been up to par as of late, and his hot temper usually leads to his big ego. Unoffically retired from the series after 2011, although he does do analyst work for Canadian television.
* ''Kurt Busch'' - the current {{NASCAR}} star attempted the Memorial Day double (the Indianapolis 500 and Charlotte's Coca Cola 600) with Andretti Autosport in 2014 after passing rookie orientation at Indianapolis the previous year. He joined John Andretti, Tony Stewart and Robby Gordon as those to attempt both races on the same day. Busch did well in Indy, finishing sixth, but had a bad night in Charlotte, being forced out of that race two-thirds of the way through by a blown engine.
* AlliterativeName: James Jakes.
* AnyoneCanDie: Since it ''is'' auto racing, and a long runner, this is to be expected, much more than {{NASCAR}} (NASCAR's last fatality in competition was Creator/DaleEarnhardt at the 2001 Daytona 500). In the 1964 Indianapolis 500, for example, there was an infamous crash that killed two drivers and threw up huge pillars of smoke and flame, due to how much fuel the cars involved were laden with.[[note]]Back then, 70+ gallon gasoline tanks were the norm. Today, fuel is stored in safer "fuel cells" which are much more difficult to rupture and are limited to 30-40 gallons of methanol.[[/note]] The most recent casualty was during the last race of the 2011 season, when Dan Wheldon was killed after going headfirst into the catch fence at Las Vegas. Ironically, the car he helped test, which had safety measures included to keep cars from launching off of each other, and keep that sort of thing from happening, was set to be used in all races the very next year.
** Also, of note, Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the track where the most racers have died during an event, at 56, with 15 dying during the big race itself. In contrast, no fatalities have yet occurred when the (slower and [[IncrediblyLamePun stockier]]) {{NASCAR}} cars have come to the track.
* ArtifactTitle: The garage area of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is called Gasoline Alley, despite the fact that no Indy Car has run on gasoline since 1964. For the reason, see EveryCarIsAPinto below.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Will Power is an undeniably cool name for a racing driver.
* BerserkButton: Legendary driver A.J. Foyt as a team owner in the late 1990s. He once slapped driver Arie Luyendyk in the face when he (correctly) contested Foyt's driver Billy Boat being declared the winner (at a race in Foyt's home state of Texas, in fact). At another race, Foyt smashed his laptop in anger after his driver ran out of fuel on the final lap - their calculations had shown that they had enough gas to finish.
* BadassGrandpa: Mario Andretti, the only driver to date to win the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500 and the Formula One World Championship, who walked away from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMeE9NAh60I this]] crash back in 2003 with only a nick on his chin. Currently he's one of the drivers involved in the two-seater ride, aged 71!
* CalvinBall: Many fans felt poor officiating during the 2011 season was turning the series into an automotive form of this - especially with seemingly arbitrary and over zealous enforcement of penalties for 'blocking', and calling blocking on moves that in other series would have been described as hard but fair racing. Fortunately hiring of a new chief steward, and the removal of some of the blocking rules, for the 2012 season created a more harmonious situation.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: James Hinchcliffe.
* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: There have been long periods where engine and/or chassis manufacturers were consistently used, despite other choices theoretically being available. During the '50s, the most common engine was an Offenhauser (granted, the engines of the most well-known competitor--[[AwesomeButImpractical Novi]]--tended not to last the full 500 miles and were less fuel-efficient); during the '80s, the most common configuration was a March chassis with a Cosworth engine.
* ContinuitySnarl: The rapidly changing array of tracks. Outside Indianapolis of course.
** And to a lesser extent outside of Long Beach street course (a district of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles), where they've raced since the early 1980s, since the merger between IRL and CART was only agreed to after the CART owners were assured by the IRL that they would continue racing at Long Beach without interruption. They did so, much to the benefit of everyone, given the race's apparent immunity to attendance problems.
* {{Determinator}}: A classic example happened in the 1912 race--the second Indy 500 ever. Ralph [=DePalma=] had a massive lead when his engine died on lap 199. Not content to simply wait for eventual winner Joe Dawson to pass him up, he and his riding mechanic got out of the car and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome pushed it around the track, eventually getting it across the finish line]]. The lap didn't count, but the fans definitely enjoyed the sight. ([=DePalma=] would eventually win the 1915 race.)
* DisasterDominoes: The Las Vegas crash that took Dan Wheldon's life. One car clipped another, which hit another, which hit another, while other cars were hitting each other trying to avoid the earlier ones... It unfolded similar to how the Big One unfolds at Talladega or Daytona in NASCAR competition.
** Crashes [[PressStartToGameOver at the first green flag]] tend to be this, since the cars are all bunched up in formation and generally don't have time--or space--to get out of the way of other cars. The worst example of this was in the 1966 Indy 500, where ''eleven'' cars were involved in a pileup just before the green flag.
* DontExplainTheJoke: At St. Petersburg in 2012 announcer Marty Reid explained James Hinchcliffe's website and moniker.
* DownToTheLastPlay: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZc_u2lfOeo The 2011 Indy 500]]. The 2006 Indy 500 also qualifies - with the final pass by Sam Hornish, Jr. over Marco Andretti for the lead coming less than 2 seconds before the race ended. The 2012, 2013, and 2014 races ended with near-passes sandwiching a a pass for the win.
** Before Wheldon's death, a high banked oval race (Texas, Chicagoland, etc.) could almost guarantee a finish like this. Since then, pack racing has practically been erased from these tracks, but both of the 2012 500s (Indianapolis and Fontana) still came down to the wire. The one at Indy happened while Takuma Sato crashed attempting a bold last lap pass for the lead on Dario Franchitti. At Fontana, Sato crashed on the last lap (again!) racing Ryan Hunter-Reay for 4th, who would have lost the championship had Sato taken him out (Hunter-Reay needed 5th or better after Will Power's early crash). As Sato was spinning, Ed Carpenter passed Franchitti for what would be the win after the ensuing caution froze the field.
** Make that three 500s in a row, as Tony Kanaan passed Ryan Hunter-Reay ''just'' before Dario Franchitti took himself out with three to go in the 2013 Indy 500. The last two and a half laps were run under the yellow.
** How about ''four''? in 2014, Hunter-Reay barely held off Hélio Castroneves at the finish line.
** In the late 1980s and early 1990s, radio/television announcer Paul Page would tell the audience, late in the races, how many times the driver leading with ten laps to go did not win the Indianapolis 500. As of 2012, the number has reached a full 21 out of 96 races, or more than one out of every five.
** The 1992 race was the closest ever in Indy 500 history, with Al Unser, Jr. ''just'' holding off Scott Goodyear for the win. Before that, the closest was the 1982 race, where veteran driver Gordon Johncock held off a young Rick Mears.
* EndOfAnAge: The 1992 Indy 500 was the last 500 for several longtime veteran drivers (and previous champions), including A. J. Foyt, Rick Mears, Gordon Johncock, and Tom Sneva. Al Unser, Sr. would race at Indy only one more year, and Mario Andretti would retire after the 1994 season.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Dave [=MacDonald=]'s car in 1964 had a fuel tank that was poorly positioned, on the left sidepod of his car. When he spun out early in the race, he hit the inside wall off turn four, igniting the fuel in the tank. [=MacDonald=] died later that day of smoke inhalation.[[note]]The crash also claimed the life of Eddie Sachs, though he was killed by the impact of [=MacDonald=]'s car, not by fire.[[/note]] This accident led to USAC legislating gasoline out of competition, meaning that the next year's field (and many years after) would use cars that ran on methanol. It also led to the introduction of a safer fuel cell that would be more difficult to breach.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Famously, Danny Sullivan won the 1985 Indianapolis 500 despite spinning during the race. His car spun after an attempt to pass Mario Andretti, but he avoided hitting anything and kept going. He later passed Mario successfully on the same part of the track.
* EveryYearTheyFizzleOut:...or [[YouCantFightFate seem fated]] to [[ForWantOfANail have something on their cars break]], after dominating races to within sight of the finish: after 1969, Indianapolis has not been nice to the Andretti family; see the page for more.
** Before the Andrettis, there were the Bettenhausens. At least the Andrettis have a win to the family name; the Bettenhausens had ''none''.
** Driver Tom Sneva finished second in ''three'' Indy 500s (once each to A.J. Foyt, Al Unser Sr., and Johnny Rutherford--all of which won the race at ''least'' three times). He finally managed to win a race in 1983 after a fierce battle with Al Unser, Sr., whose son (Al Unser, Jr.) was running interference for him.
** The Novi engines had this reputation in the 1950s. The engines were perpetually fast in qualifying, but had a tendency to fail during the races. Even those that didn't burn out suffered from the flaw of poor fuel mileage, which meant either more pit stops (which take time) or a larger fuel tank (which slows down the car).
** Driver [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Horn Ted Horn]] placed in the top four of ''nine'' consecutive Indy 500 races from the 1936 to 1948[[note]]The races from 1942-1945 were preempted by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII[[/note]]--a feat that has never been matched (second on the list is Rodger Ward with ''six'', and only three drivers besides Horn[[note]]Al Unser Sr., A.J. Foyt, and Rick Mears, all 4-time winners[[/note]] have ''ever'' placed in the top 5 in nine or more 500s)--but never won the race.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is more suited as such and much less so for Indy cars with the narrow surface and few straightaways.
* FamilyBusiness: On track: the Unser and Andretti racing families. Off track: The Hulmans, owners of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
* FanBoy: Dario Franchitti has a room dedicated to Jim Clark, winner of the 1965 Indianapolis 500. The tiles are the same colour as his fellow Scot's helmet.
* {{Fan Nickname}}: And boy are there a lot of them, from the Indy 500 to the drivers themselves.
** The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is commonly referred to as 'The Brickyard,' due to the paving bricks that originally made up the track surface from 1911-1962. Today, asphalt covers the track, with the exception of the start/finish line, which is called 'The Yard of Bricks.'
** After experiencing horrible crashes at Indy and Milwaukee, Simona de Silvestro has been dubbed "The Iron Maiden" by the fandom, who remarked how easy it looked for her to bounce back from potentially career-ending wrecks.
* FirstNameBasis: Many current regular drivers, among serious fans, and even on TV.
* FlameBait: To this day, the CART vs IRL debate is taboo in UsefulNotes/{{Indianapolis}} and its surrounding environs.
* FlippingTheBird: Will Power is a bit infamous for this, flipping off the Director of Competition on live TV with both hands which the fans cheered. He earned a $30,000 fine for his trouble, however.[[note]]Roger Penske himself paid the fine, following fan support for Power[[/note]]
* FragileSpeedster: Many engines throughout history, most notably the Novi (1941-1966) and most recently the Infiniti (1997-2002).
* GoldenSnitch: Averted most of the time. Just like the Daytona 500, the Indy 500 is by far the most prestigious race, but it usually hasn't counted any extra in the season points standings. And a few times during in the USAC/CART disagreement it didn't count at all.
** Averted in UsefulNotes/FormulaOne in the 50s. The Indy 500 ''was'' a points paying race then, but its only real distinction was that it was an oval race--even then, many drivers treat it like a road course, and 500 mile races weren't that uncommon around the world (not counting endurance events like the 24 Hours of Le Mans).
** Played straight starting in 2013 with the revival of the Triple Crown. A 400-mile race at Pocono was added to complement Indy and Fontana's 500s, with a million dollar bonus to anyone who could win all three, and a smaller bonus for anyone who could win two of the three. For 2014, Pocono was lengthened to 500 miles, and in addition to the Triple Crown bonus, all three races award double points (compare this to the V8 Supercars endurance races). Moral of the story: the 500s count a ''lot''.
* HeyItsThatGuy: NASCAR fans will be surprised to see Tony Stewart in the early races of the Indy Racing League.
** In fact, quite a lot of NASCAR drivers started their careers in open-wheel racing. Besides Tony Stewart, other ex-IRL drivers that have competed in the Sprint Cup Series include A.J. Allmendinger, Juan Pablo Montoya, Robby Gordon, and Sam Hornish, Jr.
*** Now it gets to go both ways as far as Montoya's concerned - after seven seasons in NASCAR, during which he became one of the circuit's most recognizable drivers despite limited success, he's coming back to Indy Car for 2014. And just for {{irony}} points, he's doing it with Penske, after spending his entire NASCAR run under the Ganassi banner.
** In 2012, UsefulNotes/FormulaOne veteran Rubens Barrichello competed in the Indy 500, but didn't win. He didn't enter the running for 2013, but at least he beat [[TopGear The Stig]].
* HollywoodDateless: Some Indianapolis 500 champions have been unable to find full-season, competitive, or any rides afterwards, including Arie Luyendyk after his first win in 1990, Buddy Rice (2004), and Dan Wheldon (2005).
* InNameOnly: In early 2003 Chevrolet engines were severely uncompetitive. The newer and faster Chevrolet engines used from midway through the season on were built by Cosworth. Specialized outside engine companies are also used by other manufacturers however.
** The 1994 Mercedes-Benz pushrod Indy 500 engine was essentially an Ilmor engine with 'Mercedes Benz' written on it.
* {{I Will Only Slow You Down}}: Milka Duno. And how. Her 2010 drive for Dale Coyne Racing could only be described as "out of her league," considering that often times she was so slow that the track officials would pull her off the track and refuse to let her continue racing!
* {{Irony}}: Tony George's original vision was an all-oval, all-American series that relies on cheap technology. Nowadays only a handful of Americans are driving in the series, more than half of races are driven on road or city courses while some teams have trouble funding a full-season drive. For the auto racing series that is mostly ovals and American drivers, that role is filled by {{NASCAR}}.
* [[LaserGuidedKarma Laser Fueled Karma]]: Live penalties during a race for ''avoidable contact'', which are only used in extremely severe cases in other racing series.
* LicensedPinballTables: Two of them -- ''Pinball/{{Indianapolis 500}}'' (Creator/WilliamsElectronics) and ''Mario Andrettii'' (Creator/{{Premier}})
* LoopholeAbuse: In the 1994 Indianapolis 500, Roger Penske entered a brand new pushrod engine. The top teams at that time used overhead cam engines, and so the rules favored pushrod engines over overhead cam engines as only small teams were expected to build them. Penske's cars turned out to be unbeatable in the race. By 1995 the loophole was closed, and pushrod engines no longer were at an advantage.
* LuckBasedMission: The second Firestone Twin 275 at Texas in 2011. The starting lineup was determined by a random draw as opposed to time trials.
* LudicrousSpeed: Physically, modern Indy Cars, even as far back as the ground effect days in the late '70s and early '80s, were and still are extremely physically demanding cars to drive. Modern drivers are often examples of physical fitness just to cope with the G-forces of acceleration, braking and turning. Mentally, Indy Cars accelerate and corner so quickly and are meant to be driven so fast in order to generate grip via downforce that a normal person would simply be unable to think as fast as the car can maneuver.
** The official fastest lap in motorsport belongs to Gil de Ferran in the CART series in 2000 at Fontana: 241.428 mph. Paul Tracy recorded a record top speed of 256.948 mph on the backstretch at Michigan in 1998.
* ManOnFire: Rick Mears was knocked out of the 1981 race because fuel was spilled and ignited during a pit stop, setting his protective suit on fire. Worse for everyone, the fuel at the time was methanol, which burns with a ''near-invisible'' flame, making it difficult to tell where the fire was and was not. Thankfully for Mears, he survived the fire and went on to win several more 500s.
* MoneyDearBoy: As with most upper echelons of motorsport, you get the occasional accusation of hiring a driver simply to gain money from the sponsorship they bring in.
** One example, Milka Duno was brought in to drive for Dale Coyne because of the sponsorship money she brought with her from CITGO and... [[HighHopesZeroTalent well, we know how that turned out.]]
* TheMovie: In 2001, Sylvester Stallone produced a movie based on the CART series called ''Film/{{Driven}}''. The result, as [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] put it:
-->"Originally intended as a biopic of the late Ayrton Senna, it evolved into a racing movie set in Formula One. One problem: the Formula One bosses took one look at the script and told Stallone to get stuffed."
** Understandably, the movie was panned by critics and regarded as an all-around bad movie.
** 2013 gives us ''Turbo'', although this is just centered around the Indy 500 as opposed to the series as a season-long venture.
* {{New Technology Is Evil}}: The reason why Tony George began the IRL series in the first place. He believed that the technology available to CART teams was such that it was more a case of better car than better driver. Therefore, his new series has been strictly spec-racing and has remained so even after Champ Car merged with IRL.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted somewhat,]] as Indy Car officials have announced a stack of new rules for 2014 that are designed to offer more freedom to designers, including more leniency on aerodynamics and the availability of more than one engine manufacturer.
** Played straight with the turbine-engine cars that were introduced in 1967. One month after the race, rules were imposed to limit their effectiveness (at the time, engine rule changes were usually announced two years in advance). More rules were imposed in 1968, rendering the turbines uncompetitive. They were eventually banned altogether.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tony George's war with CART caused Open Wheel Racing to play second fiddle to NASCAR, losing Tony Stewart, Robby Gordon, and A.J. Allmendinger in the process.
** USAC's banning of rear-engined sprint cars in the '70s left many of their stars without experience when it came to the rear-engined Indy cars. Notable drivers from the sprint car ranks to star in front-engined racing (in either sprint or stock cars) without much/any time spent in the IndyCar Series because of this include Steve Kinser, Sammmy Swindell, Rich Vogler, Ken Schrader, Tim Richmond, Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Kyle Larson, and oh yeah, Jeff Gordon.
* {{Nitro Boost}}/{{Super Mode}}: Okay, while Indy Cars may not use literal nitrous, the series has the "Push to Pass" Button, which gives cars an extra 5 horsepower for 12-18 seconds (depending on the track) to make overtaking a car easier during a race. However, they are only allowed a certain number of button-pushes (Again, depending on the track), and there is a cooldown period of 10 seconds after using it. The new engine packages in 2012 tentatively will have a 100 HP boost when activated.
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Essentially the whole story of the 12-year 'Split' between CART and IRL. [[http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/columns/story?columnist=hinton_ed&id=5195237 Right from the beginning in 1996]] pundits were predicting that the only benificiary of an Open-Wheel racing civil war would be NASCAR.
* OldShame: Most racing fans would dearly love to forget all about "The Split" and Tony George, and concentrate instead on the racing. Bringing up past antagonisms and re-hashing old arguments is a good way to be flamed to pieces on most message boards.
* OnlyKnownByInitials: A.J. Foyt, A.J. Allmendinger, J.R. Hildebrand.
* [[PartTimeHero Part Time Driver]]: The Indy 500 plays host to ''many'' part-timers who only race during that event. In fact, the grid for the Indy 500 is 33 drivers instead of the usual 26-28, so it gives part-timers a chance to compete. And since it ''is'' the Indy 500 anything can happen in your favor.
** A good example was when Dan Wheldon won the 2011 Indy 500 during a one-off drive after losing his official ride at the end of the 2010 season. Even after winning, he took up a role as a broadcaster for the Versus network instead of accepting ride offers, preferring to wait until the next year. [[FatalMethodActing He didn't make it to the next year]].
*** Randy Bernard offered $5,000,000 to anyone outside of Indy Car to win the 2011 season finale in Las Vegas, but the scenarios weren't feasible for those who sent in applications. Instead, being a one-off 500 winner, Wheldon's being offered $5,000,000 (half for him, half for a contest winner) to win the Las Vegas race if he started from the rear of a grid expected to come close to the traditional 33 car Indianapolis 500 field. Being a part time driver looked like it would have its perks until Wheldon's tragic death in the just a few laps into said Las Vegas finale.
** Ed Carpenter nearly won at Kentucky two years in a row in part time campaigns. He finished 2nd in 2010, only denied because of fuel strategy from Helio Castroneves. [[ItGotBetter Then he won the 2011 race edging Franchitti in a photo finish.]]
* {{Precision F Strike}}: Given by Marco Andretti describing Sebastian Bourdais at the 2011 Long Beach GP, whom he crashed into while exiting his pit box.
** [[UpToEleven Made more awesome]] by the fact that [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity the censors didn't catch it]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny until it was too late!]]
** Cue profuse apologizing from the commentary team.
** Will Power giving the finger to the officials in 2011 certainly counts.
* PressStartToGameOver: Because of the way the cars are bunched up at the beginning of a race (especially the Indy 500, where the cars are lined up three wide), it's not uncommon for an accident to occur in the first couple laps. If it takes place on the front stretch at the end of the pace lap, or the beginning of the first lap, [[DisasterDominoes things can get ugly fast]].
** The 1992 race had Roberto Guerrero, the pole-sitter, crash on the second ''parade lap'' before the start. This EpicFail was precipitated by unusually cold weather resulting in low tire grip. This set the tone for the race early; a grand total of ''thirteen'' cars would eventually crash out in that race, the second most in any 500 ever.
** The 1966 race had a massive pileup at the start of the race, involving a grand total of ''eleven'' cars. This pileup was the major reason this race had the most cars crashed out of any Indy 500 ever (fifteen).
* RedOniBlueOni: Ganassi vs. Penske.
* RedHerring: Tony Stewart getting into, but not actually driving, one of A.J. Foyt's cars during Indianapolis 500 qualifying is believed to be this. At that time Stewart was a full-time NASCAR driver and may not have had any intentions of driving Foyt's car.
* {{Retcon}}: The 2011 [=MoveThatBlock=].com 225 at New Hampshire. The race was restarted with 10 laps to go in rainy conditions on an oval. After several immediate wrecks, the race was red-flagged, and eventually stopped. For better or worse, the official results reverted to the running order before the restart, not after it.
* RoadTripEpisode: In the early 20th century there were point-to-point races.
* RockBeatsLaser: A.J. Foyt started from the pole and finished second in a dirt track car at Milwaukee, a paved track, in 1965.
* RuleOfThree: No one has ever won the Indy 500 three years in a row. Before the '70s, the third attempt generally meant bad luck for the person who won the last two years straight:
** 1941: Wilbur Shaw crashed on lap 152 while in the lead and was injured in the crash. The likely cause was an unbalanced tire. He never raced in the 500 again, though part of that was due to the onset of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (the race was not held again until 1946).
** 1949: Mauri Rose attempted to pass teammate Bill Holland for the lead, but his car failed with eight laps to go. Cause was determined to be a bad magneto strap. Holland ended up winning the race; Rose was fired by the team owner for disobeying orders. Rose raced two more 500s, finishing third in 1950, but never won another 500.
** 1955: Bill Vukovich, in the lead on lap 57, got involved in a chain-reaction crash involving three other, slower cars he was about to lap (again; they were already one or more laps down). [[AnyoneCanDie The crash was fatal to Vukovich]].
** 1972: Al Unser, Sr. finished third in the race, elevated to second once a penalty was assessed on a driver (Jerry Grant) who had accidentally taken fuel from the wrong pit tank (Mark Donohue was the winner regardless). Unser went on to win 2 more 500s, making him only the second driver to win four or more.
** 2003: Hélio Castroneves finished second to Gil de Ferran [[DownToTheLastPlay by only 0.2290 seconds]], making Hélio the driver closest to breaking the third-race curse. Hélio won his third 500 in 2009.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: The Indianapolis 500 is so important over the rest of the season, and even the points championship, that it especially holds true there.
** In 2013, rookie Carlos Munoz got very close to winning his Indy Car debut at Indianapolis. He ended up being second and lamented the fact on a post-race interview with ABC.
* StarfishAliens: Smokey Yunick's sidecar in the 60s, and the Delta Wing car, one of the proposals for the new car starting in 2012.
* StartMyOwn: First when CART split off from USAC in 1979, and then again when IRL split off from CART in 1994.
** [[AvertedTrope And then CART/Champ Car merged with IRL in 2008.]]
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The European-built rear-engined cars that came to Indy car in the 60s[[note]]Specifically, Jack Brabham's debut in 1961.[[/note]], and within a few years rendered the traditional front-engine cars useless.[[note]]Specifically, it only took 5 years for the Europeans to completely changed Indy, with Jim Clark winning the 1965 Indianapolis 500 in the Lotus 38.[[/note]]
* TagTeam: Ed Carpenter Racing. Since his oval retirement, Mike Conway's picked up various rides for road courses in 2013 whenever he has the time (he's also racing sports cars), and his form hasn't faltered, qualifying high at Long Beach, then finishing 1st and 3rd during the Detroit doubleheader. Ed Carpenter, having retired from road courses, now shares a ride with him: Conway does the road courses, while Carpenter drives on the ovals.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Jeff Gordon originally wanted to start his mainstream racing career in CART, but he couldn't gather the necessary funds to buy himself a ride. Hence he went to {{NASCAR}}, where he became a three-time Daytona 500 winner and won four Sprint Cup championships, and 92 races as of the 2015 Duck Commander 500.
** Furthermore, the lack of opportunities for young American drivers of Gordon's age, such as Gordon, Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and others, prompted Tony George to consider starting the Indy Racing League in the first place!
** In reality, Gordon did have an opportunity to run in CART, but went to NASCAR because he had little road course experience and the teams all insisted he race in the Toyota Atlantic or Indy Lights championships for a season first. Gordon didn't feel such should be required of him, as he had already established his talent in NASCAR, and refused to play ball.
** One professional model maker has [[http://s68.beta.photobucket.com/user/chapparreldiecast/media/DSCN1411.jpg.html modelled]] a #99 Penske Honda as was to have been driven by the late Greg Moore in 2000, and [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/autoexposurecanada/4024573875/lightbox/ and a helmet]] was created in Marlboro colours as a tribute. Given the Penske team's revival from it's late 1990's doldrums and Moore's undoubted talent many fans reckon the Canadian could have won several Indy 500's and possibly many {{NASCAR}} races with Penske too.
** The 1946 Indianapolis 500 ''almost didn't happen''. The race was not held from 1942-1945 due to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. During that time, the track and its facilities had decayed, and the track went up for sale. Former racer Wilbur Shaw searched for a buyer who would restore the track, and eventually found a Terre Haute businessman named Tony Hulman, who purchased the track and did just that. Had another buyer purchased the track, that land might host a housing development instead of a famous racetrack.
* WomenDrivers: The 2011 Indianapolis 500 saw five female drivers, and the 2005 race had Danica Patrick lead several laps before finishing 5th. Now Patrick is the polesitter for the 2013 Daytona 500 in her departure for NASCAR.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: Team Xtreme, which operated from 1999 to 2001. Not to be confused with {{NASCAR}} backmarker team named Team Xtreme Racing.

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Dr. Bonnie's Guide For "Tuned-In" Children in an Unplugged World
Concerns that kids are getting more and more badly behaved as the generations progress has prompted Dr. Bonnie to weigh in on a recent New York Times article addressing such a problem (http://nyti.ms/Ty9n36).
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The generation now in their teens and pre-teens have some worrying that they may be the most disrespectful generation yet (New York Times, http://nyti.ms/Ty9n36). The article specifically makes reference to behaviors noted at bar and bat mitvahs and questions the link between poor social behavior and increased technology. Family therapist Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil says as kids engage in the online world, they become less comfortable and well-mannered in the "real world." She understands that using technology – even at a young age – has a number of benefits, but believes it has also contributed to some of the behavior problems seen in the younger generation.
Attention spans are waning, which can be seen in a 46 percent increase in prescription drugs treating ADHD (http://nbcnews.to/RVW6SO). Additionally, kids nowadays have more choices – both off- and online. "Teens more likely to be used to being asked for their opinion, their input in decisions made by their parents, families, and schools. It's an empowering move toward helping kids have confidence and ownership in their lives," says Dr. Bonnie. But it also has a downside. It becomes more difficult to set boundaries and limits when kids are so often left to their own devices, that it can become confusing for everyone.
With so much technology at their fingertips, teens don't have to learn to prioritize their wants against the preferences of other members of their community. Additionally, there's the question brought up in the New York Times about whether parents may be working too much and placing less of an emphasis on going out together as a family so kids can learn how to behave. "Instead, kids pretty much have all-hours access to all the entertainment, socializing, and gaming they want," Dr. Bonnie points out. This obsession with technology can easily become a relationship wrecker as it takes up more space everyone's lives and replaces face-to-face interaction.
And although it's unclear what kind of long-term impact these behaviors will on the children who are growing up with them, it seems that in the near-term the answer is clear. "Teens often don't know how to handle themselves in a "real world" social setting," says Dr. Bonnie. "They don't understand basic courtesies like listening when others are talking, and allowing someone else to get their way instead of pursuing what they want." Of course, these are only a few examples, and not all kids suffer from these challenges, but Dr. Bonnie has seen this issues becoming more prevalent in her practice. Leaders may be unsure of whose responsibility it is to take care of such issues – is it the parents? The rabbis or clergy? Teachers? Relatives?
Dr. Bonnie urges parents in particular to take action to avoid disrespect and narcissism taking over, and in response to the over-use of technology that can plague a family, she has a few suggestions:
- Eat together – no phones allowed! It can be difficult enough to find time amongst busy schedules to carve out a meal, the last thing people need is the distraction of their phones!
- Use meal time to practice her Smart Heart Skills and Dialogue which she discusses further in Make Up Don't Break Up: "Create a space for safe communication where each person can be honest about what they're going through in their own life, and how they feel about the family or relationship." But don't get frustrated if it takes a while to draw people out, she advises. "Continue to make the time available and as your kids or significant other feels more comfortable they will be able to rely on that time as a space to share their feelings."
- Get outside! These types of opportunities often bring out our inner child so go with it, get playful and see where it leads. People may learn something new about their family or partner, discover something new they can do together, and if nothing else, have a good time goofing around together.
To see Dr. Bonnie talk about getting out of the doldrums, click here: http://youtu.be/yanAAybsoq4
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I am deciding to to design a new home. Approx. 4000sqft, walk out basement, 4-5 bedromms w/ full baths. etc. My question is , is it cheaper to build a single story witha walk out basement, or a 2 story witha walk out basement? The lot is sloped and easily would accommodate a walk out.
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In reality, there is not much difference, and certainly, not enough to matter. What is important is how you expect to use your home. If you have heavy furniture or expect to travel from room to room often, a single story home is better (ignoring the basement). If privacy is an issue, then the two story gives more at the expense of accessibility. Another consideration is that stairways are very expensive hallways. They often are not simple to locate so that they give you the most value or convenience.
Seriously evaluate how you live and note that the views from the two story will likely be the nicer of the two designs. If that is important, consider that also.
Have fun,
Seriously evaluate how you live and note that the views from the two story will likely be the nicer of the two designs. If that is important, consider that also.
Have fun,
materials is one of the biggest unknowns but there is a good site called matplex.com that has an average price of materials.
then estimate how many hours you think or man-days and multiple by $20/hr. it will get you close.
then estimate how many hours you think or man-days and multiple by $20/hr. it will get you close.
I would price things out with some detail and then also look at what is available in the existing home market. With the market the way it is, you could find what you're looking for at a fraction of the cost of building new. Also, talk with a few lenders, as they are more restrictive today with new construction lending.
they would probably cost about the same. depending on how much detail and stuff your really going to put each one.
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Dolphin Emulator 4.0 Released For GameCube, Wii
Version 4.0 of the Dolphin Emulator has been released for running GameCube and Wii games on Linux.
23 September 2013 - Open-Source Emulator - 28 Comments
At $2.4 Million Dollars, HIB #9 Gets Four More Titles
There's just less than one week to go until the end of the Humble Indie Bundle 9 where you can pay what you want for a collection of cross-platform games, which already have pulled in $2.4 million dollars from 520 thousand gamers. Now there's four more games added to the bundle.
18 September 2013 - Humble Indie Bundle 9 - 7 Comments
Doom 3 BFG Edition Linux Port Is Still Being Developed
Doom 3 BFG Edition was released last year by id Software as an updated version of Doom 3 from nearly a decade ago. Id Software didn't release an official Linux port of Doom 3 BFG but they ended up releasing the source code changes to the id Tech 4 engine for which it's based and since then there's been a small community pushing an open-source Linux port of Doom 3 BFG.
16 September 2013 - Doom 3 BFG Edition - 8 Comments
Unvanquished Is Rewriting, Modernizing The Quake 3 Engine
The Unvanquished open-source game is one of the most fascinating open-source game projects as they've strived for fundamental improvements in the ioquake3 engine and also to deliver high quality art assets and in-game content. Unvanquished is powered by the Daemon Engine, which is derived from the ioquake3 engine at its core -- the open-source version of id's Quake III engine. With the original code being the better part of two decades old, the developers are seeking to modernize and rewrite the code-base.
15 September 2013 - Unvanquished Daemon - 45 Comments
Half-Life: Source Released For Linux Gamers
Valve has released ported versions of Half-Life: Source and Half-Life Deathmatch: Source for Linux gamers.
13 September 2013 - Half-Life: Deathmatch Source - 16 Comments
Humble Indie Bundle 9 Brings New Linux Games
While the quality of Humble Indie Bundles have been somewhat sporadic as of late and there's been some Windows-only offerings, the Humble Indie Bundle 9 launched today and it ushers in three new Linux titles for the first time.
11 September 2013 - Humble Indie Bundle 9 - 30 Comments
Alien Arena: Combat Edition Released
Alien Arena: Combat Edition has been released and with it has come an alpha demo of Alien Arena: Tactical.
6 September 2013 - Linux Gaming
Unvanquished Gets FXAA Renderer Support
The Unvanquished open-source game powered by the Daemon Engine now has built-in support for handling FXAA anti-aliasing.
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1 September 2013 - Unvanquished - 3 Comments
CS Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes On Linux
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21 August 2013 - Counter-Strike - 5 Comments
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Unigine Engine developers have talked about their latest round of improvements to their cross-platform visual masterpiece.
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May 8th, 2012Seeing Redby Sophia Mason | http://girlwhowassaturday.blogspot.com/
Repost from TGWWS. I will give a prize* to anyone who fully comprehends the Chasuble reference.
[*Not to be construed as meaning anything actually worth ... anything.]
This is going to be an angry post. If you're already suffering from a tragical Tuesday, go read something uplifting instead. Trust me, you'll feel much better than if you keep scrolling down. If you're not Catholic, you'll just be perplexed; if you're Catholic and agree with me, you'll be mad like I am; if you're Catholic and disagree with me, you won't like my characterization of your side's arguments; if you're Catholic and don't have an opinion on the issue, you be miffed that I'm writing about a peripheral problem like this when Secretary Sebelius has been invited to speak at Georgetown. (I think that's everyone. If I've left your group off the list, my sincerest apologies.)
I have been known to be irritated by the Enemy. (No, not that Enemy, you fools—these enemies. This is not a Wumpick missive. Sheesh.) But there comes a time in life when the mature Catholic learns to accept hostility and persecution (she says, sipping her coffee in a comfortable swivel chair in a perfectly acclimated room with gorgeous and simultaneously inexpensive prints of Renaissance masters—blest be the files that PIPA and SOPA would have prevented her from downloading!—hanging upon the walls). Yes, there comes a time when the mature Catholic accepts the fact that the world will hate her, and when opposing the violence of the world becomes less a matter of taking personal offense and more a question of standing on principle. But when it comes to internecine squabbles, I confess to remaining something of a Peter Pan. There is something exquisitely aggravating about reading those who are on one's side exactly 99% of the time.
I'm thinking here of bloggers like Fr. Z. Fr. Z is fond of the Tridentine, aka the Traditional Latin Mass; and it is an affection which he shares with many of my own friends and other people whom I respect and admire. I must admit, however, that Fr. Z and my friends are eminently reasonable in expressing their preferences for the TLM; and my aggravation at them is consequently limited. But every now and then someone less reasonable than they will write something like this.
As I say, affection for and support of the TLM is a beautiful thing, even though it is an emotion which I do not share. What I cannot accept, and what I find obnoxious in the extreme, is the loathing displayed—occasionally, occasionally; and only by some—for the Novus Ordo, and the prophetic hints (veiled, as all proper prophecies ought to be) that we will all be going back to the TLM sooner or later.
Permit me to offer a prophecy of my own, in plain, unveiled English: Au contraire. (Pardon my French. As I said above, this is a subject upon which my emotions escape me.) The Novus Ordo is here to stay. I will admit that the Novus Ordo as it is generally said is going to go sooner or later (sooner, if this Catholic's prayers are heard); but it will go the way a caterpillar goes: to reemerge as a thing of beauty and a joy … alright, well, its lifespan will be a little longer than a butterfly's. (OK, hippy simile, I admit it. But I don't really like butterflies. Not on me, and not on chasubles either.)
As I was … saying, the reformed Novus Ordo will be a thing of beauty and a joy forever, or at least until Judgment Day. Till the end of time. That is my prophecy.
"And you're really OK with that? Are you joking? You've got to be joking. Haven't you seen …" Um … hum. And where in the rubrics of the new Roman Missal do we get permission for clowns? Nowhere. Likewise, nowhere are we permitted female extraordinary ministers and lectors, altar girls, liturgical dancing, Communion in the hand, "hymns" by Michael Joncas, and children's Masses. They're not there. These are abuses of the NO Mass, just as they would be abuses of the TLM if, God forbid (and I mean that literally) anyone tried to introduce them there. Abusus non tollit uses.
"But no-one would ever try to say a TLM Clown Mass. It couldn't be done! The inherent gravity of the liturgy is such that no one would dare." Don't kid yourselves, kids. The NO Mass was abused in the '60's and has been since then simply because it is by far the most common liturgy among the Catholics of the West. Trust me, the era that gave us flower power trousers would not have spared the TLM if the TLM had been in its way.
"Well, OK then. So there might have been a few priests who acted up with the TLM. But the very fact that the Mass changed encouraged them to act up more." Not disputed. Changing the Mass then was bad timing, bad strategy. They should have changed it—oh, back around 1880.
"What!!! You must be joking. Only the modern era could have produced the NO, because, as surely you realize, the TLM is a celebration of God, a vertical liturgy, whereas the NO is a celebration of the people, a horizontal liturgy, as the fact that the priest faces the people suggests." News flash, my friends. Hold onto your hats, because this may hurt a bit. Remember that list of things people do with the NO that they're not supposed to do? Well, one of them is facing the people. Nowhere in the rubrics of the Roman Missal is the priest instructed to face the people. Oh, and in case you hadn't heard, the NO can be said in Latin too.
"Can be said in Latin. Fine. But the fact of the matter is this pure sort of NO Mass that you're describing has never existed. The NO just isn't done that way—in Latin, with people kneeling to receive Communion, with honestly orthodox music, with …" In the immortal words of Elizabeth Lane ...
Never been done that way? I grew up on the NO done that way. I went to college for four years at a place where the NO is done that way. I admit it isn't done that way often—but see point two above.
"I get it. You really like the NO. But the liturgy does not exist for your personal pleasure, or to meet your personal taste." Tu quoque. I have never read a promotion of the TLM in which the promoter beat his breast and admitted he didn't like the Mass's style, but he felt obligated to acknowledge its superiority anyway.
"Fair enough. I do prefer the TLM's style—because it helps me pray better. What's wrong with you, don't you want to pray?" Well actually, yes I do. Which is why—personal preference time!—I prefer the NO: because, in the NO, as long as the priest lets us hear only the black and see only the red (to paraphrase Fr. Z), I pray better than I pray at a TLM.
"There must be something wrong with you. You mustn't have been to very many TLM Masses. You musn't have tried it long enough." Is a year long enough? Because I went to the TLM for a whole year at school. (Alright, two semesters. Nine months. Yes. My college offers one TLM and three LNOs every weekday. It is an amazing place.) I used a missal. I meditated. I even wore a chapel veil, if that makes a difference. But at the end of the year I was back at the LNO, even though it didn't fit my schedule as well. I simply prayed better there.
"Yeah, well then there's really something wrong with you." Very probably. "So what exactly is your beef with the TLM?" Ah! Now we come to the real question.
What are your thoughts on the subject?
May 8 2012 | by Kevin O'BrienSophia, it's good to know that I'm not the only crabby Catholic out there.
First, we have a very reverent Latin Ordinary Form Mass every Sunday at St. Mary of Victories here in St. Louis - http://www.catholic-forum.com/churches/299stmary/ - with a top-notch schola and excellent homilies by Fr. Harrison of the Oblates of Wisdom.
Second, I participated in an adult religious ed event last night at a suburban parish. Most of the attendees were old ladies who had been catechized before Vatican II (except it seems they weren't) and who had grown up with the old Mass. They were apparently as lost when it comes to knowing Catholicism 101 as your typical teen-age confirmation candidate, who has been raised on the Ordinary Form and post-Vatican II sensibilities.
When the rad trads (radical traditionalists) tell you that all was peachy during the Latin Mass days, don't believe them for a minute.
May 9 2012 | by Sophia MasonHuh. You may be crabby, but I'm crabbier. When I take the trouble.
Good to know the LNO exists in places other than the Arlington Diocese!
Yes, I've seen age cut both ways. One the one hand, there are the older Catholics (my college prof. comes to mind--he's in his mid 80s) who were very well catechized; on the other, you have folks born around 1940 who should know better ... and don't. And then you have weird outliers like my mother, who was born in the mid fifties and therefore should be crazy ... but who apparently got a top-notch Catholic education, since she happened to attend one of the last decent parochial schools.
I think we can't consider the revolution of the 60's without asking how the heck it could have happened so suddenly? --Answer: it didn't. Things had been going downhill culturally for some time.-- But it's hard on the internet working in chunks of 1000 words to present a complex, coherent, nuanced thesis ...


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