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Déjà vu (Reboing)
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This is mainly how I play GTA V, as I use a mod to turn off everything (people, other cars) except the animals. Just drive and explorer the environment, mellow times indeed.
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pretty sure if i played, there would be jammed traffic and whackos all over the road.
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SEE ALSO:
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Let’s not forget:
(depending on your definition of “relaxing”)
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Immediately drove towards, and off the edge of the map. Also discovered that a coach bus can, in fact, drive across the bottom of a large lake and emerge unscathed on the other side!
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Most Lake District roads are a lot narrower than depicted in the game.
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Year ago, for iOS, there was a casual flight simulator by Bottle Rocket, called Wings. One picked a biome, and one flew over a seemingly infinite landscape with a terribly short field of view blocked by a not so distant fog that allowed old devices to render in realtime.
Source: Youtube clip of Wings Earth, by Bottle Rocket Games, iPhone games - Wings Earth: Flight Simulator Experience posted by user iphoneappstar on 2009 10 098
I find these kind of no consequence simulation/travel games soothing, so I’ll give this one a go. I just wish there was equivalent kind of casual flight simulator app to day, but perhaps this driving app will fill that void in my life.
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Nice one. Let’s make a list of moderately engaging online things that kan keep you focused during a zoom/teams/meet call:
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Who ever put that picture up as a “relaxing drive” has never hit black ice on a corner…
Or, probably, never worked their way along a road in a white-out at night with the Braille method (rumbling on the left? that’s the shoulder, steer slightly right… never do that, of course… well, do that, but never put yourself in a spot where you have to…
Hint: this approach doesn’t work on gravel roads. )
At least the game is missing the existential terror of clearly DUI dump-truck drivers coming the other way while on their cell phones.
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I was trying to get underwater too.
Have you got the “Spy Who Loved Me” edition?
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No, I’m just that bad of a driver. 
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This is how Tesla’s next model is going to look like, isn’t it.
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They should add Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal roaming the countryside. But keep him very rare so no one believes you if you said you’ve seen him.
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