fair enough, well except that it's pretty widely known that Canadian laws are the reason that SONY can't get you all included. Something about Quebec I've heard? Something about SONY not wanting to say what other contests say, "valid everywhere except Quebec".... I'm not saying I know this for sure, but I heard something fairly concrete on this a while back.
I feel for you though. I wish I could say all of my Tuna friends have had the opportunity.
Though, as it was with last year, Canadians can do the Time Trials, they just won't be listed as part of the NA region (now called US because of CA exclusion).
But when we click "Global Rankings" in the menu, We'd still be able to see where you landed, so why not still give it a go?
You never know. You might be surprised by how enjoyable it will be!
I'm really trying to ignore your posts but it's hard when you keep spewing bullshit. It is widely speculated that Canadian laws are at fault yet I haven't seen anyone come up with a specific law that the contest would violate. Our laws didn't stop sony before nor have they stopped iRacing and Mazda from putting on a similar type of contest. Are we supposed to believe that our laws are so much more restrictive than countries in the Middle East, Europe and Asia? If sony and pd don't care enough about us to include us in their contest, I don't see why I should care enough about them to participate.
There is no reason why a rational person could not include everything you typed, except for the yellow part there. And yes, it is yellow in every sense of the word.
I posted some perspective to try to HELP you, despite past disagreements. I even qualified my statements with "I'm not saying I know this for sure, but I heard something fairly concrete on this a while back" so really, when you call that bullshit you really just come across as confrontational and probably skipping over most of the posts you comment on!
I've said this to you before and you didn't even respond. That, when someoen qualifies a statement with "this MIGHT be true" and you come back with "you made an assumption", it is not any sort of revelation. You didn't score any points by pointing out the obvious.
I said it was rumored, and you came back to agree that it was rumored, and yet you attack me for it being "bullshit" when you spewed the exact same thing. Since the "wide speculation" is all we have, then it is simply not fair to blame PD (and no, I'm not invoking that blame Canada joke
)
The truth is, if you want to adore Occam's razor like all self-professed "skeptics", then that means either there is a grand conspiracy against Canada, which is fucking ridiculous, or there is some sort of legal issue, and legal refers to laws, so yea. Why don't YOU tell me which of those is more likely to be true?
A few people at this forum wanted to start a new, POSITIVE thread about GT Academy to help encourage people to participate, and you come in with "we Canadians got screwed again" which is totally irrelevant if you aren't going to go for the gold. It's not a stretch for me to have assumed you actually meant "PD/SONY screwed us again", and I didn't even call you out on that. I just offered some perspective to try to help you enjoy it even though you can't go all the way. Yet, you chose negativity. I can't help you with that.
You can still do the time trials (traditionally at least), you can still see how you rank among your friends, and you can approach the additional content that Academy will bring to your game with hope, or you can just be a naysayer about
everything.
I specifically avoided language in my post that could possibly offend you. Yet, you were. I avoided harkening to past conversations, appearing adversarial. Yet, you perceived it.
At this point there's nothing I can do to change your outlook on the game or myself. You're hell-bent on being upset, so have fun with that! I'll be enjoying my game with my friends, and
you too, if you should ever choose to join us. I will try to forget this ever happened, and I hope you can too.
