Brian Topp Posted July 23, 2014 #1 Share Posted July 23, 2014 (edited) This is lovely, strange, and wrenching all at the same time. A teenager whose father passed away when he was just six had pulled out an old Xbox game that he and his dad used to play together, only to discover a part of his father lived on in the game, as a ghost car. This is less supernatural than that sentence sounds. In racing video games, a ghost car is a representation of a previous player's inputs and actions as they drove the track previously. Usually, the fastest laps are stored as ghost cars and then used by players to help them find the best line around a track, or have a way to compete with another player in a time-shifted way. to read more: http://jalopnik.com/...game-1609457749 it's an youtube video, which it means that it is "real" but this case it is more real than others. Edited July 23, 2014 by Brian Topp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefenceMinisterMishkin Posted July 26, 2014 #2 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Nice surprise for him..now he has to hope he doesn't beat his fathers record and overwrite the data.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseCuster Posted July 26, 2014 #3 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Nice surprise for him..now he has to hope he doesn't beat his fathers record and overwrite the data.. I came across this story a while back. The guy says when he raced his father's ghost car and came to the end of the lap, he deliberately stopped and allowed the ghost car to overtake him so he wouldn't overwrite the ghost car.It's a nice story. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSouls7 Posted July 28, 2014 #4 Share Posted July 28, 2014 what a magical story 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseCuster Posted July 29, 2014 #5 Share Posted July 29, 2014 what a magical story It is indeed a great story and the fact that it originated from that cesspool of the Internet, YouTube comments, makes me somehow hopeful for mankind... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coralie Posted August 10, 2014 #6 Share Posted August 10, 2014 This must have been just a bit freaky for the kid at first, but it really is a nice story. Racing cars like they had never stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EzyEllis Posted August 10, 2014 #7 Share Posted August 10, 2014 (edited) Tis a beautiful story. Edited August 10, 2014 by EzyEllis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lopex Posted August 19, 2014 #8 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Hnnnnngh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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