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Canal Boat Simulator

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yawpitch ◴[] No.44373866[source]
Cute. Shame the basic physics are wrong; a narrowboat is tiller driven (you push the controls left to go right) and rotates about its center, whereas this is closer to the front. Also reversing flips the dynamics, is much less directionally stable than forward motion, and introduces the Fun of both prop walk and potential cavitation.

Plus a real canal boat simulator would put a weed hatch incident well before a tidal wave.

Can’t believe I’ve been living on one of these things since before we discovered we were in the mirror timeline.

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1. jdeastwood ◴[] No.44374435[source]
There is a more simulatory simulator linked at the bottom of the post, narrowboat simulator by Michael Donning.
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2. yawpitch ◴[] No.44374497[source]
Yeah, my complaint is more that ChatGPT hasn’t been trained enough on my YouTube channel.