Well Checo had been able to do the one thing Albon and Gasly couldn’t, which is consistently finish one or two places behind Max (in both quali and the race).

That doesn’t seem to be happening anymore, for various reasons. It was enough to get drivers canned mid-season before, but with a car this dominant and the rest of the field much closer, they’re not under any sort of pressure when it comes to the WCC, so who knows.

That’s easy: they’ve spent more than ten thousand hours practicing!

Peronism is not a coherent ideology.

don’t pretend that the fall of the berlin wall wasn’t celebrated on both sides of the wall

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the replacement of a socialist government with a capitalist one are different events.

My point being primarily that support or opposition to state socialism in formerly (or presently) communist countries is not universal and not of a single character. Just like everyone who was cheering for the Berlin Wall to come down was not cheering for corporate domination or microplastics in their blood, not everyone who wants a return to state socialism is cheering for the Stasi or the NKVD to come back.

Ask anyone? Or just anyone who immigrated to the west? There’s a lot of selection bias inherent in the people who most westerners talk to about state socialism.

So my wife and I do this thing where we try to have a meal or a beverage that’s emblematic of the country they’re racing in on the week of the race. This week we’ll be going to a good authentic-ish English pub. They serve Welsh rarebit which I enjoy. And they meet my criteria for a good English pub, which is that the floor is carpeted.

Any word on if/when Piastri might get the upgrades?

not the good kind

he literally bought one of those new zealand prepper bunkers

Especially considering the car has so much pace he didn’t even need to push it that hard.

Suffering from the Telltale disease. Pumping out more and more licensed games that are just a different coat of paint on the same game is going to lead to diminishing returns, I expect. Especially with a live service game, I have to imagine that at a certain point you’re just fracturing your userbase.

Gonzalez is going to kill it.

This is all because they changed the carpet.

ACAB as usual.

Is your hate pure?

I don’t think a tagline could unhype me more.

She goes to another school. In Canada.

Is it even any good with all the monetization stripped out?

How are they actually doing financially? I feel like Siege was making them a good chunk of change at one point.

It just doesn’t seem like anyone at the company has any interesting vision for games. Even when they tried to be creative with the initiative that brought us Unraveled, it was still just a physics-based 2d platformer.

They’re not mad. They’re laughing, actually.

I have no doubt the gameplay will be good, but I’ve tried other X-Com-likes where your squad is made of actual characters rather than interchangeable cogs and they’ve never been as arresting.