I’ve only completed the remake of the first game as it was on sale on GOG last year for about ten cents. But as far as I understand it none of them contain actual explicit material. They’re supposed to be sex comedy, not porn games.

Yeah same. Kimi is my favorite driver, even though I think it’s pretty clear his levels of not giving a shit got in the way of him realizing his true potential. But you know what? I don’t think he gives a shit about that either.

I don’t really get the same energy from Max, personally, but I get what you mean in a sense. I actually think I get more Kimi vibes from Oscar, though? He’s definitely got the unfazed-ness down, even if he’s a little too media friendly to be a true heir.

I think Robin is doing pretty well in karting thus far so it’s looking promising. Still a couple of years away from getting a shot in single seaters though.

It’s been quite close a couple of times. Keke Rosberg famously won only a single race when he got his championship, and Kimi Räikkönen was only 2 points away from doing the same in 2003.

In general I think that backlash against algorithms went the wrong way. We poured the baby with the water.

I agree. As long as the microblogging side of the Fediverse has only a chronological feed I can’t see myself engaging with it. Mastodon just demands way too much work from the user for what the payoff is, at least to me.

I don’t know if it’s different live as I’ve only watched the replays yet this season due to time zones, but you can choose audio track when in cockpit view, either “team radio” or a commentary language.

The F1 season kicked off, so I played around a bit with F1 Manager 2024 since it was free on Epic a few weeks ago. It’s much like the previous iterations of the series - great presentation but vapid and shallow underneath. It’s a real shame, because there are things about it that are compelling. Having all those real team radios and proper circuits and gorgeous cockpit views during races and all the official branding does make a difference. In-race management is also pretty damn fun.

The problem is that it was designed by a team that don’t understand management games. Everything about it starts falling apart the more seasons you play, which is the complete antithesis of what management players are after. The great things like team radios disappear as you replace your drivers and staff members with youngsters or generated people who don’t have voice clips. Nobody has a personality, there are no off-track events that make you invested. The greatness of the perfectly replicated race calendar fades as tracks aren’t added or removed between seasons. There are no interesting regulation changes over time that change fundamental aspects of the car or the rules. The power ranking and properties of the engines never change.

There is no soul or depth here to hook you for years upon years and make you want to build a dynasty. It basically only works if you pick a top or midfield team and try to manage a championship win during the first or second season, beyond that it loses its shine. Still, it’ll be a decent distraction this week as there is no race to watch.

I’m sticking out my neck and saying I think Oscar has a better shot. I think his ceiling has always been higher than Lando’s and I think he is stronger mentally. His pace and racecraft have always been superb, his issues were tyre management and qualy and he seems to have addressed both.

It would also be quite amusing if either Max or George takes it on sheer consistency - becoming the first F1 champion without winning a single race.

They know that the drama and soap opera of it all is much more compelling to a wider audience than good racing. That’s why Formula 1 is extremely globally successful while other series with inarguably better wheel-to-wheel action aren’t.

If you can afford F1TV there is at least the Multiviewer app, which has automatic live transcriptions of driver radios. Gives a much better view of what is actually happening than whatever cherry picked messages the TV director chooses to display.

What is potentially reportable about a picture of a floppy disc?

Oh yeah, I remember that. It really is stunning. And it’s nice to see the popular vote going for something beautiful and sincere for once. Could just as easily have been Shirty McShirtface.

I’m taking this topic to be less of “what’s the most important video game” (which we already had a long discussion post about recently re: the BAFTA award thing) and more of “what’s the best game to just sit down and play right now”. In which case, probably Portal 2? I can’t think of a much better candidate in terms of being a perfect execution of what it sets out to do with an appeal that can be compelling for absolutely everyone regardless of taste.

That Atletico Mineiro kit is a work of art. I think you win this one.

With Piastri being an excellent driver who seems to have taken another step this season I think we’re getting a title fight no matter what. At least for as long as they’re close enough that McLaren can’t justify team orders. I would have preferred a 4 team battle for the championship, but it is at least better than 2023.

That’s my thinking as well. Nailing the '26 regs is magnitudes more important than trying to play catch-up this year. Had they come out the gates swinging this year trading blows with McLaren then sure, go for it. But they’re quite comfortably the 4th best car right now. Seems foolish to waste resources on this year when the new regs beckon.

Now this is the kind of detective work we all come here for!

What I heard is that DOTD apparently gets +10 points in F1 fantasy. It sounds like an idiotic idea for something that’s community voted, but presumably lots of people predicted him for it after his recovery drive in Melbourne and then voted for him to give themselves points.

I don’t know man. They’ve won 4 WDC in a row, the gap to McLaren is massive and the RBR is both kinda slow and difficult as all hell to drive - and it’s the last year of a set of regulations. Isn’t the logical move here to just abandon ship and go all in on the 2026 regs? I can understand McLaren going full bore since they have to strike while the iron is hot and they desperately want a WDC (no matter how much they try to claim the WCC is “more important”). And I can also understand Ferrari wanting to go hard this year as Lewis has limited shelf life.

But who knows, maybe the rumours about the RBPT engine project not progressing well are true and they’re not hopeful about 2026 either?

Lemmy itself is also part of the larger “Threadiverse” ecosystem: the part of the fediverse that deals with threaded content in a forum-like structure (like Reddit basically). Lemmy is one software interacting with this, but there are also other alternatives like Piefed and Mbin. Since they all use the ActivityPub protocol they are interoperable - which software you chose doesn’t matter. The common analogy people tend to use is email providers: Hotmail and Gmail and Proton are all different, but you can register to any of of them and talk to people from all the others.

The instance you choose does matter, as each one will have its own moderation policy and defederation list. Defederation is a tool instance admins can use to shut off communication with another instance - for example blocking dedicated NSFW instances or instances that have different philosophies on content and moderation.

For the most part the biggest instances are all federated, so it’s not something you need to worry too much about for now. Down the line, it’s a good idea to shop around for an instance that suits your personal preferences.

Discovering frozen precut vegetables was key to solving lunch for me. You can find them very cheap too. Add some boiled chicken and that’s been my lunch for over half a decade straight.

If we’re doing honorable mentions I think Peru 2018 has to be up there, especially the third kit.