Take a year off on paternity leave, do some side projects in '26 like win Le Mans and the 24 hours of Spa, come back in '27 at the strongest team and get some more titles. Sounds like a plan.

God damn it my backlog is already long enough why’d they have to go ahead and do this.

Sigh

Now where’s my credit card?

I think this criticism is fair to be honest and is one of the things that’s sort of swept under the rug a bit in discourse about Witcher 3. I definitely think the pacing is off just as you mentioned. I’ve heard other people regret their choice of Triss because they had basically locked in her romance already by the time you start doing stuff in Skellige with Yen and start seeing what she’s like.

Personally I think the Yen/Geralt dynamic is a lot better than with Triss, although it’s got its own troubles (nobody is perfect). I like the banter between them and they feel more like a proper couple.

The game as a whole also flows better with Yen as your romance choice in my opinion and to me it feels more like the Triss romance is an afterthought yes. A bone thrown at those who desperately can’t stand Yen.

Geralt (in the books) is deeply in love with Yen and is also bound to her by literal Djinn magic, so it makes sense that he’s always hot for her in the game and I think the attention paid to the Yen side of things is a desire by CDPR to anchor their game in the preexisting lore.

If you’re not dead set on Triss or wildly opposed to Yen I’d say go with it and do the Yen romance. It’s very suitable for a first time playthrough imo.

If we know anything about evolution it’s that everything will one day become crab. Reddit is just planning for the future by preemptively outlawing anti crab language.

Last time we saw Hamilton truly shine was 2021. And even that year he had some fumbles. He’s had flashes of brilliance since then but not to the level he’s shown before.

It’s possible he really just doesn’t like ground effect cars, but unfortunately I don’t think the new regs will be too different in that regard. But maybe enough? Feels like that is the last sliver of hope for Hamilton fans.

I don’t think Max is leaving. But let’s be honest, even if he was it would not be to AMR. I know they have Newey, funding, great facilities and Honda on board. But it’s still way too big of a risk with their recent track record.

Or at least, he would stay at Red Bull for 2026 and scope out the field. If they are competitive then no reason to move. If Aston actually does come good he can go there in '27 after Alonso retires following his 2026 world championship win ^(don’t ^say ^anything ^just ^let ^me ^have ^that ^last ^one).

At least we were for a long time. User churn combined with steady growth recently might have changed that at this point though, not sure.

The hidden depths and secrets are just completely insane. I’m loving piecing together the narrative, but every time I think I have seen (though not completed!) all the puzzles a new hidden layer opens up with new objectives and challenges.

Amazing game!

Same here. Do you think this data is from Email Apps/Clients rather than the addresses? iPhones are extremely popular and so I can imagine loads of people open their mail on their phones. But I have a hard time seeing more users being on Apple mail adresses compared to the huge widespread gmail.com users.

The most fascinating thing about the Tangut script is that it was created by a single individual. One man sat down and thought “this is gonna be great!”. What an absolute madman.

It’s a cool feature, though as long as it’s Piefed-to-Piefed only it’s kind of of limited use. It also doesn’t transfer over subscriptions right? That’s still the biggest problem with community migration in my opinion.

Yes, obviously. What, are they going to waste valuable time and effort and wind tunnel hours and Newey work-hours on improving from 15th place finishes to hoping for the occasional point come the end of the season?

Literally everybody knows he is only there to work on the upcoming regulations, this was never a story.

Bioshock meets Cuphead looks a lot better than the last trailer did. Keeping an eye on this one for sure.

I’m sure the remake will release with the same level of QA and polish that the original Oblivion shipped with. That renowned Bethesda standard of quality.

Ah makes sense. Strange shuffle they did between F1TV and YouTube then. I miss stuff like the best radio messages, post race radio and Top 10 Onboards on YouTube now.

I never said it was a great game. In fact I literally said:

Genshin has a lot of other problems even gacha aside

I just said it wasn’t garbage. There is plenty of other actual garbage out there. It looks and plays like a mobile game because it is a mobile game. It’s a mobile game you can play on your PC if you want. But it’s still a 5-year-old mobile game. Expecting it to look like AC Shadows or something is silly. Besides, the BOTW-ripoff-meets-anime art direction really seems to appeal to a lot of people, and art direction is much more important than graphical fidelity anyway.

The soundtrack and score is genuinely very good and varied, with each area having its own feel and sound to the music. The game is huge and has lots of different areas to explore, each with its own characteristics. The world has lots of little details and puzzles, some that are extremely simple dopamine hits and some puzzles that are somewhat challenging. There is like a hundred hours or whatever of story content to go through that at least quite a lot of people seem invested and engaged in. There are new events every month or so with various things to do.

Let be clear: I don’t like Genshin personally. I don’t play Genshin. I think there are a lot of problematic elements in it not just with monetisation but with grind, RNG, retention/addiction mechanics, unskippable cutscenes and probably more I’m forgetting off hand.

It’s still blatantly unfair to call it “garbage”.

Is this a new thing they’re doing for F2? I don’t think I’ve seen this before.

I’m still neck-deep in solving the mysteries of Blue Prince. Hopefully it’s permissible to talk about here as it’s hardly the most patient of gaming I’ve done (I bought it on release day). It did have a release week 10% sale though so technically I didn’t pay full price?

The game is absolutely great and it’s extremely hard to talk about without spoilers, which would ruin your experience. It’s a half-roguelite/half-puzzle game and it’s so well made and so intricate. It will take you a little while to start peeling back the layers, but once you start getting into it you realise just how much depth there is under the surface.

If you have any interest in puzzles you should play this game. Like right now. It’s cheap too, not even €30 full price. It’ll probably be a GOTY candidate and it’s definitely the best new game I’ve played in quite a while. Absolutely beautiful distinctive art style too, which meshes perfectly with the themes of the game.

It’s Barca’s to lose at this point.

I love it. That’s actually so sweet.