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We’re just back in the Vettel era of Red Bull. Did we get stupid articles like this when Mercedes was absolutely dominant for 7 whole years too? Or the Schumacher years? Go tell Ferrari to get their head out of their ass and make an actually good car so someone else can challenge.

The last few years of remasters have amazed me with how much they HAVEN’T added emulator features even when the game is blatantly being emulated. Some of them miss save states or practice modes (particularly shmups) or proper key rebinding on the controller. I have 6x more buttons than the game originally needed, let me actually use them.

And here we thought Ferrari was the biggest shitshow on the grid. In comes Alpine, demonstrating clearly that the only thing they are winning, is the contest for biggest clown fiesta in F1.

Such a shitshow. The French really can’t decide if they want to commit to putting resources into F1 or not for years now.

I have pretty much all of them except iRacing and rFactor. I tried rF2 one time on steep sale and the game not only didn’t properly recognize and configure my wheel, it also installed with literally zero content for me to try it with.
And before someone comes in with the “but once you set it up it’s da best and…” No. I won’t. I’m happy with my 300GB of Assetto mods.

I also don’t preorder, and I DO buy basically all FromSoft games on release because I know they’ll be bangers. But I’ve been burned before with Dark Souls 3 suddenly increasing in price by 50% in my region right before launch. I’m torn. I guess I’ll wait and see, again.

Finally, it seems that the upgrades for McLaren and Williams fixed their cars. Although I hope that this isn’t just because they’re racing on their backyard of Silverstone right now, and that this form carries over to the other racetracks.

Gundam Battle Operation 2. Wanted to see if they fixed the matchmaking, and it’s not as bad now.
Chunky heavy robots is my jam but the netcode is terrible…

Ah yes, cause the problem by promoting SEO websites with machine generated content, then sell the solution! Splendid!

Honestly I never even knew people didn’t like this term, wtf. It properly conveys the idea of an old-fashioned FPS game, with basic 3D graphics, many times based on 2D sprites. Me and all my friends play them, and we love them, and we all call it “Boomer Shooter”.

How’s the dpad and sticks on that thing, and how does it handle arcade and Saturn emulation? Those are kinds of games I’d really like to have in a handheld with this thing.

You should try out Omega Strikers! It’s free to play, but it’s done right imo. Very fun game of ball, 3v3 air hockey with anime characters. I’m usually super averse to PvP games and ranked modes, but even I’m trying to climb the ranked ladder in this one, it’s so much fun.

Tbh even in the simracing subreddits it was hard to get racing lobbies going on. Usually had better luck looking in discord servers and scheduled events.
Now if anyone got a group that is focused on racing on AMS2 please let me know. I never found one.

Mint chip, all the way!

Is it already that time of the week? Well, I’m still playing BOTW, Dead Cells on my Switch, Dawn of War Unification mod on the PC, and some Omega Strikers on the side, slowly climbing the ranked ladder. I’m thinking I can make Gold rank before the end of the season.
Also taking a moment to get back into shmups, I popped onto Mushihimesama and Dodonpachi yesterday and I wiped before even the third bosses, I’m super rusty.

Whaaaat was that session… I missed the actual start and only watched the highlights but what were some of the pit crews smoking… Also something has got to be done about both Ferrari race engineers, and Sainz’s impeding of fast laps.

I’m already not using Twitch much at all because of that. Even with an ad-blocking extension on the browser, it’s an awful and infuriating experience. You can see how frequent and how long the ad breaks are even through the adblocking. When I use it on my phone that has no blocking, it’s just… I click a random stream to see what the streamer is doing and I get locked into 3 minutes of ads before I can even see that. I usually just back out and close the app when that happens.

Good thing I switched to Firefox, then!

I am prepared to pirate every single game I bought on that platform if that comes to happen =/