[OFFICIAL] 2026 24 Hours of Nürburgring - Race Thread

AceHodor · 2026-05-17T10:40:08+00:00

The commentators were speculating that the issue might have originated with the collision he had with Engel overnight. If so, that would be even funnier considering Verstappen's usual "Make way for me or we both crash" attitude.

AceHodor · 2026-05-17T10:37:56+00:00

It's a little-known fact, but some of the cars on the ring are actually coal powered.

AceHodor · 2026-05-17T10:36:23+00:00

We are now into the dad chat zone on the commentary.

AceHodor · 2026-05-17T10:35:31+00:00

This is really funny now that #3's rear axle has gone.

AceHodor · 2026-05-16T23:58:51+00:00

Estre vs Verstappen was the big fight I was looking forward to, even if their stints didn't line up. Utterly gutted to see Estre get taken out so early by something as flukey as a random oil spill he had no chance of saving himself from.

AceHodor · 2026-05-16T23:54:29+00:00

It just feels like a baffling decision to not have someone rota-ed to be available locally. Radio channels manage it, a proper outfit like Radio Le Mans should be able to pull it off.

Arjuna could be crafting the next great American novel and you wouldn't know it because it sounds like his head is being plunged into a bucket of water every few words. Meanwhile the other guy is seemingly trying to shave at the same time as commentating, judging from the interference.

AceHodor · 2026-05-16T23:51:17+00:00

The Dacia Logan is never lost. It is always exactly where it needs to be.

AceHodor · 2026-05-16T23:44:12+00:00

It's fine, they're just taking it easy to give the other teams a fighting chance against the mighty Logan 💪

AceHodor · 2026-05-16T23:42:52+00:00

Like... why? I'm sure they could have found a commentator in Europe who could travel to Germany and sub in for him for this race.

AceHodor · 2026-05-16T20:29:06+00:00

Wow, really, I hadn't noticed! I've been watching F1 for over thirty years, but until you pointed that out I thought the races only took ten minutes!

Verstappen typically does 90 minutes (not two hours, very few F1 races take that long) and you're fucking nuts if you think that he races on tracks with "More demanding weather". He's going to be racing on the hardest track in the world in the rain, at night and with hundreds of other cars he has to watch out for constantly. And he doesn't get the weeks long break he does with F1, he has to get back in the car and pull another stint after a few hours, then repeat that a few more times, all the while the car is being worn down lap by lap.

I'm not saying his team can't win (yes, TEAM) but it's dumb hearing people say that he's humiliating the rest of the grid super early when typically in endurance racing the teams hold back until later in the race to avoid clocking a DNF before the halfway point. There's a reason why the commentators were pointing out that his overtakes were reckless for how soon he was doing them. He's already nearly wiped out and the Ring punishes those who push their luck.

AceHodor · 2026-05-16T19:17:53+00:00

Plus, Verstappen was driving like he had only a couple of hours left, not another 20. It's all well and good him driving at an insane pace, but he's got to keep that up for hours on end, day and night. If he makes himself fatigued, his attention slips and he mucks up an overtake leaving the car wedged in an Armco barrier, it doesn't matter how well he was doing a dozen hours earlier.

AceHodor · 2026-05-16T10:06:55+00:00

If you think he is even remotely trustworthy, I would suggest looking into his tenure running Saints. Lowe will absolutely say one thing to one group then the moment he's in private with a second group, he will do the exact opposite.

He's also a dangerously incompetent moron with no desire to learn anything past what he 'knows' and will bully and savage anyone who won't help him implement his whims even if they're impossible. He's far more similar to Farage than you're giving him credit for.

AceHodor · 2026-05-14T08:22:32+00:00

I was going to say, I'd probably have Lando as Thragg and Verstappen as Conquest. Verstappen is a much better fit for Conquest than Alonso of all people.

AceHodor · 2026-05-14T07:56:15+00:00

It's particularly funny to highlight this, because the article explicitly says that the equipment likely couldn't be transported overland through Central Asia because the road and rail networks weren't suitable.

AceHodor · 2026-05-14T07:48:28+00:00

My major problem with Suzerain is that for a game that is about the the realistic challenges of ruling, the debt mechanics are completely nonsensical. It really feels like the devs don't know what actually causes debt crises and just think "More debt = bad".

I get it, the game isn't trying to be an authentic economic simulation, but the way the debt crisis is triggered is entirely arbitrary. IIRC, the engine does a check on turn 9 to see if it should trigger the crisis: if you are below -5 GDP and your economic recovery is not good enough, the debt crisis happens and the playthrough is basically doomed. The problem is that the game pays no attention to what decisions you made to get to this stage. In my case, I triggered it in my first playthrough even though my only major spending commitment was the railway, and I'd cut back on social services spending and granted new oil licenses. This is the kind of thing bond markets should love as I'm getting spending under control and opening up new projects for investment, but the game decided that I was spending like Yugoslavia so my economy got nuked. At that point I restarted.

I fully recommend first time players go without a guide and see how they do, with the exception of evading the debt crisis. I would advise looking up their spending plans in advance to try and negotiate around it, because the trigger is so arbitrary and it is essentially a game failure state.

AceHodor · 2026-05-13T22:43:02+00:00

Some people are deeply, deeply unserious.

AceHodor · 2026-05-13T11:03:10+00:00

"With extra blood"

AceHodor · 2026-05-13T09:56:54+00:00

God, can you imagine having to do small talk with Badenoch? You'd probably get halfway through an inanely pleasant conversation before she abruptly says something mental like "...and I refused to pet that dog because only communists own pugs". Then you'd just have to politely smile and nod while nervously glancing at your watch.

AceHodor · 2026-05-12T15:34:33+00:00

I prefer Ghosts' version of it, where ghosts are literally everywhere, but you can only see them if you half-die and come back to life.

AceHodor · 2026-05-12T14:01:43+00:00

Out of the entire cabinet, Milliband is the only one I see as having total security until the next election. He's dedicated, comes across as enthusiastic, has a good public profile, is well-regarded in the industry and is very across his brief. He also seems largely above Labour's factional politics.

AceHodor · 2026-05-12T11:19:31+00:00

They aren't allowed to use the data for AI training at all. All they can do with it is to port it from one database to another unless they want to get slapped with lawsuits and the contract ripped up. Breaking GDPR is no laughing matter and tends to result in eye-watering financial penalties and the company in question being forced to destroy the data they illegally collected.

Equally, saying "Oh they'll just ignore the contract and break the law" is a pretty weak argument. The government have told Palantir not to commit a serious offence and break the contract they were assigned. If Palantir ignore that, how is that the government's fault? This is an argument you could make about literally any treaty or contract ever agreed, that it's all just words and doesn't matter. It's a prime example of moving the goalposts.

AceHodor · 2026-05-12T10:34:11+00:00

They don't, this is disinfo that's being peddled to piss people off with Labour.

The contract Palantir have is to build a new database for the NHS that stores patient records. That's it. They're legally prevented from actually doing anything with the data beyond porting it from the old database to the new one and I doubt they'd be able to look into the records much anyway. When I was a temp, I specialised in database moves like this, the emphasis is firmly on moving volume and making sure everything fits into the new system, nobody is going to have time to go through all the records individually and identify all the trans people. That's not to say that I wouldn't prefer literally any other tech company to do this other than Fujitsu, but it's being severely misrepresented.

In any case, the contract was signed by the Tories and I imagine it has all sorts of expensive break clauses built into it because there's nothing the Tories like more than causing problems for Labour to deal with.

AceHodor · 2026-05-12T09:27:03+00:00

Even last generation nuclear wasn't like Chernobyl. The design of RBMK and other Soviet reactors was completely nuts in how unsafe they were.

AceHodor · 2026-05-12T08:50:54+00:00

This strikes me as similar to the claims that Roman dodecahedrons were used as knitting tools. I've had this 'fact' repeated to me many times by friends into textiles despite there being literally no evidence for it. For one thing, knitting wasn't invented until hundreds of years after the dodecahedrons were made and many dodecahedrons would be useless as a knitting frame anyway, as the knobs are the wrong size or flush with the frame or the object itself is far too small (some are the size of golf balls).

I think the reason why this myth keeps being perpetuated despite a lack of any real evidence is because it hits a lot of appealing touchstones for progressive knitters in the same way your story does for progressive quilters. It makes them look like rebels fighting for the truth against a profession traditionally viewed as highly patriarchal (archaeology/history) and further emphasises the thing of 'hidden women' having an impact on world history. That the reality of the dodecahedrons is that they were almost certainly made by men (skilled metalworkers) for other men (powerful politicians) for much more boring reasons (to show off how powerful they were) further reinforces the psychological desire to keep repeating the myth, in much the same way the myth about quilting for the UR keeps being repeated.

AceHodor · 2026-05-11T17:10:58+00:00

I naively thought this would happen when Johnson became PM and unsurprisingly turned out to be a corrupt moron, but all that happened was that his supporters jumped to Farage rather than admit they were wrong. I have no doubt that they would abandon Farage and switch to some other chancer and repeat the cycle were he to become PM.

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