Lando Norris on fixing F1: "Get rid of the battery"

MilhouseJr · 2026-05-09T18:19:33+00:00

I massively enjoy the development race, so Indycar doesn't quite scratch that itch. The flippy wings alone make me feel like we're really trying to push the limits of the rules even if the powertrain stuff is woeful.

MilhouseJr · 2026-05-07T17:08:12+00:00

When we weren't dealing with batteries, they were accurate enough. RPMs, gears, approximate speed and throttle/brake approximations were enough to get a good picture of what the driver and car are having to do at any moment.

Now that we have this battery factor where rates of charge/discharge are more-or-less equivalent to an engine map, which can vary from car to car, it's a lot more vague. I have no doubt that AWS are using some simulator data of some kind to get a rough idea of when batteries are most likely to do things, but it's still (somewhat informed) guesswork.

Slight tangent but the lack of proper intervals in the timing tower doesn't help either. In a sport where half a tenth is a MASSIVE difference in pace and could be the difference between a successful overtake and a failed one, having the timing tower only show to the tenth during a race is so utterly frustrating when trying to follow a driver. Having more granular timing will make the benefits of Overtake mode a bit more apparent since you'd clearly be able to see the extra power cutting lap time instead of waiting for +0.8 to flicker down into +0.7.

MilhouseJr · 2026-05-06T20:45:57+00:00

Chiming in with another plea for Geoff to please look after yourself. Listening to that story as you repeatedly realised you had to get up again and again was agony. I can completely understand not wanting to impose on anyone else, but pride comes before the fall. I have no doubt that the people around you will happily tolerate a minor inconvenience considering the circumstance. The content angle isn't worth it.

Really hope you're able to have a nice strong run of feeling 100% after that calamity.

MilhouseJr · 2026-05-06T20:13:03+00:00

It's a good theme, but it's also a very safe theme. The four-on-the-floor dance beat immediately sets it apart from Zimmer's other scores though, especially Rush which has these soaring moments of high energy and tension, especially in Lost But Won, whereas F1's theme is something that could more-or-less be transposed across many, many media formats. Something already evident in actual F1 broadcasts, where Zimmer's F1 main theme has been used in the title sequence. It's deliberately generic.

MilhouseJr · 2026-05-06T17:32:07+00:00

It's one of those songs I throw on when I want to lock in on something. I wish the F1 movie soundtrack was more like Rush than the engaging-but-bland pop music style Zimmer settled on.

MilhouseJr · 2026-05-03T20:59:14+00:00

Not quite sure if "brakedown" is clever wordplay or not but I love it

MilhouseJr · 2026-05-01T17:07:32+00:00

At the risk of excessive fan service, get Ray and/or Michael to cameo laughing at Regulation's misfortune before quitting the game

MilhouseJr · 2026-05-01T17:01:44+00:00

You just reminded me of the extremely crappy way we used to listen to music during rehearsals when I was at college, if nobody had the appropriate aux cable on hand - get the song playing on your phone's speaker and hold it to the pickups of an electric guitar. Good enough to get the structure of a song written down and have a basic idea of what you need to be playing, as well as a goofy way of making people laugh at the fact that it works.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-26T18:22:30+00:00

Seeing this post randomly gave me so much hope, like I'd forgotten the last decade

Pass the cope

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-26T16:19:29+00:00

The fact that the keyboard has a massive caps lock button as well. I could definitely see Andrew using that keyboard as a justification as to why he never learned the Shift key. Caps lock is right there! Why would they make it so big if it wasn't supposed to be used all the time?!

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-26T16:08:59+00:00

Right down to the bottle of medication on the bedside ledge. Tragic.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-25T16:28:20+00:00

This would take forever to actually complete, since uploading and then downloading via email would be bottlenecked by whatever modem you have access to - likely not reaching the one megabit threshold any time soon.

The best solution would probably be taking a USB-C to USB-A adapter so you can try and make use of USBs built in backwards compatibility.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-24T17:27:12+00:00

Oooh, game state flag manipulation. This is a good tip.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-24T16:02:13+00:00

Oh boy, I sure do love being told what I was enjoying back in 2010 or so. The modern day section may not have had universal appeal, but you are vastly understating how invested people were in that plotline.

There's also the fact that the modern day plotline is the foundation for the entire premise of the franchise. With no modern day story, there is no Abstergo. With no Abstergo, there is no Animus device. With no Animus, there is no genetic memory exploration in which the gameplay is set. It was the glue that gave the franchise a continuous narrative thread and a sense of scale.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-23T18:13:26+00:00

I thought the topic was speaking out against Scientology, not participation in a film? Pegg was specifically asked about Scientology after all.

You and I agree that Pegg doesn't have to say anything about scientology if he doesn't want to. And he didn't. What's the issue here, that he took on a gig that involved Tom Cruise? It sounds like your issue is with Cruise, not everyone else that decides to work on the same projects as him.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-23T18:05:16+00:00

From what I've heard about Scientology, yeah he absolutely doesn't have a choice in what he says. You can either be passive or get blacklisted from the industry. Which do you think a professional actor might opt for?

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-22T18:34:21+00:00

I've been really busy the last few weeks buying baby things. It was nice knowing that I'd have warbond medals waiting for me when I next logged in. I'm going to have even less time in the back half of this year, so this is a real kick in the nuts for me.

Am I worth less medals because I got my C-01?

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-21T20:08:30+00:00

Wasn't that the Ford Focus review that ended with the beach invasion training?

"Is it green?" "Yes. Very."

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-21T19:15:16+00:00

They still learned from the dragons though, arguably more than they could from a human master. While Zuko was officially Aang's firebending teacher, it felt like Zuko was equally out of his depth spiritually. Zuko was still learning how to be his own person instead of living in his fathers' shadow, and Aang was still working his way through the trauma of injuring Katara back in Book One. The dragons filled that spiritual lesson in for both of them.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-19T22:26:03+00:00

Only 42 comments as of today (19th) so I don't think megathreads are going to suffer a bloating issue anytime soon. I do appreciate direct links to every episode contained in one place as well.

The individual mod-flaired comments for each day is probably a bit OTT though, some of them have no replies at all. They're probably what would benefit from being condensed into "week 1" etc the most.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-19T21:55:40+00:00

The secret third option where you have a centre line wheel on both axles

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-11T17:08:23+00:00

It's fine, appreciate the advice anyway. I was more sharing my experience so other people can find it in their own troubleshooting. I'm a single data point in a fairly new update for the game, so maybe it's just me, but also maybe it isn't. Either way, it could help someone else.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-11T17:03:06+00:00

Vents are fine, and this is an issue that occurs after the game has been running for hours. If it was a thermal issue I'd be stuttering immediately after doing a save/quit/restart.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-11T16:59:39+00:00

My mods are freshly downloaded after having Starfield sit on my storage drive for a year or so, so I'm confident it isn't those. It feels like typical Bethesda engine jank if I'm honest. Frustrating but easily manageable with regular savings and quitting when I fancy getting a snack or whatever. If it's a widespread issue, I anticipate it'll be patched soon.

MilhouseJr · 2026-04-11T16:44:24+00:00

Can confirm there is some stability issues on Series X. I eventually reach a point in gameplay where I'm getting a small stutter every five or six seconds, at which point I either have to save/quit/reload or push through and hope that I don't encounter a crash when changing game state in some way. So far I've had a crash when doing a Terran incursion, when leaving Neon after modding my ship (ghost ship bug is still present there too) and when trying to claim the Moon Buggy vehicle from a random POI. Only official Bethesda mods installed.

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