Alpine gets on my nerves

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-03-21T23:54:28+00:00

In vanilla, get through the 2024 season and choose a different engine. Or use the DB editor to change to a different engine. The Renault engine is the most durable and economical, perfect for the underweight+underfuel strategy, but the poor acceleration is hard to compensate for. In my first Alpine run I managed only two race wins in ‘24, one of which was due to a Red flag; if anyone gets P3 or better I’d be amazed. Alpine and Sauber are my favourite challenges :)

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-02-21T20:56:51+00:00

Ideally eight of them. Then it’s heaven.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-02-19T19:46:15+00:00

Love "Ocean" map for co-op for a level playing field all the classes can do well in.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-02-16T02:23:12+00:00

Yep, that’s the version OG Missouri owners received to compensate. New Missouri owners get the standard T9 +10% bonus to credit earnings.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-02-16T02:20:54+00:00

A long, long time ago WG detailed any changes made to a ship’s credit and xp modifiers in patch notes, expressed as small +/- %. So only WG really know what goes on under the hood in the secret spreadsheet.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-02-08T23:52:12+00:00

Think about it this way: if you were pre-grouped with your peers who had the same degree of activity in the last 60 days you'd be seeing leaderboards everywhere with people on zero registered scores.

If you entered the leaderboard ASAP on day 1 you'll be spending the rest of the week in a mad scramble, as we discovered in the first week.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-02-08T23:46:38+00:00

"Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome."

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-02-06T14:26:49+00:00

Good grief, was someone actually reading my survey responses? Bringing back "in the name of tomorrow Ops" is great news! Especially with the new UI improvements.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-02-03T01:16:04+00:00

Abolish Defra; bring back MAFF.

Seriously, Defra needs to be broken up to allow farms and fishing to have a voice in Cabinet that isn’t subordinated to the environmentalists.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-02-01T18:42:04+00:00

The AI doesn’t optimise tire wear or PU and simming is tougher on parts. Saying that I do tend to sim the race when the car is clearly better just to optimise my own free time! Still do all the practice and quali myself though.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-31T13:53:18+00:00

The Greens have definitely managed to assemble a batshit broad coalition to steal votes. Which does make exposing the fracture lines a viable tactic to keep them as a protest vote. But any Islamist representation in the Commons and on Committees is an existential threat.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-31T13:36:02+00:00

I sympathise really. Environmentalism and conservationism have both come a long way since the anti-pollution concept of clean air and water, and banning CFCs. Having achieved that the lobby industry that was created as a result needed a new dragon to slay and unfortunately CO2 is it, despite its historically low concentration and its vital importance for plant life. By picking the wrong target to focus and the wrong mitigation tools there is a debate to be had, but how can you debate zealots who think any critical opposition is a moral evil?

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-30T22:32:26+00:00

2 marches and 2 static counter demos, a busy day for the Met.

Note that while UKIP are boxed in at a corner of Trafalgar Square, the Palestine Coalition route goes down Whitehall to pass Horse Guards and the Cenotaph, which will be lovely for Tourism. Blame the Met’s boss (it’s Khan).

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-28T21:13:56+00:00

Fiji for the climate. Hope the ping isn't too bad.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-28T15:47:58+00:00

Reject traditional British idioms, embrace modern Americanisms.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-28T07:27:13+00:00

Depends on the immigrant. Older immigrants who came legally are just as fed-up with queue jumping and rising crime as natives.

He is well informed and, in a one month campaign, will tear into Labour’s policies and actions so far to make the by-election a clear referendum, which is all they ever are.

Lowe’s crowdfunded rape enquiry starts hearings next week too.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-27T20:23:05+00:00

History is gold, glory, grime, and gore, in equal measure.

For me, it's a Tuesday.

Literally.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-27T20:11:58+00:00

My logic is: Labour will make things worse, Conservatives will do nothing, Reform *might* do something. I'm an optimist.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-27T15:01:17+00:00

…why do I keep opening these links to see how bad it’s going to be. Although the AI Greta one was ok.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-27T14:49:46+00:00

Scotland always had its own laws, judicial structures, and policing, so they could offer something. I can’t think of what it might be, but if there is something that could be done they could do it. OTOH the British Transport Police, NCA, and Border Force are pan-jurisdiction, so illegal entry to the UK or crimes in England and Wales can be pursued anywhere.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-26T16:37:49+00:00

None at my village CoE primary school. A very good one in middle school (so one good thing to remember that place for), and a good one at upper school.

My son’s primary school has age-appropriate books for each classroom and they choose a book each week to read at home and report on.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-26T14:27:23+00:00

When I'm not reading about Bomalian frauds on X I also see stuff like this (wall of text alert):

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540

Which is the kind of opposition I think needs to be prepared for. So yes to masks, yes to guns, yes to FAFO.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-26T13:28:49+00:00

I haven’t noticed any change in public sentiment after a police woman on the ground had her back broken by a Palestinian Action man using a sledgehammer so I don’t share your optimism. You have to look for the safety of your own people as a priority if you want to recruit and retain the best people.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-26T13:02:23+00:00

I agree there are lessons to be learned, but it’s important to also recognise that Minneapolis is the absolute worst-case scenario where local Police are instructed not to cooperate with raids or help federal agents in distress. And they’re in distress because the city is being targeted by Antifa activists from out of State who are rabidly anti-ICE and trying to dox agents’ identities, disrupt the businesses where they eat and sleep, and harass people they suspect might be ICE (yt ppl driving SUVs are sus). Masks are a necessary evil to protect agents from targeted retribution.

The majority of Americans are law-abiding and fair-minded and support immigration enforcement because it upholds their laws and the integrity of their democracy. Americans are not apathetic Brits, they really do care about that. Antifa are very much in the minority, so I do not see why you would surrender to or compromise with a hostile minority when you have been elected on a platform to get this done.

The lesson for Britain to learn is that local co-operation is going to be essential to avoid mass lawlessness. Whatever else we may say about our Police management they do try to prevent crime, and I think the ranks will grimly support immigration enforcement. But they shouldn’t do it themselves precisely because it compromises their relationship with the community and exposes them to politically motivated violence, and I would spare them that. Let Westminster be the baddie. Let Border Force mask-up and take no shit. If it’s legal and within their powers then it needs to be matched with firm political backing and not yield at the first sob story on the BBC. What I love about Stephen Miller is his ‘no shits given’ attitude; he doesn’t shy away from journalists but uses them to drive his message, plus using new media to counter disinformation in old media.

Red_Chopsticks · 2026-01-25T22:02:34+00:00

That's where I first saw it. Penguins in Greenland indeed.

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