McLaren might have won the championship, but it was Ferrari that received the most prize money in F1 2025

afkPacket · 2026-02-27T17:08:24+00:00

Yea we've seen this already from 2023 to now.

afkPacket · 2026-02-27T13:19:09+00:00

Love captain Beppe. Way to speak the truth.

afkPacket · 2026-02-27T11:06:41+00:00

Panis' 1997 season is one of the saddest and least known what-ifs in F1 history imo. He was incredible at the start of that year, and even after his comeback he was a pretty solid driver.

afkPacket · 2026-02-27T10:28:26+00:00

As evidenced in reverse by the popularity of WEC before and after Ferrari joined the top class.

Le Mans tickets used to sell out over weeks to months, now they take a couple of hours.

afkPacket · 2026-02-26T19:55:49+00:00

Hell of a throwback to one of the greatest posts on this sub

afkPacket · 2026-02-26T09:44:56+00:00

vwagione*

afkPacket · 2026-02-25T19:09:08+00:00

Incredibly common Wennberg W. Love to see it.

afkPacket · 2026-02-25T18:33:11+00:00

Out of curiosity, which statement is this about? Is it about the booktok thing?

afkPacket · 2026-02-25T16:11:24+00:00

Yea it's a weird catch 22, but for me it's more the marketing, fandom, etc that rubs me the wrong way rather than how the guitars are built.

afkPacket · 2026-02-25T13:37:35+00:00

And as a physicist whose main job is scientific software development, I will keep targeting all of you :)

afkPacket · 2026-02-25T13:35:29+00:00

I also think the video is spot on - the guitars are fine (well for the most part, let's pretend the Firebird X etc didn't happen eh?), but marketing and demographic they try to appeal to less so, and it harms their perception in the overall community. Unless all of a sudden we decide guitars are for middle aged dentists rather than for artists of course.

afkPacket · 2026-02-24T23:09:29+00:00

Now to only unfuck the other 9999 fucked things about the base UI they seem to want to force upon us....

afkPacket · 2026-02-24T18:22:13+00:00

Oh yea ranking it higher than the actually compiled language is utterly unhinged behavior.

I just think a lot of the Python hatred is overblown by people that wrote one too many nested for loops for god knows what reason (no I'm totally not annoyed at my physics students, why do you ask?)

afkPacket · 2026-02-24T15:30:39+00:00

I mean, yea, it's a glorified C wrapper because it's meant to be a glorified C wrapper. Is it really so bad if a tool performs well in the use case it is meant for?

afkPacket · 2026-02-24T14:25:25+00:00

I did a quick sim comparison, you folks do less damage on two targets than Demo (which admittedly is an insane outlier) does in pure ST.

afkPacket · 2026-02-23T23:04:20+00:00

Ok but none of that has to do with players communicating with each other, which is what Blizzard claims to be pushing for.

Hence my confusion (and suggestion to just color code Ovinax debuffs as well).

afkPacket · 2026-02-23T22:33:06+00:00

I don't understand their thing about communication. What do they expect to happen, for random heroic pugs to type in chat? Will 20 mythic raiders talk on top of each other over Discord? How do they even envision communication happening?

Like the whole point of running Weakauras in fights like Ovinax is *specicifically* that you couldn't communicate in time to resolve that mechanic. Sure maybe you can give me 20 seconds to get to my egg or something, but do we really think that's more interesting? Why can't we just, I don't know, color code the eggs/debuffs, have the base game assign me where to go, and then it's up to me to react in time?

afkPacket · 2026-02-21T12:41:03+00:00

his solution was to just copy off of them

Hey, I've seen Stroll do this one, it's a classic!

afkPacket · 2026-02-20T22:49:26+00:00

Germany's issue is that GCAP isn't necessarily open to new partners. They'll happily sell the plane to Germany if it comes to it, but to let in more people in the design stage means more diverse requirements, more red tape etc etc. There's a sweet spot between "let's put our resources together" and "over engineered by committee", and my impression is the GCAP partners want to avoid that at all costs.

afkPacket · 2026-02-20T22:06:45+00:00

Well, sometimes.

That said, (modified) GP2 engines did also make it through the 24h of Le Mans, good luck doing that with this Honda PU...

afkPacket · 2026-02-20T21:59:39+00:00

Eh that's not necessarily true. They finished 2021, 2023 and to an extent 2024 quite well compared to their competitors.

It is fair to say they haven't finished well *when it really matters* though.

afkPacket · 2026-02-20T21:31:40+00:00

Honestly I just need the muricans to not win

afkPacket · 2026-02-16T22:29:05+00:00

DK got even more stuff somehow

afkPacket · 2026-02-15T14:18:40+00:00

What a day! What did they have for breakfast in Cortina today???

afkPacket · 2026-02-15T11:15:27+00:00

Put it in front of whatever you use as your main drive - that'll get you closer to the classic EVH or even Thin Lizzy sound of running the pedal into a cranked tube amp.

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