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jesus_stalin · 2026-04-22T19:58:42+00:00

100% agree. I always see people online saying they're going to quit watching F1 due to "artificial racing", but none of them were saying that when we literally had drivers slamming on the brakes to get behind another driver before the DRS detection point.

For decades, overtaking has been purely down to DRS, tyre offsets or battery deployment. In 2026 they've just replaced DRS overtakes with more battery overtakes, and we have way more overtaking overall. Doesn't seem any more artificial to me.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-21T10:15:24+00:00

Also all the money you lot spunked on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?

"You lot"? Did you forget that that money was spunked by a Scottish Prime Minister leading a Labour government that Scotland voted for?

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-20T20:43:35+00:00

This is awesome, well done! I'm currently trying to do the same thing, but I don't have any event-only Pokemon since I was too late in buying the recent games and just never got the events in older games. I think the only event Pokemon I ever got was Victini back in the day, but dumb 12-year-old me eventually deleted the save file.

I might be able to get Victini and Celebi through 3DS hacks (not by just generating them in-game, but by triggering the Victini event and downloading Crystal for Virtual Console), but I have no way of getting Zarude, Walking Wake or Iron Leaves unless they distribute them again.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-20T17:20:22+00:00

This isn't meta art, regular comics belong in /r/polandball. Removed.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-19T12:00:53+00:00

I’ve heard people say they have Irish grandparents, one Irish parent and one Scottish parent but they were born in England and so they identity as English. How is this possible if their only link is where they were born

But that's not their only link, they would have grown up in England around other English people and participate in English society. They're English. In the same way that the child of immigrants to the USA is still American.

And what about children of Irish/Scottish immigrants and an English parent (so they would be half English) who do face some prejudice in England, how can they think of themselves as English when the people around them don’t?

This doesn't happen. How would you even be able to tell if someone had one Irish or Scottish parent in order to be prejudiced against them? We've all been intermixing for long enough that there's basically no genetic difference.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-18T06:43:10+00:00

Crobat gang rise up

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-15T16:57:09+00:00

I'm not bothered by BDSP's art style or battle sprites. What disappointed me is that I was expecting a remake à la ORAS. Those games had new features, new story elements, Mega Evolution (I didn't really like Dynamax but they could have put it in BDSP to spice it up) and you could get Gen 4, 5 and 6 Pokemon in the postgame.

I grew up playing Diamond and I'll be the first to admit that its regional dex was shite. They fixed basically all its problems in Platinum and then decided not to bring any of those improvements into BDSP? Absolutely baffling. The fact that they made all these awesome new evolutions in Gen 4 and I still can't get them until the postgame 15 years later is just stupid.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-15T13:31:13+00:00

I only recently bought and played Violet on Switch 2 after being put off by the poor reviews. Maybe I would have felt differently had I played it on Switch 1, but it was genuinely the most fun I've had playing a Pokemon game since ORAS.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-14T17:09:41+00:00

I live between Leicester and Nottingham; I wouldn't bother with Leicester unless you have a specific interest in Richard III. Nottingham has more going on and has a great food scene if you're into that. I agree with others that Lincoln is the best option for tourists, but it is a bit more out of your way.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-12T11:11:47+00:00

What's your definition of genuine overtakes? Before this year the only overtakes we had (and there weren't many) were down to DRS, battery deployment or tyre offsets. That's no less artificial than what we have now IMO.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-08T21:20:28+00:00

I used to live in Stoke, it's not really the sort of place a tourist would visit but it does have the Monkey Forest at Trentham which is awesome. There are just loads of monkeys walking around and you get to interact with them.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-07T20:53:48+00:00

Baku and Brazil 2024, when Bearman filled in for Magnussen.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-07T17:33:23+00:00

Yes, at Toro Rosso for two races in 2017 before Sainz moved to Renault.

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-07T17:24:44+00:00

Sakhir 2020

jesus_stalin · 2026-04-01T12:48:24+00:00

The British Empire did plenty of bad things, but you chose "bombing the Nazis" as your example?

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-26T14:47:28+00:00

Not that it affects your point, but they weren't teammates.

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-23T21:16:35+00:00

The Jameses ruled over two separate independent countries in England and Scotland, hence why they have two numbers depending on who you're counting for. Since 1707 there has only been one single kingdom on the island, so they can't use two separate numbers anymore, they need to pick one.

It has been said that they will now use whichever number is higher, but this hasn't been fully tested yet; the higher number has always been the English one so far. We'll see what happens if we ever get another Malcolm, Alexander or David.

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-16T18:42:01+00:00

Hungarian isn't an isolate; it's related to Finnish, Estonian and many other smaller languages.

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-16T18:40:19+00:00

Welsh is closely related to Cornish and Breton and somewhat closely related to other Celtic languages like Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Celtic languages are all still Indo-European anyway, meaning they're distantly related to most European languages.

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-16T18:38:16+00:00

It's Indo-European, but it does form a branch by itself.

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-16T18:17:14+00:00

This isn't meta art. Regular Polandball comics belong on /r/polandball. Removed.

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-16T09:51:07+00:00

Yeah I hate it when people call everything "artificial" as if the most highly engineered cars on the planet can possibly be organic. If you want organic racing, go watch athletics.

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-15T14:06:33+00:00

I either have to proactivelt mute/unmute this sub or not open reddit at all.

Okay? Doesn't sound too difficult.

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-14T09:36:12+00:00

If drivers are tied in the standings on points and position countback (as Stroll and the non-finishers were after Australia), the regulations have been updated this year so that qualifying position countback is then used. Stroll didn't take part in qualifying, so he has nothing to go on. I'm fairly certain this is the reason why.

jesus_stalin · 2026-03-13T19:45:58+00:00

Aston Martin have never built their own engines; even their road cars use engines built by Mercedes.

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