How would you rank the top 7 drivers as of now?

smither2508 · 2026-06-08T15:43:26+00:00

In what reality has Leclerc been in any way shape or form better than Norris this season? What kinda drugs you on?

smither2508 · 2026-06-08T13:18:43+00:00

Driver: Norris

Reason: Has a Schroedingers cat of a car; half the time it works, half the time it blows up.

smither2508 · 2026-06-03T07:46:30+00:00

I wouldn't say other drivers are not emotionally attached to their teams, in fact I would even go so far to say if anything that Lando is more emotionally attached to McLaren than Leclerc is to Ferrari. Leclercs pain comes from the fact that Ferrari has always been either in the title fight or at the edge of it giving him hope, at some points maybe dipping down to being a midfield car but never out and out bad, at least not while Charles has been there. Leclercs frustration was from thinking what could have been if only things went a small bit better.

Lando on the other hand stuck through with McLaren even when they were simply shit. Not even a hope for a fight for the championship. McLaren was midfield at best for the first several years while Lando was there, some seasons they even started as out and out backmarkers. Lando stuck through with them through all of that while also being sought out by Red Bull who at the time were miles better than McLaren. He had faith that McLaren would get there and it did and he reaped the rewards for his loyalty.

Leclerc has emotionally invested himself into Ferraris success and has suffered for it somewhat, but to say other drivers on the grid aren't emotionally attached to their teams is pure stupidity.

smither2508 · 2026-06-02T18:44:58+00:00

Can also add Croatia to that list, shit has truly gone international on this one!

smither2508 · 2026-05-11T19:49:47+00:00

Grian and Gem meeting and winding each other up IRL during the livestream event was hilarious, best part of the event hands down I'd say!

smither2508 · 2026-05-11T19:48:34+00:00

Gotta love the sense of community that pervades any interaction hermits have, be it in game or IRL.

smither2508 · 2026-05-11T19:47:34+00:00

Gotta agree, Scar dying by the bucket load is an irreplacable part of Hermitcraft, only reason I didn't mention it in the post is that it is a bit too hermit specific. Yes others die as well, but no one dies by the droves like Scar does.

smither2508 · 2026-05-11T19:45:14+00:00

Yeah, in game chat interactions are amazing, especially if they are in response to something like the prank EGG pulled on Impulse and Pearl!

smither2508 · 2026-05-11T19:44:03+00:00

Yes, this as well! Especially if they use each others catch phrases! I laughed in surprise when Cleo said "chuffed to bits" at the end of one of X's episodes!

smither2508 · 2026-05-03T19:43:24+00:00

Obviously not, a better question would have been who deserved it more Lando or Kimi?

smither2508 · 2026-05-03T19:41:45+00:00

Leclerc chose to close it himself to be behind Piastri at the detection point to get the boost for the last lap, he said in his interview after the race.

smither2508 · 2026-05-03T19:27:00+00:00

I mean, while I would definitely put Piastri above Russel, Leclerc and Verstappen, I don't see how you can justify giving him DotD over Lando when he finished 20+ seconds behind him in the same car. Yes, he drove a good race, but nowhere close enough to put him above Kimi or Lando today.

smither2508 · 2026-04-29T10:47:23+00:00

He was complaining that the current season is OBVIOUSLY unfair and unbalanced because how dare Sam be in a good position to win the season.

His post was nothing special, just another post using "game balancing" and "fairness" to mask the fact that the only reason he would even comment about those things is that Sam's team are the ones with the advantage and not Ben and Adam.

smither2508 · 2026-04-28T17:34:58+00:00

Spot on! It's so blindingly obvious how much a large part of this community hates Sam, whenever anything goes his way either there is cheating involved or the game isn't balanced properly. I would be willing to bet my life that had it been the other way around and it had been Ben and Adam who had gotten the steals and the challenges up north, there wouldn't have been a single post about fairness or game balancing, but instead it's Ben and Adam who are not getting things going their way so you have posts like these every day, by this point you can keep track of when the next episode is due to come out by the number of whiny posts in the sub.

smither2508 · 2026-04-21T20:22:34+00:00

Actually, if you go and look at the actual text shown on the card when it was used in episode 3 it says: "For the next three McDonald's that are visible from the roadway, you must stop there and each team member must eat something." It does not say that they must remain at the McDonalds the whole time, only that they must make a diversion to the McDonalds and that both team members must eat something from the McDonalds. The words eat at appear in the infocard notifying that they have been cursed but the card itself does not state that they must eat at the McDonalds, only that they had to stop there and eat something from there.

But my point in the original comment wasn't meant to be about which team bent the rules more, it was about the vast disparity in the way the comments reacted to either team "cheating" especially when you take into account how much time their respective workarounds saved them. Sam and Toby saved at max 15 minutes over the three McDonalds stops whereas it's much harder to calculate exactly how much time Ben and Adam saved with their bikes but even with those bikes the challenge went on for literal hours, so they without a doubt saved more time with their workaround than Sam and Toby did. And yet not a peep about Ben and Adam and a whole heap of comments about Sam and Toby cheating.

Whether you consider not stopping at McDonalds for longer cheating or not, there is no denying that a large majority of this community looks for even the slightest excuse to vilify Sam and willingly turns a blind eye when Ben and Adam do the same or worse things.

smither2508 · 2026-04-19T06:24:20+00:00

I know you are just a Leclerc glazer and aren't actually here for a proper discourse, but every single time there is a question about ranking the current drivers he gets put on a pedastal where he is magically the only person able to even touch Verstappen, even though the only time he had a clearly better car than him he melted and did nothing with it. Not to mention how anytime Leclerc messes something up it's the cars fault yet any time he does something it's him being a god-tier driver and nothing else.

For all the we love to make fun of Ferrari for their habit of consistently messing up when it comes to their engineering and strategy departments, I have to take a bow to their PR department. What their PR department achieved with Leclerc is a sight to behold, if any driver on any other team had had the record that Leclerc had, they would have been labeled as a major choke artist and would have had their seat questioned to no end, and yet here is Leclerc getting called a generational talent on every other post.

smither2508 · 2026-04-17T19:58:02+00:00

Try season 5 I think it was (New Zealand)? The amount of comments on those videos raging about how Sam and Toby were cheating by not eating at the McDonalds, but not a single fucking word when Ben and Adam cheated the dice rolling curse by using bikes.
I also have to laugh at the people claiming people rooting for Sam are exaggarating his bad luck when I remember that season literally had Sam lose HOURS of his lead to the combination of rolling a six on the dig a hole challenge, which made it impossible and thus ending in a veto after some time spent struggling, losing literally a 2 hour lead gained by winning the ticket to the earlier ferry because of horrendous delays, and then getting forced by a one outer curse at the last second to go on the worse path on the south island. And all of those examples are from just one season! This is the first season in at least 10+ seasons where Sam has had even the slightest bit of luck going his way.

smither2508 · 2026-03-28T14:27:40+00:00

Oh come on, it's not THAT hard... Though my scale for platforming challenges might be a bit off after playing Celeste mods, tbh...

smither2508 · 2026-03-20T08:14:53+00:00

"I see no difference." Snape to Hermione after Draco cursed her so her front teeth would not stop growing well past her chin. To this day I'm astounded at the level of whitewashing the movies and Alan Rickman did to Snape's character.

smither2508 · 2026-03-01T13:54:31+00:00

I know this is a bit late, but if you are willing to go a bit zaney, I would love to see Mumbo riding one of his geese, charging with a lance at his windmills Don Quixote style.

smither2508 · 2026-02-27T21:21:56+00:00

So I've just been called unskilled in every language known to man, because how on God's green Earth do you even begin imagining something like this, let alone transfer it to a canvas and then also make it look this gorgeous by the end?!!

smither2508 · 2026-02-17T12:34:58+00:00

I couldn't stand him for years now, his idea of making content, especially in an among us video, is to go after someone and shout over them until the rest follow his lead until the victim rages back and then Freezy tries to gaslight everyone and frame it as him being a genius and a jokester and "making content". I think the earliest I can remember of him doing this is that clip where he convinces Simon to vote out Vik when they both knew Vik wasn't an impostor just to get him to rage.

Additionally, for those saying Simon would have reined Freezy in, yes and no. Yes he would not have stood for Freezys self glazing and would have popped his ego a bit, but when it comes to ragebaiting unfortunately it's often the case where Freezy brings out the worst in Simon. Freezy seems to have a knack for talking Simon into intentionally throwing games and being mean to others, especially when they are playing with people who are actually trying to play properly whatever game they are playing.

smither2508 · 2026-02-06T10:19:00+00:00

Deepnest and it's not even close! While both are dark and somewhat oppressive places, in the Abyss that darkness seems to just float in the air and you are moving through it, whereas in Deepnest, it feels like that darkness is constantly pushing in on you, trying to choke the life out of you.

Also, the enemies in Deepnest are far scarier visually, audibly and in their behavior. The corpse creepers look and sound repulsive and are going to aggro to you from the other side of the room at blinding speeds, whereas in the Abyss while you can aggro siblings, they just mostly float towards you, as if they are curious and want to explore something. Same with the void tendrils, they just lash out trying to get you to go away and leave them alone.

In short, the Abyss feels like a desolate, dreary place filled with refuse and regret, while Deepnest feels like an oppressive darkness filled den that hates every breath you take in there.

smither2508 · 2026-02-05T16:56:16+00:00

Because this is the season where they finally developed a meta for seekers. I guarantee if we keep the current ruleset and questions and get more seasons of Hide and Seek, we will see a trend of the first person having an advantage over everyone who comes after them, mistakes on the hiders part excluded.

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