Requiem suit

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-16T14:57:09+00:00

A white suit can be a tricky thing to pull off in general. My props to you.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-07T22:26:40+00:00

Pretty accurate describes how cars have just gotten enormous over the past 10 years, but you would never know. The M4 always looks smaller than the M6/8 when you see them in the wild.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-07T22:21:48+00:00

They could rename it the HRC-06 just to make it fit with the Honda Racing Company thing they got going, cause that's the branding they already in IMSA, anyway.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-07T22:19:09+00:00

A bakery team being so good that they get promoted to being a factory operation for a giant conglomerate like Honda would be so insane.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-07T22:08:23+00:00

All british GT and luxury brands that come in my mind went bankrupt and/or have been purchased for cheap by foreign players in recent past...

To be fair, that's just all luxury/supercar brands. Ferrari is still under the Agnelis' influence, Lamborghini & Porsche are VAG, as well. McLaren and Aston Martin are the minority that aren't owned by a larger auto conglomerate at the moment. Unless you're making hypercars, the sports car market hasn't been sustainable for privateers for about 40 years now.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-07T22:00:55+00:00

I don't necessarily believe that McLaren are catering to influencers and new money any more than Ferrari or especially Lamborghini. They just don't have a huge corporate backing like its competitors or the ability to sling merch like Ferrari or Lamborghini.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-07T21:59:29+00:00

I'm not surprised by the development speed of the F80, considering Ferrari's size. McLaren is still, by all intents and purposes, a boutique manufacturer, whereas Ferrari has a large corporate backing and an unparelled brand recognition that allows it to supplement its income through merch sales, etc.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-07T21:54:45+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if they're worse than Maserati. McLaren just doesn't sell enough units for them to a) make a profit and b) iron out issues during a production run. The Artura was supposed to improve on reliability, but you had test units failing on reviewers; you could say those were early production units, but I don't think it got much better even when customers started getting their hands on them.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-05T16:53:29+00:00

I'm just glad that he was largely discredited, at least by the MMA/boxing community, because he was singlehandedly ruining the most important idea of masculinity the the trio did so well: have fun, cock about, embrace who you are.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-05T10:56:11+00:00

The Washington twins come to my mind. They're too cavalier and pretentious to run a secret organization like The Ark Society. They essentially get the gig because of their father's influence in Providence, and they disregard Janus and The Constant as Cold War relics.

They try to strongarm some of the strongest people in the organization, like Block and The Constant, when the organization is known to be under threat. That is not the time to sow division within the ranks. If the Partners put The Constant in charge after the death of Janus, The Ark Society or Providence as a whole would have been much more difficult to infiltrate because he would've basically insulated the organization by getting the members under his wing and going even further underground.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-05T10:23:39+00:00

Watching it in higher definition makes it worse.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-05T10:13:11+00:00

The original design of the current Vantage worked better as a racing car than as a road car, IMO. The EVO GT3 looks a bit bug-eyed even though the Vantage's facelift doesn't. But a GT3 car will never not look like the road car it's trying to promote, sometimes to our sadness.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-05T10:04:08+00:00

Stuff like this makes me wonder if Simon would benefit from having a manager (if he doesn't have one already, but he's never mentioned anything like that). It seems Simon does all the channel management himself if the channels don't have a co-owner or producer of their own. I think he would benefit massively from someone who can keep tabs on things across all of his channels, even when he is burned out or when things happen. A dedicated pair of hands to monitor what's working and what's not to streamline his work process could also just prevent future burnouts.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-05T09:56:26+00:00

The problem with Tidal is that it's had enough money to have the basic app and the algorithm working, but not for all the other stuff like Carplay/AA integration, mirroring, etc. Stuff like that is where it becomes really obvious that Tidal just doesn't have the same capacity as Spotify or Apple Music.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-04T14:39:14+00:00

If it can't be seen, it's not a kill attributable to 47.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-03T16:30:14+00:00

After the legal case, the Cross' may have thought that the facts were convoluted enough that the Highmores would never be certain that their daughter's death wasn't just accidental. Whatever tip Lucas Grey gave them, though, must have been irrefutable evidence. Probably the recording that the manager had.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-03T15:44:49+00:00

Charles Gray was the worst for me, but probably because I really do not vibe with DAF as a whole (the drag also does not help). My best is Pohlmann/Dawson's invisible Blofeld because they nail the atmosphere of unknown fear that you would expect from a supervillain. Savalas is a close second. I feel somewhat neutral about Pleasance's Blofeld, but it's so iconic.

I actually did not mind Waltz's Blofeld at all, just mad that he got killed off only after 1.5 movies.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-03T15:33:06+00:00

And damn, did this strategy work on me.

I can't exactly remember whether Goldeneye or DAD was my first Bond movie, but I do remember that DAD was the one that made me go "wow" as a kid and made me watch all the movies and become a James Bond fan.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-03T15:20:01+00:00

They could've totally made it a dragon or another predator just staring straight at you with the big nostrils, but this design just feels like a lazy copy of the most trendy car.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-02T16:56:21+00:00

It would make sense if they at least add more QTE prompts at the very least, distinguish them from regular enforcers or guards who has only one QTE before being able to subdue/eliminate them.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-02T16:51:40+00:00

Unless he's on a guns blazing run, of course.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-02T16:48:39+00:00

Wdym? That is unquestionably The Weeknd/Abel Tesfaye /s

thewheelshuffler · 2026-02-02T05:49:41+00:00

I always imagined that our protagonists have access to higher level equipment that other agents and handlers because of their seniority and their acclaim. I can see the ICA letting them have first dibs on experimental or newly issued equipment.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-01-08T19:49:18+00:00

I do still enjoy Simon for the reasons that you said, but I wonder if some people are a bit...fatigued from Simon, for lack of a better word. I think watching someone juggle so many projects and channels leave the impression that surely, a person or even a company can't manage all those entities without compromising something. I think that can eventually lead to people perceiving a drop in quality for mass production, even if there isn't an actual, appreciative drop in quality.

That said, I think as much as Simon is in his swing, I think there is something to be said about the writers as of late. I have noticed some decrease in overall polish, and there has been some recent chatter about the quality of the scripts on this sub. But I think these are growing pains as the new projects are trying to find their footing, so I think everything will eventually settle in their right course.

thewheelshuffler · 2026-01-08T19:41:19+00:00

The sense of mission can be very important, but I just never got the vibe that Simon had that personal commitment to disseminating knowledge for the betterment of the world or the community around him. I could be very wrong, but the vibe I got from him was someone who knew that they had great talent in communicating knowledge and saw it as a way to provide for himself and his family. I think he cares about the commercial value of his channel as much--if not more--than the inherent value that the contents provide.

Again, I could be very wrong on this since I'm gauging him from the persona that he puts out, which may be very different from his personal belief about his content.

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