Well, no. The "multi-year" part of the headline is fairly clickbaity as GM will provide its own engines from 28 as planned and Cadillac will be a full works team. But Ferrari will provide engines for '26 and '27 which is technically "multi-year".
It would have been absolutely hilarious if they managed to fumble both championships, but on balance this was probably the fair result (they've had the best car for the majority of the season).
It's been a rapid ass decline too, if memory serves they came out swinging in '22 and were pretty rapid during the first half of the season. Didn't Bottas finish like 5th in Bahrain?
Definitely struggled to keep up development pace and direction this rule set, sort of felt like they just got lost. Progressively gotten slower and slower.
I think the hair looks terrible aesthetically, but the look kind of wraps around due to the pure no fucks given and I end up actually loving it for him. I respect it. I couldn't pull it off, that's for certain.
He also had a quite impressive second half of the season I thought. Hope he'll have a better car next year.
How is this something they are able to enforce?
FFXIV: A Realm Reborn is a fantastic trailer but it's almost cheating because Answers is such an unbelievable Uematsu banger that it carries it on music alone.
Assassin's Creed: Unity had one of the best trailers of all time, and it will take something truly special to dethrone it from my personal nr 1.
The puzzles are hardly impossible but the YouTube game requires a choice amount of clickbait I suppose.
I still really enjoyed the video, and the ending was very cute. Maybe crosspost it to [email protected] ?
Wrong community, this belongs in "Amazing Taste, Perfect Execution".
Portal 3 Kingdoms was a mistake.
Lots to digest here. Only had time for one game today so not sure about everything but it feels pretty good.
Pocket ult change is more of a buff than a nerf I think. The satchel change will hurt him early/mid though. They had to do something because he was very good.
Infernus looks insane now. Charges on two skills is crazy value on Rapid Recharge and he's just gonna dash all over. Silence is mandatory now or he ain't getting caught.
Urn changes seem to be intended to make the game more consistent and predictable, to facilitate generating fights I assume. First urn always spawns in the same place now and the movespeed of the carrier is consistent, so you can plan more precisely.
Frenzy is a stacked item now, it's extremely nice to condense it with Berserker into one slot as many who wanted either struggled to fit both. Leech is also insane now and should be picked up more often.
I haven't played MTG in a few years (and don't intend to come back what with the SpongeBob crossover and all) but Magic used to at least try to limit mental math in terms of changing values on cards. Buffs lasted a turn, and anything permanent was auras or equipment or +1/+1 counters.
Gwent has a lot of numbers changing value contextually, often by multiplication instead of simple addition. Now, combat math and all that is way more complex in Magic, but Gwent does have lots of changing numbers to track.
What do you mean, the Cretaceous period was just yesterday.
It came out just a couple of years ago, right?
Too much going on. It's like they've just accepted and (mostly) implemented every single feature request they ever got without necessarily thinking about how it should work with all the other stuff.
I played PoE for a good few years around its release and had a lot of fun initially with the temporary hardcore leagues with new mechanics every time, but there is a good reason I haven't come back to the game - and it's not just that I'm kind of over the ARPG thing. Scope Creep has turned it into a convoluted mess to get back into if you're been out of the game for a while (or never played it) and I say that as someone who typically enjoys complexity.
A very appropriate release to celebrate the 10th anniversary of TW3 (my god time fucking flies). Much like the author of the article I was always surprised there weren't any physical editions of Gwent being sold. And again like the author, I hope it's the Witcher 3 version of Gwent being sold and not the standalone. I want to re-live my degenerate decoy/spy shenanigans.
Of course, but if a game's quality was typically inversely proportional to the review scores, wouldn't that mean 10/10 reviewed stuff like Elden Ring and BG3 was garbage and the truly great games averaged 1-3/10? I'm just confused by the statement.
Martin Luiga interviewed for the 41st Precinct Podcast
As an early contributor to Disco Elysium, as well as a member of Kurvitz's tabletop sessions over the years, Martin Luiga discusses Elysium, as well as touches on his relationships with Robert and Argo Tuulik and more. He also confirms he, Robert, Alex Rostov and Helen Hindpere are in fact working on something for Red Info.
Worth listen!
Another Disco Elysium spiritual successor announced: Summer Eternal
Summer Eternal is a brand new project in collective art-making, developing counter-cultural computer role-playing games with a commitment to worker co-ownership and artistic integrity.
This one has Argo Tuulik and Lenval Brown involved, which lends some serious credibility to the project in my eyes. Tuulik was one of the prominent writers of Disco Elysium, as well as one of the settings' co-creators as one of the players in Kurvitz's tabletop RPG sessions.
Average shot distance (m) across Europe's top 5 league the past 8 years
Pictured in this graph: what xG does to a motherfucker.
I thought this graph was super interesting as it is a near-perfect illustration of when data analytics and advanced statistics started to enter into football (2014-2016) and some of the effects it's had on the game.
EDIT: Forgot to paste a link to the complete article.
Help Improve Deadlock's Matchmaking
Use this thread to share matchids for games that you think the matchmaker did a bad job at. If you can explain what you felt was a problem in it that would be helpful as well. Do not post matchids for games that were within the past 24 hours from this post. Games older than that are fine and...
Post the match IDs of any games where you thought matchmaking was poor into the linked thread in order to help tune the algorithm.
DISCLAIMER: The past 24h (Oct 3-4th) have had extra poor matchmaking due to a bug, so omit any IDs from that time frame.
"Stories of Dota" YouTube channel publishes one last video before shutting down production - The Entire Story of Dota
It's very sad to see one of the most high-effort Dota content creators stop. I completely sympathise with their reasons, but I will sorely miss their videos as there were so many heroes I wish they'd gotten to do videos about.
Dota 2 - come discuss the ongoing The International tournament!
Community: [email protected]
Still have an open void in your life since the Olympics ended? Why not fill it with some esports? Valve's huge The International tournament for Dota 2 started this week, so I thought I'd make a promo post for its community here on Lemmy.
The crow that lived like no other
This appeared in my YouTube suggestions, thought I'd share it here.
Anyone else struggling to enjoy the game due to insane skill gaps and horribly lopsided matchmaking?
Out of every 10 games I play, maybe one of them is a close, even game where everyone is on roughly the same skill level - and that's probably me being generous.
Almost every game has people on either team not just losing their lane but going something like 0-17. I know it's early alpha and has had a huge influx of players recently so maybe it's to be expected to some extent, but even back in my Dota days matchmaking was never this bad. This is like, public WC3 Dota 1 lobbies level.
How are you guys finding it? Anyone break through the MMR barrier into a point where you're getting consistently good games? How long did it take, and what MMR? (you can check here
Nels Cline's '59 Jazzmaster "WATT"
Someone had to be first to break the silence so why not with this? Nothing better than a guitar with a story, and few things more beautiful than a Jazzmaster full stop. Picture taken from a story here.
Footage from "Neon Prime" - the early concept that eventually turned into Deadlock.
Stolen from a thread on the other place. I thought it was very interesting. How do you feel about cyberpunk compared to paranormal 30s New York as a theme?
Sargeant escapes the burning wreck
I was waiting for the original poster to repost it here, but if they aren't then I will since this photo definitely belongs here.
Rowland S. Howard, "Autoluminescent"
While still holding out hope of one day seeing his book (the excellently titled "etceteracide") released, a song lyric will do. RSH was great with words, and I always thought this read pretty well as a poem.
Our cartoonist on the big names headlining the top flight’s return, from Jamie Vardy to a bloke in the crowd at Ipswich
Not his best comic but there's some good stuff in there as always. The "Fatty" (sorry, body-positivity) Foulkes reference was a great deep cut.^[1]
Inside the fast-moving launch of Kamala Harris for president
> Three weeks into her presidential run was the first time the Biden campaign’s pollsters — now hers — held a deep-dive call with Kamala Harris’ inner circle to discuss what she’s been saying on the stump.
> Over the line came a lot of praise, but also some suggested tweaks. First, said veteran Democratic numbers man Geoff Garin, summarizing their analysis, stop saying, “We’re not going back.” It wasn’t focused enough on the future, he argued. Second, lay off all the “weird” talk — too negative.
Yes, stop using the two approaches that has been most effective. Absolute genius. I can't for the life of me see why the Dems have a reputation of shooting themselves in the foot.
EDIT: Thankfully Kamala trusted her instincts and has had the good sense to ignore said advice so far
The Lincoln Project responds to Trump sending a Cease & Decist letter over attack ad
A new ad running on Fox News in Mar-a-Lago from a group of anti-Trump Republicans prompted a cease-and-desist letter.The Lincoln Project said Friday it received the letter over its ad, "Failures," which attacks top Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles."They got it wrong," the ad says before...
After the article was published, Rick Wilson personally responded to Donald Trump in a video.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - World & Locations
Most if not all of these clips were already in the developer deep dive, but this is a shorter more digestible video - without the distraction of voice overs.
It's so cool seeing all these familiar locations in their new visual splendour.