For me the most surprising and powerful element in the game is how, when you’re down to a gym leader’s last pokemon, the crowd starts chanting and literally singing a fight song. I guess you could interpret it as rooting for your opponent, but given that it’s the same song every time, I interpret it as them cheering…

The way hearses are driven around here seems to be intended to drum up business, so yeah seems like adding some additional stealth factor would help appeal to their customer base.

I get that this isn’t a serious competition as much as a chance for car collectors to show off the good cars, but it doesn’t seem fair to have late-model Group 4 compete against, like 30s era Bugattis. Is this really a best-time rally as opposed to, say, a regulation rally? It’s hard for me to tell from the official…

That would be such an insane retconn. But it also reminds me that in the end I really wasn’t a fan of “skinjobs” and don’t care to relitigate that straw man’s debate in a new SF series.

If you like a purple and green livery so much, go ahead and just find sponsors who sport the same colors... Good luck with that.

I once read or saw a really great explainer about why liveries are so dull (pretty sure it was focused on the Le Mans grid) that basically concluded: it’s so they can sell space to advertisers. If your car is painted purple and puke green (pls someone do this) you’re not going to be able to integrate with too many…

So it’s pretty obvious—based on the fact that they’re setting up Raffi to fill the “conspiracy theorist who’s always right” trope—that the Zhat Vash hacked the synths because the deaths of millions of their fellow Romulans was preferable to them from being saved by synthetic life forms. Which is a... disappointing…

A bad joke that probably needed more parentheses to even have a shot at landing. It was presented as a P1 but when you looked inside the doorjambs it said 12C. It’s basically a higher end version of a Fiero pretending to be an F40, except that the owner was earnestly trying to present it as the real thing.

To me the nice thing about the 12C is that, since it’s undervalued, folks feel very free to mod them.

Only ‘Ring time I’m interested in for the Corvette is the time for the C8.R. Specifically the qualifying time for a GT3-spec version.

Come 2050,

I’m honestly a little sad. I love love love the look of the current Gen2 car (reminder here’s the Techeetah)

And thus the arms race begins to break terpenoid-based encryption.

Don’t forget (because Tifosi sure won’t let you) that the Ferrari Enzo is properly called the Ferrari Enzo Ferrari.

I was shocked to learn recently that Lotus continued to make the Esprit until 2004! Sure, the last gen S4 looks a little Fat Elvis with the double chin and rounded edges, bit given the chance I would rock one any day of the week.

What’s with the gratuitous Supra hate? Especially with regards to Han’s Veilside RX-7*, probably the most hated car in the early series. I could understand people being upset if a CG Brian O’Connor were driving around in a MkV painted to resemble the “ten second car” from the first film, but the attitude here seems to…

Why would they need to supply their own power units in order to be considered a “works” team? McLaren doesn’t supply their own power units. Lotus got their engines from pretty much everyone.

A byproduct of the deal is that Racing Point is going to become the Aston Martin works team:

“I’m giving you 1 star.”

Don't forget that the current Mercedes team used to be Honda before they were (briefly) Brawn GP.