The pros are that it’s hip and trendy and almost complete (and has been for the past 15 years).

The cons are it doesn’t work & has insane failure modes that maximise downtime.

Up there with your retirement planning being to win the lottery.

For a supposedly intelligent bunch F1 is constantly face planting itself from unintended consequences.

Another #2 scared for his job

There is precisely zero cross over to real world road cars with the current engines and also for the '26 engines. If you are driving on roads such that energy recovery can be useful then you’re driving dangerously. These engines are only applicable to race cars. Audi insisting on the engine regs to make them road relevant is utter BS. They are never going to release an A3 with such an engine.

I’d love a return to V10’s because they are fun, powerful and light. Reduce the size of the cars whilst we’re at it -current cars look like saloon cars next to cars of the past and it’s hindering racing.

100% agree. JC3 is a gem of a game

Half Life 2 is excellent.

FEAR 2 is good and scary enough for me.

Cyberpunk 2077

Trepang2

Black Mesa is a remake of HL1 and very good

I’m going to split this in to two categories: 1) games that were the best for their time, but perhaps don’t hold up nowadays. 2) Games that are the best today.

1. GoldenEye. This game was just so good both single and multiplayer. It was revolutionary, amazingly close to the film and a real challenge to complete. It was a huge game changer and entered in the modern era for such games.

2. I just really like Just Cause 3. It’s such fun, great visual, even better game mechanics, cool soundtrack, a true open world and massive destruction, endless ways to approach every situation.

What’s your stereo you’re connecting the record player to?

From my experience this kind of thing was a solved problem over a decade ago - it was at least good enough by far.

I’ve started it but only got a couple of hours on before being distracted by other time sinks. I mist have gone through the HL1 starting train ride more times than I’ve had hot dinners.

Completed it last week for the first time and it really does look good. There is so much that’s right in the game. There’s a reason people still cry out for another HL game and raytracing isn’t it.

I understand why some might feel it looks good, but it actually really ruins the feel of the game. Darkness and contrast is a good thing.

Hulkenberg to crash out on the penultimate lap from 2nd.

Created a team. I usually forget to do any team management throughout the year with these things.

Of course it’s fun. But is more realistic destruction more fun?

My favourite game is Just Cause 3 and it’s the same. But would it be better if it was more realistic destruction? No.

He’s never getting better and no one will ever see him again. No one fights through this or any other medical issue, you endure it and hopefully your body improves. Time to move on.

Can I ask who cares about this kind of thing? Why don’t they have more jobs for “making the games fun”? There seems to me to be a point where added realism is detrimental to fun, especially when resources are directed away from the fun.

I still maintain that Emby is better than Jellyfin. I try it again maybe once a year and every time I end up back on Emby. It just runs better, works pretty flawlessly and doesn’t lose my libraries every so often. Music playback is better by far on Emby and that’s my main usecase.

Hardware decoding would be nice, but I don’t have a system I could use this on for either and I’ve not had trouble without it.