#honestly it’s like a built in advantage for p2 at this point

[formulanni]

I love knowing that even if Norris gets pole it doesn’t matter bc he won’t be able to keep it 😌

[princessofmerc]

I wouldn't say your post rattled me, at least not in the way you're probably thinking. I try not to personally reference the people when I write my own posts or comment on theirs, I may disagree with the opinions but I don't criticize the person writing it. You said something along the lines, "They don't know what a fact is", which I see as you calling me a liar, or even crazy and delusional, that's why I sent you a message. I have never used the anon button, I think it's pretty cowardly when people do, I stand behind my opinions and don't feel the need to hide.

Nicknames? Okay, honestly I've heard "carshmilton" as many times as "crashtappen", of course there's also "mv0" and "mv00", "human error champion", "mickey mouse champion", "costcappen" and so on. There's also "crymilton", "PR63", let's not forget all the memes and videos. I don't really see what this proves apart from the fact we as fans have too much time on our hands and can be immature.

Illegal? I mean Michael won his first two titles in a Beneton that was illegal, Lewis won his first in a car built with information stolen from Ferrari, Mercedes worked with the FIA for several years on the hybrid engines before 2014, they had an advantage Lewis benefited from for years. I don't really think that's a can of worms anyone wants to open. Every team will always do anything to win, that shouldn't be blamed on the drivers.

Crashed out other drivers? Most of the races Max "crashed" with Lewis, Lewis went on to win, and Max didn't gain any advantage by being aggressive. He was crashed out too and it cost him much more than it ever did Lewis.

Helped by his teammate? Pretty sure most drivers (champions) get help every now and again, it's not like Checo was actually a contender for a title at any point, let alone on those rare instances he helped Max. Let's be honest in most races Max was running in P1 or P2 while Checo was down in P4, P5, P6.

Owning up? Imola 2021? When he first criticized Valterri for being in P9 in a Mercedes but then conveniently changed his story after speaking to Toto. We all know he was just kissing up to Toto to get the Mercedes seat he wanted. Austria and Austin? Honestly I didn't know he took any responsibility for those situations. I mean I wouldn't say even that quote is him owning up since according to your screenshot he didn't actually say it was his fault but okay. Did he take any responsibility in France or Singapore or Silverstone? Yeah of course no drivers are going to list excuses on the radio and not accept responsibility. Except when it's George you say it's normal but Max is "crying on the radio".

Max had a hole in his car, it's not something any driver would've brushed off especially since he said he didn't know until he got out of the car and saw it. It also severely compromised his race, I don't think it's reasonable to expect him to "brush it off" just because he was ahead of George, he could've won the race, instead he couldn't even fight. Max didn't storm towards anyone, George literally said he thought Max was going to congratulate him, would he have expected that if Max was "aggressive" with him? Max didn't have his helmet on, we could se his face, he was smiling, calling George "mate", yes he was annoyed but he wasn't angry. It wasn't throwing hats around the cool down room or storming towards Esteban, or Vettel confronting Daniil. We've seen angry reactions and today wasn't it. I don't remember Max putting holes in peoples cars any time recently, George didn't touch the barrier, he had enough space. Also Max when he does touch other drivers gets penalized, or at least investigated, none of that happened today.

Threatening him? I don't think it's a threat, he just said next time he's going to do the same as George, if George was in the right today, then there's nothing wrong with Max saying he'll do the same. I've seen other drivers make the same kind of statements. I think it was just a reaction to George dismissing him and walking away that provoked Max to react and say that.

Pretty sure it's still you and George who are the hypocrites. If being condescending to me is making you feel good since let's be honest you're driver isn't giving you anything to celebrate and probably won't for a number of years, I'm glad you at least have something that makes you happy in your life. Enjoy your dinner, I'm going to enjoy my two time champion and support him on his way to becoming a three time champion, probably before your driver gets his second win. Bye.

[demonfox38]

Complete - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

All rise for the anthem.

During my struggles with "Resident Evil 4", JG and I took a break to plow through the story mode for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge." While that initial attempt took us a couple of hours, I ended up putting in 17 hours total with the game. Ya know. To max things out. Considering the amount of time I put in with this—and the fact that I was actually enjoying it—it felt wrong just to leaving a little "Hey, this game's good!" message on my blog. Like, yes? This game is good. But man, what's the point of these evaluations if I don't say how good?

You read all of these, right? 😉

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge" is a beat 'em up game stylized to match the 1990s Konami beat 'em ups (particularly, the Arcade TMNT game and "Turtles in Time.") So, it's 100% millennial bait. In this particular installment, Shredder, Krang, and a slew of villains both well-known and rare are scheming to…well, you know. Do the usual. Puncture holes in reality, drag in threats both from above and below, snatch and redeploy the Statue of Liberty as a weapon. Just another day at work! Obviously, none of that can stand, so the boys in green are deployed to once again put the lid back on Shredder's schemes and save New York City and its most iconic landmark.

Oh, and you can play as April O'Neil, Splinter, and Casey Jones. Absolutely sick roster. The only way it could have gotten better was if someone called Stan Sakai.

Honestly, the roster announcements were how I first heard about this game. Like, obviously, you can't have a Ninja Turtles game without all four boys being accessible in some way. It's definitely not the first time that the ASC have been playable in a Turtles game, either. However, it always catches my attention when they are available. Like, I thought they would all have to be unlockable, but Casey's the only one you have to put elbow grease in to get.

Adding to the variety is a series of statistics that each character carries. These include range, speed, and power. Breakdowns on how these works for each character are below:

Leonardo: R2, S2, P2 (balanced)

Raphael: R1, S2, P3 (close and powerful)

Donatello: R3, S1, P2 (slow, ranged)

Michelangelo: R1, S3, P2 (close and quick)

April: S2, S3, P1 (weak but quick)

Splinter: R2, S1, P3 (slow but powerful)

Casey: R3, S2, P2 (mostly balanced but longer ranged)

Now, it's all up to you in terms of what works or doesn’t. Power and speed were influential on my play style, but I didn't have a preference between the two. Range is the least important stat to me, particularly considering the major advantage of being face to face with an enemy (the throwing system.) So, Donatello wasn't exactly my cup of tea for this game (which surprised me!) Granted, I was able to beat the final boss with all characters, so it's not like anyone's unplayable here. It just helps to know what you like and who your partner(s) is/are playing. Like, JG and I ended up staggering a speed/power duo with Michelangelo and Splinter, and that worked well!

A lot of the mechanics in this game are "previous game, plus" in terms of description. You've got the base jump + attack from pretty much Arcade on, plus "Turtles in Time"'s throwing system, plus "Manhattan Project"'s special moves, but all built up.

Like, the special move system? There's no damage when you use it now! It's a special meter that you can stack for up to three uses, depending on how well you are comboing. If you need a quick one, you can tuck yourself out of combat, taunt the enemies, then come back in to deliver a crushing blow. Hell, you get three versions of these, too! Plus, a damage boosting Radical mode if you manage to stack three meter's worth of combo charge. Although, honestly, unlocking the aerial special was enough for me. Not that the ground one isn't nice, but the aerial one allows for quick punishment and recovery. (Never quite got the full use out of the dodge one, but hey! It's nice to have.)

Additionally, there's a charge mechanic that you can use to bust through enemy defenses. I found myself using this quite a bit, especially as a follow-up to a basic combo string. There are even some enemies designed to be broken down using this very mechanic. So, it helps to practice it!

Another excellent adjustment is how the game handles multiplayer. You can get up to six fighters going at once, and the game will stack up its difficulty to match. More of the healing pizzas are now group shared, preventing arguments with pickups. Additionally, you can initiate a high-five to share your health with a partner, helping to negate some differences in health. Best of all, you can even try to revive a downed player! It's not always a guarantee to pick them up, but if you happen to clear a wave with them still on the floor, you can pick them back up, dust them off, and send them on their way. Sure, they don't come back at full health, but it's better than completely eating a life.

Although, if you don't like any combat adjustments, you can turn all of that off for the arcade mode. Mad lads!

I think JG and I stress-tested the multiplayer well, considering we finished this while playing on opposite ends of the Atlantic Ocean. About the only error I noticed here was an occasional animation desync. Still, though. Considering the distance, that was solid.

This game both rewards and punishes players with previous TMNT game experience, and I find that hilarious. Like, if you suffered through the first Shredder fight of "Turtles in Time" and remember how to handle the throwing system, the Chrome Dome fight will be a walk in the park. But, if you were one of those kids that spammed the Jump + Attack combos from way back in the NES days, fighting Triceratons will be an absolute mess. (Dudes have an instant anti-air parry!) Hell, previous experience may even leave you gun-shy about using the special mechanic. Which, nah, man. Abuse it for all it's worth. Be a little prick about taunting, too.

It would have been nice to have a practice room for running through drills like in a fighting game. Like, there's a tutorial demonstration, but it's not quite as helpful as having a little practice room with some kind of dummy. I mean, the game can be learned on the fly. It's just one of those things that would have been a cherry on top.

Aesthetically, this game nails its old-school theming. The sprite work is both authentic and hilarious, particularly in terms of blink-and-you'll-miss-it background jokes. Like, check this Foot graffiti:

I mean, LMAO for redundancy.

While I wasn't big on the vocal tracks for the OST, I do think that the instrumental compositions are appropriate, especially when it comes to tempo and the synth instruments used. Hell, I even bought the album off Bandcamp. Additionally, the four original voice actors for the Ninja Turtles themselves are present in game, which was a great get! Those who couldn't reprise do stick out a little bit (particularly, April and Shredder's voice acting), but hell. It's been 35 years. Some of those actors are gone, man. It's a miracle we've got who we got.

Although, there seems to be a vocal oversight when it comes to picking up sushi. Like, it sounds like Splinter's line is being used for both Casey and April. Very weird. Surely, something else could have been done for that?

Honestly, I'm surprised that this game exists. Like, in terms of nostalgia exploitation, I was expecting Nickelodeon to hop on this train a long time ago, particularly in terms of the two TV shows it produced since its license acquisition in 2009. I mean, really! Think about it! It's amazing that the 2012 and 2018 series got to have as much aesthetic and tone/lore variance as they did. There literally could have been another series that was just 1989 2.0. This is, as of now, probably as close to that vision as they've gotten. Well, that, and cranking out toys for the geezers with cash. That's just gonna happen.

This feels like something from a better timeline. From a world where Konami wasn't sitting on its ass. And man, did this scratch an itch.

Although, I'm the kind of freak that would want this with the 2004 series. Goddamn, that was a wonderful nightmare. At least, while it was still on Fox.

[formula-what]

Brocedes time line for a very patient anon

Lewis quotes in orange, Nico quotes in pink, everyone else is blue.

okay first some background knowledge:

Nico is rich as fuck. only child, born in Germany, brought up in Monaco. son of world champion Keke Rosberg

Lewis was born on a council estate in Stevenage and his dad had to work multiple jobs for him to start karting

Honestly I think the difference in their backgrounds is one of the things that pushed them together, they were both isolated from the rest of the kids, but I’m keeping this purely facts rather than speculation.

2000

They’re both 15 years old and are karting teammates for MBB (Mercedes Benz McLaren) in Formula A

Robert Kubica: “there was always competition. But they didn’t fight. It was friendly competition. There was always laughing afterwards.” // “they would even have races to eat pizza”

They often shared hotel rooms at the races which was a “scene of many wrestling matches between them”

Dino Chiesa (their karting boss) – “many times I was called by reception about some problem in the room. It might be noise, or they might have broken something. They would never sleep so they were always tired the next morning”

“they both liked ice cream so much, particularly vanilla. During the night they wanted to eat ice cream always, so I had to go out everywhere to find some and keep them happy”

Lewis would often persuade Nico to buy him sweets

They would have competitions over LITERALLY EVERYTHING

Lewis: “we always had great competition whether on the racetrack or computer games or playing football”

“probably the first bit of competition we had was when Nico used to ride a unicycle everywhere so I thought, ‘I’ve got to learn how to ride this unicycle. Ive got to be better than him.’ I spent all my time outside the go-kart learning to ride this unicycle”

Apparently it only took Lewis 2 hours to teach himself how to do it

In maybe 2013 ish (when they were still friends) Lewis reflected with– “I have never laughed so much than when we were racing together. Nico was kicking everyone’s butt at that time. We had so great races together and built a great relationship”

“we were just arriving and enjoying go-karts and eating pizzas every weekend, fighting all the time and just having fun, whereas now it’s all business.”

many times they would talk about what they would do when they got to f1, made plans hoping to be teammates and become world champions together.

“Nico would say ‘when I’m in formula one’ and for me it was always ‘if I ever get to formula one’. Because obviously Nico’s dad was a formula 1 driver- he knew he was going to make it.”

F1

Nico joined f1 in 2006 with williams, Lewis 2007 with McLaren. And man I WISH I knew what went down with this two when Lewis nearly one his rookie season (missing out by one point to mr fernando alonso) and then WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP in his SECOND SEASON (again by one point thank you mr alonso)

2008 Australia

Nicos gets his first podium, and ofc Lewis is there (he won it) and they are jumping around in the cool down room. Just, two kids who are literally living the one thing they have spent their whole lives dreaming about together. Lewis won the championship that year and oh wow I can only imagine their celebrations together.

2013

They’re teammates in Mercedes!!!

Nico: “every other day there are moments or things that pop up and I can smirk and thing, ‘that’s exactly the same as it was 15 years ago’”

2013 Malaysian Grand Prix gets an honourable mention. This is the race with red bulls good old multi 21 but merc also had their own team orders, stopping nico from fighting for his first merc podium, but Lewis disagreed with it so it didn’t really spark that much tension between them- more the team.

2014

the start of the turbo-hybrid era so y’all know this was good in terms of performance.

2014 Bahrain Grand Prix

They were both fighting for the win and had a collision which prompted a “mock fight” in parc ferme after the race (which I really hope there’s a video of).

Turns out, Nico won because he had used engine modes banned by Mercedes to get a power advantage in the closing laps. which kinda pissed Lewis off

2014 Spanish Grand Prix

Lewis’ fourth win in a row and took lead in the championship. They were fighting till literally the last second and Lewis crossed the line 0.6 seconds ahead of Nico, who says he could have passed him with one more lap.

Lewis defended using the same banned engine modes that Nico had used in Bahrain. Yeah.

2014 Monaco Grand Prix

This is IT. This is peak petty bitch. This is the one people still cry about.

It’s the end of Q3, both of them are out on a lap, Nico ahead of lewis. Nico’s already on provisional pole but Lewis is pretty close.

And then,, Nico just,, parks his car?? He says he made a mistake but the guy doesn’t even crash he straight up just,, rolls to a stop into a slip road. So the yellow flags come out forcing Lewis to abort a lap that was in the makings of pole.

The stewards say it was a-okay but Lewis was convinced it was intentional (and let’s be honest, yeah it probably was) and he even claimed that merc’s data proved it. (low key surprised he didn’t just tweet out the telemetry but I guess he got a stern telling off from mclaren last time)

But *this* is when Lewis tells the world that they aren’t friends anymore. An iconic interview.

Nico then wins the race too, ending Lewis’s four win streak and putting Nico in the lead of the championship.

2014 Hungarian Grand Prix

Lewis has an engine failure in quali meaning he starts from the pit lane, but he does good to make his way up the pack but THEN there’s a safety car which puts him ahead of Nico but on a different strategy.

Nico asks if Lewis can let him past as he needs to pit again before the end of the race, which will give him the place back anyways. Lewis straight up refuses, he’s on a role here. He started from last, and Nico started from pole, why should he slow down to let his title rival through.

Mercedes strongly suggest that his blocking fucked up Nicos race but Niki Lauda is on Lewis’ side so he doesn’t get punished (We stan a supportive father figure) even though he did blatantly refuse to be a team player.

And guys, this is the last race before the summer break so you know Nico was left seething for four weeks.

2014 Belgian Grand Prix

Second lap, Nico attempts a clumsy move and there’s contact, giving Hamilton a puncture and knocking him out of the race.

There’s a lot of controversy but basically it turns out he crashed with him intentionally, not backing out of the corner to “prove a point”. Nico ended up finishing second but was punished by the team, forced to apologise, and even booed on the podium.

2014 Abu Dhabi

For some reason it ran for double points?? The first time in History??? But idk???

Lewis had a perfect start and went on to win it and take the title, Nico had a problem and was told to retire the car but he kept going anyway and finished 14th. Nico went into the cool down room to congratulate Lewis on the championship win, which. cute.

Lewis claimed his second championship. Which not only was huge because of the inter team rivalry, but also because of the large gap between his first win. This guy had lost out on winning the championship in his ROOKIE season by ONE POINT, and then WON it in his SECOND season, and then there was like a FIVE YEAR gap before he won it again.

2015

Damnnn this car was fiiiinneeeeeee.

They do more laps in testing than any other car AND do it on a single power unit. And then. Australia. They take a one-two THIRTY FOUR seconds ahead of the third place Ferrari.

2015 Chinese Grand Prix

Nico is second in a one-two but claims that Lewis kept backing him up into Seb, trying to compromise his race (and help out his boyfriend).

Lewis gave zero shits: "It's not my job to look after Nico's race, it's my job to manage the car and bring the car home as healthy and as fast as possible. That's what I did."

2015 U.S. Grand Prix

If Lewis wins here he could also claim the title with three races to spare (you have to remember back then the title fight often went up to the last race so this was pretty cool)

Lewis very aggressively forced Rosberg wide at Turn 1 to claim the lead, and then there was some sexy fighting between the Mercs and Redbull all race. Nico led in the closing stages but made a mistake, running deep into a corner and letting Lewis past with only a handful of laps to go.

Nico finished P2 and had not only lost the race but the championship title. Nico was fuming, saying Lewis’ move at the start was “one step too far”.

This is the infamous cap throw in the cool down room. Lewis throws Nico his P2 hat, Nico straight up yeets it back at him. I tear up just thinking about it. They grow up so fast.

2016

Nico had came so close to winning and I guess this was just, the last straw. All or nothing. This year he literally gave it everything he had. Lewis and him stopped speaking, Nico gave up literally the rest of his life and even stopped sleeping in the same bed as his wife and taking care of his kids, instead spending every moment trying to get into Lewis’ head. Honestly, I think he might be the only one that could beat Lewis. Just because he knew him *so well*. He literally threw away like 16 years of friendship. But also it’s like, he had to be world champion. He *had to*. His dad was champion and his whole life he’s been preparing to win it too. Tough luck that he raced in the same era as Mr. Best Driver The Sport Has Ever Seen.

Nico won the last few races of 2015, and the first four races of 2016. Lewis had a couple car problems and Nico had a good lead on him in the championship.

2016 Spanish Grand Prix

Gentlemen. A short view back to the past. Nico had made a switch error on the formation lap causing the car to go into the wrong engine mode. So he was running a lot slower than Lewis, who was fighting to claim back the lead.

Nico closed the door to keep him back, and Lewis lost control on the grass, and spins into Nico and taking them both out of the race in the first lap. This is probably one of the most iconic crashes. I’m pretty sure there’s a clip of this somewhere in black and white with the titanic music over the top.

Niki Lauda blamed this one on Lewis (I guess even a supportive dad has to be critical sometimes) "Lewis is too aggressive. It is stupid, we could've won this race".

2016 Austrian Grand Prix

Nico had been struggling with a brake issue all race but was still on the way to win it. But in the last lap Lewis had caught him up and gone in for the overtake.

Typical Nico not taking any shit, refusing to be the guy that backs out and they collide. Lewis took the win and a damaged Nico dropped to fourth. From first. In the last lap.

Both of them blamed each other and tired dad team boss Toto Wolff threatened team orders in future races.

The stewards blamed Nico for the incident, issuing him two penalty points for failing to allow "racing room" and causing a collision.

2016 Abu Dhabi

In the final laps of the race, Lewis ignored team-orders from his race engineer and the technical director.

He deliberately slowed and backed Nico into the pack hoping they overtake him, and there would be enough of a points difference to win the title.

Nico finished second and won the title by five points.

And then,,, Nico announced a surprise retirement during the FIA prize giving ceremony.

Lewis’ response:

"This is the first time he's won in 18 years, hence why it was not a surprise that he decided to stop.” (We stan a petty king)

“But he's also got a family to focus on and probably wants to have more children. Formula One takes up so much of your time."

“In terms of missing the rivalry, of course because we started karting when we were 13 and we would always talk about being champions. When I joined this team, Nico was there, which was something we spoke about when we were kids. So it's going to be very, very strange, and, for sure, it will be sad to not have him in the team next year."

And now they are kind of on speaking terms but not really, they are both pretty private but I think they are at the ‘awkward small talk when we run into each other at the supermarket’ stage of the break up.