I don’t think it had a big marketing strategy, but it definitely marketed itself through word of mouth because it definitely deserved all the praise (and now awards) it got.

And never did I argue the opposite. The question was: supposing Ukrainians wish to concede territory, would you still support them?

If you never argued the opposite what’s the point of you question? Or do you just like to ask about unfounded hypotheticals?

Potentially, but given your own source, a solid portion of Ukrainians dont share those warm and fuzzies.

Am I supposed to believe you purely coincidentally happened upon the lowest trust poll? How about we look at the latest data of the same poll. Turns out a big majority of Ukrainians do trust Zelenskyy.

I don’t think anyone is questioning whether Ukrainians want the war to end. Of course the majority want the war to end as soon as possible. However, when asked specifically about territorial concessions the majority of Ukrainians are not willing to accept concessions. Source.

Maybe the Ukrainian leadership knows more about what the average Ukrainian wants than you do?

Nothing spicy happens, Norris wins the WDC by finishing in the top three.

Alright, I’ll throw in my spicy take as well. McLaren mess up Norris’s pitstop letting Russell into third. Russell then let’s Norris pass when Norris gets close enough to Russell, coming back to the previous Norris in top three winning the WDC prediction.

I don’t think it would’ve mattered. Russell is the kind of guy to let Norris pass just to spite Max. I would be surprised if towards the end of the race we get Verstappen Piastri Russell Norris and Russell let’s Lando by.

Hope he didn’t smash his TV like he does the steering wheel.

But when people talk about the great RPGs of the modern era New Vegas is brought up while Fallout 3 isn’t. Neither is Fallout 4 for that matter.

They’re trying to squeeze the last water out of the rock while hoping to dip out before everyone realizes everything has been squeezed out.

I know. It’s not Valve’s fault the developer fucked up and gave them the wrong build to review. But that has literally nothing to do with this article unless you’re somehow trying to insinuate that Valve influenced other storefronts.

What are you on about?

If I remember correctly they had some unannounced competitive FPS in the works before Sony bought them and that project most likely was Marathon. I don’t think this has anything to do with what Sony wants and Bungie themselves decided to go down this route.

Well that’s kinda disappointing. Hadjar definitely deserves the RBR seat, he’s clearly fast, but I hoped it would happen in 2027. I don’t think Hadjar has the experience to give constructive feedback to the 2026 car which means we’ll most likely be back to a car only Max can drive.

On a side note, I’m amazed they kept Lawson. I guess he’ll be on the chopping block next year if Lindblad beats him as easily as Hadjar has beaten him.

The issue is that this is essentially impossible. First of all, any team can say “we treat all our drivers equally” and then continue preferring one driver. And McLarens call to stay out shows exactly why you can’t keep things equal. The correct option would’ve been to call both Piastri and Norris in because that was the optimal strategy (which is why every other team made the same call) but the reason they didn’t call them in was because they didn’t want to compromise Norris with the double stack. The call to pit wouldn’t have been fair to Norris but not calling them in wasn’t fair to Piastri. Whether McLaren wanted or not they ended up with a call that benefited one driver over the other. They couldn’t have treated both drivers equally even if they wanted to.

The only way drivers could even be considered as being treated “equally” is if the team chooses to back a driver on a race to race basis. If one driver is doing a better job / gets more lucky throughout the weekend then they get preferential treatment. And I think that’s how we’ve come to the number 1 and number 2 drivers. One driver simply does better than the other. That just gets extended to the WDC where if one driver has been consistently better than the other driver they get more backing to make sure there’s a chance to get the WDC. In an effort to keep things always equal you end up mistreating both drivers and leave the WDC to be snatched from the jaws of victory.

There’s this reminded of a bit by Ari Matti where he goes “you people put sugar on your medicine. You know the rest of the world doesn’t do that?”

Maybe vaccines laced with sugar is the answer America needs.

The whole train of thought is just brainrot. Even if we somehow believe that Merc wants to screw RBR over so badly that they’re willing to risk their 2nd place at the constructors, how do they communicate that to Antonelli without the rest of us knowing about it? It’s not like Antonelli has some vibrator up his ass to get morse code from the pitwall. That would have to be discussed and decided before the race that if by some miracle the merc drivers somehow end up ahead of the McLaren they should just let McLaren pass so they could screw with Max?

I don’t know what those people are smoking but they should put the pipe down.

My point is that Mclaren could’ve decided midway through the season that one driver has more points and more wins and then backed him. Instead they decided to give both drivers an “equal” chance and in doing so let Verstappen stay as a legitimate contender for the championship. By trying to treat both drivers as the number 1 driver they’ve ended up treating both drivers as number 2 drivers. In that sense IMO it doesn’t even matter if Mclaren had decided to back Norris from the start, Piastri would’ve been treated as a number 2 driver either way. That’s why if I was Piastri I would be looking elsewhere because you can’t trust Mclaren to have your back for the WDC. The only reason to stick with Mclaren is because they had a dominant car this year, but if next year their car isn’t as dominant as this year then what’s the point of sticking with them for 2027? You don’t get the clearly fastest car and you don’t get the full support of the team. One of the reasons Verstappen is in contention is because the team has his back completely. The team would move mountains if it meant that Max would win. Much like Verstappen Piastri probably could achieve more with a weaker car but with a team that 100% has his back.

This just solidifies my belief that Mclaren doesn’t have two number 1 drivers, they have two number 2 drivers. They could’ve had the WDC in the bag by now and instead it gets down to the last race. It’s still Norris’s championship to lose but if he hadn’t passed Antonelli then Max winning the WDC would’ve been a near guarantee. It shouldn’t have been this close to begin with, but because McLaren refuses to have a number 1 driver we’re going to the last race with only a small advantage for Norris to win. If I was Oscar Piastri I would be looking at what other teams can offer because Mclaren is only cares about the WCC. He deserves better.

The rest of the race kinda meh IMO. I don’t know how Sainz got to P3 but definitely a good job.

Not on hards they won’t.

I’m genuinely amazed at how naturally evil they look. You don’t even need to know who they are, you can tell just by looking at them that they’re arll pieces of shit.

The irony of Norris complaining about Max doing the exact same dirty move he did to Max first.