Rustafur

Thanks for setting this up! Will be really nice to actually play some multiplayer D3 thats not with a bunch of raging asshats :D

It's happening!!!

Will this get you to get back in, or is it too little too late?

Nice work, seriously good job, duder.

Also: I'm pretty sure Brad has the best "Fuckin' shit." delivery ever.

VEEBOMB!!!!

Not sure about you all, but this is the first I've heard of any kind of progress that Gearbox has made with their progress on the HD makeover of the Homeworld franchise. Looks like they have a bit of a steep hill ahead of them, as they can't locate a copy of the engine used to create Homeworld 2. They're also leaning on the mod community to help the team at Gearbox to learn about the games underpinnings.

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1075

Here's my wallpaper for August. To quote Jeff Gerstmann "You know what, fuck Luigi."

Thought this also may be appropriate for the thread. This amazing picture of all cars ran from 1950 - 2004 was recently posted on /r/formula1

@littleg:

True, Red Bull isn't a complete anomaly, and those are excellent points with Williams and Benetton. I just think of Williams as being such an established part of Formula 1 that I often don't think of them being part of the independent group. But, still, being 1 of 3 examples in the sport's 63 year history; I'd feel very comfortable saying that Red Bull is at the very least an extremely rare case :)

I'd say the Yankees/Man U comparison is pretty spot on. The Yankees out-spend (and over-spend), by leaps and bounds every other team in Major League Baseball, and just go out and buy talent. While I'm sure that quite a lot of the ill will aimed at the Yankees is jealousy due to the fact that they have 27 Championships (next closest teams having 11, 9 and 7), there's also a lot of the animosity due to the people running the team being total assholes.

@drewbert:

Watching Sky or BBC Sport over what's offered in the states is a great first move. Their coverage just blows away what's offered over here. Also, if you're watching the race live, I've found having Live Timing up to be really informative as to what's going on all around the track.

Tires
The question about tires seems to be answered a bit inconsistently, here's the deal. Perelli brings (of their choosing) two, of a possible four, compounds dry racing slicks to the track for the teams to use. The harder of the two compounds is referred to as the "Prime" tire, and the softer of the two is referred to as the "Option" tire. Each driver must run both tire types at least once during the race -unless it rains, then that restriction is lifted. (DRS is also disabled during periods of rain)

The teams chose what compound of tire they want to start on, unless they make it to Q3 and set a time. If the driver makes it to Q3, and sets a time, then they have to start the race on the exact same set of tires they finished qualifying on. So, in reference to what you mentioned about Mark Weber earlier, he made it to Q3, but since he didn't set a time he was able to not only chose what compound of tire he wanted to start the race on, but he also would have got a use a fresh set of tires to boot.

Red Bull vs The Yankees

That was a really interesting comparison you made with Red Bull and the Yankees. Red Bull is sort of an anomaly in Formula 1. Historically, the heavy-hitter F1 teams are the ones considered "Werks Teams" or Factory-Sponsored teams (e.g. Ferrari, Mercedes, Lotus, McLaren). These are the teams with HUGE budgets, and tons of brilliant minds at these car companies working for their race team. These teams have also been in business for decades, with TONS of history and data to fall back on. Red Bull is a fairly new start-up team sponsored by an energy drink. And they've been the team to beat in F1 for the past few years. Just let that sink in. Red Bull is also in very unique position, in that they have a sister-team (Toro Rosso) where they can groom drivers and are also contractually allowed to browse all Toro Roso's research and race telemetry. That's pretty sweet. Also, Sebastian Vettel start out in F1 with Toro Rossa.

I tweeted Brad earlier in the day to ask what would be appropriate to see Ryan off, he recommended bourbon, but Maker's Mark specifically. Luckily I happened to have a bottle of Marker's 46 that I was waiting for an appropriate time to finish off. Here's to you Ryan, you gave us all so much joy, thank you.