Penny Arcade

Even to newly hatched larva still trailing the strips of their casing, "Formula 1" is probably an understood term. It truns out there's a bunch of Formulas, though, and in aggregate they create the fraught competitive pathway to the apex of the sport. Then there's Formula E, which... I mean, it might be best to watch Hulu's "And We Go Green." Formula E is just incredibly wacky by comparison, very Designed and Game-Like. You could, like... goose drivers' cars through social media? There's…

I fell off of TikTok even before the reports everyone has been talking about, the one which claimed to reveal a host of sins baked into the software at a philosophical level. I've also read other smart people talking about how it's not as bad as it sounds. I'd say that's more or less typical of engineers, who are always trying to climb atop one another for a primacy so granular it's not even visible to those outside the cloister. The engineer I trust most works here, and he doesn't trust…

The Penny Arcade iRacing league continues to grow. We’ve got just over 120 drivers now and our weekly races have been packed. Each week it’s a different car to race and so far the selections have been really fun. Last week we raced the Mazda MX-5 at Lime Rock which I was actually sort of familiar with.  Tonight we’re racing the Legends Ford 34 coupe which was brand new to me. The league has open practices during the week and I’ve attended a couple of those.…

So many of the books that were formative to me I found via Videogames, which I feel like is pretty odd. Shit, maybe all of them - all the ones I still think about are either from a videogame directly, or were just downstream from the books they revealed. Neuromancer I read because I played a game based on it, which is probably the most cyberpunk way of coming at it, short of having it beamed light-wise into the unblinking lens of your cortical bus. I, uh… probably read it too soon, maybe…