flabbergast

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[–] flabbergast 5 points 2 weeks ago

Race Against The Machine

[–] flabbergast 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

RB ≠ RBR
As in: Red Bull Racing (RBR) is the team Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez are driving for, and then there is their sister-team RB* (RB) with Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo as drivers.
It's a bit confusing of course, but I'd like to see more people using the abbreviations correctly here on Lemmy.
But renaming Toro Rosso/Alpha Tauri into RB was not a clever move by the team.

*edit for more accuracy: RB's full team name is VISA Cash App Racing Bulls (VCARB), so it's not surprising people are calling them RB. But that does cause more confusion.

[–] flabbergast 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's actually a better idea!

[–] flabbergast 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah thank you, that explains it.

[–] flabbergast 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This feels like the most likely explanation to me, it looked like SAI got almost sucked into the inside of PER's car...

[–] flabbergast 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess they don't mind losing their fans...

[–] flabbergast 6 points 3 weeks ago

As if Lando's task wasn't big enough already...

[–] flabbergast 5 points 3 weeks ago

Novel scenario looking like a fun possibility: PER running in a position to take points off of VER! Forcing RBR into issuing team orders! :D

[–] flabbergast 6 points 3 weeks ago

I think another factor was both their on-track behaviour, bordering childishly stubborn anger, being overly aggressive. The 'red mist' I call it.
That was what turned me off them.

[–] flabbergast 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In my opinion, McLaren should have "let them race" up until the summer break. After that, support the driver closest to Verstappen. If something unforeseen happens and the "second" driver gets ahead, then full support to him. Simple and clear. Maximize points for the best positioned driver in the WDC and for the team in the WCC.
I still have hopes for Norris taking the WDC, but it will be a tall order. It might come down to fastest lap points even! But he will have to have full support from the team and Piastri.

[–] flabbergast 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Love the music, cant stand the vocals. I always wished they had kept Don Doty from the Darkness Descends album. Ron Rinehart sounds too hollow, full of air and bombastic for me.

[–] flabbergast 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sammy Duet was in Acid Bath as well :)
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Sammy_Duet/17112

And yes, blackened death thrash seems appropriate.

 

Dutch thrash from their first album Malleus Maleficarum.
Became more death metal with the second album, and more prog from their third. First two are my favs.

 

More Canadian thrash/crossover. This is from their first album Dead Brain Cells. Lovely piece of intense music!
Their second album Universe went for a more technical sci-fi approach, with a Voivod vibe. But it didn't really work for me, I missed the older energy.
They are recording again, since 30 years, and it does sound promising!

 

Not pure thrash, but a universe in itself.
Their first album When The Kite String Pops, is mandatory listening for every extreme music fan!
From thrash to sludge to acoustic to groove, it's beyond styles.
Insanity as a musical style. One of the sickest albums out there. I simply call it swamp metal as it radiates damp, rotting, stinking heat.
Vocalist Dax Riggs is out of this world with his vocal range, I'm actually amazed he didn't just die from spitting his guts out!

Note on the video: it's an album track with some live footage patched to it. It doesn't fit exactly, so it feels a bit amateuristic. But it does convey the immense energy of Dax and the band!

 

Now have some horsecore!

 

Seattle crossover/splattercore! Sick band!

 

The Norwegian Kolbotn kings! Great blackened thrash!

 

Another recent find for me, they seem to like Slayer quite a bit.
So do I :D

 

Recently discovered these guys, was pretty blown away!
Modern thrash, old-school vibes and intensity!

 

Title track off another brilliant album!

 

Voivod - Killing Technology (1987)

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