#Convenience Radio

[appri-dot]

A little bit of woodman never hurt nobody

[brooklynisher]

1. Saw the length of the video and wondered if Spine was actually going to say anything nice about GG (Answer: Not really. Had a few things to say about Spider-Man though.)

2. GG has multiple bodies

[angrybatart]

🎶🎵🦆🎵🎶

[leqclerc]

Alright, let’s break it down:

While unconfirmed, this “news” is coming out just weeks after Charles vocally defended his race engineer, Xavi, implying that much of the mistakes and miscommunication stemmed from the working conditions within the team, particularly in 2022. After the race in Baku (Ferrari’s most successful weekend in 2023 to date) Charles took the time to explicitly thank and praise Xavi over team radio. Earlier in the year, Charles mentioned in a Twitch stream that the people he trusts the most include his family, his personal trainer Andrea...and his race engineer, Xavi.

Now, the team made costly strategic mistakes and wrong tyre choices (often failing to take Charles’s feedback and preferences into consideration) last year while...well, attempting to stay in the championship fight.

Xavi is a face and a name everyone knows. For most people, especially with only a surface interest in a team’s inner workings, they will know the drivers, the team principal...and the race engineers. It’s incredibly easy to make someone like Xavi a scapegoat because he’s a tangible being you can point your finger at. Just look at how people get carried away nearly week in, week out, pinning the blame on Charles’s race engineer for everything from strategy to tyre choice, which do not fall under the umbrella of his responsibilities. As a race engineer, he’s the bridge between the pitwall and the driver. He’s being fed information regarding decisions made by those sitting on the pitwall, including the strategists. He is not the one making those decisions. Until we get a pitwall cam + radio channel specifically, we likely won’t know what the hell is going on over there.

Has Xavi made mistakes? Of course. I think every race engineer has, at some point, made mistakes or had a disagreement with their driver. Not saying everyone has to love the guy, but is there really no way to criticize someone without resorting to abuse and threats? I can’t help but note that a lot of that is often coming from those who balk when Charles is on the receiving end of similar treatment online. It’s not okay to cross a certain line when it comes to criticizing Charles, and it’s not okay to cross a certain line when it comes to criticizing Xavi, simple as. Not to mention there seems to be a lot of projecting going around and often Charles’s own feelings and perspective get invalidated because they don’t fit a certain accepted narrative.

Anyway, point being, it’s always easier to blame it all on the guy people know (and conveniently already have a negative opinion about) and throw him to the wolves rather than dig deeper and eliminate the root of the problem. And here’s where I hope Fred’s approach differs from Mattia’s.

Let’s be real, this team has had miscommunication and strategy issues pre-Xavi, currently has them, and very likely will continue to have these very same issues even if he’s gone, until something at the core of the team begins to change for the better. 

[sanguith]

"enjoy the freedom of having everything in your phone!" , "get rid of all that stuff lying around and get this app that does this thing!" , "gather all your things needed to live right in your pocket!"

no i refuse to have all my entertainment and tools in my phone. i refuse to live in a small apartment surrounded by minimalist decor and nothing to look at or work with or use, with empty bookshelves and sterile-looking surroundings. i refuse to sit there idle during a power-out on my sofa in the dim candlelight without anything to do or lost in the woods without a physical compass, emergency whistle, kinetic-generator flashlight or any idea of how to do anything survival-based, watching as my phone battery dies and the clock inevitably ticks down until i'm as isolated and helpless as i could be. my phone and all its compact functions, though an invaluable tool in itself if used properly during ideal conditions, i regard as a second-hand backup for other primary tools, used only when i have no other option or when things actually break. sorry for the rant lmfao but i've been thinking a lot about these things and how reliant on one single rectangular piece of often internet-reliant technology i'm becoming.

[dedtoot]

I'll never understand why during the jsr localisation someone decided to rename bis into mew, even though translating the name directly looks way easier

Also not replacing the screw drawing on her back, which references her original name, despite the fact that her textures were redrawn to change the name

[invertedspoon]

do you think Crowley ever decided to turn on the radio one random day in the 60's and was jumpscared with Devil in Disguise or is it just me

[blueish-bird]

Important reminder that Chainsaw Man takes place in the year 1997 and the Spice Girls’ debut hit single Wannabe was released in July of 1996.

[rawliverandcigarettes]

just realized never explicitely mentioned it in here I think, but my oc Shlee is very much nonbinary. like he just never really had time/community to process what it would mean for him specifically, how that would inform the way he'd like the world to perceive him or his gender presentation or whatnot, but shlee's experience of being alive is Absolutely (and inescapably) genderqueer. How could it not be.

[rovermcfly]

haven't thought about the ancient romans in a while but accidentally unlocked that particular childhood hyperfixation

[thelostboys87]

i need to be obnoxious and get a walkman so bad i need to experience music like the weird people in my novel do

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

i dont feel like fighting with tumblr over this, so instead of all t1 es covers, have the ones it felt like accepting

[coffeeastronaut]

this was a million years ago but do any of my old gomens book mutuals from like 2018-19 have the movie script and would any of you be willing to send it my way. please and thank you

[honeydjarin]

Fellas is it wrong to look for a new job while at my current job?

[foreverknightalways]

Nick asks, Since when do you like opera? Or is this just another aspect of your self-administered media literacy program, hm? As Schanke eats the food Nick bought for him. Nick presses a button the radio and the CTOK comes back on. A woman says, The hour is late and the mood is kinky here on CTOK. This is Marsha... Nick says, I thought so. Schanke says, Give me a break. I just wanted to hear how the new host was working out. Nick says, Oh, yeah, sure. The woman on the radio says, Tonight, I want to hear from all the uniformed men in the city. What's it like? Do women really get turned on by your uniform.

[dailyoyo]

you know funnily enough before me and pseud were getting really seriously into the thick of the jsr hypfix we DID briefly have an in-joke about yoyo getting stuck in a timeloop.

to be more specific, because i was trying to jet rank everything in og jsr to unlock other characters and was struggling w the grind city levels, we had this weird short-lived injoke where yoyo was. idk. fucking astral projected into cube and combo's memories (they might have been in a coma during this? we weren't consistent about the "lore" of this joke) and forced to re-do them over and over until he managed to pull it off without dying. i can scarcely imagine the world where we tried to work that into paradox for whatever godforsaken reason