#KF1

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Steam key giveaway!

As I recently did a giveaway of a lot of leftover steam keys I had from past humble bundles, I wanted to post a reminder of keys that are still available.

Costume Quest (game claimed)

Quake II

Saints Row : The Third (game claimed)

Saints Row 2

Killing Floor 2 Base Game (game claimed)

Killing floor 1 DLCs - Chickenator, community weapon pack 1, 2, 3 (DLCs claimed)

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Preben Juhl Fabricius & Jørgen Kastholm / Fabricius & Kastholm / &Tradition / P376 – KF1 / Pendant Lamp / 1963

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thinking about lord shen

also that dreamworks for some reason tend to peak on their second movie. like i dont think a lot of movies need sequels but they really make the 1st movie a movie to set concept and then BANG out a second movie that goes CRAZY

(kung fu panda, shrek, puss in boots. i mean its not a lot but weird to happen a couple of times when it really shouldnt in any right BE SO PHENOMENAL)

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Ok well I just bought Kings field 2..

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The younger sister was always being almost destroyed by events, and then had to spend months desperately piecing herself together enough so that when once again she was struck head-on, she would only be almost destroyed rather than utterly and completely destroyed.Īs her mother had once suggested, the younger sister felt things more intensely than anyone else. For years, the younger sister had envied this, watching from farther and farther behind as her older sister sashayed past those events that an instant later struck the younger sister head-on and almost destroyed her. Her older sister had always managed to do that, to nimbly sidestep anything that came her way so as to simply go on with her life. The younger sister imagined, each time she talked to her sibling on the telephone, each time she brought the incident up, her older sister pressing her palm against her forehead as she waited for her to say what she had to say, so that she, the older sister, the only one of the sisters with a family of her own, could politely sidestep her inquiries and go back to living her life. Her sister had completely forgotten - or would have if the younger sister wasn’t always reminding her. It still made no sense to her, but her sister, older, couldn’t help. Years later, she was still calling her sister, trying to understand what exactly had happened. The scroll of the night sky seemed to roll back, showing a huge blood-dusky presence looming enormous, stooping, looking down, awaiting its moment. Most of all, thanks to Joanna, Valerie, Sarah, and Ruby for their love and support. I would also like to thank the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Camargo Foundation for providing me invaluable space and time to work, Gary Lutz for his meticulous reading of the manuscript, my editor Chris Fischbach, my agent Matt McGowan. “Mudder Tongue” was chosen for the O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 and was read by David Straitharn for Symphony Place’s Selected Shorts series. “Bauer in the Tyrol” was reprinted in the New Standards anthology, and “Traub in the City” in The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology. “Invisible Box” was reprinted in Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless and, in French translation, in Inculte. “An Accounting” was reprinted in Best American Fantasy and in The Apocalypse Reader.American Letters & Commentary “Wander”.I am grateful to the editors of the following publications for providing space for the stories collected in this volume: Conjunctions “Younger,” “Desire with Digressions,” and “Girls in Tents” The Ninth Letter “A Pursuit” McSweeney’s “Mudder Tongue” Paraspheres “An Accounting”

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2012 CIK FIA World KF1 Championship Round I at Suzuka

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ALEXANDER ALBON CAREER PRIMER Reblogs are appreciated and if you want to post it in other website you can as long as you give credit! Enjoy! 🫶🏻 Also thank you to the fantastic @hungriestheidi for beta reading this mwah!

Alexander Albon Ansusinha has always had a passion for motorsport. When he was very little his idols were Valentino Rosso (MotoGP) and Michael Schumacher (Formula 1). But the Ferrari driver was by far the number 1 for him, his entire room was red from his bed to the curtains and the rug. He always cried when Michael lost and his mom had to put a race from a VHS where Michael had won. His first word was ‘rrari.

But his first encounter with a kart, at the age of 4, was not ideal:“The first time [in a kart] I was in tears I hated it. I was in Disneyland I think. I still remember crying about it but I just remember stepping into the car, it was like a mini F1 car” - Beyond the grid 2019

A few years later though, when he was 7 years old, his dad bought him his own go-kart:

“We lived in the country back then. Next to our house there was a field on which my father laid out a figure-eight layout with stones. That's what I messed around with every day after school.” from Top Gear. And then at the age of 8 he was finally allowed to drive on a real track, back then it was just him and his dad, Nigel Albon, who was his driver coach, mechanic, etc, and who also was responsible for getting him into racing.

His first year in karting was difficult, he struggled with performance and lack of experience, and, because of his financial situation, it was almost from race to race and he had to adapt very quickly to progress. But, then, he went to Malasya to do one race for the first time away from the UK and he finished that race 4th which gave him a lot of confidence. And this was a turning point in his karting career. After that year and a half, he started to score podiums. It was becoming serious. In 2006 he went on a higher level and his father had to stop being the one to help him and a professional team took over, even though he remained alongside him through all his karting years.

With strong results and titles in England he moved up to KF3 from 2008 to 2010, where he was noticed by Red Bull Junior Program.

“2009 was a good year,” he recalls. “I remember competing against guys like De Vries, Marciello. Then, in 2010, I got signed by Intrepid and went against drivers like Verstappen and Gasly to become European and World Champion. - The Race Box. In 2010 Red Bull Motorsport took him under its wings through its Thai division, they were keeping a close eye on him and more so when he switched to KF1 before being integrated into the Junior Team for 2012. “What’s important to remember is that I was at a stage in my life when I was able to stand up a little, thanks also to my double-nationality. I realise today how lucky I am to be part-Thai because of the interest that it created. There’s no denying that I would not be racing up to this day if it wasn’t for that too.” - The Race Box, 2nd part.

2012 was, as he described it, the most difficult year of his life. Career wise, he started Formula Renault, with Epic Racing thanks to Red Bull, but the whole year he spent the entire year at the back of the field, even if he had some good qualifyings. And this was in part a reflection of his private life problems. “But then at some point it turned and I think, I had some family issues a few years on when I was about 14/15, we like to call it my mom went on a holiday, that changed me. [...] the financial support was gone completely,” - High Performance. In the podcast he also says that this changed the way he approached racing. In karting he was not the most competitive kid and because he had the financial support, racing for him had no real pressure, he didn’t feel like it was a need. But after what happened he did feel the need to perform, he described it as a ‘survival feeling’. Because of all of this his first year in Formula Renault didn’t go smoothly and as a consequence of this he was dropped from the Red Bull Junior team at the end of the year, and he felt like the dream was becoming over.

All this also had consequences on his confidence, “I think I lost a lot of genuine confidence when I had this issue. I went from karting to cars, I struggled with cars, didn’t have the feeling, didn’t have the knowledge of single seaters to begin with. I struggled with genuine life confidence, went from having a lot of friends to no friends, started to be a lot more introverted, so everything started to fall away a little bit, becoming a little bit more fragmented in just how I was as a person.” - High Performance.

In 2013, though, he was picked up by the Gravity Junior Program linked to the Lotus F1 Team, which only lasted for one season. Alex considers it as his first proper year in single seater. It didn’t go well, but he did show signs of potential, a big jump from 2012. “After a tough 2012 Lotus helped get the sponsors to race,” revealed Albon. “I most probably wouldn’t be driving if it wasn’t for them, so I am very thankful for what they have done!“Apart from helping find sponsors, I frequently visit the factory in Enstone where we have our physical assessments as well as individual programs made. We also have a sporting manager at each test/race who is there to speak to the team and drivers, giving advice to both” - The Checkered Flag.

Even though he stayed with them for one year, this allowed him to join the KTR formation in 2014 and he finished in 3rd place in the championship. It was also at the end of 2013, just before 2014 started, when he started to regain the confidence he had lost the previous years, “I just remember there was a winter test, it was in December after quite an average season and suddenly I was now quickest in this test, it was in Portugal, and I was like well okay and and and honestly from that point on just I was quick” - High Performance.

In 2015 he signed with the Signature team making his way to the European Formula 3 Championship, all thanks to his links to Lotus in Formula Renault. He finished 7th overall that season and then moved to GP3.

He also competed on Macau for Signature this year

In 2016 he signed for ART to compete in GP3 (alongside an familiar face, Charles Leclerc). He exceeded all of ART’s expectations by integrating himself instantly into the company and fighting for pole positions and victories from the first race weekend (words from team principal Sebastien Philippe for motorsport.com). “He didn’t need a period of adaptation to become one of the best drivers in the category and he didn’t stop progressing throughout the year. He missed the title by very little and it was through no fault of his own, either sporting or personal, why he didn’t clinch it”.

After finishing 2nd, he continued with the team but now in Formula 2 in 2017. He ended up in 10th place for the championship with only two podiums.

“After the bad results of 2017, I knew there was something wrong. I wasn’t sure of what but I could feel it,” he says. “I stayed with my opinion and didn’t let the team tell me I was in the wrong when they were in the right.” - The Race Box, 2nd part.

One of the problems he faced this season was due to an injury, he broke a collarbone whilst out on a mountain biking training ride and missed the Baku round.

Also this is because I am a chalex enthusiast: in Abu Dhabi he was winning for the entire race before being overtaken with a controversial move in the last lap by Charles. [To learn more about chalex click here and here by @vegasgrandprix]

In 2018 Alex found himself again in a tricky situation: “There was 95% chance I would not race in 2018 until an arrangement was found with DAMS and it really paid off,” he remembers. “I went to the tests, kept pushing and was the fastest on track in one of the two days. Still, I was unsure just a few days before the first race of the championship. And it was like that for the first three weekends and even until June. It was a race-by-race situation.” - The Race Box, 2nd part. Not being considered as a priority choice made him angry to prove himself to the team and he came as one of the strongest contenders for the championship despite the season being made of ups and downs. 

This Formula 2 season in particular encountered problems, not only for Alex, with the introduction of the new Formula 2 car, due to a not great clutch system. This made Alex lose lots of positions in the early stages of the races.

But he could prove his value, he had 8 podiums and 4 wins, finishing 3rd in the championship behind Lando Norris (2nd) and George Russell (1st).

“It’s true that, for most of the season, it has been about Lando [Norris, ed.] fighting against George [Russell, ed.] but I was always behind or in between them for much of the year. Obviously, I think that it’s just the way the British media portrayed their battle. Don’t get me wrong, the two are very-talented drivers but it was nice for me to be up there too.”  - The Race Box, 2nd part.

In the middle of the 2018 Formula 2 season, Alex started to look for options to become a professional. His dream still was to become an F1 driver but offers were not appearing and after calling up Helmut Marko (who had kicked him off from the Red Bull Junior program in 2012) and being told that all seats are full, he signed with Formula E team Nissan alongside Sébastien Buemi.

“The level of competition in the series is intense, and I’m looking forward to testing myself against some of the best drivers in the world,” - Motorsport.com. 

He tested the new, at the time, Gen2 car in Calafat during the off season but he didn't make an appearance during the official pre-season test in Valencia. This is all because in the final race of the 2018 F2 season he received an offer from Helmut Marko to drive for Toro Rosso in 2019.

“It came to the last race of the year and Helmut Marco got me back again. So the one who told me ‘there's no space’ inquired about my simulator Services, that's what he said, he got his PA to come over and speak to me and say do you mind just popping into Helmut's office at the circuit and we had a chat about simulator work, I was actually at the simulator for Mercedes doing work for them, he wanted to know how much I got paid. He agreed to my terms on my simulator contract and then, I don't know what it is, I think it's just something he does occasionally, he was speaking about this contract and as I was kind of walking out the door he was like ‘by the way,  what's your position with your formula e contract, can you get out?’ and the one thing I did make sure in my Formula E contract was to have a clause in it that if I had a Formula 1 offer I was good to go and, I said well you know that's the way it is and he said ‘okay, let me get back to you’ and then within 24 hours it was almost pretty much all done.” - High Performance. 

It wasn’t till this moment that he believed that he could fulfil his dream of becoming an F1 driver: “It was not that clear to me formula one was this obvious pathway that I could achieve. I don't think I'm a normal driver in that sense where Formula 1 was this thing and that's all I thought about that's all I wanted to be, of course I wanted to be a Formula 1 driver but for me to believe it, after everything that I went through, I had to almost prove it to myself, I needed to see it. And I would say, only until I got to Formula 2, until I got the call that I was going to be in Formula 1  did I actually realise you know, I'm in it” - High Performance.

He went to his first year in F1 with 0 days in an F1 car. His first day was in Barcelona pre testing where you do a day and a half with your teammate and then go into the first race. He describes it as the most stressful time. 

And the first time in the test was not a good one: he spun on the first lap. It was due to no fault of his own, the car had a steering issue. He says that when he went back to the pit lane and a hundred photographers were waiting for him, it finally hit him that he was in Formula 1.

As the season went on, he started to get comfortable at Toro Rosso and started to have good races. He scored his first points in his second race in Bahrain. But then, after summer break, a change came through, “I was kind of living in this dream where the pressure every race was becoming less and less. I knew after the first race that I belonged, I knew, you know, I've got what it takes and and I do generally believe in myself, and then summer break comes around, had a great start of the Season, great rookie year so far, enjoying my racing more than I ever thought I could, and then I get the same guy, Helmut Marko, call me back to his office this time in Austria, so that's a bit more serious” - High Performance. He remarked that the conversation went the same way as the previous one, with Helmut dropping the news at the end of the meeting, “This is the number to speak to, this is going to be your engineer, maybe give him a call and figure it out. You can't go to the factory right away, because it's shut down but you are going to be announced in about two hours” - High Performance.

After being with Toro Rosso for 12 races he was promoted to the Red Bull Racing team, replacing Pierre Gasly. The team said they would “use the next nine races to evaluate Alex’s performance” and “make a decision as to who will drive alongside Max in 2020.” (BBC)

He of course wasn’t going to let this opportunity pass but he was not sure if he was ready or not for this, and how it was going to be being Max’s teammate. 

“[...] two weeks now or nothing, just thinking about this opportunity but I can't drive I can't get into my happy place, I can't get my helmet on, I've got to just prolong this anxiety out, but, of course, I went into it with more confidence than I did the first time. But it's these opportunities, you just have to take them because Formula 1, the way it is, it's so cutthroat but at the same time I thought to myself there are so many drivers who would kill for this opportunity, there's so many drivers who wish they could have a spot at a top team and within six months you have got that already, you're not going to reject it and with all, even with the ‘am I good enough’, of course there's this deep inner belief that ‘yes, I am’ and you got to go for it. So I am a little bit self conflicting in myself but deep down yes, of course, let's give it a go” - High Performance.

He ended his debut season 8th in the WDC with 92 points, 76 being scored during the last 9 races at Red Bull compared with 97 for Verstappen in that same period, which solidified his place on the big team for 2020. He also won the Rookie of the Year award at the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony.

The following year, though, the car changed quite a lot and it became much more tricky to drive for Alex. He says that it was specially the lack of experience what made it so difficult for him to overcome the problems and he didn’t really know what direction the car needed to go. And for his teammate it wasn't a big issue. Alex started to overanalyze and was overcritical in his performance and he spent so much energy in trying to find a solution to the problems he had and he says that he should have “taken a step back a bit and trusted myself a bit more”- High Performance. And from there it all started to snowball and every time the car became sharper and sharper and he started to become more tense.

On top of it all, one of the things he struggled the most was the media side of being on a top team. Not only because he was on a top team, but also because of all the noise around the swapping seats. Every mistake he made got criticised. Plus all that it is social media with the memes and he became almost a joke, and as much as he could ignore it, on Thursday, media day, he had to go answering questions about his performance and who could replace him. 

Back then he didn’t have any structure, didn’t have a team behind him. “I think Red Bull, especially, they have one extremely quick driver but they're not that used to having young drivers in their team. So, you know, there was help and there was advice when needed but it's not that obvious actually. And so I was with my trainer, we kind of looked at sports psychologists just to see if I need to get that confidence back and that that inner belief back, but I think people don't realise that Formula 1 as much as it is a team sport, it's still very individual, you have the team and the team do care about you, and they do want the best for you, but it's a strange sport where you have your little circle, it's a team within a team, and you have your little support network which for me is my family and at the time my trainer and that was it. But I realised in time that that wasn't big enough and actually, you know, I didn't have a manager at the time or, you know, even anyone to kind of handle the social side of things so I went quiet on everything.” - High Performance. 

His results this season were not ideal, even if he had two podiums (being the first asian f1 driver to do so). Alex finished the season 7th in the WDC with 105 points to Verstappen’s 214. And as a consequence he was replaced by Sergio Perez the following year leaving him without a seat for 2021 and as a reserve driver for Red Bull.

The news of being replaced were delivered to him by team principal Christian Horner when he went to his office in the factory. He knew it was coming because of all the noise from the media. “I do genuinely believe that Christian and Helmut, they really wanted it to work, the reason why I was told so late was because they gave me to the last race to try and show my worth, so, for that, you know, I genuinely do believe they wanted the best for me, but it just didn't work out and, you know, obviously ‘Sergio is going to take your place and we'll keep you as a simulator driver if you accept, we'll try to find you a place for the year after’ and so that was it” - High Performance. 

As much as the 2020 season was painful, he didn’t find the relief he thought he would because all he wanted was to get back again.

On the year away, he had two clear objectives to work on. On one side, he worked on being less of a yes man like he was at Red Bull and prioritising himself. And on the other just performance wise, where were his weaknesses.

The first two months he used them to find the structure he needed, “I need to actually live and figure out where my money is going, what am I doing kind of thing and get the network going, so I had a true team. And I chose people that were, maybe not the most experienced in their role but would fight for me to the death and these are the same people that I have with me to this day, you know. people who wanted an opportunity but cared for me. So I took a guy from Red Bull, who always fought my corner, no matter how tough the situation was, he became my manager and then my trainer who's obviously been with me from the very beginning, so I created my network.” - High Performance.

But working on his driving was a very tough task because he couldn’t actually drive the car, so he did a lot of work at the simulator which made him understand a lot of things better. He wanted to do what it takes to get himself to be the best driver he can be and consequently put him in the best position.

On a professional level, he wanted to do the best job for the team to show that he was a valuable asset, not just for Red Bull but for every other team. So he wanted to make the car as quick as possible. 

Even though he was on the sidelines he was helping Checo get comfortable with the car and he was driver coaching Yuki Tsunoda who was one of the junior drivers at Alpha Tauri. “It was this weird thing because, for example with Yuki, I wanted to take his seat, he was a potential candidate that I could replace. But then I remember having that chat with Helmut Marko, he told me at the time ‘you need to driver coach this guy’ and I was like ‘I'm not going to, that's a potential seat’ and he said ‘no, no he's already signed like he's guaranteed’ so I was like okay fine.” - High Performance.  And clearly, his work paid off because Red Bull Racing won the 2021 driver world championship, albeit controversial. “I was listening to Max and Checo, I was there at the time, and obviously Checo was new, but Max drove the car last year and he was talking about how much better the rear felt, how much more stable it was and you're just like ah, you know it does hurt a little bit, but at the same point you're like okay that's great you know, i've i feel like i've contributed to that.” - Beyond the Grid 2022.

At the same time, Alex participated in 14 of 16 races of the 2021 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters alongside Formula 2 Driver Liam Lawson for the Italian outfit AF Corse with the backing from Red Bull.

He won his maiden DTM race at the Nürburgring, becoming the first Thai driver to do so.. “Today, that was a really good day for my team and for myself,” Albon said after becoming the first DTM race winner from Thailand. “The team has been working hard overnight and that paid off. Today, we have made a step forward, we want to carry over this momentum.” - dtm.com.

For 2022 he regained a seat for Williams Racing. For this to happen one of his best friends, George Russell [to learn more about galex click here by @onadarklingplain] helped put a good word for him in the team, since he was a driver for them and was moving to Mercedes, and a spreadsheet he made comparing his results relative to Max and of the other two teammates the man had. 

“Alex is one of the most exciting young talents in motorsport, yet comes with a large amount of F1 experience from his time at Red Bull. His multiple podium finishes highlight his speed as a driver, and we know he will immediately feel at home with the team at Grove.” - Jost Capito, CEO of Williams Racing via williams.com.

Alex now feels much more comfortable since joining Williams and has learned a lot about different things, “I've got a very good team around me, you know, it's a core team now. It's maybe four of us at this point but they protect my best interest to heart. Like right now, for example, it's very hard for the team to get access to free time of mine or you know they want to come and see me in Monaco and film a piece with me or whatever, they're laughing behind the scenes. But it's true that I've got a good group around.

And the other thing is purely the wealth of knowledge that you get. It sounds silly to say because I've only been in Formula 1 for four years now, but I know what the car needs in terms of an engineer I think. I don't want to sound silly saying this, or arrogant saying this but I do think I could engineer a car to a decent level by myself, if I needed to, I wouldn't get everything right definitely, check how much fuel is in the car, but in terms of like General scientific point of view I understand it. And the final thing which is the biggest thing is I'm just not tense, I'm at one with the car, I know what the car's going to do before I go into the corner.” - High Performance.

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source: nba karting on youtube season: karting, 2012 - Moderator: Okay, so, we go to Max Verstappen to start at this press conference for the European KF2 Championship. Max Verstappen, I would like to say finally you have a win in the CIK-FIA race. Uh, you must be happy. Max: Um, yeah, I'm really happy right now because, uh, I've never won a race before in the CIK, so that was a little bit disappointing. Um, we tried, uh, to do our best this weekend. I think in the practice we show already the potential we were fast, or even in time qualifying, we qualified third. Um, it was quite tricky this weekend with the rain, then it dries up again. Um, yeah, final one, uh, I was leading and made, made a mistake so I finished second. Um, and then the dry Final too was, I think, was just perfect. Everything was good. The chassis, the engine was really happy. Moderator: Max, we saw you also in Suzuka for KF1 World Championship. Uh, you were also amongst the first but here in comparison with your uh, opponents in the World Championship, you are really, you were really fast. So, can you explain that? Max: Uh, in Suzuka we had some problems with the fuel, so that's why we had also some problems with the engine and I make pole position on Sunday, so that was a positive thing, but after it was difficult for us. Moderator: There is nothing that can explain that it was such different? [...] Bridgestone tire, perhaps or no? Max: With the chassis, we still need to work a little bit on the Bridgestone tires cause it was the first time for me, also on the Bridgestones. Um, think even if we had a fuel problem, I think we were quite fast. So, uh, we will see. Moderator: Thank you. Thank you very much Max. Uh, we go to Charles Leclerc, in English, Charles? No problem. We can do it in English. I think. Uh, Charles, a win quite unexpected in the first race, or at the moment I think you didn't expect you could win. Uh, Max did a mistake and then what happened in the second? It was more difficult? Charles: First race. Uh, under the rain we were very fast, but at the same speed of Max and uh, Max did an error, and so I go past first and then I stay, uh, at the first position because we were at the same speed and at the last, uh, he was a bit faster at the last lap. And for the second race, uh, in the five, the five six first slot, we had a bit of problems with the chassis. It was sliding a lot and so I've lost lots of position and then I had to catch up everything and I've done seven at the end, which is not too bad because we are second at the Championship, and still to race more. Moderator: Charles, in this European Championship, there are four races and three results are taken. It mean that before going to PF [International Circuit], you are almost the same as Max. I mean, one win for each. So in PF it'll be very, very interesting, isn't it? Charles: Yeah, it'll be, the championship will be, will be winning PF in any way. It's four races. It's a long championship and, and hopefully we will do good in PF too.

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The Most Popular Move was... cxd3

The Computer responds... c4+

This is the first check in the game. The position is very tense, yet nonetheless, with accurate play, it may still be close to even. There are only six legal moves. Qe3, Qf2, Re3, d4, Kf1, and Kh1.

Which will be your choice? Submit your move by 11:59 PM Pacific on August 3rd.

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My Favorite Unreal Engine Games!

Unreal engine has a special place in my own history with game design, as it was one of the first game engines I learned to make custom maps with during my college classes. The game we used was Unreal Tournament 2004, which was also the game that got me more into PC gaming in general. It's an engine I've long enjoyed working with, so I wanted to have a showcase of some of my favorite games using this engine from over the years!

UNREAL GOLD

The one that started it all. A great single player FPS adventure across an alien world where you play as escaped prisoner who befriends the planets friendly Nali folk and help protect them from an army of not-so-nice Skaarj. This one runs on the OG unreal Engine 1, which is quite pretty and for a game engine from the 90s, probably blew plenty of folks' socks off!

UNREAL TOURNAMENT SERIES (UT1, UT2004, UT3, UT4)

Using the same universe as Unreal 1's story adventure, unreal Tournament centers around a blood sport tournament hosted by the Liandri Mining Corporation as a means of entertainment for bored miners. This simply backstory sets the stage for the Epic's long-lasting multiplayer-based Unreal games, with the usual classic game modes such as Deathmatch and Capture the flag. Lots of replay value is added thanks to the robust modding community for the franchise, and for folks who don't want to deal with the risk of meeting toxic assholes in online matches, the series thankfully provides bots enemies you can play against as well! The engines of the games range all the way from the original up to Unreal Engine 4, after which Epic sadly killed off the series.

Sadly, a few years ago Epic decided to be douche bags and pull these games from all digital storefronts, along with the single player ones as well. If you can't find a physical copy, don't feel bad about yo-ho-ho-ing that shit (especially UT4 as it never got a physical release at all)!

UNREAL 2 THE AWAKENING

While I prefer the original, the sequel the Unreal 1/Gold is still another solid single player FPS adventure. There's a lot more complex story-line and character interaction going on in this one, as you get to relax between missions on your own ship and talk with your crew mates. Only big flaws I found in this one is that it did rear an uncomfortable habit that Epic had for a while with the Unreal games - dressing their female characters in ridiculously sexist attire. This one runs on the Unreal 2.0 Engine, a nice looking upgrade to the original engine that still ran smoothly on every computer I've ever tried it on.

BORDERLANDS SERIES

Okay, some of these feel like a bit of cheating - I've never actually beaten a Borderlands game. However, I have briefly played Borderlands 1 and 2, and watched my family play the crap out of all the games. They're great games, from all I've seen, So I'm still going to give them my approval. Colorful, funny, violent, queer-positive, They've have it all!

Most of the games are first-person shooters, but there's also a couple adventure games in the form of the Tales from the Borderlands titles. The first is using a different engine, but New Tales from the Borderlands uses Unreal Engine. All of the FPS titles use either Unreal 3.0 or 4.0.

There's no DRM free versions on PC, sadly, but all of the games have received physical releases on consoles, at-least.

KILLING FLOOR SERIES

Killing Floor started as mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, and later evolved into several standalone games! Most of the games are arena-based, you pick a map to play in and get to see how long you can survive fighting off waves of freaky monster people until the big boss arrives. You can play solo or online to team up with other players to fight the monsters. A couple of the games also have a story mode, namely the original mod version and the VR game Killing Floor incursion. These games are great fun and long-time favorite of mine, the only downer being that after the initial mod all other games are developed by tripwire, a gross company I stopped giving money to years ago. Thankfully, Killing Floor 2 is available as physical console games, so you can pick those up without giving tripwire money. The Killing Floor games have also show up in humble bundles several times, so keep an eye on those for a chance to get the games while giving all the money to charity instead of tripwire. Killing Floor 3 is currently in development, and hopefully these workarounds will exist for that game as well so I can try it out one day.

The original mod uses Unreal 2.0, while Killing Floor uses a special "midpoint" 2.5, which adds some nice features to the original 2.0 engine such as light bloom effects. KF2 uses Unreal engine 3, and KF3 is planned to run on Unreal 5.0.

HOLLOW MOON (UT2004 MOD)

Hollow Moon is a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004. It's basically the Backrooms in space! A great and creepy experience where you wander and explore an abandoned moon base, presented in an artsy black and white silent film style, accompanied by a haunting soundtrack.

NAISANCEE

Continuing with the theme of Unreal Engine liminal space games, NaissanceE has you exploring a massive, strange world trying to find your way out. It's a little spooky, and very mysterious. The art and sound design are fantastic. It's also both free AND DRM free, so you can back up your own copy of the game! My only complaints are that there a couple sections of the game where the lighting and platforming gets hard to understand through poor lighting or awkward physics.

The game runs on Unreal Engine 3, and it's almost always a visual treat.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 isn't actually out yet, but it's a very rare example of an upcoming AAA game I'm actually excited for, so I wanted to mention it here. It will be the first title in the series to use Unreal engine, as all of the previous titles were made in GSC Gameworld's own X-Ray Engine. Hopefully the game will be just as fun, cool and spooky as the original trilogy when it comes out! And I hope the dev team is all keeping safe from putin's little homophobic warmongering clown show.

UNLUCKY (shameless self-plug!)

Yup, our very own project "Unlucky" is also an Unreal Engine game! We're using Unreal Engine 5, which I haven't had as much experience with as 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0, but I'm learning my way around it as I test out my 3d models in-engine. :)

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[Event "5m+0s"]

[Site "Play.ChessBase.com"]

[Date "2023.06.14"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Guest"]

[Black "LGJ"]

[Result "0-1"]

[WhiteElo "3360"]

[BlackElo "3354"]

[ECO "A36"]

[Opening "English"]

[Variation "symmetrical, Botvinnik system"]

1. e4 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 Rb8 6. d3 a6 7. Rb1 b5 8. Nf3 d6 9. O-O e6 10. cxb5 axb5 11. Be3 Nd4 12. Ne2 Qb6 13. b3 Ne7 14. Nexd4 cxd4 15. Bd2 Nc6 16. Nh4 Ne5 17. Qe2 b4 18. f4 Nxd3 19. Qxd3 Ba6 20. Qf3 Bxf1 21. Bxf1 O-O 22. Bd3 Ra8 23. Rb2 f5 24. g4 fxe4 25. Qxe4 d5 26. Qe1 Kh8 27. Ng2 e5 28. fxe5 Rae8 29. Bxb4 Rxe5 30. Qd2 Rf3 31. a3 h6 32. Rc2 Kh7 33. Nh4 Rxd3 34. Qxd3 Re3 35. Qd2 d3 36. Rc5 (36. Bc5 Bd4 37. Bxb6 (37. Bxd4 Qxd4 38. Rc7+ Re7+) Rg3+ 38. Kf1 (38. Kh1 Rg1#) Rg1#) Bd4 37. Kg2 Bxc5 38. Ba5 Qe6 39. h3 Re2+ 40. Qxe2 Qxe2+ 41. Kg3 Bd6# 0-1

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Won another chess game! Haven't done that in a while.

[Image description: A chess board, with the 8th rank on the bottom and the first rank on top. On it are Five white pawns on a4, b2, c2, d3 and f2. Seven black pawns on a7,b7,c7,d4,f7,f7 and h7. A white Dark Squared bishop on c1. A black Dark Squared Bishop c5. Two Black Knights on e7 and f5. A white Rook on a1. Two Black Rooks on h8 and c8. The white king is on g5, the black king is on e8. End description]

Note, Black pawns are going up the board (from 7 to 1) and white pawns are going down the board (from 2 to 8). Black is up 13 points of material in the form of a rook, two knights, and two pawns.

I was the black pieces and white resigned. White did a really weird openning. The first moves of the game were h4 d5 e7 e5 a4 Nc6. White was trying to free the rooks for some reason. I tried taking over the center. Than white saw me free the knight and we both freed our knights with Nc3 Nf6 Nf3 Bf6. Than white gave me the g pawn with g4 Nxg4, and attacked my capturing knight with Bh3. I attacked its Knight with d4, exd4, exd4. White moved its knight to "safety" with Nd5. I took it with Qxd5.

Than it moved the rook to attack my knight on d4 with Rg1. I moved my knight with Ne5, where it would have one attacker and one defender instead of two attackers and one defender. Which intiated a dark square bishop trade with Bxc8 Rxc8 which I didn't see coming. But it was good for me, I was up a knight and a pawn.

White moved the d pawn with d3, I have no idea why. I took White's last knight with my queen with Qxf3, witch initiated a queen trade which if accepted would let me fork its King and Rook. It was accepted with Qxf3 Nxf3+ Ke2 Nxf1+. Than the game continued with Kf1 Nf3 Kg2 Nxh4+ Kg3 Nf5+ Kf4. And white resigned after Nce7 Kg5.

A good player would know how to take advantage of such a situation where the king is so close to our pawns. However I am not one. Notice also my pawns are completely undeveloped and I have not castled, so not everything is perfect.

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2012 CIK FIA World KF1 Championship Round I at Suzuka

In 2012, he came to Japan with his father, Jos Verstappen, for the KF1 class Suzuka event of the World Championship in May. Max was only 14 years old at the time, but he had already shown such talent that many of the older professional drivers from European kart manufacturers were calling him the "best of all time." Usually, when visually measuring a racer's speed, even an industry person like me has to watch a few laps to get an idea of how good the racer is. In Max Verstappen's case, after a few corners, I was absolutely convinced that he was awesome and had a good chance of winning all four races of the World Championship here in Suzuka. However, I can tell you now that all the engines brought in by the works teams at that time were not compatible with the commercially available gasoline in Japan... This had never happened before… Max was 14 years old at the time but he never gave up and did the best he could do and worked hard on the chassis set-up, sometimes setting the top time. Of the two chassis he brought from Italy, one with different specifications was in a perfect situation, but at the start of the qualifying race, he got sandwiched in turns 1-2, made contact, and retired, bending the chassis as well. The situation was quite difficult, but in one of the four races, he was able to finish on the podium in 3rd place, beating the very strong works drivers from various manufacturers. After the race, as a thank you for supporting this World Championship in Japan, they presented me with a trophy that had been signed by Jos Verstappen and Max Verstappen as a gift. It was obvious that he was going to be an F1 driver given his talent, but I had no idea that he would be driving F1 just three years after the World Karting Championship here in Suzuka.