Formula 1 will open the 2026 F1 Sim Racing World Championship at DreamHack Birmingham before staging further events at its new studio facility in Biggin Hill.
Mr Mikage (ミスター御影） posted a photo:
DirtyGlassEye has added a photo to the pool:
Looks like a museum piece.
As big as an ego this villain has, I'd say he's more than earned it. Ruling with an iron fist, able to take nearly any opponent with or without his army, keeping his army intact of sheer admiration and nothing else all while losing his cool when something goes wrong (a bit too often), what a role model.
I'm not gonna even pretend that most of you know much about video games so let's move on to the photo itself. This is sitting in the entry hall of the Mario Kart ride. The single rider queues and main queues were divided to have one go the long way around the statue and the other one that last bit of the loop (you can barely see the doorway to the next room behind the statue). I'm surprised I was able to get this amount of light because I had to shoot with a quicker shutter. I didn't think it looked sinister enough though. But what I did have was a very usable and clear subject.
So I capitalized on that. I dimmed the lights on nearly the entire image, even going so far as to change the ceiling light from it's peach tone (no pun intended) to deep red so it didn't stand out as much while still contributing to the intended atmosphere. I also heavily adjusted the color on the statue itself to give it a more gold look as opposed to the stone look it had before, make it look a bit grandiose for the great king that he is. His menacing outlook and constantly grim attitude is actually warranted when you think about it. If I was an unstoppable force with some of the best mechanics, fortresses, and largest armies ever, and I constantly got shown up by 2 plumbers who were 1/3 my size, I'd probably be perpetually cross too.
Since this particular piece exists at every SNW around the world, I'll likely get the chance to get this image again, but not at the Osaka location.
Gebruik van AI-programma’s als ChatGPT als schrijfassistent leidt regelmatig tot missers. Na incidenten in media, wetenschap en advocatuur, ging nu ook journalist Peter Vandermeersch in de fout. „Ik heb de kracht van AI-hallucinaties onderschat.”
/s3/static.nrc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/19151933/190326CUL_2032412045_Illu_Yannick-Mortier_Scan-Lines-web.jpg)
Anders dan de VS heeft Israël helder voor ogen wat het wil in het Midden-Oosten. De regering-Netanyahu gaat altijd voor de militaire oplossing, liquideert vijandelijke kopstukken en streeft mede via gebiedsuitbreiding naar permanente veiligheid voor het Joodse volk.
/s3/static.nrc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/19142854/190326BUI_2032251872_1.jpg)
US defense secretary suggests Thursday will be ‘largest strike package yet … death and destruction from above’
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said on Thursday there is no “timeframe” for ending the US war against Iran and did not deny reports that the Pentagon could seek an extra $200bn in taxpayer funding.
The military US-Israeli offensive began three weeks ago and continues to widen. Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to “massively blow up” the world’s biggest gasfield after Israeli strikes on the Iranian site prompted Tehran to escalate strikes on oil and gas facilities around the Gulf.
Continue reading...Gemma Whelan and Stephen Mangan are among the cast in this multi-voiced tale of family tensions and trauma, set during the 1985 Live Aid charity concert
It is July 1985, two days before Live Aid, the historic charity concert taking place simultaneously in London and Philadelphia to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Goth teenager Hanna Gordon has been asked by her mother, Lydia, to distribute invitations to their neighbours for a get-together at their house “in aid of the children”. Hanna suspects Lydia’s intentions may not be entirely charitable and that she wants to show off their new barbecue. Hanna’s longsuffering dad, Peter, isn’t keen, complaining “it’ll cost a fortune to feed the whole bloody street”.
Hanna, who is keeping a secret from her family, may be mortified at her mother’s party plans but she nonetheless does what she asks, delivering the invitations around their suburban cul-de-sac while only dimly aware of a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows. When Lydia spots the same figure a day later skulking in their garden, it is clear something is afoot on Delmont Close.
Continue reading...(Chandos)
Whately/Drake
Kitty Whately and Julius Drake perform the fervent, fun and intoxicating works of a British musician whose fresh assessment is richly deserved
Born in 1923, Madeleine Dring studied at the Royal College of Music, where her teachers included Herbert Howells and Vaughan Williams. An unconventional career, including stints in theatre, pantomime and cabaret, was cut short by her death from a brain aneurysm at 53. Already considered a maverick, the fact that much of her music remained unpublished until the late 1990s threatened to condemn her to obscurity.
Enter Kitty Whately and Julius Drake, whose wide-ranging survey puts paid to any idea that Dring was not a serious composer. Drawing on poets from Shakespeare and his Elizabethan colleagues to the composer’s contemporaries, Dring’s canny knack for word-setting proves as effective as her ability to find a distinctive new melody for an old chestnut such as It Was a Lover and His Lass.
Continue reading...Reform leader ‘unavailable’ on service after Guardian investigation unearths clips of him repeating extremist slogans
Nigel Farage has stopped using the personalised video platform Cameo after revelations that the Reform UK leader has filmed a string of highly questionable paid-for clips.
On Thursday morning, Farage’s page on the website said he was “unavailable”, and sources said he had ended his use of the platform over security concerns.
Continue reading...TORUN (ANP) - Samuel Chapple kruipt bewust in de rol van underdog op de 1500 meter bij de komende WK indooratletiek in Torun, ook al behoort hij op papier tot de kanshebbers op een medaille.
"Ik heb wel hard gelopen, maar nog weinig internationale ervaring op deze afstand. De rol van favoriet voelt nog niet fijn, ik wil liever vanuit onbevangenheid lopen", zegt de Europees indoorkampioen op de 800 meter in aanloop naar de series van de 1500 meter op vrijdag.
Chapple hoopt dat de concurrentie hem de positie van underdog gunt, want zijn in februari gelopen Nederlands record van 3.32,68 is een tijd die telt. "Het is de vijfde tijd ooit in Europa en de vijftiende aller tijden in de wereld, dus daar kun je mee thuiskomen. Ik ben in een ander territorium gestapt."
De 27-jarige Hagenaar wil zich ook outdoor meer gaan richten op de 1500 meter. "Ik denk dat ik pure snelheid tekortkom voor de 800 meter. De afstand is ook minder tactisch geworden. Op de lange termijn zie ik daarom meer kans op internationaal succes op de 1500 meter."