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I’ll take this over the Kick 1990 Clip Art color fade. Looks like a paintball gun from the early 2000s. The only element on the car is the two tone wheel covers being green up front and black in the rear. 0 shapes, 0 design. Just 45 degree line to delineate fade behind the driver.

They’re all uninspired; it’s all a team color with a bunch of corporate logos. The best element on the grid is a Duracell battery

Oh look it’s Alfa Romeo Ferrari

Pit crews have to wear oven mitts during the pit stop

All fans can bring one (1) banana peel to use during the race.

Honestly, would be cool with Perez. Get an American with Herta, and Cadillac instantly get hero points with Mexico and a veteran driver who has been with top and not-so-top teams, and quite a bit in sponsorship money. A little North America squad.

No, but I didn’t want the headache of multiple peripherals, and when you’re 15, it’s hard to convince a parent to spring for more expensive options out of convenience lol. There were options, but even still, some games didn’t come with native controller support (I built my 1st PC in college in…2013? for ESO, and the controller support was through a mod, and it barely worked at the best of times).

Theyve just gotten so similar in their function, it’s increasingly hard to justify a console anymore. Microsoft basically forgoing exclusives now only strengthens it

It also helps that consoles are becoming more and more PC-esque and expensive. Consoles were a good alternative because they were cheaper, had exclusive titles, and had the ability to couch game, and usually were just “pop disc in and play”. They were also pretty stand-alone devices. My biggest issue with PC gaming prior to really this generation was I cannot stand M+KB, I like sitting back in a chair with a controller. But now, peripherals are more able to operate on multiple platforms, games do cross-platform releases, cross play is more prolific (and cross-saves as of late), and it’s easier to switch now and not “lose” your friends. Plus, the cost of consoles anymore are much closer to equivalent PCs now.

Console positives are dwindling, or at least becoming neutral to PC.