Katsuya

Ended up putting £6 on Raikkonen to win tomorrow at 10-1 and then £4 on Kobayashi to win at 15-1. Worth a shot I figured >_>

To be fair, Perez beat Kamui clean in Q2, just Kobayashi really managed to pull it out in Q3. No idea who'll win the race. Tempted to put a bet on Kamui and Kimi, to be honest, since I just can't imagine the pace of the Mercedes cars doing well in the race, whereas the Sauber genuinely seems quick in the race (and looks after its tyres). BUT there's apparently rain forecast for tomorrow now, which means that it all goes out of the window. Although to be fair, that probably benefits Sauber more than anyone else when you look back at Malaysia.

So, more info on BW2 has come out. It's set 2 years after the original, new player characters and a rival. You start in a different and new city (with a new professor). Part of Unova is now frozen at the top and there's two new gym leaders (Poison and Water) who is hazard a guess might replace Skyla and Brycen at the top of the map. Also, quite a few non-Unova Pokemon will be catchable in the wild from the go, including Psyduck, Eevee, Riolu and then at least Metagross and Arcanine. All looks rather good to me

Razer and Tornado say hey

Is this also the Robot Wars thread? Because if so, Diotoir

Oh my god Adventure Bar Story. Addicted to it right now. According to the game I've spent 10 hours on it already and I have a feeling I've still got a whole lot of story still to go through. It's essentially the best bits of an RPG mixed with the rather awesome cooking sections from things like Harvest Moon. IAP is there but it's not necessary (it did help at the beginning though, when I got the Zweihander for Siela and quickly started going through everything in the first couple of dungeons with ease). ATM, I'm just about to go in to the Desert. My party is: Anyone else playing it?

Apparently every single Game in the Republic of Ireland has shut down, and reports are that both in the Arndale Centre in Manchester have gone. No word on the two in the Trafford Centre, but my mum was there earlier so I can check with her >_> ETA: It'd be bizzare to close both stores in the Arndale but keep both in the Trafford. Surely you'd put one in each? ETA2: Oh, according to Twitter the shutters are down >_>

It seemed very much a 50/50 thing to me, but to be honest, Karthikeyan is pretty damn awful. He was blocking people in qualifying in Australia and while he's not an "idiot", he's definitely not deserving of being in F1.

Oh yeah, also, god damn do I love this circuit. It's always a good race.

Mijumaru will fuck you up.

I love how the BBC race report is pretty much "PEREZ!" with a forethought about Alonso. It's up there with Panis, I think. Hell, I'd say with the rate he was catching Alonso, I'd compare it with Senna-Prost at Monaco. Also, I <3 Monisha Kaltemborn. She's so straight talking compared with the others.

By the looks of it Vettel didn't even retire with that "emergency"...

Poor Pastor. My love for Sauber is undying but oh god, I wish it was 1st. Stupidly impressive by Ferrari too though. How Fernando pulled that out is unknown to me.

NOOOO

Fucking hell he could still do it even with that botched stop!

3.9!

COME ON SERGIO

I love how Lewis' entire thing was "screw being a celebrity and all my personal issues, I'm focused entirely on this season" and then rocks up with Nicole at the first race