Well, it seems that the GPWC has moved up a gear in its threat to create a breakaway F1 style series, inviting all the team bosses to a meeting before the start of the new F1 season. I am really getting annoyed with this whole situation, what happened to when teams wanted to win the championship and be the best at the sport? It’s all about money these days, and nothing to do with sport. To be honest I am really starting to think that it would be better if all the big engine makers did piss off and start their own series, and make F1 a one engine, one chassis sport, it would certainly highlight the best drivers and not the drivers with the best car/engine package. I see the whole GPWC threat as an idle one really, just to scare Bernie Ecclestone into giving the teams more money, or course all this bullshit is lead by Ferrari, who don’t want to tow the line on testing anyway, they seem to think they are better than everyone else because they have two test tracks and an almost inexhaustible pot of money, which many of the other teams don’t have that kind of money, it’s a small wonder that they dominate in the sport (and I use the term ‘sport’ lightly). F1 has become more of a business than a sport, and it is simply not as much fun to watch anymore, give me the days of Mansell, Senna and Piquet over Schumacher, Raikonnen and Montoya any day.
Half Life 2, is being a complete bitch, I had to cheat using the developer console to get back to where I was beforehand. The game has a serious glitch in the ‘our benefactors’ level, where I cant jump at all, which is a problem as you need to jump over a railing to move on. Not only that, I couldn’t move back to the beginning of the level when it autosaved as the save was corrupted and deleted all my saves to about four levels back from where I was, so cheating was the only way to get to where I should have been, so its not really cheating, I am definately not playing through those levels again. You would have thought that Valve would have managed to get it right, since the game was six years in development, Valve really have made a pigs ear of this game, no matter how good the game it really is.