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Vehicle Virgins Host Proves Why You Should Ignore 'Influencers'Recently, Parker Nirenstein from supercar You. Tube series Vehicle Virgins went to a Michelin press event where there was an autocross. You know, actual hard driving that requires skill and precision, the likes of which we don’t see on supercar You. Tube very often. He is immediately called out by Alex Roy. It is hilarious. Parker’s regurgitating a lot of tire jargon that I’m not sure he quite understands, so The Drive’s Roy is doing the public service of calling him “the influencer we got, not the influencer we need or deserve.” I’m not sure Nirenstein even knows what “modulate between understeer and oversteer,” is supposed to mean. Isn’t there a word missing there, like “throttle,” maybe?

Mind you, Nirenstein just posted a video from a track day a couple months ago where he appears to be in one of the instructed groups for novice drivers, given the lead- follow laps done to familiarize everyone with the line of the track at the start. That’s great! More auto personalities should be going to the track for instruction so they can be better at what they do. It’s one of Nirenstein’s best videos since it’s an honest look at what happens at the track and how fun it is. But there’s the rub—I don’t expect a guy who’s just starting to dabble in performance driving to be consistent enough to discern the difference between “snap oversteer” and “ham- footing the go- fast pedal.” He’s not exactly carrying much speed in the corners at the track, either.

This is also why we don’t do tire junkets here. They’re dumb and bad!

What’s the takeaway? What’s the story? Dunlop tires feel amazing at the limit! I can really feel the car in these Dunlop tires!

Only buy Dunlop tires from now on!” It is press graft at its worst. You see, Nirenstein’s puzzling tire remarks are what the lovely people who sell tires want: their message coming out of a pretty face who gets lots of attention. If your schtick is look- at- me shiny objects and not the art of driving said shiny objects fast, you’re going to be more inclined to spit back out something that sounds way too close to the manufacturer’s marketing presentation as opposed to your own thoughts in your own voice. Especially when a tire manufacturer is footing the bill for the whole event.)Here’s a thought: if you’re looking for tire advice, seek out the people who are very good at flogging on tires, not a guy who got famous on You. Tube for spending a lot of money on cars.

Grassroots Motorsports has a habit of putting national autocross champions behind the wheel for their head- to- head tire tests, and it’s an annual must- read for performance street tires. Tire Rack also does absurdly thorough tests of even more normal fare, if you’re able to read between the lines of “this is a company trying to sell you tires.” Alternately, ask any track day instructors you know, as they experience a little bit of everything thanks to the massive variety of tires that students show up with at the track. But don’t listen to “influencers,” who are too easily influenced on press junkets. Full disclosure: I am hot garbage at autocross, and I don’t get to do anywhere near the number of track days I’d like to do.

I’m surprised Jalopnik trusts me with cars at all, to be honest.]Update: On the other hand, if we’re talking about influencers: Update 2: Alex called to say he wants you to know he used Michelin Pilot Sports for his Cannonball Run, and he swears by them. Everything is terrible, influence yourself, trust no one.

Just How Dead Is Microsoft Paint? Updated]This morning, Windows users woke to terrible news: Microsoft was reportedly axing its beloved Microsoft Paint. The program, which has been annotating our memes, creating our webcomics, and teaching us how to art since 1. Microsoft’s list of Windows features to be removed or deprecated in the Windows 1. Fall Creators Update.

But this doesn’t mean Paint as we know it is dead! The list Paint was featured on very specifically says that each product will either be killed, or it will be deprecated—which merely means it will no longer be actively developed. Paint falls into the latter category.

So it could be dropped in a future update, or it could hang around for the next decade—an artifact of a different time. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Movie Watch Online there. Outlook Express, another Windows application that’s conjures memories for older users, is being killed in the same update. It is officially supplanted by the big boy Microsoft Outlook, which is more stylistically in line with Windows 1.

Outlook Express. While Outlook Express has long languished in the shadow of its hipper Outlook cousin, MS Paint has seen infrequent updates that at least allow it to look like it belongs on a 2. Microsoft is very aware of how much affection users have for Microsoft Paint. The product, which many of us used as a digital doodling book when we were kids, has a cult following. When Microsoft briefed press on the original Creators Update back in March, its representatives only had nice things to say about the application. Paint is on every Windows computer! It makes creating art easy! It’s like Photoshop but simple and free!

This is not how you talk when you’re planning to ax a product. This is definitely the kind of talk you deliver when you’re launching a new Paint product. Which was what was happening at that press briefing. Microsoft launched Paint 3. D, a 3. D rendering and printing tool intended to simplify the production of 3. D products, in March.

The name Paint 3. D was specifically used so play on people’s nostalgia for MS Paint.

It’s not unreasonable to expect that the upcoming Fall Creators Update will see Paint 3. D expanded to incorporate the features we all know and love from Paint. Either way, it is not in Microsoft’s best interest to kill an application that has been loved for more than 3. Right now Microsoft is campaigning to steal all the artists and other creators who have traditionally preferred the Mac ecosystem for creating digital art. It’s why Microsoft spent so much time talking about the Surface Pen when it updated the Surface Pro a few months ago, and it’s why it launched the Surface Studio last October.

Heck, it’s why it keeps calling every new Windows OS update a “creators” update. It wants those users!

Transforming its most enduring creative application into something more robust is a clear next step. Eventually Microsoft could kill the ugly version of Paint we love in order to release shiny new version of Paint or a Paint- adjacent application. Thunderheart Full Movie Part 1 on this page. Or Microsoft could just leave MS Paint in the Deprecated column for a while, a cool app eventually destined to be forgotten as younger computer users snap up alternate tools like Photoshop Express or Autodesk Sketchbook. Either way Microsoft Paint isn’t dead, it’s just deprecated, and Microsoft has made no comment on how long it could be deprecated.

So maybe don’t go ordering funeral flowers just yet. We’ve reached out to Microsoft to learn more about the plans for Paint and will update if we hear back get back to us. Update: A Microsoft spokesperson responded with the following statement: MS Paint is not going away. In addition to the new 3.

D capabilities, many of the MS Paint features people know and love like photo editing and 2. D creation are in Paint 3.

D - the new app for creativity, available for free with the Windows 1. Creators update. In the future, we will offer MS Paint in the Windows Store also for free and continue to provide new updates and experiences to Paint 3. D so people have the best creative tools all in one place. So there you have it. MS Paint is safe..

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