Commonly referring to an ongoing car chase, usually with the format of one criminal car and a swarm of police cars. In movies, the typical norm would be that the criminal will most likely use a fast sportscar while the police are stuck using Ford Crown Victorias. The term was also used for the very popular Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010).
Police: 19 County, engaging in a hot pursuit. Vehicle is a blue Nissan Skyline GT-R.
HQ: I copy that 19, permission for pursuit is authorized.
Usually defined as a chase between two sides using cars. It would commonly be an ongoing chase between a criminal in a fast sports car and a swarm of polices in Ford Crown Victorias. EA had been using this term to label 3 of their Need for Speed games, or 4 if you count Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered (2010).
Police Officer: 82 County, permission to engage in a hot pursuit. Vehicles are a blue Nissan Skyline GT-R, a blue Toyota Supra, and a white Nissan 300ZX.
HQ: I copy that 82, permission to engage in hot pursuit is authorized.
A nostalgic racing video game released in the late 2010. You can play it on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, there's also a remastered released in 2020. You can play on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4
Friend: you have some Need for Speed game?
Me: yeah i have Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2010 and remastered
Friend: let's play the original on Xbox 360
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
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