Depends on the type of racing. Being at an NHRA race with Top Fuel and Funny Cars is on a completely different level than watching it on TV. When the entire earth shakes from those cars and if you’re at 660' or 1000' to actually see them going 300mph, it’s a whole other thing than seeing it on TV. And to then be able…

See, I mostly agree. But the only thing that makes sense is for things that require ongoing infrastructure costs. Like OnStar/live roadside assistance, or even real time traffic updates to the navigation. The satellites and the infrastructure keeping the service up to date have ongoing recurring costs.

That shit BMW…

I guarantee that it’s public property, because if it was private property, they’d be trespassing and removed. No company would allow striking workers to protest on the company’s property.

Someone did get killed in Charlottesville VA at the very beginning of this nonsense.  The drive was convicted of 1st degree murder, but that was prior to these laws granting people immunity for it.

I mean, weren’t there just laws passed in some places making it ‘OK’ to run over ‘protestors’?

... it’s actually White Wolf.   - James Buchannon Barnes 2021

Why? WHY are they doing this? This is the equivelant of saying “Sure... Michelin and Goodyear make great tires... but we’re gonna make our own that cost more, and aren’t quite as good. And also, you can’t change them out easily for 3rd party ones anymore like you used to be able to do because the brakes are controlled…

2019+ Camrys have CarPlay standard. I just had a rental 2020 Camry this past week, so I had to look it up. 

Even like, when SNL did the first ‘from home’ shows, I was like ... why did NBC not buy these people some $200 webcams or something with a $100 mic and some lights? Jesus... it looks like me just using my webcam built into my computer or phone. It doesn’t even take a TON of money to improve that stuff massively. Look…

Is it? I haven’t noticed, but I also haven’t really been looking for it. I do wonder sometimes when I see people that are like, level 200+ how the hell you do that and still have a life, but that’s true of any game for me, really.

They should just make 2. The fabled MicroBus concept, and then a larger one and call it MacroBus or MaxBus or something that makes it similar. Like they used to do with the Jetta/Passat, or Lupo/Polo/Golf.

I played it exactly once. I’ve put (and still am putting) a boatload of hours into 76, but one round of Nuclear Winter ever. It just wasn’t fun. Fallout moves a little too slowly for battle royale.

VW’s problem with selling vans is that they always cost WAY too much compared to the rest of the American market. Eurovans could touch $40K in the late 90's when you could get a decent Caravan or Odyssee for like $25K. It was a totally different experience, though. Eurovans were vans to move adults. Other minivans…

Right, but my point is that it’s still acceptable. It’s not world beating, it’s not top of the charts, but you can still play the games at decent settings at a decent framerate. I’m playing Cyberpunk @ 1440P Ultra (obviously no ray tracing) and averaging about 55-65fps with a 5700XT. That’s certainly acceptable to me…

I mean, this is 9 months old now, but other than Cyberpunk, not a ton thats super demanding has come out since 09/2020.

That’s why I said MSRP. At MSRP, there are $200 1660 and 1660 SUPERs. Those are fine for 1080P gaming right now. The current market is fucked and you can’t really buy ANY GPU, since even GT1030's are going for $200+ and used RX470's are going for $250-300.

If you want to bring up Steam charts, I implore you rething your first paragraph. Out of the top 10 games, the newest one is Apex Legends, at 3 years old, then Destiny 2 at 4 years old. The rest are 5-17 years old. CSGO is the highest and right now has almost 800K people. In the all time records, only Cyberpunk and…

Let’s not act like every game needs a $600 GPU. You can play just about any game acceptably on a $200 GPU (MSRP). You spend more to get a better experience in some games. CSGO, WoW, LoL and Overwatch aren’t gonna look any better or be perceptibly smoother on an RTX3090Ti than it would on a GTX 1660Ti. Sure, frame rate…

I don’t even necessarily want Half-Life 3 or Episode 3, just more games in the universe. It’s so fertile with potential. Fun fact, I’m going to be 40 in a couple of months, so I was there for Doom 2, Quake 1->3, Half Life, Sin, Duke 3D, etc. There was a time in the early 00's where I thought I was just ‘over PC…

I played it on a $299 Oculus Quest 1 over wireless streaming and it was absolutely fantastic. The fact that so many “PC Gamers” say “I’M NOT SPENDING HUNDREDS ON A VR HEADSET JUST FOR A COUPLE GAMES!” yet spend how much on a video card just for a couple games? I mean, even a midrange card (in normal times) is $300+…