Its very possible that car manufacturers are doing similar things with licensing to make more $$$ off of an industry that is larger than it was 20 or even 10 years ago as well.

It’s not the licensing cost. It’s BS like how the cost of how some of the older 1990s/2000s car now cost 3x+ more in the GT7 used dealership then it was new in the older games.

What’s amazing is the difference between Horizon 5 and GT 7, if one of them was going to have overbearing microtransactions that ruin the game I would have expected it to be the one on Gamepass since most of its players didn’t “pay” for it and thus wouldn’t be as stung at the microtransactions since to them it was a…

Because I (and I imagine most modders) don’t see it as “spoiling” anything. The IPS screens that exist these days are objectively better than the OEM AGS screen on the original GBA SP and leagues better than the non-backlist display on the 1st-Gen GBA. They make speakers that are louder than the originals. Plus I…

Seems to me he did this totally on purpose. He really hates that people used his creation to promote their political agenda, and he probably noticed that a lot of those same people are into crypto currency and the like.

You know he literally stole the Tesla brand name, right? And you know that, yes, he has a very successful set of businesses, but that they don’t necessarily do ‘good’ things for the world, right?

And the only reason people bring up the global scale of “the world” is because he’s that rich. He has the ability to make…

He didn’t build those things, his employees built them with the money he happened to win in the birth lottery.

Here in California, that’s a load of crap. There are a decent number of Teslas, but it’s by no means “nearly every car.” It might be a sign to get out of your bubble and see more than just the Tesla crowd.

The privatization of space is literally something out of dystopian Cyberpunk, and you’re holding it up as some sort of redeeming value of Musk’s?

LOL, that’s not remotely true, and I say that as someone who visits Silicon Valley regularly.

Fuck off with this horseshit.

Now now he didn’t just take other people’s money, he had plenty of money from his daddies slave run emerald mines in South Africa.

He’s not an engineer, he’s not a scientist, he’s just a techbro who dropped out of grad school after three days to found a startup where he takes other people’s money and uses it to pay real engineers and real scientists to re-invent tunnels.

The guy is a joke, and it depresses me how people think he’s some sort of genius.

elon musk is a modern day snake-oil salesman and we need to stop giving him money and attention.

The tech CEOs who think the metaverse is going to be like Ready Player One (and skipping the part where that makes them the villains) aren’t reckoning with the fact that Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and, heck, even Roblox aren’t going to go down quietly.

Instead of “the metaverse,” we’re going to end up with four…

It’s been a week or two since someone has dunked on a Crypto Bro with a shitty NFT avatar in my timeline. I hope that means the craze is over but I doubt I’m that lucky.

Even more fun to unpack is the assumptions the developer makes about the player’s gender and about women in general:

This. Why glorify the asshole?

It bothers me that this article is borderline glorifying someone who is ultimately nothing more than a gigantic asshole.