I’m having a lot of fun with the game, but I think there needs to be some re-balancing with regards to the vehicles. Most of the vehicles can be safely ignored because the mechs are a bigger threat, but as soon as I see an SRM or LRM launcher I immediately make it a priority target. No mech can take 60 missile impacts…

You know what you don’t see enough of today? MR, V12, open cockpit supercars with headlights built into the mirrors and turn signals integrated into a high-mounted aerodynamic element.

It’s very easy to get around a budget cap. For example, a manufacturer can research a $500 million dollar transmission for a car that’s never released and then give it to their factory team at a fraction of the cost to use in their car. Even at the lower levels a factory team likely has enough clout to wring better…

This racing does exist, but it’s just not at the top tier. A Continental Tire Sportscar Championship race will see a Mustang battle with a McLaren and a Caymen, while a 328 fights with a Mini, a Golf, and an RS3. Similarly, in the Pirelli World Challenge you’ll see X-Bows, Evoras, Panozes, and Ginettas fight it out…

Neutral: I wonder how this will affect Ford’s sales in Canada. I see far, far more Focii and Fusions on the road than Escapes, and I can’t even recall the last time I saw an Explorer driving around. I can understand axing the Taurus as the only ones I’ve seen have a light bar on top, but in my area it seems like the…

Let Jacques Pepin teach you how to make an omelette.

On further reading, Overwatch is never mentioned in the Dutch ruling. The 4 games listed that explicitly break the law are FIFA 18, Dota 2, PUBG, and Rocket League. The thing that sets these games apart from the other 6 games in the study is that the items can be traded and have a market value, giving gamblers an…

I’ve had 4 people correct me about Overwatch, and yet on further reading Overwatch is not one of the 4 games affected. The 4 games that are explicitly listed as breaking the law allow users to trade items, giving gamblers an opportunity to cash out.

The press release states that cashing out or having a market value is why these games are in contravention though:

I don’t know what the issue is with Overwatch then. In the Press Release (PDF), they say that:

I believe the issue is that the items that are unlocked can be traded between users after being opened. This gives users the ability to ‘cash out’ on their gambling if they get a rare item. Even if the games themselves don’t allow for cash trades, players can still arrange cash trades outside of the game and then…

I think the problem is that oil is just too profitable. Some regions have completely hitched themselves to the oil train so they would rather pump as much as possible and reap the benefits today than reduce their exports and spread the benefits over a longer timeline.

The issue is that currently the M416 is the best weapon in the game. Need to clear a house? M416. See a couple guys running down the street? M416. Need to plink somebody from a hilltop? M416 with a 4x. The only reason people aren’t running an M416 is if they haven’t found an M416, and even then they’re probably…

4th: I like the idea if not the implementation. So to buy gas I need to pre-plan where I intend to stop, generate a code, remember that code (since it’ll be on the infotainment screen and I can’t take it with me), and type it into a pump before I can get my gas? Seems like a lot of work for little to no benefit.

Probably a bug in the PNG image processing code allows for a buffer overflow. If a process can write to memory outside of its allocated space and trick the computer to jump to the memory location where it just wrote data, that process can take over your entire computer (a.k.a. arbitrary code execution).

Why is 87 suddenly the line in the sand though? In the late 40s, 79 Octane was standard, in the 50s saw 86 Octane as regular and 100 Octane as super premium. In the early 60s 90 Octane regular and 99 Octane premium were standard, but sub-regular products were offered as well (such as Gulftane), and by ‘62 regular was…

New cars are required to have a backup camera, which means they’ll need a display somewhere in the car anyway. Why wouldn’t they integrate some value-added features into a screen that has to be there anyway?

Incomplete information can be manipulated to tell a story that benefits one party or another. Look at how many people are convinced that the driver is completely to blame after Tesla made the statement that his hands were off the wheel for 6 seconds. Will those people reevaluate their beliefs that Tesla did nothing…

Or, just put a table near the end of the conveyor belt. You can pick up your bins, find an empty spot on the table, sort yourself out, and then put the empty bins on the return pile. Bonus points if the airport uses the new scanners that automatically return and stage the bins at the entrance to do away with the…