I wouldn’t necessarily say so. I’d say the players changed too. People that were highscoolers or university students are now grown ups with jobs and families and less gaming time. And WoW has catered to the same fanbase all the time, bringing in a mediocre influx of friends of those, but basically adapting the game to…

Huh?
It seems you are getting it all wrong.
It is absolutely and totally normal for a company to outsource the production of certain stuff (in most cases trailers, music, advertising videos etc...) to different companies that specialise in that stuff.
Assets used in these trailers are often not made with the intention of…

no, it didn’t. They made a few mockups and test objects, but there was no “game” or even something like it so speak of.
All the animations for the kickstarter weren’t even made in-house, afaik they outsourced them to different companies (among them Crytek - which made sense, since back then they wanted to use the stock…

I only remember playing two snowboarding games: Amped on the old Xbox (liked it) and SSX (I think it was SSX Tricky).
Liked Amped more for some reason, but somehow the snowboarding game (or game part) I played most were the parts in Sega Extreme Sports.
Now that was a great and fun game, and the transitions between…

That’s the model Y, where they put in the experience gained from everything they made before.
Also: Some of the choices you highlight as innovatice strike me as maybe cost-cutting, but not longterm-friendly. I’ve owned many cars where I had to weld in new seats for the springs, since they are under constant stress and…

I define classic car makers as companies who started out with automotive stuff years ago, whereas Tesla is a company that does stuff completely differently and unburdened with the preconceptions that come from that. But also free from the experience that comes from years and years of manufacturing cars.

Tesla is not a carmaker in my eyes. It is a successful tech startup which has learned how to manufacture cars based on their technological ideas.
That is the reason why some of their stuff works great (the electrical drive itself), some stuff works (basically everything they didn’t invent, i.e. the basic car stuff like…

Geely is mostly leaving Volvo alone. In stark contrast to Ford, who sucked everything possible out of the company, streamlined everything they had to make it cheaper, grabbed the best engines for their hot hatches (the 2.5liter from the ST is the direct descendant of the Volvo 850 T5 engine - designed in tandem by…

Volvo built less than 70.000 of the 480 series over all model variants over 10 years. I’d say they are doing a lot better than they did back then.

(just kidding, I know that the 440/460 which followed was the bread&butter model, and the 200-series was still going strong / the 700/900 in its prime, and the 800 on the…

It is not an urban myth. Take a heat sensing camera, put it on a drone, and fly above a plot that consists of grass, trees etc. Then fly over one that consists mainly of rocks, gravel, and then again one that has tarmac.
The temperature difference is significant. This is also one of the reasons why cities heat up that…

eh, here in Europe we have beautiful red squirrels that are cute and shy. Never saw roots crack a driveway, but they are normally not paved here anyway, but laid out with interlocking stones so that rainwater can flow through. (in most communities it is forbidden to cover more than a certain percentage of your land…

They are protected by law as endangered species, so...

Agreed, our neighbor has added a space in his roof for bats to nest.
Our garden has a large tree-free area above our lawn, in the evenings we like to sit outside and watch them fly around and snack bugs from the air. Cute little bats that woosh by just half a metre away from you are a sight :) 4-5 mini-Batmans out each…

Big NOPE. Rocks heat up in the sun. They save and conserve heat. They heat up their surroundings drying them out.
The more rocks, tarmac, stone you place, the more arid your surroundings become.
And the more you’ll have to water the few plants you want to survive.
Plant trees. Those who grow a nice large canopy to spend…

You omitted the Euro-cases. Plastic trays glued to cardboard fronts and backs. Basically Digipak equivalents to the elongated US cases.
The glue will start to go (it WILL, trust me) and at some point your halves of the ultra-rare Euro release of PD Saga will drop to the floor and shatter.
At least the discs will be…

I fully understand you. I would say that some aspects of later machines were nice (less weight, really fast for the time NVME SSD), but came at a high cost (in $ ).
Also, I will never understand why Apple never grasped the commercial market. No on-site service available, even for added money? (no Problemo with Lenovo,…

The effect ist directly copied from a fan MOC though, which was on display at several shows and did exactly this.

The filters are not a problem (on the contrary), surgical masks are not a problem (normal surgical masks are quite fine), an exhaust valve is.
But: Even a mask with an exhaust valve will redirect the flow of the breath somewhat, so the “cloud” with droplets around the person is smaller than if the person would just…

Why is it?
If you are leasing for less than depreciation on the car would cost plus you get included insurance and maintenance - why shouldn’t it be sound advice? Especially for the person who is a) not able to wrench themselves on a car and b) always wants a new car after 3 years anyway because they don’t want to deal…

The cases you are talking about are not the ones I was presenting.
Your car was not totaled by you, but by a third person. In this case, the insurance company of the other person has to pay up - not yours. In some cases your insurance company will pay out to you to speed up the process, then get the money back from the…