Diablo 1 and 2 do not require you to be online to play though, do they? (I am not talking about D2 resurrected which requires you to log on once every 30 days). D3 can be played offline on consoles.

We have forced disconnects by our service provider where I live. Once in 24 hours, but the time is not set in stone, it can change. Another reason not to give any more single cent to Blizztivision and their dumb decisions.

in No Mans Sky’s case the game would not have existed, because the procedural generation was at its core, it was what all the premise of the game was all about. All other parts were (at least at launch) mediocre or outright bad (and some like network sync still are), but the premise of infinite planets and aliens…

The people running gas stations don’t own them outright anymore in most cases anyway, most are just employed by the gas companies or other large chains to run them. Especially those on highways.

Ah, that only works if you have a single house though and don’t live in an apartment. Which most people in Germany do, about half of us here live for rent in an apartment or semi-detached or rowhouse.
Solar to charge a car? Not possible.

Or hast it? Yes, we have an abundance of food, or more: overabundance if there is such a thing. So much food gets wasted every day, it is mind-bogglind. I just read that in the US stuff like apples are basically polished and arranged in the stores and every single one that is not spot-free and not gleaming thrown away…

The one thing I am saying about all of these future technologies is: The thing that will win out is not what is best, but what provides an acceptable usage for the least cost. Look at VHS and Betamax, nuff said.

Absolutely, we could and we should. More and more stuff will rely on electricity, and not all of it can be produced and stored locally.
Funny that this will be easier in the countryside compared to big cities where you can’t just rip out the roads all over the place to put in new power lines.

yes and no. For individual mass transportation, it is possibly not the best choice. Even though the Honda FCX Clarity has proven for more than 10 years now that it CAN work.
The storage and transportation is the big deal. We have several places on earth where we have lots of renewable energy, but can’t get it away,…

Sorry, but especially the range argument is BS. Most people commute less than 50km per day per direction, an EV would make A LOT of sense in this regard.
Especially people who do not live in an apartment block, but in a detached house where they can top off the car over night.
Also, there’s an old Tesla Model S over…

Exactly what you are saying is not the case in Europe. There, public view means anything that can be seen when on foot. Not when using a crane or drone.
As such, taking pictures of copyrighted landmarks is allowed under EU law when taken from public property,i.e. on foot. But if you take pictures with a drone, you have…

The VW T4 Business was the most expensive car in VWs line until the Phaeton hit. The T4 Business with VR6 and a few options could easily top 110.000DM back in the day. Even a normal Caravelle (not even Multivan) with extended aircon could reach over 50.000DM in the late 90s, add another 10.000 or more for a Multivan.…

VW has already touted a “California” version of this vehicle, but it will take approx until 2025 until it is ready. The two sliding doors prevent it from getting a popup roof for structural reasons, another thing that probably will be adressed by that version.

Swap the badges for Porsche, and it could be a new SUV entry from them. At this point, they all look the same, and I just can’t care anymore. SUVs should just die and fade away, most boring uninspiring, unnecessarily heavy and accident-prone cars there is (pedestrian accidents, especially children and also pets -…

The difference is also, that nowadays a lot of the cars is designed on a computer, and not tested with mules for the engines and certain vehicle components in the real world anymore. The Volvo 850 was driving around in the mid-80s in different guises, the development of that car spanned more than 10 years. The Jaguar…

Not necessarily cloud-based, but a real neural network has not yet been implemented in silicon, at least not something that could be called that on a consumer level.

It is a typical IT-bullshit-bingo-buzzword for marketing execs, like Nvidias new “AI”-processors they just unveiled. They don’t do magically do AI things,…

What it is and how it was marketed by Tesla are two very different things though. Tesla touted at the time - and continued to do so, even after newer hardware was introduced, that FSD capability would be possible for all autopilot-enabled vehicles later on, but that Autopilot could already handle the majority of…

Their cars are also getting a bit long in the tooth. I don’t know anybody who actually likes the center display of the model 3, everybody who has one said they bought it because at the time it gave them the most range and best charger network for the money - ergonomics and looks played second stage to that.
But now…

Their numbers are steady. But their market share in EVs is actually rapidly deteriorating, mostly due to more options being available from other manufacturers. In the US, Tesla is still doing good-ish, but in other regions, not so much.

nah. But parts are hard to come by, apparently Tesla has a reputation for not having enough spares in stock, so 3rd-party-shops are often shafted and need to wait months for body panels etc...
It is just a car underneath, like every other one. The days of Tesla driving out to you to change the shocks and brakes on one…