It was a fun joke. And now somebody is going to waste their time or their money. Can’t jokes just be... jokes? 

In whatever can be passed as fairness to EA, they’re probably looking mostly for a way to get cheaper licensing deals; probably the best way for them to make more money, since they certainly can’t make something like Elden Ring.

And it's not like anything is going to happen to her anyway. There are no consequences anymore. 

“Ok Mr Smith, I see your reservation is for a mid size sedan, unfortunately, our last Chevrolet Spark just left this morning. Fortunately, I do seem to have a full size coupe in inventory here and can offer you a complementary upgrade, but I would strongly recommend you spring for the supplemental insurance. Enjoy…

I think I will stay clear of cars and coffee meets for a while

“Just about anybody can rent it”

I blame Democrats. Multiple decades, and multiple majorities, went by without them codifying Abortion into law and making it near unassailable. Instead they chose to sit on a OPINION (which is always subject to change whether we like it or not) and use the threat of overturning it as a carrot for their base. It’s easy…

“I see your truck has testicles. Did it come with those?”
“Nah, I got ‘em at the huntin’ store.”
“So... you gave your truck gender-affirmation surgery by sticking a pair of balls on it that it wasn’t given when it was born?”

Sounds pretty gay to me.

Man, I miss Toys R Us...

The most recognizable actor from Game of Thrones was Sean Bean, and he wasn’t in that final season. Winona Ryder is a bigger name than basically every castmember was when that show started.

Music licensing is a bitch.

I love how people are painting this as a result of JK Rowling’s rants and the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard fight when even the first one, done before all of this became high-profile talking points, was largely met with a resounding “Eh, it exists, I guess” reaction.

it might appear worthless at first glance, until you think about the secondary market of providing fodder for blog posts for sites trying to fill out their quota

This. A *HUGE* chunk of game development in no way requires in-person presence. All that does is radically inflate overhead costs — more specifically all the ‘warm bodies’ ‘managing’ people — without any increase in speed or efficiency. The problem being, the vast majority of those warm bodies doing the managing are…

They painted them mostly white to avoid that.

My favorite thing about this is that the police officers interacting with this future-is-now tech are still driving a Crown Vic.

That Cruise straight up Bolted 

Driving at night without lights on, wow, they really are getting as good as the average human driver.