The Ref (Denis Leary) is a large omission.

You know.. I didn’t know this would be necessary when I shopped it together years ago...

There’s an entire industry and culture already built around car customization and performance improvement.  I think if the manufacturers try to eliminate that, the gear-heads are going to scream blasphemy.  And they’d be right.  Someone’s going to tell a hot rodder he can’t tweak HIS car’s engine because personally…

This shit will inhibit the fuck out of the adoption of electric vehicles. “Why should I pay for a gimped car when I can get a used one or keep my current ICE car and have access to the full range of its motor and amenities?”

If you don’t have access to the full range of the car’s ability, then the price needs to come…

I dunno. So many space battleship designs come so close to the things we saw in Yamato / Harlock that the market is likely too saturated to really bring a successful suit. Especially with decades of knockoffs that were allowed to flourish just fine. That could be seen be seen as failure to defend their copyright and…

So... what was Colantonio gonna call it?  What did he call it when he thought of it and didn’t use the word Prey?  If it was his team’s baby, they had to have an idea what they were gonna call it, right?

Earlier this year, nissan and honda devoted more than half their corporate incomes to produce EV’s on a much bigger scale. I want to say the number Honda devoted was something like the equivalent of 6.5 billion dollars.

Well, one hopes that in that time, electric vehicles don’t cost more than people on minimum wage make in 1 to 2 years.

Sounds to me like Second Life is about to get a spike in registrations and returning players.

Some honorable mentions I didn’t see here.

I may start.  My wife is disabled.  A place with the ADA trimmings already installed would be a boon.

Given that the majority of vacancies are just being sat on as investment capital instead of actually being on the market... perhaps the idea would be to dissuade artificially generated scarcity by making buying and sitting on necessary housing distinctly unpleasant. Let’s say an 80% tax on the house/unit and property…

That, and as I keep telling the mortgage loan people calling me, there IS no housing shortage. There’s plenty of housing. It’s all just being sat on as investment capital by real estate bros and foreign interests. Empty and un-rented. If we were to say... dissuade people from doing that with an 80% tax on properties…

My own lease is ending this coming March. And there’s no legal limit on how high my landlord can raise our rent at once her in NC. (The Red Republican State Assembly Put the Kibosh On That in the Mid 80's!) We’re going to be priced out of town like I was in Seattle back in 2000 when it gentrified.

I mean there’s…

So what we’re saying here is that I ought not to hold my breath for an update of Parasite Eve. They’re just going to flog FF7's corpse until nothing but just comes out instead of money.  Noted.

Souls-Like?  Well shit.  I WAS interested in this.  Oh well...

I did a playthrough of the second game once. I’ve actually only ever finished the first one once. They never really had that much replayability for me. I will admit I’m a completionist, so by the time I was done with my light side playthrough’s I’d seen all I needed to. And I’m too soft hearted to go through Bioware’s…

The exception, oddly enough, would be the poster-woman for the male gaze in videogames.  Lara Croft.  Compare her old polygons to the more realistic shapes she’s been given nowadays.  When I think of the industry getting better about stuff like this, I think of ol’ Lara.

You bring up an interesting thought.  What do you suppose people would choose if people could choose what their voice sounded like?  Like an AI could, or would be designed to?  Depressingly, I think a lot of folks would end up sounding like the celebs they liked the most.  Or there’d be fads.  Look at the number of…