The issue with CP2077 was the main storyline had a _perpetual_ sense of urgency. This makes it hard to judge how far through the game you are, because usually the main quests in open world games like this have obvious points where the story “takes a breath” and you’re invited to explore more of the side quests before…

I did a decent number of the side quests on my first play through at launch, but certainly not all of them. I hit the same wall of “wait… the game is over? I don’t feel like Johnny earned any of those story beats.”

Ah I totally missed they were in Canada. In most places in the US the limit for SCC is $5,000 USD.

My guess is what that actually means is “it would cost more in legal fees than we have, since it’s too large an amount for small claims court but not really enough to excite a lawyer without the existence of clear-cut contracts that were violated.”

Yes of course you’re correct. It would be a bit hard for Luke to have that conversation before he knows Vader is his father :p My brain was apparently a bit mush that night.

Anakin also says “from my point of view, X Y and Z is true” a lot in the prequels. So it was definitely a clever retcon from the writers to close all those loops at once. Not only does it make ANH’s line fit better as being basically a quote from Anakin, but it makes ESB’s line of “so what I said was true... from a…

I mean, based on the amount of work done on it, why wouldn’t it be Singer prices? Like the Singer it has full hand laid carbon bodywork, a bespoke interior, and an extensively reworked drivetrain. It’s basically the same concept but with an old WRX as the donor car rather than an old 964.

Fat fingered it twice, got it right the third time :p 

That’s super neat! (I somehow missed you saying that you had seen my old car before in the first reply)

Nice!

I mean, the person that buys this is probably the same person that buys a Singer for $500k rather than buying a new GT3. Heck, it takes a cool $1mil to for thenWilliams DLS to get a Singer that performs as well as a new GT3.

As someone that has done this, and that was back in 2006 when the prices of things were far, far more normal. I can tell you unless you’re doing all the work yourself, it’s a pipe dream to think it would cost less than a new STI. And I already owned the STI (it got t-boned in an intersection, which prompted this…

I mean, this is functionally a Signer, but with an old Subaru rather than an old Porsche. A Signer costs about $500k as well. It takes something like 2,000 hours of labor to make a Signer, as there is a huge amount of hand finishing.

In fairness, as I understood this the point was Ford saying “you can’t charge more than MSRP,” and the dealers saying “Ok, so give us something that protects us from just handing out money to flippers then.” That is, they didn’t want it both ways, it was an exchange for selling at MSRP.

I mean, on the one hand, I get dealers saying “Ok, so we can’t charge a markup to match the market price or we don’t get our allocation, but the person we sell it to can?” If one presumes Ford restricts the price a dealer can sell for, then it makes sense that the dealer would not want someone else being able to take…

Unless you make them nuclear powered, not really. Even if you could solve the propulsion issues of moving what is functionally a floating skyscraper with alternative means like wind power, the amount of energy you need to power all the other stuff on a cruse ship is astronomical, and that power has to come from…

You would simply need to record a unique key on each disk at creation time, no different than the unique key you use to activate a digital game. If you’re associating a key with an account to not need the disk we’re presuming online access to a database of used keys.

That still allows the original installer to hold the key hostage. Conversely, if you allowed the disk possessor to always win, then someone who misplaces their disk could have their game stolen from them, when they assumed they would never need the disk again.

There’s not really a technological reason they can’t do that already (though as others have pointed out, I don’t think this is that). Most modern games rarely read from the disk anyway, because after a patch or two you’ve functionally replaced the entire game content. Hell, a lot of day-zero patches these days replace…

Most certainly equity is an asset. But the cost to a company of issuing equity is very different than the cost of paying salary. Equity awards are generally granted from stock that the company creates by diluting the value of existing shares. This means they’re effectively “free,” as that dilution’s effect on share…