They’ve actually talked about this a bit. The show’s concept was originally about failure, and exclusively about failure. After a while, they just kinda got tired of writing about nothing but failure, but couldn’t figure out a way to tell stories about something else that fit with the characters. This is the malaise…

I mean. Given the subject matter of the show, it seems pretty much exactly on-brand.

IIRC the first game to really lean into it was EA’s Fight Night Round 3, which pretty much set the high watermark for intrusive brand placement. You could even use the BK King as a trainer.

2K has done this for quite a while in NBA2k. You get the State Farm Assist of the Game, you get the Kia Slam Cam, etc, just like in the actual NBA on TNT broadcasts they’re trying to replicate without actually using the name.

I don’t disagree with you on not using a simple incrementing counter on the primary console generation. Xbox 360 vs. Xbox One vs. Xbox Series does not suggest a natural ordering, that’s for sure.

I do disagree with you a little on the suffixes though. The entire gaming industry has been very consistent since the PS2 on…

Even then, there was no way to actually fill the stack. Porsche designed that piece to look nice while providing optionality for future expansion, and never wound up needing all the expansion.

Sport and Sport+ are no longer on the stack as of the 718 and 991.2, they’re on the steering wheel as a driving mode selector knob (as mentioned in the article). The GT cars are the only ones that still have them on the stack, as their steering wheels have zero electronics in them (they don’t even have the loom for…

Yep, their primary delivery model is to use the same delivery vans that are already delivering packages. That’s why they have the two/one-hour windows for delivery, and why two-hour windows are free. They just schedule a stop at the Whole Foods along the way to pick up food to deliver, and add stops to the route the…

I think I maybe addressed some of your questions in an edit after you replied. But basically:

Close. That was the cost to add a new character to the game.

They were not a large studio. They probably had a very nominal amount of debt: lease obligations to pay for offices, recurring bills for software development licenses, etc (remember not all debt is “You gave me a lot of money now, I give you back a little bit of money each unit of time.” Some is “I’m contractually…

Localization data is pretty inaccurate. Presumably, the tree is in the whole foods parking lot. It’s likely not that unreasonable at all for there to be a bunch of drivers waiting near the pickup point if this is how drivers assume the algorithm works. You see the same thing with Uber/Lyft at airports. hundreds of…

Most likely: A third party has an account. For a fee, they give a driver access to this account. The account is active on the phone in the tree. Once the phone in the tree is dispatched a delivery, the user who will actually make that delivery gets a notification, and logs into the account on their phone, allowing…

FWIW, Amazon actually does care. But likely mostly because of anti money laundering laws this would almost certainly run afoul of. Also, as others have pointed out elsewhere, a system like this makes it extremely easy for the food to be stolen without actually removing the offending contractor from the system, which…

Ah, but they have actually revived it again with Disney Plus in the short term. Despite the fact that they own their entire back catalog, they are only putting some subset up for viewing at any one point in time (I’m talking about they classic movies here, not more modern ones where there are licensing reasons they’re…

I mean, Disney has been taking this approach with the Disney Vault since... forever.

You cannot engage forces you’re not at war with in CK2. So if they attacked you, they were at war with you. Most likely you had a high enough threat level that there was a defense pact against you, so the moment you declared war against anyone, many other totally unrelated countries would have attacked.

No she shouldn’t at all, I agree completely. My point was that the Uber bit in the OP’s question didn’t make sense, because for that to matter you’d have to have your property sized just from having someone with a DUI record in your car, and that’s not what happened.

For people wondering why most states try really hard to not allow police to sell seized assets and directly profit from the proceeds, or why you might have been told you were foolish for suggesting that police sell off sized assets to raise money and “do something useful with the property”: This. this is why. The…