1) They’re most likely reacting to the fact that Beckham got paid 40mil GBP for his image rights for FIFA21, and wondering why they aren’t also being paid.

I mean, they named it after King Arthur, so take from that what you will. The Once and Future King seems like an apt metaphor for McLaren as a whole, really.

The quest doesn’t complete until you do, so no, I think he just sits there waiting till you pull it out.

If ever there was someone that earned the title of drengr, it was old Axehead.

I mean, but on the same token there will be another improved console a couple of years after that. That’s always how it works when upgrades become optional and incremental rather than required to get some new gaming experience.

Yes, in fact that picture is from the top gear episode.

Yeah, I was about to post the same thing. “Outstanding financial obligations” are a pretty loud voice demanding a game be launched, ready or not.

No, the insurance company thinks that if you frequently have to stop short because someone stops short in front of you, the odds are good that eventually you aren’t going to be paying attention and miss the stop. If you just plowed through the person in front of you, you’d file a claim (or they would) and your premium…

If the objective of the OP is to simply own a new car for a fixed period of time with a fixed loss, why aren’t they looking at a lease? Why would they ever want to take that risk of the secondary market on themselves?

This interpretation always confuses me. The insurance company doesn’t care if there is increased risk because _you_ suck at driving, or because _your environment is risky_. They just care about measuring risk. If you hard brake more frequently, it doesn’t really matter if it’s because you’re not paying attention, or…

I mean, in fairness, it winds up kinda looking like what the F50-GT looked like:

Oh yeah no, I don’t think you’re the one doing the pronounced backlash, you’ve been quite accommodating. I was referring to the other, less... nuanced reactions in the rest of the comments.

Well sure. But in this case, I imagine the timeline constraints prevented that from being really practical. They only had the PS5 for a couple of weeks before the embargo lifted, and I imagine Sony actually had pretty strict rules around changing who had access to it mid-flight. Ian might very well have signed up for…

Yeah, I actually had a slightly more nuanced edit that I forgot to actually hit publish on and then Kinja timed out on me. Here it is for posterity:

That’s a fair point, in that topical subjects age poorly unless done with extreme thought to the longevity of the view expressed. And I will agree that the points in the article are definitely very topical, with little room for extended metaphor. I actually think Fayhey made similar points in his Series X review WRT…

I mean, Kotaku has a whole sub-blog devoted to Japanese culture, which has nothing, intrinsically, to do with video games. So I don’t really think the preview is different than the other sites. Just the specific avenue of cultural examination. The point of The Root isn’t to be political in the way that, say, Politico…

Kotaku isn’t a news organization. It’s a blog. Different writers having different voices is considered a feature, not a bug.

I mean, raw ability to get bits off the hard drive is not the only contributor to time-to-play. If that were the case, then every PS4 vs. PS5 load time would show an identical % improvement, which they do not. In the specific case of launching a game, you might have various operating system overhead, the network stack…

I don’t think any GMG website has ever claimed to be apolitical. Most of the writers are pretty upfront with their political viewpoints. And at the end of the day, almost all of the sites are focused on some aspect of culture, which is fundamentally inseparable from politics, as the two inevitably shape each other.