I was interested at first, but then they said they got rid of the unique art style and the narrator and, my love for Elias Toufexis aside, that sounds like such a departure from what made the first game stand out. Sounds like they were making an interesting game, but not a sequel to Fenyx Rising.

Again - NY doesn’t do that, anywhere that sells cars has actual metal plates that instantly become your permanent plates.

That, and I usually just skip anything with a “Sponsored” or “Paid Promotion” tag, which is required and regulated for this sort of thing.

“Xbox 360 game content previously purchased will still be available to play...”

Yes, I am, sorry. I’m not always great at signifying when I’m agreeing with someone who’s disagreeing with someone else.

Hell, what other PHEVs exist with that range today? And of those, how many hit the 53 mark that the 2nd gen was doing?

Yeah, like what? The Volt was amazing for what it was - it wasn’t going to be a performance car, it exceled at being a PHEV and had better electric-only range than almost any other PHEV on the market then or now. Hell, drive one and it drives like an EV. Not a performance EV, but like an EV, which is to say that the…

“Texas State Governor Greg Abbott recently signed a house bill into law, banning paper plates in the state and mandating metal tags effective in 2025.”

Uh, I’m pretty sure that all of the “home release” changes they mentioned are stuff I saw in the theatrical version. So, uh, I’m fine with that.

Seems like people have had enough of the glitchless speedruns and want to try some out-of-bounds stuff.

Yeah. I think that you can make a comparative eassay about it, but to suggest that it’s intentional is... a bit far.

Year, or even just a wheel lift truck to manhandle the things out of the way.

Thanks for posting all three versions to compare, I’d never seen anything other than the first version. (Clearly superior, and gag or no, the other two are too much “that is a face that has known TikTok” for the genre they’re riffing.)

I hate that you’re right, but yeah, I’m gonna second this.

Maybe not 6,000, but it’s an issue with some other cars as well. Leaf forums are full of it - electric torque, middling LRRs, mid-teens to low 20s easily.

Ooooooh damn that would have been... well, “small-universe” problems aside, that would have been one hell of a gut-punch.

Yeah, I was going to use Mandalorian as another example of Star Wars doing different things, but its latest season especially is starting to tie into the Skywalker Saga fabric that pervades the franchise.

IONIQ was supposed to be a separate sub-brand, with its own identity. Kinda figured the writing was on the wall with that when they debuted and still had Hyundai logos all over them, though.

FuelShark installed in a Tesla.

Yeah. I’m weirded out by the author saying that a Rey film is the only way the series is moving itself forward. As if Star Wars Visions never happened.