The benefit of these structural battery packs is mostly in the assembly — using the battery as a part of the architecture makes it quicker (and therefore cheaper) to construct the entire car. Cheaper production ostensibly yields cheaper prices for EV buyers, but it can also mean sacrificing the battery pack after even…

It’s a $90k Mercedes that happens to be electric more so than it is an EV, I think. The non-AMG models are definitely focused around comfort, not speed.

I think you and I are using that term differently. I’m obviously not talking about a giant lift or an enormously wide front end, I’m referencing the relatively moderately sized SUV that is the topic of this very article. If anything I’d think the Model X and Y front ends are actually more dangerous for pedestrians,…

There is no frunk. It is on the side because the entire hood can’t be opened except by the service technician. In the front there’s the charger and a gigantic air filter. 

It’s still an aesthetic preference. I hated the fake grilles but I like this current crop of EVs that use it as a place to do something cool and stylistic with lighting (that’s what this car does, and it’s what the Lyriq does too - looks great IMO). It’s also not a useless detail - they cram the LIDAR back there (kind…

You know the good thing about trans people presumably excluded at hogwarts is that they don’t have to experience the trauma of murdering another human for blood sport

The rest of that money is security, which like I said above is definitely something we should be talking about. But “he really needs to scale back his security costs because that is just ridiculous” is not the same statement as “he should cut his salary”.

Private and public companies are very, very different.

Individual people can’t just “put money” into a company. That’s not how anything works. If he were to sell his own shares to “get the money back”, the way he’d put that money back into the company is by...buying shares. They’d need to be new shares issued by the company for purposes of raising money, which would come…

That $26m is the absurd security costs I mention above.

What does that mean, concretely? 

If you want to look at it that way, sure. But what would you propose he do? The point is that saying “he should take a paycut!” isn’t helpful because it literally can’t be done. The best I can think of is to call on him to take some time to figure out why his security detail is 200x more expensive than that of other…

Especially after you look at Meta salaries and realize 4 months pay there still puts you among the highest paid people in the country.

the boss (who is not taking a pay cut) adds

2 indies that fall into a similar boat as No Man’s Sky (really tiny team that can sustain off of incremental sales), a game with microtransactions (Minecraft), and a game with paid expansions (Splatoon 2).

That model never existed outside of a few specific (No Man’s Sky etc). It is not an alternative. The new content has to be paid for one way or another. Either you pay for new content directly, or it is offered for free to drive engagement so they can sell cosmetics. Personally I’ll take the stuff that actually gives…

That’s the standard structure of a F2P game, and it’s better than the alternative IMO. Keep the meaningful new content relatively affordable and even earnable for free (especially anything that provides a gameplay advantage), and generate the real money from entirely optional cosmetics that add little to the actual…

I recognize how fortunate I am to even be saying this, but I’ll gladly pay more to experience a less crowded park. A lot more. But, the stuff has to work. And I have to be getting a good experience for that money - the new system isn’t it, regardless of the price. One component you seem to have left out is that you…

Sadly, God of War Ragnarök doesn’t support cross-saves

They’ve been talking about setting their sights on mobile for a long time - it’s not just about shifting the focus of antitrust scrutiny. Pretty much since xCloud was announced they’ve been talking about how much larger mobile makes their reach.