Which is even more terribly ironic since Epic has repeatedly used their position to incite people and tell Valve how to run a business. And of course snipe exclusives as late as possible, at least once AFTER the preorder page went live on Steam. I mean, can you imagine if a game launched pre-orders for ps4, xbone, and…

I think that consul exclusives make this more painful, and not less. People don’t mind choosing not to sell a game on Steam, but PC gamers have always had a sense that their games were more widely available without the lockdown of consuls. I mean, most PC’s run between twice the cost of a consul to literally an order…

You can get sued for IP stuff in China?

I think he’s saying the opposite. Everyone already knows about this tactic. That doesn’t mean gamers like it.

Or those that happen under warranty. I mean, this is a nice move from Nintendo, no point in being bitter about it.

Case in point, I “beat” Super Mario Odessey in around a week (I had a sick kid, so some extra game play time available). Even with all the extras the game isn’t as long as the shortest “full” AC game, but I am pretty happy with the $55 I spent on it. My Steam account is full of <$50 games, none of which are…

Yes, because every topic a philosopher has written a thousand pages on is permanently settled... a thousand pages of anecdotal observations from someone with no formal research experience to be countered by an untried and untested system (as of the writing).

What are your thoughts on The Dispossessed?

Verses what? Totalitarianism? We have yet to see a system that isn’t at least partially capitalist that isn’t also totalitarian, single party and ultimately single person rule. That’s just not healthy.

Look, I am not here to take a dump on social programs, but let’s not pretend that having the government run everything leads to absolutely efficient systems with no waste... or even systems that get run with less waste than capitalist systems, especially since “pure socialism”, aka communism the only way it’s ever…

That’s because everyone you know started above the poverty line and was able to leverage to get better return. If you don’t live in a liberal major coastal city, and you aren’t in on the higher end of STEM jobs, (or if you work for or are mainly funded by the government) then you probably haven’t seen your wages even…

I'm definitely going to loose sleep over it too. 

Are you sure that wasn't Chase? They aren't always solid on cancelling things either.

We bought a Pilot in 2016 and they were by far more pleasant and true to their word than the other three Honda dealerships we walked out of after they didn’t have the car they told us they had. After an hour. Waiting with kids. Suburban dealerships in MA blow chunks. 

If by “iconic” you mean “wouldn’t poke it with a stick”, yeah. My dad did automechanic work in the 70's and he would probably be more disappointed in me than if I took up smoking or dropped out of school. Something about having to take the whole front panel apart to change a fuse.

That doesn’t change the fact that Ford is 1) now years behind other good EV entries and 2) aperently backing out on their own promise to have electric vehicles out by the end of this year. When I talked to some Ford R&D guys a few years ago, "electric" was not in their vocabulary even for self driving, so I'm just not…

2023 there will probably be used model 3's on the market. There are some other good cars out now, like the Kia, that offer a different look at a price that's not a small house in a poor area. 

Well, guess who’s buying cars? But sure, Ford should clearly ignore their biggest potential market just because they are so short sighted that they... want to keep the planet a safe place for human civilization and stop paying for the major financial drain of gasoline and realize delaying that is money lost that could…

Also, the LEAF iterated. A 2013 LEAF may be a little sad (though a pretty good buy if you get one used), but a 2019 LEAF is a totally decent car. Improving a design is the mark of actually caring.

“I work at a... dealership”