That said, I expect their CUV to tank. That market is pretty saturated, unless they can offer a cost lower than or a range higher than anyone else. A lot of people take the model x as the car to beat but then squarely don’t beat it and don’t consider that the x isn’t exactly selling out. If it has 6 or more seats for…

CUV is just the new hatchback, and I mean that quite literally. Sedans are dead because they serve no purpose that isn’t better served by another vehicle, either a smaller compact (which Japan has cornered) or a CUV, which Japan hasn’t quite cornered... or some completely different vehicle.

Yup. There is like an Aristotle quote or something about “kids these days”. Whenever someone starts in on “the youth” I figure they either never really learned (or thought about) history or have a pretty poor memory, or figure no one else learned history. Like a lot of accusatory statements it says more about the…

That’s fine if you don’t want to do any of the extra things Steam lets you do. It’s not so great if you want chat, controller remapping, remote play, or any other Steam gameplay feature not available on Epic store. 

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…