“same engine but a V6"

You don’t need a drag race tuned V8 to cruise on the highway...

If such a thing were real, I would break my own rule of never buying a new car.I would 100% buy one and keep it as long as possible. The ultimate sleeper...such a thing would be hilariously fun to drive.

Minivans get about the same mileage as 3 row crossovers with similar drivetrains (ICE vs Hybrid vs PHEV) and if he only has one kid, he’ll be fine with either. Every minivan is also about 5" longer than the Atlas, and if he really is just buying it to go camping, having AWD and a little extra ground clearance is good,…

We get it, you like the Bronco, you don’t need to go on about it.

Till a CRV plows into you offset & the first crunch point to give is your hips. Project cars should be shown like art pieces & not driven, b/c they’re not designed to save your life anymore.

The difference between dealerships and “most store-fronts” is that in most store-fronts there is a clear marked price and that is the price you pay for the object you are buying. You don’t grab a box of cereal from the shelf, take it to the cashier, and then get a hard sales pitch to buy additional (unnecessary) add-on…

At a certain point it becomes price gouging which is not just unethical but illegal (but good luck getting it classified as such). And obviously, charging people more based on race, age or gender is about as unethical as it gets.

MSRP is just some made up number that doesn’t really matter. Not sure why you chose it as your number for the cutoff.

it’s not unethical.

they’re a “stealership” because they’re middlemen that add nothing except increased cost. the dealership model exists, in reality, to benefit dealers, not consumers. they’ve paid mightily to own politicians over the years and it has paid off many times over.

Unfortunately I’m worried that their approach is going to be less Microsoft (if you own the disc already, just pop it in and play), and more Nintendo (you’ve bought this game to own on 3 different consoles already but to play it on the new one you have to pay us $50 a year)

No way that’s going to happen, given one of the two PS5 SKUs doesn’t even have a disc drive. Like it or not, at this point backwards compatibility is going to be software emulation all the way.

We gamers can be so ridiculous. In the absence of news, we seem to decide that there has to be something and then start making things up out of whole cloth and then get disappointed (at best) or even angry (at worst) when the stuff we made up in our heads turns out to be wrong. I include myself in this because I’ve…

This is super ironic to me. Let me tell ya, I’ve been served, time and time again, the eternal argument AGAINST backward compatibility by Sony fanboys saying that they much prefer Sony invest its money in making new games instead, and that BC was for Xbox losers, that anyone who wants to play old game should just keep…

Pretty much this. QA staff are seen as expendable in game development. If they go on strike, Activision will just replace them. QA is the entry point into the industry for many developers (almost every designer and producer I know started in QA) so there will always be fresh new faces looking for a job.

I mean, I worked QA for a few years a decade ago (web specifically). It’s shitty work, but it isn’t rocket science. You don’t need any specific qualifications to do it, which is why it’s been relegated to contract work for a lot of companies. That said, it does become a sort of weird skill that’s learned on the job…

We’ve upgraded from “sources at Bloomberg”. I wonder what the next evolution will be...

It must be night to be able to still use Schreier to do all the hard work without actually paying him.

Up-and-coming games journalist Jason Schreier reports