I think there’s an argument to be made there though where this is different. I can easily not care about a company when the product doesn’t rely on the company in any way. If I buy a microwave, I have the luxury of not having to care about the company because the microwave will work with or without them, their…

Personally, I prefer that the engineers who build my cars give at least a passing thought to ease of servicing them, not just making them as cheap as possible to assemble.

Yes, the mustachioed driver feels very impressive in it, but in the backseat is a disillusioned child who stares wistfully out its window, wishing to jump out and run across a wide field of grass brushed lovingly by the wind.

You’re not wrong on the politics. But I think the era of cheap labor is ending if it isn’t already over, and I’m not sure the Chinese government has a plan for that beyond “subcontracting to the Vietnamese.”

Hello, fellow humans! My name is Mr. Realguy Notabear, and I am a professional salmon fisherman. I would like to volunteer my human services in removing the accidentally deposited lunch from this creek. I will use my large, clawed, human hands to swipe the fish out of the creek, then remove them professionally,…

Labor is surely the largest line item on the balance sheet for any rail operation. You want them to double their cost,... for what? The appearance of a safer operation?
/S

Is he still alive?

Normally I would chide you for such an opinion, but then I looked at this thing. I don’t think there’s another vehicle design out there right now that better exemplifies the “bar of soap” aesthetic than this one. The profile looks like a default shape for an SUV placed on a switch or UI interface.

TIL that people apparently hated Anne Hathaway online.

I don’t remember this at all. 

To be fair people who blame the president, regardless of party, for directly affecting things like the economy or gas prices are pretty dim.

I guess he was the White Power Ranger all along, huh.

Looks like Spike is 20 years and filled out a little in mid-life.

The day competitive overwatch became a thing it was the doom of the game.
All the worst qualities of the community started showing, they fucked up characters trying to chase unattainble balance, the quickplay queue sort of died because most players flocked to be silver scrubs, and then they kept enforcing the new unfun…

It does strike me as trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. They harmed the game tremendously chasing their competitive and esports dreams. Now the entire game design has been shaped around that. You’d need to do a lot more than change the limits in Quick Play to recapture the spirit that I and many others…

Someone who owns a $350,000 house and has $650,000 invested for retirement is technically a millionaire,

Personally I still love FF 13-2.  Serah was a little grating, but Noel and Caius became two of my favorite FF characters.  Also the whole Pokemon aspect to the game was a great addition.

I think the situation was sort of the reverse. My recollection is that the tax breaks provided funding for production, not paybacks after release. Essentially, the tax breaks allowed Boll to pay himself and family members a lot of money during production, so much so that it didn’t matter to him if the movies actually…

The essence of exploration implies the existence of something to find.  What is there to find in the early parts of most Final Fantasy games?  The answer is nothing.  Nearly all the Final Fantasy games railroad the player down a linear path for the first half of the game.  The only thing 13 did any different from…

Not every gamer places heavy value on exploration. There are plenty of games like visual novels where you can literally just mash one button for the entire game to get through it, sometimes pressing “up” or “down” to make a couple of choices.