So, does it sadden you to hear that there will be a multiplayer component to Cyberpunk 2077, or is that just icing on the cake?

Had a delivery driver in a Lexus (sidebar...huh.) pull into my driveway doing this witchcraft last week. I stood there trying to figure out where the malfunctioning Roomba was for about twenty seconds. Clearly this isn’t to make the cars easier to hear coming, because I didn’t even register that the car was causing it…

“My house never caught fire, who needs a fire department”

Yeah, let me tell you how the battle-scarred, bitter freelancers read that: “I’m going to do twenty hours of work to probably not get paid, and if I do, I’m going to have to split it with some c*nt who jumped in at the last second and changed it from blue to red, and the whole time there’s a chance that someone is…

Not on a professional level. 99designs and CrowdSpring and such are mostly populated by amateurs, students, or dabblers — you can find some talent in there, but it’s rarely people who make their living off this stuff (not if they live in the states, anyhow). And having been on all three sides of this at various points…

The flip side of all this is that I can’t think of a single professional who would submit to a crowdsourced spec job in the first place. Maybe if I was goofing around in my free time and a prompt really struck a chord with me, but...I dunno, you grow a “fuck you, pay me” reflex real fast if you ever do any freelance…

God, I know, right? Every time a major dev is like “MMO everything!” I just want to scream back “I’ve met you people and I want to go back to playing alone!”

wait sorry i read that wrong

I’d probably have a bigger reaction to this news if I didn’t view everyone in my company’s C-suite as “some kind of money warlocks” who emerge every fiscal equinox, when the NASDAQ is in retrograde, to demand the blood sacrifice of a virgin engineer.

The part that gets skipped her is that 0/0/0 “Fair Trade” only makes sense between two peer-level economies (or specific industries when you can separate them, but that’s pretty rare since countries don’t usually import/export an even number of identical goods to each other).

Cynically — because it will hurt Canada. That’s it. Trudeau said a mean thing he didn’t like, so he’s going to hurt him. Because that’s what power is to a narcissist; making everyone stroke your ego or face consequences.

Yup. Roommate outright owns an old (2005?) Accord he bought used—it works pretty good and I’m sure he’s happy about no car payments, but the goddamn thing spends a weekend in the shop every other month. Honestly I don’t think his average cost can be that different from mine anymore. Granted, that probably wasn’t true…

Chad’s car.

Because if you lease a cheap car, you can wind up spending $6-9K on transportation over the course of three years, for a brand new fuel-efficient vehicle with wall-to-wall free maintenance (now if you’re leasing an $80,000 Mercedes, then I have no idea what’s wrong with you, but we’re probably not from the same part…

...so no one uses the term “bullet proof vest” for anything that won’t stop a .50BMG? AM General is worried that the Army is going to take them at their word and then turn around and file a false advertising lawsuit?

Even the windows are claimed to be bullet resistant.

But finally acclimating to its ridiculous personal physics could turn you into an unstoppable vehicular manslaughter machine in Big Team Battle...

Cars and Cognac: “We don’t crash Mustangs into crowds, we crash thoroughbreds into peasants.”

Vote. There aren’t that many of them, but they show up every fucking time, whether or not they “have a chance.” Meanwhile the left as a whole finds every possible excuse not to, then spends years telling itself how noble they were for refusing to play.