Unless you get a job in a cargo ship you’re unlikely to make it to Japan in any way other than a plane.

Which is pretty much food stamp territory considering that with the costs of getting a pilot license most of the folks making that money will also have some giant loans to repay.

I’ve been scientifically observing the cars on the freeway and this is the second fastest car, after the Nissan Altima.

Mostly, because it costs money upfront and pays in the long term.

I am not going to read the article but understand that the three genders are male, female and cool dark threatening armor 👍🏽

Being 6'6" it’s the laws of physics (specifically the “no overlapping matter” ones) that dictate my minimum possible car. The Miata (and pretty much every Japanese compact car) is out. A fate worse than death I know.

Horizon’s humans are just regular humans, just with the first generation being grown in a vat after the biosphere is restored.

Even funnier than that, the Dark Brandon thing came up from (IIRC) Chinese troll farms and the Internet found it so hilarious that they rolled with it immediately.

I’m more pining for a Yoko Taro x Suda 51 crossover but I’ll allow yours as well.

The most charitable read is that they’ve been doing this nonstop for 16 years and would like to spend more time with their money.

It was never that, tbh. Folks just couldn’t believe that some Chinese company that no one (in the West) had heard of could pull a free to play AAA game with an art style that has a similar color scheme as BoW.

The platform holder takes a cut of any money you spend on a gacha game while on the platform. So if you buy some pulls for Genshin Sony will take a % of that.

You mean it wasn’t made for overly edgy teenagers the first time around?

Nah c’mon this is Hollywood. Chris Pratt will play Esmeralda.

Mr. Musk really ought to cut down on the avocado toast.

I suspect that the fine folks at CA government have access to perfectly accurate wind maps, but are building wind farms wherever there’s both enough wind and not enough rich nimby’s nearby to tie up construction for a decade with lawsuits.

They fixed that later, so just buy a newer one?

The 80s and the Reagan revolution really put a stop to all that, and it’s only in more recent years that we’ve gotten back to a point where we’re even acknowledging all of these societal dysfunctions. We’ll see if it lasts…

If you don’t mind me asking, how much of Kdin’s alleged abusive behavior overlaps with the abuse they were being subjected to? In my experience begin an abused, burnt out wreck of a person is extremely unhelpful when it comes to treating other people kindly.

There’s no way for a HSR line to get out of either LA or the Bay Area than by cutting a miles-long tunnel or several. Any other option would be either too slow or, more likely, impossible to build on due to sprawl and freeways having taken over the place decades ago.