For me, the real challenge for the team will be building a truly adaptive gameplay model that allows genuinely hybrid play styles. I’ve played a lot of games that have promised this, only to deliver terminally nerfed characters if my build strayed even slightly from pure melee, mage or ranged.

I did. It had an amazing effect. The service rep I was dealing with suddenly became unavailable and handed it over to another, more senior guy, who tried to bluster his understanding of the law. I just emailed him the FTC’s take on the matter and he suddenly passed me up the chain to another BS artist. It was at this…

Reminds me of the signs in London taxicabs: “This cab has over 13 safety features.” So...that’d be 14, then?

Thanks!

Thanks for the insight. It’s genuinely appreciated.

I’m not surprised. The only way to go from that pic is to just place the chassis on the ground and put the wheels next to it.

Hellkitty?

Your bottom pic makes me wonder where hellaflush ends and broken axles begin.

Good point. I suppose you could argue that, depending where in California Hill Valley is actually supposed to be, there may not be any crude deposits within reach, but it should at least have been addressed. Also, it’s a shame the DeLorean wasn’t flex fuel or he could have run it on ethanol, which is much easier to…

Absolutely. I’m well aware that I was talking about an ideal world. Here in L.A., using your turn signal is tantamount to telling every other driver, “accelerate hard and freeze me out,” so nobody uses them.

Well, since the entire premise of Back to the Future 3 is that the gas tank got shot out and there’s no gas in 1885, so they have to find another way to get up to 88 mph, I think it’s safe to say the car ran on gas.

Yeah, that’s the way it’s taught. Mirror-Signal-Maneuver was the way I learned it.

Nice try (I’m guessing you’re a dealer or work for one, or you would’t try to perpetuate this persistent falsehood so hard), but it just ain’t so.

Again, not always the case. In my case, the manufacturer’s rep had no record of a warranty claim crossing his desk until I contacted him directly. It was also clear from the the correspondence/calls I had with the dealer that the service rep was making shit up himself. “Oh, the oil seal you had replace wasn’t done…

Actually, they do. Under the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act, the warrantor has to explain, in writing, how any modification or aftermarket part directly caused the malfunction. If they can’t, then the repair is covered. Dealers/manufacturers pulling this kind of crap is why the Act was created in the first place.

Seriously. Using a turn signal is not a declaration that it’s safe to change lanes. It’s an alert to other drivers of your desire to do so, and nothing more. Put in Tesla’s terms, indicating that you want to change lanes is a request that other drivers make it safe for you to do so. It’s still your responsibility to…

The new bar of unattainable body expectations has been set: to fit into these clothes, you have to basically not exist.

Exactly. I’m in the middle of a tussle with my Merc dealer, who is refusing to replace the engine - destroyed when the crankshaft let go - under warranty (on a ‘13 car with less than 25k on the clock), because the car has an aftermarket exhaust.

Differently smart.

That’s some top-notch customer service right there. “Hey, maybe nobody will die and we can save a ton of cash” is a risky business strategy, to say the least.