It’s far easier, and less expensive, to build new infrastructure for 6 million people, than it is 350 million.

Yet crude petroleum is Norway’s #1 export. I think the lesson here is don’t get high off your own supply. 

Decommissioning is already funded for every nuclear plant in America. It’s cooked into the operating rates already. Every station has $1B or more (depending on size/location) squirrelled away already, safe from all prying fingers (even while going through bankruptcy PG&E’s decommissioning funds for Diablo were…

Except batteries are going to dramatically drive up your cost to use that solar power, even higher than the new solar penalties have. Really it’s just a horrendously bad policy that will drive consumers away from solar, in a State that mandates more and more electrical use, but does nothing to ensure the utilities can…

But they took away the tax credit, reduced the amount the power companies have to pay for your solar power you feed back to the grid and instituted a tax of $8/kw per month on the panels. So sure, without access to cheap gas generators you’ll have to go with solar, but it won’t be more practical. Running the numbers…

Maybe they should have figured this one out BEFORE they committed to closing all nuclear plants down?  I'm just spitballin' obviously 

My thought exactly. We’re talking about a state that already has scheduled rolling blackouts. This isn’t just people who don’t understand how batteries function. It’s a complete lack of basic common sense among the political class.

The batteries are energy storage, to be unloaded in peak demand situations, not a generation source.

I would’ve liked Catalyst’s Time Trials if they didn’t count down to a failure state and then end (iirc). The only way to know where the end point is is to be in the time trial, so playing around to figure out a faster route was next to impossible because once the timer is up the time trial is over and you lose where…

I agree. I didn’t think Catalyst was bad, it was just not as good. The Open World felt pointless (I somehow didn’t even know you could quick travel until I was almost through the game), the upgrade system had no purpose to be there and yeah, the game focused to heavy on combat sometimes.

But the shooting mechanics were supposed to be not good! Dice even said that when the game was promoted 11 years ago and it makes sense: Faith is not trained in using weapons so if you do, it should be the last choice you have left.

I looooove Mirror’s Edge. I haven’t played it in a year or two, so I’m definitely due for another playthrough. I think Luke really nailed it: it’s just such a singular, particular experience and if that works for you, it works really well.

It really depended on who played it, and what they were expecting. People that wanted an interesting FPS-type game were REALLY disappointed. The levels were linear, the AI was bad, and the shooting was clunky (at best). People that wanted to never shoot a gun, and just run were mostly very happy. While it slowed you…

78% aggregate on GameRankings, basically on the cut line of “consensus good”. I feel like the ones who did play it embraced it even more than its critical reception

And the theme still holds up today as well. The vocals are good, but the recurring instrumental theme is really timeless and screams Mirror’s Edge, every time I hear.

Speaking mostly for myself: the biggest issues with Catalyst are the open world and the art design.

WHOOOOOOOSH

In terms of game feel and aesthetics, it’s one of the best experiences I’ve had, and make up for the rest of the game being ok to bad.

Still my favorite game of all time. I cannot think of a game that focuses in on its core elements and does them so well that none of the “objective” flaws matter. Sure the combat is clunky and the slow puzzle-climbs indoors can be a little tedious, but those honestly break up the parkour just enough that once you get…

yeah, completely agree with this take. haven’t played it near as many times as you, but after about a five year break I jumped back into on the one x and the things that game does well haven’t aged a day.