The thing that a lot of designers seemed to miss about the whole iMac in translucent colors craze was that it wasn’t just about making the external plastics translucent, it was about making the underlying stuff that you could now see *also be worth looking at*.

But if you’re interested in a GT-S, and you can afford a $160K one, and don’t care at all about being the car’s only owner, why not save $80,000?

You don’t get to be wealthy enough to buy cars like this by throwing $80,000 in the drain for no actual value.

Why is Maxi holding an axe?

“This pressure to play and this stress of not playing enough to unlock a reward is a lot of what gaming is now.”

The only way to win is not to play. I hate to say it, because in the moment, games like Fortnite and Destiny 2 *feel* great. They feel like accomplishment. But all these service-based time-limited games -…

Game Boy Micro 4 Life. I had one in a drawer for what I imagine was something close to a decade, and when I took it out, I fired up Golden Sun and the battery still had life left. Tiny, gorgeous, great button-feel, fantastic games. I’ve got two (one of the Famicom-styled burgundy and gold ones and a “normal” one), and…

Geez. Really sick of all the ‘dex whining. If you played the game, it’s excellent. Full of interesting things. Get over it.

Here’s the problem, from my perspective as someone who’s been in game development for 20 years.

Everyone wants everything for free.

I don’t mean that as a slight against gamers. Just in *this situation* we happen to be talking about gamers wanting game stuff. But the problem is that everyone wants everything for free.…

Which of the sabers is silver, and which is steel?

The front end of this car was horrible. IMO, Castriota got it right on the second try, with the SSC Tuatara.

It’s so weird that looking at those pictures, I still have no idea what her *actual face* looks like, since it’s been facetuned to within an inch of its life. Why? It looks like someone transplanted a doll’s head on a human’s body. Looks like crap.

They really don’t.

You formulate arguments about range vs. money like this when making abstract arguments online, but in practical, daily use, the real question is, “How often do you need to stop to charge?” and the answer for me is, “Roughly twice a year with minimal impact.” It doesn’t *matter* to me - at all - if I…

Yeah - first, it’s a 2013. Second, I do drive ... un-concerned about efficiency, let’s say, and most of the time, you keep the battery charging to a lower-than-max capacity to maximize battery life. When I go on a long trip, I charge it to max, and it’s still something like 195 miles.

I *love* Eliminator. It’s such a fantastic implementation of a new *kind* of fun for a mainstream driving game, and it’s consistently exciting. It’s not perfect - I really wish that most rounds didn’t just end in a mad dash through a forest - it rarely pays to stick to the roads, because the road route to a…

As someone with a 2013 60kwh Model S, whose range is ~170 miles, I encounter some sort of need to hit a charger about twice a year. If my range was 300 miles, as the newer models are, that number drops to zero. The difference between zero and two isn’t great, but it’s hugely mitigated by the availability of…

With achingly beautiful cars?

Yeah, the front of their cars are *catastrophically* ugly.

Man. It must be really hard to run a company where no one gets murdered.

 Thank you for this.

pssst... Samsung & SanDisk are different companies.

pssst... Samsung & SanDisk are different companies.

Raikkonen went rallying. Hulkenberg went to LMP1. Alonso went to Indycar. Button went to SuperGT. There’s all kinds of places that you can go after F1, and if F1 is “the pinnacle of motorsport” on *all* axes, then F1 drivers should be able to kick ass in whatever, right? The point is F1 is the pinnacle of things…