I wonder what else you think ‘unsustainable’ could mean in the context of a commercial product? Of course it means from the standpoint of profitability. “Continuing on the same path is unsustainable, because we will run of out of ..... socks?”

Not really much an argument. More of a painting of your situation. A datapoint for a graph I’m not making.

In so far as I can only speak for myself, of course I do. But phones are an almost perfect example of a luxury market. You don’t have to have one - landlines exist and alternatives exist for what they do (computers, etc) and there’s a glut of competition, and the transparency is up the wazoo (eg, you can know the…

That’s fair. The infrastructure isn’t there yet for you. But it’s a catch-22. This is the history of consumer markets and public infrastructure. I still think it’s fair to try and help people see it from the perspective of how things should be, in the hope that they consider it when they make local decisions as an…

People always want to compare charging in a car with filling a gas car. But you can’t fill a car with gas where you park at night or during the day at work or whatever. You *have* to stop at a special place to put gas into it.

I’ve been working in the private sector for decades, and what I’ve learned is that private market revenue-funded businesses interested in profit are also capable of wasting vast sums of money for political, nearsighted or grifty reasons. “But sir,” I can already hear, “Those companies go out of business! Another win…

“Yes, Satan?.. Oh, I’m sorry sir. You sounded like someone else.”

Such a great movie, and my favorite bit from it. (also the “why the cork” line seconds before he pokes himself in the eyepatch .. God that makes me crack up so hard)

The lower the roots of a plant go, the more moisture there is in the soil to absorb. Roots don’t need to reach groundwater or the water table to have an advantage over roots that are not as deep.

This is not about lawns and more about trees and appropriate native species that make do on natural precipitation.

Every big studio has processes for generating closing kits. But once you have the kit, you store it somewhere. And once it’s stored somewhere, maybe you lose track of the storage media(s) it’s on. It’s not a closing kit process issue.

Damn. That sucks ass. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is one of my favorite movies, as is Mystery Men. I think the phrase one of a kind gets thrown around a lot, but he earned it. Never was, never will be anyone else like him.

gosh darn, the next thing you’re going to tell me that doctors and nurses make crude jokes about people dying in horrible ways and teachers make insensitive jokes about students being stupid and engineers make insensitive jokes about people falling from collapsing bridges

The local paper here in Toronto did an investigation about those tinted plate covers, and they observed that a huge (as in disproportionate) percent of the drivers who put those covers on their plates are .... wait for it .... people in law enforcement. So it becomes pretty obvious why they’ve got zero appetite for…

Hyundai Pony Coupe concept: 1974 .. so 15 years, not 20, but close enough.

You greatly underestimate the amount of work that is sourced to other companies in the making of games. Many many many many people who show up in the credits of these sizes of productions would not be employees of the studio developing it.

Yes, it surely includes the voice actors, musicians, etc.

But being racist is a motivation for work unto itself. Police departments experience downward pressure to generate ticket revenue because of the reliance on revenue to meet municipal/state budgets (particularly with electorates that are adverse to actual taxation that is harder to burden selectively on specific…

in 10-20 years, consoles won’t exist

I’d certainly put it right up there in the #5 no question