It still boils down to road capacity. A whole car around a single person is a ton of wasted road space. Cars are useful for specific types of commuting.

“I would have” - the easiest most meaningless set of words in the English language

Unfortunately you only find that out after they do the thing that makes you confident that society is better off without them. It’s far more important to figure out how to build a society in which the “finding out” part happens less often.

Congratulations, you just wrote the wiki article on confirmation bias.

NHTSA prefers to focus on trying to make drivers pay attention while using systems such as Autopilot.

Cocoon is mind-blowing. And mind-blowingly good. Buy Cocoon.

No thank you.

“a YOLO lifestyle tuber that it would be for those of us dependent on square jobs”

My beef with gift cards is that they’re a wildly profitable model for retailers because people either spend the value of the card less some amount and then feel compelled to use the rest and spend more on a subsequent purchase, or even better for them, the recipient just plain misplaces/forgets to use it and the store…

When you were growing up, you paid for those skins already in the total price of the game (joke’s a little on you, if you didn’t beat a game you paid for content you never got to use.) And those assets were way cheaper to produce in those days.

Pockets are utilitarian. Skins are not. Skins are not features. Skins are patterns. They don’t change the game. The point made above about why it’s so expensive to buy the coat in all 200 fabrics it is offered in is germane .. because if “having everything” regarding a luxury item is the metric, there’s no problem…

I know people I made games with 20 years ago. It would not be great for me personally, nor professionally, to create conflict with them. In many respects, it’s kind of a small industry.

The game’s level loading/streaming tech would have needed to be finished before levels could go into full production

A lot of the complexity in a shipped game arises from the middle layer of game code .. think game flow, loading strategies, a number of other in the weeds decisions you make in pipeline development when building a game on an engine. If you want to think of L4D2 as a “patch” I think you almost can, on a technical…

This is the nature of software development and games. One game can be more fun, look better, do everything the customer wants, but be 100x worse in the way it’s built than another game.

I imagine “Not much else out for a 4-year-old” is at the top of every internal Disney Pictures slide deck

Don’t even think about it

Yes, I think your interpretation is that the ding about lack of morals was singled out in relation to the source material. I didn’t interpret it that way. I don’t think reviews are obligated to ensure that a point of criticism is novel to the individual piece of work with a genre. But fair enough.

I don’t think review “fretted” over this show’s morals. It asks how it exists, given its lack of morals, common sense, and fun. The latter two qualities - particularly the last - are arguably the most important part of a reality show. As you note, many other reality shows are as immoral, but I don’t really see why it…

Some business names self-identify as pre-dating the internet. This is one.