You can own shares of a private company. That’s what venture capital and private equity often are.

EV degradation curve is steep for the first year or two but then flattens out. In 2016 my model S could do 270 miles on a charge. I purchased it when it was 3.5 years old and had 50k miles on it; then it would charge to 250 miles. A degradation of 7.4%. Today my car has 135k miles on it. It charges to 242 miles, so…

Can we also re-mention how stupid it is to call an EV a “Turbo” model?

A 4+ years old first generation luxury EV lost 50% of their valuation from new?

I have the 2020 Kia Niro PHEV and have enjoyed it. We enjoyed it so much that when it came time to get another vehicle, we chose the 2020 Kia Niro EV. Obviously, the EV is more fun to drive and gets the most daily use, but we still take the PHEV for our road trips. Both are good cars with decent room. 100% would do it…

So many great cars for less than $35K, and many less than $30K. So can we finally end all crying and sensationalism about “the average car costs almost $50,000!!!”? Yeah, stupid giant trucks cost $80K for some reason, but Joe & Jill Average can just buy one of these vehicle and not get that 84 month loan.

I love the new Prius but seeing the Camry at the same price range and almost the same fuel economy would push me towards the Camry all day. I get the Prius is smaller for cities.

This is also available on GoG (for free) where you can just install it instead of faffing around with it.

I swear, it’s the ghastly young people who work at Kotaku that do this to me. I’m 46, so was turning 19 in 1996. So I always think of these games as part of everyone’s childhoods, until the Gen Alphas that work here all remind me they weren’t born then.

This. Someone who was a child in the 90s would be in their 30s now; either John thinks the readers here are all in single digits or he didn’t think that quip through.

“Before Starfield, before Skyrim, before Fallout 3 and Oblivion, before your parents even knew how to make you, there was The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.”

I’ll be so glad when the world is open and supportive enough that someone’s sexuality isn’t news any more.  I mean, “good for them”, but we shouldn’t really care because it’s not like they’re going to be coming around looking for a data (besides, I’m very happily married).

To be fair, the gumbo and po’boys are REALLLY good.

q: Where are those people now?

Because you are getting in on the ground floor. This is how to decentralize and disrupt the establishment. The line can only go up. Its on the crypto blockchain which is the future of everything.  No more banks, no more taxes, no more government, no more gelato.  This is happening.  Don’t be a beta.

Yeah the FTC really needs to clamp down on NFTs. It’s just another story of a useful piece of tech being mislabeled and misused by grifters.

I would like to see the same sort of event but give each side 15 minutes of practice.

Why do you continue to deadname X? It’s very obvious that X has gone through gender reassignment. The shape of the Twitter bird was very Y-like which implies male (not 100%) and X implies female (again, not 100%). Regardless, please don’t deadname X.

hurt the box office

Unless it releases around the same time, isn’t knowing that a longer cut is coming going to hurt the box office of the shorter version? I’m not one to see a movie multiple times in short order (I love Star Wars and have maybe watched it four times in total because I don’t need to watch it every week). Knowing that…