Furthermore, as soon as the Treasury Sec issues their guidance, the rules for Critical Mineral battery % go into effect at 40%. At the same time, the rules regarding “the percentage of the value of the components contained in [the] battery that were manufactured or assembled in North America” also go into effect, then…

I don’t know that this is correct. The bill language says the “per dollar limitation” applies to vehicles put into service after the Secretary of the Treasure issues their guidance, which will come on December 31st 2022 *at the latest*. It could certainly happen before that.

Really disheartening considering how robust and manageable the F2P experience is in Hearthstone, a game I’ve enjoyed almost entirely for free. What I’ve spend has felt worth my money and has directly added to my enjoyment of the game. Diablo Immortal feels imminently predatory

Google’s only acceptable product launch is apparently ‘overnight success’ or ‘instant industry leader’. Have they had a failure they didn’t cut & run from? Something that didn’t immediately gain social traction, but that they believed in so much that they committed resources to fix properly?

I recall Microsoft and the…

Hard mode is a must, but I’ve also really enjoyed this twist: don’t guess the same starting word twice. Finding the *perfect opener* is fine, but it means the first guess doesn’t require any additional input and the games start to feel very similar. I keep a list of all the words I’ve used as starting guesses and I…

I’m already going out of my way to *avoid* that crap specifically. The greater world has terrible opinions about video games XD

When I play games that are taking too long for my schedule or are harder to finish than I was anticipating, I don’t feel compelled to make the game easier. I just go play something else.

Folks can play and enjoy games however they like and lots of games are broadly accessible with varying difficulty modes or cheat…

Jeez, pricing on PAX tickets has been rocketing up pretty steadily over the years. Just 8 years ago, PAX Prime 2013 sold single day passes for $30 and 4-day passes for $95. 2019 pricing was a flat $50 a day, or $200 for all 4 days.

By comparison, Dragon Con 4-day pass pricing in 2013 was $130 and had only jumped to…

FFXII isn’t perfect, but it has some of the best world building they’ve ever put to disk. Friends sent me in with low-ish expectations and I was blown away.

Hardly. FF9 was *fine*.

It checked all the boxes to be a Final Fantasy game. It took few risks. It was fine.

Technically no. I’ve heard that the mobile version starts you off vs bots and will match you into lobbies with more human players as you play more. Also if you were to play at a really unpopular hour, say middle of the night, your lobby would be largely bots. The game doesn’t have a bot-only mode though

Having only jumped back into PUBG last month, these murder-bots have made the past couple weeks a little dicey, but not unpleasantly so. The old bots were predictable nuisances: they’d bee-line for you, plant themselves when close enough, engage with a predictable shooting cadence, and really only take cover if you…

It’s true and E-sports are so young there just aren’t that many older pros out there yet. We don’t have a good idea of what kinda mileage folks will get. But, at least for starcraft, it also depends on the race.

Terran is much more mechanically demanding Zerg or Protoss and so Terran pros seem to wear their wrists…

Damn, that’s a real shame! His triumphant return to GSL last year was too short lived and he’s always been a crowd favorite. Plus, at 26, he’s still younger than some other players who haven’t yet done their military service. The Starcraft 1 scene has certainly proven you can be competitive and world-class into your…

I’m a big believer in gamifying your backlog. I use hltbDOTcom to track my completion along with an annual list like Totilo would do. I also tackle my backlog methodically. I sort it into games I bought because I thought they’d be cool and games I actually *need* to play. I don’t necessarily stick to one list or the…

It looks to me like there are also similarities between this piece and Raymond Swanland’s art from “Ugin, the Spirit Dragon”. There are certainly more alteration made in that case, but the perspective and some specific details feel a touch close. I could be wrong

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You’re so close. Raising the price did reduce demand... for the card with the jacked price. You decided that was too much and kept looking elsewhere. Maybe there’s someone out there still willing to pay $1400+ for a 3080. As long as they’re not shipping ‘em and all the GA102 are going into 3090's, as long as demand…

Nah, reselling is only sleazy if you think capitalism is inherently sleazy (that’s another discussion). Maybe for the folks scalping concert tickets where there’s a finite supply of the product. Sony’s making consoles as fast as the fabs can make silicon. That’s helping drive down secondary market pricing. What the…

No one is holding you down and making you spend extra for a PS5. That’s the whole point. You’re not the customer in mind. Pricing reduces demand to meet the available supply. PS5's used to go for $1000. Now they sell for less. Everyone who wanted one and was willing to pay $1000 already has one. In a month or two, they…