correct. and (depending on the audience) apab would be seen as either thinly veiled virtue signaling or as a trivialization of racial injustice by the modern police state. it makes for a real ‘everyone hated that’ moment, without actually having much to say about the thing it’s referencing.

no matter how you feel about acab and blm, it’s not an association that helps your game. anyone who is gonna feel some way about your apab sign, regardless of politics, is gonna think you’re a big dummy and they’re gonna be right. cowards? nah, cut that shit because it’s tasteless.

Not at all shocked Elon is gonna back out of this and leave everyone wanting. The old ‘overpromise and under-deliver’ is his signature move!

I hear a lot of doom and gloom from talking heads in finance that this in somehow an indictment of the EV or an indication of waning interest. That seems like nonsense.

18 months ago, when inventories were super low, yeah, they sold every car they could produce. But they were also making as many high-margin vehicles…

Around here in Washington state, it’s only Platinum’s and Lariats (starting at $77000). For a long time, the Pro and XLT weren’t offered or had sold out. So even ordered from Ford with a reservation, the truck actually started at $65k+ and that’s before any dealer markup. A farm truck that ain’t.

What’s great about the current gas tax system is that (before BEV’s), it gets all the incentives correct. Ideally we want to discourage car travel in favor of alternatives by taxing usage, discourage heavy vehicles and discourage low efficiency cars. The gas tax was well positioned for this, but with BEV’s, I think we…

You can still encourage efficiency. Allow BEV’s pay the mileage tax at a slightly reduced rate. Heavy vehicles still pay more/mile, but if you’ve got a BEV, you get to drop a tier.

The only folks that would slip through the cracks with a curb weight adjusted mileage tax are EV conversions: low retail curb weight +…

Let’s define success right quick though. I know they’ve gotten games running, heck they even look pretty good with playable framerates! But there was this cautionary tale called Starcraft 64 and like, there’s couple real good reasons that was a one off. RTS without a keyboard, even with those thumbpads, feels like…

Gotta imagine they’re only gonna bring over their F2P or subscription based games. It’s not like they’re having a hard time getting people to use BNET. Activision strikes me as allergic to sharing 30% of retail sales with Valve if they don’t have to. So that means what? Hearthstone? maybe Heroes of the Storm? Not…

In 2018, it had been almost a decade since I had watched any anime and I was considering trying to see what I might be missing. Kotaku ran a roundup of hot new anime to watch. The only one that jumped out at me among a pile of slice-of-life shows was Darling in the FRANXX. I’ve seen EVA and Gundam. Big robots are…

I figured Vaan was just supposed to be an everyman audience surrogate caught up in international political intrigue and we get to experience it through his perspective.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I really like it when they swing for the fences with Final Fantasy. FFXII is one of those games. It isn’t perfect and lots of folks bounced off it. But it blew away my expectations like few FF have. It was incredibly ambitious and imo it has some of the best world building they’ve ever…

The fees and shipping are the real killers. Assuming you sell the N64 for $850, you’re gonna end up paying almost $150 in fees and shipping costs. Sometimes trading stuff in is actually the better value (or near enough the time/hassle saved is worth it).

I used to sell some MTG cards on eBay, but I realized I was…

even though what they actually want is to play a tabletop RPG with friends

Honestly, it’s why the non-service/competitive games I play are almost all indie. What they lack in photorealism, they compensate for in art direction. Plus their budgets/scope are such that they can afford to take the creative risks those big studios can’t. At least on PC, the indie space is where it’s at. Heck,…

Preorders are usually dumb, but for these limited release products, it makes sense. You could even do produce-to-order like WotC does with Magic the Gathering Secret Lair products. Folks have like a month or w/e to pre-order, Square-Enix can use that as a basic for their order volume, plus some extra if they want more…

I guess we’ll know for sure tomorrow when the embargo lifts, but the leaks suggest 200W max load (not including transient spikes)

How bout it. Secondary market or open box pricing really lays bare how bad a deal gen-over-gen these new RTX cards can be. Price-per-frame is at best even with last gen and often worse. But the deals on lightly used last gen hardware are pretty significant.

The 4070 is definitely a higher-end product with better native rendering performance, RT performance, more stable drivers and more value-add features, but with a much higher price tag. The top-spec Intel Arc A770 16gb is $350 like the RTX 3060, but with performance somewhere between the 3060 and the 3060ti. Intel Arc…

Your next upgrade should be a monitor, friend. Obviously, you do you, but those higher end GPU’s, including the 4070ti, lose a lot of value at 1080p. The 4070ti is only like 15% faster at 1080p than a 3080 for 25% more money. The difference at 1440p is more pronounced.