If we’re only talking about the well-being of the car and not the passengers, chances are that the absorbed energy by the wheels could prevent more expensive damage to the suspension and chassis. Sure, it’s a matter of how hard the crash is - you don’t want the wheels to break too easilyy. In a leap like the one in…

This seems a little bit like playing a racing simulator and complaining that it should be easier to do power slides or that the crashes should look cooler.

I live in Europe. One more month, and then I can finally have sex with my old PS2!

The funny thing is that when you flag it, there’s no inappropriate content option. Harassment, hate speech or spam are the only three options.

I’m not in the least invested in eSports, so it’s not an issue that concerns me, but it reminds me of Jalopnik’s stance on motorsports.

Also, if they only have the Angry Birds IP and somehow managed to employ 700 people, that’s another sign that they’ve been relying way too heavily on that one concept. I can’t possibly imagine how they’d keep 700 people busy unless they produce all the merchandize in-house (which they presumably don’t).

I think that you’re absolutely right. Also, I shrank the front bumper somewhat to make it look less like an XC model.

I’m bored at work, so I did this:

Not to throw myself into the guilt discussion, but a perfectly safe pass would be somewhere where passing is actually allowed. There is few things more scary than driving somewhere where there’s double yellows and suddenly being overtaken in high speed. You don’t even notice the bike until it’s already ahead of the…

I don’t know if he edited his comment later, but the last sentence in it is ‘That’s like running over a kid jay walking and being like fuck that kid, shouldn’t have been there’, so no, he probably doesn’t think that a minor traffic infraction remotely justifies attempted murder. The cult-like mentality on lanesplitter…

Ah, of course! Being Swedish, I’m used to using the comma sign as a decimal denominator rather than a point. It tends to mess things up when I’m doing maths in English...

Well, the iPhone 6 has a 1,810mAh battery. Now, this is the part where I’m extremely uncertain, but I believe that the charger works at 5 V. With these numbers, one charge cycle (presuming zero heat losses) would amount to 1,810*5/1000 = 9.050 kWh. Charging once every night would then be a bit over 3,000 kWh in total.

I paid something equal to $300 for my racing wheel setup, and that’s still only a fraction of what real racing enthusiasts tend to pay for whole rigs with racing chairs. That too requires a console or a computer to actually run the software, but it doesn’t add nearly as much to the experience as a rift does.

Aren’t the artists getting paid for having their music included in the game? The point where opinions differ is whether this licensing agreement (explicitly or not) only covers private gameplay, or if people who buy the game then also aquire the rights to broadcast themselves playing it.

Presumably when you purchase a game you also gain the right to use this game to create your own content, or at least this is the perspective that fits best with what’s considered common sense today (see for example not only regular let’s plays, but also glitch videos, video reviews or modding). Sure, it’s a legal gray…

Yup, my idea was that it was mainly used to mark the border, not so much a structure with a defensive purpose (although it seems like historians aren’t quite sure that its main purpose was defensive).

Short as in ‘not tall’? I’ve always assumed that it’s always been as low as I’ve seen on photos (i.e. about 1.5 m), so I was a bit surprised by the Lego model. Wikipedia claims that it was around 3.5-6 m tall, which in my eyes makes it a lot more impressive than I thought it was.

The difference is that you probably haven’t got the same savings account as Vahland probably does. Also, with his current resumé he should be able to find a similarly well-paying job elsewhere, possibly in a company with a slightly less turbulent future.

Music is one of those weird fields where some people do it as a hobby or for recreation, and other people try to make a living out of it. When you spend 8 hours per day staring at spreadsheets or computer code and wanting to kill yourself, it’s difficult to sympathize with those who claim they aren’t getting paid…