I didn’t even realize that Games with Gold was still a thing. The offerings were terrible for so long I stopped checking and just figured it got phased out at some point because no one really talks about it.

The problem I have with that is that you’re buying the car with all the stuff already there. The company already spent the money to install all the equipment and the cost to do so was already built into the price of the car so now it feels like you’re be paying for it twice with this scheme.

The webpage for chartering is still up and it apparently costs a very affordable 812,000 euros per week to rent, which is around $126K USD per day.

My first car was a rust heap of an 1988 RX-7 that I bought for $2K in 1999. Prior to me getting it the exhaust pipe got crunched somewhere in the middle of the car. It was the loudest car I’ve ever been in. Anyway, I was living in Hawaii at the time and they have annual emissions inspections so I take it down there…

They went public via SPAC so that they could forgo lots of the reporting requirements that a normal IPO needs. So they were probably giving overly optimistic ideas of their path to consistent profitability to get that big cash infusion and hoped they could fake it til they make it until then.

I found the Humvee to be fairly comfortable as long as you were sitting in the front. Big padded seats with shock absorbers in them. Terrible on the open road when doing a convoy though. Anything over 50 and it feels like it’s going to shake apart.

Rich people sure love their beige interiors.

I’ve been replaying the first one recently and that map is the most frustrating part of the game for me. Depending on the planet I’m spending half my time just trying to figure out where it wants me to go.

I am not familiar with Tems but enjoyed the fact that her dress made it impossible for the people around her to see the stage.

Shout out to The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong. It’s a bi-weekly podcast that does a fairly deep dive on lots of interesting stories from history. The most recent episode covered the Piltdown Man hoax, which remained a thing significantly longer than I’d originally assumed before finally getting debunked.

I kind of get how it has faded. I played it at launch and quite enjoyed my time with it, to the point that it’s one of my few platinums. But I can only sort of remember the plot in broad strokes. The game has fantastic presentation and production values, and great voice acting, but the plot is sort of uninspired and…

I agree with most of what you say except that Generations is Citizen Kane compared to the boring slog of a movie-length episode that is Insurrection.

He played the character that explained that the “mystery and magic” of the force was just microscopic organisms...

When I worked at a bank we weren’t even allow to accept rolled coins. I’m not sure why. Maybe because the bank didn’t want to risk the count being off? Our branch had a coin machine we could direct customers to so it never became an issue but most of the other branches in my area didn’t have one so I imagine they…

Don’t they have a QA team that played the remaster prior to it coming out? Just not sure how this could be a surprise that players discovered first. 

I assumed it was a bit of both. Like they went with the water colors look because it would be more forgiving on older tech, which even the Switch itself was at launch. I have no idea if that’s actually true or not though.

The only time I’ve ever seen Kids was when we watched it in my Sex Ed class in ~1997 and I think I’m all set on ever seeing it again. Which is just as well because isn’t it hard to find these days because it turns out the production of the movie entailed tons of exploitation and drug use by the underaged cast?

Young people have always drank terrible stuff with the expressed purpose of getting as drunk as possible, as quickly as possible, as cheaply as possible, so the Borg thing is not terribly shocking. Back in my younger days, back before color had been invented, the cool kids took straight shots of Everclear and later…

Maybe it has something to do with the ESRB. This might bump it up from “Mature” to “Adults Only”, which could harm sales.

Maybe it just depends on the game? Most times I never think about it either but with Horizon Forbidden West specifically, battery life seemed especially rough which I assume is because every possible feature was set to max by default. Resistive triggers every time you shoot and arrow, lots of noise, lots of rumbles.