It’s wild to hear someone use the “companies should take a loss on consoles so people buy games” reasoning with these new consoles, because- FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER -these are actually more powerful than the desktop computer that could be built at that price point. It should be fundamentally obvious that they’re…

The real problem will be all the attack ads when Torch runs for congress about how he’s “in the pocket of China”.

Rent or borrow a suitable truck, take the boat immediately to Used Boats R Us, sell the boat, return the truck, and buy your dream daily driver. You’ll get far more bang-for-your-buck that way, guaranteed.

1st Gear: Most of Nikola’s jump in value is their recent IPO. They just went public a week ago. Its also really important to remember with Nikola that the Semis are priority number one. As for R1T vs F150e, considering the latter will be mostly Rivian anyways, I’d want the R1T on the merits that it is one of the…

That’s how CSU’s FSAE used to be- I was one of those freshmen and sophomores that got to hang about and play with stuff. I never stuck it out on the team, though, because I had other stuff going on. It turned out that was a good move because they imploded and lost a lot of talent to EcoCar, which had probably 50…

My latest touchpoint for SAE shenanigans is Baja with the wimpy little B&S engines- I had genuinely forgotten that FSAE was up at 100hp! Wild.

Nah this is their car from 2012 or 2013 I think, back in the golden years back before The Ecocar Conglomerate took everyone of value and Baja and IREC scraped up the leftovers. The final nail in the coffin was when the graduate students split into two factions over electrification. Last I heard it pretty much…

A go-cart. Or maybe in a nice Formula SAE chassis with all the aero...

Ah, you’re saying do a sweeping update to all lights and parking meters that would include the power delivery requirements for an EV?
I could get on that. Most of that infrastructure needs updating anyways.

Why the sure-to-fail mechanical pop-up box?
Why not just plug directly into a port on the ground, like those outlets in gymnasiums? Make the UI app-based by QR code or NFC.

The power delivery requirements of a street light or parking meter are a far cry from what would be needed to charge a vehicle at a decent rate. You’re still going to have to do major infrastructure upgrades.

If you expect all new technology to be instantly as good as the existing tech it intends to replace, you’ll be eternally disappointed. This is a major milestone that deserves respect in its own right. Remember how fucking terrible the first cell phones were? Or the first automatic transmissions?

I think we’ll start…

Hi, hello, it appears you haven’t read my post very well.
I specifically advocate for appreciating both. I never downplay the awesomeness of noise. You’d be mad to...

I’m just saying that people are nuts if THATS the deciding factor- while it is wholly a different experience, I’m just saying that the noises made by EVs…

BOTH of these things can be exciting you fucking tit.

Ungreyed, because that’s genuinely hysterical. You’ve painted a delicious word picture- thank you.

And for you and everyone else, I do GET that there’s something special about bone-shaking noise that EVs will never live up to. Again, my argument isn’t that EV woooobles are a drop-in replacement for an NA V12 at 8k…

The Venn Diagram of people who think that electric performance cars don’t sound cool and people who have masculinity issues is pretty much a circle.

That sounds rad as hell. Does it sound better than ICE? Wrong question- it sounds different because it IS different. You can appreciate both for different reasons.

Honest question, do we have any evidence that Tencent has a technical/developmental role in the Riot structure?
I got the impression they brought Riot under a business umbrella and left the technical work largely untouched.

Jason, do you play DnD?
I think you’d adore DnD.

ALL HAIL THE PEOPLE’S KING

Okay kiddo, want to discuss at all what was wrong about his assessment?