Well, no. You’re right, he had intended on finishing it. But it does seem to take away from the work itself that Miura is no longer the only one to work on it now. The fact that real life for a while turned out to parallel the story he made is one of those incidental things that added to the mystique of the work.

This is confusing to me as a decades long fan. On the one hand it was very in line with the themes of Berserk that Miura left the story unfinished. The entire theme is about continuing on and trying to do good in a world that is always getting worse. It’s in the official title that the Godhand gave both to Skeleton…

That doesn’t make sense either. Who plays videogames? Mostly lower and middle class guys, age 10-45. Who buys Volvos? Usually wealthy women 45 and over. Young broke people aren’t suddenly going to get a magical windfall of $50,000 to buy a Volvo XC60 just because Volvo does a marketing stunt with Epic Games.

If they’re wanting to have 3D interactive models in their menus it probably will be doing active rendering. You can’t just offsite that kind of processing without serious lag or compression, otherwise Google Stadia would’ve been a regular failure instead of a massive one. The other option is using pre-rendered scenes…

Considering that Unreal Engine 5 is so badly optimized that it struggles to run on even the highest end PCs and brings the PS5 to a staggering halt at times, I’m going to sit here with my popcorn when their use of an entire game engine for font and icon rendering lags the system out so badly the entire car shuts down.

So they made an electrically assisted turbocharger... Isn’t that just a more complicated supercharger?

Also the ceramic cats are kind of overkill. Normally in a mid-engine car you use those to heat shield components that are too near to the exhaust, like a top mounted radiator with lines that run past the engine, a big…

That’s exactly why you should switch to home or communal generation. It not only helps when the power grid goes out, but it saves money because you’re generating the power yourself. The upfront cost is more, sure, but once more people start installing it in their homes and the setup is sold when the house is sold,…

The biggest problem with regression to mean when it comes to a market is that once near homogeneity is achieved nobody chooses anything over features or style. They choose it based on how quickly they can get it, and for how much. Thus the market begins to shrink drastically. You see this in the mobile phone market.…

The main problem with the old trompes still in use is they did require massive waterfalls in place in order to be built, yes. But that’s because digging straight down with the tolerances required was dangerous and difficult. Modern steel or concrete piping and new boring methods (often the same ones used by fracking…

The thing is, yeah, it takes some serious power to compress air like that. If you’re doing it the stupid way.

For nearly a hundred and twenty years, before offsite generator powered compressors became available, we used to compress air for mining tools using water wheels, weirs, and big ass tubes in a system called a…

Wait until they realize the staff shortages are so bad due to shit pay they’ll have to close entire locations, like what’s happening with the retail and food services industry.

Underrun, understaff, underfund. That’s the modern way of doing things. The lessons they learned from the ‘08 crash taken to ridiculous…

How do you even make a TV show about a racing sandbox? There is nothing attached to the property that has any recognizable aspect to exploit. You could argue the GT Vision cars, but... Again, those aren’t just for Gran Turismo. Those are concepts that are property of the respective manufacturers.

Now it looks even more like a Jaguar F-type. The old roofline looked more like the MR car this is, but the convertible roof makes it look like an FR car.

It’s not that they’re lying about the benefits, it’s that they’re omitting key details. Lying by omission, one might say. One big advantage with C4-C6 Corvette suspension is it deforms both ways almost equally, under compression and extension. Because it’s a stack of leaf bars hanging down instead of holding up.

The thing that bothers me is precisely why they didn’t go with raised track for certain sections. This is fucking Florida. Gets flooded every other month Florida. They’ve shut the trains down twice already due to hurricanes damaging the tracks or trackside infrastructure. Even a raise of five feet above surrounding…

Zeitz’ plan bet entirely on the increased margins sales run lasting more than... Well, about the eight to twelve years left (at that time) for the specific demographic who became adults before the modern backlash Harley garnered in the mid 1990s. Reminder that 1997 was twenty five years ago now, and Harley was (and…

Honda Z600. I mean, just look at it.

I still maintain that this was the best input method for any modern car that I’ve ever come across:

Every few minutes? If I can’t find a song I want sometimes I waste two or three entire minutes looking. Though that’s because Gracenote seems to hate iPods and hangs for a good ten seconds before switching to the next song. So skipping six songs can cost me a minute alone.

I know a large reason why that is, too. The legs. When doing 3D modelling it’s hard to get legs that are thicker than proportional ideals to animate properly. Either the thighs clip into eachother or they clip into the hips. The buttocks and the pelvis often stretch or fold in when you try and account for this. And…