Anderson said he had weapons in his bag, and inside the bag was a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint.

I need to know what the pizza cutter was for

The only EVs I’ve driven that actually felt like they took advantage of being an EV were from EV companies, no legacy automakers. Tesla, Polestar, Lucid, Rivian. Everyone else the vehicle felt like an afterthought

Preach it! I test drove a wide variety of EVs (except tesla) last year while I was looking to replace my car. My experience was largely disappointing:

• Ford and the other American brands felt like they were designed to be disliked. All of them were overpriced and poorly designed.
• Toyota bz4x and the Suburu on the same platform (sunterra? Idr) were nowhere to be found near me.
• The VW ID.4 was… fine, I guess, but the infotainment was buggy and froze for most of the test drive. It’s also plagued with recalls, so I didn’t really trust in the longevity of the vehicle.

There was a used Polestar 2 MY21 launch edition someone traded in near me. I took it for a test drive and fell in love! Even several months in, I’m still excited to get behind the wheel, even for something like a grocery run.

The only thing about it that I am not a fan of is the range, which is ~200mi for MY21. That’s still more than enough me, I maybe need to charge 1-2x a month. Well, that and the slightly underpowered processor for the infotainment makes it a bit sluggish at times.

Yeah it seems strange to be sourcing parts from a ‘spares’ retailer like ifixit, instead of finding the part on normal electronics distributors. Great way to make the price skyrocket.

That’s largely a result of facebook buying up a bunch of vr dev companies and making them release quest exclusives. I’d be curious to see what titles released per year looks like if you include all platforms.

IIRC the hungry judge effect is considered more of a correlation than a causation. It’s been a while since I read about it, but another theory was that case ordering mattered more- it was about the relative comparisons to previous cases in the day. Additionally, some suggested that cases which required more deliberation on sentencing would not be scheduled right before a break so they wouldn’t be interrupted.

Wow, it’s weird for me to see the xbox360 considered a retro console. Never really thought about it, but it is 21 years old now (released 2005).

They, and likely everyone else downvoting you, want the actual paper.

Assuming any homogeneity in a group as large as ‘the opposite gender’ is foolish. People with any combination of parts and identities can be dumb pieces of shit, so it’s hardly fair or even reasonable to hate that entire group of the actions of a subset.

Does that make the things you read any less upsetting? No, nor should it. Especially online, people are emboldened to say some pretty heinous shit. They don’t, however, represent all guys, gals, or whatever else.

Blame the airline for seats that are too small, not passengers for being too large.

Ah, I misunderstood. I thought you were just saying someone should make it.

Then make it

This feels like a solution looking for a problem. What is the benefit of this ‘companion’? If the point is really just to have a physical keyboard for messages, seems like I’d be better off with one of those little folding bluetooth keyboard for 1/10 the price.

Yeah that’s the thing, it’s especially hard to trust a newer service without any track record of longevity or a company with a proven track record of poor support. Even then, everything dies eventually. Companies will shut down servers due to funding/popularity issues (it doesn’t make sense to continue spending money and dev time on a game nobody is playing anymore) or to funnel players into a newer game. It would be great to see more live service or otherwise online games (e.g. MMOs) that are self-hostable.

I don’t think Stadia’s problem was the technology, though. It actually worked pretty well if you had a decent internet connection.

The issue, imo, was that nobody trusted in the longevity of the platform. Given Google’s track record, why would anyone want to buy in to something that would likely only last a few years? I know they ended up refunding people, but it’s not like they do that with every product they’ve cancelled.

Edit: spellcheck

Misleading post title based on an article that’s ~5 months old.

Oh look, e-waste straight from the factory

For sure. I feel like holding the launch price forever has been more of a recent development (some time in the last several years, ignoring nintendo) and it seems to be happening on pc too. At least on pc, we usually get a couple decent sales every year and lots of indie content.

Yeah, the suggestion that they would do it in the first place was enough to ensure that I will never purchase from them, even if they eventually get better support here in the US.

I’m generally against the rise of subscriptions in every service on the Internet, but I did actually benefit from game pass for a couple years. Access to the library meant I could try a lot of games I otherwise probably would not have played. I was only out the time I spent downloading and playing them if I didn’t like them- no need to deal with returns or resale, which is especially difficult/restrictive for digital purchases.

I can’t find what the original price for game pass was, but I’ll do the break-even math for the current price: It looks like the highest tier game pass subscription today is ~$30/mo. Multiply by 12 months, that’s $360/yr. With games typically costing $60-70, $360/yr divided by $60 is 6 games/yr.

One would need to play > 6 new games each year to save money with xbox game pass. I think that number is pretty achievable for the average gamer, but I’d be curious to see some statistics about average game consumption.