They can’t. Star Citizen is the Trump of videogames

It’s all of the above. It’s always been a useful folk devil when one was needed.

You win

Ah I misread this

It started refunding deposits for the $16,000 extra battery pack.

You are correct. People make mistakes, not everything is “a narrative”.

“Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We’ve kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they’re dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A”

EDIT: deposit was $150. Still shitty but not the same impact

EDIT 2: Or $2000? … tl;dr: shitty

Once upon a time they were the “good ads”. They had an unobtrusive but instantly recognisable ad-format that was reasonably tolerable and text-only. It was once they started showing sponsored search results that it became apparent they were willing to be subversive to get clicks.

Their whole image was built around user trust and the moment they had everyone hooked they 180ed.

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Hi, after seeing the couch I just want to say I’m not interested in purchasing it any more. I’m looking for a blue couch and that one is clearly brown. Thanks.

Very fair point about Tails, although I appreciated the joke about him being Sonic’s wingman and him reaffirming that they work as a team with different skills. Super wholesome way of saying that everyone is important. Also we got the plane scene which was the best nostalgia hit I’ve had in a while.

Let the hype train keep on rolling!!! 🚂

Me in this thread

Gorgeous. Is this stock on device?

Are you hyped for the fourth movie? I didn’t see the post credits until I watched it again yesterday with my daughter. I’d been pretty miffed that they gave us Shadow before they gave us Amy!

When you say you got rid of it, is it for sale? I’m in the market for a blue couch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet

The direction of travel is towards “internet” (lowercase), but pedants gonna pedant.

X had a predecessor called W that ran on an operating system called V.

without pulling out your phone, [doing phone stuff x10]

Ding ding ding.

Everyone is so focused on AR glasses having some killer use case that must justify it’s existence. The use case is simply not pulling a phone out of your pocket; not waiting for face ID, tapping your way to the necessary app, and so on.

Removing these micro inconveniences has always been Apple’s forte (even if a little stagnant in recent years), so it’s no surprise that they will continue to pursue the same.

You don’t have to strap the internet to someone’s face to distort their reality with it, as demonstrated by… Well, gestures broadly

Why is it when I miss a day of Daily Show it’s eviscerated from my feed entirely, but no matter how many Jordan Peterson thumbnails I hastily pass over, they still appear week in week out?

To date I’ve watched one JP video: Matt Dillahunty verbally tearing him a new asshole.

The right wing rabbit hole is real and, even if you’re explicitly against it, YouTube is like “if I can get him to watch just one …”, because they know they’ll have you watching videos like the guy from Clockwork Orange in no time. It’s disgusting.

Pro tip: never press “do not show me this” on right wing videos, just skip over them. That engagement causes the algorithm to mark you as emotionally triggered by politics and they’ll just shovel more of the same in your face. For them it’s just a roll of the dice, and the value of them flipping you is too high to avoid.

I built a thermostat with a Wemos D1 mini and a relay module about 10 years ago.

Still use it today integrated with home assistant and can turn the heat on and off while away from home. It’s been reused across three boilers, no parts replaced.

It was a really fun project and I had virtually no experience with Arduino when starting out. Would recommend it to anyone.

As a long time Bethesda game fan I agree with you on almost everything you’ve said about Bethesda… But the remaster is a terrible example of your points.

The remaster does exactly what it says on the tin and they’ve been very upfront about how it was made and why it was made in the launch video.

It’s hard to criticise them for cashing in on nostalgia when they’ve shown time and time again with Skyrim re-releases that do a fraction of what the Oblivion remaster does still sell like hot cakes.

Nostalgia is at the core of their business model. That’s why they march Skyrim’s corpse out every two years like clockwork; that’s why they picked Fallout for a new franchise after ES; that’s, frankly, likely why Starfield sucks so much.