jivemasta

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[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You want to know how I know this isn't true?

Because if it were, the big car makers would be rushing the hell out of pushing for killing off ICE cars and switching to 100% EVs like yesterday.

But yet most of them have put out a mediocre effort at best, offering maybe 2 models to attract the younger market. And even then, good luck actually getting one. You are on a wait list for at least a year, have to deal with dealerships that haven't bothered to learn anything about them, and if they do miraculously have one on the lot, they've been using it as a loaner car, so it's not even brand new. And while I was shopping around, I ran into multiple instances of the dealership taking the $7500 tax credit for themselves(because the tax credit is tied to the car, not to you buying it) and then having the gall to also mark up the sticker price, "due to high demand".

Then other brands have basically outright resisted making them, or will make them, but it seems like they are only doing it to say they are going green. They'll make like 2000 of the the dopeyiest looking car they can and trickle them out, make no effort to advertise them or mass produce them in any meaningful way. Then claim, "the demand just isn't there".

Like if what you said was true, we would be seeing things like dodge challengers, Ford mustangs(ones that actually look like a mustang, not just a crossover with a horse logo), dodge rams, Ford f150s(yes these exist, but they are trickleing them out, so good luck getting one), jeep Wranglers. Nobody is taking their tried and true cars and making them electric. Well VW is, but not in America with things like the golf and GTI lines.

[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is it really the sloppiest though?

I'd say its about on par with their past games. It's clearly their game engine, modified to do space stuff.

If you come at it with the mindset that not every game has to get bigger and more expansive and have more and more realism/mechanics that don't serve the core gameplay, it achieves it's goal.

Not saying its game of the year material or anything, but if I was doing an employee review, I'd give it a meets expectations grade.

[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

People forget that chrome brought v8 with it. Without v8 chrome would have just been another hat in the ring for browsers.

V8 took JavaScript from being this little thing that did some light ajax stuff in the background, and made it the star of the show. It allowed entire applications to run in the front end with no installation. Firefox and IE couldn't match the speeds chrome could do.

[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You do know that thin film clear "plastic" isn't actually plastic right? Most of that is cellophane, which is made from plants and is biodegradable.

[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Um, professor umbridge from Harry Potter. She's basically an asshole just to be one.

The other ones all have some sort of justification to their shittyness. Jenny was abused, Vader was a literal slave that was taken advantage of by both the Jedi and palpatine. The joker has literal mental issues.

Umbridge was straight up a child abuser with no remorse or tragic back story. She harmed kids while enjoying it and drinking tea.

[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You do realize that teaching people to cook does absolutely nothing to keep people from being obese, right? I cook all the time, still over weight. Cooking fresh food does not equate to a healthy diet and being thin. People's over eating, and diets don't really affect you.

Plus, you can't force shit like this on people, they have to want to do it. I could eat healthier, sure, but I'd truly rather die a few years younger than to have wasted my life eating beans, rice and basic meats like you are suggesting.

[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

We also have a epidemic of just throwing shit in a landfill and getting a new one.

I could give a shit if someone wants to eat chicken nuggies for every meal. I care more about landfills piling up trash that could have just been repaired or reused.

[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No. The Internet just seems more liberally slanted because people are more liberally slanted overall. Conservatives rely on outdated voting principles to make it seem like they are more widely supported than they actually are. Things like first past the post, electoral college and gerrymandering. This is why you see republicans fighting to either keep the voting process the way it is, or to restrict voting in various ways.

Also, conservatives feel like the Internet is more slanted to the left because they are usually stuck in their little rural community echo chamber. Then come to the internet where they actually have to interact with people outside their local area, like cities and other countries.

[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's the thing. I think it is a carry over from that. Back then a lot of games didn't have a menu or anything, after you hit the button, you were just playing the game.

Like Mario 1 and 3 have just a simple 1 or 2 player select then you are in the game. Some single player games didn't have anything, they just would go straight to the game after you hit start.

Now there isn't really a need since nearly every game has a menu for loading saves, starting a new game and such. So they could go, but are just a vestigial part of gaming history at this point.

[–] jivemasta@reddthat.com 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Lol, yeah. Everyone I talk to about my car instantly becomes a weekend road tripper, like they are constantly going on thousand mile road trips to the middle of nowhere where there aren't any charging stations.

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