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

The deal is written without any such provisions for restricting trade on either side.

That doesn’t preclude Trump inevitably throwing a shit fit when UK starts courting EU and China, but that remains to be seen

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.

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

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

Can I have a go on your time machine?

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

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.

I’m not interested in self indulgent showmanship, I’m interested in supposed left wingers espousing left wing views and acting up on them.

Maintaining the ratchet effect for the right and insider trading your way to a comfortable retirement isn’t admirable, it’s pathetic.

We’ll all continue to vote to slow the progression to the far right but why shouldn’t we expect more than that?

This is exactly what they did to me and it’s very apparent that they’re not capable of meaningful discourse beyond childish heel digging.

Honestly, you leave Reddit to get away from this paper thin sports-team politics nonsense and yet here we are feeding the parrots.

It’s depressing.

Sure you are buddy.

You have nice day.

First, no it hasn’t. No-one would say “have the day you voted for” to someone who didn’t vote as it’s a ridiculous non sequitur.

Second, I didn’t do any of those things. You still not walking it back? Sticking to your guns when you’re dead wrong?

Then what is the point of you quipping a line that has been almost universally targeted at Trump voters to me?

As walkbacks go, this is particularly cringe.

I didn’t vote for fascism as you’re snidely implying. You know what they say about faulty conclusions.

Waits until the guillotine is half way through the neck

Bro pls bro we have to stop this bro

Is this the end of the metaverse?

I mean, it was DOA so I guess my question is more: is this Zuckerberg acknowledging that the metaverse is dead, finally?

There’s a reveal trailer and a launch trailer for Clair Obscura that give very different perspectives on the plot, well worth watching both.

Obligatory: thanks for all the daily posts!