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Post by forgottenlord on Dec 23, 2023 13:32:26 GMT -5
I would love to get an all electric or hybrid, but will wait for at least the third generation and not named Tesla. Given that this is prolly a platform and quality issue I can assume other manufacturers will not have a similar problem with their vehicles. Non-plugin hybrids seem to be pretty decent - though a test drive of a Kia made me conclude that theirs is shiiiiit. Toyota's was really good. The cost premium for them seems to be relatively small. It's not a zero-emission solution, but boy does it seem to really improve mileage. Plugin hybrids seem to be a small market with a lengthy wait time.
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Post by LA_Randy on Dec 23, 2023 19:58:09 GMT -5
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Post by mrobvious on Dec 23, 2023 21:17:31 GMT -5
So it looks like the game New Cycle is going to use some type of AI scripting that forces you to have conversations with traders, rather than the usual scripted choices to choose from in a dialogue tree. I don't know how this will be implemented but it seems to be more like a conversation and dependent on what you see there will be a reaction.
I was waiting for something like that coming down the pike. While this is interesting it can also get tedious. In games like these - survival civilization games with more overview building, the novelty will most likely turn into tedium if it is strictly conversation based. Ideally all type of trading should be fairly instantaneous. Altho it might be implemented as an optional.
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Post by forgottenlord on Dec 23, 2023 22:00:50 GMT -5
So it looks like the game New Cycle is going to use some type of AI scripting that forces you to have conversations with traders, rather than the usual scripted choices to choose from in a dialogue tree. I don't know how this will be implemented but it seems to be more like a conversation and dependent on what you see there will be a reaction. I was waiting for something like that coming down the pike. While this is interesting it can also get tedious. In games like these - survival civilization games with more overview building, the novelty will most likely turn into tedium if it is strictly conversation based. Ideally all type of trading should be fairly instantaneous. Altho it might be implemented as an optional. Ew.... Trading is a chore that you need to get done between missions. If you had it as a way to get optional barter benefits, there's definitely a share of the community that would love it, but there's a reason why many games implement a single "sell all junk" button.
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Post by LA_Randy on Dec 24, 2023 9:27:14 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenlord on Dec 24, 2023 14:30:31 GMT -5
"Wait.... I thought Kevin O'Leary was on Dragon's Den" (Canadian Shark Tank)
Turns out... both
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Post by mrobvious on Dec 24, 2023 14:56:33 GMT -5
Trumps brief on presidential immunity is most likely written by a moron. It claims that the judiciary has no say on presidents. They're basically kings that can do nothing wrong, nor face any consequences other than impeachment.
I get that you get terrible legal advice when you can only hire idiots. But jesus. There is no room for any rightwing judge or justice to bail him out from that nonsense. Well, maybe Thomas.
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Post by mrobvious on Dec 24, 2023 17:29:38 GMT -5
Laura Ingrahams brothers tells all. How their father used to read from things that Adolf Hitler said and wrote and how that painted her views on immigration. He's gay, so apparently they were inseparable until she took a stand against gay marriage. And apparently she had joined Dinesh Susa as editor, on what was called the Darkness Review, that sent someone to infiltrate a gay alliance meeting and then revealed what they stated in confidence in those support meetings. This was before the internet, and before todays current acceptance of homosexuality. She ended up publishing the names of the gay alliance meeting, resulting in 1 young man committing suicide. He contacted her about it and she sent back some legalese on how she couldn't respond to that fact. Being to sociopathic coward that she is. And that was basically it for him and he decided to ghost her.
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Post by mrobvious on Dec 25, 2023 4:25:08 GMT -5
In most of Europe this ends up with both surviving and someone going home with a shiner and bruises. Both lives to tell their kids and grandkids about this stupid shit.
Not in USA.
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Post by foggyisback on Dec 25, 2023 8:22:53 GMT -5
Merry Xmas, guys and gals!
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Post by mrobvious on Dec 25, 2023 13:49:22 GMT -5
So I watched Snyders latest movie Rebel Moon on Netflix. They've been advertising it for a long time now.
And what a bland mess that one is. I don't know if it is meant to be a Star Wars/Warhammer 40k type clone, but it feels like a 5 year old wrote the script. It is so full of plot holes, tropes and worst of all, a god awful amount of slow motion effects. Like ALL THE TIME.
It reminds me of the zombie heist movie he made not long ago, where there was this absurd amount of close ups. This time it was almost all slow motion. Battle, jumping, running, screaming, flying, sliding, hiding behind furniture etc.
The CGI isn't all impressive too. And it has some of the things I like the least. Evil villain's. Their only motivation - being evil. Evil soldiers, corny evil leader. Evil regent. Evil people trying to fool others. Plus the heroes are complete dumbasses. They fall for the simplest traps.
This was 1 of 2 (or possibly more) but to be honest. 2 should be it. I really can't see myself being invested in more than this one, and will watch the second just to satisfy my need for closure.
I could say more things; just how little I cared for any of the main characters, but it just feels like a waste of a bad rant.
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Post by mrobvious on Dec 25, 2023 16:39:19 GMT -5
Comer going on Fox whining again. He kept screeching on how no one seems to see any evidence coming out of the political hit job he's doing. I mean, no shit. It reminds me of when Pelosi said after being asked about details on ACA to wait until it was passed to see what was in it.
Comer is doing something similar here; we are going to impeach Biden and THEN we are going to provide you with the evidence. So not the evidence leading TO an impeachment, but rather wait and see while they do their level best to hurt Biden going into the election.
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Post by mrobvious on Dec 25, 2023 17:13:22 GMT -5
the shallow idiots worshipping the most transparent grifter.
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Post by mrobvious on Dec 25, 2023 23:53:12 GMT -5
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