The Guys podcast has a pretty fun episode about this.

Elon Musk and a board of directors that are controlled by Elon Musk.

There’s been some discussion over the years that Tesla never seriously tried to make the battery swap work, that they did it to claim subsidies from California which they subsequently never returned to the taxpayers.

Oh, yeah I think you’re right. I think I might’ve changed it at some point.

Just checked and it’s under system > gestures > press and hold power button

I also have a pixel 6 and holding down power also works, though you have to wait a second. Power and volume up is instant.

Pity they didn’t get a real Aussie to voice the character

Yeah, Ask Historians was the only truly good subreddit, at least in terms of moderation and quality of content.

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It came out on PC first

150m a year doesn’t seem that much, honestly. I know people think “oh, it’s just a website” but it takes a lot of work and money in salaries and infrastructure hosting to keep a web application as popular as Wikipedia up and running.

Void Bastards was heaps of fun. Might be time for another playthrough before the sequel (Wild Bastards) comes out.

Unbelievable.

Can’t wait for chatGPT to call me good sir and tell me I win the internet.

I don’t ever remember people taking Quora very seriously. It was always full of insufferable questions and replies.

Because then the company and public would have to come to terms with the fact that they are wildly overvalued based on Musk’s lies about their technology and capabilities and the stock price would tank. Also, the board is loaded with Musk cronies if I understand it correctly.

Commodore 64, probably around '86 or so. It had a tape drive and games would take like 20 minutes to load. Crazy to think about now.

Later on (probably around 1989 or 1990) I got an Amstrad 8086 PC. IIRC it had maybe 1mb ram (pretty large for the time) and a massive 20mb hard drive. I remember playing games like bubble Bobble, the Sierra adventure games and so on. A few years later I got a 386 DX PC and played a lot of wing Commander and privateer, dune 2, LucasArts games and so on.

Ahhh, memories!

To be fair, WoW is an actual complete game, while SC is very, very unfinished. And I say this as someone who occasionally plays it and gets some enjoyment out of it.

NDT channeling Reddit and The Oatmeal ca. 2012

The 1 billion termination fee only applied in very specific circumstances. He couldn’t just choose to pay it because he didn’t want to go ahead with the purchase.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-cant-just-walk-away-from-twitter-deal-by-paying-1-billion.html

Edit: Well, to be clear he actually he could decide to pay 1 billion and walk away but he would be opening himself up to a multi-billion dollar lawsuit from Twitter for breaking the contract.

I feel this. I’m still in the first act and taking my time, but I’ve already lost Gale because I accidentally selected the option to not give him a magical item to consume after he asked a second time - I said I would, and then when I went into the selection menu I realized I couldn’t give him the item I intended, so I backed out and he said fuck you and left. So that’s great for me. Maybe he’ll come back later but then again maybe not. So that’s a whole character I don’t have any more because of an accident.

Oh, and I also never got Lazel because I never went to the area where she was captured until much later and she wasn’t there any more. I did find her (before that, funnily enough) as part of the cut scene with the Githyanki near the bridge but I didn’t know she was a playable character, plus she acted like an enemy and I was really low level and got destroyed so I had to reload. So that’s another character I don’t have and may never get, although I’ll have to go back now that I’m a higher level and see what happens.

My point is that it’s really easy to miss out on large parts of the game due to random or accidental decisions, so I do understand people who find the experience off-putting. Still, I’ve been lucky to have enough free time to be able to play through with my wife so I’ve been able to avoid a lot of the stuff I fucked up in my solo game, and I personally love the game despite the experiences I outlined above.