I’ve known about this for years, and I’m still convinced that in a few years time you’re going to see collectors and/or used game store clerks going “Ah see this one is valuable because it’s got the bittering agent still intact. It hasn’t all been licked off.”

Here’s my rule: Anything in my Chevy S10 that you control by turning a knob, moving a lever, or momentarily push a button? That needs to be a physical control in a car. Anything where you push and hold a button, or mash a button multiple times (like setting the clock or turning off the DRLs respectively) can be moved to a settings menu in a touch screen. These things shouldn’t be done while moving.

And no, touch sensitive single-function panels like the climate controls in my father’s Avalon are not good enough, it needs to be a mechanical control that you can feel for without activating.

There will be a single digit number of games for it and all of them will require subscriptions to play and half of them will be canceled +/- 2 months from launch and then impossible to play because the servers are shut down.

How many PS5 Pros will be sold at retail, taken out of the package, hooked up to a TV, and never play a game that you could play on a normal PS5 or even a PS4?

I actually struggled to identify what part of the screen was an ad, and I’m less able to be outraged about a TV channel displaying what content they will be broadcasting later than ads for unrelated products. Similar to how I’m okay with or even want to see movie previews before a movie, but I better not see a commercial for insurance or consumer electronics.

Free market economy != Capitalism.

Is that 30 pound figure green or kiln dried?

Typically they’ll do a major revamp or a clean sheet design of a model, so the 2005 Hoyota Civrolla is a completely new car. The 2006 Civrolla will be available in a few different paint colors and 2 different wheel options. The 2007 model has a different grille so it looks even more like it’s smiling while wearing a retainer. The 2008 model has a different washer bottle assembly and the battery tray is now molded plastic instead of stamped steel. The 2008 model is available with a 2.7 liter engine in addition to the 3.6. 2009 they eliminate the base model trim so now they all have power mirrors and cruise control. The 2010 models with CD players can now play mp3s off the CD. 2011 they only sell the 6-speed manual with the 2.7 liter engine, the V6 is only available with an automatic. 2012 they do a major style update, same chassis and running gear, different bodywork and the interior shares more components with the Elamry.

Other than a flip phone in 2005 that died a death I now have the skills to fix, I have never bought a new phone after only one year. I upgraded from an S4 to an S10. The time to flat out reject the yearly release cycle is over a decade old at this point.

My understanding is it’s Home Depot but green and only in flyover states.

There’s an entire genre of tiktok videos out there of women saying things like “So this guy I like asked me out, and I said no, and he was like okay bye and just walked away. What is with men not pursuing women anymore?”

Hmm what was that hashtag popular a few years ago? #nomeanskeepgoing?

“No means no” they said. Meanwhile in this very thread: “I’m actually in love with the guy that stalked me.”

If you want no to mean no, you have to say different things when you mean something other than no. If you want to play hard to get, A) don’t, you suck at it and B) maybe let him know that’s the game you’re playing so he’ll actually try hard to get you instead of just taking a flat rejection at face value; ie don’t just say “no” say “You’ll have to try harder than that” or something that indicates you are open to further attention. What saying “no” when you actually mean “try harder” accomplishes is you filter out the guys who take no for an answer leaving your dating pool only filled with the men who don’t really care that much about consent.

As for the “I turned him down becuase I wasn’t interested in him, then we actually talked and turned out I actually like the guy” story…I guess maybe try actually talking to guys? Even if you don’t cream your gusset at first sight?

To make toast, follow these simple instructions:

1. partially unplug the power cable from the toaster and pinch its cheeks.

2 plug the cable part of the way in and apply two or three cocktail fork fulls of semen. Place a dish of butter nearby.

3, Plug the cable into the top of the toaster, plug a different cable into the bottom. Insert a slice of bread into one of the slots. Swap the butter for a small dish of ketchup.

4 Swap the ketchup for a jar of duck sauce, fondle the bread.

3. Swap the jar of duck sauce for a scalpel and the tweezers from a swiss army knife. Tell the bread “Ah c’mon you.”

2 Unplug the toaster completely, get a Pez dispenser, and turn the bread…sideways?

2. Plug the toaster back in, get a different dish of butter, pinch the bread.

3. Scrape the bread with a fork on a worried tray near a concerned butter knife.

Serve on a plate with losenges, coffee, whippets and coffee.

Lemmy aggressively wants to correct my numbering scheme. Could we just scrap markup formatting entirely on this platform? It fucks up more than it helps.

Why say “enshittificate” when “enshittify” will do?

enshittificate isn’t a word.

I love scenes where a character hotwires a car by:

• reaching under the steering wheel and pulling a panel off. It isn’t held on by fasteners or anything, it’s just like wedged in place.

• A bunch of loosely coiled wires tumbles out. In front are two thicker wires that are cut, stripped and tinned.

• The character strikes these two wires against each other like attempting to strike a match, mostly to make sparks.

• The sound of a car engine turning over plays.

• Climb in, shut the door, put it in gear and drive off.

Star Wars had basically no concept of fuel until like, one of the recent movies I didn’t watch. Obi-Wan calls a TIE fighter “a short range fighter” in A New Hope. Luke flies an X-Wing all over creation; several are shown jumping to hyperdrive alongside other larger ships in Jedi, it’s established that X-Wings are FTL capable.

Anyone who says that while wearing pants is a filthy liar.

I suppose they do suffer from the “Known in the state of Cancer to cause California” problem. A bubble level app wants in-app purchases and GPS access.

If you can do so without some other crime such as breaking and entering, sure. If you can buy a bottle of coke off the shelf and then reverse engineer its formula, there’s not much they can legally do about that.

I wonder if you phrased it the way the Play store does: This game wants permission to:

• send SMS messages
• make calls
• know your location
• stalk your family
• raid your fridge
• access, read and upload files
• manage and add contacts
• cup your balls
• go through your trash
• irritate your boss

etc.

Think anyone would install them?

I would enjoy a copy of Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance with some spiffed up lighting effects, maybe the mech pack mechs included in the base game, and higher resolution copies of the FMV segments. I have my original copy but I can’t get it to run on Linux. Wonder if there’s a way to wash a CD game through Steam Play. Lutris…doesn’t function as software? It’s one of those magnetic “performance enhancing” bracelets, it doesn’t do anything but it has convinced a LOT of people it does.

This may be stretching the premise a little bit but I would like to play the game they thought they were making when they made Ride To Hell: Retribution.