Late 90s PC gaming. Even the simple in-game chat systems back in the days in games such as Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and many others helped people meet, socialize, and form communities.

The whole instance has become increasingly strange. I don’t interact with it at all anymore.

Phew. Finally. I was getting worried.

White Tiger Field (Byakkoya) by Susumu Hirasawa

Here’s a mostly forgotten one: Phantom 2040 for SNES

Not truly a metroidvania, but an interesting platformer shooter with branching paths and many different endings.

At least in the US the charging network has been a huge differentiator. I’ve heard from a few people doing road-trips in non-Teslas and having trouble with the multitude of charging networks. Superchargers can get busy but I’ve never had a problem with them or gotten stranded. Hopefully NACS will improve this situation for all brands.

Yeah if I could buy a similar car with the same features at the same price from a manufacturer like Toyota, the choice for better build quality is obvious. However up until basically this year that has not been the case. My only real complaint with my M3 is the terrible paint they use. But I can live with it.

In the 5 years I’ve owned my Model 3 it’s never needed any service. Only new tires. They are not even remotely as bad of a car as clickbait sites make them out to be. Yeah yeah Teslas aren’t perfect, but no car is. Be realistic.

It being associated with Musk and his crazy rants is annoying though. Almost annoying enough to trade it in, but I don’t particularly want to spend a bunch of money and getting rid of an almost like-new working car.

As someone who still drives a Tesla vehicle I bought years ago, well before Musk totally went off the rails, can he please just leave?

Tesla’s lofty stock price is to some extent based on hype, and Musk being credited (far too much imo) for the company’s success. If he did leave the stock price would come down to something more sensible, which at least short-term would make shareholders unhappy. But yeah leaving him in charge after what he did to Twitter must also be causing sleepless nights.

The iconic and tastefully restrained design of the Blade Runner handgun https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/(Blade_Runner)_-_LAPD_2019_Blaster

https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=feddit.de

Feddit.de no longer shows all instances dead here, like it did before this update, but they are now “Lagging”. I don’t know what that means though. Perhaps it needs a long time for federation to catch up after the update?

The bug may hopefully fixed with https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4330

And then waiting for a new release with the bugfix.

You can see federation status now on https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=lemm.ee and yeah it’s been broken with the 0.19 update.

There’s a pretty good reasoning for this in the article:

“an independent third-party committee had found evidence of tampering with safety tests on as many as 64 vehicle models, including those sold under the Toyota brand.”

What a pillock. Guess what Peter, we actively dislike you too.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Mandatory periodic (typically annual/biannual) safety inspections are fairly common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection

News outlets like the BBC try (in my experience most of the time, but not always) to avoid implying something without some evidence or source. The driver was probably at fault, but it could have been a mechanical failure, a panicky swerve to avoid a dog running into the road, etc. Without knowing more they report passively, which I feel is appropriate.

I grew up with Keen to Counter-Strike 1.6 roughly so I am familiar, and nostalgic, but I haven’t played everything of course.

The Tex Murphy series is a really good one. I’ve never played any of those games. Thanks for the suggestion.