Hope they do not expand too quickly and collapse under themselves.

The sequel might require players to have played previous games in the series to understand the story.

Not everyone. I dont make choices based on politics, because I do not engage with or participate in politics as best I can. Especially here on Lemmy.

As a mod for .world/c/cars, I only make choices based on the rules of the community and instance. I might not agree with a post or comment, but if it isn’t breaking the rules then I don’t do anything about it, and if its reported content then I will just close the report. Admittedly, its pretty low traffic so I haven’t needed to do much, and the other mod is great and handles things usually before I need to get involved.

I believe it is the responsibility of a mod, admin, or other figure in a position of power to not abuse that power. Fair and equal application of rules, extending the benefit of the doubt but still firm about the rules, etc. are ways to avoid this IMO, so that is what I try to do.

Someone having a different opinion or belief should never be a reason for mod action, even if I think that opinion or belief is wrong. Unless it is against the rules (or clearly dangerous such as suggesting drinking bleach for any reason), it should be allowed to be said. Users shouldnt be afraid to have posts removed at random or because I dont agree with them. Sometimes this means a new rule needs to be made, and thats okay.

Why should I know this? The body of your post doesn’t include this information. Why is this important for me to know?

A study by French speaking researchers, published entirely in French, backed a French bank/investment firm, finds that French will be the future most spoken language in the world!

Totally unbiased study. Very and completely neutral.

This has to be satire, right?

A study by Munhwao speaking researchers, published entirely in Munhwao, backed by the government of North Korea, finds that Munhwao will actually be the most spoken language in the world in the future!!

As long as you don’t call yourself Harry Dresden while banging on your neighbor’s door asking where their daughter is, I think you’ll be okay.

Welcome to the “didn’t ask to be a mod, but the admins asked enough for us to say yes” team lol. Thanks for taking on the responsibility. Being a mod isn’t a fun job most of the time, but someone’s gotta do it.

Dodge Charger Daytona EV really struggling for sales because the target demographic of people that buy these cars doesn’t have a lot of overlap with people that buy EVs. So Chevy is probably not going to want to have the same struggle with their Camaro.

I kinda like the look of it, not gonna lie. I don’t know about reliability, but if they keep offering the 10/100 warranty and the price is low, it might not be a bad entry option. Kias and Hyundais are pretty simple, so maybe it will be easy to mod?

When I worked as a tech for a Hyundai dealer, the engines (other than the 2.4L) weren’t really that bad reliability-wise. The most common issue I saw (again, other than the recalled 2.4L) when the cars got older was to me the interior felt cheaper/more worn out than other cars might have given the same wear and tear. But even the '09 Equus was still pretty nice once it was 10 years old.

I do remember I didn’t really like whatever V6 they put in the Azera. At cold starts the timing chain would slap around even on brand new ones. Just bad design IMO, because the timing chain tensioners didn’t have enough spring force to prevent the noise at start up once oil pressure bled out of the tensioner. It didnt really do anything for premature wear, just made noise at cold starts because the oil pressure builds pretty fast. During my time at Hyundai, I only ever had to replace one V6, and it was in a Santa Fe. Owner had replaced it already once with a used engine from LKQ, and that one finally blew up and they wanted me to put in another LKQ used engine. Weird customer, but its their car.

Honestly, I think you should use them for anti-piracy DRM. Steam’s DRM is easy to crack, and so when we were thinking about how to make our game unpiratable, we just decided to use the Steam Achievements system like a save file. The game just loads the game state based on what achievements the player unlocked. You know, I never talk about this, but I used to work for Blizzard. I was the first second-generation Blizzard employee. But like, I never talk about it, so having worked there really taught me to think outside the box. So yeah, use achievements as DRM. Makes your game unpiratable.

Kinda shocking it isn’t a British brand that contracted the likes of brands such as Lucas Industries. They don’t exactly have the best reputation among MG and Jag owners lol.

• He has run the company.

This sounds less correct than:

• He ran the company.

Both imply that “he” has been running the company from some point in the past until the present time of the statement or a past time. Neither carries an implication of anything happening in the future tense. Obviously, “he has ran the company” is improper English, but both examples above are correct for the context.

Everyone downvoted me when I said Sony would keep increasing prices when they had no real competition. Nintendo dropped out, and Microsoft seems to be having no interest in competing, so now we are seeing exactly what I said would happen, happen.

Even if this were true, most people in the market for a racing vehicle aren’t going to pick this. This is marketed to a tiny niche of a niche, and if it had more utility options it might be more of an option to a bigger market than its current configuration.

I like that it is affordable for what is allegedly being offered, but I find it hard to believe that this is going to do well at market.

$40k in that exact configuration? Its not really going to have much of a market, even if that seems extremely cheap for what is pictured there.

People don’t usually buy trucks only to race them. If the rear wing can be removed and the bed can be used normally, then I can see more utility and therefore more sales, but otherwise I just see a company trying to market to a niche of a niche.

Now listen up! Back in my day, we didn’t have fancy allowance money! We had siblings. Two siblings and a single income for the entire family! And we had to share the single income! You should consider yourself very lucky children!

I get this is supposed to be satire, but do what you want. I don’t control you. But you are responsible for what you choose to do (or not do). Childcare is a big responsibility, and if you can’t handle it, at the very least be responsible enough to realize that and not subject potential children to mistreatment.

Its pretty easy to not have kids. It does take self-control, though.

I would like to point out that there are deadbeat moms as well. It’s not exclusively a dad thing, its more a “deadbeat parent” thing. Unfortunately, which is absolutely crazy.

If anyone can’t handle kids, just don’t have kids, please.

No, the problem is the people. All the people. Even if you take away business and money, which isn’t realistic, you still have to deal with the fact that humans are awful to each other, especially when they have power over each other. Government rulers throughout history have been horrible to their subjects just for the love of the game, sometimes they didn’t even get anything out of it. They just wanted others to suffer.

Look at Reddit, or even here on Lemmy, honestly. Is every moderator and admin some magnanimous and benevolent person? No, of course not. Moderators have a bit of a reputation for being horrendously corrupt power trippers, right? Do they get paid to be that way? Sure, some, but even without that they would likely act the same regardless. And I am a moderator here on Lemmy saying this.

There are not enough “nice” people in the world for a human government to ever work the way you suggest. And even if there were, there is no guarantee that they would always be that way. All it takes is one person criticizing people with authority, one person suggesting something those with authority don’t like, etc. No human government ever started from purely bad intentions. But the bad was baked in from before the start, it is unavoidable.

Not just the US government. All government. Literally all of them. Not a single human government has ever existed in the history of humanity that wasn’t the villain of the story.

I am not an anarchist, governments provide useful services and protections for their citizens. But lets not fool ourselves into thinking that any government is better than another, they are all bad equally, just in different ways.

Looks like she is standing in a kitchen, actually.

I see a tiled kitchen backsplash, above head cabinets, and utentils like salt shakers and the white box looks like a microwave or a toaster oven, or maybe its a coffee machine.