Yeah I know, but its not in the body of the post per Rule 2. Plenty of really bad YSKs that didnt belong here had the same thing and I called some of them out too. So in order to be fair I have to ask it here too, thats all.

I don’t wanna be that guy, but I have to be fair and ask:

Why should I know this?

Its bad that the trademark and branded logos match again?

Just slapping the Silent Hill name on a game doesn’t make it a Silent Hill game. Or even having the same music composer.

Silent Hill f doesn’t take place in Silent Hill, and places greater focus on combat than entries in the series prior to Homecoming. Also, Silent Hill is not “trauma exploration: the game series.” That was Silent Hill 2, and potentially the original plans for Silent Hill 3 before Konami forced major story rewrites. Silent Hill 1 and 4 do not have those themes at all, and instead they focus on the town itself, its history and events that took place there. Both Harry Mason and Henry Townshend are completely innocent protagonists with no inherent or implied trauma that is explored in the games narratives. Every Silent Hill game since Homecoming came out has tried to copy Silent Hill 2 2001, including its own remake, and failed by placing too much focus on combat due to the camera system and a shift in how the combat works.

Silent Hill f, if it didn’t have the name, would be easily called anything else. It isn’t a game that without the name is still clearly Silent Hill. Even Homecoming at least had the town of Silent Hill as the setting. f has nothing to connect it to the series except for the potentially white claudia reference, and just surface level similarities. Lake Haven on Steam isn’t a Silent Hill game just because it has fog, fixed camera controls, and a trauma exploring narrative. Even if it was called Silent Hill: Lake Haven.

I think Silent Hill f is okay as a game on its own. But its not a Silent Hill game. Silent Hill f is like calling Kuon (the FromSoftware survival horror game) “Resident Evil: Heian Period Japan Edition.” Or like calling Call of Duty Infinite “Halo.” There may be similarities, but the name does not apply.

Silent Hill f isn’t a Silent Hill game.

Wilhelm scream.

Looks like it would probably be fine for most Europeans, but for anyone in the Americas (North, Central, and South) or Africa or much of Asia (anywhere that is even slightly rural, really), this isn’t likely to be a good choice. Unless you live in a really dense city like New York, maybe. But in those cities you can probably just walk instead, since housing tends to be pretty close to employment in those cities.

I pay more than $350 dollars every year because of that 59 cent tax. Maybe I wouldn’t feel I have a right to complain if California did not also collect taxes from other avenues, such as property taxes, car registration fees, and other fees and taxes that also allegedly pay for road maintenance, when I go outside and the roads in my area were re-paved every few years instead of once in the last 25 years I have lived in my current area in South California. Im not even out in the boonies or a low population city.

Even if I am being overly generous, at a little over 36 million registered vehicles in California, and lets just say I am an anomoly with a 27 gallon gas tank so we can say California gets less than half of my gas tax amount, which can be $125 per year, then the government gets ~$4.5 billion just from the 59 cent gas tax alone. Now I dont know about you, but that number sounds awfully reasonable to at least slurry coat a road more often than once every 25 years. Or just crack and pothole filling. Literally anything. And that is a low number I know is below the real numbers they are getting. 4.5 billion which is already alotted to be only for road maintenance and repair, and does not include any other additional income for road repair.

I don’t expect a new road every week, every year or even every other year. But 25 years (that I know of, probably longer) inbetween is way too long, by that point the road is so deteriorated that they are basically making a new road instead of just maintaining and repairing the existing one.

California has a tax on gasoline specifically for roads, which is 59 cents per gallon of gas, and it accounts for ~80% of the money they collect for road maintenance.

I mean, everyone that lives here knows the government isnt fixing the roads often enough to justify the immense funding they get for the roads. Many roads in my area might as well be gravel due to their state of disrepair. But they nontheless do collect taxes for road maintenance specifically from car drivers only. And theyre now considering moving to charging you per-mile imstead because diesel and electric cars don’t pay that tax right now, which should theoretically result in a lower charge for everyone, but we know that isnt gonna happen. As if they dont get enough money already. Highest taxes in the nation and still isnt enough, I guess.

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.