So therefore they should model everything anew again?

“Standing on the shoulders of giants” is a saying in science. We build on the work that came before.

Same with Rockstar. Go back and play GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas.

You really feel how these were built on the same engine/platform and how each game kinda just feels like the game they made while making the other game. If you look at the timelines San Andreas came quickly after Vice City (by modern standards at least). Imagine if they didn’t upgrade and reuse assets? If everything was to be built from scratch.

I’m hyped because Rockstar has a solid track record (* for new releases).

Doesn’t sound like you’re doing too well at the moment then 😅

Something something “not supposed to join them”.

Norway ran on 100% renewables for like 80 years, but no one cares.

Only reason we’re not at 100% anymore is because politicians don’t find it a priority to be self-sufficient and it’s much better to sell Norwegian renewable electricity to Europe for a profit, then buy back dirty electricity and let the consumers in Norway pay a cable transit tax to the government.

See, now you get to sell the energy twice, and both times at a higher rate.

Plenty of known loopholes for tax avoidance.

Used to work for a company that made killer profit, but 85-90% of it was funneled to the parent company to pay for the leverage of the PE investors who bought the company for 10x their EBITDA. Say we made 100 million EBITDA, the official result was around 10-15 million, and was the basis for our taxation.

All this money was paid as various fees and licenses and was calculated into the budget the year before. We had specific goals that we needed to hit and, and bonus payment was based on these goals. Our collective bonuses was a drop in the ocean compared to the result of the company.

The parent company in Germany then had at least three levels of holding companies, all incorporated in Luxembourg, between them and the owners.

Was a fun place to work when we got sold as suddenly there were som extra rounds of bonuses to go around as carrots for us to stay on during the sale, and even more stay-on bonuses for those who staid on after the sale.

According to my boss at the time - the perk of being in a PE backed company.

Wouldn’t be surprised if they’re up for sales again next year.

You should have been older in the glory days.

GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas - in rapid succession.

Followed by GTA IV

Followed by Red Dead Redemption (which I only played after RDR2, because I assumed they’d make a PC-port)

Followed by GTA V

2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2013

Then it took until 2018 to get RDR2, and at best we’re seeing GTA VI in 2024.

And let us not forget that we had GTA and GTA2 back in the 90’s. 1997 and 1999.

No law against playing poker without looking at your cards. Chances are you’ll loose.

Your choice. Same with assuming what a topic is and arguing straw men.

And they probably scan your surroundings and upload it to the cloud. Only thing creepier would be Amazon making the same thing and then sending you ads for stuff that goes with whatever they saw you had or replacements for old stuff you have.

Who would you elect after being displaced into the world’s largest prison by someone who took over your home 60 years ago?

Not defending the actions of Hamas, but such an outcome was more or less inevitable. Hate breeds hate.

Same MO as always. If you’re not with Israel (the country) you are anti-Semitic, have forgotten about the Holocaust (which you should feel ashamed of letting happen), and support terrorism.

Principally agree. If we want to make a dent we need to be going into carbon capture mode - as most likely we’re already seeing cascading effects from the emissions already caused. Permafrost melting and releasing methane, the ocean warming up and holding less CO2.

But the numbers you use are horrid.

The average EV weighs maybe around 300 kg more than a comparable fossil car. Sure, the Hummer EV weighs a fuckton, but a regular Hummer ICE isn’t exactly a Lotus either.

The other negative trend in weight is the SUV-ification of society, and if you swap a Civic for an iX you get double padding.

Lifetime emissions cast a much bigger shadow than production emissions and most EV’s are climate positive one year in (average driving length, average electricity mix).

All of that said; don’t buy an EV to save the planet. Buy an EV because it’s a better car and better for your wallet. Depending on a multitude of factors these may not hold true for you yet, and you should probably just keep driving what you drive.

People focus way too much on the downsides of EV’s like charging infrastructure issues or waiting to charge.

All vehicles have tradeoffs and just because you’re used to filling petrol doesn’t mean it’s a pleasant activity. I’ve spent way too much time freezing at the petrol pump in the winter.

I actually did the math and found I’ve been spending way too much time at the petrol pumps. Driving electric I plug in at home. Takes a few seconds just like plugging in your phone.

Going out for petrol takes ten minutes. Driving on trips my bladder is still the weakest link, but every now and then charging adds a few minutes here and there, sometimes more.

Estimated net average time savings per year over the last four years is about 3-4 hours driving electric instead of ICE. That includes an hour less filling in freezing conditions.

But I digress.

TLDR; Climate is fucked, but EV’s can be good fun. Don’t feel obliged to buy one just yet, wait until it makes sense.

Well, the player can choose which gender V is, plus there’s a lot of catering to gender fluidity.

It’s definitely a conscious choice, but I can’t say if it’s to not have to record more variations of dialogue, and maybe NPC’s use it less so not to draw attention to them not knowing V’s gender.

That said, nothing that really bothered me, although I still haven’t gone through the entire game.

But maybe it’s just how they picture 2077? Just look at recent history and draw an exponential curve and assume pronouns just went out of fashion?

Tbh I gave up on mobile gaming about 8 years ago. Got so tired of sifting through the crud looking for gems.

They do where I live.

All companies report salary and tax, all banks report income, debt, and interest cost, stock trades, unions report up to your deductible amount, etc.

Certain stuff you will have to fill yourself, but 50% doesn’t have to do anything. They can check and correct if necessary, but if they don’t do anything it will file automatically.

If you paid too much tax it comes onto your account a month or two later.

Too little and you get an invoice.

It’s not hard to do, but starting in 2023 and catching up is much harder than starting in 2000 and improving incrementally.

I suspect the cash was in the coats, not the gold bars. Although the headline can be creatively interpreted as that there was cash stuffed in gold bars. That would be kinda cool though.

“Small business” are always being peddled out for things like this.

“Ironically” small business thrives better in countries with socialized health care and good social security safety nets.

Considering their business seemed to run in the negative - turning that around probably matters the most.

At best they did, at worst this somehow comes off as “better”, because they anchored the “worse” alternative first.

https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/dealmaking-daily/dealmaking-grappling-with-anchors-in-negotiation/

Likely this price model is worth a lot to them anyway, because there likely some big fish that are stuck in, and who are better off just paying Unity than sinking all that development cost to switch to a different engine.

The small projects that go under or jumps ship is probably not worth that much to them anyway, but probably generates an ongoing support cost neither way.

Thus, cynically speaking, Unity is probably better off like this, and they even got some PR out of it. Wether good or bad.