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Kick the front window out with your feet.
Most Americans are completely incapable of that, and it’s not just strength hah.
Then they wouldn't be able to climb out the window either.
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#72“In truth, the evolution of vehicle technology has not been a good one over-all.” Safety-wise, nothing has scored higher than new EVs like the Tesla, so there is some progress. Infotainment-wise, that’s a different story…
The Tesla can play AAA video games as well. Not sure what else you want out of your infotainment system.
I don’t have a Tesla. Genuine question. Does anyone actually play video games on their car’s console? If you’re that desperate to play a video game while driving or as a passenger, can’t you use your phone?
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#73Re: videogames - no.
I had about 9 video-games for my NES. The majority were unplayable enough that I never beat them as a child (Zelda 2, Double-dragon 2, mario 1, mario 3, gauntlet). Zelda 2 would routinely delete all of my progress because there was a physical battery in the cartridge that was running out. I had to work all kinds of magic to get the system to even start (alcohol wipes, blowing, cramming stuff in there). None of the NES games had an acceptable multiplayer.
If he had said N64 then maybe.
Regardless, downloading a 1 gigabyte update to a game takes less time than driving to the store to buy a game, so I think the whole complaint is baseless.
But this to me shows the author isn't being remotely objective in his evaluations.
Re: car touchscreens - then buy a car without touchscreens.
This is just a 4 completely unrelated complaints. Out of the 70,000 things that have changed in the last 30 years I could easily cherry-pick 4 that have gotten better and write an article about how everything has gotten objectively better.
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#74The thing that bugs me about video games these days is that they all seem like a bunch of work instead of the fun of discovery.
For me it has felt like that since the early 2000s. I was born in the seventies. Is it an age thing? I can only get into a couple of games that were made after 2000. But I beat every cave on all 5 levels in Boulder Dash!
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#75I tried playing Civ 6 the other day with my friend, here's what happened; - Game crashed on startup - after searching online for a bit apparently changing your Steam Download Region can fix it. As in not redownloading the game from another region, just changing the setting. This worked. - Start game, started in Windowed mode and changing resolution caused the mouse to move super slowly. Restart game. Fixed. - Try to…
I believe it's mostly due to a global change at the lower levels. It seems similar to google never ending beta (every month basic apps change in layout, color, UX.. it's surprisingly exhausting, even when there's a good idea, which is rare, it's flooded by a bag of mistakes). The constant update model with broadband/fiber access means changing things cost zero, no cost => no pressure to provide something of high quality.
Then games have been rethought to be only online .. many games don't have local multiplayer modes now.. it's a cultural/economical shift.
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#76GoldenEye on Nintendo 64 was peak “play video games with a group of friends”. Now, it seems like every game is single player per console. So if my son has buddies over, they all haul their own Xbox’s and monitors (or scrounge my old ones from the basement closet). It’s considerably more difficult. Even though the TV screens now are so much larger! Craziness. I solidly agree.
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#78He had me until he started shitting on MS Office. I would disagree, I think O365 kind of crushes it value-wise. And yeah, they added the ribbon in 2007 . The UI hardly changes year to year, and if you know Excel 2013 you will pick up Excel O365 pretty quickly, and you will actually be pretty psyched about some of the new features.
Subscriptions for MS Office is nothing but a money grab. It is not useful to me. Maybe it’s useful for enterprises. But I use word and excel a couple times per YEAR. I don’t fit the subscription model, but there’s no option to buy once and upgrade again in, say, 3 years. So I’ve mostly moved to Libreoffice and Google Docs.
Yes, you're not the target audience. That happens.
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#79I tried playing Civ 6 the other day with my friend, here's what happened; - Game crashed on startup - after searching online for a bit apparently changing your Steam Download Region can fix it. As in not redownloading the game from another region, just changing the setting. This worked. - Start game, started in Windowed mode and changing resolution caused the mouse to move super slowly. Restart game. Fixed. - Try to…
Honestly, I haven't seen anything like that level of issue recently and I strongly suspect the issue here is Civ Six itself. The last multiplayer game I played was Halo infinite. It went great. Did exactly what it's supposed to. ETA: I am on Windows... At a cursory glance it looks like changing the download region fixes an issue you encounter in MacOS after updating the operating system. Apple being an also-ran platf…
I’ve had a horrible experience with that game. From extremely poor performance on an expensive graphics card, to the game just refusing to start without crashing.
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#80In my case, the whole Smartphone ecosystem has been a disappointment.
I was an early adopter of PDAs and early smartphones, I used them constantly and wrote apps and games for those.
Today I barely touch my old iPhone SE.
I find the devices boring and bland, infinite scrolling seems to be the only thing to do. F2P ruined games, and most apps are crappy/cloud based/badly implemented web apps.