Curious whether the choice to use “we” and “us” lowercase is intentional. In French, if it’s a group of women it’s “elles” but 99 women and one man and it becomes “ils”. I would have thought the inclusion of CPUs capitalizing “We” and “Us” would have made sense.

The great JFEGs of our time

It doesn’t help that he talks nearly in allegory.

It’s hard to point at one thing because often what he says is indirect and implied. When you call him out on it, he says “I didn’t say that.”

Assuming you’re actually interested in his rhetorical techniques and not just a Stan trolling, the podcast “Decoding the Gurus” did a few episodes on him. In the first episode, I’d say they even came down with a positive assessment of him! But they talk about his ability to speak in pseudo-profound bullshit and how it shields him from direct criticism like you’re asking for.

Coincidentally I just started playing Earthbound (Maternalbound Redux ROM hack) this month. I’m just past the monkey cave. It’s charming, simple, fun. It’s great for my dad brain as right now I’m doing a lot of parenting and my brain isn’t able to handle something more complex.

I love the humor and the adult jokes.

Hell yes to transit and alternatives to car infrastructure, but I’d also still prefer small quiet electric cars where the driver is eye level to me over a sea of grills with tinted windows and diesel engines rumbling.

Reminds me of Above Znoneofthe

I’m ok with an article, but I much prefer it when someone accompanies it with a discussion in the body or comments.

The generative AI and NFT concerns were overblown. His generative AI comment was from his other game, AI art imposter which has AI in the title. For crypto stuff, it’s likely because his company just chases trends. Say what you will about that, but to me a trend chaser is more innocuous than a grifter.

I wish this were an article/column, but it’s a brief video if you want a journalist’s perspective: https://youtu.be/mYBN5Er8qOs

The article doesn’t whiff on this, it lays out why it’s too expensive.

1. The strategy was to replace gas cars with EV 1-to-1 to solve the climate crisis and save the car industry.
2. Gas cars have gotten bigger over the years because of marketing, bravado, “safety”, and regulation-skirting.
3. EV-makers have largely bought into that and made all these huge EVs.
4. Huge EVs require bigger batteries which are more expensive in raw materials and manufacturing.
5. Huge batteries are heavy and dangerous.
6. Range anxiety has encouraged even more oversized batteries on already oversized cars.
7. Huge batteries are the main source of cost, meaning EVs end up being a luxury.

So, yes–they are too damn expensive, however a vehicle that meets our actual needs wouldn’t be, if it existed in North America.