Probably gonna wait to see what the studio is like first but for the first time it might be that the mini is enough to meet my needs as well. I use a hack right now but aiming to keep that as a separate gaming pc as well

Still my favourite racing game on PC

I’d swap UK and Australia personally.

Probably because he expected for that sort of money for the only reaction to be people jizzing themselves

Ah right or maybe just having to share with a human :p

Don’t really get the top left one

I dunno if you follow car stuff much. Chip shortage during COVID affected how many cars could be made. Manufacturers saved them for high margin high value cars. Already there is a smaller market for them. Plus, charging infrastructure in some countries is behind to the point where a lot of people are sticking to petrol. That’s the wider picture.

On top of that VW made a really good EV platform and then screwed it up with a cheap interior, glitchy software, and frustrating laggy haptic buttons everywhere on cars that weren’t exactly cheap. Why bother with that when you can get a Kia Niro (as an example) with more features, a massive warranty, more range, better interior for the same or less money?

GabeN quote still as relevant as ever

Too bad many of the people in my generation who grew up with GTA games stopped caring since we’re all middle aged now anyway.

Also the impact of a new rockstar game today is very different from what it was in the 2000s. There’s so much to play now that waiting a year isn’t that big a deal when you have a giant library of Steam games.

Heh same for me too

This would be nice without the dumb captions

Yeah. Also why they avoid talking about console releases until the last moment they can get away with it.

Cock blocked

I mean this is probably why they’ve given up on making good games if they can make money anyway

This is also mentioned in the article

It’s tricky to know where to start but I’d recommend searching for papers by Andrew Clark on Google Scholar. Then you can read other referenced studies if interested etc.

What you are looking for here are studies looking at the relationship between income and subjective well-being (sometimes shortened to SWB). This is the general term for self reported measures of well-being, though of course this can be broken down further into more detailed factors such as affective (how are you right now) and cognitive (how satisfied you are with your life overall).

Premonition rather than prediction really

I work in this area of research. The issue is the headline findings from all of these studies will get reported and people will comment on how it’s obvious or offer their own explanation. The truth is that it’s a very technical / stats heavy field with a lot of the results depending on the assumptions you make and how you treat the data. The results then have to be qualified with ‘there is a positive relationship, given x y and z’. But of course that’s usually too complicated to report so all of those details get omitted, and all we are left with is a simple statement followed by hot takes from the general public.

Literally what regulation is for though it has become a dirty word ever since businesses have essentially started running the world in place of monarchs

That’s more yak and mac really