Oh yawn. Whether God is real or not has limited influence on the fact that believing in him makes my life better, makes my family's life better and makes society around me better.

I'd rather it turns out I am wrong and had the advantages than being right when I suicide. Good for you if you don't need a god because you're a perfectly content human being. Seeing as you just had to throw that morcel of insight out there seems to be telling another story though.

I'm sorry... them? These days I'm not sure whether that means left or right...?

If it was Idiocracy in action, we'd have tests to find the smartest among us to put them directly in positions of authority.

The chemistry between the protagonists in the first part was really good. The Zombie Apocalypse story was just the filler to tell the story of these two people.

Druckman did never comprehend that and hence you have the show and the second game.

Aesthetics has rules that are deeply ingrained into our psyche. It's so extreme, it might be a law of nature. That goes for architecture as much as storytelling. Some things excite us more than others and the formulae are known.One ignores them at one's own peril.

Basically this guy is the other side of the coin you're describing.

What I wonder is whether the companies he worked for were unhappy with his work.

Why pay twice? Wait for the high seas release, watch for free and if it wasn't a waste of time, buy and rip the physical medium.

But whether Starship will work is a separate topic from "Have we seen success in space faring under Musk?".
Yes, we have. As someone stated, that tech stood on the shoulders of predecessors. Fair enough. But neither government nor behemoth corporations have achieved similar success standing on the same shoulders... heck, some may still employ some of those very shoulders.

I'm sorry but is any of that relevant? From a consumer perspective it is relevant that Musk didn't deliver on autonomous driving and that his cars, if you're honest, are crap. Doesn't change the fact that he forced an old and vast industry to try and pivot on a dime on a subject said industry has been adamant was impossible to achieve.

The same goes for Falcon 9.

Tesla can go bankrupt and Starship never reach maturity for all I care, hist name, deservedly so, will enter history books. That's what I'm getting at.

Gee. Wow. I've SO been put into my place. It's such a shock to my system that henceforth I will hallucinate my 15 year old Mazda into a Tesla.

With your lack of hope, you're not exactly part of any solution either.

I also think you're wrong. I think you're overestimating the speed and inevitability of total destruction and you're also not cognizant enough of how the human psyche works.

Precisely.

So much this.

Musk has the same billionaire self-worth issues many of them seem to have and the technological successes SpaceX and Tesla represent aren't his badges of honor but to stand there and imply SpaceX and Tesla hadn't achieved pivotal successes makes it hard to take those people seriously.

And for better or worse, Musk was leading the ship while those successes happened. Was it due to his leadership or despite it? I, for one, am not in a position to tell but to just gloss over them reeks of personal agenda against the man.

You've got a point there but you left yourself open to the counter: Musk also managed to ferry people to the station at a price NASA couldn't match with the shuttle.

I gotta say, snickering at the fact that a rocket of so far unparalleled proportions and capabilities, as far as I am aware, isn't working on the first try seem petty in the face of the aforementioned success.

I thought SpaceX WAS doing pretty well and wa sbeing rather cost-effective so far?

What am I missing?

Well, I for one did install Bazzite yesterday. Not sure yet whether I like the immutability or deapise it. Time will tell.