Well, no. You can see the difference between BL2 and BL3 despite them both being cel shaded games. You want fancy visual effects and the lighting still matters.

Also, we should be clear that Unreal isn't just a graphics engine, it's a whole game engine, and I don't think that we should be surprised that UE5 is a bit heavier and is doing more things. BL4 is a more open world game; I'm sure that's doing something.

Anyway, I haven't played it yet, and launches these days all seem to be a bit difficult for companies, so I'll reserve judgement until I get it on sale on Steam.

It's using UE5, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here? That it didn't need the new engine? That UE 5 is worse somehow?

Also, they can't drop the cel-shaded look, it's part of the character of the game. I'm not sure what they would transition to--more realism? That would be weird.

If you don't plan correctly in an ICE, it doesn't start at all. The 12v battery won't turn your engine over.

There are drawbacks to EVs still, for sure, but we talk about ICE vehicles like they've solved the problem of extreme temperatures better and they really haven't.

I mean, you tell yourself that if you want, I guess, but there are two eras: pre iPhone and post iPhone, and the Android phones before the iPhone did NOT look like a modern smartphone. That was Apple. And Samsung and various Chinese brands still copy Apple to this day.

It's really just a fact, though you can cover your eyes and wish it weren't so, if you want.

Apple's phones never used thunderbolt. If you're talking about lightning, you'll note that before Apple made a cable where it was impossible to plug it in upside down, Android phones used micro-USB, one of the worst interface standards. There has been some talk that Apple itself was the progenitor of USB-C and they gave it to the USB standards consortium, but I've never been able to verify that. They WERE on the committee that developed it, though.

Wealthsimple will refund up to $5s in ATM fees if you have an account there. I think it might require an account minimum, but their chequing accounts pay out something like 3% (it's pegged to the Bank of Canada rate).

Anyway, I got super sick of the fees at TD, so I've switched basically all my banking over. I feel strongly that everyone in Canada should take a look at their bank and probably switch to either a Credit Union, or some sort of online bank. It doesn't have to be Wealthsimple, just get away from the big 6 banks. They're bleeding you dry with high fees and strongarm sales tactics.

"His concerns are echoed by Mercedes CEO Ola Kallenius, who recently warned the European car industry is "heading at full speed against a wall" and could even "collapse" if the EU doesn't reconsider."

Why is everyone a capitalist believing that the market will give us the solutions we need up until the time where they were caught sleeping and now they want us to please be nice to them?

We do not have time to coddle these babies. Figure something out or die, that's not my problem. My problem is that fires get worse every year and the droughts get worse every year, and more people die in heatwaves every year.

1. That's not true
2. You'll have to back that up better

Whether you like Apple or not, the SoC is still the most powerful one on the market, the cameras are still excellent (and better than 2021 cameras from any manufacturer), the video is still better than anyone else (and has been basically forever).

Like, there are plenty of reasons to not want an iPhone and I could name a bunch if you wanted, but this is a stupid comment that completely ignores reality.

It depends on what you mean by 'innovating', I guess. They deliver a lot of functionality for a price that's much lower than dedicated hardware would. Even for small-time creators on tiktok or instagram (or even YouTube), with no modifications, the iPhones pro are probably the best video camera you can get if you can have only one thing. So yes, I guess? They're miles ahead of anyone else with stabilization, video quality and features, and that happens to be pretty useful these days.

And despite that, everyone slavishly copies their phones and their UIs, for better or worse.

It doesn't matter if you think they're bad or not, the claim that they're the centre of the tech universe has been objectively true for years. Where Apple goes, others follow.

Are we starting to see that fade a little? Maybe. Nothing that you said was a counterpoint to what you quoted, it was just stuff to (rightly) be angry about.

I'm also for this, yes. I agree that the protectionism has done us no good.

Nobody's asking to DEPEND on China, but we already import a shittonne of stuff from them, why not cars? The whole point is to untether ourselves from any industry or nation that demands that we go all-in on them. That means we import Chinese cars while they're a good deal. If they stop being good for us, we'll import something else. Or build something else. But the status quo is busted as hell.

Yeah, and range is reduced in an ICE vehicle in the winter too. The cold spares no mechanism. (Diesel is further set back because of the additives that are put in to prevent the fuel from gelling in the tank. That starts even before it gets cold.)

I don't dispute either of these things. And Cretien/Martin slashed the budget and balanced it...but set the stage for decades of housing under-development by stopping the CMHC from building social housing like they used to. Stephen Harper ALSO failed to balance the budget except when he was HANDED a balanced budget.

Again, both these parties are truly awful. We really need a proportional system so we don't end up with 4 years of bozos replaced eventually by some other bozo for another 4 year kick at the can.

I'm a fan of union jobs, but I think we might have to let this fight go. The tariffs on Chinese EVs means that a lot of our farmers are getting demolished by counter-tariffs on canola and whatnot. There's a tradeoff to be made here, and given that we really should be moving away from ICE vehicles, we may need to bite the bullet and wind down car manufacturing here. Or get some Chinese companies to set up shop so we can move the workers to those.