The Prius Prime isn't too different, in that it's also a compact PHEV although the battery range is a bit shorter.
This is why the digital good I buy the most of is music. MP3s are just dumb files. There's no subscription fees, no DRM. Nothing but digital watermarks. The "service" is the ability to redownload and stream the songs that I've purchased on other devices, but I also store the raw files on my fileserver.
Now, the challenge for the vendor is that I can also just as easily pirate these same files.
And yet somehow I still buy.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Large Corporate Landlords: There’s a perception that these entities buy up substantial amounts of property, making it difficult for individuals to purchase a home due to increased prices and limited supply.
People keep looking for the bogeyman here but this is one where that's too facile. Rents in Canada have skyrocketed, and REITs rent out their properties. Sure, they rent them out as expensive as they can, they're jerks. But they're profiteering off of the shortage of rental properties. And if they've got a crapload of property, and they're profiting from the shortage.... well they're not really the cause of the shortage when they're offering a lot to rent, are they? They're profiteering from it, but they're not causing it. If there was truly endless money buying up everything and then renting it out, prices to buy would climb, but prices to rent would plummet, and that's obviously not happening.
You want to look at the cause? Look at people who prevent new housing from getting built. Petty bureaucrats. Wealthy NIMBY neighbours.
And yes, as much as it goes against Canadian values: if you've got more immigrants than you've got new housing, you're going to run out of homes, and the people who have homes can price them as high as they want because everybody needs a roof.
said on Wednesday the Palestinian militant group Hamas was not a terrorist organisation but a liberation group fighting to protect Palestinian lands and people.
I mean in the numbers we're talking about 11,000 is kind of a rounding error.
Interest rate spikes killed a lot of projects, and municipal stonewalling keeps the developers riding a pretty thin edge of profitability. These are for-profit businesses, of course when the loan repayments are going to eliminate all profit, they're going to back off on their plans.
Imagine you're planning a building - you design a massively profitable but huge building, but then years of bickering with city hall shrinks the building and raises your carrying costs until it's just a modest win. Still fine. You get the permits and then interest rates jump. Now if you go forwards, the project will be deep in the red. The city won't let you go back to your original huge form of the project without another multi-year fight.
If you sit on it until interest rates go down again, you're not building. If you get started on a new application for a more profitable building, you're not building.
You don't have to listen to the dead-eyed mobbed-up reptiles of the for-profit housing industry to see this, listen to progressive affordable housing builders like Jen Keesmaat or Housing Now TO and they'll tell you the same thing.
Good point. The lore of the game is that these are all crooks and bounty hunters and this racing thing is a side-gig. A racing-themed science-fiction open-world game is an obvious fit for that.
Yeah, I updated the headline to make it clear that the allegations were by India, because people were rightly pointing out that "alleged Khalistani terrorist" was giving them too much credit.
"Good" is not the metric for preserving things. "Important" is. Marvel's Avengers is important to preserve because this failure is a major historical milestone.
Like, imagine if somehow every copy of ET for the Atari 2600 vanished. Would anything fun be lost? Of course not. But would we lose some critical context in an important historical event? Yes. Very much so.
Fortunately, Atari games aren't the kind of ephemeral media where we have to worry about that like cloud-service games or pre-code cellulite films.
I'm always flabbergasted that 100h of gameplay is considered a failure of a product.
I think most AC games pretty much dump you into the first missions with a stock mech. AC6 is only distinct in that the first mission is so long and includes a comparatively-difficult boss-fight.
I obviously haven't played it yet since it's not out yet, but I kickstarted "Girl Genius: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne" which is based on the Girl Genius comics. The comics are a bit violent and cheesecakey but the game looks like a more cartooney take on the story.
The "Girl Genius" setting is like a fantastical take on 19th-century Europe if it were run entirely by mad scientists - basically taking the Steampunk concept into more fantasy direction. The plot of the game: Agatha is a mad scientist with a heart of gold but she's also the lost last heir to the evil and depraved Heterodyne Family. To prove her claim to her birthright and save the city of Mechanicsburg she has to get the badly-damaged and utterly crazed AI-powered Castle Heterodyne under control.
The game is a puzzle-platformer.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1789370/Girl_Genius_Adventures_In_Castle_Heterodyne/
Yup. I had that one. It was awesome. Only disappointment was that it wasn't RC.
edit: also isn't Galoob such an AliExpress-ass name for a toy company? Can't you imagine "GALOOB Harrys Potters Wand Gyro Children Luminous Rotating Gun Parents and Children Outdoor Battles Boys Light Toys" next to the lead-painted dildos and self-destructing flash-drives?