It just blows me away how many people are just responding to this without addressing it…

Wait, he’s a dumpling thief??? What is the world coming to?

It’s a long par 9 to our nation’s capital.

For me, they already did.

They will undoubtedly call you crazy, and probably an incel for not liking it. Because it seems you can either be a rabid Druckman fan or a bigot.

Back in the reddit days, I wrote about how bad the storytelling was, and I got dog piled with anti-hate vitriol. I basically turned all social media off until the game came out to avoid any spoilers. But in that time, I guess the game got brigaded for being woke or LGBT revisionist or some dumb shit like that. So when I finished that 30 hr shit sandwich and wrote about it, I apparently came off like one of the screeching incels.

A short while later, Nakey Jakey put out his take on the game in which he shared a couple of the main complaints I had, especially regarding pacing, narrative depth, and chronology. It was very vindicating to hear someone I do find insightful to also share a perspective. It was enough for me to shut the fuck up about it.

So I’ll share what I learned inb4 any of the LOU activists have a chance to throw shade. People like the game, and that’s cool. I’m legit happy for them. I was so enamored with the world building and moved by the plot that I wanted more, but I should have kept my dick out of the cookie jar and never touched P2. It wasn’t for me and it ruined the experience of P1. But you better believe I learned my lesson. P2 of the show will go unwatched for the rest of my life.

And P3 will gain sentience and self awareness for the sole purpose of fucking itself before I ever throw a dime at that shit show.

Careful, the last person with a modicum of common fucking sense almost got flamethrowered by Beef Supreme.

“Hey, I just thought of something crazy, maybe DON’T kick yourself in the balls?”

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I think you missed the bus.

I’d rather not reward manufacturers that include that just to raise the price

Cool cool, you do you homie

and track and sell your data with my money.

If you didn’t connect the device to the internet… Then… There is no “data”

This isn’t a difficult concept. The device didn’t ship with your WiFi broadcast ID and password preset in the firmware. Are you saying that the product has a sim card that will just relay info back regardless of whether or not you connect it? And the manufacturer is cool just paying for this connection? What “data”???

Yet again, don’t willingly and intentionally connect it to anything that has access to the internet. JFC, is it really that abstract of a concept that confounds all others? I don’t think I needed to be told this. It’s the very definition of self-evident.

What the absolute fuck is happening? Did everyone eat brain tumors for breakfast?

Have tons of devices that can connect to the Internet. Apparently I’m the only one here resourceful enough to not connect them

Luigi: lol same

Lol, I saw that after I sent it, but was absolutely not confident enough to change it. I don’t work in that field any more so that is not the only thing about materials that you probably know better than me. And I’m sorry for the wall of text. My bad.

Musk thinks everything should be electric because it’s cool.

I strongly disagree. Things are getting more and more electric across all manufacturing because it is cheap. A single touch screen that drops in place under a snap on bezel with a premade cable harness and some programming time is so much faster and cheaper than designing, installing, wiring, coding, and testing physical buttons or mechanical linkages. PCBs can be tested in a negligible amount of time.

Mechanical door locks would have been cheaper.

No. Sorry, but no. The locks were going to be electrically operated no matter what. But the inclusion of standard mechanical components would increase the cost significantly.

very common, cheap technology

Yes, but that would be electrical components. It’s not very intuitive, I agree. But cost is the sole reason things are becoming more “electronic”. Electronics are extremely cheap compared to their analog ancestors. And not only that, but since very few mfrs are using off the shelf mechanical components, they are now less supplied and harder to get. So their cost is going up. Electronics are going down.

I don’t know the engineering endeavors that he may or may not have been directly involved with. I’m not entirely sure what “from on high” means, but I would presume you are referring to his net value and authority. In that case, I would say he is no different than literally any other CEO. He made decisions that made him a profit. That’s what they do. GE is a great test case for this. Nearly destroyed the company in the long term so that board members see a small financial gain in the short term, then dump the carcass on the next guy. It’s just money. That’s all.

engineered these crazy locks

I would joke that since they don’t work then I doubt any engineering went into them at all. But I know that isn’t true.

So I wonder if you could elaborate on what you mean by “crazy locks”? I did a lot of work investigating the manufacturing equipment and their use, so I remember a bit about their components, design, and assembly; but I did not work with those directly so I could be missing something entirely. I don’t remember there being anything groundbreaking about the mechanics of the door locks. But the general build always felt… “thinner”. Most manufacturers stay away from minimum standards by at least the standard deviation or two, so if the required gauge was 18 ± 1, a typical mfr would use 20+. Tesla would use 18. On the nose. That was a lot more common in automotive but even hyundai/kia used wide margins for safety. All that to say, I have a hard time believing the door locks were so complex that a sizable investment would be anything other than reinventing the wheel, but even moreso that it was even worth the superfluous cost.

One of the last jobs I had there was a machine that they picked up third hand and cobbled together with some very sketchy safety systems that wildly failed requirements. I was there for days and it was one of the more extensive reports I’ve ever made on a single installation. The control system was designed by the onsite engineers and passed flawlessly. But they had a lot to do to get the equipment usable.

There’s absolutely a reason to not engineer something you’re not required to. It’s called capitalism. Tesla cut every corner they could.