Yeah, I’m with you. I tend to agree with the idea that fuel economy and emissions regulations incentivize auto makers to manufacture the ridiculously huge trucks we have today. I’m super curious to see if smaller body styles become a thing again once this incentive starts to evaporate.

That rings a bell now that you mention it. A shock title is so much more fitting!

Have you seen pics of it? It looks about the size of an old Toyota pickup.

I get the sentiment, but the braindead coal rollers are a pretty small minority. I don’t doubt there’s a demand for ev trucks, in fact the increased torque is pretty appealing, but one of the common concerns I’ve read is how towing anything substantial kills their range. This evaluation showed all trucks tested attaining less than half their non-towing range. Probably still enough for folks towing to the next town over and back, but it’d give me pause if I was hauling equipment to a worksite an hour or so away.

For real, immersive sim fans that haven’t played it are missing out. It probably should’ve had a different name though.

Hi-Fi Rush has a kinda indie vibe. Tango Gameworks studio isn’t huge, but they’ve made fairly well known AAA survival horror games. HiFi is more narrowly focused but still published by Bethesda/Microsoft.

$6 at the station closest to me today

We are on the exact same wavelength

I doubt it. They probably just hang with the neo Nazis.

I don’t disagree. But I gotta say, I didn’t realize how much I needed to feel the slight glimmer of hope after seeing the turnout at my local protest in person. I live in a pretty small rural town, granted it’s on the northern California coast, and we have a pretty even spread of old school hippies, conservative ranchers, and libertarian cannabis farmers. Today, it felt like the crowd size exceeded everyone’s expectations by far, not to mention almost all folks passing by were supportive. It felt emboldening, like there could truly be some power building here.

I don’t really have high hopes things can be resolved peacefully, tbh. In fact, I watched some MAGAt today stop his truck in the middle of the protest, get out to assault some good folks, and proceed to get his ass kicked to a reasonable extent before driving away. I’m a usually pessimist, sometimes a doomer, and often not wrong. But I think now’s the time to shelve the cynicism and encourage as many people as possible to turn out. The maga horde, the excruciatingly loud minority, need the dose of reality that their opposition is real, gaining momentum, and pissed.

Does it really matter if he’s deliberately advancing a fascist agenda?

I’m pretty sure that’s Thunder. I haven’t tried it myself though.