Yeah, if you’re interested, you should give it a shot.

Troll the troll.

Exactly. I’ve been Linux exclusive for something like 15 years, and I’m usually the first to tell people to stick with Windows if there’s even one piece of software they say they’ll miss. If they really want to use Linux, they’ll ignore me. If they would’ve bailed when something didn’t work perfectly, they would likely write it off and never try it again, so it’s better to leave that door open IMO.

Is that how you treat people in your daily life?

No. I also generally don’t do it online.

Is that just normal behavior to you?

Sadly, yes. Especially online.

The original question was completely lacking enough context to understand the intent. Here are two reasonable interpretations:

• sarcastic - it’s pretty popular to ignore anything other than the first movie and maybe the animated series, Animatrix
• unaware - the games weren’t all that popular, and they weren’t that good either

I understand not wanting to step into potential troll bait. So the sarcastic response, while not appreciated, is completely understandable.

It was a single word, Franchise? . Getting a sarcastic answer is absolutely expected.

Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers.

I suppose that’s fair. But you’re unlikely to see much difference with 1k miles.

I’ve heard about them, but as you say, they don’t show up on searches. I’ll have to look harder then.

To follow that logic, this must also be niche: when you eat a hamburger, you gain weight exactly proportional to the hamburger.

Only if you use imperial units. The article uses tonnes, which is a unit of mass, not weight.

Yeah, that’s what I’m hoping for. I don’t need gameplay or anything, I just want to know more-or-less what the status is. As in, are we likely to see a release in the next couple years? Or is this a 5-years out situation?

Right. Yet there’s zero timeline for release, and I’d like a timeline for release. You can’t just tease something and have pretty much no updates for 7 years…

It’s not like it’s going to plug itself in

It could stop at Tesla “dealerships” along the way and have the staff plug them in, or have fancy robotic chargers at just those locations. Surely there are enough “dealerships” that this is feasible for most people.

Yeah, I live like 10 miles from a Tesla dealership, about 1k from a Tesla factory. If having the car drive to me is cheaper than loading it on a truck and taking it to my local dealership, I’m fine with it having 1k miles.

This is all hypothetical though. There’s no way this timeframe is happening.

Eh, I live <1k miles from a Tesla factory, and I wouldn’t be too annoyed at having 1k miles on it when it gets to me. Knock the price down a bit since you no longer need to ship it everywhere and we’re good.

We all know this isn’t happening anytime soon, so I guess it’s only a hypothetical. We can talk once it’s a reality.

Surely it would be Tesla since you don’t actually have possession of it, right? Right??

If you double it, you might actually be somewhat close to hearing a believable date for the actual time frame.

Eh, most of what he has done can be undone with relatively little long-term impact. If we get someone good w/ diplomacy, I think everything would be largely fixed in one term.

Yes, he is, his whole appeal is that he’s an outsider. And Reagan was also an outlier, he was an actor that decided to get into politics.

Trump ending up as President in 2016 was largely an accident. You can see the complete 180 by media orgs and the top brass of the GOP once he got the nomination as evidence of that. They had all geared up for a Jeb Bush nomination, and that obviously never materialized. 2024 was a bit more intentional, because he wanted to run again and nobody in the party really dared stand in his way.

That said, Trump is very much an outsider and got elected mostly on that basis. He’s a result of a decade or two of frustrations w/ the establishment, and now we’re seeing what that actually looks like. His approval rating took a serious hit during the tariff nonsense, and it’s only back now that he’s not doing what he promised to do. I don’t think Americans really want what he has to offer, they just want something different from what they got before. I would be very surprised if he retains a reasonable approval rating through the midterms, so many of his campaign promises are likely to end in disaster, and he needs to show some kind of progress on those promises for his party to have a shot next year.

So yeah, I think in a year or two, most people would agree that he’s an outlier.

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