Patius

Soldier's a ton of fun. Everyone craps on it because it's really plain in ME1, but in ME2 and ME3, they REALLY overhauled the character. In ME2, adrenaline rush is just broken, especially with stuff like the Revenant. (oh, and you get the Revenant on your first playthrough.)

ME3 is ridiculous though. You get all the ammo powers, and you can chain ammo power explosions for everything but warp ammo with concussive shot. It's kind of cheaty though, because if you take yourself, Garrus, and Ashley and equip everyone with Typhoon V-X, everything dies in seconds.

A fed bear is a dead bear. If the mom can't be rehabed, they gotta put her down. It's too dangerous to leave them alive - even if you relocate, they'll just move until they find easy to raid people and become a danger. Black bears usually are fearful or wary of humans - if they lose this, they're a danger to people and themselves (people often defend themselves against bears with guns that fail to immediately kill the bear. The end result is a bear that dies a slow and agonizing death.

Surprised they're even trying rehab. It usually fails.

The cubs aren't as lost a cause.

I got one, but got rid of it after the screen cover plastic became rigid and creaky...twice. Worse, Samsung said they'd cover it once under warranty, and that after their ubreak ifix people were telling me it'd cost $200 to fix and I had to explain I had a protection plan to the braindead tech ten times.

Not worth it until they solve durability issues.

Yep, and it's all because the US regs only allow for high and low beams that can't redirect and rely on clunky sensors, if they're automatic at all.

Meanwhile, in Europe and Asia, cars have adaptive, beam forming headlights that successfully solved this problem in the early aughts. Even American autos have them - Ford's are so precise they can even create images like the Ford Logo with their lights.

Still illegal to sell in the US because the NHTSA is refusing to allow them, even though Congress straight up told them to allow them a few years ago as a rider on the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Insurance would have to prove the modification caused the accident by disabiling some safety mechanism.

Legally, software mods and hardware mods are no different, and people have been modifying their cars well before you could hack a seat heater on.

Modifying your car isn't a valid reason to yank coverage in most circumstances.

Even making your car faster isn't enough, assuming your mods are street legal.

BMWs have had this, to some extent, for a while. Bimmercode can do things like change sounds and enable software disabled features, like anti dazzle lights. (This is disabled because the NHTSA refuses to adopt ways for them to be easily tested in the US, despite their being approved for decades in Europe and a congressional mandate telling them to allow them on the roads, so every automaker has to disable them.)

No exploits needed.

Tankies basically are just "pro-whatever Russia is at the moment." They'll claim to be leftists, but are apologists for whatever Russia or China does internationally. Basically, they're pro-authoritarian so long as it's not the US being authoritarian or someone the US is turning a blind eye to.

These are people who buy whatever non-American propaganda is hook, line, and sinker because they're desperate to prove they're "better" than the average person and tune out any "mainstream" media outlet.

Nevermind that if they'd pay attention, their "sources" have mysteriously gotten in bed with China and suddenly are OK with genocide of the Uighur people and things like that.

Plus, show some respect for the victims of the Russian/Wagner sponsored coup in Niger.

But tankies gonna tank.

It's also really stupid because the idea is to create a system that's better than humans. And let me tell you, people miss stuff all the time when driving. Tons and tons of accidents are caused by "negligent" drivers who looked both ways and missed someone due to a visual processing error or literally not being able to see something.

Yeah. GM's subscription nonsense is for their ice cars too. BMW's aborted seat heater thing was too.

You aren't wrong, but at the same time, I'm not buying a Hyundai/Kia ev anytime soon either. They constantly have electrical problems with fire risks.

And considering that they've buried stuff before (metal shavings in their ICE engines like 4 years ago), I could easily see an EV wiring problem they're sitting on lest they destroy their standing in the EV market. Not that EV fires are actually much worse than gas car fires (a little harder to put out, but far less explodey (gas is also hard to put out, just not as hard.))