I've had a few games come with a handful of items for some reason, and very quickly learned to never use them.

Pre order now and ruin the game!

His old one was very similar, but a darker colour so we called him The Fall Guy.

Or rather the few of us in the office old enough to remember that show did.

So do a lot of other governments, to be fair. It's one of those industries that employs a lot of people, and it's always bad press to close it when a bit of money could have kept it. Certainly cheaper than putting thousands of people on benefits.

Plus there's subsidies for domestic sales as well. The UK at least had a grant for plug in cars that they ended a few years ago, presumably just to get the infrastructure up and running.

But then the new vehicle price is neither here nor there in the long term, since most people drive used vehicles anyway. What matters is how many vehicles trickle down to the masses, and whether wear on the battery is a concern. Some of the early smaller models didn't have great batteries to start with, but as a daily driver to the shops and work it'd probably be fine. For some reason the conversation always drifts over to "but what about that one time you drove across the state" or "remember that time you transported a fridge", as if that's something people can't work around for the once a year they do it.

A patriot to who? Israel?

Oh no! The type of capitalism where we have to compete!

Make it go away, Daddy Trump!

My boss in the UK got one. In bright red. It looks like he's driving a fucking fire engine.

Nature's barbed wire. They often have things like blackberries on them.

Right? I can't tell you how disappointed I was to move to a "real" PC later and find the tools to be so much worse. Like you could position stuff with a GUI in VB or Delphi, but if you wanted to resize a window, it was a real faff to get everything moving about as it should.

I think the last few years has left them struggling with the reality that landlords and supermarkets also have that concept, and when it's a choice between having a roof, food, or entertainment, then they're way down the list.

Obligatory Stewart Lee routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y38pbfJ4i_U

The worst I had to deal with was pampas grass, which appears to be a plant made of actual swords.

I spent three days hacking at it in a coat so I wouldn't get shredded. When I finally cut the root bulb out it was a cube of wood a foot across. I could barely lift it out, I had to roll it to the bin.

At least pampas grass doesn't spread.

I'm unconvinced they can find a replacement for him that touches the nerve of all those hateful loons at once. Who are they going to have? JD Vance and his eyeliner?

The next election they'd play the "Do it for Him" card, but I can't see them queuing round the block to vote for anyone else. They voted for Donald because even in their politically sheltered lives, they'd heard of him and seen him on TV. As somebody who watched Boris Johnson rise to power, it really is as fucking dumb as that.

They should put it on gofundme.com

My nan got all her cats this way. The last few were a trio of kittens she found huddled under the tree at the end of her garden during a storm. She did keep an eye out for the mother, but if she was around she never came back for them.

Most of them outlived her in the end, and my uncle ended up with them.

My garden is all weeds. Tons of different plants, but some dominate in certain seasons, growing like 5 feet high. Seems to have avoided anything nasty though, no thistles, nettles or brambles.

My neighbour's garden is a thin layer of plastic astroturf. And they let a dog run about on it. Good luck getting dog diarrhoea out of that.

I know which I prefer.

I'm surprised it isn't just Elon typing really fast at this point.

Wait, New Zealand's top export is evaporated milk?

Do they also use the ones that people can ride for free if they know how to disengage the brake? You can also take them way outside their intended zone.

You often get them around Nottingham clicking away. Since Uber is involved, this feels ethical anyway. It is always ethical to steal from billionaires.

CDPR get this, at least. Phantom Liberty, Hearts of Stone, Blood and Wine. All well worth it.

Thing is, I've seen funbucks stuffed into various single player games over the years. The first was probably Mass Effect 3, but some of the Assassin's Creed games have it too.

But who are they for? Who buys them? They've never really felt like anything that would be useful. It's usually just some crappy cosmetics, or something you can get through normal play. It's like they've been stuffed in at the request of management, but also like nobody has ever checked up on what they actually put in, or whether anybody bought it...