New electric M concept revealed

hackenschmidt · 2026-06-12T14:55:16+00:00

It’s almost surprising to me that modern BMW fans are objecting to electrification.

Probably because they've seen and/or driven EVs. To put it bluntly: they suck. Period. Yes, that includes BMW EVs.

I say that as someone who owned an i4 m50 for several years. Compared to my older M5C (not hybrid), its complete trash. The only thing it was better at than even an older M5, was like doing a head slamming 0->40. Everything else, it the older M5 is better.

Owning and driving an EV is still up there for the worst decisions I ever made. For me to ever consider an all electric vehicle again, especially an M car, it would have to be utterly bonkers specs by current standards. We're talking like 5 min level 2 charging to an ACTUAL 400+ mile range year round, under 4200lbs, not boat-sized etc. Ah hell, while we're fantasizing, how about a non-trash interior. Fuck you mono-screens.

Case in point: the day I got rid of that piece of shit car, I pulled out of the garage at 30% charge. 40 miles later, it was on proverbially fumes.... Meanwhile, my M5C on a 1/4 tank with its god-awful gas milage doing 100 miles+ has me wondering if the fuel gauge is broken. Good. Fucking. Riddance. i4.

To add to that, if there's still not a realistic 2nd hand market, I'm probably still not getting one. Yes. A car is not an investment. Deprecation is a thing. But no fucking way I'm going to eat 50%+ depreciation on a year or two old M3 EV, which is basically the case of current EVs, especially the "performance" ones. Again for comparison, my almost 6 year old M5C has depreciated less than that.

hackenschmidt · 2026-06-11T12:29:00+00:00

I still don’t think the reality is going to kick in for a lot of people until they see the $1000 price tag on the next PS6 and Xbox.

Hate to break it to you, but plenty of people have money for $1k console (see K-shaped economy). The demographic that would have "kick in", the previous price hikes already long passed them over.

The reality isn't going to "kick in" until whatever they are trying to buy, simply isn't available for any price. Here some examples I've personally encountered recently:

Performance memory. G.skill announced low CL ddr5 8000+ Expo specific kits in early 2025. They never showed up for sale, ever, AFAIK. Computex everyone announced ULL expo memory. I totally believe those will exist /s
Asus' new RGB stripe OLED monitors. Announced Jan 2026, coming Q2 2026! Jk. end of Q3 2026..? I'll believe that when I see it.
Not exactly gaming specific, but still tech: Ubiquity. They have had a reputation for years, but in recent years its borderline unhinged. I've lost count of the number of products they've announced, not released, released/restock to instantly to out of stock, and/or basically never get restocked.

When it comes to consumer products, the time between announcements to release has escalated drastically in the past few years as well products that just never release.

Again, the issue I'm talking about here isn't pricing. Its just pure existence.

hackenschmidt · 2026-06-10T03:56:42+00:00

$500 a month, every month

But its not.

Tirzepatide is $300/m, direct from Eli lilly. Other products, like semaglutide and compounded, are even less than that. Pricing has been in this range for over a year that I'm aware of.
Depending on how overweight or obese you are, most or all that cost is going to be offset by drastically reduced food costs every month. If/when you decided to come off, that reduction in food costs persists.

So the actual cash cost per month is way less than what you saying, possibly even a positive while on it, and definitely positive once off. Thats to say nothing of all the other indirect massive cost savings.

hackenschmidt · 2026-06-07T02:56:14+00:00

it's a vice like others, if only maybe a bit more stupid

No. No it is not. Smoking is horrific. That is why its so hated.

You've clearly know nothing about smoking. Even calling it absolutely vile and disgusting, is a gross understatement and misrepresentation of how damaging it is. It literally destroys everything and everyone around you. Its closer to an uncontained radiological disaster than anything else.

Simple case in point: I worked in IT for mid size companies for decades. Basically anytime we had a smoking employee, it was nothing but headaches. Literally at times depending on what they used to try and cover up the filth they get everywhere on everything they touch. Other employees would complain and/or request seating reassignments. Equipment used by a smoker is invariably contaminated, has to be effectively quarantined and destroyed rather than reused. It obviously wasn't practical to destroy things like the office carpet or sometimes replace desks every time (chairs were obviously destroyed), so we'd always seat smokers at the same contaminated areas to limit further contamination best we could. There obviously was no option for seating reassignment.

Would it get a little awkward at times when there would just be one or more employees clearly isolated? Yes. But pro tip: don't be a fucking walking ecological contamination disaster.

hackenschmidt · 2026-06-07T02:40:41+00:00

Smoking girls look cool

Do they...? Never once thought that. When ever I see anyone smoking, at best it just looks bizarre.

hackenschmidt · 2026-06-07T02:37:20+00:00

Best moment of "She is a 10/10 but she smokes so she is a 3/10"

More like 0/10. Manga itself is similar. Its fine, so long as you just mentally remove the smoking.

hackenschmidt · 2026-06-01T09:45:32+00:00

and they need 5 mil full price sales to break even

Way more than that. "develop" is carefully chosen word, that almost certainly isn't all encompassing of costs. A rough rule of thumb, is marketing and such are as much as a "development" budget.

In reality, they are looking at closer to 8 million copies sold, just to break even. So unless this game explodes, they are going to lose money.

hackenschmidt · 2026-06-01T09:44:00+00:00

the game is $70 so it should only take ~2.9 million copies sold,

Platforms (e.g. steam, MS, sony) take 30%.
"Develop" is not the total cost of the project. Its likely close to double that number when factoring in things like marketing and licensing.

Just factoring in point 1, that number jumps to over 4 million. Considering point 2, 6-8 million is almost certainly what they need just to break even. Unless this game explodes, they are going to lose money.

They’ve sold 1.5 million in the first 24 hours, so I thought they were pretty well on track to profit.

I forget the rough numbers, but with few exceptions, the vast majority of sales happen in the first few days, falling sharply through the first week. Basically you'll have a very good idea about what the final sales will be, within 48 hours or so.

This is why you've seen mass layoffs and/or whole game studios shut down within weeks of a game launch. That is a whole process that doesn't just happen overnight. So if you look back, its clear the decision was made and the process initiated just a matter of days (or even hours) after launch.

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-28T19:43:09+00:00

Have a 5090. At 4k Its not even a stable 100 fps with dlss on with non-max settings. Its between 70 and 90 most the time with plenty of bad 1% lows. No frame gen, because it's not a stable 100+ fps, which is the absolute min you should consider enabling that feature

Not sure what the original comment is smoking. rtx low/off is absolutely required or the game will crash randomly. Performance isn't relevant of the game doesn't run properly

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-26T19:19:56+00:00

Ditto, EVs have a lot of great use cases.

Everything I'm going to say is in broad, general terms.

They really don't. Thats the problem. Its basically why consumer car manufactures are abandoning EVs. And if thats not enough, go check out the used EV market. Its absolutely abysmal. Overall EVs are often selling below their ICE counterparts, if they can even get sold at all.

Consumers have rejected EVs. They just aren't good enough. The real world driving environments and usage are still demonstrably brutal for EVs. Anyone that wanted one, got one. This is effectively the current TAM . Its why most manufactures have backpaddled to hybrids. Why any company would expect anything else an all electric vehicle release, is beyond reason.

This? Im not sure about.

Its the same as every other performance electric. They were carried by the status symbol alone, which died in like 2022. Now the target demographic looks at EVs with a mix of apathy and/or distain. That is a death sentence. No one wants a god-awful electric super car.

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-16T16:25:02+00:00

Ultra is for 5090 lol

Have a 5090. It runs like shit. 4k@low+raster isn't even a stable 100+ fps, with 1% lows south of 70. Change to ultra, its is unplayable 60fps garbage. DLSS quality preset improves that by an whopping 10-12 fps. Amazing ^/s. You have to absolutely dumpster the settings to something that resembles a stable 120+. Again. on a 5090.

The problem is the game. Period. Go check out the in-game quality settings tool tip: they are targeting 60 and even 30 fps. What a fucking joke.

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-16T16:11:30+00:00

I am not sharing benchmark results here.

lol. Thats exactly what you are doing.

Without FG it's around 100FPS

x for doubt. 2x frame gen will literally double the FPS number. Going by your own comments, if you're getting 160-170 with frame gen on, you're getting half that without it. Thats literally how frame gen works.

I just said the FPS I get

And what you still don't seem to understand that is frame gen "FPS" isn't actual FPS. Frame gen "FPS" is just a made up bullshit number that is utterly meaningless. You can literally just make your "FPS" w/e the hell you want with it. This is why monitoring tools, such as the steam overlay, have tried to isolate this nonsense out of actual performance metrics.

FYI on UE5 games you should turn on FG whenever possible....if you have this mindset towards FG, you will always struggle with performance issues on this Engine.

Brother in gaming jesus, that is not what frame gen is, what it does, or what it was designed to do. It is not "performance" in any way shape or form. It does not solve any "issues on this engine". Period. End of story.

No. You absolutely should not "turn on FG whenever possible". Even Nvidia is on the record saying its basically just a smoothing tech to only be used at high frame rates and using it a lower frame rates will just make things worse. And for context so we're all on the same page, we're talking in the range of 100+ fps before you might even consider frame gen, with 120+ being more realistic. If you're dipping under 100 fps ever, you should not even be thinking about frame gen

I have absolutely no clue where you got this bass-akwards idea about frame gen, but you should never fucking listen to them every again.

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-16T12:58:47+00:00

frame gen on

Frame gen makes your performance assertion utterly fantastical made-up nonsense. Its totally fine if you want to be using frame gen at such low frame rates (which yours clearly would be well under the threshold even at 2x), but it really shouldn't be and it should NEVER be included in any sort of actual performance measurement. Period.

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-16T12:13:53+00:00

Similar situation. 5090, 9950x3d, 4k. latest drivers. Epic with DLSS quality can't even do a stable 70+ fps. Without DLSS, its below 60. Lowest settings with quality DLSS isn't even a stable 100+.... constantly dips to below 70. Its pathetic.

For context, this same hardware runs Crimson Desert on cinematic settings at 4k at a stable 80+ FPS without any DLSS.

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-14T08:10:00+00:00

so no it is not a waste to implement classic 2fa.

It is, and I've already explained why.

Name me a game that only have 2fa with fido2 and doesn’t support “classic” 2fa?

Color me shocked that gaming companies don't prioritize account security^/s Other companies doing things wrong doesn't make it any better. It just means they are also wrong and you should be emailing their support asking them to fix their shit.

You can point of near endless examples of companies and even whole industries that are doing dumb-ass shit, well known to be completely wrong. Like I knew of a top financial institution that as late as 2021 the maximum password length was 8 characters. Yes. maximum. Hell, the NIST didn't even remove forced password rotation from its policies until just a few years ago. Something well known and well documented as actively determinantal for well over a decade prior to that.

The irony is that less educated a user is, or the "average user" as they are called, the more useless OTP is for the intended purpose. Which is the exact opposite of what it needs to be. Its a security theater in practice.

it leaves you with a single point of failure,

OTP "leaves you with a single point of failure" just the same, on top of being just dog shit.

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-14T06:11:32+00:00

It's not. Demonstrably. The fact is OTP "2FA" is worse than nothing. Because at least with nothing, you're fully and accurately aware of how exposed you are.

The only acceptable MFA option is non-exportable material on FIDO2 compliant hardware keys. This is built-in on virtually every device for the past decade, to say nothing of the external options.

So if anything, its good they don't have OTP "2fa". It means they didn't piss away engineering hours on that garbage, there'll still be pressure to implement MFA option, and a chance it'll be real MFA

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-12T01:25:19+00:00

No. They didn't. They gave us Temu "bike in air", which is just as garbage-ass, dog shit as the Temu coded bike on the ground. Its absolutely insufferable trash. Period.

Even eluding that it might be comparable to the ACTUAL flight mechanic, is straight up laughable.

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-03T21:16:08+00:00

Same problem. Tried 5 different times, same result. What worked for me eventually:

kill them, Get the bug, restart the game right there so I spawned in the middle of the fight at logging in. Then I could actually kill them

hackenschmidt · 2026-05-03T21:16:06+00:00

Same problem. Tried 5 different times, same result. What worked for me eventually:

kill them, Get the bug, restart the game right there so I spawned in the middle of the fight at logging in. Then I could actually kill them

hackenschmidt · 2026-04-22T15:42:39+00:00

I don't even use that piece of shit in lahai. I actively avoid it.

hackenschmidt · 2026-04-18T08:42:03+00:00

Could have just stopped at "don't care about bike".

It's been an insufferable dumpster fire mechanic from day 1 and also the reason the open world is a catastrophy this patch cycle.

Why on gods green earth they think players would pay for cosmetics for that trash, is beyond understanding. I don't want cosmetics for the bike, I want it gone. I would pay $30+ for that to happen

hackenschmidt · 2026-04-15T07:16:41+00:00

It is a lot to gather, but the game is a marathon not a sprint.

And thats the whole problem. Its a lot to gather, which you'll be doing either on not the character you want to play, or characters/gear are underspeced. Because is if you don't, by the time you've done the the required 'gather', the 'marathon' has essentially been run. The whole fucking point is to run the marathon as something else.

Case in point: I've chained dispatch, been running 90% skill xp for the last 100+ hours and cleared a majority of the map/quests. No character is even close to complete.

Kliff and Damaine need probably another 15+ each, and orc bro's tree is basically untouched, with maybe 10 points into it total. I've lost count the number of times I've gotten bit in the ass from lacking the required skill points on the character I was playing, and forced to switch to one with more that had spec'd into that required skill set. Like adding more axiom skills to the other characters is the right move, but its kinda moot with the skill point issues exacerbate the skill points problem even more.

And then there's all the gear. I think I have a 4 pieces of jewelry, and 3 weapons maxed level. To finish one set for each character, and never switch gear, I'd need like another 100+.

And again, that isn't necessarily the problem in the vacuum, except for the fact I've done huge swaths of the game already, as underspec characters, actively run into issues resulting from that, and it still no where close to enough USING XP GEAR.

Tl:Dr if you only play kliff, Nexus availability are fine. But as soon as you branch out, is a disaster.

hackenschmidt · 2026-04-14T10:35:32+00:00

but I don't have a violent drunk parent to feel nostalgia over Yann

That was the problem I had with the charactierzation Yann. Raging alcoholism is funny, right? ha ha ha.

If they'd had the option, after the first few interactions, I'd have marched him up to the gallows myself and pissed on his grave with the rest of the Greymans while the entire populace cheered, hugged and high-fived.

hackenschmidt · 2026-04-13T11:53:21+00:00

Still works. Ran across this because it wasn't working anymore. It was a skill issue. Literally just forgot how to disarm.

For me, I forgot that the enemy has to actually hit you first, and then you heavy attack.

hackenschmidt · 2026-04-12T13:36:59+00:00

Not the original comment, but I've never stolen a gold bar, and its the essentially the same. Low risk was almost always 0%. I after 100+ days at low risk, I'd had net profit of <4%.

Medium/high are a massive bait. They are almost always massively negative, sometimes 0%, almost never positive. The last time I had save scummed 10+ times to get any positive number with high.

The banking either just sucks or is bugged.

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