The trend is what is important, not the profit of the moment.  They’re in a freefall.  The article says 12 quarters of slumping sales, which means that soon they will not be making money.  I’m just wondering how long it will be until they’re bought out.

Used to pass his law offices every week (Fort Wayne, IN. And yes it is as boring as it sounds). The funny thing is, his voice is about as high pitched and quiet as I’ve ever heard from a grown man. 

Yes, I’ve read industry vets and developers say they don’t dare mess with rates.  I’ve also played a game where the playerbase found out and the devs had to admit it and claim it was a “bug” and compensate players accordingly. 

It would, and that’s one of the reasons it doesn’t happen in high profile games (in addition to just dooming your game if players ever found out, which they would - I’ve seen it happen before on online CCGs). I’m not sure Heather should have gone with the word “undoubtedly”, as there is definitely doubt. Some games do…

Check out the “gachagaming” subreddit if that’s your thing. Maybe 4-5 months ago there was an AMA by someone in the business (high up enough to know a lot, but not to be able to say too much or he could be ID’d), and rates were something he discussed. He said shadier games do stuff like this, but it’s too risky for…

Track gas is fooking expensive, and I’m not leaving the premises to fill up and waste precious time to cool down my fluids.

Agreed on the awesome article, this is good jalop.

a few idiots with heavy feet, so starved of attention that they’re willing to endanger others to get it.

The writing in this thing is amateur grade. “the gist of the check is valid to us.” What? I’ve told interns to rewrite communication for stuff more coherent than that.

This was either faked by some kid fresh out of college that thinks they know what the business world is like from the movies and old professors…

Well, my CX-9's looks super outdated, but that’s also a 13 year old car now. The 6 isn’t terrible IMO, but I’m not sure if it’s been updated meaingfully since 2014. Then again, I don’t use it for anything other than playing Spotify so it doesn’t really matter to me.

Eh, once you’re used to it, they aren’t bad. My 2008 CX-9 and 2014 6 both are just under 8 seconds to 60 and feel plenty peppy. I have a lengthy highway commute with a few onramps that require some gumption to merge safely, and don’t have a problem with either. Passing is also not an issue, even in traffic that moves…

Mazda has been the sweet spot for me as well. Good quality, good looks, good performance, good economy, reasonable to buy, reasonable to maintain, easy to sell.

It’s equal parts brilliant and diabolical. 

They took the splash graphics off if it’s the same car... which is a darn shame.

Bad take is bad.  It’s almost like you guys are purposefully posting ridiculous crap you know will be controversial just to get clicks.  Which is probably the case, considering you were basically begging us to give you stories to fill the void of your good writers leaving.

Why are the wheels flipping me the bird?

Please define “need”. Others have indicated that those things wouldn’t cause him to fail inspection, so it wasn’t a need there. Or do you mean as far as saftey? I have driven beaters (and yes, this Fit is a beater even if it has low miles) with 2-3x as many miles as this and never ONCE have I bothered to flush any of…

Fair enough. But I can’t imagine a disposal fee would meaningfully contribute to the estimated $330 difference between the hourly rate and final charge.

I’m not sure at all what your comment means, sorry. Are you saying that a throttle body takes more than 10 minutes to take off, wipe, and put back on? All of the TBs I’ve cleaned have been nothing more than 4 bolts, a sensor, and a hose or two to loosen in order to remove. For a car like a Fit you don’t have to get a…

The issue here isn’t that he wanted convenience, it’s that he insanely overpaid for the convenience of getting work done that didn’t need done.

This is much different than him paying $300 for a brake job that could be done in an afternoon with a set of sockets.  That I can understand.  This?  He got taken for a ride.