One wishes more strict emissions standards could be applied elsewhere.

Three years ago, my beloved father in law died on Christmas day. It was horrible. Fast forward and as I am typing this on a bathroom break, I am watching as my husband of 22 years dies from metastatic brain cancer. Although filed with morphine sulphate liquid, he is restless beyond belief and unable to communicate…

I am so, so sorry you and every other female writer here—hell, probably every female in any profession—have to deal with this vitriol.

One Christmas when I was a kid, my great-grandmother had passed away a few days before. My great aunts and grandmother did not get along and, as often happens in old Southern families, there was a lot of disagreement over who was going to get what family heirlooms from their parents. However, on the oldest sister’s…

1) the women of Jalopnik are incredible. Alanis, Kristen, Stef, never change.

One Christmas, when I was 23, my younger brother, who had received a bone marrow transplant six months prior to treat the MDS he had after he was treated for osteosarcoma, woke up at six am with a 104 degree fever. My mom woke me up on their way out the door to the ER with strict instructions for my sister and I not…

Blocking out the Bush years?  They seem quaint compared to today. 

Eh, that’s relative to some enthusiasts though. Lots of newer cars with similar mileage in that market but they’ll continue depreciating. My brother bought a Z4M 10 years ago and it hasn’t lost any estimated value since.

Is this the appropriate time for some self love!?

Tiny little bastards, but they’re tons of fun. They are natural competitors for the Bosxter/Cayman of the time, but they have a more cramped cabin and ride harsher. The Z4M feels far faster, but I guess that will happen when you have an extra 50 or 90 hp vs the 987 Cayman S or base, respectively. The engine in the Z4M…

I owned the non-M version (didn’t fit in the ///M seats properly). Z4 3.0si Coupe was probably the best-looking car I’ve ever had. Also the only car of mine in which I was flagged down by someone so they could ask me about it.  Drove great, quite useful with the rear hatch. It’s on the ‘shouldn’t have sold it’ list.

Can be had all day for $24-30K, a bargain if you ask me.

These have aged extremely well, in my book. I was never a fan when they were new but they’re striking and distinctive today, certainly more the Z4s that followed it. An underrated car. 

I witnessed an enraged, horribly entitled woman throw a screaming fit in a restaurant last year because she felt she was waiting too long for her takeout order (it was a Chinese restaurant on Christmas Eve, they were super busy). She yelled that she was going to write a nasty review on Yelp, did so, and I made an…

The problem with New Vegas was that Bethesda rushed Obsidian to push it out on a stupid short timetable and otherwise interfered in the game development. They didn’t have the time to develop their own assets and had to reuse a lot of the art from Fallout 3 or to do proper bug testing.

The engine is fine.  What isn’t fine is how Bethesda conducts their business.  There are a lot of small bugs in this game that anyone playing would notice.  Including the playtesters.  So either Bethesda doesn’t have playtesters, or it has incompetent playtesters, or probably worst of all, has competent playtesters,…

First off, Fuck you!

I’m a fan of the survival genre and Fallout and I don’t see the appeal of Fallout 76 and I fuckin’ own it.

The problem isn’t so much with the engines age its more about the state of the tools that they use. Instead of improving the tools they keep using the same broken code over and over. Reusing code is not in itself a bad thing because anyone who writes code will tell you its foolish to start from scratch each time you…

Dodged a $79.99 bullet on this one. Feels good man!