Blue LeSabre

Dear 16 year old me,

From memory

I’ve had 6 smartphones in my adult life, never had a screen protector. Never had to deal with scratches. With my newest one, I’ve ditched cases entirely. Screens are built not to scratch these days. I would demonstrate this to customers at the electronics retailer I worked for by scraping my keys across the bear…

Agreed, but I can’t help but feel like that fact is going to be like the one win the Browns had this season.

Foxtrot Alpha has been a sub-blog of Jalopnik for years. Where have you been?

I love the idea of Formula E and have even come around to the idea of Roborace.

I’ve assembled several dozen Gundam kits. Simple pointers:

I don’t mean anything against passionate commentary if it’s able to be followed. Passionate commentary helps the product on screen. What doesn’t is the play-by-play guy getting passionate while their partner constantly yells over the commentary in big moments “OOH YEA DID YOU SEE THAT” and the like. This still happens…

I don’t disagree. I find many “shoutcasters” approach to commentary very grating, not unlike reaction videos. More yelling than broadcasting. There was a time where I tried to get a certain e-sports streaming group to buy in to a more traditional style of commentary (went to school and got a degree with a focus in…

Why is this nice to hear, exactly?

Is it any weirder than watching other people be really good at hitting balls with sticks or appendages? I don’t understand the appeal of cricket, for example, but I don’t discount is viability as a form of entertainment.

I want to like it. I do, but it just looks like a bunch of styling queues thrown together with generic angry eye slits. Looks like something I’d photoshop into a “cool car concept” when I was 13.

Good show EA, but it would be better to give the option to pay for it with the money going to the families of those affected.

Because a plane crashed and dozens of people died? If you’re trying to be funny, you’re failing.

You laugh, but DraftKings absolutely does esports (or at least did when I spent $5 on it last year)

Good. Paid multiplayer DLC is what killed Titanfall 1 for me after playing it at launch. Hopefully other games follow suit.

I would love, love, LOVE to watch more endurance racing, but when I have to switch between channel (and even viewing devices) half a dozen times to catch the whole thing, it nigh impossible to get invested into it as a new fan. I listened to a good bit of the 24hrs of LeMans on LeMans radio, which was fine, but I had…

I own a Cruze. I love the damn thing. You know why? I bought it brand new with my own money for payments and it wasn’t a co-financed gift from my parents. It’s plenty reliable, moved cross-country in it, solid gas mileage, and enough bells and whistles to keep me happy (a working air conditioner, Bluetooth, iPod…