It’s actually a much better car than the Yaris ever was or is. What a dismal shitbox. Mazda was the right company to partner with in this case. We’re already doing relatively great with these.

The thing that always bothers me about this argument, which seems to follow virtually every video game, and apparently even board games, is that the depiction of men is equally extreme if not even moreso. Take the cover art with the damsel, look at that dude. Just look at that. He’s 8 ft. tall if he’s a foot, and he’s…

My most auto-inspired watch,and I think maybe the most car inspired watch possible. Speedmaster on red Hirsch Rally. Wearing it today!

I mostly enjoyed what I consider to be “pure” Top Gear circa around 2008. Just some really well shot, witty, and great sounding reviews of a good mix between lustworthy crazy stuff and still lustworthy but common stuff. I like the occasional challenge or road trip ep, but for me, nothing tops 3 or 4 great reviews with…

While I do understand to some degree what Brie’s article is saying, there are also some things I’m totally lost on. Namely: Case study art historian Kristina found out that Skyrim can provide a very emotionally engaging experience, but yet she stopped playing soon after because “She doesn’t like dragons”.

Likely no. Before we’d consider that, we’d just do the leather. The install cost is hardly worth putting forth any effort to avoid it.

I will definitely acknowledge that the Lexus haptic mouse is overcomplicated and extremely annoying. I hear customer complaints about it very often. The word seems to be that it is cool and impressive, but they’d rather be able to avoid it (which they can’t).

You don’t know how leasing works. Those payments you’re making on a lease do go to the pay down the car. When your lease is up you have every right to buy the car out for what you still owe. It is not at all different from purchasing the car, it just gives you an alternative out should you want to change cars in a few…

I can pretty much confirm that it’s nothing to write home about and is just the XSE. Recently went to the dealer’s association convention in Vegas and there was one unveiled there, quad exhaust and all. No talk of anything performance related. And I can also confirm that there is absolutely 0 interest in this on the…

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“It’s the customer’s responsibility to know what he or she can afford”

I play a lot of games and there is no way in hell anyone is doing this. Even the best voice work on the biggest games often feels, to me, to be incredibly unrealistic and phoned in. Every once in a while you get a GTA Trevor who kind of acts like he maybe has some emotional stake in what’s happening, but often its…

Honestly, very often the Kia. When you work on commission, you’re making a percentage of the gross profit. We can buy a used Kia for peanuts but often sell them for quite a bit more because they are cheap and financeable. A Mercedes generally trades for a lot and sells for a lot, until they hit the point at which…

I really don’t have empathy for them, no. I think you’re showing a little too much empathy however, in assuming that what they currently get isn’t a “fair wage”. How do we define what a fair wage is? I would generally say its the wage at which people will still voluntarily do the job. You seem to think it’s however…

It’s not as if they don’t currently get paid. They just want studios to tell them who they are so the actor knows to what degree they can extort them for more cash than they would a lesser known developer for the same work.

Ok, so let’s assume that’s true. Maybe if you’re in the industry, voiding contracts is probably not good.

And you should! I don’t disagree with that. That’s my point.

I do understand that it probably often happens that you’re contracted before you know, however, I would say that your example doesn’t really hold up. Reason being, you’re not going in for a voice job and then told you have to animate the game too. You’re still just voice acting. These people essentially just want to…

But that’s exactly what I mean. They don’t do the research to know that the franchise they’re reading for is, but they sure as hell would like for the producers of said franchise to tell them so they can easily bargain for more?

If it were really that major a franchise, and your character was important enough to matter even a little bit to the actual narrative, would it really be that difficult to figure out what franchise you’re reading for?