Or different people on staff have different opinions and perspectives, maybe.

See, you have to understand that Kotaku has different writers. There is no Kotaku hive mind. So one writer can hate a game (or anime) to death and another can love it to death and there is no hypocrisy. There are very few things that you can say that ‘Kotaku’ has a united front on, other than being generally opposed…

I bought a FLIR One for my Android when house hunting in 2017 (still works on my new Pixel with a micro->C adapter). It gave me a LOT of insight into what was going on in older homes. I could see how poorly insulated homes were, water leaks, power problems... and some gross warm masses that had no explanation (read:…

Is that 2022 pricing? 

Says three, names two, and one wasn’t the fault of the teenager but the uncle who couldn’t build a transmission.

For every person like you that got 4 years out of a car, I can name 3 in my high school alone that got less than a week out of their first cars.

Any car driven by a teenager has an average maximum life span measured in months.

Why is Reliable a key metric here?

What the heck? Did someone finally change out the “water” in the cooler at Jalopnik HQ?

‘Cool’ is subjective...but is a Civic really that much cooler than a Forte these days? Most Gen Z I know wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference...

We have an expression for that in France. It is like giving jam to pig. If they never drove a manual, they don’t know what they are missing. Start with an average, very rugged manual (Toyota corolla or else), low power to limit issues, then they can move to an SI, if they like driving manual, they can then appreciate…

Veloster is the answer, fun to drive, 6 speed is close to Honda smooth. Do you need an N? no, the turbo’s are plenty fast.

Teaching someone to drive a stick on a Civic Si? That’s a bold move, for sure. I’d probably go with something a bit more forgiving.

Maybe H.R. Giger? (RIP)

I could see a custom welded noodley Titanium exhaust being cool for this application, but this looks too similar to the exhaust you’d find on any normal car with heat shields all over. Not very pretty.

Alright, I’ll be the first to admit that taste is subjective, but is there actually a single person out there that thinks this looks good?

I’m stil lgonna ride out the year I have left in hopes the conversion plan (for discounted Game pass) still works one last time at the end of those 12 months.

The price of video games, adjusted for inflation, has never been cheaper.

Every now and then I think “Oh I should buy a couple 3-month extensions while they’re on sale for under $45,” followed immediately by “Eh but I’ve still got like a year and a half prepaid, why bother?” MS just handed me a reason to deny that second voice in the near future.

You can use that increased speed for getting away from people asking why your shoes look so weird.