Both possibilities immediately sprang to mind, as working conditions and insane fans are anime’s two biggest problems.

Brand history be damned indeed, as you said, look at Ford. But at this price point, you’ll find that most buyers keep brand identity in mind.

Always love how the only account in stories like this that is widely shared is that of the murderer.

This. This is why practices like this (like, say, itemizing every tax in the price of utilities or services) bug me. It not only makes their advertised prices lies, it subtly demonizes the government for making businesses pay the actual costs of running their businesses. It also lets them make up bullshit…

You have to be below 20 grams of carbs to go into ketosis? Damn. I was still in ketosis well over 100.

Hey you know there are low-carb (carbs replaced with gluten!) Tortillas?  I’ll bet you could fashion a reasonable pizza-adjacent something out of them.  Or you could just go for ultra-thin crust.

Rich white kids are always second best in their parents’ eyes.

Nobody hates liberals like leftists hate liberals.

Oh, they were at one time.

He still has gifts to give.

I don’t want bad thing. I just want thing I perceive as good. Just because thing I perceive as good inevitably leads to bad thing doesn’t mean that I endorse bad thing!

“the inexplicable jettisoning of a floorboard that happens while Paul Walker is drag racing.”

Ideally, yes.

There are, of course, reasons why she more or less couldn’t.  The only possible conclusion is “fuck capitalism.”

You’ve got that look I wanna know

Hah. I once had a coolant hose blow. I made the mistake of popping the hood while it was still spraying. Got a few small first degree burns from it.

Vertical video is fine when the action is oriented vertically.  

I’d just like to point out that Chapo does none of those things.

The Vibe is a spacious option only if the seats are all the way forward or back. If you need front and rear legroom simultaneously, it is not gonna work.

and how they refused to base a fantasy series off of tired medieval “castles+wizards” tropes

The only cartoons I watched as a kid that hold up today were Alf/Alftales and Robotech.