I agree that american consumers love exclusivity (e.g. japanese luxury branding), but when not the customer’s friends but the customer themself has to ask “what is that” it becomes an issue. A dealer rep explains “well it’s renault’s performance brand” to get a response of “what’s renault and if it’s a performance…

Nintendo goes full elon “do as i say, not as i do”?!

Amen to mario kart online. No voice chat chaos and a list of innocuously positive text phrases to choose from

I agree, this seems nuts. Alpine at best could be pre-EV Lotus: two-ish niche sports cars that steadily sell in low volumes.

derbel mcdillett

Yes, whenever i think about bros doing bro stuff the first music that comes to mind is...disco.

Especially when the rareness is based on layers and layers of qualifiers

bieber meets SEC sweep meets talk to the manager

the only things i remember from mgs4 is “nanomachines...drebin”

my personal favorite was defending klobuchar throwing office supplies at staff with “yeah, you just can’t handle a strong woman in a position of power”

interesting! i didn’t know that, but it makes sense

People focus on the video game controller thing, which is a bit of a fallacy. They’re used all the time for military application et al and is cheaper/faster than developing some bespoke submarine controller that’s 90% the same. That they’re using a wireless one could present an issue.

I agree it’s a very extreme example, but my point stands in regards to “snap judgement at surface level facts and snarkily assigning intent”

File under “missing a lot of detail”. For all we know he was at his child’s funeral, but candace is going to candace

Easy, proven and inexpensive. I can only imagine the US military trying to develop a bespoke drone controller for them to cost thousands each after years of R&D and still not work as well as your run of the mill OEM console controller. PS3 clustering was my favorite “military tech done cheap and cleverly”

While the whole thing is pretty stupid, it’s a matter of context. The inverse (calling someone “tranny” or “homo”) may be technically correct and scientifically accurate but it can be used in a way to denigrate and belittle. There’s also the “you don’t get to choose what offends other people” element. Given this is…

that’ll probably be his bernie goetz “here, have another one” moment

Exactly, would be george zimmerman all over again. Riding emotion/outrage is a surefire way to overcharge and for someone who deserves punishment to walk

This was the biggest disappointment in my lifetime/areas of car interest. Billed as a CRX successor with (cutting edge/”experimental-ish” at the time) hybrid power sounded amazing. Then as the slide states, was worse than a fit in almost every way

So it’s the joe rogan show with less/no DMT?