The first installment with a script is credited Tony Gilroy since the three-part season premiere, it operates as something of an “in case you missed it” catch-up while setting the table not only for next week’s finale but its second and final season too.

The only glaring logic hole in this show thus far: Andor’s “hiding place” for his stash of credits is literally just on a shelf on top of the shower, completely in full view of anyone.  

I deal with incompetence the say way, whether it is “weaponized” or not:

First of all, yes I have. But also, if you follow the thread, the comment isn’t that US progressives ignore colonial genocide in the US, it’s that when fiction depicts a contemporary US setting the baggage is seen as implicit and not necessary for accurate representation, while other cultures don’t get to be a default…

This is a key point to me. Kotaku always brings such a US-centric view to this stuff that reeks of navel gazing. When a French studio sets their games in the US there is no eyebrow raising or “grappling” with anything because America is default location with default humans. The English text in the game that is in…

I think you nailed exactly what I was going to type.
As soon as I see the word “appropriation”, I always get this sinking feeling that I am readying poorly researched article by a young intern who hasn’t traveled enough or seen enough of the world to understand the intersections between art and culture.

It’s wrong, but it’s on-brand from the same site that said that using a 1920s animation aesthetic means you need to use it to make a statement about racism, nothing else is acceptable.

It does sort of reek of "I cited a source and that's good enough!"

They don’t. This is concern trolling at its finest.

I’ll start this by saying that anyone is free to feel insulted by whatever they feel insulted by. But I - an Asian-American living in a third world country - really think this criticism is stretching a bit.

Yet this site name is Kotaku. If there is a sense of irony about “appropriation” being ignored here... *shrugged*

The issue is that the buyer relies on the dealer — the expert in auto transactions — for advice. The dealer withholds material information from the buyer and gives misleading and false advice. The buyer relies on the dealer’s expertise and follows the advice and gets screwed. Yes, the buyer screwed up but the dealer…

I volunteer for a program that does income tax returns for free for incomes up to about $55,000. I think most people underestimate the level of math illiteracy of the general populace. Many of my clients are in the lowest 10% bracket, and I can tell many of them still don’t comprehend the simple math of…

Lol, the fuck?

Agreed. It’s just so sad to read about people with such poor financial acumen that this kind of dealer behavior even exists. As a society, we do a terrible job of educating people about money/credit/savings, etc. I suppose it’s one of the main reasons poor people tend to stay poor.

I’ll be the first to admit that when I was young, dumb and full of $)#& I got upside down on my first couple of car loans. Fast-forward 30 years and I now realize that buying a brand new car is not a good decision for me and better to let someone else take the depreciation hit. That said, the fact that we don’t teach…

As I understand it a repo will always tank your credit even if you can cover the balance.

I think most people who read this don't believe it.

that’s what you get for buying in Odessa instead of Midland.

A friend of mine was in the same boat. He had a German luxury sedan, but the people at his work all drove high end pickups and they gave him shit constantly.  He eventually gave into the peer pressure, but unfortunately he can’t park in his garage anymore. :D