My first experience with NGE was in the early 00s when I was in high school. It wasn’t really my thing. I liked stuff that had similar elements; mechs, coming of age, a sort of “monster of the week” format, even struggles with more “deep”/philosophical questions and moral ambiguity. I tried it again as an adult and…

No offense, but pretension is precisely what NGE can be, and that’s OKAY. I want to track down the interview with the creators, because they openly ADMIT that’s what the show turned into.

I watched it twice. It’s OK if people like it, but objectively, the end especially is less of a story than in-universe character analysis. It’s literally “tell, not show” and while it may be really exciting for people who don’t normally critique art, for me, it’s “You’re basically trying to anticipate my reactions and…

My bad, too much reading between the lines.  But yeah, I’d think car enthusiasts with different sorts of tastes would be the last to favor sicking an HOA on someone just because they’re in a different slice of the automotive hobby.

You fondly remember the days of nosy HOAs run by power-tripping busy bodies?  Okay then...

Feel free to then buy me a third car so I can just use my truck on weekends in the manner your prescribe. Or put together a rental truck fund. So that is $20 a day plus ~$50 for mileage. So $70 a day, 4X per month, but don’t forget the bi weekly trips up to Tahoe. So those are 300 miles, so $230.

Need more hood scoop.

It’s funny how the Ram kind of started the bro-dozer craze and ended up having the most subdued looking full-size truck on the market today.

Worse, Ram just straight up stole the Rebel’s grille from Jake the Adventuretime dog’s face.

The model S is beautiful and elegant, especially in person. Pictures don’t capture it very well but it’s one of the best looking 4 doors out there. The Model X is disgusting though, in person and in pictures. The front is empty and the proportions are horrendous to me.

So Dan Harmon, channeling his father issues, writes a scene where his avatar Abed, a boy who wants to be a filmmaker in spite of his father, fixes the father issues of the oldest male character in the group by making a game for him where he can play baseball with his dead father, and the only male actor in Dan…