That’s one of the most sensible takes I’ve ever read.

Yes. You would likely stand up on someone’s desk, drop trou, squat down and drop a steaming pile and very likely be charged with a misdemeanor because someone used the shorthand for “terminate.”

I’ve seen it before tons of times. As you can imagine, the industry is filled with incompetent assholes and I’ve had to sit in on other terms for “safety reasons” (that means someone thinks the fired person is going to flip out, which they almost never do.) These tools want to make sure I’m ready to “handle things” in…

Yeah, the boss seemed way more interested in getting triggered and going on a power trip than actually doing the job of terminating him. He could have handled things a lot better. The guy knew why he was getting fired and didn’t want to argue with him. 

I think that was his point.

It’s really impressive that the V8 gets 17/22 MPG. My old Outback 2.5XT got that.   My how times change.

So, that boss guy, that’s more or less my job. I’ve termed a couple hundred people probably and the reasons vary wildly (some not interesting at all, some extremely fucking creepy, some pretty bullshit ones too.)

In a way, aren’t we all a fart-recording Doug from New Jersey?

Part of what Ario is exploring in this piece is why this happens in these games—the extent to which it is elements of the community, the content of the games, the culture of game difficulty, etc. Plenty of possible factors. As Ario also points out, most of the messages in the games aren’t like this.

“To anybody who thinks it’s rad though...you’re welcome.” 

Short answer: Yes, because it’s necessary to look past his past in this moment.

Longer answer: Yes, because allowing perfect to be the enemy of good is what got us Trump in the first place, and continuing to bang on about, “So-and-so did bad stuff before,” when they are ranged against someone who is actively committing…

Commend your effort but it doesn't work nearly as well as you wanted it to.

I can see the conversation trees now-
(make semi-racist comment) (give english car an undeserved boost) (kvetch about the uncivilized natives)

I know it sounds crazy but I think I’m kinda done with them... Between roadkill and mighty car mods I think there’s just more fun to be had than watching a bunch of rich old guys…

“I don’t understand why these players aren’t simply retracting their heads into their shells before contact to avoid this sort of thing.” - Mitch McConnell

1. Fuck that comment about Jezebel. This is your warning.

Scrolled down just to see who would “WELL ACTUALLY” first.

Just turn off traction control and stabiltrak and you too can pull a Patrick George and stuff the car into the barrier.

Counterpoint: “Hurr durr It’s not scary” is a good way to end up Orlove’d or worse. There isn’t a 500+ hp car in production (existence) that doesn’t deserve respect.