So have sales fallen, or is the increased ”financial damage” simply conjecture based on increased traffic to pirate sites?

One of the problems I’ve always had with “piracy damages” as a concept is it’s completely theoretical and almost always based on the false assumption that the same people pirating something would be legitimately paying customers if piracy wasn’t an option, which is nearly never true.

Someone is going to stick their dick in it. Who am I kidding, someone probably has already...

the shock. it is real.

The ultimate jab is announcing the Hummer a year or so after the Cybertruck, and releasing it to customers a good year before anyone sees the Tesla.

“They should offer a lift kit called Too Big to Fail”

Have they? Its mostly known for Left4Dead, then Evolve with their “Buy our Seasons Pass - DLCs not included” way and now again with Left4Dead...well...under another name, but its more or less Left4Dead.

The dispatcher is in fact acting as a agent for Amazon, so the story and headline are completely valid.

I mean, Tencent and Epic can eat my whole asshole, but this one doesn’t irk me. Turtle Rock has been one of those studios with innovative ideas that don’t seem to pan out, and if having the financial backing of China helps them keep the lights on for a bit longer, so be it.

A slur is a slur no matter who it’s aimed at. The target being white people doesn’t make it somehow okay.

I find the specific chunk of criticism outlined to be so aggravating. Because I watched the anime prior to the live action and felt like one of the anime’s *weaknesses* was an overreliance on “cool” over “logic”. The live action version over corrected FOR SURE but to act like the anime’s choice to blow past answers to…

The point isn’t how much range I need, how many chargers there are or how long I will be at one. The issue is that range isn’t a luxury for ICE powered vehicles. Treating range as a luxury is shifting the burden from manufacturers to consumers. It’s great for the manufacture because then it’s just that darn consumer…

Hmm - Jalopnik long-timer here who has bought *seven* new cars in the past 15 years or so, every one of which was a manual. Some of us actually do vote with our wallets.

You’re rather snarkily insinuating that car sales somehow prove whether a car is good or better or something... and having been here a while (and as an apparent Abarth fan) I’m surprised you’re putting blinders on like that.

This attitude is almost as bad as those people saying “if you don’t like the new Integra, you don’t like manual sportscars”. We can not like things.. it’s allowed. Especially if it’s a redo of a legendary model but it is now either a) built by a completely different company from another country and doesn’t offer a…

Again, “Toyota didn’t really care enough to bother” isn’t the full throated defense that you seem to think it is when the argument is how little Toyota seemed to care.

Holy shit, I *LOVE* you. You fucking nailed it. I have nothing else to say; you’ve covered it perfectly.

Very well said! as someone who’s living in these “fancy” German nightmares of stupid problems. I'm 100% with you.

The engine the car came with was attached to a manual in another car that BMW built. Then Toyota announced another engine option that was also attached to a manual in another car that BMW built (which BMW also provides for another manufacturer).

“Oh yeah, the Supra. Turns out, I really enjoyed driving it, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t make myself care that it’s more BMW than Toyota”