Jacob was..fine. I guess he was pretty boring, but he seemed like an ok person, but most of all, at least he wasn’t bloody Kaiden or Ashley.

On the other hand I recently replayed the GC version of  Zelda: WindWaker via emulation, and that looked just as good as I remembered. This was helped by Dolphin rendering it at a modern resolution. The textures looked pretty blocky, but everything else looked just as pristine as my (rose-tinted) memories.

That was my first reaction as well, “It outsold in one year, a vehicle that’s been in production since the 1950's?!”. Then I read the link and realised it was only talking about the US market, where they were barely sold.

I had no idea there was a cinema chain called AMC, so when I first read the news I assumed that they were talking about the car company. I thought they’d gone bust years ago, but I guess what was left was bought by a competitor, and will get wheeled out for branding purposes at some point.

Now if it had been the French, the thing would’ve operated pneumatically and had little slots for baguettes.

I’ve never had a speeding ticket, but that’s nothing but luck.

The original Esprit was the only decent looking Lotus ever.

What surprised me in that video was how...agricultural...the chassis looks (see 14:45 onwards). I get that it’s built to be a rally car, ie, bloody tough, but compared to the fantastic body it just looks like a bunch of welded box-section.

In the UK, instead of paying a carbon tax when a car is first bought, the emissions affects the amount of annual road tax you pay Edit, nope, they changed it a few years ago and I hadn’t noticed until now, although it’s technically part of the road tax, rather than a purchase tax. (So if you never used your vehicle…

I remember reading a line in a Greenpeace pamphlet sometime in the 1980's that said something to the effect of “big companies will do something about global warming when it becomes more profitable than ignoring it”. Even as a kid I realised that was true.

Can I ask, why was it the “35”? Was it the thirty fifth prototype?

Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch sort of plays with those ideas, although it’s a kid abducted by elves and replaced, rather than a possessed kid.

Listen, rocks dispensing bows, is no basis for a system of government.

My friend mentioned this, and I remembered the talent show from the last episode.

I know your exact pain.

I managed to disengage the handbrake on my mum’s car once. Fortunately, in my panic I grabbed it and pulled it back up again, so the car only moved a few feet.

No automotive journalist should own automotive stock. It’s unacceptable.

My Tesla-owning-friend has long been an Apple fanboy as well. I think there’s a lot of crossover between the two groups.

My pet theory, ever since there was first rumours about the X-Men becoming part of the MCU, has been that they’d use Wanda to do a ‘reverse’-House of M.

I’m a Brit, and I feel like I understood enough of the 50's-60's sitcom context to get by.