Testers at Lincoln painted a bleak picture, telling stories of an atmosphere in which crunch was mandatory, staff were expected to put phones in a locker while at work, and the blinds had to be closed to prevent fans from snooping.

Still waiting for the cowards at re-Deadspin to open their comments. The fear is strong.

Improving the culture of a company is a hard thing to do that takes a lot of time. I hope that it works out for all the people on the ground at Rockstar. To make the culture of a company worse, all you really have to do is to start an herb garden.

The poor new Deadspin with its stick-to-sports mandate will have no option but to continue never posting!

Chuck Taylor Converse shoes aren’t “gym” shoes and they provide zero arch support. I cannot wear those without extreme pain/injury.

I live in the desert, goddamnit. I am NOT wearing 100% cotton anything in the summertime.

For Ariana to go from gushing about Pete in numerous interviews, including Fallon, saying she knew she’d marry him from the moment she met him, at a time she was involved with Mac Miller in 2016, to calling him a “distraction” is hurtful and cruel. First, she no doubt hurt Mac very deeply with that statement. It was…

And totally shoves it in his face that she bought diamond engagement rings “for 6 of my bitches” at Tiffany’s, when Pete used up a huge amount of his bank account to buy her an engagement ring, which he presumably had to pawn or is stuck with. 

I mean, I was strictly talking about songs actually recorded since technology became a thing, but obviously your point is true. 

I also enjoyed it, but I’m really surprised the Louis CK bit hasn’t gotten more attention in reviews. He just really was always an asshole.

Men have been writing songs about women and their bodies for decades

I’ve watched a fair amount of porn and can’t say I’ve ever seen an assassin. Hitman in a Bond movie, maybe.

This sounds interesting! Men and masculinity has always been one of the most fraught relationships on earth, and throwing in fame makes for an explosion

Thanks for this write-up. I turned on the special last weekend because I had an hour to kill, but didn’t expect much. I was pleasantly surprised at his storytelling ability, like you said. That opener about Louis CK was fantastic, and he handed the Ariana stuff considerately IMO.

It is actually amazing how far they have pushed the braking technology behind those 15" wheels. Better cooling as a result of larger discs will improve safety and decrease the amount of frontal area needed for the ducts, which will likely improve top speeds too!

The Simpsons as a show is 3 months older than me. I’d like to think it’s aged the same way I have... just accepting a larger and larger dose of bullshit from higher up for a bigger paycheck each year.

...what?

It was before an Ice Age movie before Fox being owned by Disney was nothing more than a Simpsons joke itself, so it's not like The Simpsons is only now being corporately synergistic.

They actually did this not too long ago with another Maggie-centric short -- and it turned out to be pretty decent. I can’t remember what the short is called, nor what movie it was airing before. So this comment is pretty pointless.