It’s pretty funny how often Pablo Hidalgo throws low-key, star-sucking shade on the entire notion of Starkiller Base.

They better fix their hearts or die.

[iMessage sent at 2:31 AM] “Hey girl, 1 up?”

That *is* one of the lingering biggest disappointments in the first game. Ships in a Star Wars game should not be power-up tokens.

If this is the internal thinking it seems like they’ve got an itchy trigger finger — the i3 was always too weird and too retrograde (by which I mean, it seemed like a 1990s concept of what an electric car was) to be a relatively mainstream hit like a Tesla is (in terms of admiration/cultural impact if not sales…

One of the weirder twists of the last few years is discovering the the presumably-sensitive/artsy/blue-bleeding frontman of the Smashing Pumpkins is, in fact, an Infowars regular guest and wrestling hound.

A counterpoint to that would be that localization not only involves changing things so an intended meaning isn’t lost (“Futoshi Futoi” becomes “Chunk Widebody”) but also changing things so that unintended meaning doesn’t manifest itself. Unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t sound like a reference to the KKK was…

I was going to say I like the proportions on this car and that it’s more T H I C C than “thick,” and then I read

But it DOES look fantastic and I want every car I own to have one.

“It’s almost like Tesla is positioned in people’s minds as an energy storage company that happens to put most of its batteries on wheels,” said Andrew Stewart, chief investment officer at Exchange Capital Management, an investment firm in Ann Arbor, Mich.

This continuing epic is basically “The Straight Story” but with a Jeep.

In the U.S., “fake news” is an annoyance on your Facebook feed, or a charge lobbed at an outlet that reports something you may not agree with. In Russia, fake news is a weapon, and the guns that fire the bullets are its state news outlets like RT and Sputnik. 

I’ve seen these guys driving around Tokyo (and let me tell you, context-free it was quite the punchline about almost every stereotype of Japan) — it doesn’t seem very dangerous because so many of the cars it shares the road with already are kei cars and the traffic is so slow and dense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

It definitely shows the extreme difficulty of “edge cases” in autonomous driving — I mean, yeah, of course the driver should have been paying more attention. But can we truly blame him for letting it slip in this instance, where straight-ahead highway driving conditions in clear weather seem suited exactly to the very…

Everything *is* a remix; and also, does this guy get cranky every time someone writes a fan fic?

Re: the SAG analogy — I only mean that the very same new technology has created a burgeoning interest in high-quality fan-made works—the kind that put CBS, Lucasfilm, etc. in the tricky position of having to defend their copyright while not wanting to crap all over fans’ enthusiasm. There’s room for a good solution…

I not sure it’s that black-and-white. There’s cultural merit in letting people adapt Gilgamesh, Frankenstein, and other works in the accepted public domain, and while it’s unreasonable to just lump Indiana Jones in the same category, it’s worth asking the question of “for how long” and “in what circumstance” even with…

I think his point more is that after a certain amount of time, works ought to belong to popular culture so that their ability to inspire new works isn’t overly-handcuffed. The individual merit of the object in question is subjective and beside the point...

Curious to know what everyone thinks of the Toyota “joystick” on the Prius. I’ve had one for three years and like it. There’s a separate physical button for “P” that’s not a part of the stick, and it lights up like a Caps Lock when engaged — It’s unorthodox, but easy to see at a glance whether your car is in park or…