Cyberpunk’s real through line isn’t about fearing the Japanese when they were on the rise in the 1980s. That’s just a very unfortunate and apparent theme people picked up on in Bladerunner’s visuals. Cyberpunk’s through line is hatred of capital and centralized authority. In many cyberpunk works like comics in Heavy…

That’s kinda the thing, isn’t it? When suddenly your comfort and privilege are gone you realize how bad the people who were complaining about these issues before you have had it for so long. A few years ago I was thinking I could just go full hermit and let the system fuck itself to death while I lived off racoon meat…

It’s more like one group is actively heinous, disgusting, and regressive, and the other has three factions fighting for control where two of them are fine with trying to go back to the way things were ten years ago.

Sheetz has been expanding rapidly by either buying out local independent gas stations or building new gas stations and drastically undercutting their prices and making up for it with their convenience stores. This method let them spread like a plague from southern Pennsylvania into just about every surrounding state,…

It’s amazing to me how there’s been this rush to EVs instead of alternative fuels because it lets giant corporations off the hook by scapegoating vehicle emissions. They still get to fuck up the atmosphere and pollute at a large scale with industrial production in other industries because they successfully greenwashed…

That’s something that’s always annoyed me. For ergonomics parallel sticks like the Dualshock controllers have is much better. Your thumbs have much better minute control when the muscles are already slightly under tension from being extended.

As someone who grew up with a Gamecube controller and uses an Xbox One…

When doing random generation maps for a prototype game that never got off the ground, I ran into an interesting problem with Blender Game Engine. See, BGE is missing a lot of features that other game engines and regular Blender 2.7 has. One of which is dynamic subdivision, called Dynamic Retopology or DynTopo in the…

Great! If there’s one thing I’ve learned from automoderators it’s that AI checking for set parameters totally can’t be gamed and twisted. It’s totally infallible. Completely immune to basic mistakes. A benefact—

Okay, seriously, this seems like a stupid thing to use in place of actual inspections. Use it alongside…

... That’s just a regular website. Meanwhile portals are websites with multiple pages with content, even though we don’t use the word “portal” anymore. Jalopnik for example is considered a portal. A portal hub or a web hub is something like Google, or the old MSN Groups where they aggregate links to multiple outside…

You’re talking about cars that were already gone by the time the New Edge Mustang debuted in 1999 with the 3000GT and Z32 300ZX. In fact the 3000GT left the U.S. market just a few months after the New Edge debuted, with it’s sister car the Dodge Stealth having left two years earlier, leaving Dodge and Plymouth with…

Which Celica are you talking about specifically? The T180? Or the T200? Because with both cars I don’t see anything that wasn’t part of industry wide styling at the time (that everyone stole from Mazda’s production cars and GM’s concept cars.)

The 1964.5 original Mustang was king of it’s time. Because it’s competition was the Plymouth Barracuda, the AMC Marlin, the Dodge Dart (the 1963 bug eye before the 1966 redesign), and the Datsun 1600. Everything except the Datsun looked like a freak, and the Datsun ripped of Triumph’s designs and shrunk them down even…

There are plenty of younger people that like cars and like driving them.
They just can’t afford them.

It’s not even the “up to” that’s the killer here. It’s the other shit the trucking companies pull. That theoretical faerietale amount of $250,000 is gross wages. By the time you pay for your own fuel, maintenance, certifications, and inspection on a truck you’re paying a lease on to the company that employs you, your…

Not really a fan of the damselfly larvae look the top side of the back has, but I suppose they couldn’t get the active aero flaps at the trailing to work properly if they were flat planes. That said, for the rest of the engine cover and especially the main chainnel, few straight lines coming to a sort of bulbous point…

That still doesn’t excuse the franchise model. The franchise is designed to offset the costs on the franchisee while the actual corporation takes in the profit for doing nothing but holding the license and negotiating supply contracts. The corporation makes money even if the franchisee is drowning in debt. Saying one…

That’s the track width, not the turning circle. The track width has influence on the turning circle, but the two biggest things that determine turning circle are wheelbase and front wheel steering angle. Compact CUVs have the same wheelbase but often have a slight bit more wheel travel. This might not seem like much,…

They’re taller, wider, and longer with much larger turning radii. In the car world those increases of a few inches make massive differences, especially since in cities things are designed to fit within the smallest tolerances possible. When a “compact” CUV has the same turning circle as a king cab 6.5' bed full size…

Near where I live the effect was so immediate that the only vehicles I see for sale are big ass lifted bro-dozers.

They don’t really make sense as city cars, though. Their size makes them difficult to park, regardless of their “compact” designation (that’s because in the U.S. we do it ass backwards and categorize cars based on total interior passenger volume). They have slow low-end acceleration with everything in the mid-range,…