What a phenomenal article... and what I wouldn't give to have cars return to these kinds of roots!

Even my 2003 350z-- which is as close to Steve Martin's famous "four fucking wheels and a seat" as you can drive today-- weighs a whopping 3300 lbs, has airbags, and needs nearly 300 bhp just to do a 14 second quarter mile due to its massive size (as compared to sports cars from earlier decades). That all means I'm lucky to get 16 miles per gallon in cold weather.

What's more, we've gone so far backwards since then that compared to a brand new car, my 350z is tiny! When I park it at work and see it from a second story window, it looks almost comically out-of-place. And that's not even getting to the freaking iPhone-like touch screens, obnoxious blinking lights when someone is in your blind spot, "back up cameras", government-tracking GPS systems, and so on which new cars have.

In short, I despise today's automobiles. I positively hate them. As my Z comes up on seventeen years old, I'd love to buy myself a new car-- but I look around at the market, and I quite literally can't find a product I'd actually want to get! It's so bad that when the Z's motor eventually dies, I might just do an engine swap and keep the car.

It's the same situation for video games. Even the Switch, which is positively minimalistic compared to the PlayStation 4 and Xbone, feels over-engineered, with games which use a million buttons, online patches, complex billions-of-calculations 3d engines, and so forth. I've been having more fun playing NES games on the thing lately than anything else.

As is the case with cars, I'd love for a brand new, reliable system to come out, but which had two button controllers, and 2d-only specs-- like a brand new system in the spirit of something like the NES. Of course, even if that happened, there is the secondary problem that the games would all look like this or this. I'm praying daily that hipsters pack up and move on to a new hobby, as soon as possible.