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Have fellow Soylentis been noticing that Ars Technica is becoming more about TV series, comics and other pop media than about tech and science. If not for Chris Lee articles about physics and the Space coverages (which is also starting to be a bit too much) nothing would be salvaged. Most of the times I open Ars out of years old habbits only to close it in 10 seconds.

I have been wanting to ask others for the opinion, if it is just me that is becoming too hardcore nerd, or they are indeed shifting focus audience. For example there is now this article with the title "How my favorite designer ended up being featured in Hobbs and Shaw". There is so much wrongness with the article title i will not even read the article: For example

"How my favorite[...]". Whose favorite are we talking about? Oh "Jonathan M. Gitlin". Yeah the dude writes about new cars, which is already tangent to what I got used from Ars Technic over the years, but who cares about Johanatans favorite something. Then

"favorite designer". Favorite designer? Designer of what? Hmm, clothes? Must not be, why on Earth would clothes design be a thing relevant on Ars Technica. Better who the fuck has a favorite designer? Where do these people come from? Ok let's give the benefit of the doubt: Let me search for the keyword technology on the article...Yes! There is:

" In fact, it reminds me a lot of Gordon Murray's approach to designing the McLaren F1. Like Murray, Hugh's work is heavy with the latest technology [...]"

  Ok, ok. So there is tech, let me read further then...OH NO!!:
"I had an inkling that Acronym was going to feature in Hobbs and Shaw when the first trailer showed our eponymous heroes wearing jumpsuits. These featured a rather distinctive style of pocket"

What? Are we really discussing pocket types and men jumpsuits in Ars Technica? If Analee Newitz was not already rock bottom (strange why she left, her articles were garbage but at least mostly sciency) we now are this level.

Well here is the rant about Ars Technica that I for some time wanted to write this year. They completely screwed with it and got full of themselves. Result? GQ.
I actually bought GQ for a while, until i started to think there was too much men for my taste, and Playboy became a better choice. It had some practical men dressing advice, some cars, some tech, some girls. (Most of the times, sometimes there were men. I am fine with that). Playboy went bankrupt in my country so I stopped buying it.