Let me summarize three quarters of the list:

Don’t get: Affordable item that fulfills the requirements of many users perfectly well.
Do get: Something that costs more than twice as much.

This ignores Samsung, Google and Garmin as top brands for tech equipment. Very misguiding and outdated.

Wait 8 more years for them to redact THIS post

But Lifehacker told me to….

I love fast food and McD’s. I’d be quite happy to win this.

I appreciate that your article is both informative and clever, without hitting us over the head with either.

Did you confused McD’s and Taco Bell somehow? I don’t think I’ve ever had bowel issues from eating at McD’s. Their food is so overcooked I don’t think anything’s alive in there anymore.

I think you might be underestimating things a bit, the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing analogy doesn’t quite work since it implies that there’s some measure of equality between the hands. If you’re not talking to Nintendo of Japan then you’re not really talking to anyone. If you’re a company negotiating…

The less you use it, the longer you can use it.

*one Moore.

Meat Pit Tycoon would effortlessly have been GOTY 2023.

picked the wrong type of game, should have been “theme park made of meat” not “Yet another survival horror game”

Exactly - he knew his limitations, and that’s awesome! He realized that he’d have to give up some control over his passion project, and that he can’t do that.
Even if a game was ultimately produced, it would have been a misery for everyone involved.
To me that’s completely fair, if unfortunate for the people who were…

So this guy tried for A WEEK, and then gave up? That’s it?

My guess is either the KS cash didn’t rack up as fast as he hoped, or he realized turning this into a viable game worth playing was going to take more money, time, and effort than he was willing to invest.

Oh well. At least he prevented another Mighty No.9…

Seems like a huge overreaction by an artist that lacks an open mind

sounds like its for the best.  i’ve tried to work with auteurs like this dude.  it’s a nightmare for everyone.  they can’t give up even the slightest amount of control, make any sort of compromise, and have to have a direct hand in everything even if they have no idea what it means, how to do it, or what it entails. …

Some thoughts:

So, the advice is basically “buy all the stuff from the big brands!”

This is pure cringe. Not everybody loves Apple, and as others have already noted here, it’s not very convenient to receive an Apple product if you’re specifically locked into Android with every other device in your life.

Please no, don’t try to get people into ecosystems or create accounts unless they are already in. Don’t buy Apple to someone who don’t own Apple, don’t buy Oculus unless you are sure that the recipient is fine linking his Facebook account to it, same idea for the Amazon or FitBit gadgets. Handing out personal data to…