I miss the early days of multiplayer where voice chat wasn’t even possible, because we were all on dial-up modems or ISDN connections.

Yeah. Every time I played my 3DS, I said to myself: “You know what this handheld console needs? Overclocking and water-cooling.”. I really can’t believe Nintendo just made games with the constraints of handheld hardware in mind, rather than upgrading for upgrading’s sake.

Yes, but they’re games. This is a movie.

The plot in the game can be non-existent because it’s all about gameplay. The plot simply serves as a paper-thin framing device.

Agreed. I haven’t really enjoyed any of Illumination’s movies. They occasionally have their moments, but far from enough of them to justify a second viewing (and barely enough to sit through the first).

Attention-starved idiots inconsiderately harassing people in an attempt to gain minor-celebrity status?

The 9 million figure for House of the Dragon is the “first-night, all-platform audience”.

Sakamoto was both inspired by early arcade music, and in turn inspired much of the videogame music that came later.

When you go to file taxes here in Australia, the tax filing web app has a big disclaimer: “The Australian Taxation Office will never ask you to pay taxes in Apple Gift Cards or any other form of gift card”.

Not everyone has the cognitive capacity that you do.

With the economy becoming increasingly cashless (here in Australia at least - I don’t think I’ve actually used physical money in years), there really isn’t a need for gift cards to even exist these days, particularly when such a large proportion of their sales are scam-related.

It’s even worse if you need to take a break for a while. I played through it at a time when I was doing a lot of overseas business travel, and would have to take a break from the game for months at a time.

I miss instruction manuals.

These days, with so many screen options, not owning a TV is almost plausible. We’ve actually gone from four TVs to just one in our household, because everyone essentially has a TV in their pocket these days.

Personally, I’ve know of Survivor purely from the incessant ads. But I have never watched an episode, and frankly wouldn’t be able to tell you how it works other than (from the advertising) seeming to involve people who need a bath performing physical challenges inspired by 1980s Japanese gameshows like Takeshi’s…

The only way this could possibly happen is an aversion to games and a concerted attempt to avoid all discussion of them. If you close the browser as soon as any gaming content comes up, declaring that it’s “not for me”, or avert your eyes whenever you see a kid with a gaming device, you’d possibly manage this…

I don’t see those icons. You definitely need better social media blockers in your browser (try uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger).

“As a result, Cage considers the late Lee his “surrealistic father,” who “named me.”” 

Why would anyone do that? The content is mostly time-wasting juvenile crap.

That’s because not talking about it just led to wacky conspiracy theories.