Slow down. Chew your food.

Maverick had a million callbacks to the original. It follows a ton of the plot beats from Top Gun and had tons of nostalgia bait lines and scenes.

Well, in the sequel it’s established that the Ghostbusters went out of business a couple of years after the first movie, not to mention hit with tons of property damage lawsuits. They never franchised anything. So yeah, Ray definitely lost the house.

Especially at the ridiculous rate of 19%

This is the last of the petty cash. 

Super Mario World is just perfect. It’s the ultimate distillation of everything the SMB series brought to video gaming. The level designs are inspired and endlessly inventive. The movement is intuitive, but very deep (you can do SO MUCH with the cape!) The character designs are filled with personality. There are…

Sure it’s great in the short term, but if you can play everything on a PC, people have less incentive to buy a console. I know I never saw any reason to pick up an Xbox. A thing has to have exclusives otherwise I feel like I’m just wasting my money.

I think that’s pretty revisionist. The initial Xbox and Xbox 360 seemed like fairly smart moves in the context of the gaming and software environment of the time, and didn’t seem like curiosities, rather a trend that started with Sony getting into games with the Playstation. The same “all these other businesses that…

I wouldn't say a ton of trouble shooting, but sometimes, it's too much.  I bought a pc with a high end graphics card and all the fixings and some modern games, you just can't get rid of stutter. After an hour of troubleshooting, I'm done, and I play the console version.  Some games are flawless on pc and with an Xbox…

That’s one of the biggest reasons for not wanting to game on PC as a primary (or even secondary) platform. I like being able to turn the console on and play without having to worry about (among other things) whether I need to upgrade my GPU or other components, if my drivers are up-to-date and compatible, did Windows…

PCs are not a cheap as you seem to think, especially after the pandemic drove up the prices of graphics cards and they never quite went back down. I just got a low to mid range card for 300 bucks, which could easily get me the better part of a console.

PC is a good option, but its a significant overhead to get into,…

The equivalent PC will cost a lot more than a PS5, plus games made by Sony Studios will always run better on OS. Console gaming equals ease and confidence that the latest game will run on your chosen platform and you'll not have to worry about having to upgrade your graphics card every few years, just yo keep up with…

I’m good with exclusives. I see them as a vital part of competition between platforms and developers.

I’m a lifelong console gamer, but I hate consoles. I like Playstation. My longtime gamer friends have XBoxes. I’d love for more games to be cross-platform and crossplay multiplayer. Exclusivity is only good for the console makers.

More players being able to access games the better

On one of the podcasts I listen to, one of the hosts was like “Replaceable batteries in 2024,  that sucks” and the other host was like “No, its great.  You throw in rechargables and you can swap them out when they die.  And when they eventually stop holding a charge you recycle them and buy some more.  For PS5 you…

I’m always a fan of more people playing games. Exclusivity is an anti-consumer practice and I’d love Playstation fans to get the games I play on the console they want.

The only thing that really comes to mind other than the controller preference as you pointed out is the actual console’s features.

Just curious about “ostentatious design”. I’m looking at my new internet “box” and it pretty much looks like the Series X that’s sitting on the other side of the room, just smaller.

I have never had a good experience with this game that wasn’t immediately tempered by someone being an asshole.  I gave it up, but I’m not built for a PvP-based game.  I could not stand losing hours worth of work to someone who had obviously been playing longer than me because ‘pirate game’.