All of these are obscenely high prices that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

So far as I can tell the game was never actually packaged with the system in North America, and even if it was it almost certainly wouldn’t have been in its own sealed retail box in the system box.

It’s so silly for anyone to wrap up their identity in “I beat this game on hard mode”.

There’s a six year old vying for your attention and you’re trying to work.  It’s the worst fucking feeling in the world to have to ignore your child to perform capitalism, but most of us have to do that. His job just happens to involve playing video games.

I agree with you on all points, but from the excerpt in text I don’t get the “personal responsibility" vibe at all, it looks to me like they're (rightly) laying the onus at the Microsoft and Sony levels. It's important to care about these things and be personally responsible because that gives a capitalist incentive…

I dunno, a 5,000 sq ft house seems pretty enormous, even for a multi-generation household. We’re moving from a 1900 sqft 3/2 house to a 3100 sqft 4/3 house shortly because we want the space for two adults working from home with a kid. It’s going to offer us pretty much everything we could ever want (except for a…

Ehh, I can’t speak to the history of Guilty Gear, but KI was definitely defined by its soundtrack back in the day with the pack-in with the SNES title, and KI 2013 has a reactive soundtrack that’s 100% dynamic based on what’s happening in the match, who’s comboing, who’s winning, and unique tracks, per character/stage/…

Guilty Gear, more than any fighting game, is a series defined by its music.

Wait, so Tesla is actively charging $10,000 for full self driving capability that not only doesn’t exist, but can’t possibly have any way of knowing any kind of a delivery date for one of the most complex problems humanity is currently trying to solve?

Well lucky for you, it appears Nintendo agrees with you that this sucks and added the Ethernet port by removing one of the USB ports.

Blake Shelton foisted “Corn” on all of us and for that anything he’s a part of is immediately in the running for the worst of whatever it is.

I think I’ve told this story here before, but I learned the very, very hard way why my van wasn’t blowing hot air in Detroit winters. I mostly drove around campus for short distances and figured it just wasn’t getting warm enough, and a friend of mine had a truck that hadn’t had any heat for a long time.

I think you’re onto something here!

Never? They aren’t creating artificial scarcity, they’re printing cards as fast as they can.

PAX? Nah, not really my scene as it is. I did a few E3's in ‘04 and ‘05 and while they were great fun, I was a lot younger and the pandemic really doesn’t play into my calculation to go (or not) to PAX.

Ugh, why release a statement? That’s like... the word of God directly to his supporters that he IS being targeted.

I definitely never said that or even implied it. I implied the exact opposite, that it’s certainly reasonable to believe some of those titles will not be on PlayStation. I would be slightly surprised if 100% of future ZeniMax owned titles were entirely exclusive. You’re probably right that it was prohibitively…

Yes, exactly.  There’s always a way out, be it an expensive or legal challenge, but there’s always a way out.  Those titles I’m sure aren’t big enough for the fight, but maybe Starfield would have been?  Maybe it was, we don’t know.  Microsoft has a market cap of two trillion dollars, they most assuredly could afford…

No contract is eternally binding.  If they wanted them off PlayStation, they’d be off PlayStation.

I assure you if MS wanted Deathloop and GhostWire: Tokyo to not be on PlayStation, they would not be on PlayStation.