Taco bell discontinues everything I like.  Chili Cheese burrito, double deck taco, queserito.  Fuck the bell.

Wendy’s Chili isnt underated, its more they dont push it anymore.  I lived on that when i was commuting to college.   A wendys chili, a side salad, and a five piece.  Load up the chili with the chili sauce.  I dont care that they use day old burger meat.  Its not just great, it is easily the best value they have on…

yeah, im really curious to see the numbers on gamepass.  There is no way that it is cost effective to put out 3 or 4 AAA 80 million plus dev costs games on a service that people pay 120 a year for.  Not when at least half, if not more, of the subscribers would likely have paid for those games in the first place.  Then…

Think that is a boomer thing.  You never heard US execs speaking japanese.  Boomers in all countries seem so tone deaf to the changing world.

There was also a massive change in how games were made at that time.  PS made gaming adult.  It made it a much bigger business.  I mean EA was around for years, but until the PS2 era...madden and fifa werent the juggernauts they are today.  Activision has been around forever, but it was Tony Hawk, then CoD that made…

Square didnt make Xenogears, that was monolith, they just published it, they didnt have much to do with development.

FF games have been a mess since 10. 10 isnt my favorite FF game (probably tied with 7, and i am not a huge 7 fan), but it feels like an FF game. I like 12 as a game, but it is a bad FF game. They could have tweaked it and called it FF: Tales of Ivalice and had it be a spin off and it would have made more sense, and…

You have to look at the japanese games industry in japan. Square is very japanese company. Domestic AAA games sales on ps platforms have tanked since the ps2 as things have shifted to mobile. Dev costs for switch and mobile are just much much lower. So they can crank out mobile bs riding on ff or dq or other…

ok.  by 2025 a ps5 will be easier to get, and cost less...but geez, its a game, calm the fuck down son.

Hey, you cant squeeze every last dollar out of an IP if you arent milking every property right now with zero concern for how it affects sentiment about a franchise down the line.  Disney has fucking zero clue how to properly use video games to push its IP forward.  Zero.  They have lucked out with insomniac on…

Im on the old edge of millenials, born tail end of 80, but most kids i graduated hs with were born in 81.  Its only anecdotal, but of my close friends, only one is a car guy, and he leans in to german cars.  .  I know another car guy but he is closer to 50.  There arent enough gen xers to make a big impact on the car…

yeah.  Typically expensive cars have high margins, but then you have to look at sales velocity. 

we have aldi and lidl near me now, just a bit too far for me to go regularly.  

There is no real difference between jiff and skippy.  Frito lay has multiple products that are basically the same thing.  They have more than one brand of corn chip.  Because anyone who thinks you need a choice between yellow corn and white core, as if you will notice the difference while shoveling generic salsa and…

Going to be an issue sourcing the rubber for the tires in 20 years.

yeah im just using it as a euphemism. I mean you would know better than I but dont the projections call for a longer and more intense hurricane season....seems like that bodes poorly for the gulf coast...where a fuck ton of us oil refining capacity exists. If Climate change is going to wipe out NY, Miami, portions of…

Except I assume the world is going to burn into the ground.  No way we make it 20 more years without a massive sea level rise when some glaciar the size of rhode island breaks off in Antarctica.  Conservatives in the US might be climate change deniers...but that doesnt change the fact that it is happening.  

MIT said we are headed for a societal collapse by 2041.  Im not particularly worried about how expensive a corvette will be in 20 years.  I dont think 60 year old millenials are going to be shopping for old sports cars the way boomers have.

People go to big stores and use amazon for the same reason. It saves time. People now work longer hours than 40 years ago, and have longer commute times. I use amazon all the time because it means i dont have to stop at cvs or the local pharmacy to get nasal strips when im running out. Stores now use point of sale…

That is top quality boot licking.  The stagnation in wages and shrinking of the middle class directly correlates with the decline in union membership.  Corporate wealth has skyrocketted since the late 70s while everything else has stagnated.  Unions secured the 5 day 40 hour work week. Unions did that.  We literally…