The Star Wars Holiday Special is squarely in the territory of, “So Bad I Want to Watch Just to Ponder How Something This Bad Could Ever Be Made by Sober People”.

We know how and why this game was made (old stars needing a quick paycheck, and unscrupulous game devs with more money than sense needing a resume boost). The…

Danny Glover, Michael Madsen, Chuck Norris, and Vanilla Ice would be big names if this was 2002 and they were attached to GTA: Vice City. There’s literally an entire generation of video gamers who likely have never encountered any of these people in any significant media format (to young for Chuck Norris memes, Danny…

Exactly.

People are looking at the gaming industry and comparing it to other industries and potential monopolies in those, and they’re forgetting one very important distinction: production differentiation (or the lackthereof).

One of the issues with monopolies in other industries is that you’re often talking about…

Exactly.

People are looking at the gaming industry and comparing it to other industries and potential monopolies in those, and they’re forgetting one very important distinction: production differentiation (or the lackthereof).

One of the issues with monopolies in other industries is that you’re often talking about…

First off, economics was my 2nd major at university, so let’s get that out of the way before you talk yourself out of the conversation.

Limited production means that there’s a set amount that’s going to be produced, not that the amount is necessarily low relative to any other model.

Those others models had set production amounts decided before they went into production. However many 750s models are made are determined primarily by demand and sales. If…

And a platform exclusive is another term for console exclusive. You’re right that if you have ultimate, you can play on either xbox or PC, but that neither negates the platform exclusivity, nor the MS advantage—in fact it expands it (why get PS+ when with GP you can play on console OR PC, with a larger selection of…

His wording is vague, but those are all limited-production models, while McLaren will produce as many of the 750s as they have a market for.

The issue is that Microsoft built that infrastructure, so it’s okay that they’re being held back because they happened to read the technological tea leaves years ago, while Sony was focused on consoles, digital cameras, and televisions?

I don’t see how this decision incentivizes Sony to make PS+ any better than it is,…

If I’m not mistaken, doesn’t PS+ have both third-party titles and platform exclusives?

Further, Xbox doesn’t actually have platform exclusives anymore. Every Xbox game starting with the Series X/S generation can also be played/purchased on PC. The fact that MS dominates in the desktop OS market (and Sony has no…

The issue is that you’re essentially punishing Microsoft for openly entering a market that, 10 years ago, simply didn’t exist in any meaningful way, while giving Sony a potential leg up for no other reason than a perceived possibility of consumers somehow being hurt (or Sony being stubborn and wanting people to buy…

True, but James Gunn arguably made out better because of the attempted cancellation.

DC and WB picked him up to do The Suicide Squad after Disney fired him. Disney later rehires him to do GOTG 3, and because DC and WB are a bit of a shitshow (but they trust Gunn because he’s pretty good at this shit), they make him…

The uproar over James Gunn comes to mind.

I am sure Mattson’s Company has its own board that has to sign off, and spending the incremental $5 per share (and who knows how much that means in real $$ or euros but it has to be a lot)

You’re right, my mistake.

You’re conflating being popular to voters in Arizona with being popular amongst her colleagues in Congress. They’re not the same.

Ted Cruz, to whit, is absolutely abhorred by most of his colleagues, yet his Senatorial future is essentially guaranteed because he’s a Republican senator in Texas. Cruz, like Sinema, is a…

I don’t think she’ll go the route of VC/consulting, but I definitely could see her going the route of outright lobbying.

Let’s not forget that her merely being a former Representative and Senator has a lot of cachet, and he’s a lawyer, so the access she’d have with former colleagues is still very lucrative for a firm…

It’s dicey, but they could presumably issue a Congressional subpoena for testimony. However, since the testimony would undoubtedly have to consist of internal judiciary matters and deliberations (that is, their thought processes during specific cases before the court relative to gifts they’ve received from entities…

If you are mailed a product you did not order, you get to legally keep it, doesn’t matter if it was a mistake and it matters even less if it has a street date on it

Unordered merchandise and misdelivered merchandise are not the same thing.

Unordered merchandise are goods that are addressed to you and delivered to you that you didn’t order, usually for the purposes of scamming the recipient my later demanding payment.

Misdelivered merchandise are goods that are addressed to someone…