“The only reason that Nintendo and Sony have a space in the gaming market is due to Japan being fiercely loyal to the companies and their products”

Not to mention Sony is using Azure for its PlayStation Now backend. So the more users Sony gets on that, Microsoft is getting a cut. Whereas people buying Minecraft on PlayStation as opposed to Xbox does give Sony more money, Microsoft still makes some. This led to Sony putting games on Steam. It won’t compete with…

And that’s why “consoles” or increasingly just pre-built gaming PC exist for those who really don’t want any faff but as I said initially many of the issues that previously made them very niche have gone. With native controller support too now you don’t really need a special room or full desk for it. Mine just sits…

All the people saying 1 person on a 3 person team shouldn’t get their entire team punished have apparently never followed high school/college sports. Plenty of times a brawl during a game involving just a few players has gotten the entire team suspended from play/kicked out of tournaments.

Draymond Green cost his team a championship with his antics a few years back...why should this be any different?

... I remember it being so much prettier. Getting old is weird.

Now is one of the worst times in modern history to build a gaming PC due to scalping, mining, tariffs, and the overall high MSRPs of AIB graphics cards. You will end up paying double the price to match the performance of the XSX. Budget builds are dead right now, which is where the XSX fits in perfectly.

We used to say “you owe it to the customer to give them at least one bump. It sets in their minds they got a good deal. They go away happy.”

a Honda Odyssey in a nice shade of beige

Regarding the first one, it’s always important to keep in mind that 95+% of car buyers are approaching their purchase like we enthusiasts might buy a washing machine.

To Don Cheadle.

I love your Haute Horology analogy, but for a different reason:

The majority of PP’s value is built into the exclusivity of the brand. They don’t make a ton of them, ever. But you could show most people a 6-figure platinum bullhead chrono and they’d have no clue what it was worth. Only people who are familiar with the…

You could threaten to take away their committee assignments if they don’t get on board with $15 minimum wage increase. So all of the perks, kickbacks, bribes, insider stock tips, and preferential treatment they receive as committee members could dry up.

Pushing the game back to mid 2021 would have given them enough time to polish the game and port it to current-gen consoles. However, I don’t think canceling the last-gen versions was ever a viable business choice. Retailers, investors, Sony/MS and customers alike would have all freaked out, especially given how early…

She wasn’t just conning wealthy elites. She left many businesses with debts that went unpaid for months/years due to the cons she did. 

There are actual adults with kids who grew up playing online games. We get it.

It‘s not like you‘d find a 1TB NVMe SSD that supports PCIe 4 for much less than that while not having to worry about connecting shitty cabeling to your console.

That’s just the cost of the technology, which is still incredibly new. A comparable speed/size drive for a desktop costs about the same.

My maternal great uncle Charlie(my grandma Ora’s baby brother) came home to Mississippi after WW2. In uniform. he stopped at a local gas station in Kosciusko to buy a coke. Some peckerwood asked him what he thought of Theodore Bilbo’s statement that (basically) all Black men who wore the uniform of THEIR COUNTRY…