I think you have to understand that the ‘90s was a period where people (particularly Gen-Xers) thumbed their noses at materialism and corporate culture. This ad is a case of a corporation attempting to cash in on the sentiment.

My observation is slightly different. When Apple moved away from the headphone jack, everyone got their panties in a twist over it, as though the headphone jack was the single most important element of a smartphone. And now that everyone is getting rid of headphone jacks, I’m seeing tons of walk-backs from the Android…

Why does surprising-ness always have to be the benchmark for whether something matters or not? No, we aren’t surprised at the levels of cynicism to which corporations will stoop. And yet, this is still blatant, faux-woke pandering that’s designed to offer “we truly understand you” as bait, whilst switching it out with…

In what world do you imagine that Ryan Adams ever had the influence to prevent Mandy Moore from having a music career?

You realize that this is a plan mapped out over a long period of time, right? That we don’t need the entire $16 trillion the minute a hypothetical President Sanders puts ink to paper?

That is the most twisted interpretation one could possibly have here. I’m sorry that you can’t see why.

The DARQ developer’s story is exactly why Epic is so fucking shitty. They literally will not let a small developer release on their platform unless said developer makes it an exclusive release. How is that indie-friendly? How is it customer-friendly? They should let developers choose to either take extra money and…

Oh God, just stop. There is nothing more obnoxious than pretending that all conversation about the shitty direction the games marketplace is heading / has been headed must stop whenever a dev mentions that they face harassment online. If they can’t handle online people acting like online people, in the same fucking…

Is it really a moral high ground when there is nothing moral about the stance? Like it’s not the 1950's, I think most people realize porn is a normal thing and that sex sells and have become comfortable in that reality.

Can stupid people stop naming video games?

I can’t believe you’re actually trying to make this case. Bush lied to the entire country, and to the entire international community, in service to fomenting a fucking boundless war that is still being fought nearly 20 years later. And you’re sitting here talking about the damage Trump did to our government? Like,…

Remember when we thought Dubya occasionally stumbling through obviously-half-assembly-rehearsed folksy maxims and pronouncing “nucluyar” was was the height of presidential embarrassment?

I’m not sure why people are so hyped on Yang’s UBI proposal, since it pulls the classic conservative trick of making receipt of the monthly cash contingent on giving up access to any social programs you might be on at the time. This is the biggest problem with UBI: opportunists are going to use it as the basis for…

It isn’t crazy to think that maybe that this wasn’t anything more nefarious than a suicide.

It really seems like there’s a concerted effort, at this point, to insist that the only form of foul play could possibly have been for one or more people to have directly murdered Epstein. A far more likely scenario is that he was purposely allowed a blind eye and the materials to kill himself. He had already…

Then you don’t deplore the death sentence. The fact is, while people like you approve of it, even under supposedly narrow conditions, the death penalty can and will be used to “punish” people who fall outside of said conditions. You are tacitly approving of all of it when you approve of some of it. So yeah, don’t act…

What Apple realised long ago is that technical stuff isn’t that interesting to most people.

I disagree that one must become innately less adventurous. I pay less attention to new music, for example, but tons of attention to old music (far older than what I was listening to in my 20s, or whatever). Who says things have to be new in order to be “new”? Digging through the shelves at record stores was what I…

As it’s become clear that even squeezing its fleet of gig economy drivers won’t allow the company to stop hemorrhaging cash, Uber has staked its future on autonomous vehicles that might allow it to ditch paid drivers entirely...

I don’t understand why some people feel the need to dignify microtransactions in general just to give themselves the credibility to trash loot boxes. All of this shit is bad. And the fact is, most big games already ship with multi-tiered editions that are more than $60. It’s common knowledge that, if you’re paying $60…