To function well it does. You're not playing any action game over the internet with this. 

It’s not about being unrealistic with the price but rather that anything over $100 isn’t going to get people to buy it when it’s clearly a niche accessory that competes with people’s ability to use their phone for remote play. There’s practically no need for this device so unless it’s cheap it’s not going anywhere.…

I mean, have you seen Trumps announcement from 2016? He focused on Mexico and building a wall. Their entire platform is based on pushing culture war issues now, not things that actually effect people. 

This is kinda hilarious that you think fascism comes from socialism, even more so because told him to read a book. Maybe read a non-right wing book yourself cause this is one of their typical talking points.

Again... the rise in cost in production, be it with salaries or software purchases or marketing, has been offset by the amount companies make off the sales - not in the amount they sale but on a per sale comparison - compared to 20 years ago. No other industry has had such a drastic change in how much the producer of…

Obviously the amount of consumers for games has gone down since 2020, but to suggest that’s the reason they need to increase prices of games is just... faulty logic. The only evidence you have suggesting this could possibly be the case is the fact that in 2022 sales of games went down 5%. But a single year decrease…

So you’re suggesting that everything you’ve mentioned that could have potentially had production cost increases was simply negated by making a higher profit on games, and that production cost has risen to the point of now needing to increase the price of games? Why now? 

Here’s the thing you’re clearly overlooking. The amount developers make on game sales has increased signifcantly. Or have you not noticed the dozens of indie titles released yearly for $20-25 that get as many sales as some triple-A games. You think they’re selling at that price to undercut big games? No, they’re…

Self driving cars is a poor example of AI improvements primarily because of the requirements of that AI. It has nothing to do with AI being incapable of figuring it out, but real world limitations being placed upon it preventing it from collecting the data to learn. The reason self driving is taking so long isn’t…

Apologies as for some reason I can’t edit my last comment. I apologize, I realized I phrased it poorly when describing the process by saying “then Comcast monitors”, when they are basically always monitoring torrent traffic. The generic notification, as I said previously, was also a mistake, as that should be template…

Regarding the monitoring of torrent traffic, every major ISP already does this because it’s incredibly simple to do and protects them. 

I’m sorry but do you not understand how monitoring network connections work? They don’t flip a switch or something to monitor torrent traffic, they already do that and collect the logs because it’s incredibly simple to do. The notification you’re describing, with the time date and name of the property is in those logs.

The way it works, Comcast receives notifications from owners of said content identifying potential pirated content’s availability. Comcast then monitors your connection for torrent traffic and identifies what you’re downloading. If it’s on their list of notified content they send this letter out. This is as generic of…

Yea this is just shoddy work. These kind of notices have been going out for over a decade and they’re acting like OMG NINTENDO FOUND YOU. wtf lol.

Nah it's not generic at all it's really well done and thought out. Half of these on this list are mindless car action scenes that took 20 minutes of logistical work. 

Right? The Italian Job isn’t a bad movie but as far as car chases it’s pretty generic for it’s time. Not to be a snob, but you can tell when a car chase took a director and crew days to figure out the logistics compared to something like the Italian Job where half of it is driving through empty tunnels and streets…

You guys realize this isn’t Nintendo sending something directly to these pirates right? Comcast sends this generic letter to anyone it catches downloading files that they’ve registered as illegal downloads. You can literally get this for any pirated torrents that are in their database and yes... they know exactly what…

The same reason you pay to see a movie before you see it. You’re consuming someone’s product and they get paid for it. You’re welcome to complain but claiming we shouldn’t pay bad writers - particularly when you’re not aware of the situation writers are in with these media companies - is just absurd.

You’re missing my point I apologize. You mentioned the gap of not being paid and not being paid well - while I argued that while that gap exists it’s not relevant if the difference isn’t meaningful enough to matter to the writer. If I pay you $1 a day to work what’s the difference in that and nothing at all? That’s an…

While I agree, in context they’re actually not being paid in a lot of circumstances because of how payments are setup in the industry. Yes, the article could be written to make this more clear - not a shock there. But it’s also not too far from the actual truth.