My mistake.  It was the 6GB model, rather than the 3GB and I assumed the wrong naming convention.

Huh. Weird.
EVGA is the only manufacturer I have ever directly purchased a graphics card from (560 TI, 1060 TI), and I had no complaints. It seems I’ll need to find a new manufacturer.

And if those new characters just happened to start their time in the game “unbalanced” and “over-powered”, well, that’s just the game’s development cycle, and certainly not incentivizing the paid battle pass via a backdoor pay to win mechanic.

Zuckerberg promises that metaverse won’t be depressing to look at.

I didn’t mean to imply that you were.  I just wanted to point out other reasons people might have used the site.

I can’t speak for most fans, but Rightstuf has had pretty great prices, especially during their yearly holiday sales. Additionally, through their Nozomi publishing arm, they’ve made a number of older titles available after they’d fallen out of print elsewhere.

I’ve been buying anime from RightStuf for literal decades. The removal of its hentai section doesn’t directly inconvenience me, as I’ve never made use of that particular branch of their service. Nevertheless, I find the merger troubling.
Despite assurances to the contrary, its seems entirely plausible that Rightstuf’s…

“It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.”

To a certain extent, it feels like familiar narrative ground for Kojima. The Metal Gear games were usually (I only played 1-4 to completion, so perhaps others differed) about a “regular” guy versus a quirky miniboss squad who all have some unique power set and their army of disposable minions and battle mechs. Regular…

Are you saying that you believe that drinking, football, and video gaming are harmful activities?

We do ban harmful activities which are fun on a regular basis. Why should gambling be different?

There are any number of things which are bad for people, but which people do enjoy, which we do ban.  Most of them are just newer than gambling.  Why should gambling be any different?

Unfortunately, the only people who make vast profits from these systems with any regularity are the ones running them. And they, of course, have a vested interest in keeping the good times rolling. The players, when viewed as a group, always come out with less than they put in (ignoring the edge cases where the…

The author concludes with a lukewarm it’s complicated and a metaphorical shrug emoji while saying that they might be wrong.  I am agreeing that they are wrong.

I absolutely am in favor of banning gambling, since it’s a behavior which preys on the average person’s poor understanding of statistics (as well as certain exploitable aspects of human psychology) and it has no positive impact of which I’m aware.

“Sure, they’re giving out <addictive substance> for free, but we can just stop once they start asking for money. We probably won’t be addicted by that point...”

Many people can do what the article describes, play the fun free parts of the game and then walk once they start asking for money. A smaller percentage will…

While I wish you joy of your prize, I’m not seeing similar behavior.  Even attempting to view the cart has now sent me to the dreaded waiting page.

I’ve been trying since they made the pre-order available. It’s been a less than impressive showing on Nintendo’s part.

For a while, attempts to view the order page actually worked, even if you got put in the queue, but for the last several hours the queue became infinite if you reloaded the page.

I really wish they’d…

The version of this theory where Ken’s wife and kid leave him because of his pursuit of martial arts (to rival Ryu) doesn’t seem to jibe with him being “washed up”. If he’s spending too much time on martial arts, wouldn’t he be more skilled at them, not less?

Personal tragedy - the death of his wife, on the other hand,…

Do I need it? Certainly not.
Do I want it? Absolutely.