I have watched so many horror story videos about “refurbished” consoles from GameStop and elsewhere (especially DK Oldies). 🤢

Exactly, that’s how those warranties always work. Costco takes pains to explain that in the brochure and I think it’s also clearly and explicitly stated on the SquareTrade website, but other companies aren’t so great about it.

Yeah. That’s the thing that bothers me the most. Sure, it’d be great if there were a useful video game B&M company with stores near me but when there isn’t my life isn’t going to be impacted all that much. But like you I can’t recall a single negative interaction with anyone who worked at a GameStop and on the flip…

I’m American now but British by birth and my family moved here in the midst of that kind of horror show. Now, you’d think I’d be used to it given that we have an actual Royal Family that is the literal definition of useless prats sitting atop an actual throne of excess and farcical trappings of grandeur. And I guess I…

Maybe Zaslav’s ongoing enshittification of what used to be HBO Max will shunt it over to the space formerly occupied by Discovery+ and HBO shows and other content that actually has some vague sort of merit will end up licensed to run elsewhere.

Matt Baume’s video on Some Like It Hot is fantastic (as is pretty much all of his stuff):

It’s interesting, objectively I agree that the stick placement is much better on the Xbox controller but I find myself preferring the overall feel of the DualSense and the stick placement doesn’t really have a practical effect on comfort or gameplay for me. I’ve only played a few games on both Series X and PS5 so it’s…

The only thing I can think of (with the caveat that I am far from an expert in trademark law) is that it maybe could be considered promotion of himself as an artist (put another way, promotion of his business/career) using WB’s trademark and thus he’s indirectly profiting from it?

Since the WatchOS 10 update, my watch gives me the 10% warning in the late afternoon. I put it on the charger at about 10PM every night, and I take it off the charger at about 6AM every morning during the week (8AM or so on weekends). Before the update it would give me that warning at about 9PM.

The article isn’t saying Windows users are going to switch thanks to the new hardware. “Lingering Intel users” means Mac users who are still using pre-Apple Silicon macs.

Agreed. That was probably the second-worst thing about my 2018 MBP, next to the butterfly keyboard.

Yep, if it works, why upgrade? I know people who are using Macs even older than your wife’s and are happy as clams because they work great for their purposes.

I’m sure Apple’s market research indicated that there would be a lot of demand for a black MacBook, but speaking purely for myself I don’t have any desire for a MBP that looks like a slightly more elegant version of every fleet-vehicle Dell or Lenovo out there.

Giving kids (or anyone, really) Hershey’s vomit-tasting dross at all should be a prosecutable offense.

I’m so down for an on-screen redemption of the Sixth Doctor. Colin Baker is a lovely, lovely man and a fine actor and he was done so dirty.

I am terrified to ponder what Neil Breen named his dog.

That’s exactly what happens when you elect a feckless dilettante like Drescher over someone who’s actually serious about helping members like Matthew Modine.

Dihydrogen monoxide is a killer!

It was such an iconic system that George Lucas used one to create the CGI for the prequel trilogy!