This is just pure corporate greed.

This what you led with, though:

They want to entice people to buy the more expensive package by dangling the carrot that it’s $20 more if you decide to do it later.

While they’ve been added to help secure the PS5 given its new detachable disc drive design, Lee was unimpressed. I kind of agree. They’re not a very elegant solution.

I’m not sure why the non-disc version isn’t 70USD less if the drive is 70 on it’s own. There’s ostensibly no form factor difference to account for other than the single shell piece.

I bought an Atari VCS (a four-switch model, the same one I had as a kid) from eBay and I got very lucky. It was in great condition and still works great; it has the A/V mod and I popped it open to check that out.

It had been a while since I’d actually listened to the song, so I looked up all the actors he mentions:

I fondly recall the Great Heather Wars of the ‘80s.

Bowfinger?!

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?

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

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