“Give Me One Reason” was another big hit for her in 1995, fwiw. But the hypothetical person you are describing probably wouldn’t have remembered that either.

I used to think this too but...nah, I do think “fandom” as it is used and exists today is inherently toxic. I’m a fan of Final Fantasy, love the games and pretty much buy every new one, but I would hesitate to say I’m in the “Final Fantasy Fandom” because to me that means a much bigger emotional buy-in than I actually…

“We’ve been fighting this war for nothing.”

The only justifiable reason for taking a console/format war seriously is if your paycheck literally depends on it.

Oh hey, it’s today’s reminder that fandom is inherently toxic.

“I was wrong all of this time, Xbox doesn’t care about us, Microsoft doesn’t care about us. We’ve been fighting this war for nothing.”

My favorite thing to come out of that story (other than the Waylon Jennings quote), was that Keith vehemently denied it, Kristofferson decided to be classy and say he didn’t recall, but then Lisa Meyers [Kris’ wife] was like, “Oh yeah, that 100% happened” 😂

This would just be the modern-day equivalent to when Compaq decided not to dive into the sea of proprietary personal computing in the early 80s and instead said “let’s just reverse-engineer the IBM bios”, thus creating the PC market as we know it.

Microsoft won’t stop making hardware. This will be no different to the…

Kris is a real one.

I’ve never owned an Xbox. I have owned every iteration of Playstation since the original. (with the exception of Vita)

I’m somewhat frustrated by the fact that I won’t be able to play a large number of games from the likes of Bethesda moving forward (that said I have no real desire to play Starfield)

However, other…

I’m a lifelong console gamer, but I hate consoles. I like Playstation. My longtime gamer friends have XBoxes. I’d love for more games to be cross-platform and crossplay multiplayer. Exclusivity is only good for the console makers.

Watch the Sinead O’Connor documentary. That scene where Kris Kristofferson goes out to physically defend and support her while she’s trying to stand in front of the crowd for a show is exemplary of how much of a goddamn hero this dude is.

More players being able to access games the better

I don’t know if this is better or worse, but he said nice things about every president from at least Clinton on. One gets the sense that while he was very supportive of the troops in that generalized American way, he was really just trying to sell records and decided that picking the fights with the president, whoever…

You put them all together on stage, you’re just tempting fate.  We need a Designated Survivor situation.

When I was younger, multiplatform development really pissed me off as a PC gamer. At the time, consoles were significantly behind PCs in terms of power and everyone was still using 480p TVs. This resulted in sequels like Deus Ex: Invisible War which were clearly held back by console hardware. A beloved PC franchise…

The question is whether the added revenue would justify the costs. GPUs are larger and more expensive than ever before so making a capable gaming PC with a convenient, living room-friendly form factor would be very costly. To compete with PS5/XSX, they’d have to sell the console at a significant loss that would take…

I doubt Sony’s decision to port their games to PC has anything to do with MS. MS is in a distant third place when it comes to console market share. Sony likely just decided that ports are cheap enough that delayed PC releases would be easy profit without cannibalizing sales on PS.

For me it’s all about ecosystem. Spencer hit the nail on the head when he was frustrated with Redfall’s dogshit launch and complained that the Xbox One gen was the worst to lose because that’s when people built their digital libraries. I did that with Xbox so I’m sticking around, and as long as Xbox sticks around and…

Fuck, there’s a heading that stopped my heart for a second.