I was at PAX South a couple years ago, and I thought the hotel situation was a little meh. OTOH, the Alamo was pretty cool, and downtown SA was surprisingly well-developed (the boat tour was neat!). But, unfortunately, I suspect your average geek just sees Boston and Seattle as more appealing destinations (which is…

Man, our Six Flags is GARBAGE for season pass holders. Same line as the proles, and super long.

There’s no Chinese ammo here since Clinton banned it, FYI.

Joke’s on them, all my software spend these days is on the next-gen system I _was_ able to buy: the Xbox Series X, not my PS4. There is no doubt in my mind I’d be spending money on my PS5 if I could buy one. Returnal looks like a cool game, and I sorta want to try Death Stranding PS5 edition.

I want to believe that maybe, THIS TIME AROUND, they’re actually prioritizing long-time PSN customers. They sure didn’t do that with Direct.

I assume it’s because people could just spam the hell out of that system with entries.

This is me, but with the band Amaranthe.

Literally the first thing I thought of when I read the article.

I bought an XSX first - pure happenstance - and can’t say I’m disappointed.

My mom wrote all the code in some (all?) of the old Micro Adventures books. Ironically, many of the challenges required the player to find the faulty code in the book and fix it. It was a thing!

I have two kids, and I limit their game time with the parental controls on their devices. No industry regulations needed.

Yeah, that’s like... a few FTEs. Big f’ing deal. 

Yeah, this guy is talking out of his ass. DOD contractors make plenty of money unless they work for shitty companies.

When did socialists become against buying property? I thought that was communists.

I bought it at launch for the PS4, and then I bought it again later on a digital sale for the XSX. It’s basically a completely different game now. Ignore the launch reviews. It is very good these days.

Precisely. I don’t mind paying a bit and waiting in a line for a few months. That’s a LOT better than trying my luck with random drops.

The PS2 and Xbox 360 both had situations a lot like this, yeah. Much as I’d like a PS5, it’s just not worth $800 or a ton of my time to hunt for.

Dude, I am totally with you. I dumped all my PC builds, and run Surface devices, multiple consoles, a Synology NAS, and have my network running on Ubiquiti Unifi. I don’t want to maintain things anymore. I want to click a couple buttons and have everything deal with that itself.

If the Steam Deck forces more games to support controllers just so they can maintain marketshare, that’s enough for me. I’m a couch gamer. It is what it is.

I’m interested and reserved the mid-end one. My gaming laptop is getting old (GTX 1060), and I’d like to have a turnkey solution for continuing to run PC games. I’m almost 40, I’ve got a wife and kids, I have a demanding job (that sometimes requires travel), and I just don’t want to run on the driver and system…