Or maybe adults shouldn’t become so heavily invested in children’s entertainment.

I don’t know what a ZIF connector is, but I can assure you that my 35 year old NES still works. If it’s the connector for the game cartridges then I will say it can be temperamental, but it always still works in the end.

I did own an NES. That original system and its components were purchased when I was 5 years old, and all still work fine.

They only have good customer service regarding this issue because they decided that repairing some of the joy-con for free would be less expensive than designing a permanent solution, recalling all of the existing joy-con to retrofit them, and changing their sourcing and manufacturing for future joy-con. I’ve both…

Insurance things like that happen to my family all the time with our place out in the country. It can be pretty annoying. 

I mentioned my age simply to indicate how long I’ve been playing video games. I’ve never had any OEM controller stop working properly in my life. You have no idea how I treat my things, but I can assure you I treat them well. The fact that joy-con drift is a well-known and major issue clearly indicates that my…

It’s more of an annoyance than anything else at this point. I have one controller set I’ve been repairing myself every 6 months or so. I don’t think anything about our use case is extreme, and that is an unacceptable frequency for a product to fail. What I find most disappointing is that I’ve had zero problems with…

Lol, huh? I don’t understand people who want to defend Nintendo on this. I’m 40 years old and have been playing video games for my entire life. I’ve never had another analogue stick fail, and that includes the controller that came with the Nintendo 64 that I bought on launch day. 

It is good on them, but I don’t know that it’s 100% altruistic. They will get a fair bit of free publicity out of it. 

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I’m no lawyer, but I think it’s generally accepted that if something can be seen from a public area, such as the street, that no warrant is required. My bet would be that the Michigan Supreme Court decides that the sky above someone’s property is public, but who knows.…

Why would anyone buy new Joy-Cons in 2023 when Nintendo has done nothing to fix their defective design? I’m not usually a 3rd party controller person, but this is one case where I would look elsewhere. 

My signature cocktail is beer. I certainly hope it is available at any wedding I attend. 

I believe this car was once owned by a periodontist.  

I’d like the keys to your time machine so that I can also take a day off to go see Rush perform. 

No love for the Great Lakes on this list? There are a lot of beautiful spots that rival the ocean, especially on Lake Michigan. 

I used to enjoy matcha, but I have read about concerns with lead content and have steered away from it ever since. It is a bigger issue than with regular steeped tea since you are actually consuming the entire leaf. I very much doubt that lead would help ADHD. 

“Stainless steel is so much better than your insulated plastic”

“Stainless steel is so much better than your insulated plastic”

That’s true, but I still think video games are a relative value. Hell, even think about how many people were listed in the credits of a major gaming release back in the 90s vs the number of people today. The teams are much, much larger. I know the overall volume sold is probably higher today, but that is still a lot…

I was confused until you told me you were speaking Canadian. I live in the Detroit area and used to spend a lot of weekend evenings in Windsor when I was 19/20, I used to convert a lot of USD to CAD just across the border.

I disagree with you. Let’s say I only get 10 hours out of a game. At $70, I’m still paying only $7/hr for that entertainment. If I go to a concert I’m often spending hundreds of dollars for two hours of entertainment. Most games are a value.