Italian Food Gatekeepers are the worst. We went on a street food tour in Rome. One couple was Canadian (birthplace of Hawaiian Pizza) and needled the guide about it a little. She said the problem was you shouldn’t have ham and fruit together. When they asked her about the classic Italian dish, prosciutto e melon, she…

If only he’d got a Cybertruck...

Seconded.

Yes. The Lyndon B. Johnson escape plan*.

Are those co-writing credits because she contributed lyrics, or did she actually write part of the music?

I read this and felt attacked. 

If they produce a product roughly on terms of the Steam Deck with Nintendo charm I would be pleased. If it doesn’t have backward compatibility with the current Switch I would be rather disappointed. Purchasing whatever they come out with is a forgone conclusion.

I think the successor to the Switch will come out at some point and cost money. Its hardware specs will be existent.

This is me for Dark Souls and even Elden Ring. I’ll get a few bosses in an go, “okay, so it’s going to be how many more hours of memorizing moves of boss #28 until I kill it and restart the process with boss #29, and then on forever?” Like, one kid has a karate match; the other wants help with homework; I’ve got to…

$70 games were an inevitability at this point, and in terms of sheer power, Nintendo’s systems have been more iterative than revolutionary for the last few generations.  As long as they continue putting out what I come to Nintendo for, c’est la vie.

Yep,  I’m old enough to be the parent of a child born even before 1996.

How is this news?  Does this writer not know what Nintendo’s competitor charges for hardware and games?

I would pay stupid money for the next switch

please call it the “Super Switch”.

I am in my early forties and recall playing guitar hero a few years ago with my friend and his brother-in-law who is about 10 years younger than us. I picked a Smashing Pumpkins song and the BIL asked who that was. It blew my mind as they were one of the more popular bands when I was in grade school.

Presumably, in store data indicates you’re wrong. If you think a significant fraction of people walk into a best buy for physical media, you have quite the backlog of well documented data to catch up on.

Lack of physical media doesn’t mean that everything will become exclusive to streaming subscription services. Digital movie/TV show sales have been a thing for a long time.

I genuinely feel that most people at this point just don’t care about ownership. The other problem is convenience.

Yeah, figures. I went to a Best Buy for the first time in around 10 years a couple days before Christmas (was doing a video for my channel at Easton Town Center) and it was a bit of a shock to the system. When I used to regularly go to the same location in the 2000s there were rows and rows of DVDs and those…

That’s the thing all these doomsaying headlines seem to overlook though; it’s still not a niche market. DVD sales have been bouncing around between 1 and 2 billion for the past couple years. And that’s just DVD sales. Add rentals and other formats and we’re still talking about an industry that dwarves all kinds of…