“Gross overreach” is pretty much the baseline for being a celebrity in Japan based on what I’ve seen and read. For example, anyone defined as an “idol” is often contractually not allowed to date (or at least be seen to date).

Here here! I installed snapchat once... only to be horrified to find out that it always turns the camera on, facing me?! Why would I want that?? I uninstalled it quickly.

...and no, I don’t care if there’s an option to change that. The default behavior is terrifying enough to keep me away for good.

It’s funny, my spouse actually got on my case once - “why do you always turn your game off as soon as I come in the room??”
Me, having been trained in that mindset you mentioned : “because I want to be a good spouse”
“That’s ridiculous. You like playing games, why wouldn’t I want you to have fun? I can read, or watch tv…

Ugh, so true. I had a more than a few friends of mine that got married and stopped gaming because they basically weren’t ‘allowed’ to anymore. I thank my lucky stars for my spouse - only rule for me is that I’m not allowed to have VR, and honestly, for the price and the inability to see how well it works, I’m good.

I take a backpack to work... I’m definitely the opposite of a hip, young, professional. Anyhow, I agree - when I first saw the image of him sitting in the hallway, I thought “Obviously he is waiting for the rest of the family to get ready and decided to get some gaming in” - been there, done that. The fact that he…

The privacy “issues” are a bit overblown:

I think that’s the one... it was on very late at night on an odd cable channel back in the 90s or early 00's.

16k, heard it here first, folks!

but not cheaply, every time you replace the things that’s 1-2 games you can’t buy (assuming they average between $40-$60).

The only stuff I tend to get and not always play right away are ps plus freebies, lol. Mostly because I go “eh, something to play on a rainy day” - so I save them for release droughts, like this year has been so far (with a few notable exceptions).

Umm... this is actually pretty reasonable. Check out what happened with the ps5 release of Judgement. Full price no matter whether you bought the original or not plus save files didn’t transfer between editions.

The ps4/ps5 save situation is kind of ridiculous though... Having to go through a black magic ritual to transfer saves that are probably just partitioned off logically but in exactly the same format* is ridiculous.

*if anyone knows something concrete about this, please enlighten me. No arm chair devs, please, I can…

Here I had been thinking it was a reference to one of the anime’s with vagina dentata - which is something I saw in an anime once that I really wish I could unsee. It was one of the few times I was so horrified by something I had to turn it off.

I mean... toothbrushes are so heavy...

I love the premise and it looks gorgeous, but at the same time... MMO... I want to relax without having to deal with other humans! Argh... the inner conflict!

Now all you need is a simple script that looks up the most recently released Ubisoft game in wikipedia and autofills this article then publishes for you.

For fun, I actually loaded Valhalla on my ps4 and ps5 one day, same save game, load from scratch... Dropping into the game, the ps4 video was 6 minutes long before I finally spawned in Ravensthorpe. The PS5 had me in the game in about a minute and a half. Mind you, this includes all the logos and the main menu, etc.…

This isn’t even a review, it’s just a simple starter guide that gives some guidance on starting setup... I don’t see how this is over the top.

I’ll be honest, that was my gut response.

UGH the damn curly quotes! They’re even worse, because depending on the font set on your console program, the difference may not even be noticeable.