“If they were spending more money than they were bringing in, and have been this entire time”

because it doesn’t cost much? because the majority of the player base moves from year to year? because .. I mean to me it amount to “why not”. It’s not a lot of money to me, and I would imagine to a lot of other people too. I’m not saying it isn’t a lot of money to others’ - obviously it is. But I would reckon there…

I’m impressed this is your take after you wrote 5 “guy at party nobody wants to talk to” paragraphs above. The general consensus - I don’t appear to be alone on this - seems to be that it might be better for everyone if you were the one that went away :)

I totally get it. One day you’ll be a “rich people” and you might as well get ahead of the “getting your rich people feelings hurt” thing.

Games are not “more profitable than ever”. The market is bigger, and the biggest fish make more money than ever, but the same reason you can say “games are more profitable than ever” is why the words “games are more money losing than ever” is also true.

*higher prices for the non-programmers. We programmers make tons of money (although to be fair there are not enough of us and studios fight over us senior ones so that certainly keeps upward pressure on wages)

That’s not bad at finances. That’s bad at controlling your own actions. It’s not like people like this don’t know that they shouldn’t be doing it - it’s that they can’t help themselves. Getting what you want is a compulsion.

You can pry this libertarian utopia out of my cold dead ha - CRUNCH

You can finally build the family you wish you had out of the random people spare parts in your other photos’ backgrounds.

Or at least the 2nd stupidest, just behind unfettered capitalism.

Why wouldn’t the same thing have happened with a paper map?

Sure - your desire to express this opinion reads like you might have some personal feelings getting in the way of feeling okay that others might believe something you don’t. There, I said it. I didn’t say I think it’s true, I’m just saying it’s difficult not to read it that way.

You’d be wrong. And rather defensive for something that isn’t about you, which is hard not to read as a tell.

One of my favorite movies.

under the premise of going where it takes and doing ‘whatever it takes’ to save a child

Yeah she could just shoot into traffic. Wee! Then other people could have guns, and they could shoot back when they were being shot at!

It takes a lot of work to port something like this to the constraints of the Switch. I would imagine people buying it on the Switch really want it and don’t have the option of buying it on another platform, hence the idea of paying some premium (aka $70 price for a game that doesn’t look great) doesn’t seem all that…

Wait, they actually tried to get the game running natively on the Switch instead of using streaming..?

If the Series S could fit in a Switch-sized form factor, it would ship in a Switch sized form factor. It doesn’t. The limiting thing isn’t price or available hardware - it’s heat. The more powerful it is, the bigger it has to be so it can dissipate heat effectively enough not to overheat. 70w isn’t a sip on a portable…

He’s not a stupid person (unfortunately). Rather, he knows he can exploit the fact that his intended audience doesn’t really care what that means. Hearing it makes them feel good.