It’s kind of odd, I’ve always thought of myself as a die-hard gamer. I own almost every console created from the NES and after aside from a few of the earlier Sega systems and the Xbone, but after thinking about it, the ONLY console I’ve ever gotten on launch was the Sega Dreamcast.

See, I still have trouble with that. Growing up, it was the rightmost button to confirm (SNES through the first half of the PS1). For RPGs this meant that selecting something required me to move my thumb from the neutral position (resting on B and Y) to make definitive decisions. The result? Fewer mistakes. When I…

This. As someone who grew up with only Nintendo consoles, I was so thrown off when I first played Kingdom Hearts and the lower X-button was confirm instead of the O on the right. To this day it takes time to adjust when I’m jumping between Switch and PS4. 

did anyone else expect to read this and find actual strategies for napping? 

Glad it helped :)
There are some links in the article, but it’s true that it’s not very succinct and they’re only about part of the things she did.

Honestly I was kinda nervous replying to you, because what you wrote felt confrontational and reminded me of how conversations with some rather vicious transphobes started.…

I’m going to assume you are asking in good faith, so I’m going to try to quickly summarize some things. (small correction, it’s transgender people. So not transgendered. Can also just shorten it to trans which is a simple short adjective)
Essentially she has supported and signal boosted people and groups that are…

It’s not like she’s personally leading a hate group complete with rallies and henchmen. She’s one woman with an odd opinion. Care to take a guess of how many other authors you could find out are just as bad... or worse?

Paying them extra does make them different.

I don’t even know that it needs to be that much motivation- memories are notoriously unreliable and easily manipulated. Two months of repeated questioning (grilling) from the cops and I think a lot of people might find themselves wondering “Maybe they did say something about being cops and I just somehow forgot until…

1TB isn’t enough for me. I’ll wait for 4TB and by that time, 1TB will come down in price for those interested. In the meantime, I’ll just transfer games from my already existing external 4TB HDD to the SSD as I see fit. New internals of the Series X/S should make transfers alot faster than it currently is.

Basic SSDs, maybe. But not NVMe 4.0 specced drives.  Your average budget drive you found on Amazon isn’t going to meet the performance requirements.

Welp, guess I'll be doing some back and forth between the internal and my 5tb hdd for a while. There'll be sales and all that but $220 is a hard to pull to swallow after a $500 console. 

External drives serve 2 purposes on Series X - they can be used to play Xbox One (and older) games directly, and they can also be used to store Series X games. To play the Series X game you need to free up space on the internal drive and move them over (hopefully they have a mechanism to actually swap two games so you…

I don’t know if it’s universal, but Xfinity gave me a “deal” to bypass my data cap for $20 a month. I took it because it’s still cheaper than paying for the overages when I mess up and go over, and while on one hand I feel dirty for paying it, it gives me the peace of mind that lets me just stick it to them and do…

I don’t think they care about money from individual software sales. They care about how individual software sales can be leveraged to convert people into Game Pass subscribers. Everything is about Game Pass subscribers. I don’t see many of these games coming to PlayStation unless they let Microsoft put Game Pass there…

In other words, they don’t really want someone with the gravity to tell a great American story about national parks and the sublime majesty of the great outdoors. They want some good looking influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers to shoot heavily filtered cliché photographs to post to their Instagram, and…

There is a way, we, as a people, need to stop supporting it.  Just calm the F down and don’t get so perturbed.

This. And companies like Ebay, Aamzon, Etc. could not let people resell pre-orders. It’s obvious and blatant price gouging. But greed wins out. Nvidia doesn’t care who buys as long as they sell. Ebay is more than happy to take a cut of the sale and look the other way.

The PS5 seems designed for airflow in the way that the Xbox’s are not.

keep in mind that 34.99 isn’t just for the console, it also covers 2 years of xbox live and game pass. which, if you paid for everything individually would cost you $859.