Consolidation is not really good from a consumer perspective, even if we as gamers view it as the potential for MS to take over and make better games and improve the work culture. Consolidation is one of the chief aspects of modern corporatism that facilitates monocultures within companies, power abuses from the top…

Fair point, but that doesn’t give them the green light to charge $70 since that option is too hard to do. They could offer an upgrade path of some kind, for example.

The added accessibility features are awesome. Making people pay $70 for them is not. 

Something can have work put in and still be a cash grab because of the price involved.

VCRs. They started out stealing VCRs.

Honestly most of the hype I see about this game is people like you, and Kotaku, saying THERE’S TOO MUCH HYPE and almost... hoping for it to fail for some reason? I spend a hell of a lot of my time online (just not on twitter or reddit) and yeah, it’s had a constant hum about it for the past few months since it’s…

In 2019 the movie industry made $41 billion and the music industry made $19 billion.
Video games made $152 billion.

15 mentions of The Witcher, which yeah the same dev team made them, but the obvious comparison that I feel like a LOT of people are going to be making because of how the...everything...is, is how does it stack up to Fallout (let’s just go with 4, ignoring the writing aspect, the game systems were more complex than 3/NV…

It’s also larger than the Bolt and also isn’t styled like a $20k econo-hatchback, which should give it a big advantage over the Bolt aesthetically.

I miss overhead switches. I would like a switch to manually turn on (or leave off) every feature. *click* Bluetooth ENGAGED

Found your dream dashboard :) Almost 1,000 physical controls. Probably includes a windshield wiper stalk, too.

Im of the rare (maybe less rare here) variety that LOVES buttons and switches in my car. If I could have overhead switches a-la 737 I would. 

Touch screens are a big non-starter for me. Physical buttons make it a lot easier to do things by feel, without taking your eyes off the road. Whenever I have to interact with a touchscreen in a car, it feels like I have to look directly at the screen for way too long

They aren’t. But they have been trying to spin the “all-digital” interior in the new Golf as an improvement over its predecessor (it’s not) and this is merely an extension of that.

This is an uncluttered, supremely functional VW interior (I put roughly a half-million miles in facing this sort of thing in VWs):

Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don’t we go
oh I want to take you but your too darn fat, just to buy some

This is what you get. This is what you get for twenty years as General Manager of Earl Scheib Centerville. When your wife is off to a Friday night wine tasting in the Kroger deli department, when your only daughter won’t even call you because of one stupid joke you made on Martin Luther King Junior Day. When city…

But as a tracking system, a personal log of beers consumed and a person’s impressions of them, I see how an app like Untappd can be invaluable.

I might look at it with some curiosity, but wow, do people like some awful beer on Untappd. This weekend I had quite possibly the worst beer I’ve ever tasted, and it’s got a 3.61 cap average.

If you get your “news” from facebook, you are an idiot.