“Hey …”

I had no connection to him, nor do I truly care, but … really? Ferrari in the hed? Holy framing, Batman. A simple “car accident” would have acquitted itself just fine.

This is like the hyperdetailed “get the name of the dog” that a certain generation expected. Fluffy doesn’t matter, and neither does a Ferrari.

My god; they’re robbing us!

Inflation is a bitch. That’s tame compared to, say, beef.

I fully agree. Industry is simply not set up for a sustainable model in which price-conscious consumers can stay in the game.

To a certain extent, this is the equivalent of being shocked that Intel discontinued 386 production. Or that Google is no longer manufacturing Pixel 3s. It’s the nature of the industry.

It is absolutely astounding how far executives are removed from workflows. And they only want so much automation, lest they can no longer justify being so top-heavy.

Well, back then, I was thrilled that Soyo was throwing graphics onto Socket 7 mobos.

What is this Voodoo of which you speak?

Just in time for the penny to be retired!

Or should I say … the penny drops.

I don’t do multiplayer, but I fucking bow down to this pun. Though I’m now wincing at the idea of kids in the cargo area.

Yeah, but corporations don’t need to eat!

I guess I just don’t understand motivations in the F2P market. Like, I’m happy to pay a reasonable price for a game, but I have no interest in being nickeled and dimed – I can’t tell you how many games I’ve noped out on because of that shit. Like, if Factorio charged for cosmetic add-ons, that would just be ludicrous. Either you made a playable game for the price of entry, or you didn’t.

I seriously need to find a grift to hook people in for monthly payments.

The whole concept of in-game purchases is just foreign to me. I wasn’t even willing to pay 99 cents for a few extra lives in Candy Crush. This market being worth billions is frankly unfathomable.

Oh, no!

Anyway …

On a more serious note, if this is what people choose to waste money on, that’s of course their right. It’s just NFTs with extra steps.

I love the smell of irony in the early afternoon.

Gaming and streaming? No idea. I’ve been on a 5G hotspot for two years at this point, and it acquits itself well enough. Generally 150-450mbps. At no point have I thought “this cheaper thing simply isn’t serving my needs.”

But I can’t hit the broadside of a barn in a shooting game. Seriously, while still on a landline, my college roommate bought me Red Dead Redemption 2, and the first task was to shoot the broadside of a barn, which I could not do.

Thankfully, he views that story as being recompense for his financial outlay. I mean, I’d never played a shooting game.

Pull My Finger

Totally offtopic, but I misread the title on first glance and wondered who in their right mind would enjoy Spellcheckers Chronicles with friends.