“This presumably reflects increased hostility by many foreigners to the U.S. the U.S. to many foreigners”

Should be “Both, why not?”

“Please put down your weapon. You now have 15 seconds to comply.”

Robocop’s corporate dystopian nightmare is closer and closer to reality.

Nintendo sucks and all, but Xbox wanted the One to not work at all unless it was online.

No self-respecting leopard would deign to eat McDonald’s.

It’s already happened and will happen again.

If you can afford the cost of console game prices, more power to you. They’re pricing me out and I know I’ll have no choice but to switch to PC in the future if I want to be able to keep playing games.

I think all it will do is raise the ceiling of what publishers are willing to price games at. If they think they can get away with it, they’ll charge $80 instead of $70, with the rest being $70 and less just like it already is now.

All hail Proton!

Considering consoles no longer go down in price and are even getting price hikes, not to mention mid-gen refreshes like the PS4 and PS5 Pro, I’d argue they’re no less susceptible to “extreme consumerism.” PCs do require more effort and research to get what you want at a price that makes sense, that’s true, but you don’t have to have the latest bleeding edge tech for everything, especially if you’re okay with running games at 1080p and 60fps like I am.

The lack of alternative places to buy games for consoles used to be mitigated by the second hand market. Without it, console games are just going to be too damn expensive for me, especially considering they’re nothing more than data. There is no reason they should cost this much other than pure greed.

I’ve always been a console peasant for the convenience of having a dedicated gaming device hooked up to the TV that uses a controller as well as the ability to trade in games when I’m done with them, not to mention consoles are cheaper than comparable PCs. I do have a decent PC, but I find I rarely play through entire games when I have to sit at a desk to do so. With digital games looking like the only game in town in the future and consoles being walled gardens with no other places to buy games for them, that cost advantage will be gone and it will be cheaper in the long run to pay more up front for a PC and get games for less. I got a Steam Deck recently, and it’s been a great showcase for how a PC hooked up to the TV using only a controller can work. I had no idea Steam had such a robust system for remapping controllers and have been able to play games with them that would have been a huge hassle before.

If Sony does away with physical games like Nintendo is come the PS6, I’m definitely switching to PC gaming.

Whatever you do, please don’t throw me in the briar patch boredom room!

Like the people this will affect the most can afford a dentist.

And how much did it cost?

The other state is Utah.

The Senate voted for it unanimously in February.

As did Bernie.