Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks were pretty cool. I played both with the stylus because the DS control pad is tiny as fuck, literally painful to use for more than a few minutes.

Same with the Layton games.

That would just be men’s sports, which in fairness is all most people seem to care about anyway…

Looking at the domain name, they’re in Mali. Things must be cheap out there.

I’ll never forgive him for what happened at Black Mesa.

The PS5 controller is pretty sweet.

But the PS1 Dualshock is the original version of that, and has influenced basically everything since. It’s the Ocarina of Time of controllers.

That second analogue stick fixed everything to do with cameras in early 3D games.

For VR it’s the Oculus Touch. Takes everything about the classic Dualshock design and adds hand tracking.

Would a DVD shop be ok with me taking a portable player in, watching a movie, then putting it back on the shelf?

Gremlins 2. Not sure any other movie quote captures the absolute cocaine fuelled Hollywood of the early 90s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x01l_jMhjVM

There’s also a terrible John Leguizamo movie called The Pest, that I’m genuinely amazed didn’t end his career right there. The wife was suprised I hadn’t seen it, and as we started she just went “you’re going to hate it”.

She was not wrong.

Anybody that’s ever spoken to a salesperson knows that they’re talking out of their arse most of the time, and I doubt this is an exception.

He’s said this because he thinks that the people he’s talking to will give him more money if he does.

If it was happening at all you’d have seen proof by now. Like people pulling apps apart and finding proof, not just “I spoke to Bob last week about cameras and now I’m seeing ads for cameras”.

The truly terrifying part is they don’t need to listen to your conversations to know what you want.

Although that’s mostly because physical media sales are in the toilet.

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/the-rise-fall-and-slight-rise-of

While Blu-ray and HD-DVD were arguing over what comes after DVDs, they were both consigned to the dustbin. And while I like to not be reliant on subscription services, I’ve got to say a bunch of files on a Jellyfin server is much more convenient than a shelf full of plastic and foil discs.

With modern internet speeds, there’s no reason you can’t have full UHD-BR quality streamed over the internet.

I should just be allowed to take whatever I want from the shops because I don’t have enough money to buy it!

First part, a bit. Although we seem to have replaced most journalism with “ChatGPT, please rewrite this press release as a news article”.

Second part, no.

Oh come on now. You expect these people to be able to afford to just be able to send you text? For free. Madness!

Also, use Firefox mobile, install those ad blockers. Have a useful mobile internet again.

200 million sounds like a lot, but it’s like 2 weeks of PSPlus money.

For all this losing, they’re sure making a lot of money. Just not out of this game.

And that money ain’t gone yet, there’s for sure a pivot towards a F2P, MTX ridden version of the game to be relaunched.

The problem is that gamers say they don’t like that sort of thing, while the success of the likes of Fortnite indicates that there’s a lot of gamers out there saying nothing, but buying V-bucks like a motherfucker.

I can’t even name another apart from Overwatch.

Unless you’re counting each hero as “soldier with a slightly different machine gun”.

I think the people that have never heard of it far outweigh the people that have and decided to ignore it. They’re chasing “normal” people, not people like us who would likely have ignored it even if it was a free to play, micro transaction riddled mess.

And “FREE!” does appear to be a key factor in making this kind of game take off. They live or die by initial player interest and retention.

These things are expensive to make, it’s not just going in the bin. I’m just not sure where it belongs. It’s clearly Overwatch’s stunt double, and even that seems like it’s on the wane.

Instant Noodles Carbonara

Cook instant noodles in a pan. Chuck an egg in and mash it about a bit.

When the water is nearly all gone, chuck in a load of cheese (I use strong cheddar and grated mozzarella) and a couple of chopped up Peperamis. Mix it all about until the cheese starts burning.

Eat that shit.

Yeah, this sounds like a shareholder soapy titwank speech to me.

They’re bullshitting everyone including the people we hate.

That’s presumably why it’s going offline and everyone getting refunds

Oof. Pivoting to free to play then, or at least a PSPlus relaunch.

Exactly. We used to have a massive chain of shops called PC World, and that eventually became Currys/PC World, and is now just Currys.

The age of computers came and went, and people still need washing machines and TVs. They still sell laptops I think, but if you want anything from their range of “gaming” PCs, they have to order it in, usually from one of the many stores online that will build them for you.

Windows already lost. It lost to Android.