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I'm actually surprised that this is the first time that's happened.

America is not exactly known for having standard news programs as anyone in the rest of the world would consider them, it's just a matter of picking your preferred bias.

It's been out like a week I don't think there's been time for anyone to experience stick drift yet.

The problem is that it requires disassembling the controller. Apparently that's a quite the pain for the switch 2

They'll just get sued again if they try that.

I've never had stick drift with PlayStation or Xboxes despite people telling me it's a problem. The switch though is awful for it.

I don't know what they do to make their analogue sticks so bad but they're definitely getting them from the world's cheapest supplier, apparently one that even Sony and Microsoft turned up their noses to.

Well I suppose you've got to protect where they'll see it.

You pay by weight, so I don't really understand what its problem was.

I think it really depends on the store. In the UK I have to say that they're generally pretty terrible, but the ones in M&S (a UK supermarket) are normally fine. Tesco's has the worst ones, they are always complaining about something and there's never enough cashiers to fix them. Plus of course occasionally they just decide to pick on you and rescan all your items.

IKEA ones are floorless though

The best is when you buy fruit all vegetables and it decides that the Apple that you are buying doesn't weigh the right amount.

One time I bought the largest potato you've ever seen in your life and it decided that it was too big and therefore could not possibly be a potato and must instead be some high value item I was stealing, although nonetheless scanning. But the problem is the alternative is to talk to people.

Of course there's always being Nazi apologists and equally there's always been people who are just incapable of moving with the times. That's not a new thing that's always been the case.

I think I had it on my wish list because I was never going to pay full price and then when it came down in price I looked again at it and I just thought nah, I actually don't care. So I never bought it.

They're not exactly starting from a solid foundation.

If any game was going to get away with being $80 it'd be something like grand theft auto or one of the next call of duties, not this one. But maybe they're trailing it on a game that they know will only be moderately successful at best anyway, that way they don't lose huge amounts of money if it fails to win over players.

That tactic would work if it was a multiplayer game or a major franchise but with a single player cookie cutter game there's no urgency for me to get started and no FOMO. It just isn't that interesting of an IP

There there a woman that somehow fell out of a plane and fell thousands of feet only to landed in a tree with virtually no injuries.

Wasn't the first game entirely average? And now he wants $80 for the sequel.

A pixel 6a is a good idea as the other commenter said but depending on what you're after you could get a fairly cheap second hand Samsung for about the same price.

That has the advantage of legitimately looking like it might actually be your phone that you've had for some time. In the same manner you could also get an old iPhone. It'll have a cracked screen because every iPhone older than 6 months has a cracked screen but the whole point is to be an unattractive decoy, you want the most average boring looking phone possible so there's nothing for them to be suspicious about.

Hard to be unfamiliar with the country you grew up in

If anyone can do it, it's Americans. I've had arguments with Americans who insist that New Mexico is in Mexico despite it being called New Mexico.

It's so obvious that he's a twat though.

Yes because I'm not buying whisky online am I'm going to a physical store where I can give them my physical ID and they can look at my physical face. Unless I'm wearing a very convincing prosthetic there isn't very much I can do to hide my identity.

Online is harder, just because I have uploaded an ID doesn't mean it's mine. What are they going to do, demand a video as well, because it's not as if video generation hasn't already gotten to the point where it's perfectly capable of faking that kind of thing.

I can see you haven't thought about this at all. You should run for office.

My concern would be that the police would confiscate my phone. Not that they would necessarily be anything on it, but I don't want them to have my nice expensive phone. They can have this crappy cheap one instead.

I don't think their gyroscopes are good enough for that level of inertial navigation. You could just fling it around tossing it up in the air and down again, that would totally mess with its navigation.

The far greater threat is that you just have the phone taken off you. For that reason alone you should use a burner, but I don't think you should be worried that they can track you based on gyroscope history.