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That's why I'm thinking a Greatest Hits reprints makes sense. Those were usually priced lower.

And yeah I was only referring to Part 2 because that's what the article is about. Part 1 just got a remake in 2022.

I don't mind older games getting love on new platforms. But... This is already a late PS4 game with a PS5 enhancement.

Maybe it's something as simple as just a physical PS5-only version? I have not seen any "Greatest Hits" reprints of PS5 games yet. Usually they start doing that ~2 years after a console release, so it's past due for the PS5. So my speculation would be that they are going to announce that at the game awards, and it's going to include some PS5 reprints of other PS4 games with PS5 enhancement. Maybe Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War (2018), etc.

If this inolvrs putting in serious dev work to remake a 3 year old game, I'd have to question whether those resources would have been better spent elsewhere. Heck, even another, older, Naughty Dog game. The Crash N Sane and Spyro Reignited trilogies were pretty successful endeavors from Activision, and Sony has Bluepoiny just for doing that kind of stuff. Where are the Jak and Daxter remakes? Ratchet and Clank 1 was kind-of remade-ish to go along with the movie release back in 2016, but where are the rest of the R&C re-makes? They did Shadow of the Colossus: where is ICO?

They do some indie game publishing. As far as I can tell I don't think they have any development studio or anything.

Way better control experience, almost 2x the screen space, separate battery, and like a 5th the cost of a flagship smartphone.

Not for everyone, but still neat. This product makes me wonder if theh have other things in the works. I wouldn't be surprised if there is something 3 years from now that releases where we say "this is like if the Portal was good".

I'm in a similar situation. Streaming fron the PC to the deck is fantastic. Games the Deck struggles with are suddenly playable. Intense games that would normally ramp up the fan and only get a couple of hours of battery are suddenly easy for the Deck to handle. I highly recommend it.

It's $460k to max out at 5%.

The $23,000 is just the limit for how much pre-tax an individual can contribute. Employer matches are not subject to Federal income tax.

For reference, someone full-time at Federal minimum wage (which is unlikely: most minimum wage jobs are fewer hours) makes $15,080.

The amount was already too high to begin with. You add in IRA's and 401k catch-up and it gets even worse.

It's mostly a benefit to upper-middlenclass people. The executive officers, presidents, VP's, and upper-level managers making $200,000-$500,000/year in employment income. An extra $500/year of deductible income probably doesn't move the needle much either way.

My guess is that it's not a huge loss of tax revenue, it's not a significant increase to their retirement savings, not a huge increase in money being invested into the economy. $500 is only 2% of $22,500. Given inflation, it's hard to imagine this increasing by anything less than that. All in all, the change seems reasonable to me, and at least moving in the right direction if not getting there immediately in 2024.

Just because a dude is annoying and a failed businessman doesn't mean it's fair to call him and his whole family sexual predators.

Most of these are pretty substantiated, but Bowie's doesn't seem to hold water.

He seems to have 2 allegations of underaged sexual encounters: one was that he had sex with Dana Gillespie. Bowie himself was only 2 years older than her, and from what I can tell she has never said anything bad about the experience, just that they started hooking up when they were both young musicians.

The other claim was from Lori Matrix. She is famous now for claiming that she has sex with a ton of musicians in LA when she was a teenager. As the Wikipedia article mentions, some of her stories are more plausible than others, and there's a lot of holes in her account about Bowie.

I'm not a particular fan of Bowie (I find his music incredibly boring), and I'm all for listening to people who claim to be victims. But in Bowie's case it seems like Mattix may have just been with so many musicians she got mixed up.

Add in that Bowie was not straight, and the history of homophobes making accusations of pedophilia to persecute people, and that's probably why this idea that he was a sexual predator sticks around today.

The article says he's moving from Seattle. Washington is also one of the 9 states with no income tax.

Having a more robust electrical grid is clearly aligned with the interests of the military industrial complex. A lot of investment in infrastructure also serves the interests of national security.

Hmmm who should I trust more: the statements released by the unions or some rando pushing a political agenda on the Internet?

Passenger rail, in the places it's successful, is often seen as a service rather than a profitable private business. Similar to the mail, or the billions of dollars that go towards car infrastructure.

The question shouldn't be "why aren't the private entities paying for it" but rather "why do private industries own this?". Look at the UK: they famously privatized their rail network and it's gone to shit ever since.

Where do your figures come from?

Lol capitalism is ramlanr across the globe to various degrees.

Is Porsche American? What about Ferrari? Lamborghini?

Or we can look at something else like cheese. The most expensive cheese in the word is Pule, from the Balkans, ranging from $600-$1300/lb. The second is Moose cheese (Swedish, $500/lb), the third is White Stilton (British, $400/lb).

Kobe beef starts at $100/lb for low-grade stuff and goes up from there.

The most expensive champagne was "2013 Taste of Diamonds" and sold for over $2,000,000/bottle. It is, of course, French.

Does anyone in Europe, or anywhere else in the world, embrace "normal" as a marketing term? One of the cores of marketing is to differentiate a product from competition, so that only becomes an option if "normal" is itself abnormal. An example of that would be noname, and they are Canadian. Aside from that, there are certainly brands in America that Americans would describe as "normal", but that is derived from the lack of marketing rather than a converted effort to use that term.

Once again it seems like you just learned what you think you know about America from reading some news headlines, and you're generalizing that "Europe good, America bad, no where else exists"

I find it funny how every single European brewer thinks that their country is the only one that knows how to brew beer properly. Or anything else. In America, there's such an incredible diversity that there is not much value in reducing the whole country to such generalizations.

Interestingly, the 5th most expensive beer in history was from Belgium. The De Cam & 3 Fonteinen Millennium Geuze. So no, Belgium isn't immune to ridiculously priced beer.

The point I was making is that there is a wide range of price points available for beer (like most products). I started by defending the existence of the low-end, cheap beer. Once you get to a certain point, you're paying for a weird gimmick or status symbol more than the quality. This isn't some weird American quirk, but a global phenomenon.

You can find bottles for over $100 of you look for them.

I'll admit I'm exaggerating a bit for effect here. Wine, Whisk(e)y, pretty much every other alcohol is the same. It also depends on if you get it at some fancy restaurant or a case at a wholesaler.

Southern Tier PumKing is a seasonal Halloween brew that's pretty expensive. I see my local spot is advertising it for $16 for 4 12oz bottles. $16 will also get you 12 12oz bottles of Miller Lite, so 3x the volume for the same price. Southern Tier a moderately-sized brewery: not one of the big ones, but not a local microbrewery either. I can also see there is a listing for Weldwerks Old Rio Medianoche for $428.99 for 12 16oz bottles.

So Miller Lite is $0.11 per oz, PumKing is $0.33 per oz, and $2.23 per oz for the super expensive stuff.

ITT: "Bud Light is bad"

So are all of the top-selling beers in the world, and especially in America (which is the subject of this article).

We get it. You're into craft beer that costs $20/pint. I like them on occasion myself. But when I want to get drunk on beer cheaply, I'm not going to my local brewery. I'm not even going to Great Lakes or Same Adams. I'm going for a cheap, light, mass-produced pilsner. PBR, Coors, Miller Lite, Bud Light, Youngling, etc. They're all the same cheap swill.

It's the same with everything. The average person who isn't an enthusiast consumes tons of mediocre junk. Taylor Swift is probably a good analog for music: I don't see a lot of academic musicians analyzing the new music theory she's implementing, or literary analysts dissecting her lyrics. Marvel Movies are getting famous for being pretty much the same heroes journey with rushed CGI every 6 months or so. Tons of people still watch shows like Friends, the Office, and Seinfeld. McDonald still sells billions of burgers in spite of the existence of high-end restaurants.

And that's okay. Not everything. You consume needs to be some ultra-expensive artisanal elitist product.

As for Bud Light in particular, this is a a great example of a bad PR team. Either stick to your guns or don't enter the fight in the first place. The fact that they've backed down and caved to transphobes means they're much lower on my list now.

They have leaned hard into VR

Have they though? Sure they've made two headsets now, but it still feels like they are targeting a very niche, premium audience. It's nowhere near as hard as Xbox leaned into Kinect for the Xbox One launch, for example.

They criticize the Q. Once again, a niche premium accessory that seems more like a test run for a later projeft than a real product. I don't think Sony has a whole lot invested in that.

They claim the new PS5 slim models have a price increase. But that's just the digital edition, which also now comes with a larger SSD and an upgrade path. The physical edition gets the larger SSD for free.

They criticize rumors of a Pro edition. Literally just tossing stuff against the wall to see what sticks here lol.

They cite Bungie failing to "teach" other studios how to make live-servicd games. That premise seems incredibly flawed to me: they bought Bungie for their existing productive portfolio.

They criticize Sony for going "off the rails" to try to stop the Microsoft-Activision/Blizzard acquisition. For es claims that Sony spent an "enormous amount of time and money and reputation on that fight"... But did they? Yeah lawyers aren't free, but did Sony really spend an enormous amount? That seems like a stretch. And reputation is incredible subjective: a lot of people who aren't Microsoft shills can see that mergers and acquisitions hurt everyone other than shareholders.

Forbes fails to cite any actual sales figures in this article, which would show that the PS5 has been dominating the Xbox series this gen. Comparing it to the Switch is tricky, but however you slice it the PS5 is selling well. Sony just released their fastest-selling game in history in Spider-Man 2. They just announced they are finally free of supply chain constraints on the PS5 and have told their shareholders to expect one of the biggest holiday seasons in history.

This article is a weird hit piece. Did someone at Microsoft write this?

Super Mario Maker 2 came out in 2019. Nintendo would probably consider that a 2D Mario game, but I'm not sure I do.

Do re-releases count? New Super Mario's Bros Wii came out for the NVIDIA Shield in 2017. Kind of an edge case.

New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe came out for the Switch in 2019. Is the "Deluxe" significant enough to count? Probably depends on who you ask.