thatKamGuy @ thatKamGuy @sh.itjust.works

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Really curious as to why River City Girls isn’t going to be available in Australia in particular; as far as I can see, it hasn’t been refused classification (banned) here?

It’s a knee-jerk reaction, and it’s going to have a Streisand effect. I’m looking forward to the dozens of reposted videos spreading far and wide.

Portal 1&2, for a change of pace.

Many thanks for this! Really puts the console gaming hobby into perspective.

My two biggest take-aways:

1. Holy shit, that Atari 2600 was expensive!
2. Really explains why the PlayStation 3 stumbled out of the gate, oof!

I’m an old curmudgeon, and I remember (my parents) paying ~$50 for SNES back in the early-to-mid ‘90s; so I’m not exactly shocked that Nintendo have lifted their sell-price.

Compared to back then; gaming is still somewhat more affordable, which definitely feels counter-intuitive - I know!

Japan has for the first time since 1991 had >2% annual inflation for 3 straight years, definitively ending their 2+ decade of stagflation. Developer wages are going up, and games take longer to develop - those costs need to be covered. I am in support of paying a fair market price if (and only if), that increase goes to the labour, and not shareholder profits.

Seeing as the Executive team at Nintendo opted to take a salary-cut, rather than lay off staff, following the failure of the WiiU — they have exactly one credit from me, for the benefit of the doubt.

But that is where my good graces end; other developers are going to take this as the green light to further increase prices on their own (unfinished, rushed, micropayment-laden) titles, across the industry. Heck, there are rumblings that the base version of GTA6 may be $100USD!

You’re right; Addressing the financial pain-points, and securing the future of the children of the bottom ~90% should be the US’s primary concern.

Successfully doing so is what buys a political party sufficient goodwill to be able to address social concerns for minorities in need.

It is literally the “why are we sending aid overseas when we have starving children here” meme, but unironic.

My point is more that new/launch technology is always more expensive at launch, until economies of scale can kick in; and this is the first console launch after the 1-2 years of post-COVID double-digit inflation globally.

It sucks, and I’m not trying to excuse it or hand-wave it away - more-so just pointing out that it was kinda foreseeable, given the current state of things.

If you think this is bad, wait until the next round of console launches in ~2027 from Sony.

Because you have to unplug the camera every time you take the Switch2 out of the dock, instead of just plugging it into the dock via one of its (USB A?) ports?

Nintendo launched the first Switch at $299; just accounting for inflation over the past years - that’s ~$390 now, BEFORE even trying to account for any Trump-tariffs they have been (or will be) imposed on electronics hardware.

I hate to give Nintendo credit, but $450 is actually somewhat reasonable given the current global shit-show.

That PS3 custom-mod is absolute mint!

I wonder if cribsnib has any intention of selling kits/shells — I can’t say for certain if I’d be able to afford it, but goddamn do I want one!

I remembered reading somewhere that ASRock started off as ASUS ‘budget’ brand - but had since been spun off into its own entity.

I thought that meant that they were sold off, and were a completely separate company now - but it looks I was wrong, they’re still a subsidiary. 🙁

MSI have dropped AMD as a GPU partner as of this generation (funnily enough - also the same generation they had proven to be their highest selling!), and their next generation of PSUs have dropped PCIe 6+2 for whatever the current HPV12 implementation is, so they’re in my shit-list too.

Gigabyte’s warranty support has been ass in the past (at least in my region), and their 3000-series GPUs were prone to overheating due to poor quality thermal pads. Oh, and their PSUs were sub-par and prone to exploding!

I think ASRock is the only ‘Tier 1’ brand (that I’m aware of) without massive controversies in the past few years?

Tech bros, libertarians, contrarians and people who don’t ’follow politics’.

I like a whole bunch of flavours, I was just too lazy to google for multiple flavour images.

Basically just seconding what Delphia said; if you’re getting adequate protein from food sources than BCAAs are a waste.

I just tend to drink >2L of plain water a day as a baseline, so when it comes to the gym — I’d rather have something with flavour. It’s best to just think of it as gymbro-cordial, with added caffeine on occasion!

All the more for me then!

They like BCAAs because they think it causes gains.

I like BCAAs because they taste good.

We are not the same.

I’d love an anonymised list of the passwords used, out of sheer curiosity. Just how safe/smart are these people, that are entrusted with running the world’s (currently) most powerful nation?

How many “password1234” or “asdfghjkl” would we find?

Just another case of admission by omission.

It’s pretty bold of you to to assume that this hasn’t been done already; I’m sure there are more than a few with a flared base for safety.