The thing is, the 32X in isolation isn't bad! The games were actually pretty decent, especially for the time in which they were released. The real problem was Sega's attention was divided among the Sega CD, the Saturn, and the 32X. This confused consumers and manufacturers alike with everyone sitting on the sidelines waiting to see what would "win". Meanwhile, Sony was about to drop the Playstation and that single platform with more focus totally destroyed a distracted Sega.
As another example, the Saturn is actually great as a 2D console. The 3D stuff was more or less shoehorned in / talked up once the Playstation started to get some hype.
If Sega had JUST released the 32X and got the full force of the company behind it, history might have played out quite differently.
As I sat down this morning to enjoy my warm and full-flavored Folger's coffee, it got me thinking: traditional advertising might disappear, but something sneakier would inevitably fill the void: product placement.
I agree, but the amount of anti-vax folks who used RFK getting into the government as "proof" vaccines are bad is pretty astonishing. I'm sure they won't point to him as an example anymore.
Ah yeah, you can say the same about the Saturn's RAM pack. The thing for me is the 32X was hyped as making the Genesis a "next-gen". If you look how it works, it's not too far from what I would consider the truth. With the 32X plugged in, the Genesis is more or less a display-device for the 32X, and things that would be in no way possible, like having Virtua Fighter on Genesis, it feels a lot more impressive than the N64 + expansion pack, which mostly unlocked better textures.
Measles -- truly a horror of the modern world. I hope and pray that one day mankind can create some kind of treatment or preventative for this deadly disease. My thoughts and prayers go to everyone in Texas.
This video shows why Israel needs our aid so badly. With a few billion more dollars, they can implement badly needed training that will keep their troops from firing on rescue workers or bombing hospitals.
I don't care if people like them. I DO care that seemingly YouTube has very clear data regarding me that I do not like them (I have dismissed them countless times) and chooses to ignore this and present them over and over again. It's especially funny because in all other areas they brag about how much they personalize the experience for you.
It's not that I don't know how to work around it -- it's that I have to do so in the first place.
Imagine going to your favorite restaurant and every week the chef says "Liver and onions? We have them on special today?" "No thanks, I'm allergic / don't prefer them / etc."
Then two weeks later: "Hey friend, want some liver and onions?" This type of thing is basically only happening in the context of being a user of a large site.
If Google found that they could make more money selling socks door-to-door than they do with YouTube, they’d have a legal requirement to do so.
This is not correct. There is a such a thing as being "on mission". Otherwise every single company would be forced by law to turn into an investment bank which has the highest profit margins. There is no world in which a software company is forced to start selling socks to uphold a legal obligation to the shareholders.
He goes on to agree with “Peter Navarro, a top adviser to the president on trade, says currently, automobile manufacturing plants are at about 60% capacity. He argues that there’s lots of untapped capacity, meaning jobs could be created relatively easy, and you didn’t have to need- you wouldn’t need to spend two or three or maybe five years building new factories.”
This is an interesting tidbit. That means they could "turn up" any of these existing facilities without building anything new, yet they have not. Lack of demand? Noncompetitive price? It would be interesting to know. To me, if we have plants sitting at less than full capacity we should solve that before meddling with any new industries that would require greater investments.
And we haven’t even addressed the whole reason manufacturing left in the first place. It’s so much cheaper to do it overseas, even accounting for shipping.
Well, I think the idea is that with the tariffs this will no longer be true. There will be a Chinese widget that cost $5 from China with $90 of tariffs on it (making it $95 to the end user) and an American product that costs $55. That American one is only cheaper in a tariff'd world.
Yeah, this is a great point. A fully automated car company in the USA is great for those who want to buy cars, but for those who want a job building cars, it does nothing. The observation that these NEW firms would be set up with massive automation makes perfect intuitive sense to me, because who'd invest in a brand new manufacturing firm and use last century technology to do so?
I find it increasingly hard to tell the difference between a mastermind playing 7D chess with the world, and someone just acting randomly and implementing all kinds of policies at a whim.
and mushrooms too