Microsoft doesn’t expect anyone to pay $80. They expect people to sub to Game Pass instead.

Crazy that this wasn’t included in today’s showcase.

I’m personally pretty bummed by this news. This isn’t $450(+tax) worth of console, IMO. They went backwards in some areas (no OLED screen??) and simply refused to make much-needed improvements in others (no Hall effect sticks??).

I was really hoping the Switch 2 would go the way of the 3DS, with a disappointing launch that caused Nintendo to bring the price back down to Earth.

I simply don’t understand why people want to spend $500+ to play Mario Kart. At this point, I’ve just gotta accept the fact that it’s not a consult console - or a brand - for me.

EDIT: “consult” to “console”; keeping it as strikethrough to preserve the joke/accurate point in the reply.

Really wish this were multi platform. I love the series but I’m not about to pay jacked-up PS5 console prices.

You must be visiting much more upstanding sites than I do! 😆

For those still curious, here’s an article with some examples of dark patterns.

This is… exactly what most sites do with their consent banners.

That was a good read. I learned some new stuff in there. Thank you for sharing!

What the fuck is Sony doing lately? They are clueless when it comes to live service gaming. Like, Marathon may not be perfect, but isn’t that the whole point of doing a limited alpha or whatever?

We’re racing towards the Blackwall from Cyberpunk 2077…

Are you watching closely?

“Dad, law school just isn’t resonating with me. I think I’m going to major in hotel management instead.”

Also, uBlock kills all this stuff.

$450 console, plus tax

And you don’t even have to actually build the thing you drew! That’s someone else’s problem.

This is a pathetically short list

Is this not a(nother) free speech violation?

The people legally voted for this abortion measure directly. Reps are for all the other governing that isn’t big enough to make it to a popular vote.

Gotta be in the top 3 dumbest rebrands ever.

Obviously, Twitter -> “X” will forever top that list, though.

Fascism requires a group of others to persecute. Ideally, that group would be very small (as a percentage of the overall population) and already somewhat marginalized/“different”.
So here we are.

+1. Been using Boost since Jeroba went through rough times. I’ve really enjoyed it, especially the handy feature that lets me filter all posts containing specific words.