It’s convenient for some customers, but the reason retailers like GameSpot have been able to hang on for so long is because it’s really inconvenient for other customers. People with smaller budgets rely on the second-hand market, buying and reselling one or two games at a time versus wanting to own forever.
My partner absolutely loved Lost Records. I thought it took way too long to get going, so I fell off pretty early on.
I did a 100ft free fall into a net once. When the adrenaline is going, you have plenty of time to think about it. Mathematically, I know the drop took about 2.5 seconds, but it felt like a full two minutes. My perception of it was 30 seconds of “Wow, this view is really nice” and 90 seconds of “What the fuck? Where’s the net? Why am I still falling? What the fuck?!”
So, yeah, she probably had plenty of time to panic.
LinkedIn got me into my current company about four years ago. I’ve snagged one or two interviews with it since then.
In my experience, it’s only really used by recruiters for Fortune 500 companies looking for specialists.
a little tedious at times
I almost snapped my controller in half after about fifteen attempts at the last proper boss of the game.
No one should use PayPal if they can help it.
Spoken like a true math teacher.
I used to work with a guy who was also a Methodist pastor. Most of our conversations were perfectly normal and fine, but every once in a while he would be like, “So where do you think the government is hiding the nephilim fossils?”
I can. They’re propping up the whole stock market at this point. Pretty much the definition of “too big to fail.” So when they inevitably fail, Congress is going to give them our tax dollars.
Anecdotally, my job trained every office employee on AI tools back in March, encouraging everyone to think of ways to incorporate the tools into their standard work. As of last week, they’re asking us to get prior authorization to use their AI portal as a way to limit requests.
So some Fortune 500s must be feeling the squeeze on AI.
it probably thinks
It doesn’t think. People need to stop anthropomorphizing the statistical probability machine.
That’s the appeal of the game. These characters having protracted discussions about existentialism, the nature of free will, and death, and Goofy’s just there going “Gawrsh, Sora!”
I thought EA moved away from lootboxes once Europe started passing laws in 2017 and 2018. Isn’t that why battle passes are all the rage now?
I’m not a nostalgic person by nature. I’m not out here pedaling a story about “back in my day” because I know the '80s and '90s were awful in a lot of ways for a ton of people. But I do believe that the internet peaked by the mid-aughts. I got a good 15-20 years of this one thing getting cooler, more diverse, more accessible. But once corps started figuring out how to actually monetize the internet and create their walled gardens, it was all downhill.
If Hasbro wanted another mega-hit D&D game, they probably shouldn’t have pissed off Larian.
Ah, yes, putting all the skilled labor in jail will surely help the factory run better.
PS+ does have higher tiers with more benefits. The mid-tier one gives access to a ton of PS4 and PS5 games, and the top tier adds older games and cloud gaming.
And even base PS+ has SharePlay. That’s got to be my most-used feature, but I never see people talk about it.
So your argument is that I’m naive and service industries are rife with secret rich people pretending to be poor?
I’m sure it happens. I lived in a slum downstairs from a Rockefeller who’d wait tables part-time. But he was the exception, not the rule.
Okay, but I’m very specifically telling you that these are not trust-fund kids. These are blue-collar people combining seasonal work, unemployment checks, and cheap living expenses to do exactly the thing you’re saying the working class can’t do. They aren’t saving for retirement, they’ll never own a home, and half of them are getting wages garnished for child support, but plenty of people like that exist.
I mean, hell, Phish sells out stadiums. You think every person there is independently wealthy?
Steam killed the second-hand market for PC, but PC only accounts for about half of the gaming market. All those other people? Capable of buying used and trading in physical media.