Brave Little Hitachi Wand

PE is all about that cash, but they have ways of making money that don’t involve strong fundamentals. Direct private ownership, such as with Valve, aligns the owners interests with their customers much more closely.

You take the rough with the smooth

Variation did begin to pick up once they started making indie games for consoles, but I was referring to games you could find on the shelves for an average home console. And I wasn’t going from memory, I was going off something I read a while back.

https://techraptor.net/gaming/features/cost-of-gaming-since-1970s

Since as long as I’ve been a gamer, the average MSRP of a game has been quite steady despite the fact that the purchasing power of that price tag has completely collapsed.

An average Atari 2600 game cost $39.99 but that’s closer to $170.70 in today’s money. A game for the PS4 had a sticker price 50% higher, but the actual value of that money is nearly ⅓ as much.

If you have better data than the article I’d love to hear of it. I hated how they referred to typical MSRP as the “average” price when it’s clearly the mode and not the mean.

My only point was that the price of these games has been at a certain level without regard for the drastic decline in the value of the dollar. Demand for games should be on the elastic side, so it’s weird that (most) prices have been so steady.

It’s just really hard when we’ve been for decades conditioned to largely see every game as priced at something like $60. It’s created a group of consumers who are incredibly price sensitive, but also likely to look on anything priced under $60 with a jaundiced eye.

It’s definitely cold weather comfort food. I was joking, but there’s a place in SF that will sell you an entire boule of sourdough filled with clam chowder. I had it about fifteen years ago and I’m still full.

Really cool idea - a bread bowl but it’s not 7,000 calories. What will they think of next!

That was always one of the main goals. They’d rather light a mountain of cash on fire than give anyone a thriving wage

It’s a hard one to gauge for me. I’m pretty sure I found it via stumbleupon back when that was really great. I read the whole thing in close to one go, and I never hear anyone else talk about it.

High five, fuck yes. Cool person detected. I think you’re the first one to spot it, too.

I wish I had that series in print. Might be time to look into that

• Working class: retirement vegan
• American: healthcare vegan
• German: humour vegan

My god, it’s unstoppable

Fucking insane

What a coup if they solve the problem by building their own payment processor company

Yak Bak

It’s just… A plot synopsis is on every book’s wiki page. For free. If that’s your idea of “reading a book”, it’s right there.

Literally just use Wikipedia more

Executives are just going to make more boringly weird games now in imitation of DS.

The piracy has already begun? Great news!

Only a ~2% chance 4 years from now. And it’s an order of magnitude smaller than the one that hit Chicxulub. Yawn

You can’t change the machines, but try not to let them change you.

I too felt the compulsion