fracking clankers.

Why do you think that?

Because corporate greed > all?

The reason is simple. Inflation.

The NES originally sold for $180 USD in 1985, which is worth $530 today. The SNES, circa 1991, was $199 USD or $459 today.

Fast forward a bunch…

The switch 2 is currently priced at $449 USD.

The literal price has gone up, but the cost is going down. Slightly, but still.

I’m sure I could repeat the same experiment for PlayStation, Xbox, or Sega’s consoles and see similar results.

Idk, $699 USD for the PS5 pro seems a bit closer to “PC pricing” than I would expect from Sony if they’re subsidizing the cost with future game sales.

I’d kind of expect them to be making consoles at break-even/no-profit, more than at a loss right now.

Is this a whataboutism?

Because this seems like a whataboutism.

Both for this and for healthcare.

The nurses are struggling to get a fair deal while somehow the billions a year put into healthcare goes where exactly?

Not to the front line staff, I’ll tell you that much.

And I get it, materials and equipment isn’t cheap but between nurses salaries and material costs, and the occasional multi-million dollar piece of equipment… I just don’t see where it’s all being spent. Between the middle and upper management, there needs to be an overhaul.

Education on every level isn’t dissimilar.

Hell, most government services need a review, at the very least.

Canadian Tire?

Why am I not surprised.

How exactly does one suck a fuck?

Neat.

Thank you for your unsolicited opinion.

Idk, I’ve never tried to run 30 year old games on modern systems.

I’m just not that nostalgic.

And? How does this indicate the daily active player counts for the games supported and not supported?

I’m not going to throw doubt on the 90% number. Statistics are made up and generally don’t mean anything. “90% of games” … In what context? Games on steam? Games ever made? I don’t think I’m going to be playing sierra titles from the 90s… What about Flash based games that used to run in a browser? Do they count?

I don’t know and it doesn’t matter.

The only thing I want to say is that the “10%” that don’t work are usually pretty popular.

I’d like to see this metric based on average player counts. What percentage of gamers, playing games right now, could play on Linux.

IMO, that would give a much more relevant indication of how viable it is for most gamers to switch to Linux.

I’m still using Windows 10 and no, I didn’t buy their extended bullshit. I don’t even run the latest version of Windows 10. I also have an update server setup so I don’t usually get updates often because I need to go approve them. But I also work in IT and I’ve seen every social engineering attack type that’s been used since the 90s and I know when to not click on something. I haven’t needed an anti virus on my personal system in 20 years.

To say I’m not worried about it is an understatement.

My area is pretty heavily conservative. I think this riding has been won by the conservatives on every election for at least 10 years.

I’m very aware of the email alternatives.

My problem isn’t with email, it’s literally every other service that I log into using my Google/Microsoft accounts.

Drive is one of those…

I agree that Microsoft and Google are difficult to get rid of.

I haven’t yet decided what I’m going to do in this regard. Good luck friend.

You made an assertion about his motivations, and I think his motivations are different.

Did that not come across?

That’s pretty much me too.

I’m with you. The whole strategic voting thing… Even I’ve been victim of it and it was no more obvious than in the last election.

A lot of people voted liberal because they wanted to shut out the conservatives, and liberal votes had the best chance of doing that.

The problem is organization and agreement.

If we all agree to drop the strategic voting and just go with who we actually want, for a single election, I’m sure things would massively change. The trick is, getting everyone to agree on anything.

You’re so angry.

… And I’m not sure I follow your point.

People are making it a what?

How did you take the leap from Carney not standing up to Trump about trans people to straight up fascism?

I’m more confused than anything.

You won’t find an argument here