Oh, I must have misinterpreted you. That’s about what I do.

I would recommend doing more research before buying, but I’m a kinda a cheap bitch

When I’m browsing, it’s my first stop. I want to see the minimum specs to estimate how well it’ll run, how the devs market their game at a glance, year of release, rating, etc. Then if it looks interesting it’s time for external reviews.

Not only that, but they made the platform ever so slightly less open when they bought a bunch of games just so that they could remove them from other stores. They garner hatred because they don’t try to gain a competitive edge by being good or unique in some way, they’re just making gamers who aren’t willing to download their launcher suffer.

They’re not stupid, they’re manipulative. In my experience, that’s always the case in situations like these.

We got lucky in 2017, I suspect it’ll be a good long while before the switch 2 gets hacked, specifically in an accessible way.

A hacked switch (or even switch 2 really, looking at the specs) is really just a shitty steam deck that can run Nintendo games natively.

I wouldn’t recommend forking over 500 bucks for something you may be able to jailbreak one day, when 400 can get you more out of the box.

At the behest of people who would be massively effected by boycotts.

I don’t know if this was the intention, but that came off a bit condescending in my opinion. I completely agree with you, present tense would have been more apt (I’m going to edit it to fix it), but I resent the way your correction was presented. If that was not your intention, I apologize. I’m tired this morning.

Considering that work ethic literally kills people: Good.

Defund public spaces, then increase the cost of private spaces. Neoliberalism, everybody.

Aw you got it before I did…

“It’s raising a child for ~20 years, Michael. What could it cost? 5k?”

It’s good to know I’m not the only one who thinks this way. That marble analogy is on point. The US is built on mutually beneficial structures. When one cabal of structures starts targeting others, the functionality of the whole country flounders and rebellion is legitimized.

But they can make up excuses for their arsenal for whenever they want to ban a site they don’t like from common eyes.

“It was banned because it was pornography”

“It was banned because it was displaying pirated content”

“It was banned because it harmed the public good”

They want control over what the common people can see, hear, say, and think.