Time for the four stage strategy:

Stage 1: Nothing’s going to happen.

Stage 2: Something may be going to happen but we should do nothing about it.

Stage 3: Maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.

Stage 4: Maybe there was something we could’ve done, but it’s too late now.

I reckon we’re about at stage 3 on this one. Still, at least us Europeans won’t have to put up with any more heatwaves.

Did you know his father invented the question mark?

I’ve come to the conclusion that most of the Twitter Trump Parrots have absolutely no idea what most of their daily hate words even mean.

It really is just Ali Express with better delivery times these days.

I cancelled Prime and just buy a lot less shit I don’t need.

Device type of Desktop answers that I think…

I’d take that with a big pinch of salt since the shortfall is “unknown”. Probably means they’re picking up a fuck ton of bot traffic and there’s nobody at the wheel over at StatCounter…

Hey, they are in the top 99% of IQ scores.

Realistically GamePass is not sustainable in it’s current form.

Hardware is too expensive in general for mass adoption, the streaming numbers they wanted never really materialised (they wanted 70 million subs and they’ve only got 30 million), and they cannibalised the one thing the games industry needs which is game sales from people willing to drop £60+ on a game multiple times a year.

That and they’re just not making much that people want. Their big tentpole release for the whole generation was fucking Starfield, which nobody even talks about. They have no idea what they’re doing. I don’t know why they even got into gaming. Their only successful generation was the Xbox 360, and that was mostly from Sony dropping a bollock rather than MS doing something right.

If he’s allowed to stand he’s allowed to win. Boris Johnson didn’t run under his real name either.

Since they won, we should rename that bit of water the Gulf of Belgium.

* gives all their games away *

“Why aren’t you meeting sales targets?”

Gamepass as a day one model is unsustainable.

Games remaining full price forever is unsustainable.

All that work when you could have just run the videos side by side on screen and filmed it on your phone…

Bad take. They’ll give you an install disc and then make you enter an account locked code to access it anyway.

Demand digital rights instead, before a big player goes bust. Because at some point that will happen, and you’ll lose more than a handful of discs.

I weigh food. Because if I don’t, I get enormous.

I think for dried pasta it’s like 75g each, assuming some meaty sauce with it.

I agree, and buy physical games too, but I don’t think the law can mandate a disc drive.

It could mandate that digital goods remain ours forever, and that companies provide a way to keep them forever.

We’ve been lucky that the main players in this are still going. Valve, Sony, MS and Nintendo have deep pockets. But we’ve seen companies go bust before, and they’ll go again. Sega were the top dog until they weren’t. Before now we’ve always had the physical option. Now we won’t. This is the tipping point and laws must be made to protect us before we lose everything.

But who is left? Nintendo?

And that’s only because Nintendo tend to lag about 5 years behind everyone else. They’re not sticking with physical out of their belief in physical games, that’s for sure. Half their stuff is already a key and a download.

Realistically, it wouldn’t really matter about discs at all if we had real digital rights. The rights to transfer games from one account to another, or even between stores. The rights to copy games to other devices, and copy them back again, or even from an online source if the original disappears for whatever reason.

Physical games could take the form of a keycard with a license on it, similar to a credit card chip. Scan it on my machine to attach to my account. Scan it on another to attach to someone else’s account and remove from mine. Run offline by leaving the card in the machine.

I advise you not to do this. To try and replicate ChatGPT in your head will overload your brain. Relax and let the machine do the heavy lifting.

My favourite part of the Backrooms movie is where he says “It’s backroomin’ time”.

It’s always fun going through Facebook marketplace and seeing consoles for sale with their “game collection” which is just 10 boxes with the yearly iterations of FIFA and CoD.

Especially digital stuff. What are they going to do, run out of bytes?