Yeah, the Xbox news ain't great, but, don't let Sony use it as cover. Steady. Eye on the prize.

I could PR my way out of this Sony debacle. I would say as a console company, we've been increasingly concerned with discs not having full builds and being unplayable without downloads. To protect players against this issue, we ended disc support. We are reversing course, but going forward all disc versions will need to pass a more stringent test and be released at least 6 months after the digital version to ensure build quality. They save face, depreciate physical further (which is what they actually want), but make discs better for the subset that likes physical media (for the time being). Reframe and delay - just keep boiling the frog.

Eat shit England (We'll be cool tomorrow)

I've been thinking about paying for Nostr, and what that would entail, and what would be the tipping point for me. The thing is, I don't pay for Twitter either, and I get quality content like this over there:

I remember the PS3 launch being pretty disasterous, and then in the next gen, Xbox one-upped Sony by being even dumber. This current gen, I don't remember a whole lot of excitement or anger, it just was. It would be funny if both consoles were wildly hated in the upcoming gen.

What the fuck do people do with all these specialty movie theater popcorn buckets? Do they display them somewhere, or do they drop the $50 and then toss it when they are done?

Protect GOG at all cost... Or just steal shit, that's fun too.

There is no point in console gaming at this point. Just get a PC, and I say this as someone who plays on console 90% of the time.

There's a lot of complaints about console price hikes and why AI is to blame, but here's the thing, this is the free market at work. People vote with their wallets and their time, and clearly the anthropomorphic strawberry cheating on the banana is better content than most games.

I dunno if this is corporate backtracking or always the plan, but I'm okay with this approach. I can wait for a physical copy.

Owning physical media is really just betting that a company with a digital storefront is more likely to screw you over than your house burning down - which I dont know the odds, maybe 1% to 2% over a lifetime (3% to 5% if your wife tries to cook everything with high heat).

Smart people preorder their digital games. What if the stores run out?!

I will give the bchnostr folks credit, they came out with signer support from the start. Kinda no excuse to not have signer support at this point.

Oh what a stupid fucking design. The Rock Band strats don't use pushbutton switches like Guitar Hero guitars, instead strums are handled by these glass reed magnetic sensors, which apparently break just by looking at them. Okay, new repair...

Popehat getting banned from BlueSky might be the funniest thing I've read all morning.