Exactly, it’s not on Nintendo to fix, this could be happening anywhere in the chain.

Could be within the stores or their suppliers, or it could be returns from end-customers.

My personal bet would be scammers buying games with cash, taking the games and then shrink-wrapping the box before returning them for a cash refund. And then they flip the cartridges on eBay or whatever.

My strategy is to not look at work emails outside work time.

You can neither attend nor be stressed about a meeting that occurs earlier than you start work, if you don’t know it exists.

Would be nice to see a graph of inflation-adjusted wages at McDonalds between 2014 and now.

I don’t have the data, but I doubt much of this price increase is going into worker’s pockets. It’s profit for CEOs and shareholders.

I was quite intrigued by the article and thinking I’d put this on my wishlist, until I saw “multiplayer”, and suddenly all my interest is down the drain.

It feels like some developers are making live service games simply to chase the revenue stream, not because the specific game they are making would actually be better online.

Elephants have an image in popular culture as being ‘gentle giants’ - and the companies who can benefit from that image by offering elephant petting, bathing and other experiences have no reason to suggest it’s anything other than perfectly safe.

No idea if that specifically is related.

But a lot of fields have convention of ranking A,B,C,D etc with A being better just because it’s the top/first.

He wasn’t wrong, it was a great video

The line has to go up.

More engagement = more views = more ads = more money for the shareholders

Doesn’t matter how that engagement is generated, whether it’s human content or AI trash.

Late stage capitalism is hell.

Exactly this, it’s a within-industry term that has leaked out to members of the public. It simply means “we put a lot of money into this, and we expect to make a lot back (for our investors)”

As for where the ‘A’ terminology came from then that itself is likely a reuse of other entertainment industry terms.

In the old days when you released a record album, you’d put the best tracks on the ‘A’ side and the less popular ones on the ‘B’ side.

Similarly, we talk about ‘A-list’ celebrities abs ‘B-list’ celebrities, and use the term ‘B-movies.’ to denote low budget.

And so what happens wben something gets “bigger and better than A?” Well, you just add more A’s!

“Not a retro company,” but yet the stated “something new” is all about reviving classic IPs.

Maybe try building some new IPs, if you really want to be new.

As a kid, like 9 years old, I wasn’t able to get a real Tamagotchi. I had a cheap knock-off version that had a little dog in it.

A bunch of my classmates were upset because their Tamagotchis ended up dying of neglect during the school day, but my fake-ass tamagotch has this weird bug where if you held down all the buttons at once it would freeze up and stay that way until you pushed something else.

So I basically had a Tamagotchi with a ‘pause’ function, that wouldn’t die when it was frozen.

My dog never died until the batteries finally ran out. Nice work, fake Tamagotchi :)

Explanation from an article linked from the parent one:

“Phones at the time didn’t have much processing power, so the server did most of the work. For example, if you changed your weapon or materia, the server would generate a brand-new file based on your choices and send it back to your phone. Even a lot of the game’s text wasn’t stored locally — it was sent dynamically from the server when needed. Because of this, a huge amount of the game’s data never made it onto the client.”

In the UK where this ticket is from, if you buy a ticket from the machine in the station it will spit it out in potentially multiple parts (because one isn’t enough space for all the information)

You can see this ticket says “Valid only with Travel Ticket”, which means this is the second of two parts. The “Travel Ticket” (not pictured) is the one that actually allows you to travel on the train, and the seat reservation part (pictured) is the one that gives you a seat.

Normally the machine only gives what you need, so if there is no seat reservation you’ll get the travel ticket only.

So the mystery isn’t that there is no reserved seat, but that because there is no seat, this ticket doesn’t even need to exist. The machine could have just not printed this ticket at all.

Not quite the same, but we do have “andfinally” for quirky and silly news.

https://feddit.uk/c/andfinally

Named after the tendency on TV to put lighthearted news pieces like these at the end, to give people something to smile about after all the depressing stuff.

It’s AIs ans automated systems all the way down at this point. No humans in the loop, just machines talking to machines.

You can only assume they believe that people won’t want to use that button much.

For a lot of people that’s surely a mistaken assumption, but in my case it would be pretty true.

I use an old macbook pro from work as my permanent desktop, in a closed configuration under the desk. Sometimes I sleep it, but I don’t ever turn it off. I only ever need the power button when something has gone wrong.

But they could have just put the button on the back. Kinda silly.

It doesn’t need it. That’s exactly the point.

Even though air frying doesn’t need Internet, the manufacturer is restricting that feature as a way to force you to set up the WiFi, so they can then slurp up all your data.

They’re literally holding the feature hostage, as motivation.

This is the answer.

Fan-made trailers of existing media can be really interesting, especially when they put a very different take on the presentation.

Example: Star Trek the Motion Picture in a more modern style makes that movie seem amazing.

Or Alien as a comedy movie

You’re right of course, it’s definitely down to simple lack of incentive, rather than some kind of conspiracy. But the conspiracy was a fun shower thought! :)

I was almost convinced they were keeping this broken on purpose, it’s been broken so long. Like, years long.

It was broken so long I honestly wouldn’t have been surprised if news surfaced that Discord was taking back-handers from Microsoft under the table to keep it broken. With steam working so well on Linux now, broken discord streaming without actual working audio share was one of the last things that posed a hurdle for gamers ditching Windows.

(In the meantime, thank you Vesktop for your service <3)